Top Ten Tuesday: Comfort Zone? What Comfort Zone?

     

Top Ten is an original feature/weekly meme originally created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl that features a great bookish top ten every week.

This week's TTT is supposed to be books I read that are outside my comfort zone, but I don't.. really consider them outside my comfort zone. So I decided to do my top ten books (And movies) that I read (And watched) recently that I was super surprised I loved as much as I did.

Books:

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good

I laughed out loud at this book so much. I had a feeling I'd *like* it, I didn't know I'd *love* it too. 

Dinner for Vampires

I should've known I'd love this one. I love Bethany and I love One Tree Hill. This book made me so emotional, made me laugh, made me cry. One of my faves of the year.

Butcher & Blackbird

So I'm not going to lie, I read these for the trigger warnings. I had to know. Zero regrets. It was dark, it was sexy (But not over the top), it was funny, it was gross. I loved it.

Looking Glass Sound

I was so scared going into this book, I tried to read another one by this author and DNF'd it. It was so slow and weird and boring. Not a good weird. This one was definitely a slow burner, and it was definitely weird. But I loved it in all it's slow burny weirdness.

Ghost Mother

Another one I was super hesitant about. I'm not huge on slow burners. I have a really hard time if the book does not immediately catch my interest. Like has to be go go go. However, I don't know if it's because I relate to the wanting kids so bad it physically hurts, or what. But I enjoyed this one. It also gave me feels. It was also so slow burny, and kinda weird. But like a creepy dark leaves you speechless weird.

Strange Houses

I don't know why this one was so intimidating. I don't know if it's because of the hype, or what. But I was so scared going in. But I had no reason to be. It was slightly hard to follow and confusing, but that added to it I think. The whole book is so weird.

The No-End House

I read another Jeremy Bates book and *hated* it, but I wanted so desperately to like him that I tried this one and I'm so glad I did. I was hesitant and nervous going in thinking it's going to be so slow. Nope, not at all. Okay maybe a little slow, but I still really enjoyed it. It had my brain going CONSTANTLY.

Full Speed to a Crash Landing

Why this is a surprise to me, I don't know. I like sci-fi, especially spacey sci-fi. I thought this would be a meh book that I just read because it was a quick read and fit the challenge prompt. I was wrong, I laughed so hard and felt a kinship with the MC and all her attitude. 

All Systems Red

Another quick read that I actually genuinely enjoyed. I have a hard time with some of the robot sci-fi, I find it hard to follow and get bored. Not with this one. I love the humor and the smart-assery.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

Fantasy is SO hit or miss with me, and I had a lot of people say this one was slow. My mom included. So I was hesitant but I wanted so desperately to read it because LOOK AT THAT COVER. Drool worthy. And actually the pink one is even better but I'm too lazy to change it now.

I loved it, I love the faeries and the different fantastical elements. I love Emily and I love the faery king (I can't remember his name now, so bad with names). It's one of my favorite books of the year.

Movies:

I kinda cheated with these, because most of them aren't outside my comfort zone, in fact a lot of them are horror lol. But I was surprised by just how much I love them. 

So I'm counting them! Also a lot of these are... very violent. I think that's saying something about me lol.

I'm not writing a blurb about each one. Just trust me on it.