Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Dark Reads for Winter Nights
3 December 2024
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Tags: 10 Dark Reads for Winter Nights, Freebie, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s prompt is:
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As we’re approaching the end of the year and fairly soon everyone will be posting their favourite books for 2024 I thought I’d look at some of the books I’ve read during the last few years and give them a little shout out. Today, I’ve gone with a dark theme but I think I might post again with some other favourites from the past. Here are my choices:
The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd
You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
A Dowry of Blood – ST Gibson
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The God Game by Danny Tobey
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I literally could have written this post, you have mentioned so many of my favorites. The Memory Wood is the only one I haven’t read😁 Awesome list!
I really enjoyed going back through my lists of books – I think sometimes you’re so busy reviewing and thinking about the next nice shiny new thing that you forget about all these great reads from the not so distant past. I feel like I should do more spotlight posts like this.
Lynn 😀
I really want to check out Daisy Darker & A Dowry Of Blood soon so it’s lovely seeing them here. And I adored The Silent Companions 🥰 I’ve read two of the others and I’ll admit I wasn’t a fan of one but the other, Needless Street, I thought was very well done, even if it wasn’t a favourite for me (I found certain bits odd but thought what the author did was incredible)
Ooh, I’m so curious about which one you weren’t fond of – I’ve been looking through the list and trying to guess! Needless Street was very unusual and a bit difficult to get into at first I found but then I was gripped. I love Laura Purcell and The Silent Companions was my first read by her and I’ve been hooked since.
I think Daisy Darker and A Dowry of Blood were so good, both of them so very different but equally compelling. I hope you get a chance to fit them in – I’d like to know what you think.
Lynn 😀
It was God Game. I can’t remember entirely why I wasn’t a fan though. I think maybe it was the tone of the story of something 🤔 I’ll have to check my review sometime to find out, although I’ve got a feeling it may be a 2020 one that I haven’t posted yet so can’t check whilst on mobile.
Yeah it’s certainly gripping and very cleverly done. I’ve got a feeling I may have read her Georgian Queens novels first but I’m definitely with you in having fallen for her gothic novels since then.
Thank you. I’m really looking forward to trying both sometime soon. I’ve heard wonderful things about them and can’t really believe that both authors are still new to me 🙈
Definitely a few favourites on this list. I still haven’t read Needless Street. I did start it once but I don’t think I was in the right reading mood at the time but perhaps I should give it another chance.
I think that Needless Street could possibly be a bit divisive for readers. I found it very dark and it took me a little while to get into but I loved what the author managed to pull off, it’s very tricksy to say the least.
Lynn 😀
I do love dark reads on cold winter nights. Preferably inside under a warm blanket with hot tea by the fireside 🙂
Sounds perfect.
Lynn 😀