Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is Books with Handwriting on the Cover. (Or fonts that look like handwriting. Titles, subtitles, covers with letters on them, etc.)
Since there are loads of books out there with fonts that look like handwriting, I challenged myself to find books among my collection that had letters/paper on the cover, too.
“i know what it means to be broken into pieces and still be dangerous.”
caty rogan
Series: The Eternal Wars #1
Release Date: September 25th 2025
Publisher: Requited
Genre: Adult Romantasy
Page Count: 544
Source: I received a review copy of this book for free from the publisher via Netgalley in collaboration with Toppling Stacks Tours. Thank you!
Summary: Leina has spent a lifetime submitting. Kneeling. Enduring.
Then soldiers come for her brother, and divine fury surges through her veins. She expects execution for the bodies she left in her wake. Her people have met bloody ends for far, far less.
Instead, Ryot, a godsworn warrior born to privilege and raised in order, drags her into a world that was never meant for her. One of divine armies and death demons, winged war horses and monsters, sacred power and royal secrets.
A kiss from a goddess changes everything.
No longer a criminal, Leina is a prize. The kingdom’s most powerful men want what the goddess touched. Leina wants only one thing, though: freedom for her people. And she’ll trade herself for the strength to destroy the kingdom that broke them.
Conscripted into a war she never asked for, fighting for gods she doesn’t believe in, Leina must decide how far she’s willing to go and what she’s willing to lose. Because her power is more than a threat to the kingdom’s buried secrets.
Leina is brave, determined, and protective. She fights for those she loves regardless of what it may cost her. From fighting against trained soldiers to climbing a mountain similar to Everest all by herself, Leina is a fierce main character to follow.
2. There are winged war horses that bond with their riders.
One of my favorite trends in romantasy, this book features fantasy creatures that bond with humans. The faravars are winged horses that choose their riders and slowly build a bond with them. With some faravars having special abilities, it makes the creatures even more charming to read about.
3. There are warriors with special gifts.
Not only is there an elite people with incredible enhanced abilities, there are people who have gifts. From shield makers to talented healers to a gift that hasn’t been seen in 700 years, the characters have so many things to learn about them throughout the journey.
4. There is found family.
Found family can be one of the most powerful tropes in a book. Showing readers that building your own family can create bonds just as strong, if not stronger, than those who were given to you at birth. The found family created in this book is one of its best dynamics.
5. There are twists you’ll never see coming.
From twists of political intrigue to twists about characters themselves, this book left me breathless multiple times. As a usually discerning reader, I was blindsided in the end.
About the Author:
At the seasoned age of five, Caty Rogan wrote her first story—armed with crayons, dramatic flair, and an unshakable belief that the Power Rangers were actually the bad guys. Shockingly, no publishers came calling.
So, she traded crayons for deadlines, earned a journalism degree, and started chasing stories across the globe. Somewhere along the way, she collected a few investigative journalism awards and a deeply unhealthy reliance on coffee.
These days, Caty writes the kind of spicy romance novels she used to inhale on long-haul flights. She lives for a badass heroine, swoons for a he-falls-first kind of hero, and survives almost entirely on caffeine, cheesy popcorn, and chocolate.
When she’s not neck-deep in fictional drama, she’s wrangling her two boss-girl daughters with the help of her husband—her very own he-falls-first hero—in the Arizona desert.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read.
The reactions I get when I say I’ve never read (or seen) Harry Potter makes me feel like I bring shame to the millennial generation every time TT. Do we share any books on this list?
wings and fables 