Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Brokeandbookish. This week’s theme is Ten Books I Feel Differently about after time has passed. I decided to talk about books I find myself thinking about those more fondly than before. I’m not going to give a description to all of these, because this would only lead me to more fangirling, so…I have decided to give myself a little challenge. Three words for each of these books, max. Or okay, one sentence, because I love to talk. Let’s go! If you want to discover the wonderful books, click on the title for a link to Goodreads!
1 • Cinder, Marissa Meyer
Oh, all of my expectation were met.
2 • I’ll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
In one word : PERFECTION.
3 • The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, Sarah Ockler
Slightly fluffy, mostly gorgeous, completely fallen in love with the characters .
4 • The Accident Season, Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Eerie, weird, unforgettable.
5 • Emmy & Oliver, Robin Benway
The childhood best friend trope = my one and only love.
6 • More Than This, Patrick Ness
One hell of a rollercoaster. Just, WOW.
7 • My life next door, Huntley Fitzpatrick
Glorious and everything I love in a contemporary.
8 • The Mara Dyer Series, Michelle Hodkin
THREE WORDS : WHAT IS HAPPENING. Still not over that book.
9 • We were liars, E. Lockhart
Plot twist alert : IT HURTS.
10 • Vanishing Girls, Lauren Oliver
If you’re looking for me, I will be there, sobbing in a corner.
I so need to finish the Mara Dyer series! The first book was amazing but I couldn’t get through the second book. I’ll try again soon 😀 I see Mermaids, YES!!
OH you should, this series was incredible. I think the ending wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea sadly, but I did love it. It was just as crazy as the rest of the books were 🙂 I hope you’ll enjoy it, and thank you so much Prima! <3
I think reading other book reviews definitely influence my thoughts on books, simply because sometimes they’ll state something about the book that I never even realized, and has me going “Oh, my god! How did I not see that?” My TTT
EXACTLY! This happens to me way too often, and I’m grateful for incredible, insightful book bloggers to point that out to me, ahah. This is great 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by 🙂
Your sentences for More Than This and We Were Liars are SO accurate. Those were some bumpy, plot twisty rides!! Great list 🙂
Definitely. Sometimes I still think about it, and it still blows my mind 🙂 Thank you so much Holly!
I need to read We Were Liars! I’ve been meaning to get to it but I just keep finding other stuff to read.
Oh, I get it, there are so many books, some get forgotten in our endless TBR, ahah. I hope you’ll read it soon though, I would love to know your opinion on that one, especially since this has so many mixed reviews! 🙂 Thank you so much!
Exactly. Haha. Makes me feel guilty sometime forgetting them in that huge TBR pile. I’ll definitely let you know when I’m done reading it! 😀
Me too, ahah. We should clean up our TBR once in a while 😛 I can’t wait 🙂
Haha, good idea. Now I just need to figure out which books to remove…
Ahah oh yes, that’s the hardest part…
Yes Cinder! I would definitely say all my expectations were met with this book, it possibly exceeded them all as well! Same with Jandy Nelson, I wasn’t sure what to think about this book before I started, contemporary isn’t my favourite genre though it’s a close second, but I’ll Give You the Sun blew me away. I definitely DEFINITELY agree with you when you say perfection!
Some of these books I still really need to read; More than This and The Summer of Chasing Mermaids are both on my to-read list and I’m definitely intrigued by The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, I may have to check that book out!
Great picks for this week Marie 😀
I’m so glad you agree on these Beth, thank you so much! <3
I am so excited for you to read these books, especially More than this, because damn, that book was kind of incredible, I'm still not over it, and I read it a YEAR ago. OHHH, I would love it if you gave Mara Dyer a try. That series is so great, it's mysterious and slightly creepy, yet the characters are endearing, the writing style is absolutely gorgeous, and the suspense is just crazy.
That’s all right, they’re both amazing books!
More Than This is definitely on my to-read list soon, along with all of Patrick Ness’s books I’ve yet to start (which is pretty much all of then except The Rest of Us Just Live Here) and now I’m really excited because that’s high praise if you read it that long ago as well!
I do like slightly creepy books! And honestly I’ve seen the Mara Dyer books around everywhere but I’ve never really picked them up before, but if you love it then I’m willing to give it a try, you’ve recommended some great books to me in the past!
Well, I just hope I won’t give you too high expectations then, ahha. I just can’t wait to know what you think about it! 🙂
The Mara Dyer series has some mixedd reviews especially for the last book, but I’m one of these thinking that the ending was just brilliant. Can’t wait for you to read it 😀
I’m sure you won’t, and I always wait a little before starting recommended books, gives me a chance to take everything in under my own expectations (really hope that makes sense!)
Well I’m willing to give any book a try, hopefully I love it just as much as you did though (and hey you were right about the ending to We Were Liars being amazing so it’ll probably be the same for the last Mara Dyer book too!)
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OH yeah definitely, it does, that’s what I try to do everytime I get a rec, or especially for hyped books!
I am seriously way too excited for you to read the Mara Dyer series, it’s easily one of my favorites 😀
I think it just helps when it comes to writing a fair review if you aren’t still being influenced by the hype, that’s certainly what I’ve found recently!
I’ll definitely have to get around to that series soon then! 🙂
Exactly! I really try to think about the books for a bit before writing a review anyway, because a lot of the time, when I’m done, I can’t sit down and write my review, and also I like thinking about the book a bit before 🙂
And the more you think of it the more you start to pick up on things you may not have. I find when I go to write a review straight away I’m still caught up in really enjoying or really not enjoying a book, waiting a few days just gives me a chance to think more logically on what I read 🙂
Yes, exactly! Sometimes I’m blown away by a book’s ending or something, and if I wrote a review right away, I think I’d rate it way too high and not take into consideration the whole reading experience, really 🙂
I feel like I do that too much, especially with really hyped up books, waiting a day or two before writing a review just means I give it a more honest rating rather than rating it too high and then changing my mind afterwards! 😀
Exactly 🙂 Even if sometimes I have to double and triple check some names in order not to get confused, hahaha 😛
We Were Liars has definitely improved as time has passed for me as well. I think it was overhyped for me when I first read it which reflected in my opinion. However, a reread would be challenging if you know what’s coming. Great list!
Oh I can understand that, overhyped books really do no good, sometimes :(. Exactly. I keep thinking about re-reading it, because it was so good, yet, with knowing how it ends, it kind of takes off the whole impact of the story, I think…if I’m making sense, ahha. Thank you so much Fiona! 🙂
I’ve only read Cinder on your list BUT I’ve heard of all of these and have heard how great they are! I’ve been wanting to read a Patrick Ness book eventually and that one looks really good! I love how you described each book.
Ohh, you should! More than this was my first Patrick Ness book, and it kind of set up high expectations for all of the other ones. It was unexpected, in every way, addicting, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I hope you’ll read it 🙂 Thank you so much Sarah! <3
I LOVED I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson. I don’t think I will even not like that book! Can’t wait to see what she comes up with next! 😀
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Ohh I can’t wait either, I’m sure it will be another incredible book <3 Thank you so much!
Great list 🙂 I really want to read Emmy and Oliver.
Thank you so much! Oh, you should, it was so good 🙂
Great list and I love how you limited it to one sentence each! I think that would be quite a challenge for me too when I love a book so much 🙂
I just added Emmy and Oliver and The Summer of Chasing Mermaids to my TBR, they sound amazing!
Thank you so much! 🙂 It was so hard, there are books I love so much I could talk about them all day. But I wanted to try it that way, I’m glad you like it 🙂
Ohhh yay, this makes me so, so happy! Please let me know when you read those, I’d love to know if you like them 🙂
I never did get to Vanishing girls and now Lauren Oliver has ANOTHER book coming out- gah. I’m behind… 🙂
I like the 3 word descriptions, that’s a great idea.
Oh, it’s only in September…you still have a few months to catch up…and I hope you will, Vanishing Girls was so good! 😀 Thank you so much for stopping by Greg! 🙂
(Oh, and your blog link in your profile doesn’t work, thought you’d like to know 🙂
Thank you! I had no idea… will fix. 🙂
You’re welcome! 🙂
I’ll Give You The Suns sounds like my kind of book. The description mentioned beautiful boys on two separate occasions. I am sold.
Haha, well I really hope you’ll read this one. It was so beautiful, I loved it so, so much. Let me know if you ever get to it! 🙂
Saying something in so few words or a single sentence really can’t have been easy! Well done spin on the topic too!
Not at all, haha, especially when they’re books I loved, I could have talked for hours, haha. Thank you so much! <3
I totally get that! Sometimes I want to tell my cousin something about a book that she might enjoy too and then I can’t shut up and almost tell her the entire plot ahaha
Hahaha, yeah me neither, I just want to say EVERYTHING ahah
Yep, I am totally the same 😀
Great choices ! I need to pick the Cinder series.
Thank you! You should, it was such a great book 🙂
I think I would rate My Life Next Door higher now, too!
OH yes, that book was just so good 🙂 Thank you so much! <3
So happy to see My Life Next Door here! I really liked it too. Have you read The Boy Most Likely To or What I Thought Was True? Huntley Fitzpatrick is fast becoming my insta-read contemporary author, though I didn’t really enjoy WITWT that much. 😛
No, I haven’t read those books yet, I hope to read The Boy Most Likely To soon though! I can’t wait, even more knowing that you like her books so much! What didn’t you like WITWT ? I can’t remember if you put up a review for it? 🙂
I’m excited for your thoughts on TBMLT! I liked it quite a bit, and contemporaries generally don’t impress me that much. 🙂
Hmm, I haven’t written a review for WITWT yet but it just felt very… messy to me? Like there were too many things happening that the main plot isn’t super clear, and I also didn’t like the characters as much as I loved the ones in MLND or TBMLT. :/
I hope I can read it very soon 🙂
oh, I get it, it has happened to me before, and I really don’t like it. Everything just feels messy and you wonder where the fun in reading that is… That’s too bad :/
Yeah, I know! WITWT was that kind of book for me – I tried so hard to love it but in the end I kind of forced myself to finish reading it. Hope you enjoy TBMLT, though. <3
I hope I will just as well ! I’ll try and buy it when I’m off my book-buying ban…I have too many books to read and not enough money for now, haha 🙂
YES TO ALL OF THESE. I’ll Give You the Sun was absolutely fantastic, and the plot twist in We Were Liars blew my mind. Emmy & Oliver and More Than This were amazing too. Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous choices! <3
Aww thank you so much Zoe, I’m so glad you agree with me! Thank you <3
What a great way to tackle this week’s topic! Maybe I’ll steal (no borrow) your way of doing it so I can do this last minute 😉
Oh yeah definitely do that 😉 Thank you so much!
You’re welcome 🙂
I need to read so many books! Especially The Summer Of Chasing Mermaids, because that just sounds amazing, especially since you recommended it. I loved your one-word summaries! They were really concise. I’m impressed you managed to write so little about so many feels 🙂
Thank you so much Shar, you’re so sweet! <3 I struggled ahah, because there are so many things to say about books I loved, !I'm glad this worked out okay! I hope you'll be able to read The Summer of Chasing Mermaids soon -as summer is coming…it's perfect!-, I feel like you could love it 🙂
Totally agree with Mara Dyer (still need to read the last book), We Were Liars and Cinder!! Some of these I still need to strike off of my TBR list!!
OH YES you should, I would love to know your thoughts about that last book! 🙂 Thank you so much!
I loooooved Mara Dyer and We Were Liars so much. I’ve yet to finish the Mara series though and I have zero excuses. I also want to read pretty much every other book on this list, haha.
OH YES <3 I'm so happy you love those as well! I can't wait for you to readhttps://widgets.wp.com/notificationsbeta/2466674073# that final book, I hope you'll love it as much as I did! <3
Great list! Definitely agree with We Were Liars – I never saw that plot twist coming! Still also need to read More Than This, especially as I’ve never read a Patrick Ness book before
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Yes you should read it, that Patrick Ness book was so good 🙂 Thank you so much!
I reaaaaaally need to read a lot of books from this list! Great post! 🙂
YES you should, I definitely want to know what you think about ALL of these 🙂 Thank you!
Definitely!