Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted for us book blogger types by the Broke and the Bookish. They provide a topic, and all of us participants post our answers on our blogs and we hop around checking out one another’s answers! This week’s topic is: 

Top Ten Books I wish Had Sequels

1. Such A Rush by Jennifer Echols
I loved this book so much that I really would love to keep living in Leah’s fictional world and figure out how her life went! 

2. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
I just really want to know where Remy and Dexter are, I loved the growth that Remy experienced through the story and how Dexter broke through her walls. 

3. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
This story was amazing and beautiful.  Not only were the descriptions of the artwork superb, but the relationship between Macy and Wes was so organic that I want to know how their life continued.

4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You know you want to know what happened with Young Catherine as much as I did.  Did she follow in her mother’s footsteps? 

5. Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
It would be wonderful to know how Echo continued to heal in the years following the novel and how her and Noah ended up after the small flash forward at the end of the novel. I just loved their story and wish I could have more!

6. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

C’mon, did they ever see one another again? 

7. Stolen by Lucy Christopher
I really loved Christopher’s use of the second person point of view, and I would love to know how Gemma continued to adjust to life back with her parents. 

8. Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The world was brilliant, the storytelling amazing, and the writing was excellent. I want more!

9. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Just a glimpse into how Cath and Wren’s relationship was repaired, and how Cath continued to become a talented fiction writer and girlfriend.

10. A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

I just really want to know how this worked out! 

What are some novels you wish had sequels? 

Follow Friday!

Each week, the wonderful and beautiful Parajunkee and Alison Can Read host a meme for book bloggers to help us connect with one another and accrue followers! Both host blogs feature a book blog and has a question for all of us to answer.

This week, the question is:

Q: Have you ever looked at book’s cover and thought, This is going to horrible? But, was instead pleasantly surprised? Show us the cover and tell us about the book.

Stolen, by Lucy Christopher, won the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults in 2011, and is an extremely powerful story told in 2nd person (which is exceedingly rare in YA Fiction…no, Fiction in general). To be honest, the cover really was completely bland compared to the narrative.  If you have read Stolen, you know that there are so many beautiful and heartwrenching scenes that could have been used on the cover.  I’m also a sucker for beautiful photography on covers, so I think that it would have really captured my eye had there been more effort into the cover.

What book took you by surprise despite its boring or bland cover?