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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
I thought this would be a super easy topic. I mean, how hard could it be to write a single word about a book?!?! (Plus Goodreads has a ready made list of the last 10 books I’ve read) Boy was I wrong! This was waaaaay harder than I thought haha. But I did my best so take it easy on me!
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue – Brilliant
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky – Flirtatious
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy – Inspiring
- Taming Demons for Beginners – Demonic
- Slaying Monsters for the Feeble – Excellent
- The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks – Reassuring
- Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft – Horror-able
- Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped – Sensational
- Delivering Evil for Experts – Salacious
- How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps – Clever
Have you read any of these? How you would review them in one word?
Perfectly Tolerable 
Oooooh, I love that you call The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Brilliant! I just bought the book this month and I’m so excited.
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Oooh I hope you love it!! I was actually surprised at how much I liked it, but for whatever reason I had low expectations when I first read it 😑
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Interesting one-word reviews. I haven’t read any of these books but I watched the 1st season of Locke & Key on Netflix. And these sound like great books.
Here is my TTT: https://herseriallife.com/one-word-reviews-last-ten-books-read/
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😂 I only read Locke & Key because it was a book club book, and I won’t be watching the Netflix series. Its just not my thing but everyone else in my club loved it!
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I haven’t read any of these and a few of these seem to form part of a series?
I think your words are clever and descriptive yes!
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
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Yup! There are 2 series represented and each has 4 books. Only Locke and Key and How to Defeat the Demon king were not part of series I read! And Thanks 😊
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I thought this would be easy too but no 😂 Great one-word reviews though! I really need to check out Annette Marie’s books cos I see them around everywhere and they look so good.
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Haha I’m glad I’m not the only one!!! It was really hard! And thanks 😊 I hope you like her books if you get to them! They are pretty awesome 😀
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I’ve not read these but this is a clever idea! I’m not sure if I could limit myself to one word though :p
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It was super hard!! It took me way longer to do than I would have thought but I was determined 😂
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Flirtatious definitely caught my eye. I really need to read that series.
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Haha that one is a novella that takes place after the first book! It was fun and very flirty 😀 I hope you like them if you get to them!
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I would think it’s harder to come up with one word when you’ve read a few series and have to think of different words, but I think you did a great job!
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Thanks!! And yes, it was super hard to think of different words for each book in the series! Especially the Annette Marie series since I binged them and can’t actually tell you where one book ended and the next began 😂
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I’ve read The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue but it’s been awhile. I think I enjoyed it! How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps is on my TBR, too!
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I really liked How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps!! It was a fun and easy listen which I really needed at the time ❤
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Horror-able is a great word!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-one-word-reviews-for-the-last-ten-books-i-read/
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Thanks! I was particularly proud of that one! 😊
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I was utterly wrong about how difficult this topic would be too lol. I do like the sound of ‘reassuring’ though!
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It was sooo hard! 😂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who underestimated it! And its about a boy with sever anxiety and how the people around him build him up and help him instead of just turning their backs on him and I really loved that
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You did great with this topic! I love “horror-able” (made me laugh), “demonic” and “salacious” – great adjectives.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Thanks 😀 I was particularly proud of “Horror-able” haha It was actually the first one that I decided on!
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I love when a book can be described as inspiring. I am here for the pumped-up feel-good.
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Yes! Pumped-up feel-good is a great way to describe it too 😀 I really loved the girls in A Lady’s Guide!
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Horror-able. That’s an awesome word choice! I has two meaning and I think it got your thoughts across perfectly.
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Haha thanks 😀 I was particularly proud of that word!!
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I’ve been wanting to read the Gentlemen’s Guide series, hope to start it soon!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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I hope you enjoy it!!! Its a fun series but also covers some great topics!
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Ooh, thanks for reminding me of that series. I loved Gentleman’s Guide.
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Anytime 😂 Haha I loved it too!
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Have you finished the “Gentleman’s Guide…” series now? I read the first book years ago and thought it was very well done and mostly funny. I thought this was a fun activity though I had a hard time limiting myself to just one word (and sort of failed at it a few times.) One Word Reviews
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I have finished it! It is complete with 3 books and a novella! And Yessss it was both fun and super hard!
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Fun list! I’m going to have to check out that Annette Marie series—I’ve seen other books of hers around, but not that one, and they look interesting (especially with the words you chose for them).
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2022/05/03/top-ten-tuesday-one-word-reviews/
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A lot of her books all exist in the same world and the characters interact with each other so I would recommend starting with Three Mages and a Margarita (even though I liked this series better, it would spoil the other one if you read them out of order. And I did love them both!)
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Oh that’s good to know, thank you! They look so fun; I’m looking forward to them all.
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i read Vice and Virtue a long time ago but remember it being very fun! and lmao your word for Locke and Key, i had no idea it was a comic but i’ve seen the netflix show.
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Vice and Virtue was super fun! And yup! I can’t compare the comics to the series though because I haven’t watched it, so I don’t know how true of an adaptation it is 😂
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I love the Montague Siblings books, though I’ve not read the novella, and definitely agree with the words you chose!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/top-ten-tuesday-366/
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When I first read the series the novella was only available if you had preordered A Lady’s Guide, and the 3rd book wasn’t out 😂 So now that everything is out and available I decided I needed a re-read 😀
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That is completely fair!
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I think you did an awesome job with your one words!!! I’m like two behind on the Lee books! I neee to catch up 😊
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Thanks 😊 And I was also two books behind which is why I decided to re-read them! (And I’m glad I did! I hope you enjoy the newer ones if you catch up!)
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Oh, I LOVE your reviews for all four installments in the Guild Codex Demonized series! And yes, the finale was definitely very salacious 🙂
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Thanks 😀 haha I struggled with finding different words for the first 3 books, but the finale was easier!
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I haven’t read any of these books. A lot of them are on my TBR, though. I really like how you used “Horror-able” as one of your words. It was clever.
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Thanks 😊 I was particularly proud of that one!! 😀
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Haha, I love that you used horror-able as a descriptor!
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Thanks!! 😀
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I have not read any of these but I love your word choices!! Very clever.
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Thanks 😊
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Salacious – sounds like it’s worth investigating!
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Its a cool series! Tho the romance in this one is pretty slow burning haha. I would recommend it!
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I love how you described Locke & Key as “horror-able”. That’s hilarious.
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Thanks 😂 Thats the only one that was easy to come up with a word for 😂😂
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You did such a great job with your one-word! I really want to re-do mine sometime (maybe with a freebie topic) because I’d like to think I could use only one word. We’ll see though. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland. I appreciate this.
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Using one word was super hard!!!! It was fun tho 😀 You should totally do it again if you want!
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These are great! Flirtatious, reassuring… your words really capture so much!
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Thanks 😊 I googled a lot of synonyms to try and find the words that captured as much as possible!
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This is fun! I almost did this topic but never finished my post ha ha!
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You could always post it late! I had fun but it was way harder than I expected
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Love your word choices for the Gentleman’s and Lady’s Guides.
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Thanks! 😀
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This is a topic where we have to pull out those thesauruses, right?! You did great!
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😂😂😂 I definitely googled synonyms for a lot of words before I found ones that I was happy with! Thanks 🙂
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this sounds really fun and really difficult!
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It was both!! 😀
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Such a clever idea for a blog post format. I also found it refreshing that nearly all of these books are completely new to me. Hope you are having a good week. 🙂 xx
Helen | Helen’s Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle Blog
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I love doing Top Ten Tuesdays! Everyone always manages to have different lists and its fun too see all the books everyone thinks of!
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This is great! I couldn’t manage one word, I’m afraid, so I am in awe of those of you who could. I really want to try the Mackenzi Lee books. They sound like so much fun.
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It was super hard! I did a lot of googling 😂 But it was fun to take on the challenge! I hope you love Lee’s books if you get to them! They are pretty awesome 🙂
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