Top Ten Tuesday – Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book

Hey guys! This was actually more difficult than I thought. I don’t have a knack for names at all and although I know books that I would like to know more about, I had to check each characters names… Well, I hope you enjoy!

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Top 10 Tuesday – Favorite Character Relationships

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Favorite Character Relationships (These can be platonic or not. Romantic relationships, parent/child, siblings, family bonds, friendships, found families, pet/human, etc.)

Hey guys! This is difficult. My favorite trope has to be found family. But I’m going to try and had a bit more than that. This is such a broad prompt that choosing 10 is difficult!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books that defied my expectations

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Books That Defied My Expectations (books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!) (Submitted by Sia @ everybookadoorway.com)

Hey guys! This time we have kind of a big prompt to feel in, so I’m gonna do 5 books that I was surprised I liked and 5 I really didn’t care for and though I would.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Genre Freebie – Fantasy

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.The rules:
  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: August 22: Genre Freebie (Pick a genre and build a list around it.)

Hey guys! So, I was a bit o the fence about what genre to choose. One of my favorites for a long time was fantasy and for some reason I haven’t been picking it up, so I decided to do some of the best fantasy books I’ve read – in between 4.5 and 5 stars.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Forgotten Backlist Titles

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Forgotten Backlist Titles (Spread love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore!)

Hopefully I have some of these, I feel that I read my fair share of popular books, unless the hype is way too big, in that case. I shy away. So let’s see what I come up with, shall we?

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Yona of the Dawn Vol.1 Manga Review


Yona of the Dawn Vol.1 by Mizuho Kusanagi
Series: Yona of the Dawn #1
First published January 19, 2010
Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Romance
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Buy: Amazon

Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Soo-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when she witnesses her father’s murder!

Yona reels from the shock of witnessing a loved one’s murder and having to fight for her life. With Hak’s help, she flees the palace and struggles to survive while evading her enemy’s forces. But where will this displaced princess go when all the paths before her are uncertain?

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Princess Yona lives in a castle. Her life is easy. Until it isn’t.

She has her father – a super kind king, her bodyguard Hak, a childhood friend and her cousin Soon-won.

She just turned sixteen and she finally confessed her feelings for Soo-won, but that doesn’t matter anymore because he is not Soo-won anymore.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish (Feel free to tell us why if you want, but if you do please be nice to the authors and don’t tag them when you mention your post on social media!)

Actually I rarely DNF books, so this is a difficult topic for me, but let’s see, don’t think I have 10 tho. Also, I might consider DNF some, but that doesn’t mean I won’t get to the book at another time that it might work for me better.

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Five Finger Challenge

Hey guys, I just saw this on instagram and found it interesting so… Today we are doing the five finger challenge. I’m soon moving to another apartment for 4 months so I don’t have the books I’ve read with me so, sorry for not posting a photo of the books.

Without further ado let’s get started!


Pinky – A book I pinky promise to read soon

Daisy Jones and the Six is a book I’ve been meaning to read for the longest time, but for some reason it doesn’t appeal to me as much as the others by the author?

I think it’s because of all the hype surrounding it, it just makes me afraid I won’t have the same opinion, even tho I’m pretty sure I’m gonna love it just like all the TJR books I’ve read.

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TOP 10 Tuesday (freebie) – If old ratings still hold

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Freebie, so let’s go with books I’ve read long ago and if the rating still holds!

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TOP 10 Tuesday – 4 of July of 2023

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.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Book Covers In the Colors of My Country’s Flag (It’s the 4th of July in the USA today, so tell us what country you live in and share book covers that match the colors of your country’s flag!)


So, I’m originally Portuguese but lived in Finland for years now, so I’m going to do both.

Portugal: Green, Yellow, Red

Finland: White and Blue

Strange the dreamer review here.

What about you guys?? Make sure you comment below your post or where are you from/ what’s your colours 😁 Also, has anyone read any of these books, I did a mix of books I read, books in my TBR and one book I don’t particular want to read, but hey it’s blue, it counts!😁