I’ve seen these done a lot on other book blogs and I realized it’s time I do it too because that TBR list – the one I keep on Goodreads, is oh so cluttered. Realistically…am I really going to read some of these books? The mental TBR list I have in my mind, well, that’s a problem too haha, but if I don’t remember to jot it down somewhere, I’ll forget about it anyway. I like to think deleting these from the list just means I have more room to add new ones, and that’s a good thing. It’s been years in coming so let’s get to it.

Here are the 5 books I’m deleting off my TBR list this month:

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These Royals will ruin you.

Ever since Hartley Wright met Easton Royal, her life hasn’t been the same. There are enemies behind every corner and dangers beyond each door. When tragedy strikes and steals her memories, she can’t trust anyone, not even the blue-eyed boy who promises her that everything will be all right.

Because while Hartley’s memory is full of gaps, her instincts tell her Easton is dangerous. She doesn’t know if he’s the snake in the garden or her chance at salvation. The chaos he brings wherever he goes is too much to handle, the intense feelings he evokes are too confusing to unravel.

Easton wants her to remember. Hartley thinks it’s better to forget.

She might be right.

Tragedy. Treachery. Trust. Hartley has to face the facts—in this world, you can’t escape the Royals.

Either you live by their rules or you die by them.

*****

I read most of this series and it was my introduction to bully romance! It was so addictive but after awhile, I wanted to punch these guys in the face 😅 so I didn’t read Easton’s story.

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Into every generation a Slayer is born…

Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. It’s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher’s Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers—girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina’s mother is a prominent member of the Watcher’s Council, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle. Instead she follows her instincts to heal, carving out a place for herself as the school medic.

Until the day Nina’s life changes forever.

Thanks to Buffy, the famous (and infamous) Slayer that Nina’s father died protecting, Nina is not only the newest Chosen One—she’s the last Slayer, ever. Period.

As Nina hones her skills with her Watcher-in-training, Leo, there’s plenty to keep her occupied: a monster fighting ring, a demon who eats happiness, a shadowy figure that keeps popping up in Nina’s dreams…

But it’s not until bodies start turning up that Nina’s new powers will truly be tested—because someone she loves might be next.

One thing is clear: Being Chosen is easy. Making choices is hard.

*****

I think I added this to my TBR because it’s written by Kiersten White but I’m not in the mood to read about Buffy.

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Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.

Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them.

When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.

What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?

*****

I was in a space mood when I added this one and was reading a bunch of space opera books. What happened to them?

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Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There’s also the alarming issue of whether or not her sisters are actually dead—or if they’re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne.

Mirabella and Arsinoe are alive, but in hiding on the mainland and dealing with a nightmare of their own: being visited repeatedly by a specter they think might be the fabled Blue Queen. Though she says nothing, her rotting, bony finger pointing out to sea is clear enough: return to Fennbirn. 

Jules, too, is in a strange place—in disguise. And her only confidants, a war-gifted girl named Emilia and her oracle friend Mathilde, are urging her to take on a role she can’t imagine filling: a legion-cursed queen who will lead a rebel army to Katharine’s doorstep.

This is an uprising that the mysterious Blue Queen may have more to do with than anyone could have guessed—or expected.

*****

I read the first two books but after awhile I got tired of sisters being pitted against each other – or it was too dark and I wanted something not so dark. I forget. Did you finish this series?

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Final Book in “The Arcana Chronicles” – that’s all the Goodreads description gives me! Haha….

Is this book out? Will it ever be published? I think I’ve outgrown this series. I did like the whole arcana, tarot card concept – that’s why I enjoyed the series. Have you read this series?

And those books are gone from my TBR list – wooosahhh! 🧘🏽 Thank you, next!

And FYI—it seems I don’t look at my Goodreads “Want to Read” list at all because it’s seriously messed up. There are a lot of books on that list that I HAVE read and never reviewed! Before I became a book blogger, I would just do a star rating and leave it at that. But there are tons of books I never rated and now I’m wondering if I should go back and read them to give them a true rating? Or rate them from what I remember feeling about the book? That might be the fastest way to get my list down.

How often do you clean out your TBR list?

📚 ~ Yolanda