T10T — Spring TBR (+ winter tbr update!)

March 24, 2020

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s theme is supposed to be a genre freebie and spring TBRs were supposed to go live last week, but it just didn’t happen, so I’m doing it now! If you’d like more info on these picks or what I thought of my winter TBR, click the video thumbnail below; if you just want the quick list, keep scrolling!

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First, a winter TBR update… then, my spring TBR!

WINTER TBR: 100% success!

Can you believe?! I sure can’t. I know one of these is technically in progress, but if I at least start it, I count it. ?

  1. Come Tumbling Down ✅ ?????
  2. Bad for the Boss ✅⭐⭐⭐⭐?
  3. Corpse Cold ✅⭐⭐⭐⭐
  4. My Fake Rake ✅⭐⭐⭐
  5. Better Watch Out ✅⭐⭐?
  6. The God Game ✅⭐
  7. Behind You ✅?????
  8. Sick Kids in Love ⌛ (in progress)
  9. Ghostland ✅ (set aside at 60% mark, may finish later)
  10. 10 Blind Dates ✅⭐⭐⭐⭐?

Now, for my SPRING TBR:

 

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? children of the dark

Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will’s dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will’s troubles, however, are just beginning.

Because one of the nation’s most notorious criminals—the Moonlight Killer—has escaped from prison and is headed straight toward Will’s hometown. And something else is lurking in Savage Hollow, the forest surrounding Will’s rundown house. Something ancient and infinitely evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on Shadeland, Will and his friends must confront unfathomable horrors. Everyone Will loves—his mother, his little sister, Mia, and his friends—will be threatened.

And very few of them will escape with their lives.

? the switch house

Angela and Terry return home after several grueling months of filming the popular television show, LET’S SWITCH HOUSES!, only to find their residence in ruin. Sure, the décor and framed photographs are the same; the color of the walls hasn’t changed; the furniture sits unmoved. But something is off. Their quiet New Jersey home feels tainted. Angela can sense it. Crawling inside her. Infecting her mind. Poisoning her thoughts.

Then the nightmares begin. Awful, lucid visions that cause her to question her own reality. What happened at 44 Trenton Road while she was gone? Just what did she do, that bizarre woman who claims she can communicate with the beyond? Who is she exactly? Angela aims to find out, but the further she investigates, the deeper into madness she descends. How far will she travel before she loses the trail of clues? Or worse—before she loses her mind.

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? the whites of their eyes

Four tales of horror, written from a queer perspective. In this collection of short stories and novellas, our heroes and heroines will explore the depths of terror both macabre and mundane–and live their darkest fears, reflected in the whites of their eyes.

?‍♀️ dead as a doornail

Sookie Stackhouse, #5 — spoilers for previous books in synopsis below:

Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time—a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks—unless the killer decides to find her first…

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? hunting ground

Alpha & Omega, #2 — spoilers for previous books in synopsis below:

Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son — and enforcer — of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn’t know how dangerous it could be either…

Anna and Charles have just been enlisted to attend a summit to present Bran’s controversial proposition: that the wolves should finally reveal themselves to humans. But the most feared Alpha in Europe is dead set against the plan — and it seems like someone else might be too. When Anna is attacked by vampires using pack magic, the kind of power only werewolves should be able to draw on, Charles and Anna must combine their talents to hunt down whoever is behind it all — or risk losing everything…

? shiver

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without.

Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It’s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

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? always nevcr yours

Seventeen-year-old Megan Harper is about due for her next sweeping romance. It’s inevitable—each of her relationships starts with the perfect guy and ends with him falling in love . . . with someone else. But instead of feeling sorry for herself, Megan focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theater, and fulfilling her dream college’s acting requirement in the smallest role possible.

So when she’s cast as Juliet (yes, that Juliet) in her high school’s production, it’s a complete nightmare. Megan’s not an actress, and she’s used to being upstaged—both in and out of the theater. In fact, with her mom off in Texas and her dad remarried and on to baby #2 with his new wife, Megan worries that, just like her exes, her family is moving on without her.

Then she meets Owen Okita, an aspiring playwright inspired by Rosaline from Shakespeare’s R+J. A character who, like Megan, knows a thing or two about short-lived relationships. Megan agrees to help Owen with his play in exchange for help catching the eye of a sexy stagehand/potential new boyfriend. Yet Megan finds herself growing closer to Owen, and wonders if he could be the Romeo she never expected.

? long shot

Think you know what it’s like being a baller’s girl?
You don’t.
My fairy tale is upside down.
A happily never after.
I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud.
I was a fool, and his love – fool’s gold.

Now there’s a new player in the game, August West.
One of the NBA’s brightest stars.
Fine. Forbidden.
He wants me. I want him.
But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won’t let me go.

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? beyond shame

All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond–beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman’s daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier.

The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal–men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four’s ruthless leader, and he’ll defend the O’Kane gang with his life. But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet.

Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they’re crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she’ll have to open herself to the gang, to a dangerous world of sex, lust and violence. A world where passion is power, and freedom is found in submission.

this is how you lose the time war

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right?

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What does YOUR spring TBR look like?

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Just a horror aficionado/geek girl trying to juggle motherhood, reading, blogging, gaming, and everyday life.

21 Comments
    1. Congratulations on your 100% success! I only read six of them last quarter, so the unread ones moved onto this spring TBR (I already read one of them though). Always Never Yours always sounded good.

    1. Good luck for your spring TBR! I read Shiver a while back and have Forever on my spring TBR so hopefully I’ll get to it very soon 😀

    1. Congrats on finishing your Winter TBR! I hope spring will have the same succes!

      My post!

    1. You killed your TBR – Congrats. Good luck on your new one. I really enjoyed the Sookie Stackhouse books and it’s one series I’m actually finished with. I also like Patricia Briggs. Some great looking reading ahead!

    1. Wow! Awesome job on getting all your Winter TBR done 😀 Also really interested to hear your thoughts on The God Game and that one star! ? Good luck with getting your Spring TBR done! I was thinking about picking up Long Shot at some point. I also can’t wait to read This Is How You Lose the Time War!

    1. Congrats for getting 100% of your winter TBR read!! I’m having high hopes for my spring tbr! LOL. You’ve got a great spring list!

      My TTT!

    1. Oh wow ! Goodjob accomplishing your winter tbr — that’s great!! ?

      So many books on your spring tbr looks good, I hope you’d be able to 100% it aswell! And enjoy most books, if not all, of course ! xx

    1. Loving this TBR! I just got KU, so it’s exciting to find some cool stuff I can read with it here. 🙂

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