Down The TBR Hole: Version 2, Round 7

 

I've been slacking so it's time to get back to trying to get my Goodreads TBR down. Down The TBR Hole was created by Lost In A Story as a way of clearing out your Goodreads Want To Read Shelf. The idea is to sort your Want To Read shelf by date added, oldest to newest, and 5-10 books at a time, decide if you are still interested in reading them.

You can find my last round here: Version 2, Round 6.

1. After Hours by Claire Kennedy

This follows a group of teenagers working at a high-end restaurant and a game of dares with the chance to win some prize money. This sounds like something I would have absolutely loved a few years ago, but it's just not my thing anymore.

Stay/Go

2. None Of The Above by IW Gregorio

This is a book about a girl who, after her first time with her boyfriend goes wrong, discovers she is intersex, and follows her journey as this information is leaked to her entire school. I've never read anything with an intersex main character and have heard such great things about this book.

Stay/Go

3. Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

This is a YA historical fiction book following the first black girl in a previously all white school and a girl who's father is very vocal about his opposition to school integration who have to work together on a school project. This sounds like a really important read and I have heard some great things about it, but I'm really not into historical fiction.

Stay/Go

4. Confessions Of A Hostie by Danielle Hugh

This is a memoir of a flight attendant. I am really into these kinds of books as I love learning about other professions and individual's experiences in their profession. This is a book I would be interested in, but the reviews are not great.

Stay/Go

5. The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

This is a YA paranormal romance about a girl who can sense the bodies of people who have been murdered and the 'imprints' they attach to their killers. When a serial killer is terrorising her town, she decides to try and hunt them down. This is such an interesting premise, and I almost kept it based on premise alone, but it has some really bad reviews that have put me off.

Stay/Go

6. Black Cairn Point by Claire McFall

This is one that seems to have been rereleased just last year but I have had it on my Goodreads shelf since 2015. It is a YA thriller about a girl who goes on a camping trip and during the trip disturbs a pagan burial ground, leaving the boy she was with in a coma. I think I added this to my TBR because it was set in Scotland. It's an interesting premise but not something I would reach for usually.

Stay/Go

7. The Wrath And The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

I clearly added this one because everyone else was reading it and I didn't want to be left out. This is a YA fantasy about a land in which the King takes a new bride each night only for her to be killed by the next morning. It follows a girl who volunteers to be his next bride with the intention of not only surviving the night, but killing the King. Typically this wouldn't be my thing but I'm so intrigued by that premise that I kind of want to give it a go.

Stay/Go

8. Summer Of Sloane by Erin L Schneider

This is a YA contemporary about a girl who uncovers a secret about her boyfriend and best friend that leaves her heartbroken, just before leaving for a summer in Hawaii. I'm so tempted to keep this because of the Hawaii setting, because I'm desperate to be somewhere sunny, but this does just sound like a typical YA contemporary and nothing too special.

Stay/Go

9. A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

This is a YA Sherlock Holmes retelling of sorts, but following Sherlock Holmes great-great-great-granddaughter. It takes place in a boarding school and she has to solve the murder of one of the students. This is some thing I would have loved a few years ago but now it probably not something I'll ever get around to picking up.

Stay/Go

10. The Way To Game The Walk Of Shame by Jenn P Nguyen

I remember adding this to my TBR purely because the title was catchy. This is YA fake dating romance, following the good girl who has always been very dedicated to her studies and the bad boy surfer. The two have to fake date after getting drunk at a party and waking up next to each other. This is another one I probably would have loved years ago but now will never get around to.

Stay/Go

Two staying, Eight going. Want To Read shelf at 589.

Another brutal round this time. I think I'm getting to the point in my Goodreads shelf in which I was adding everything that sounded remotely interested because I wanted to read the books everyone was talking about. That should mean I'll be doing a lot of clearing out in the next few rounds. So even though my total number of books on the shelf didn't go down, because I added a new shelf for all of the KU books on my radar, I'm still doing a good job of getting rid of the books I will never get around to reading.

Have you read any of these books? What were your thoughts?

Sophie :)