Top Ten Tuesday: Books I had VERY Strong Emotions About

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed post first created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

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This week’s theme focuses on books that brought out strong emotions – the good, the bad, and the ugly!

• Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt – This book was legitimately terrifying. Definitely one of the scariest horror novels I’ve read.
• The House Witch by Delemhach – Such pure and utter delight! 
• Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio – This book… wow. It’s the utter, hopeless shattering of a man and the feeling of desolation it gave was unparalleled.
• House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas – I haven’t felt this much excitement for a book in YEARS! It also left me with some of the most conflicted feelings I’ve had about a book in years.
• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown – This book made me cry and left me with a surprising feeling of sadness thanks to some very moving flashback scenes that left me reflecting on how I might handle such a situation.

• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst – This was so heartwarming and it just filled me with happiness!
• Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco – It is rare that I feel such annoyance at a book and all the characters, but almost every single Kerri Maniscalco book evokes that feeling. I’ve learned my lesson and stopped reading them after two whole series…
• The Fury by Alex Michaelides – Bafflement is a rare feeling for a book to elicit, but that’s exactly what I felt by the end of this.
• A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay – Every book by GGK makes me feel a weird longing for a place I’ve never been that has also never existed. There’s probably a word in German for this exact feeling.
• Farilane by Michael J. Sullivan – Total heartbreak. The ending of this left me a wreck.