Ten Books I Bought Because of Cover Lust
what books have you bought just because they look pretty or badass?
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do you agree with any of these? have your own? let me know in the comments!Once again I'm a little late to TTT but as I didn't even manage to post anything for it last week I'm going to count this as a win! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and there are tonnes of great lists that have built up over on her website! For this week I'm going to do five books that have been on my TBR pile for at least a little while and that I want to get through and five books that are due to be published soon that I'm excited about! Leave a comment down below about what you're reading this spring! Books Due Out this SpringQueen of Coin and Whispers: Due April 23rd. When teenage queen Lia inherits her corrupt uncles bankrupt kingdom, she brings a new spymaster into the fold ... Xania, who takes the job to avenge her murdered father. This book is calling to my high fantasy loving heart! The Dark Tide: Due June 2nd. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. It's due out in June which might technically be Summer?? I'm not sure I guess it depends on where you live haha but I'm including it anyway! Bonds of Brass: Due April 7th. A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. This sounds like the most fantastic space fuelled adventure ever and I am 10000% here for it?? And the cover is gorgeous. What more can I say? The Extraordinaries: Due May 5th. Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves. I have an arc of this and I've also preordered the hardcover edition. I haven't had chance to start it yet but oh my god I can't wait. I love T.J. Klune! Date Me, Bryson Keller: Due May 19th. Everyone knows about the dare: Each week, Bryson Keller must date someone new--the first person to ask him out on Monday morning. Few think Bryson can do it. He may be the king of Fairvale Academy, but he's never really dated before. Until a boy asks him out, and everything changes. This sounds like a delightful rom-com type book that would be perfect to read, say, when the world has gone to hell and everyone is panic buying toilet. Just, you know, for example. Books I already OwnThe Lost Coast: The spellbinding tale of six queer witches forging their own paths, shrouded in the mist, magic, and secrets of the ancient California redwoods. I've wanted to read this FOR SO LONG and yet it has not yet been The Right TimeTM... I feel that TRT approaches soon, however, so fingers crossed I can get stuck into this one! I'm in a very witchy mood recently. Heart of Flames (The sequel to Crown of Feathers): The world is balanced on the edge of a knife, and war is almost certain between the empire and the Phoenix Riders. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, and I've been waiting for the second to come out! I'm including this one in this part of the list because it is technically out but my copy hasn't arrived yet. A Darker Shade of Magic: Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. I've heard so much about this series, it's so weird that I haven't given it a go yet. On a recent splurge I bought the series as a collectors edition so the plan is to dive into the first one soon! I really hope I like them, otherwise I spent a lot of money for nothing hahaha. Wilder Girls: It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. The front cover for this book is astoundingly pretty and I cannot wait. It's been sitting on my shelf singing at me any chance it gets, and while it may be a bit risky reading a quarantine book when the world is in a state of quarantine itself, I'll brave my way through it. Reverie: All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different. Talking of beautiful covers, this one takes the cake. It is so SHINY in my hands, I love it. I've had it for a good month or so now I think and it is TIME to TACKLE it. So what are you excited about? Or, what has been on your TBR pile for ages and deserves another glance? So far this year is hectic and stressful and scary and one of the best ways to escape is through a book and into another world, so if you ever feel overwhelmed, grab the nearest story. I hope you're all being safe and keeping healthy. And not hoarding toilet roll haha. This week the TTT is 10 books with a single word title! Which, it might sound easy, but titles these days tend towards the long and the wordy rather than being single words so it actually took me a lot longer than I anticipated haha. The books below are all either ones that I want to read or ones that I have read and enjoyed. You can find out more information on Top Ten Tuesdays @ That Artsy Reader Girl if you're interested!
And there we have it! Ten books with single word titles. I hope you had fun reading this, let me know in the comments if there are any books you love, or are looking forward to, that have single word titles. I must admit I quite like it when titles are short and to the point. Long, windy sentence titles are fun and sound pretty, but man they're not as easy to search for on tumblr! So it's technically Wednesday, but I'm cheating as I only found out about this concept today and so this is my first Top Ten Tuesday and the topic it surrounds (social media) was too interesting to let it pass by! You can find out more information on Top Ten Tuesdays @ That Artsy Reader Girl if you're interested! 1. Andrew Minyard (from The Foxhole Court) on twitter. I feel like his personality would be really well suited to a social media platform with limited character usage, and he'd swing between acidic comments and junk food rec restaurants. 2. Jeebie Walker (from Arnold Falls) on facebook, because I can imagine that there's an Arnold Falls facebook page where the town argues over small and big things alike, and I think it would be endlessly entertaining in a very wholesome way. 3. Rune (from The Tarot Sequence) on every single piece of social media he would subscribe to, but since he's bad with technology it would probably end in disaster... 4. ...and so I'd follow Brand instead, and watch gleefully from his POV as Rune grows more and more frustrated with the mechanics of the internet. 5. Sideways (from The Scapegracers) on instagram, because I think she'd post the coolest witchy aesthetic posts. All velvet, silk, candles and spell books. 6. Mark (from The Martian) on YouTube for all those stressful, interesting, exciting Mars video blogs we'd be sure to get! You know... assuming they had traditional internet and social media on Mars haha. 7. Artemis Darth Vader (from The Bones Beneath My Skin) on tumblr, because I think she'd have a lot of interesting things to say about the world, and about other worlds, and the universe in general. 8. Gideon (from Gideon the Ninth) would be hilarious on any kind of social media, so I'd definitely follow her. I can just imagine her bemused selfies on instagram, Harrow in the background. Or her sneakily filming Harrow doing creepy stuff. I think she would have been especially good at making vines. Sign me up. 9. Henry (from Red, White and Royal Blue) is someone I would definitely follow to the ends of the earth, never mind social media, but I'd especially love to follow his instagram, because I think he'd post a lot of cool photos. I'm imagining ten photos in a row of him and Alex wrapped in a pride flag with different facial expressions in each. 10. Finally, Monty (from The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue) because he would be such a hot mess on social media. There's no other way I can think it would go, other than sideways. Who would you follow? And why? Let me know in the comments! |
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