I want to do something new in 2025, I want to clean my Kindle TBR. I have been accumulating ebooks on my Kindle since 2013 when I got it for my birthday, and yes, it still works flawlessly, in case you are wondering. There was this big hype around the new Kindle colour soft, and TikTok says you need more than one to use it. It is fine if you have various devices, but you can only read on one device at a time, so one will be enough. Do not let anyone tell you that you need multiple E-readers to read, it is all right if you have just one, it is all right if you read on the Kindle app on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Before I got my e-reader, I read ebooks on my laptop through the Kindle app. I still use the app on my phone when I cannot sleep at night or if I am in public and forget to take my Kindle. The app is free, at the time I started getting into ebooks, I was still in school and did not have a lot of money. It made my small world a lot brighter and I have read so many interesting books that I would otherwise never have picked up.
In the 12 years I have been using Kindle I have accumulated 2447 books, that remain unread. I have not picked up my Kindle in a while and I miss reading Indie books, as most of the ones I own are self-published and free at one point. To push me to read some of those I would like to do something more fun. I would like my audience to pick my next Kindle read.
Giving you all the 2447 books as an option at once, I would like to start by monthly reading one book chosen by you. Each month I will make a poll on the socials and here on the blog, with three options you can choose from once all the votes are in I will read the book with the most votes, and delete the two books that were not chosen. This way I hope to cut down the amount of books remaining unread on my Kindle to a more manageable length.
I want to start with the oldest books on my Kindle library, going with the ones that fit within the genres I discuss here on the blog, there are also some other genres I read but I do not review them, these are just for pleasure and to keep me from stop reading and reviewing.
Let's start with the first three books on my Kindle. I will put a poll at the end of this post. The first three will all be young adult books. Let's dive in.
Predator Girl by S.B. Roozenboom
I purchased this book on January, 20th of 2013, it was free at the time. It is categorized as a Young Adult paranormal romance book. It has an average rating of 3.63 and 289 ratings. This does not have many ratings. It is of average length with 350 pages. The story is about a girl, that is the leader of a werewolf pack. When in town she meets Jared, who finds the supernatural for the government, to make sure they will go undetected. Jared can't figure out what kind of creature the new girl is and gets pulled into her world. It is a paranormal romance with a setting in this world.
This author published 4 books, most of which have around 200 ratings, the author has not been active on Goodreads since 2021 and the website mentioned is no longer active. It makes me a bit worried that this may not be the greatest read, I will wait and see what you will vote.
Amethyst by Heather Bowhay
This one I thought this was YA, it is categorized as such on Goodreads, but I feel this should be in the New Adult age range, even by reading just the synopsis, it feels a bit older. This book has a lot more ratings than the previous one in total 2.678 ratings with an average of 3,83 stars. This looks promising, it is a little shorter with 271 pages, which is fine with me. The book is about Lexi, who has premonitions about people's deaths, she tries to save as many as she can but she would like to put herself first for once and ignores one of the premonitions that results in innocent people losing their lives. In her next premonition, she sees her death. Then there is a twist in the synopsis, which feels a bit weird to me because it is talking about a co-worker, but I thought she was a college student, so where is she working? Her co-worker is part of a group that hunts the beings stealing people's life force called Essence, but is this group to be trusted? There are many secrets to be revealed.
I am not sure if this should be in the paranormal romance category or the urban fantasy, but it cannot be both. That is another thing that is confusing me. I purchased this on the same day as Predator Girl.
Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas
This is a young adult SciFi story, a love story between an android and a human, set against a backdrop of a crumbling society. Something is brewing, and our main characters have to figure out how to stop it. The synopsis of this one sounds promising, it sounds like it will have some dystopian features, but I think the love story takes priority. This book does not have a lot of ratings, only 209, and an average score of 3,62 stars. This author is still active on social media and has published books up to 2021, so she is the one who has published the most recent of these three authors.
Why do I point out if an author is active or not you might wonder. The truth is that there are many authors that I have enjoyed in the past that have published one or two books and then disappeared from the face of the earth, and have not returned. I often wonder what happened to them or if the primary reason for writing was money. I do not want to waste my time reading books by authors who are not enjoying the process of writing and connecting with the audience or authors who just write to make money. To me, that feels like a waste of my valuable time.
So authors if you made it to the end of this post, feel free to reach out to me, I would be curious to hear about why you write, and why you discontinued if you have, and just generally enjoy having a good conversation with you.
Now let us continue with the vote!
Which of one should I read?
Predator Girl by S.B. Roozenboom
Amethyst by Heather Bowhay
Blue hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas
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