Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week there is a new topic for bloggers to choose and list their top ten. This week is Top Ten One-Word Reviews for the Last Ten Books I Read (submitted by Susan @ Bloggin’ ’bout Books) – Yay, Susan!!!
This is such an awesome topic! Sometimes I wish I could do all my reviews this way. Will I be making up my own words? Probably. haha!! I love how I don’t have to think too hard for this one since it’s my last ten reads. They should still be fresh!
This was sooo fun and really easy to do!!! I can’t wait to see everyone else’s list! Link your post below and I’ll check it out! 🙂
Let’s chat below.
Books Are The New Black 
I agree. We should all be forced to consolidate down our thoughts to one word. Ha! I thought this was a fun activity though I had a hard time limiting myself to just one word (and sort of failed at it a few times.) One Word Reviews
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Yes, I would save so much time writing reviews!! All that extra reading time!! 😂
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My brain wouldn’t cooperate with the one word rule. Haha. You did well though. I found A Curious Beginning to be witty too.
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Haha I thought this prompt was super hard! I didn’t want to write “Awesome” for everything 😂 But it was a fun prompt! And I haven’t heard anything good about Gallant yet 😦 but I love Schwab so I will prolly still check it out!
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Lol!! I did have to think hard about some words. 😂 Yeah, it wasn’t her best but I love her & still bought it to read!! I buddy read it & my buddy did like it!
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Love this! We Free the Stars is awesome, The Bridge Kingdom really is fantastic, and OH THE ANGST in Gods of Jade and Shadow 🥹 Sad to see that Below Zero was lacking though! I’m waiting for the eBooks for these novellas cos I don’t know how I’d feel about them as audiobooks (I’m too picky with audios lol). Great one-word reviews, Leslie!
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Thank you!!! Haha, I should have waited for the ebooks. I might try them again bc I didn’t love the audio and maybe it had me check out a bit.
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I’m sure we can all make up our own words for sure! You have a great selection of books here. Sorry to hear Gallant is slow, I am quite eager to get my hands on a copy. And Bravely only okay? Hmmmm… Still want to read it though!
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
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Yeah, I hope you enjoy Gallant and Bravely! Gallant was really slow for me and Bravely was a bit disappointing!
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Love this post, totally agree with We Free the Stars 💜
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Thank you! I know, it’s so good! 🙂
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I’m hoping my copy of Bravely arrives from the library soon. 🙂
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-one-word-reviews-for-the-last-ten-books-i-read/
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I hope you enjoy it!!
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I struggled with one word as I tend to waffle, but I enjoyed doing it. It’s a great approach sometimes and I might do some more posts like it in the future 🤔
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
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I kind of think I want to do that too. Escpecially. when I’ve got several books piling up that I need to review!!
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I always do the review straight after. Like I end the book and then I’m straight on it. I will purposely not finish a book if I don’t have time to do a review 😂 I also think one word is good for people who don’t have time to read a full on review 😊
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I think that’s pretty much a genius move. I am actually getting on now to try and write some reviews after finishing three amazing books his week! We will see how that goes. haha!
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🤣 I just get worried that I will forget about the book. There are little details that will get forgotten if I don’t write them down ASAP 🤣
Good luck 😊 I’m sure that they will be great 😊
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Oh yes, that happens to me all the time. OOPS! Haha. I did good and actually wrote up a few reviews after reading them this week! ❤
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Yay! It’s hard when I have a few on the go too 😂 ❤️
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I agree, Gallant was so slow and like how? It was such a short book, practically a novella. But it really slogged!
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I know, it has a lot of mixed-media too and thought it would be much faster. The plot just took way too long. Shocked but I still love Schwab!
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Oh no I was looking forward to Below Zero! Hopefully I’ll be able to stomach it if it’s not as great as the others
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I think you will. I think my mistake was doing the audio version!!
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Oh I got the audiobook too. Haha I guess I will see then
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lol! well I don’t typically do audio… I bet you’ll like it more than I did! 🙂
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Ah yes. It took me a long while to get into audio so I fully understand that. I still only listen on audio very specific genres and only while I’m multitasking with housework/cooking
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Yeah, I can only do memoirs, for the most part. I do it when I’m doing chores too or rocking my kid to sleep!
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I thought this was a fun topic too! I am very intrigued by My Mechanical Romance. Great list!
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It was a really quick read if you want to give it a go! 🙂
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Great word choices! Although, I am sad that some of them were on the not so happy side.
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I know, I’m actually struggling a little bit with not so great reads lately! I’m hoping that will turn around but I’ve got a lot of arcs ahead of me and you never know how those will go.
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I admit, I laughed at ‘angsty’ all in caps. 😀
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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haha!! I’m glad 🙂
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I’m thinking these kinds of reviews would be a good idea when I have tons of reviews stacking up and I just need to catch up without having to think too hard about it, you know? It’s hard for me, though, since I’m such a wordy reviewer!
“Twisty” is one of my favorite adjectives since I always find those kinds of plots appealing. I also love “witty,” though, because those books are so fun. It’s a perfect word for the Veronica Speedwell series, too. They really are very witty. That’s why I love the series so much.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Yes, honestly I might do this. I’ve got a stack of books that I might not review because I just don’t have the time. This is just a good post to do! Great idea!!
I know, I really enjoyed her series so far. It was a lot of fun and I cannot wait to continue the series!!
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I’m reading Gallant at the moment and I would definitely agree, it’s quite slow!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/top-ten-tuesday-366/
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Yeah, I’m really surprised with all the mixed-media!
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I went to one of her tour events so I was expecting the illustrations. I quite like them actually, and seems like quite a natural flow on from Addie LaRue which also had quite a few illustrations. It’s the dense blocks of prose which are a bit more tricky for me, I was kind of expecting that as obviously with the main character being non-verbal, it’s not a dialogue driven piece, but I’m a very dialogue driven reader, so a bit of mismatch there. Still I knew going in that it probably wasn’t going to end up being a favourite Schwab, so that’s definitely putting less pressure on it for me!
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Aww, I’m sad to hear about Gallant. I’ve been hearing very mixed reviews on it, and it’s making me keep putting off reading it 😕
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I know, I picked it as soon as I could bc I wasn’t seeing the best reviews. I pre-ordered it and didn’t want it sitting on my shelf forever. I did a buddy read and she did like it, so you never know!!
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My Mechanical Romance does look super sweet! Sorry to hear Gallant was slow though.
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It really was!! Thanks, it’s okay! I still love her. haha
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What a great mix of books and descriptive words!
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Thank you!!
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Oof, some of these one-word reviews hit harder than whole paragraphs to explain ‘slow’ and ‘lacking’ haha! I’m glad some of them held up 🙂
FangirlFlax @ FangirlFlax
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Haha! Right? I think I love one word reviews now! 🙂
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I can’t decide if they’re fantastically efficient or just very polarising, haha!
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Gods of Jade and Shadow!!! My obsession for this book is TOO MUCH
Gallant seems long, but Schwab is always an auto buy author so… I’ll get to it one day 🙂
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It was such a good book!! I can’t believe it’s been sitting on my shelf for so long! lol Gallant is actually a MG, I think. It’s short but the actual content makes it seem much longer! lol.
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I like the sound of ‘witty’!
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oo I’m looking forward to reading My Mechanical Romance!!
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Really enjoyed that one! There’s a couple of things we all didn’t love but great for the most part!
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The Ali Hazelwood title got me wondering if that was published before or after her major push with Love Hypothesis. If it was before, maybe she’s improved since then? I haven’t read any of her books, just see them everywhere.
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Oh, that’s a good question. I could see that being the case. I loved Love Hypothesis. I guess, we will see with the new release. I did pre-order it!
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I loved this topic, too! I was bummed when I didn’t get approved for Bravely, but after seeing all the mixed reviews, I’m not so bummed. 😉 I hate that for Stiefvater though, because she is one of my top 3 authors.
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It was so fun!! Yeah, I don’t think you should be bummed!! Kinda wish I was too. haha! It was just not great and I’m sorry for her too. My expectations were so high!
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My Mechanical Romance looks so sweet! Great one-word reviews, Leslie!
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It really was!! Thank you!
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