Rachel Reads Randomly - Vote #34

 

Thank you everyone for your input last time. The results of the last vote were:

0 Votes -  We Could Be Heroes by Alison Bond

0 Votes - An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls and Looping on the Old Course by Oliver Horowitz

1 Vote -  Surf Mama: One Woman's Search for Love, Happiness and the Perfect Wave by Wilma Johnson 

3 Votes -   Swimming With Dolphins by Deborah Wright

8 Votes -  Out of Practice by Penny Parkes

Well Out of Practice was the overwhelming winner, but I feel that there just weren't many votes as people hadn't really heard of any of these books. Not sure what I can do about that in the future, but you definitely picked a good book so thank you. 

This week we are picking from a selection of my review pile. This is mainly due to various reasons I seem to be a good few weeks behind on actually reading them, so basically need to focus some attention on them, so I can stop panicking every time I look at the quantity of books I still have to review. 

Obviously they will all be on my blog at some point, so authors of these books if you are reading, even if your book doesn't win, I will read it, but this is more about ordering when I will get to some of the books,

Below is my initial theory for this feature, and then a bit further, what you are all waiting for... This weeks's vote! Enjoy!

I am also awful at deciding what book to read next, as I often have about 10 titles or authors jumping into my brain at any time, shouting at me to read them, and I tend to worry I have made the wrong decision while reading a perfectly good book. I am hoping this will save me having to make at least 1 choice a week, while possibly providing a review to the site of a book you all either love or are curious about yourselves. 

So what I am proposing, is my lovely loyal readers of Rachel's Random Reads, select one book for me to read a week, and I will post the review the following week. 

This weeks random numbers are...

And the books these numbers correspond to are...

So the 5 choices with my gut feeling responses are:

6 - St. BARTS, a gripping Romance novel box set by Emme Cross - This is books 1-4 in the St Barts romance series, so I would expect a great location, and hopefully hot and steamy scenes! Probably would only read the first book as the full box set is scaring the living daylights out of me at over 700 pages!

27 - Cloudy with a Chance of Love by Fiona Collins - I loved Fiona Collins first book, so hoping this will be another enjoyable romantic comedy

33 - The Ex Factor by Eva Woods - This is being published on Thursday, and I enjoyed the author's previous book out last year, so hoping this is also good. 

38 - The Hope Family Calendar by Mike Gayle - I'm a huge fan of Mike Gayle's books, I think I have read all of them, so was very excited to be accepted for this one on Netgalley.

39 - Cut to the Bone by Alex Caan - I am hearing good things about this thriller, to the extent I requested a copy to read for myself. Of course finding the time is another matter! 

Well four out of five of these I am desperately looking forward to reading, so I'm sure they will all appear on the blog sooner rather than later, however I do need you to pick one of them for me to read this week. I also enjoy seeing your thoughts and comments, so please do get involved. Depending on what you say even if your choice isn't the most popular, it may be enough for me to move the book higher up my "virtual pile that doesn't have an order!" 

Pick your favourite or the one you most want me to review, or just the one you are curious about, and leave me a comment below, before midnight on Wednesday. 

I look forward to seeing what I will be reading over the weekend, courtesy of you all.

The explanation if you haven't seen the feature before. 

How is this going to work?

Every Monday, I am going to have a post like this, which is going to have some choices on it. I am planning on using random.org to select 7 random numbers, to coincide with my spreadsheet of unread books.  

I will from that produce a list of hopefully 5 books, I reserve the right to veto any books, and will give reasons for them, if it occurs.

I will take screenshots and post them, of the chosen books, and also give you my instinctive reactions to the choices (without checking blurbs or any other info about them, which could be interesting as there are probably many forgotten about books on my spreadsheet!). 

Your task is to post a comment on this post, with the book you would like me to read this week. At midnight on Wednesday I will take a tally of the votes and the book with the most, I will read and review for the following Monday, where you will also get a new choice post. 

In the event of a tie, I will chose which one appeals most, for the Monday review, and possibly try and read and review the other to appear when I can. 

I am hoping this will provide some variety to the books appearing, and will let me potentially read or discover some great authors that I have wanted to read but not got around to yet.