~ Top Ten Tuesday ~

* * Top Ten Tuesdays (TTT) is a weekly event hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. * *

This week we are talking about the Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist ( if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period, a certain plot, etc.)

1.  This is a hard one for me......I would have to say that I would love to read a Young Adult book from an adult writing author.  For example, I would love to read a dystopian book from J.R. Ward! I'm not sure how good it would be, but I would love to see how it would come out.  

2.  I am going to stick with the theme here and just say reading a book from an author that isn't used to writing in a certain genre.  Maybe a contemporary author writing paranormal and/or fantasy.  I know they are two totally different beasts because when it comes to fantasy/paranormal there needs to be a lot of world building and in contemporary not so much.  Contemporary focuses more on the characters and feelings.  

3. The Victoria Era. I love watching movies from that time period, but I don't see a lot of new novels coming out that are set during that time frame. Maybe even give it a little twist with a secret society of woman running things instead of the men ;) .

4.  Oh my, I am totally drawing blank with this TTT. Let's see, I would love to see an author to write about characters with more of your average complexions. In every book (99% of them) that we read, the female character is this beautiful, skinny and down to heart person. The guys are to perfect to be true, the face, the body and the attitude, its makes us women daydream about them. I just wish that for once an author would write about normal people, your average day/night person, with the struggles and the insecurities we all have.   

5.  Topics and plots! There are millions of topics out there that an author can write about, I am not saying that is easy or none of that, I just wish that there were different topics. For example, I almost every New Adult book that I've read the female protagonist back-story is rape/sexual abuse. It's being overdone by authors. Half of the time the female lead spend half of the book trying to come to terms with her past history, sometimes she does not even overcome it. In my opinion I think New Adult authors have/must find different social problems to write about and there are tons of them. 

6 . What I would LOVE really to see written is the retelling of when Mary Queen of Scots was around or something like that. I'm obsessed with Reign -a CW TV show- and the mid finale killed me, literally. I wanted to know what was gonna happen next. You Game of Thrones fans are lucky because you have books to occupy your time while waiting for another season. So hey you awesome young adult authors, can you write about Mary or maybe even her Ladies in Waiting?

7. Now onto characterization/plots . . .

Sometimes in Young Adult and New Adult books, you have the overly protective guy being a jerk and brushing the girl off because he has his so called "reasons." What I really want in a plot is to see the girl put her foot down and say "screw you" and walk away. Let him be the one to chase her. Let him be the one to know how it feels to have the brush off. Guys in books should know that: "It's not always rainbows and butterflies it's compromise that moves us along." (Sorry y'all I had to use that lyric)

 Back to the point, what I'm trying, and failing I might add, to say is that I want a female character who's headstrong and doesn't give in easily to the temptations of guy syndromes like broodiness, jerkiness, etc . (Well she can give in but after a ridiculous amount of groveling and apologizing from the guy). Girls can be alphas too you know, we're not always damsels in distress.

8. I'd like to read more books where the main character wasn't a thin, petite girl, who is never hungry and is really smart with special powers. I'd like to sit down and read a book about a girl/woman that has some meat on her bones and is not ashamed of being less than perfect.

9. More Post-Apocalyptic books. I know by now I should be tired of reading dystopia, but I can't seem to get enough of it, so bring it on!

10. Well, something that I really wish to read would be a Simon's POV for Wallbanger... I need to know what is going on in his mind during that book. There are things that only with his POV I could understand.

What things you have on your wishlist? Share with us.