Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the fantastic Bionic Bookworm. This week’s topic:
JANUARY 9TH – Top 5 books on my 2018 bucket list
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: I’ve been meaning to pick this up since the day it came out. It’s even on my Kindle! I’ve also been meaning to read her first series (I actually read the first book in it years ago, liked it a lot, but didn’t continue with the series for some reason). I’ve heard some amazing things about Strange the Dreamer, so here’s hoping I finally get to it this year.
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff: This is a controversial book, begetting strong feelings of either love or hate in its readership. Apparently it’s written in a really weird way, but the plot sounds so damn cool! It makes me nervous that it’s shelved as DNF for so many people, but I just have to check it out.
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence: Killers nuns. The books begins like so: “It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy Convent, Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men.” I mean. Need I say more? Plus I’ve been meaning to read more adult fantasy, so this can be my foray into that.
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli: I’ve only read one book by this author but I loved it, so I want to pick up this more famous novel of hers! Everyone talks about this book. Plus it’s apparently turning into a movie this year so I’d like to read it before that.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: This book is sitting and waiting for me on my Kindle and is also being turned into a film. I’m not sure why I haven’t gotten to it yet, except that I generally don’t prefer YA Contemporary. But this book has gotten so much praise that I’m certain it will be unlike any other YA Contemporary I’ve ever read.
Hadeer Elsbai 
Nevernight was such a weird book for me; the first and last third was pretty good, but the whole middle was not the most fun to read
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Was it the writing style that bugged you or was the plot not great?
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The plot, some of the metaphors used were over the top and character relationships… It just went downhill for me as soon as the main character got into the school
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I loved THUG and Simon vs and can’t wait for their movie adaptations. You’re right with it being unlike any other books you’ve ever read so I hope you enjoy it. 🙂
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I feel like our lists are exactly the same!!! Except I read Strange the Dreamer and it was amazing! Great post!
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Thank you! 🙂
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I have The Hate U Give on my official 5 I need to get to list as well, and I’d really like to read Strange the Dreamer and Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda too. Great list!
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