Books that Exceeded My Expectations Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. The prompt for this one is “books that defied by expectations” – I decided to talk about some of the books that were surprising for me (in a good way) or exceeded my expectations. I have a shelf for this on Goodreads, as always, so that helped! I decided to go REALLY into the archives for this one so you’ll get some juicy backlist titles on here too.   Princess of Thorns // I absolutely loved this book and it completely surprised me. I was liking it enough but kind of slogged through the beginning a little, and then fell in absolute love out of nowhere. I’m still so fucking bitter we never got a sequel because people bullied Stacey Jay off the internet. Nowhere but Home // This is usually one of the first books that comes to mind when I think of this topic. I started it on a whim on Scribd when I brought my iPad to jury duty and read the entire book basically in one day while I waited my turn. I just will never forget that experience and how much I loved this book. A Madness […]