Top 5 Tuesday is brought to you by Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm, see her original post here.

Today’s theme = Series I Need To Finish

My first thought with this was ‘5? I bet I have waaaaay more than that!!’

My second thought was ‘what if I did this post last year and its the same series?!’ 😂

Let’s not think on that!

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Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

Read: Shadow and Bone

Next up: Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising

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The Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black

Read: Tithe

Next up: Valiant and Ironside

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Renegades series by Marissa Meyer

Read: Renegades

Next up: Archenemies and then the wait for Supernova (well it’s really a race to read Archemenies first!!!)

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Forever Evermore series by Scarlett Dawn

Read: King Hall

Next up: King Cave then King Tomb

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Dare series by Shantal Tessier

Read: I Dare You, I Promise You

Next up: If You Dare

 

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What series are on your list?

I have joined in this challenge for 3 years running now and I love it. It gives me a chance to burn through some of my tbr/Beat the Backlist books and holds me accountable and ……

I DID IT!!!

You can see my sign up post here.

Some of my books changed from my original post though! I had a clear out, it was dramatic and traumatic (for me) but it needed to be done!

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Here are the 20 books I read over Summer……

• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
• Finale by Stephanie Garber
• Trouble at Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy
• The Fallen by Tillie Cole
• Raphael by Tillie Cole
• Lies by Kylie Scott
• One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence
• Tithe by Holly Black
• The Winter Court by Amelia Hutchins
• I Dare You by Shantel Tessier
• Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff
• King Hall by Scarlett Dawn
• The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
• Darkest before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins
• Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
• Quiet Man by Kristen Ashley
• War by Laura Thalassa
• Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• Catching Him by Aurora Rose Reynolds

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Did you do the 20 Books of Summer Challenge?

How did you get on?

Here I am again keeping myself accountable for my challenges…the shame if I don’t reach the challenge….

Side note: Oh I do miss Game of Thrones

Anyway…you can see my original post here where I said I would try for 30 books but I bested that by April so I upped it to New Release Pro! (31-60 books)! You can see my April update post here.

So here we go with the next quarter! I’ve only listed books as I didnt have much time (forgive me!!!)

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May

• Pretty Reckless by LJ Shen
• Romanov by Nadine Brandes
• Deadline to Damnation by Anne Malcom
• Trouble at Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy
• The Fallen: Genesis by Tillie Cole
• Forever Immortal by Amelia Hutchins
• Romanov by Nadine Brandes

Total = 7

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June

• Finale by Stephanie Garber

• Malum part 2 by Amo Jones
• Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff
• Luca Vitello by Cora Reilly
• If She’s Wicked by Amelia Hutchins

• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
• Jedson by Cora Brent

Total = 7

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July

• Trapping Her by Aurora Rose Reynolds
• Lies by Kylie Scott
• Quiet Man by Kristen Ashley
• War by Laura Thalassa

Total = 4

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August

• Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
• Twisted Bonds by Cora Reilly
• Broken Knight by LJ Shen
• Rage by Cora Carmack

Total = 4

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Total so far = 47/60

Not too shabby….and I’m not worried if I don’t hit 60, it was just a best reach!

Top 5 Tuesday is brought to you by Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm – you can find her July topic post here.

August 20th theme = Dystopian

Ok, so I love books but I have to admit I didnt even know if I’d read any dystopian so I needed to look up some Goodreads lists!!!! I have no idea whether these are dystopian or not but Goodreads says they are so that’s good enough for me!

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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

 

 

Secondborn by Amy A Bartol

 

 

The Selection by Keira Cass

 

 

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

 

 

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

 

 

 

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This got me thinking about what other dystopian books I’d like to read so whilst I was scouring the list I picked these:

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

I’m always up for a bit of forward planning, especially when it comes to books so I thought to brighten up Mondays I’d tell you about some books I am looking forward to in 2020!!

After falling head over heels for Aurora Rising, I am making it my mission to read all this authors work….and when I saw a vamp book was coming, I was overjoyed!

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Title: Empire of the Vampire

Series: Empire of the Vampire #1

Author: Jay Kristoff

Release Date: 3 September 2020

How much are you looking forward to this?

The Rules

• Thank the person who nominated you

• Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)

• Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Firstly I must apologise as I didn’t get the name of who posted this….but THANK YOU!

I thought for this time around I would do a book quotes, a quote from a book and a quote for my fave thing in the whole world = my son!

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Day 3

My son is my heart. He is my absolute everything. He is 9. He has the best smile in the whole world, it lights up a room. He is cheeky. He is funny. He is compassionate. He is my world.

The Rules

• Thank the person who nominated you

• Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)

• Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Firstly I must apologise as I didn’t get the name of who posted this….but THANK YOU!

I thought for this time around I would do a book quotes, a quote from a book and a quote for my fave thing in the whole world = my son!

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Day 2

This is a quote from A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer. I read this book and loved every word but this really resonated with me. Look for the light even in the dark.

The Rules

• Thank the person who nominated you

• Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)

• Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Firstly I must apologise as I didn’t get the name of who posted this….but THANK YOU!

I thought for this time around I would do a book quotes, a quote from a book and a quote for my fave thing in the whole world = my son!

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Day 1

How true this is!

My books are my constant companion, they are there whenever I need them.

I’m not going to tag anyone but feel free to use!