Top Ten Tuesdays (TTT) is a weekly event now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's TTT is: Popular books that lived up to the hype.
I can find myself straying away from hyped books because I get nervous that I'll read them and not like them. It can take me so long to pick up a hyped book, because I sometimes wait until the hype has died down. But with these books, I wish I wouldn't have waited because it would have been fun to join in all the book talk!
Series that lived up to the hype
These series all were brilliant to me. I wish I had jumped on the train sooner but, at the same time, holding off made it so that I could binge read the whole series.
Series that I've read the first one, but not the rest.. yet
These series were hyped up so I read the first and loved it! But when it comes to reading the others, I'm nervous I won't love them as much as the first one. (Do you see any I should definitely continue on with? I know Crooked Kingdom is a given!)
Contemporaries
There are so many hyped contemporaries and I get so nervous I won't like them because i don't read much contemporary. But! I end up liking them more than not. These I looooved!
Finnikin! I see it all the time but yet never get around to it. I fail! Happy to see Simon on your list. Loved Lola too. My TTT
ReplyDeleteI liked Grave Mercy a lot. I need to read the rest of those- and I did like the Taylor Jenkins Reid book I read.
ReplyDeleteNice! I loved Six of Crows as well! Seeing a lot of that one today, I chose another Bardugo book though! I too need to get caught up with The Diviners series as well! So many books so little time! Great picks!
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I know how you feel about hype avoiding hype. I'm the same way, and like you, I enjoy binge reading entire series. I did that for The Lunar Chronicles. I'd really like to read Six of Crows, but haven't gotten to it yet. Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteI cried a lot reading One True Loves, but it was so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThese Broken Stars has been on my shelf forever, I really need to read it!
Our TTT: https://thebookdutchesses.com/2018/07/31/ttt-38-popular-books-that-lived-up-to-the-hype/
Hype always scares me away from books. That’s why I don’t read many of them. I loved Simon, though. That one lived up to the hype for me.
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I don't mind reading popular books (maybe that's an unpopular opinion, I don't know). I haven't read any of the above yet, but I would like to read Six of Crows. As I still have 12 books on hold at the library and several books that I have bought that I need to read, it may be a while before I get to it.
ReplyDeleteI had Six of Crows on my list this week too!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/top-ten-tuesday-170/
The Diviners series was amazing and I can't wait for the next book!
ReplyDeleteCheck out my TTT and please vote in my Make Me Read It Readathon poll