Hey guys, how’s your week going? I’m back with another Top 10 Tuesday post with a slightly different topic from the proposed prompt for this week. Again. 🙂

The original prompt was “Books I LOVED with Fewer than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads” but while I’ve read a lot of books with less than even 500 ratings, I haven’t loved more than 1-2 of them. So I decided to go a different way.
So here are the top 10 of my 5-Star reads that have the least number of ratings on Goodreads. (Book titles are links to the respective Goodreads page.) Oh and I should warn you, most of these turned out to be Adult Romances with an additional subgenre.
- Child of Dreams by Celeste Hamilton: The first Mills & Boon I ever read, found it in a box of my aunt’s stuff about to be donated over a decade ago. This barely has 3 ratings on Goodreads but I’ve reread this book so many times over the years – one of my guilty pleasure reads!
- Trouble by Linda Howard: This is a 2-in-1 combo of the first two books in the Rescues series (Midnight Rainbow & Diamond Bay). Both these books feature strong, capable, smart and sexy protagonists – and they’re romances with a lot of suspense and intrigue.
- Killing Time by Linda Howard: One of the very first time-travel books I read or rather a back-from-the-future book. 😉 The first time I read it, I couldn’t get into it (didn’t like Sci-Fi/Paranormal back then) but it’s one of my favorite romances now!
- Running Wild by Linda Howard and Linda Jones: This one is a western contemporary romantic suspense about a woman who is on the run and off the grid and takes a job as cook and housekeeper to a cattle rancher who is fiiiiine. 😉
- This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada: Just read this YA Sci-Fi Dystopia last year and it’s mindblowing! It really keeps you guessing at every turn.
- Orange Vol. 1 & 2 by Ichigo Takano: The very first Manga I read – this was beautiful and heartbreaking and I wish I had physical copies of these books to reread over and over again. It’s a YA fiction about a teenage girl who receives a letter from herself from 10 years in the future.
- The Night Series by Nora Roberts: Definitely one of the most underrated series of companion novels by one of my favorite authors. All the books can be read as standalones and they’re all amazing romantic suspense stories – very easy and quick reads!
- Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked The World by Pénélope Bagieu: An amazing collection of stories about female rebels/pioneers from all over the world and various age-groups, races, nationalities, time periods told in a comic strip style with beautiful illustrations by the author. Loved it!
- The Mackenzie Series by Linda Howard: Another adult romantic suspense series about the lives and loves of the men (and a woman) of the Mackenzie family. Again, each can be read as a standalone but it’s so much fun to read the whole series in order as you get cameos from the other members of the family. 🙂
- The Fatal Series by Marie Force: I’ve just read till book 2 in this long series but I loved both the books and the prequel short story. This series follows a cop in Washington, DC as she’s trying to solve the murder of a senator and has to team up with the senator’s friend and chief-of-staff, who she shares a history with.

All of these books are amazing and get my heart racing for different reasons. And I’ve reread at least half of them several times. Hope you found some books to check out!
Have you read any of these books? What are some of your favorite reads with a very low number of ratings on Goodreads? Do you use Goodreads? Talk to me in the comments below!
Brazen was so great! I’m surprised that it has so few reviews! And although I haven’t read it, I’ve heard such good this about Orange that I’m shocked to hear that it has few ratings.
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They’re both such wonderful and inspiring reads! ☺️
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THIS MORTAL COIL!!! OMG, that was so good (although for me I did guess a few plot points, but there were so many other twists, it was a victory and I had a lot of fun guessing them, haha). Will you be reading the sequel anytime soon (or have you)?
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Not yet! I hope to soon but I might have to reread This Mortal Coil first! It’s been a while, I need a refresher. 😍☺️
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I’ve heard about This Mortal Coil but I haven’t read it yet. Perhaps I should someday.
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It was brilliant! 😍 I might reread it soon.. 🙂
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I’ve heard such good things about This Mortal Coil, I’m curious!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/top-ten-tuesday-199/
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It’s really amazing! 🙂
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🙂
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The Mortal Coil looks so interesting but Sci-fi’s intimidate me so much!
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They’re intimidating to me too! But some are really well done, like This Mortal Coil! 😍
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I agree with Jayati. These do sound like interesting reads.
My Top Ten Tuesday post.
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☺️☺️ Do let me know if you pick up any of these!
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Great post! I haven’t read any of these but they sound interesting 💖
My TTT
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🙂 Thanks!
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked The World sound like a whole lot of fun!
My TTT for this week.
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It was amazing! And quite inspiring! 😍
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Nice take on this week’s prompt. And an impressively eclectic list from manga to western! I’d only ever heard of Brazen (ashamed to say I haven’t read that one yet) but Orange sounds incredible, I included my first superhero graphic novel (I think) in my list:
https://thecandleenthusiast.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/top-ten-tuesday-underrated-books-mash-up/
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🙂🙂 Thank you! They’re both amazing!
And I’ll check out your post right away! 🙂
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Haha I don’t know any of these! I gave this week’s prompt a spin too.
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I keep meaning to go blog hopping and then procrastinate but tomorrow definitely.🙈 I’ll find your post, Laurie! 🙂🙂
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Great list! Brazen is one I keep meaning to get to.
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It’s really good! Hope you enjoy it! 😍
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I really have a soft spot for Mills & Boon. My Nan and a few other older people would mark the inside cover with their personal ‘tag’ when they’d borrowed them from the library so they didn’t take the same one twice.
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Aww that’s sweet and smart! 😍 I found some in my aunts’ old stuff and read them in secret – my parents did not approve. 😜 But I really enjoyed Never The Time And The Place (medical romance) as well as the one on my list. ☺️
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Reblogged this on The Queens of Geekdom.
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Thank you! 🙂
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AHHHH I LOVE ORANGE SO MUCH!!! I haven’t gotten around to reading it but I watched the show and oh my god the tears I let out?? probably would have filled an entire bathtub. I have to get around reading the manga now. Have you read Last Game? I’m probably featuring it in my post! I finished that one in one night. Unreal.
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I tried watching the show right after I’d read the books and while it was really good, I knew what was coming and it started getting a little taxing having to sit through all the emotions again so I stopped after the first five or so episodes. 🙈 I haven’t read/heard of Last Game but I’ll check it out! I don’t really read graphic novels/manga as such but there are some I want to try. 🙂
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Oh, I haven’t read any of these but they all sound so interesting…
I am going to put them on the top of my TBR now! ❤
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Oh yay! ☺️☺️ Hope you like them! 😍
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