Top Ten Tuesday: top ten most intimidating books

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists over there at The Broke and the Bookish. I'd love to share my lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

I'm glad of this weeks top ten because its shows that I'm not the only one who is intimidated to read a book sometimes. Sometimes it's a book by an author that I love and I wonder, what if I don't love this one. Sometimes it's just so damn long, a few of those still languishing on my shelves are there for this reason and sometimes, everyone has been talking about it on twitter, if I admit to reading it and don't love it, what will people say?

1. My first sub-category in this category is books sent to me by Authors. I always find this intimidating even though I am being sent more and more books through for review now. If an author sends me a book to read. I feel under so much pressure to like it (whether I am or not) and so that makes this intimidating. We have Kept by Elle Field. Rise of the Shadow Stealers by Dan Ingram Brown. Married by Christmas by Scarlet Bailey. The Bow Wow Club by Nicola May and Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith. All these generous authors gave, or sent me their novels for review. I am so grateful but felt like I had to be extra specially detailed whilst reading them.

5. The next group of books felt intimidating to read because everyone else was loving them and I wasn't sure if i was. In the case of the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, it was also a very long book and so that was intimidating. Then with The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes and Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, I found I actually didn't like the book as I was reading it and I was going to have to reflect this in the review that I left for it... But The Fault in our Stars by John Green, I liked and I am just about to start The Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman, so hopefully I will Like it. Of course this has the added pressure of her having just been made Children's Laureate so...

 

Let me know what made your Top Ten Most Intimidating books, and what reasons they were for, I always love to hear your opinions too...