Blogging Challenge: TBR

(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews.)

Prompt: what's on your TBR list

I mean, it's more of a collection than a To Do list, but this sounds like a great topic and I can't wait to read everyone else's responses. 

1. The aptly-named four book (so far) fantasy trilogy This Trilogy Is Broken, by JP Valentine. I finished the first book and just started the second one, and I'm really enjoying them so far. (I'm a bit cautious about recommending it, because it falls into the LitRPG subgenre: fantasy tales where the heroes are aware of [and discuss, and are measured by] roleplaying stats like their character classes, hit points, abilities, etc. I enjoy that sort of setup in small doses, but not everybody does.) 

The setup is basically this: once every eight years, the Stones appear at each city, town, and village in the land. When they appear, everyone above the age of ten visits the stones and receives their Life Quest, and with it the character class that will allow them to (possibly, maybe) achieve it. Quests vary in difficulty; character classes range from common and mundane to adventurous and powerful. Evelia Green is sixteen when the Stone return, and she presents herself along with the other candidates from her village... and receives the quest "Purchase a loaf of bread at the next village over." Should be easy, right? Half a day there, half a day back, and her life's quest will be complete. Except this life quest has a Legendary difficulty rating, and working bakeries are starting to seem frighteningly elusive...

2. Scout's Honor, by Lily Anderson. Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs—interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords.

Three years ago, Prue’s best friend was killed during a hunt, so she kissed the Scouts goodbye, preferring the company of her punkish friends lovingly dubbed the Criminal Element much to her mother and Tía Lo’s disappointment. However, unable to move on from her guilt and trauma, Prue devises a risky plan to infiltrate the Ladybirds in order to swipe the Tea of Forgetting, a restricted tincture laced with a powerful amnesia spell.

But old monster-slaying habits die hard and Prue finds herself falling back into the fold, growing close with the junior scouts that she trains to fight the creatures she can’t face. When her town is hit with a mysterious wave of demons, Prue knows it’s time to confront the most powerful monster of all: her past.

3. Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders. It's the second book in the Unstoppable series,  and I'm very much looking forward to it. While technically YA, the first book was eminently readable for adults and features a group of teens who pull together to try to save the Universe from very evil adversaries -- in spite of the fact that none of them are quite what the aliens who recruited them were expecting. 

So those are my next three. What are you looking forward to?