It’s Top Ten Tuesday time once again friends and this week the prompt is books I hope Santa brings. I haven’t been doing a lot of book shopping throughout the last couple years so there are a lot of books I read and loved but don’t own yet, so these are the ten I would love to add to my collection!
I have to be honest with myself and given the amount of books I have been reading lately I don’t think I’ll have enough time for me to finish all the books I want to! So some I am just going to have to put on the backburner for now and hopefully pick them up in 2023!
5 New Releases I Wish I read this year:
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
Echoes and Empired by Morgan Rhodes
League of Liars by Astrid Scholte
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Back in January I picked 5 books that are high on my TBR that I try to prioritise and read and now that it’s the end of the year it’s time to wrap up and see how I did. I completed 3 out of the 5 that I had picked which honestly I’m ok about. I am still interested in reading Dune but not really interested in The Once and Future Witches anymore.
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
I enjoyed the fact that there is the overarching mystery surrounding the girls murdered and I found the way Camille uncovered it to be entertaining for sure. The way the plot unravels and we start to have more a clear picture as to who the murderer was very intriguing. I had my suspicions from the start and the misdirect was a great touch but I was eventually correct.
My Rating: ⭐️3/5 stars
All’s Well by Mona Awad
I think what I didn’t really enjoy about the book was that there was no explanation. How the three men gave her the powers and healed her of her pain and how she was able to transfer it to the others. Did she suck out their energy and vitality and used that to heal herself or did she just give them her pain. At the end of my read I’m still left with questions and I’m just not feeling satisfied.
My Rating: ⭐️2/5 stars
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
I was expecting it to be more sinister in tone but I liked the fact that Sophia was so naïve and unassuming for a good majority of the book despite some horrific things happening around her. The slow build up of anticipation and the clarity that Sophia gains was entertaining but overall I was a little underwhelmed by this book.
My Rating: ⭐️3/5 stars
These are five backlist books that I had every intention of reading this year but somehow time got away from me and unfortunately it didn’t happen… I will definitely try to prioritise these books for 2023 though!!
Jade City by Fonda Lee
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Finley Donovan is Killing It by Elle Casimano
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
I figured it would be nice to do a little wrap up of the Buzzword Readathon I’ve been doing throughout the year since I’ve figured out I have completed all the prompts! I didn’t really look ahead throughout the year and see what the next prompt was going to be I would just look at the start of every month and find something on my TBR that matches. There were some months I didn’t get to the prompt but I did read something either before or later in the year that fit so everything worked out. This is such a fun easy readathon that I think I will continue to participate in for sure!
Amy Leigh Reads 