The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf 

It’s Top 10 Tuesday time again friends and what a fun prompt!

These are the 10 books I randomly pulled from my shelves and what I rated it:

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff⭐️5/5 stars

The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware ⭐️5/5 stars

The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks – actually haven’t read this yet haha

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir⭐️4/5 stars

A Heart so Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer⭐️4/5 stars

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi ⭐️4/5 stars

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh ⭐️5/5 stars

The Crown’s Fate by Evelyn Skye⭐️4/5 stars

Scythe by Neal Shusterman ⭐️4/5 stars

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas⭐️5/5 stars

Books I Loved Before I started my Blog

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books that you have never mentioned on your blog. I’m pretty sure I have mentioned all of these books at some time or another over the last 4 years I’ve been blogging but not in recent memory from what I can recall so I figured I would give them another time to shine!

Shades of Magic Series by V.E. Schwab

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Warcross by Marie Lu

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Series I completed in 2020

These are all the series that I have either read all the books this year or read the last book in the series that was published this year! I haven’t included any series that have unreleased books still, I will just add them onto future lists!

Arc of a Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman

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Binti Series by Nnedi Okorafor

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Wayward Pines Series by Blake Crouch

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The Crown’s Game Duology by Evelyn Skye

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Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson

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Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

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The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan

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Falling Kingdoms Series by Morgan Rhodes

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Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown

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Books I Love but Never Reviewed

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books I love but have never reviewed. I started my blog about 2 years ago now and before then I never reviewed my books. I didn’t even really start rating books until I signed up for Goodreads which was in January 2018. So there are quite a large amount of books that I have read in my lifetime that I have never reviewed, these are the top 10 that popped into my head first!

A Darker Shade of Magic  by V.E. Schwab

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Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

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The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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Booktube made me read it….

*A little spoilery*

Today I thought I’d do a fun little post about 5 books that I read this year because of booktube. These books I had either seen a bunch of people do reviews on, or everyone put them in their TBR’s the same month, or they would be in everyone’s top favourite books of all time or something along those lines and I was curious enough to pick them up and give them a read.

The 1st book I read because of booktube is The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. I didn’t hate 26032825this book, but I also didn’t love it. Jude just wasn’t a favourite character of mine; I didn’t find her to be likeable throughout the novel. Some of her choices she made just didn’t sit well with me and the relationships she formed Locke and Cardan just seemed a bit odd and cringey, especially after they made her life hell for so long. I much preferred her older sister Vivi, I loved that she rebelled from her father Madoc and how she tried to pry her younger sisters out of the world of Faerie and give them a normal life back in the mortal world. I did enjoy the ending however and I am curious as to how the series will be continued so I will be reading on. ⭐️3/5 stars

The 2nd book I read was Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. When this book first 220px-John_Green_Turtles_All_The_Way_Down_Book_Covercame out I seen it everywhere and everyone was raving about how good it was. I don’t read a lot of contemporary books but I was strolling through a bookstore one day and the title jumped out at me and so I immediately picked it up and proceeded to read it. I thought the plot was actually very captivating and original, I thought it was fast paced and entertaining. Aza as a character was very relatable and real, it was as if I could feel what she was going through and her anguish and pain was bleeding through the pages. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book and I am glad that I bought into the hype and read it. ⭐️4/5 stars

The 3rd book I read because of booktube was Graceling by Kristin Cashore. As fantasy 51vE64szi-L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_is one of my all time favourite genres I regularly peruse YouTube for lists of fantasy favourites and Graceling would always make an appearance in those lists. I picked it up with not really any expectations, I just wanted to get into a good fantasy book as I was craving one at the time and I absolutely loved it. I thought the premise was amazing, people being gifted with different graces I just thought that was really creative and it was very engaging throughout the plot. Katsa, as a female protagonist was deadly, powerful yet still very feminine and graceful (lol) she was a joy to read and this book really caught me by surprise. ⭐️4/5 stars

The 4th book that booktube made me read was The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton. 23197837Another book that I didn’t love but I also didn’t hate. Again it was just because I couldn’t quite gel with Camellia. I thought she was terribly naïve throughout the first half of the storyline and kind of put me off her as character. I did think she progressed throughout the story line and started to read between the lines of what was going on at the palace. I thought the premise of the book was interesting and original, how everyone is born grey and the Belles are the beautiful colourful young girls who have the ability to transform other’s appearances to follow beauty standards and trends. ⭐️3/5 stars

The 5th book I read because of booktube was Scythe by Neal Shusterman. Again at one 28954189stage in the booktube community it seemed like everyone was reading Scythe at the same time and raving about how good it was. I gave in and read it and of course I loved it like everyone else! I just thought it was so clever and refreshing. The premise of this book is just so thought provoking and it’s structured so well that I honestly didn’t know what was going to happen next. There are so many twists and turns and political machinations in the Scythedom and I highly enjoyed my time reading this book! ⭐️4/5 stars