Thank you everyone for your input last time. The results of the last vote were:
0 Votes - My Girlfriend's Perfect Ex-Boyfriend by Peter Jones
1 Votes - The Undercover Mother by Emma Robinson
11 Votes - A Bicycle Made For Two by Mary Jayne Baker
I have to say I feel sorry for the two losing books, as clearly no one knows anything about them, and thus clearly they need to be featured on more blogs to bring attention to them! Really happy with the winning choice though, very much enjoyed A Bicycle Made For Two, so thank you.
For the next few weeks we will be randomising from my review back log - until each book in the back log has been up for a vote once....as I keep falling further behind this may take a while, Also hoping it means there are books more of you have heard of and thus will be more engaged with the vote!
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 week's random numbers are...
And the books these numbers correspond to are...
So the 3 choices with my gut feeling responses are:
3 - The Last Laugh by Tracy Bloom - Huge fan of the author, but having read the blurb at one point, not sure this is going to be as light hearted as her other books, but I could be wrong.
5 - A Year of Taking Chances by Jennifer Bohnet - Love this author too, and the cover for this book is gorgeous. Really do need to read it
7 - Where The Light Gets In by Lucy Dillon - Also adore this author, and have spare copies of this book so there could be a giveaway when I do read it!
I've read many books by each of these authors, they are only sitting as unread books as I had others released around the same time that opened on my kindle before these! I want to read them all so very excited to see how this week will pan out.
And authors, if its your book up on this feature, feel free to take part, vote for yourself, or stir up excitement amongst your fans!
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.
I'd love to say "all three" but I think I'll go for "A Year of Taking Chances" because Jennifer Bohmet is a write I'm not familiar with so I'd like to hear about her work.
ReplyDeleteI will pick A Year of Taking Chances by Jennifer Bohnet. I love a holiday romance. Happy reading!
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ReplyDeleteMary Jayne Baker They all look fun, but my vote’s for Jennifer and her lovely cover.
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ReplyDeleteMichelle Mary Russell I agree x <-- Jennifer Bohnet
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It’s a no brainier for me this week. It has to be Lucy Dillon.
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I'm away just now so apologies, it's easier to comment here. They all look great this week but I'm voting for the Lucy Dillon book. 😊
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ReplyDeleteJacqueline Brown A Year of Taking Chances - 100%
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ReplyDeleteKellie McDaniel Butler Agree with the others thus far. <-- Jennifer Bohnet
Tough decision I like them all but it's going to be 5 - A Year of Taking Chances by Jennifer Bohnet
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ReplyDeleteKim Nash Tracy Bloom :-)
Where The Light Gets in gets my vote! Loved it!!
ReplyDeleteWhere The Light gets In by Lucy Dillon gets my vote Rachel. I’ve read some of her other books and really enjoyed them.
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Tracy bloom
A Year of Taking Chances by Jennifer Bohnet please
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A Year of taking chances. :)
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The Last Laugh! 😁
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It’s gotta be @jenniewriter 👍🏼
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A year if taking chances 💕
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Well, I know @jenniewriter 's work is great so I'm biased but I'd say her!
The Lucy Dillon - can you let me know what you think as I have it to read too (have loved all her others!)
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The Last Laugh is on my tbr pile. I love @TracyBBloom books x