{"id":2768,"date":"2019-05-28T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:56:06","slug":"top-ten-tuesday-may-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/top-ten-tuesday-may-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Tuesday | May 28, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n

Top Ten Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0is a Bookish Meme hosted by\u00a0That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>, and this week’s theme is Top Ten Favorite Books Released In the Last Ten Years!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I managed to stick pretty close to this week’s theme. All of these books have been released in the past ten years, but I didn’t stick to the “one per year” caveat. It was incredibly<\/strong><\/em> difficult to narrow this down to my favorite twelve books, and the only way I was able to bring it down to ten was by realizing two of them were published more than ten years ago! Without further ado, here are my TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOKS RELEASED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\"TopAnd I Darken<\/strong> by Kiersten White<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> June 28, 2016 by Delacorte Press<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Alternate History<\/a>, Historical Fiction<\/a>, Retellings<\/a>, YA<\/a>, Queer<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 475
Add to <\/strong>Goodreads<\/a>
Author Links:<\/strong> Website<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>

No one expects a princess to be brutal. <\/b><\/p>\n

And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets.<\/p>\n

Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, Radu feels that he\u2019s made a true friend\u2014and Lada wonders if she\u2019s finally found someone worthy of her passion.<\/p>\n

But Mehmed is heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against\u2014and that Radu now considers home. Together, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t