Teasers & Top Tens – January 6, 2026

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on January 6, 2026 • ( 4 )

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week’s teaser is from The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa, book #1 in the Iron Fey:Call of the Forgotten trilogy.

“As usual, you mortals have not the slightest ability to see what is right in front of your faces,” continued the voice in a bored tone, and I thought I heard a yawn. “Very well, humans. Up here, if you would.”

This character was one of my absolute favorites in the first series and I’m so glad he’s back for this one!!!

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten Best Books I Read in 2025

Oof, this is a hard one. I read so many good books last year! After looking through my GoodReads shelf, I think I can narrow it down to ten, but there were so many other ones. Here’s my selection:

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The House On the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Honorable mentions to When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips and the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas.

No surprise that many of these were from my GoodReads Choice Awards challenge – there was a reason why those books won! I’m also really happy at how I’ve diversified my genres. My reading used to be almost exclusively fantasy or other speculative fiction, but last year almost a quarter of my reads were other genres, particulary mysteries, thrillers or historical fiction. It may have been more if not for my “Complete the Series” challenge, as most of the series on there were fantasy. Hopefully I will continue to branch out this year as well.

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