Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books From X Genre
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: 10 Books From X Genre That I've Recently
Added To My TBR List.
It’s been a while since I really read a Young
Adult, Paranormal/Fantasy novel, so that is
the genre I picked for this week.
*This list is no specific order*
*Click book title or series for
Goodreads link
I went to the Book Expo this past week so it was
really easy to pick the books.
1.
Black
Birds of the Gallows: (Link) I honestly centered my list around
this book. I’m so in love with the cover that I can’t stop thinking about it.
A simple but forgotten
truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full.
Angie
Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding
athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence
signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something
supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good
and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not
human.
What's
more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could
kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a
harbinger of death.
"We all hold a
beast inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed."
Something's
not right about Rain Ryland's new hometown. On the surface, it's a friendly,
tight-knit community, but something deadly lurks underneath the small-town
charm. Everyone he meets is hiding something—especially Friederike Burkhart,
the hottest girl he's ever laid eyes on. Rain's determined to find out her
secret, even if it kills him...and it just might.
An East Asian fantasy
reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become
Empress--and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny.
Eighteen-year-old
Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is
meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within
her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map,
Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the
witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic
future. But is the price of the throne too high?
Because
in order to achieve greatness, she must spurn the young man who loves her and
exploit the callous magic that runs through her veins--sorcery fueled by eating
the hearts of the recently killed. For the god who has sent her on this journey
will not be satisfied until his power is absolute.
You’ll never see
me unless I want you to…
I am
different. I have always been different, but no one can know or my life will be
in danger. So I hide in plain sight, wearing drab clothes and thick glasses and
trying to be invisible. I’m so good at hiding, no one has ever noticed me.
Until Ian…the mysterious and oh-so-cute boy I know I need to avoid.
Now I
have been seen. And more terrifying still, I am wanted—by those who would
protect me and those who would destroy everything and everyone I love. But if
they’re all terrified about who I am, wait until they see what I can do…
Time flies when you're plundering history.
Farway
Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder
from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the
laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after
failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship
with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal
valuables from the past.
But
during a heist on the sinking Titanic, Far meets a mysterious girl who always
seems to be one step ahead of him. Armed with knowledge that will bring Far's
very existence into question, she will lead Far and his team on a race through
time to discover a frightening truth: History is not as steady as it seems.
Domino: A runaway with
blood on her hands.
Cain: A silent boy about
to explode.
Madam Karina: A woman
who demands obedience.
Wilson: The one who will
destroy them all.
When
Madam Karina discovers Domino in an alleyway, she offers her a position at her
girls’ home in secluded West Texas. With no alternatives and an agenda of her
own, Domino accepts. It isn’t long before she is fighting her way up the ranks
to gain the madam’s approval…and falling for Cain, the mysterious boy living in
the basement.
But
the madam has horrible secrets. So do the girls in the house. So does Cain.
Escaping
is harder than Domino expects, though, because the madam doesn’t like to lose
inventory. But then, Madam Karina doesn’t know about the danger living inside
Domino’s mind.
Madam
Karina doesn’t know about Wilson.
Rumor Mora fears two
things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two
dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to
vanish.
But in no reality should a
boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.
Nyx Llorca keeps two
secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she’s in love with Dahlia, her best
friend. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to get out from his mother's shadow,
and to unlearn Epsilon's darkest secret.
They’ll both have to
commit treason to find the truth.
During
one twenty-seven-hour night, if they can’t stop the war between the colonies
and the monsters from becoming a war of extinction, the things they wish for
will never come true, and the things they fear will be all that’s left.
Of course I want to be
like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will
live forever.
And Cardan is even more
beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so
much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
Jude
was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters
were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years
later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But
many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and
wickedest son of the High King.
To
win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
In
doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering
her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts
of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance
to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
Sallot
Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing
more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to
the upper-class―and the nobles who destroyed their home.
When
Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand―the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears―Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge.
But
the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal
apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common criminal hardly
prepared Sal for the trials. And as Sal succeeds in the competition, and wins
the heart of Elise, an intriguing scribe at court, they start to dream of a new
life and a different future, but one that Sal can have only if they survive.
In
the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried
love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be
dark—and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The
destroyer. The death bringer.
These
are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up
hearing in hushed whispers, drawn to the forbidden figures of the past. But it
isn’t until she becomes the fiercest, most feared dragon slayer in the land
that she takes on the role of the next Iskari—a lonely destiny that leaves her
feeling more like a weapon than a girl.
Asha
conquers each dragon and brings its head to the king, but no kill can free her
from the shackles that await at home: her betrothal to the cruel commandant, a
man who holds the truth about her nature in his palm. When she’s offered the
chance to gain her freedom in exchange for the life of the most powerful dragon
in Firgaard, she finds that there may be more truth to the ancient stories than
she ever could have expected. With the help of a secret friend—a slave boy from
her betrothed’s household—Asha must shed the layers of her Iskari bondage and
open her heart to love, light, and a truth that has been kept from her.
7 comments
I've not read any of Ryan's books, but this latest one sounds really good! Looking forward to possibly reading it. The concept sounds cool, and the cover is fabulous. :)
ReplyDeleteI know Holly Black is known for her fantasy and fresh take on tropes, so I want to believe her fae book, which sounds similar to Iron King by Julie Kagawa and Need by Carie Reed will be different and original. I didn't even now she was publishing another book!
ReplyDeleteI need to added Forest of a Thousand Lanterns to my TBR. Our TTT
ReplyDeleteWow, these books sound really intriguing! :-) I hope you enjoy them when you get around to reading them.
ReplyDeleteBlack Bird of the Gallows and Atlantis Rising sound really good! Here is my Top Ten Tuesday!
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/top-ten-tuesday-110/
Great list! I haven't read any of these, but I am really interested in Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Invictus, and Violet Grenade. All of those sound extremely exciting! I hope you get around to reading all of these one day! :)
ReplyDelete~ Lefty @ The Left-Handed Book Lover
My TTT!