Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Top Ten Tuesday-Early Indie Book Reviews #1

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.  http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/top-ten-tuesday/

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 I've been reviewing my books since I was at school so there is no way I can remember the first ten I reviewed, and the same with Goodreads plus I don't have the energy to look it up. I'll go with some of the early Indie books I reviewed in my first blogging year.

1) David Estes-The Moon Dwellers
YA dystopian 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16226172-the-moon-dwellers

2) JG Faherty-Carnival of Fear
horror 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26475046-carnival-of-fear

3) Ken Mooney-Godhead
fantasy mythology 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17915229-godhead 

4) RJ Crayton-Life First
YA dystopian 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18247063-life-first

5) Ivan Amberlake-The Beholder
fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17900400-the-beholder 

6) DelSheree Gladden-Wicked Hunger
YA paranormal
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19721475-wicked-hunger 

7) Suzy Turner-Raven
YA paranormal
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12916568-the-raven-saga-part-i 

8) Matt Drabble-Abra Cadaver
horror
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21797806-abra-cadaver 

9) Judith Post-Wolf's Bane
urban fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13502906-wolf-s-bane 

10) AZ Green-Beasthood 
fantasy paranormal
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17983273-beasthood 
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20 comments:

  1. Stephanie Jane23 April 2019 at 16:27

    There's some excellent star ratings here! Did you pick books you remembered being good for this post?
    I've noticed I'm a lot more critical now that I was when I first started seriously reviewing

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:26

      These are certainly all books that I liked and all were reviewed after a free copy from authors on Goodreads groups. I'll be doing a few more posts like this soon. I've certainly never shied away from being critical!

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  2. Mary Kirkland23 April 2019 at 18:37

    I haven't read any of those.

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:26

      Most of the books I read are Indie so they aren't well known. I guess I'm still trying to change that!

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  3. Barb23 April 2019 at 20:18

    I still need to read Carnival of Fear. I know I grabbed it after seeing it here on your blog. This is one of my go-to blogs for indie book news!

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:27

      I so much want to go and re-read Carnival of Fear but I need to get to other stuff first!

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  4. Lark 23 April 2019 at 21:22

    Carnival of Fear is one I really want to read. :)

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:28

      I really enjoyed that one! I'd love to see it as a TV mini series or something!

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  5. Samantha@WLABB24 April 2019 at 00:14

    I get having to just pick a way to approach this topic. I have a lot of reviews from before I was blogging, but I wasn't consistent, and some of the reviews are as little as two words. That's an impressive list of Indies up there.

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:30

      This was during my read and review phase where I was constantly responding on groups to review requests from authors! I did read a lot of good ones at that time. I'll be doing another list of more Indies for TTT in two weeks!

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  6. Laura24 April 2019 at 14:24

    A lot of these are new to me. I've went back and read some of my first review. They were a lot longer than what I write now. LOL

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:31

      I'd never heard of any of these books until I agreed to review them for the authors but I did get some good ones!

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  7. Karen24 April 2019 at 20:20

    It's interesting to see how our reading tastes and review styles change over the years.

    Karen @ For What It's Worth

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:32

      I was reading a ton of YA in 2013/2014! I sort of fell out of love with the genre as I ploughed through a few bad Twilight imitations and then got heavily back into horror!

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  8. Mary @ StackingMyBookShelves!24 April 2019 at 21:00

    Wow, I don't even know the first book I reviewed. I would have to check out goodreads and maybe amazon. They would know....right?

    Mary

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:34

      Yeah you can change the filters on your Goodreads pages to put them in order of when you added them to your account and so on. I don't know about Amazon as I don't review there now!

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  9. Bark At The Ghouls25 April 2019 at 19:26

    My early reviews went poof. Before GR & my blog I reviewed for a blog that disappeared. :( That taught me to always save a copy and post them multiple places.

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    1. chucklesthescot26 April 2019 at 13:46

      Goodreads seems to delete my reviews on a regular basis and I have to retrieve a copy from the blog to put up to replace it!

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  10. Melissa (My World...in words and pages)25 April 2019 at 23:08

    I like that you went with the Indie books. That was a cool pick. And it's hard to remember back to the firsts.

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