Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven't Talked About Enough

Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish.

Ugh, that moment when you realise that you've got two TTTs in a row on your blog because school related chaos has consumed all of your energy and possibly also your grey matter.

1. The entire Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer: I read most of these before I got into book blogging! One of the first posts on this blog is a review of the last book. My reviewing style has changed so much since then! (For one thing... no spoilers anymore! Weirdly one of the most popular posts on this blog remains an old review of a Maximum Ride book. But I digress.)

2. The Matt Cruse/ Airborn trilogy by Kenneth Oppel: I talk about this one a lot, but if you haven't read it yet, I clearly haven't talked about it enough! Also it has gorgeous tenth anniversary covers (ten years, has it really been that long?) so that's a bonus.

3. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott. This series has a massive cast of characters, and I just had so much fun meeting them all! P.S. It's a six book YA series without a romantic subplot, which was refreshing. Plus, again, the covers are just beautiful. Look at them! They're better in reality, though, the title and border are raised and metallic.

4. Darklife and Riptide by Kat Falls: I kind of wish this was more than just a duology! It takes place in a world where a lot of coast has been flooded by rising sea levels, and humans have formed colonies beneath the waves. It was a lot of fun to read.

5. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater: I feel like I don't shout my love for these books from the rooftops nearly enough here! (Really, I don't talk about Maggie Stiefvater's books in general enough here. Maybe I'll do a series review for The Raven Cycle once The Raven King comes out?)

6. The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan: I've been going through a bit of a phase right now (possibly related to the fact that a new SRB book is coming out soon) of great affection for this trilogy.

7. All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill: I'm not sure if I'm in the minority for feeling this way, but I was actually really glad to discover this was a standalone. Time travel novels are something I often really enjoy and this one was AMAZING. I'm definitely re-reading it this year!

8.The Wondrous Strange trilogy by Lesley Livingston: Mostly I somehow feel like I haven't mentioned this one? Wondrous Strange was one of the first YA books I every picked up, and it remains kind of special to me. I also still really enjoy the way the fae are in this trilogy... there's something very vivid about them. Also the "you have a horse in your bathtub?" scene still makes me laugh every time.

9. Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George: One of my favourite Cinderella retellings purely because of the monster making the glass slippers. It's one of those books I fall back into rereading when nothing else is catching my interest.

10. The Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld: I've had mixed feelings about Westerfeld's work, but this trilogy was really fun to read. (Steampunk in the best way!)

10 comments :

  1. I like time travel too and heard good things about All Our Yesterdays. Love that cover of Airborn too!

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    1. I really liked All Our Yesterdays for a lot of reasons, it's a really fast paced adventure, and it also has a very human element.

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  2. All Our Yesterdays was absolutely fantastic! You might want to try it out on audio book because the production is great! :)
    Check out my TTT.

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    1. I'll definitely put it on my extended audiobook list! (I feel as though I'm developing an additional TBR for audiobooks...)

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  3. Kelly, ALL OUR YESTERDAYS was great! I really enjoyed that one. I've been meaning to check out Scott Westerfeld's series - so I'll have to try it one day soon

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    1. So much love for All Our Yesterdays this week! I've been kind of hit-and-miss with Scott Westerfeld's books... I really didn't like his Uglies series, I really DID like Leviathan, I was meh toward Afterworlds. (So personally, I'd recommend Leviathan, but your mileage may vary.)

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  4. You are making me realize that I just do not read a lot of series!

    I've read some of the Tuesdays at the Castle series, but Princess of Glass sounds good too!

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    1. Its also possible that I read too MANY series. Who knows? Princess of Glass is part of a trilogy (the middle book actually) but it was the only one that I found really memorable.

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  5. The Nicholas Flammel series is soo pretty! I only own the second book, weirdly enough, but it's one I definitely plan on buying and reading in full mostly because of the covers. Love your list!

    Here's my TTT

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    1. This is why books need excellent covers! So I can point at them as I attempt to compel EVERYONE to read them!

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