Hello! Another week has snuck by… but it’s Tuesday again, which means Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). Today we’re talking about our TBRs! I love TBR week, although lately I haven’t been doing quite as well on my TBRs lately, but we’ll see that in a moment.
How did I do on my Spring TBR?
- Between Burning Worlds – Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell: Read
- Chosen Ones – Veronica Roth: Read
- Malediction – Katerina King: Read
- Conquest – Celeste Harte: Unread
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins: Read
- 1453 – Roger Crowley: Read
- Descendent of the Crane – Joan He: Unread
- Keeper – Kim Chance: Unread
- 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne: Read
- Tell Me Everything – Sarah Enni: Read
So this quarter I had a 70% success rate. I might have finished a couple more, but I started reading the Twilight series.
So what do I hope to read this summer? There are no new must-read books for me, so the books listed here are: 1) the three I didn’t read in the spring and 2) books I picked from the TBR lottery.
Celeste Harte is one of the hosts of Character Chaos on Twitter. I’ve been wanting to read Conquest for a while. It was on my spring TBR, after all! I really want to get to this one first. I have a few ARCs to read that I need to get to, but this is probably the first book from my TBR I intend to conquer.
Descendant of the Crane has been on my list for quite a while too. I wanted to read this one since it was an ARC (I wasn’t approved). Let’s hope I can get to this one this summer.
Kim Chance used to host Chance2Connect on Twitter once a month. Sadly, June’s Chance2Connect was the last one, but I still want to read her book, Keeper. This was on my list of Spring 2020 books, but I didn’t get around to it.
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds has been on my radar for quite a while now. It sounds so interesting! He read some of his book at a Zoom event a couple months ago, and I liked what I heard so far!
Mirror Gate is the second book in The Harbinger series. I read Storm Glass last year, and I bought the rest of the series when it was on sale on Amazon.com (gotta love those $1.99 books) but I haven’t read past the first book yet.
The Bride Test has been on my radar for a while too. I liked The Kiss Quotient, and am looking forward to reading the second book in this series.
I first heard of Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour from my fellow Top Ten Tuesday bloggers. It sounded good, so I added it to my TBR. It won the lottery for this summer, and it seems like such a summery book!
It’s been a very long time since I read The Third Target, which is the first book in the J.B. Collins series. The First Hostage is the second book, and it won the TBR lottery for this season. It’s definitely different than the other books on this list, but it should be a nice change of pace. I love Joel C. Rosenberg’s books.
I got A Curse So Dark and Lonely on sale quite a while ago, but I haven’t read it yet. This is a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Hopefully it will be really good!
I never read Little Women (I have an antique copy and I think I read one page before I lost interest; I was really young at the time I tried to read it though). This was one of the books on Bookish First a month or so ago, and I liked the beginning (sadly, I was too late to use my points to get a copy). I do hope to read Jo & Laurie this summer though.
So these are the books I hope to read this summer! What books do you hope to read? Next week is Top Ten Tuesday’s 10th Anniversary! I don’t know what option I’m going to pick yet.
Of these, The Bride Test is the one that I think I should add to my TBR!
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Hopefully we both like it!
Wow, you did way better on your spring TBR than I did! Opposite of Always was an interesting read!
Good to hear you liked it! I try to follow my TBR, so I usually do decent on these.
Great list! I love the cover of Jo & Laurie and Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour sounds like ideal summer reading. Conquest and Descendant of the Crane are two I’d like to get to, too. Happy reading!
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Those covers are great. I definitely need to try to get to Conquest. I know my friend isn’t desperately waiting for me to review it, but I want to support her.
I’ve read both A Curse So Dark and Lonely and Descendant of The Crane, and they were kind of meh for me, so I hope you enjoy them more!
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You did a good job on your spring TBR!
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Love this list! I enjoyed The Bride Test even more than The Kiss Quotient!
Oooh that’s good to know!
The Bride Test is so good! I also liked Jo and Laurie 🙂 I have a review of that book on my blog
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I’m glad you liked them both!
I’ve read a couple from your list – The Bride Test and Amy & Roger are cute and I also enjoyed A Curse So Dark & Lonely. I have had a copy of The Descendant of the Crane from my library since it shut due to COVID but I haven’t picked it up yet.
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They both sound great, I’m glad you liked them. Is your library opening up soon? Ours is offering curbside service now, which is nice.
I’d like to read Descendant of the Crane. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Yeah, I requested the ARC (was denied) but even though I got a copy on sale quite a while ago, I still haven’t read it.
Little Women is a book I have loved since childhood. I own so many copies of it, I can’t even count. I loved the movie that came out in the 90s, with Christian Bale as Laurie. I’m not quite sure how I would do with a book based on them, it might just be too much of s stretch for me to handle, though I was absolutely crushed when she turned him down.
I met Melissa de la Cruz in March and she said that Jo and Laurie was perfect for people that didn’t like that particular part of the ending!
The Opposite of Always is also on my TBR, although I don’t know if I’ll get to it this summer! But I read the first page or two a few weeks back and was super intrigued, so hopefully I get to it sometime soon.
And I have to echo everyone else’s recommendation of Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour! That book is just so much fun and gives off such summery vibes! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Looking forward to both books!
Go you! I didn’t look back at my spring TBR, but I guarantee I didn’t read even half the books on the list. 😉 Hope you enjoy ‘Amy & Roger’ (read that one years ago) and hopefully we’ll both like “Jo & Laurie.” I only know this story through the movies, but it’s one of my favorites, and I’m intrigued by this alternate end. Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland last week.
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Listening to Jo & Laurie on audiobook and it’s so perfect for writers! I’m not sure if you’re one of the bloggers that write too, but I’m loving it so far.
Good job on your Spring TBR!
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I hope you will be able to read all of these books and absolutely love them as well. I LOVE A curse so dark and lonely especially. You can’t go wrong there.
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