Top Ten Tuesday

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All Our Yesterdays, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Brigid Kemmerer, Cara Lynn Shultz, Crash, Cristin Terrill, Elementals, Half Bad, Kady Cross, Kylie Fornasier, Let the Sky Fall, Lisa McMann, Masquerade, R. J. Anderson, Sally Green, Shannon Messenger, Spellbound, The Girl in the Steel Corset, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Top Ten Tuesday, Ultraviolet, Underrated YA

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This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Underrated books/series in YA

So, basically I interpreted this as ‘books/series that are not as popular as they should be’.

1. All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill

2. Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson

3. Elementals (series), by Brigid Kemmerer

4. Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier

5. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, by Ambelin Kwaymullina

6. Let the Sky Fall, Shannon Messenger

7. Crash, by Lisa McMann

8. Spellbound, by Cara Lynn Shultz

9. Half Bad, by Sally Green

10. The Girl in the Steel Corset, by Kady Cross

Now, this one was hard, because I find it hard to tell what’s popular, and what’s not. So, basically, my rule was to look at the number of ratings on Goodreads. If it had under 20000 ratings, it made the list.
Interesting note: some series had a high number of ratings for the first book, but books 2 and 3 often had significantly lower numbers.

Random Recommendations

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R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

So, I’ve decided that once a month, I’m going choose a (somewhat) random book from my goodreads shelf, and I’m going to recommend it to you people because it was awesome.

This month, the book is:

Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson.

Why I read this book:

Honestly, it was all because of the blurb:

Once upon a time there was a girl who was special.
This is not her story.
Unless you count the part where I killed her.

I mean, come on! How was I supposed to NOT read it?

Why you should read it:

Can you resist that blurb? Seriously?

If, somehow, those three sentences are not enough to convince you, here are some more reasons:

1. Girl is in mental hospital, accused of killing her classmate
2. This same girl can see into the Ultraviolet spectrum, which is awesome.
3. Seriously, just read it.

And if that doesn’t convince you…then I don’t know what else I can do.