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?
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 My Favorite Books by My Favorite Authors (Pick your ten favorite authors and your favorite book written by each one of them.) (submitted by Cathy @ WhatCathyReadNext). All of these books are 5 star reads for me.
Honorable Mentions: Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series (all 5 stars), Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series, and Holly Black’s Folk of the Air series.
“and I’m not afraid to be alone, but i’m tired of being the one left behind.”
rebecca ross
Series: Letters of Enchantment #1
Release Date: April 4th 2023
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Genre: Young Adult Fiction | Historical Fiction | Fantasy | Romance
Page Count: 368
Source: Purchased
Goodreads Summary:After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again…
All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.
But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands – that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper – an unlikely magical connection forms.
Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?
An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.
there are some books in this world that i’m convinced hold a touch of magic in them. divine rivals is undoubtedly one of them. with its backdrop of a war of the gods featuring recruitment reminiscent of the draft, divine rivals is thrilling from beginning to end. ross immediately draws the reader’s heart to the FMC’s woes as she struggles to make her way in a war-torn world with a brother fighting at the front and a mother who drowns her worries in alcohol. setting up a rivalry between the FMC and LI, the chemistry between the characters is palpable from the start as they both endeavor to win a columnist post at their local newspaper. but when magical typewriters create a bond between the rivals as they start to send letters anonymously to each other, their chemistry deepens into a romantic, charming tale that drowns the trials in their lives. when they both leave for the front as war correspondents, the plot propels forward, tugging at your heartstrings as the characters experience the tragedies of war. this book beautifully handles a plethora of relevant themes: the cost of war, guilt, grief, addiction, abandonment, poverty, parental disapproval, hope, love, friendship, and so much more. and its unique blend of historical fiction and fantasy romance offers so much to many types of readers. this is a solid favorite of mine and something i can see myself returning to over and over again as a comfort read.
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 Favorite Secondary/Minor Characters.
Note: Grey does become a main character in the next book, but I fell in love with his character in the first installment while he was still a secondary.
wings and fables 