Top Ten Tuesday: Most Unique Books
Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will be a different Top Ten list. Everyone
is welcome to join and link up.
This week is: Top
Ten of The Most Unique Books I’ve Come Across.
*This is how and why these books are unique to me. Also, this list is
no specific order.
*Click title for Goodreads link
Joining of Souls #1
With mainstream books it’s pretty
rare to find a book where the main character is a person of color. So right
from the start this boo was different, Laxshmi is Indian and Liam is Irish. This
setup and world were something that was new to me and it was something that
stood out.
*Two souls. One Fate.
Eighteen-year-old
Liam Whelan, an Irish royal empath, has been searching for his elusive
soulmate. The rare union will cement his family's standing in empath politics
and afford the couple legendary powers, while also making them targets of those
seeking to oust them.
Laxshmi
Kapadia, an Indian-American high school student from a traditional family,
faces her mother's ultimatum: Graduate early and go to medical school, or
commit to an arranged marriage.
When
Liam moves next door to Laxshmi, he’s immediately and inexplicably drawn to
her. In Liam, Laxshmi envisions a future with the freedom to follow her heart.
Liam's
father isn't convinced Laxshmi is "The One" and Laxshmi's mother
won't even let her talk to their handsome new neighbor. Will Liam and Laxshmi
defy expectations and embrace a shared destiny? Or is the risk of choosing
one's own fate too great a price for the soulmated?
Someone Else’s Fairytale #1
While a story
about a woman meeting and falling in love with a big movie star isn’t actually
a new or unique concept, this story is. Everything about Chloe is unique, her
past, her story, her relationship with Jason. E.M Tippetts took a story and
theme that we already know and turned it upside down.
*Ordinary Chloe Winters has what every woman
wants--the heart of Hollywood's hottest celebrity Jason Vanderholt. Falling for
a hot shot A-lister is the last thing on Chloe's mind. She has no interest in
romance--or his scene, especially the crowd of people who surround him. After
all, Chloe's more wrapped up in finishing college--not fraternizing with
Hollywood's elite. Her best bet is to stay under the radar and steer clear of
everyone's leading man.
But Jason can't get his mind off the timid
and sweet girl. Now, it's up to the heartthrob to steal the heart of the one
girl who doesn't want him. But what happens when this contemporary Cinderella
doesn't even want to try on the glass slipper?
After all, not everyone has the same
fairytale. . .
Mercy Thompson #1
Mercy
herself is what makes the book unique. Her background. The fact that she is a “walker”
a coyote more specifically, not a shifter.
*Mercedes
"Mercy" Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the
Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being
with the power to shift into a coyote at will.
Mercy's
next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's
fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks
a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night. And
Mercy's connection to those things is about to get her into some serious hot
water...
Guild Hunter #1
Nalini
Singh sets up a beautiful world. The hunters, Angels, vampires and humans are
amazingly written and when you read the series you can see the world was that
created.
*Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she is the best-
but she does not know if even she is good enough for this job. Hired by the
dangerously beautiful archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants
his attention, Elena knows failure is not an option—even if the task is
impossible.
Because
this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone
bad.
The
job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her
to the razor's edge of passion. Even if the hunt does not destroy her,
succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just might. For when archangels play,
mortals break.
The Dark Elements #1 *Link
I
haven’t read or even come across too many books about gargoyles, let alone a
book about a half demon, half gargoyle. Layla was a great character and Roth
was absolutely everything.
*One kiss
could be the last.
Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But
with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half
demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.
Raised
among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping
humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side
from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly
gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever.
Then
she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her
secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants
to—especially when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue, considering Roth
has no soul.
But
when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting
Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne… it could brand her a traitor
to her family. Worse yet, it could become a one-way ticket to the end of the
world.
Charley Davidson #1
This
book took what you thought you knew about grim reapers and threw it out the
window. Charley is a breath of fresh air
*This whole grim reaper thing should
have come with a manual.
Or a diagram of some kind.
A flow chart would have been nice.
Or a diagram of some kind.
A flow chart would have been nice.
Charley Davidson is a part-time private
investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really.
And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when
these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder),
sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice.
Complicating matters are the intensely
hot dreams she's been having about an entity who has been following her all her
life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be
something else entirely. But what does he want with Charley? And why can't she
seem to resist him? And what does she have to lose by giving in?
Bard Academy #1
Miranda goes to a boarding school and it
turns out some of the students are characters pulled straight out the pages of
some classic books.
*Welcome to Bard
Academy, where a group of supposedly troubled teens are about to get scared
straight.
When Miranda, a slightly spoiled but
spirited 15-year-old from Chicago, smashes up her father's car and goes to town
with her stepmother's credit cards, she's shipped off to Bard Academy, a
boarding school where she's supposed to learn to behave. Gothic and boring and
strict, it's everything you'd expect of a reform school. But all is not what it
seems at Bard...
For starters, Miranda's having horrific
nightmares and the nearby woods are eerily impossible to navigate. The
students' lives also start to mirror the classics they're reading-tragic novels
like Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. So Miranda begins to suspect
that Bard is haunted-by famous writers who took their own lives-and she senses
that not all of them are happy. Complicating things even more is the fact that
Ryan Kent-a cute, smart, funny basketball player who went to Miranda's old high
school-landed himself in Bard, too. And the attention he's showing Miranda is
making some of the other girls white as ghosts. Something ghoulish is
definitely brewing at Bard, and Miranda seems to be at the center of ominous
events, but whether it's typical high school b.s. or otherworldly danger
remains to be seen.
Raven Investigations #1
Raven herself is different from I thought and
the world is unique.
*Everything changed when Raven, a natural born conduit,
accidentally walks in on a slave auction. She only wants a night out with her
friends before her next case as a paranormal liaison with the police. Instead,
she ends up in possession of a shifter and his guardian. When your touch can
kill, living with two touchy-feely shifters is a disaster waiting to happen.
To make
matters worse, a vicious killer is on the loose. As mutilated bodies turn up,
she can't help fear that her new acquisitions are keeping secrets from her. The
strain of keeping everyone alive, not to mention catching the killer, pushes
her tenuous control of her gift and her emotions to their limits. If they hope
to survive, they must work together as a pack or risk becoming hunted themselves.
Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Childen #1
Children with special gifts, living the same
day repeatedly on purpose, fighting a monster they can’t see. This series was
so good and something I hadn’t read before.
*A mysterious
island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.
A horrific family tragedy sets
sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales,
where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes
clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been
dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason.
And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
Speak of the Devil #1
Now books about the devil’s daughter aren’t new
to me but this story was. Now Faith and Jesus being cousins certainly was. The Devil
and God being brothers who got along and actually liked each other was a new
way to tell a story.
*Being the youngest
daughter of the Devil isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The days of teenage
rebellion and vows of chastity made just to tick off her father are over, and
now all Faith Bettincourt wants is a nice, quiet life. Unfortunately, thanks to
the unexpected arrival of her demonically-downsized sister, a ditzy succubus
roommate, and dear old Dad himself, Faith’s plans for a relaxing vacation spent
watching reruns go up in flames.
Now it’s all Faith can do to keep the
family reunion from Hell (literally) under wraps, and the angelically-inclined
hottie across the hall from realizing there’s something weird about his
neighbor. And, thankfully, it’s working. Until an angelic stalker shows up in a
bid to steal her powers and take over the world.
Forget watching reruns. With the way things
are going, Faith will need the luck of the Devil just to survive until Monday.
3 comments
I have heard of many of these books, but I've only read Miss Peregrine! These books do look fantastic. :-)
ReplyDeleteI loved Moon Called. At a time where every other book you came across was shifter-themed, this was definitely something new in a popular genre.
ReplyDeleteHere is my TTT. Thanks!
I have not read any of the book mentioned in your post this week.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to my TTT post for this week:
http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2017/04/top-ten-tuesday-my-top-seven-most.html