Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Petty Reasons You’ve DNF’d a Book 

(Or reduced its rating. You don’t even have to say what the book was if you don’t want to!)

1. Really don’t like the main character.
2. Writing style is not it for me.
3. Boring.
4. I put it down meaning to come back to it but then I forget about it and don’t want to put any more effort in trying to read it.
5. Abrupt ending (reduced rating).
6. Pacing is off (reduced rating).
7. Story is all over the place (reduce rating).
8. Lacking chemistry between lovers/forced romance (reduce rating).
9. Annoying main character (reduce rating).
10. An annoying love interest (reduce rating).

Is that petty enough?? 😅

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon

(Bonus points if you tell us how long it’s been sitting on your shelf waiting for you.)

Some of these are on my kindle shelf because I mostly read ebooks and I haven’t bought a hardcover in a minute.

• Empire of the Vampire by. Jay Kristoff – it’s been on my kindle for about 2 years.
• Sword Catcher by. Cassandra Clare -been on my kindle for 6 months.
• Eat Your Heart Out by. Kelly Devos – been on my shelf for 3 years.

• Agnes at the End of the World by. Kelly McWilliams – still on my shelf after 3 years.
• From the Grave by. Kresley Cole – about 1 year on my kindle. I want to read it but I seriously don’t really know what happened in the last book since it’s been so long between both books.
• Fevered Star by. Rebecca Roanhorse – this has been on my kindle for about 2 years.

• The Hating Game by. Sally Thorne – has been on my shelf for about 3 years and I was actually reading it and got about 10% in and then started reading something else and never went back to it. I don’t think it’s a DNF…YET lol…I will try and finish some day.
• The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by. Megan Bannen – I know, I know, I have to get around to reading this one. It’s been on my kindle for a year maybe?
• The Secret Recipe for Moving On by. Karen Bischer – this has been on my shelf for 3 years and I even migrated it to my nightstand with goals of reading it this year but then it migrated back to my shelf LOL.

Master of Iron by. Tricia Levenseller – I’m actually 20% in this book but I put it down 2 years ago and never picked it up again! 3 years on my shelf.

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Characters I’d Like to go on Vacation With

(Pretend you’re going on vacation and can bring 10 of your closest friends with you. Pick your vacation spot and tell us who you’d like to bring! Bonus point if you tell us why. Or maybe you like the idea of traveling in small groups, so plan 10 trips or 5 trips!)

• Xingyin from Heart of the Sun Warrior by. Sue Lynn Tan, because I want her to take me to the Moon and traveling on a cloud would be so cool. Just want to stay out of the Celestial Kingdom drama though!
• Reyva from The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst is a solid friend! She would fun to vacation with I think – just not at a lake house. 😅
• Marco from Ciao For Now by. Kate Bromley seems like so much fun! I’d definitely take a trip to Italy with him!

• Cassian from A Court of Silver Flames by. Sarah J. Maas – I think Cassian has so much personality and honestly he could fly us to any destination – I’d just have to hold onto him. 🥰
• Xaden from Fourth Wing by. Rebecca Yarros – I don’t know if he’d be fun on vacation lol…but he could take me riding on a dragon. 🐉
• Jin from A Tempest of Tea by. Hafsah Faizal – he would be a fun vacation partner! I loved him in the book.

• Oak from The Prisoner’s Throne by. Holly Black – this boy is always down for a good time! And his charming personality would make any vacation fun I think.
• Izumi from Tokyo Ever After by. Emiko Jean – she can take me all around Japan! I love Japan.
• Fizzy from The True Love Experiment by. Christina Lauren – she’s so much fun.

Isabella from King of Pride by. Ana Huang – she has a pet snake and writes erotica lol…I think she’d be fun to vacation with but I don’t think she’d be good at planning one.

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This week’s topic is: freebie

Dragons

It’s a freebie week on Top Ten Tuesday so I’m doing a topic that I’ve been wanting to do since Fourth Wing came along. I don’t actively seek books with dragons but it seems like it’s popular lately to have them in books so here are some books with dragons!

• So Let Them Burn by. Kamilah Cole – Jamaican-inspired fantasy with dragons
• Dragonfruit by. Makiia Lucier – Pacific Islander inspired fantasy with dragons
• Song of Silver Flame Like Night by. Amelie Wen Zhao – Chinese mythology, magic and dragons

• Fourth Wing by. Rebecca Yarros – dragon riding academy, magic, romantasy
• Iron Flame by. Rebecca Yarros – part 2
• All This Twisted Glory by. Tahereh Mafi – the dragon isn’t the main focus in this romantasy but there is a dragon

• Six Crimson Cranes, The Dragon’s Promise and Her Radiant Curse by. Elizabeth Lim – an amazing filled with adventure, and dragons

The Priory of the Orange Tree by. Samantha Shannon – an epic story with dragons

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

April Showers

 (books with rain on the cover/in the title, that have rainstorms in the story, or that have anything to do with rain)

• Stay With My Heart by. Tashie Bhuiyan – not quite rain in this book cover BUT…it has clouds!
• Wish of the Wicked by. Danielle Paige – the girl is ready for rain in that cape.
• Empire of Storms by. Sarah J. Maas – it’s got stormy clouds.

• Obsidian by. Jennifer L. Armentrout – dark and stormy cover
• Roar by. Cora Carmack – dark clouds and lightning
• Vampires of El Norte by. Isabel Cañas – more stormy skies

• The Storm Keeper’s Island by. Catherine Doyle – clouds but no rain
• The Widow of Pale Harbor by. Hester Fox – it looks like it’s gonna rain
• Off the Map by. Trish Doller – the only book cover I found with actually rain

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