Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles.
I decided to go with “Perfect” in the Mystery genre! I was surprised how many there were! Have you read any of my “perfect” books?
I have eithread or have on my tablet, 5 of them.
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That’s a lot of Perfect titles! I have already read 6 of the titles and have a few more on my to-reads
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Great post. Yeah, there’s a lot of books with ‘perfect’ in them! I kinda did my own thing this week..
https://booksarethenewblackblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/top-10-tuesday-favorite-words/
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Great topic! It was a hard topic this week, I’ve seen a lot of different variations.
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Thank you! Yeah, it was tough and I didn’t want to just do YA. I felt like a lot of people would and they did.
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I was surprised at first that thrillers would include so much ‘perfect’ but really it makes sense. It immediately lets us readers know to expect something *not* perfect will happen! lol. It sets us up to expect twists in the plot.
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I didn’t even think of that, but that’s such a good point! Especially when the perfect is describing a person (eg. husband or nanny), you know that the person won’t be perfect at all!
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Someone else’s list of mystery/thriller titles included the word “good.” It’s interesting that “good” and “perfect” are both used a lot in mystery/thriller titles but in an ironic way. We all know if something seems too good or perfect to be true, it usually is 🙂
Happy TTT!
Susan
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Such a great point! And if the book is describing a perfect person, they are normally revealed to be the total opposite of perfect!
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Ooh now that I think about it I’ve definitely seen a lot of “perfect” books 🙂
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I was surprised as well! I didn’t think there would be so many “perfect” books!
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Perfect choice! 😉
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Thank you 🙂
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Neighbor/Neighbour and Lies seem to be two more ‘title words du jour’ 😎
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Totally agree! I feel like “Neighbour” is the new “Girl”!
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