Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"My smile faltered as my paced slowed. What kind of life do I have when being right means I'm up s*it creek?" p 74

TITLE: Demons of Good and Evil
AUTHOR: Kim Harrison
PUBLISHER: Ace
GENRE: Urban Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: June 13, 2023

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

This week's topic is: Top Ten Books I Never Reviewed (But Have Likely Mentioned in Passing)

*in no particular order
**these are largely from my pre-blogging days but are likely books I mentioned in passing on posts like these!

10. DEAD UNTIL DARK by Charlaine Harris--this was read before the blog began, so it was never reviewed in official compacity! As will be the trend for these picks!
9. DEAD WITCH WALKING by Kim Harrison--since I'm reading book #17 in the series now, you'll be surprised to know that books #1-8 weren't reviewed here either! I did some digging through my posts and the oldest one I could find was #9 in the series which was out in 2011, so that checks with my blog as I still wasn't super active the first few years here!
8. BITTEN by Kelley Armstrong--another beloved series and yet I am not sure when I started posting my reviews for this one! Kelley writes so much so fast that I have wayyy too many posts with her name attached! It took me ages to find the Kim Harrison title, so I'm spent of researching! Lol.

7. ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY by Jennifer Rardin--a series I probably haven't talked about since my blog began! This was a fun Urban Fantasy vampire series! Back in my early days I looked for books with little to no romance in them because when I read one with vampires from the romance section, nothing ever happened in them because the characters were too busy in the bedroom and I was just bored. 
6. ILL WIND by Rachel Caine--wow, this book is now over 20 years old! I think I didn't start reading it until there were 3 or 4 books? That was always fun! Finding a series that just started and having 4 books to binge before you have to start "waiting." I did eventually review these books on my blog, but the early ones might not be here.
5. THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: THE AWAKENING by L.J. Smith--the OG Teen Vampire Romance series! Omg I LOVED this series! Clearly I read these way before the blog began but you can find the revival trilogy that was written by the original L.J. before they hired a ghostwriter to take her name and write them "their" way. Which was such BS if you ask me. But I know I mentioned this one a lot in the past! The long ago Top 5 Sundays post was much like this post!

4. THE FORBIDDEN GAME TRILOGY by L.J. Smith--another series that I just loved! I think I read this series before I found The Vampire Diaries! I even have this trippy cover as that's what I found at Borders and it was an older book back then too! I just loved how dark and twisted this series was!
3. OLD MAGIC by Marianne Curley--another book I know I mentioned quite a lot over the years through posts like these and yet, a review never made it to my blog! This was definitely a read from the pre-blogging days but I read it several times!
2. SHADOWLAND by Jenny Carroll aka Meg Cabot--I uncovered this series as a youth as well as it was JUST what I was looking for! Something paranormally and for teens! It was everything! And yet, I think the only book I ended up reviewing from this series was the adult take from a few years ago!

1. DEMON IN MY VIEW by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes--the one that started it all! Yes, this is the book I read as a youth that got me HOOKED on vampires! I read this one soooooooo many times my little paperback got pretty worn out! I did find the cute little hardcover some years ago, in time to be signed by the author too! Yes I got to meet my teen idol probably over a decade ago now and it was EVERYTHING! I think I might have reviewed a few of her later ones on my blog when I was reading some of her backlist titles I never got to as a teen.