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Hello lovely readers, I know it has been forever and a day since I have posted and I’m not sure if anyone is still with me but I hope you are all doing well and are safe from the real world.
So I decided to challenge myself to get my Goodreads TBR down. It is currently at 1,981 (more so because I haven’t been adding in the last year too much unless I am about to read it.) So I am not sure if this has been done yet or not (if it has, feel free to tag the creator so that I can give due credit) but I thought a good sure way to force me to get that number down is to use the random number generator to compose a list of 5 books. I will decide if those books will be deleted off my TBR or I have to read them before I move on. Not sure if that makes sense to the world or just in my head. I guess it’s a spin off of Down the TBR Hole by Lia at Lost in a Story (I couldn’t find the blog though) , now that I think of it. Also, I ordered the books by when I added the book to my goodreads with the oldest being number 1. Last, if I land on a sequel- then I just read the 1st book in it’s place.
Okay, without further ado…. the first numbers are 1,068, 934, 1,943, 1,655, and 1,518.
1.
The first book (934) was a Count All Her Bones By April Henry so I will be reading the first book Girl, Stolen.Image found on goodreads.
“Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what’s happening, the car is being stolen.
Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne and once he finds out that not only does she have pneumonia, but that she’s blind, he really doesn’t know what to do. When his dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes–now there’s a reason to keep her.”
This book had 4 stars and sounds like it is right up my ally. I love reading thrillers.
2
Book 1,068 is A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor. I remember asking for this book so many times and being frustrated about not finding it. Just saw that is at my library. I will also be reading this.
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“We sat at the edge of the ocean—my sister Henri and I—inches apart but not touching at all. We’d been so sure someone would find us by now.
Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them.
I’d trusted Henri more than I’d trusted myself. Wherever she told me to go, I’d follow.
Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart.
For the first time, I was afraid we’d die on this shore.
To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there’s no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?”
3.
The third book (1,518) is The Last Summer of the Death Warrior by Francisco X. Stork. I will be reading this as well.
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“One is dying of cancer. The other’s planning a murder.
When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony’s Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he’ll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister’s killer. But then he’s assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his “Death Warrior’s Manifesto,” which will help him to live out his last days fully–ideally, he says, with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sister’s murderer, he finds himself falling under the influence of D.Q. and Marisol, who is everything D.Q. said she would be;and he is inexorably drawn to a decision: to honor his sister and her death, or embrace the way of the Death Warrior and choose life.
Nuanced in its characters and surprising in its plot developments–both soulful and funny–Last Summer is a buddy novel of the highest kind: the story of a friendship that helps two young men become all they can be. “
4.
The fourth book (1,655) is Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.
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“It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.
Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.
The only thing is: they didn’t do it.
On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous. “
This looks like it has a lot of potential. I will be reading this!
5.
The last book for today is (1,943)… actually isn’t out yet lol so let me spin again.
Okay the new number was 1,575 which was Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury.
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“Sixteen years ago, rebellion swept the galaxy known as the Belt of Jewels. Every member of the royal family was murdered–down to their youngest child, Princess Anya–and the Union government rose in its place. But Stacia doesn’t think much about politics. She spends her days half-wild, rambling her father’s vineyard with her closest friends, Clio and Pol.
That all changes the day a Union ship appears in town, carrying the leader of the Belt himself, the Direktor Eminent. The Direktor claims that Princess Anya is alive, and that Stacia’s sleepy village is a den of empire loyalists, intent on hiding her. When Stacia is identified as the lost princess, her provincial home explodes into a nightmare.
Pol smuggles her away to a hidden escape ship in the chaos, leaving Clio in the hands of the Union. With everything she knows threading away into stars, Stacia sets her heart on a single mission. She will find and rescue Clio, even with the whole galaxy on her trail.”
This one, I am a little iffy on. I think I will test read it and see where it goes from there. I will update here soon with what I rated each and the next 5 books.
If you have read an of these, tell me what you thought!
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