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Hi everybody, and welcome to a new Top Ten Tuesday!
Today’s a post of shame as I take a look at the books I didn’t read in 2020. That’s right, even though I’ve been exclaiming all year long about how excited I was about these books and included them in my ‘most anticipated reads’ lists and ‘new releases I’m most excited about’ posts… I still didn’t read them.
This was in no way because I don’t want to read them anymore, but honestly mostly just because I was distracted by other reads. So yes, I definitely still want to read all of these. I just need to stop being distracted by shiny new books.
PS: I’m currently reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. So I’m getting there 🙂
A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren
Blood and Honey by Shelby Mahurin
Rent A Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Fence: Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
Tell Me:
Have you read any of these?
And if so, which should I read first?
Vicious spirits looks good. I’m interested in trying her books!
I enjoyed her first book, so definitely want to try Vicious Spirits too 🙂
Oh Kingdom of the Wicked. I had an arc of that but it didn’t work on my ereader. Than I bought an ebook which also refused to work on my ereader. I can read it on my comp of course but… I’m not ready for that.
I still need to read the first mahurin and varela books. They are judging me.
I liked A Deadly Education but the whole racism running through it as pointed out in various twitter threads is true. So I remain conflicted about the book.
Oh no, I couldn’t imagine reading a book on my computer either! Though I used to do so for fanfiction, but that still feels different 🙂 Hope you’ll get to read it some way though!
I have to admit I didn’t know about racism in A Deadly Education, so perhaps I need to read up on that before diving into the book.
I added “By the Book” to my shelf last year, but didn’t read it. But hopefully I will soon-ish because it does sound good!! 🙂
It does sound good, so hope we’ll both be able to get to it this year 🙂
I have The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue on my tbr for this year too. And I just finished Serpent & Dove and can’t wait to dive into Blood and Honey. The Honey-Don’t List wasn’t my most favorite CLo book, and I’m always interested to hear what others think about it.
~ Corina | thebrowneyedbookworm.com
I actually just finished Addie LaRue and loved it, so hope you’ll enjoy it too! I’ve been hearing mixed reviews about The Honey-Don’t List, but I still want to read it as I’ve enjoyed all Christina Lauren books so far 🙂
Great list! A Deadly Education is one I still need to get, too. I hope you enjoy all of these!
Thanks, hope you’ll enjoy A Deadly Education too when you get to it!
I tried a bit of Invisible Life and By the Book last year and sent them both back to the library unread.
Oh sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy those reads!
The Honey-Don’t List was a cute read. I also meant to read Addie LaRue, but I haven’t been able to get a copy from my library yet!
I hope to read The Honey-Don’t List soon. And I just finished Addie LaRue and really loved it, so hope you’ll enjoy it too when your library copy is available! 🙂
I still need to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as well. 🙂
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I JUST finished Addie LaRue and really enjoyed it, so hope you’ll love it too!
Blood & Honey is one I hadn’t gotten around to either yet but today I finally got my copy in the mail!
Hope you enjoy Blood and Honey! I’ve had a copy for a few months already, but I just… need to pick it up 🙂
Ha ha I’m glad I’m not the only one who refers to this list as the list of shame! I read Addie LaRue last year and loved it, so I hope you do too! Kingdom of The Wicked was a bit more iffy for me, there were some parts I enjoyed but I did find it very slow.
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Haha, same! I actually JUST finished Addie and ADORED it! Good to know, though I do hope I’ll have better luck with Kingdom of the Wicked 🙂
Yay, that’s awesome! I hope you do too, I really wanted to enjoy it but it was just too slow for me!
While I’ve heard of some of these there are others that are new to me, and I love the covers of Iron Heart, and Blood Honey, very intriguing.
They are indeed some gorgeous covers!
You’re not alone – there were plenty of books I meant to get to in 2020 and just … didn’t. Good thing we can roll them on over to 2021, right? I hope you love all these when you get to them.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Exactly, and having a lot of books that we still want to read is definitely a good problem to have 😉
I have A Deadly Education, Kingdom of the Wicked, and Addie LaRue to also read!
-Lauren
http://www.shootingstarsmag.net
Hope you’ll love all of them as well!
The Honey-Don’t List is the only one on here I’ve read, but I really enjoyed it. It was such a fun story. I hope you like it as much as I did when you get to it.
Glad to hear you enjoyed The Honey-Don’t List! I definitely hope to pick it up soon.
So many books so little time, am I right? Hope you manage to get around to these. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/books-i-meant-to-read-in-2020/
Exactly, so many books so little time! But it’s a good problem to have for sure 🙂
I loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I hope you do too!
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I actually JUST finished it and I indeed loved it so much 🙂
I loved A Deadly Education and Kingdom of the Wicked! I hope you’ll give these a chance!
Thanks Sophie, I hope to start them soon 🙂
I finally read Addie LaRue a couple of weeks ago and thought it was amazing. If I were to recommend one from your list to read soon, that would be my pick. 🙂
Ahh, I actually JUST finished Addie LaRue and you’re right, it was absolutely amazing!