Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl to bring bookish friends together. A new topic is posted each week.
Turns out, most of the books I’ll never reread is because I read them years ago, as a child or in my early teens and don’t want to judge their quality now. I think that leaving some of them alone is the best way to honour the choices I made and what I liked then. Also there’s other reasons, for examples there’s some beautiful or emotional memories I have attached to certain places and I want to keep those.
The Gone Series by Michael Grant
- Book 7 is out after four year break, needless to say I started this series a long time ago, the first book came out in 2008. I’ll give it a chance for nostalgia’s sake, but I’m not rereading this series to catch up again.
Night School series by C. J. Daughtery
- I had trouble reading the last book of this series, I found it an exciting ya spy-ish read and is torn between not wanting it to end and being a bit bored
Heist Society by Ally Carter
- A fantastic young adult mystery and heist series which I would still very much recommend, but I have no need to reread.
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
- What would a top ten tuesday list be without a Sanderson book?
- A good ya fantasy book, but not worth a reread for me
The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
- Was a great series for me as a child, further fueling my interest for mythology, stories and especially greek gods. Most recently read the Heroes of Olympus and if that’s a pointer, I’ve grown out of these series. Won’t dare to ruin the magic rereading it and finding out, though I think the Heroes of Olympus is more unoriginal overall.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Do I need to explain why this book is on this list? The movies and hype ruined it for me, as they did with Divergent, I won’t reread it to find out just how much.
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
- Liked it when I first read it, but later books in the series made it not worth the reread.
Vampirates series by Justin Somper
- Once upon a time I read a series with pirates that sometimes were turned into vampires and two twins who wanted to spend their life at sea. I had never found a book that perfect for me, in norwegian because this was before I learned a lot of english, with a strong female character as well. I will definitely reread it one time out of curiosity, so not never, but it deserved its place on this list.
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- I read this book in summer, visiting one place, a family summer house that reminded me a lot of the summer house of this story. This book will now forever be linked to that place, and I hope to find new book experiences like that.
The first three books of the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
- I loved this series with dragons and war between nations. Novik has since written books like Uprooted and has a new release soon. So I searched for her and realized there exists SIX other books in this series! How did this go me by? I read the first three books translated to norwegian at my library, and these just never appeared. I’ll never reread the three first books because there’s a slim chance I’ll ever finish it at all if she’s going to continue releasing those amazing fairytale-inspired books as Uprooted.
I love the concept of this! Thank you for sharing!
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I’d love to get into Percy Jackson
But I agree with you about Divergent, which I haven’t read, and THG, which I have read it too many times.
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Great list!! We have a couple that are the same 🙂
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I also included Steelheart in my list this week! Solid series overall, but as much action as there was in it, the ending was brutally awful for me in terms of satisfaction of reveals.
Cheers,
Joey @ Thoughts and Afterthoughts
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I really really agree about Steelheart. Fun series, but definitely not Sanderson’s strongest work.
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