It took me a while, but here it is: My Top 10 Reads of 2019 list! Have you read any of them? And what did you think? P.s. I listed them in the order that I read them in 2019 rather than by rank or anything like that. You can also click on each book cover to be redirected to my review for each book!
⤖ One ⬻
“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold.”
– Holly Black, The Wicked King
⤖ Two ⬻
“Loving someone means risking your heart being broken…
But those moments you are together triumphs over any darkness.”
– Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens
⤖ Three ⬻
“Beware of power.
There is no amount of it that can make them love you.”
– Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
⤖ Four ⬻
“We’re all monsters.
Some of us just hide it better than others.”
– Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints
⤖ Five ⬻
“Hearts are resilient. They can heal over and over again. That’s the good part.
The bad part is that having a resilient heart means it can be broken so many times that it feels like it should never recover.”
– Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence
⤖ Six ⬻
“Seize the wind.
Don’t become the kite that never flies.”
– Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn
⤖ Seven ⬻
“There are some things that can’t be changed with words.
Some things have to be seen. They have to be felt.”
– Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove
⤖ Eight ⬻
“That was what magic did.
It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”
– Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
⤖ Nine ⬻
“Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.”
– Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
⤖ Ten ⬻
“Magic is seldom so convenient as to conform to our preferences.”
– Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
⤖ Let’s Chat! ⬻
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Great list! Still some books that I need to read though, like Wicked saints and Spin the dawn!
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Thank you! And those were both SO GOOD! I hope you’ll get to read them soon 🙂
Deathless <3 I just read that this year too and adored it!
Yeeees! So good! <3 Hope we get the sequel soon lol
So many of these are on my TBR – Ninth House, Holly Black’s series, Deathless! So glad yo see you loved all of those.
I hope that you get to read those soon! So. Good! <3
I really want to try Holly Black’s books this year!! I can’t wait to see what the fuss is all about. Thank you for sharing your list with us <3
Gah I hope that you love her books! And thanks so much for reading! <3
I love seeing Ninth House and The Queen of Nothing on here, two books I still need to read
Yay! I hope you get to read them ASAP!
I’m so glad to see Wicked Saints made it on the list! I keep meaning to buy it but I haven’t done so yet. It sounds soooo good. I tried listening to it on audiobook but I wasn’t super fond of the narrator. I hope I enjoy it once I get around to reading it <3
Amber @ Escape Life in the Pages
Ahhhh it’s so good! I need to read the sequel ASAP. And it sucks when that happens with audiobooks! I hope you’ll be able to read this one soon and that you’ll love it as much as I did 😀 <3
Serpent & Dove is one of my favorite reads this year too! I hope I can get to the Wicked King this month 🙂
Yaaaay! Can’t wait for the sequel! And hoping we get a cover reveal soon hehe. Also I hope you’ll enjoy Wicked King! It was my fave in the series 😀
The Wicked King was a great one! To be honest, I was a little disappointed with The Queen of Nothing. It felt too short! I think the second book in the series was definitely the best.
It WAS short wasn’t it?! And I have to agree that Wicked King is my fave in the series too. Which is odd…because I usually like the middle book the least haha
I think you are one of the only reviewers I have seen that actually liked Four Dead Queens. I was sooooo excited for it when it came out but a lot of bad-ish reviews for it pushed me away. Maybe I will reconsider though!
Ahhhhh yes I loved it! I was hoping she’d turn it into the series because I found the world to be really interesting and the way the story was told 😀 I’ll be reading Scholte’s next book this year and I’m curious to see how it’ll compare hehe
So happy Deathless made it! I also loved Ninth House. Queen of Nothing will be on my tbr for January!
Yeeeees both were so good! And I hope you enjoy Queen of Nothing 😀
I loved Spin the Dawn, and the Deathless is such a beautiful story! I love Valente’s work. I still really want to check out Four Dead Queens and I need to catch up with Queen of Nothing. Looks like a great year!
Glad you enjoyed those too! And I definitely did have a good year 🙂 What were your fave 2019 reads?
I don’t usually read books like these, but with so many bloggers (of varied tastes) enjoying that new Holly Black trilogy, I think I might check it out…
Yay! I hope you enjoy it 🙂