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.
This week’s theme is about books that surprised me, whether good or bad. I’ll be sharing 6 books that were a good surprise and 4 that were a bad surprise (for me at least) and all of them were recent reads (2024). Check out my review link to see what surprised me so much about each of these!
- Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang – REVIEW
- The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff – REVIEW
- Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart – REVIEW
- The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson – REVIEW
- The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons – REVIEW
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman – REVIEW
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Love seeing Assassins Anonymous on your list. I couldn’t believe how good it was!
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It was a real shocker, mostly because I wasn’t expecting it to be so emotionally moving! I was expecting just a humorous spy novel, but it’s way more than that 😀
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Assassins Anonymous was so cool!
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It was! I’m hoping the sequel is just as good!
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Immortal Pleasures ended up being a DNF for me. I found the authors descriptions of sex weirdly creepy? And it just took me out of the story because I didn’t know whether to laugh at it or be creeped out lol.
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Ughhh Immortal Pleasures was SO BAD. I ended up skimming the last part of the book just so I could see how it wrapped up!
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Hahaha I can’t blame you… at least you managed to finish it!
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At least you have more good surprises than bad ones! 🙂 I can’t say I’ve read any of these, but I have seen some good reviews for Assassins Anonymous.
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Assassins Anonymous is very much worth the read! I tried to be positive on this post, but definitely had some more bad surprises.
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I’ve not read any of these. Good that the good outweighed the not so good.
Lynn 😀
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