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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish that other bloggers are welcome to join in, to create Top Ten lists on varying topics. This week, Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list

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1 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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I’ve considered this book before, but as the whole tale is basically a love triangle, jumping back and forth in time between two men, I never thought I’d like the series, However I’ve watched some of the TV show on the internet and I’m totally in love with Highland Scotland (I’m sort of hoping they meet some Kerrs! haha) and I’ve also heard there’s a lot of Scottish history in the books and as it’s half my heritage, what better way to learn it? Plus what’s not to like about a hunky and kilted red-head?!

 

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach–an “outlander”–in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life…and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire…and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

2 Assassins Blade by Sarah J Maas

I’ve read several from this series, but now there’s new novella’s and new books it’s time to get back into them. I know another three are planned, but I don’t want to wait till the very end because Assassins! I think the novellas were written after the first book because it doesn’t quite flow right, but they were certainly released first, so I would certainly recommend reading them first. THIS BOOK CONTAINS ALL FIVE NOVELLAS.

18243700 (1)0.1 On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She’s been sent by the Assassin’s Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes—and she will risk everything to right the wrong she’s been sent to bring about.0.2 Meet the Assassin: beautiful, defiant, destined for greatness. Celaena Sardothien has challenged her master. Now she must pay the price. Her journey to the Red Desert will be an arduous one, but it may change the fate of her cursed world forever…

0.3 The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren’t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s not there to chatter, she’s there to hone her craft as the world’s most feared killer for hire. When the quiet is shattered by forces who want to destroy the Silent Assassins, Celaena must find a way to stop them, or she’ll be lucky to leave the desert alive.

0.4 When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight slavery in the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to strike a blow against an evil practice. The misson is a dark and deadly affair which takes Celaena from the rooftops of the city to the bottom of the sewer–and she doesn’t like what she finds there.

0.5Celaena Sardothien is the assassin with everything: a place to call her own, the love of handsome Sam, and, best of all, freedom. Yet, she won’t be truly free until she is far away from her old master, Arobynn Hamel; Celaena must take one last daring assignment that will liberate her forever. But having it all, means you have a lot to lose . . 

3 Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

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At last! It’s here! I’ve been waiting for this since the first one came out. I loved it when I read it which meant collecting them till the end so that I didn’t over read them. Ahh more assassins and let’s be honest, men never thought much of women so what perfect assassins they would have been!

 

Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.

She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn’t mean she has…

4 Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

Currently reading book one of these series (unfortunately I skimmed ahead so now I’ve got to re -read in case of missed importance and that’s the worst, totally puts me off.) and I got so excited I ordered 2 and pre-ordered 3. I guess when I get to the end of 1 I’ll be able to decide if I want to read 2 next or wait till 3 is in my sticky mits! 

16150830 (1)Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster. 

When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn’t recognize her. 

As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?

5 Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

I’ll need to read at least one fairytale retelling over the next season and this is the next one on my list! Completely different to any I’ve seen before; it should be an interesting read.

16113606In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret…

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.

Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

 

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 1. Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine

I really enjoyed Sarah Fine’s Sanctum. I loved the weird eerie feel she had in her in-between land.
It was creepy and dark and this one sounds like it promises more of the same.

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There are whispers of a ghost in the slaughterhouse where sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic—a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. When one of the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor, humiliates Wen, she makes an impulsive wish of her own, and the Ghost grants it. Brutally.

 

Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including their outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the Ghost and learns he has been watching her … for a very long time.

 

As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen must confront her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen’s, and her need to appease the Ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat—real or imagined. She must decide whom she can trust, because as her heart is torn, the factory is exploding around her … and she might go down with it.

2. Rites of Passage by Joy N Hensley

I’m trying to read more YA contemporary books and saw this one on Amazon.
I’m not one for aimless stories so the mystery/secret aspect of this book appealed more to me. Hoping for an interesting military cover-up.

rites ofSam McKenna’s never turned down a dare. And she’s not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.

 

So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. She’s expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing and mud-crawling. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She’s even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who don’t think girls belong there. What she’s not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won’t risk her future, or the dare, on something so petty…no matter how much she wants him.

 

As Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys don’t just want her gone—they will stop at nothing to drive her out. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret society is alive and active… and determined to force her out. At any cost.

 

Now time’s running short. Sam must decide who she can trust…and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.

 3. The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse

I seem to get drawn towards the creepy novels when I know Halloween is just around the corner. There’s something nice about curling up under a blanket and reading a scary novel as the sky outside turns dark in the afternoon. I have high hopes for this one by Kate Mosse, which has been deemed a ‘out-and-out-thriller’.

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In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to walk. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway.

Standing alone is the taxidermist’s daughter. At twenty-two, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it contains all that is left of Gifford’s once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed birds that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man.

The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hands holding a garotte. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.

The Taxidermist’s Daughter is the stunning new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author, Kate Mosse

4. Jackaby by William Ritter

How could I say ‘No’ to this when the details describe it as Doctor Who meets Sherlock… a detective of the paranormal!

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Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary–including the ability to see supernatural beings.

Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police–with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane–deny.

 

5. Once We Were by Kat Zhang

I absolutely loved the first book in Kat Zhang’s The Hybrid Chronicles series. It seems ages ago that I read it and yet I can remember everything about Eva and Addie. I can’t wait to read the next instalment.

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I’m lucky just to be alive.”

Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the recessive soul, she should have faded away years ago. Instead, she lingers in the body she shares with her sister soul, Addie. When the government discovered the truth, they tried to “cure” the girls, but Eva and Addie escaped before the doctors could strip Eva’s soul away.

Now fugitives, Eva and Addie find shelter with a group of hybrids who run an underground resistance. Surrounded by others like them, the girls learn how to temporarily disappear to give each soul some much-needed privacy. Eva is thrilled at the chance to be alone with Ryan, the boy she’s falling for, but troubled by the growing chasm between her and Addie. Despite clashes over their shared body, both girls are eager to join the rebellion.

Yet as they are drawn deeper into the escalating violence, they start to wonder: How far are they willing to go to fight for hybrid freedom? Faced with uncertainty and incredible danger, their answers may tear them apart forever.

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7 comments on “Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list

  1. Caitie F

    Your list is fantastic! I want to read almost all of these as well, especially Mortal Heart.

  2. Jae @ The Fluttering Heart Book Nest

    YES TO OUTLANDER!! I absolutely loved that and it’s my favorite by far in the series. I really want to start The Darkest Minds triology, I’ve only heard great things about it. Of Beast and Beauty and Rites of Passage are also on my tbr. Hope you two enjoy all your picks and happy reading! :)

    1. Paein

      Hello! Thank you for your comment! The Darkest Minds was quite good and I’m loving Of Beast and Beauty so far. I hope to start Outlander after the mid season finale…

  3. Alexa

    Of Beast and Beauty was a great fairytale retelling. It was an adventure unlike any other fairytale retelling and it made it stand out to me when I first read it.
    Hope you both enjoy your lists of books. Happy reading!

    1. Paein

      I’m most of the way through it now and I see what you mean! There’s a lot of storyline behind it all I agree

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