Compelling Book Titles

It’s Top Ten Tuesday time once again! The original prompt this week is book titles that you find hilarious but honestly I couldn’t think of any books that came to mind. So instead I decided to go with 10 book titles that had me intrigued and compelled enough to want to pick up and find out what that could possibly mean.

10 Compelling Book Titles are:

You’ve Lost a lot of Blood & Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

Worst Books I’ve Read According to Goodreads

A few weeks ago I did a post about the best books I’ve read according to Goodreads so of course I had to do the worst! These are the 10 books I’ve read over the last 5 years I’ve been on Goodreads that have the lowest average rating!

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca – 3.07 average, I rated it ⭐️4 stars

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas – 3.12 average, I rated it ⭐️3 stars

Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart – 3.27 average, I rated it ⭐️4 stars

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan – 3.34 average, I rated it ⭐️2 stars

Hide by Kiersten White – 3.36 average, I rated it ⭐️3 stars

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne – 3.39 average, I rated it ⭐️3 stars

The Dare by Harley LaRoux – 3.41 average, I rated it ⭐️3 stars

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi – 3.42 average, I rated it ⭐️2 stars

Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo – 3.43 average, I rated it ⭐️2 stars

Wilder Girls by Rory Powers – 3.49 average, I rated it ⭐️4 stars

Worst Books of 2021

These are the books that I just didn’t quite enjoy this year! I definitely tried to be more honest with my reviews and give more 1 and 2 stars if I wasn’t all that into a book rather than just giving it a three like I usually would. I definitely didn’t actively hate any of these book they just weren’t my style and taste!

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence

The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Burn our Bodies Down by Rory Powers

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He

The Project by Courtney Summers

Goodreads Was Wrong Book Tag

I seen this tag on Way Too Fantasy and I just had to give it a go!!

1. What is the highest rated book that you gave a low rating? (Sort your books in Goodreads based on Average Ratings and find the highest rated book you gave a low rating).

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi – average rating is 4.38 I gave it ⭐️3 stars

2. What is the lowest rated book that you gave a high rating? (Sort your books in Goodreads based on Avg Ratings, in reverse order, and find the lowest rated book you gave a high rating).

Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart – average rating is 3.30 I have it ⭐️4 stars

3. What is the most popular book you disagree with the avg rating? (Sort your books in Goodreads based on number of Ratings, and find the first book you disagree with the avg rating)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – a little overhyped I gave it ⭐️3 stars it has an average of 4.12

4. What is the least popular book you disagree with the avg rating? (Sort your books in Goodreads based on number of Ratings, in reverse order, and find the first book you disagree with the avg rating)

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi – I didn’t really like this book I gave it ⭐️2 stars and the average rating is 3.44

5. Choose two books that have an average rating of 3/5 stars but you gave a higher rating.

Well Played by Jen Deluca – average rating of 3.53 I gave it ⭐️4 stars

Wilder Girls by Rory Power – average rating of 3.54 I gave it ⭐️4 stars

6. Choose two books that have an average rating of 3/5 stars but you gave a lower rating.

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan – average rating of 3.35 I gave it ⭐️2 stars

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu – average rating of 3.72 I gave it ⭐️2 stars

7. Choose two books that have an average rating of 4/5 stars but you gave a lower rating.

Sightwitch by Susan Dennard – average rating of 4.01 I gave it ⭐️3 stars

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – average rating of 4.03 I gave it ⭐️3 stars

8. Choose two books that have an average rating of 2/5 stars but you gave a higher rating.

I haven’t read any books since I’ve been on Goodreads that are below a 3.12 average

9. Do you tend to agree or disagree with GR average rating and do you use GR as a guide for books you want to read?

I would say overall absolutely.. the majority of my rating coincide with the average! I will typically look to see what the average rating is before I start a book, but it doesn’t sway my opinions at all.

Foreboding Book Titles

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is funny book titles. I couldn’t really come up with ten funny book titles so I decided to go in the opposite direction and pick out my top ten most foreboding book titles instead.

My Top Ten most foreboding book titles are:

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Burn our Bodies Down by Rory Powers

The Deck of Omens by Christine Lynn Herman

Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Damned by Renee Ahdieh

He Started It by Samantha Downing

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite