Down the TBR Hole was started by Lia over at Lost in a Story. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
How it works:
- Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
I will be repeating this process every week until I’ve filtered out my entire TBR. I currently have 591 books on my to-read shelf. The pile grew again while I was writing this post because I discovered how many other volumes of the Penny Dreadful Multipack there are, and I want to have them all. It would have been 592, but I started reading The Ghost Ship by Diane Carey for #COYER Summer and #SciFiSummer.
This week’s five books:
The Great Darkening by R.G. Triplett – GO. I don’t know when I picked up this ebook, but I hope I didn’t pay anything for it because I have no interest in reading it.
A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice – GO. I hope I didn’t pay for this one either because the whole story is told in the synopsis and it’s the stereotypical “young man leaves his rural home in seek of glory” type of Fantasy story. It even has a powerful sword awaiting the chosen one. As much as I love the Arthurian legends, this book sounds like too much of a highly derivative and overly long tale that will bore me to death before I finish it.
A Tide of Shadows by Tom Bielawski – GO. Holy Moly, I’m so glad I stopped my bad habit of one-clicking ebooks! I hope I don’t have many more of these Fantasy stories that all sound the same in my TBR.
Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 3 by Robert Louis Stevenson, Eugène Sue, and Charles Collins – KEEP. I LOVE Penny Dreadfuls, and while I’ve already read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I haven’t read the other stories in this volume. I hope I’m able to get to them in October.
Fell’s Hollow by A.J. Abbiati – KEEP. I’m going to hold onto this one for now since I already own it and the synopsis is interesting. However, I’m concerned that it says “An Episodic Novel” on the cover and there’s no indication that this is a series on Goodreads. From my understanding “episodic novels” are like tv series in that you get a small part of the story in each book. This one is over 300 pages, though, so maybe it’s just written as episodes?
So, my to-read shelf is back up to 588 books! Will it ever get any smaller? I’ll be starting off next week with book #46.