Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Were Difficult to Review

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   This week's original topic was a struggle for me, 'Books Too Good to Review Properly', the trouble is, I only don't review books that I either didn't finish, or I didn't really care about reviewing. If a book is good, I will always review it so I can at least gush. But gush reviews, for me at least, often lead to potential spoilers and I always try to not spoil books in my review. Sometimes I have a hard time reviewing a book because it was so weird.

   Here are some books that I had to write and rewrite the review for until I was able to get what I was trying to say out coherently. 

 

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A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes #3) by Sabaa Tahir -   

   I just finished this book, and I am at a loss for words a bit. I've been spoiled for ending, because I took too long to finish this series. But I don't know how things get there. This is likely going to be my next review.

Curse of the Celts (The Once and Future Queen #2) by Clara O'Connor -

   This one was hard because it was a sequel, and I had to find a way to review this book with out spoiling the first book, but also convey what I loved about it to hopefully convince people to read the series.

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) by Brandon Sanderson -

   So much happened in this book, so quickly I might have actually forgotten some of the events, and I read it fairly quick. It took me a couple days to process what I read.

The Wolf and the Woodsman, by Ava Reid -

   This was one of the books that I had to stop myself from gushing over.

Odin's Child (Raven Rings #1) by Siri Pettersen -

   This was a book that I wanted people to into as blind as possible, I didn't want to give anything away when it came to this book. This book/story is so interesting and there's a bit of a mystery in it that I think is best to have no hints on. (this is also translated work from Norwegian)

Marilia, the Warlord (Chrysathamere Trilogy #1) by Morgan Cole -

   Another one where I wanted people to go in blind, but also aspects of this book/world were confusing to me. Somethings were kind of glossed over. But after reading more of her books, she is more of a character-driven writer, and her worldbuilding is more a backdrop than a key player in the plot. At least it seems that way.

Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1) by Mark Lawrence -

   This was the first "true" Grim-Dark fantasy I had ever read. I had read other 'dark' adult fantasy in the past, but this book surpassed it, and it was a little hard to sort out what to focus on with my review.

Marrow Charm (The Gate Cycle #1) by Kristin Jacques -

   This book was so GD weird, in the best way possible, I had no idea where to start with my review. It's amazing and I need to re-read it before I read the sequel at this point because I don't remember about half what happened.

Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor, (illustrated by) Jim Di Bartolo -
   I'm not very good at reviewing short story compilations. Each short story was amazing in this book, but I didn't know how to review them.

Renegades (Renegades #1) by Marissa Meyer -

   The reason why this one was hard to review, was that I thought it was going to be a duology when I picked it up, and I found out right before I finished this book that it was going to be a trilogy.