Hello, again! I’m doing another reading challenge in August because it’s one of the few ways I can create structure for the monstrosity that is my TBR pile. (If you’re wondering when I’m actually going to post a book review again, rest assured that reviews will be coming in the following months as I’m scheduled for several blog tours for amazing books!) The reading challenge is called the Trope-ical Readathon and is co-hosted by Jenny @ JenJenReviews and her partner Rob. The page with the detailed readathon information is here.

Basically, there are 13 common challenges that every participant can do (each has an alternate prompt as well) and then 5 different teams divided up by genre you can join that each have their own assigned team book plus 2 more challenges. I’m joining Team Contemporary/Literary/Historical Fiction. The books you pick for any given challenge, including the team-specific ones, do not have to be of the genres associated with your team, so as a result my TBR is actually very SFF-heavy (which is not surprising if you’re familiar with my reading tastes, lol).

My Common Challenge Book Selections

• Absent/Dead Parent(s) Trope: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi
• Strange Names Trope: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow (male protagonist is an alien named M0Rr1S)
• Outbreak/Pandemic Trope: Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel Jose Older (I’m doing the alternate prompt, and this book is the third in a series)
• Forbidden Romance Trope: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

• Dystopia Trope: Rebelwing by Andrea Tang
• Blast from the Past Trope: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso
• Mixed Media Trope: The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
• Artificial Intelligence Trope: The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

• Amnesia Trope: The True Queen by Zen Cho
• Enemies to Lovers/Enemies to Friends Trope: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
• Chosen One Trope: Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
• The New Kid in Town Trope: A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison
• Retelling Trope: A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna (retelling of the Mahabharata)

My Team Challenge Book Selections

• A Coming-of-Age Novel: Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
• “War” Trope: We Are Not Free by Traci Chee (set in World War II)

This is a pretty ambitious TBR, but I’m looking forward to the challenge. 🙂