Last week we got to see all the titles I love. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about titles I would rewrite, and I can confirm it’s way more fun to complain than begrudgingly admit a title is good.
How to Stop Time
1 Fundamentally the book does not tell me how to stop time so really, it’s not a great title.
My Rename: Living Forever Kinda Sucks
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
2 Again, not a fan of the guide book type titles. My name, on the other hand, gets straight to the point.
My Rename: The Tour that Goes Wrong
Finale
3 I knew it was the Finale of the series, I didn’t need a title for that. My title is attempting is much more to the point while still keeping the one worded theme they’ve got going on.
My Rename: Fated
Red Queen
4 I would hardly call Mare a queen. Although, admittedly, my title could do with being a little more punchy. It’s a work in progress.
My Rename: A Mess of a Human Being Gets Magic and is Surrounded by Sinister Forces
A Heart so Fierce and Broken
5 How is the sequel to A Curse so Dark and Lonely not called A Heart so Fierce and Fragile?! Because they both begin with F, while Broken begins with a B but they both imply the same thing. Urg.
My Rename: A Heart so Fierce and Fragile
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
6 Ok, yes, it’s in the song but it’s not exactly central to the plot. And this really made me think Blue was secretly called Lily or it was something relating to the auras or whatever. But no, it’s just a slightly annoying song. Also it doesn’t even fit with the other titles, with the whole three words, one of them The etc etc.
My Rename: The Tone-Deaf Enchantress
Vicious
7 What does this even mean?! It’s just an adjective. Half the protagonist I read could be summed up as Vicious. My title may be a Pirates of the Caribbean quote but how well does it fit here!
My Rename: The Dichotomy of Good and Evil
Vox
8 I am yet to understand this title. Is that what the arm devices were called? Is it some combination of the word Voice Box? Please explain. I think my title is way better since it’s a great play on the shocking situation. Hahaha.
My Rename: Lost for Words
Series of Unfortunate Events: The End
9 I know it’s the end Snicket I’ve been reading all 13 🙄 just because the series is finishing doesn’t mean you can cop out on a decent name. I was sort of going with some alliteration since, you know, The Bad Beginning was how it all began. And Inevitable is pretty Sinister.
My Rename: Series of Unfortunate Events: The Inevitable Ending
The Hazel Wood
X Did that wood even include hazel trees?! It was hardly a key plot point of the wood.
My Rename: The Misunderstood, Spooky and Somewhat Soul Destroying Wood
Let’s Compare Notes
So there you have it! 10 titles I would rename. What do you think? Do you like any names I’ve provided? Have a list of your own? Would love to hear from you in the comments section!
Books, Life and Other Oddities 
Great list! A Heart So Fierce and Fragile sounds so much better than A Heart So Fierce and Broken.
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It really does! How did they miss this?!
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You have a lively imagination. When I’m ever in need for a new title for one of my publications, I’ll refer to you.
VOX is a switch used in telecommunications that operates when a sound is detected and exceeds a certain threshold. … This term is also known as a voice operated exchange (VOX).
Vox is also Latin for voice.
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Thanks! Oh wow I had no idea but that actually works really well for the book, if they’d explained that I’d have said it’s a really clever title 😂
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I hate the title of Blue Lily Lily Blue too. Why doesn’t it match and why is it so hard to say
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I know! And it does not remotely fit with the other three 🙄
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Bwhaha excellent!!!
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Thanks!!
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I love your new titles, and the snark haha.
Vox is latin for voice 🙂
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If I’d known that it wouldnt have made the list tbh since it’s quite a good title 😂 sadly my Latin is sub par
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I really like A Heart so Fierce and Fragile.
My TTT.
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It’s so obvious, how did they miss it🙄 thanks for the link!
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You’re so right about Vox! I don’t know if it was ever explained or tied into the story but I can’t recall at all. I don’t mind A Heart So Fierce and Broken but A Heart so Fierce and Fragile is pretty awesome too. Great job on this week’s TTT! It was too tough for my tired brain to handle 😅
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It’s apparently Latin for voice so who knew! It defo should have been explained! Thanks! My brain loves to zero in on useless stuff like renaming already titled books 😂
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A Heart So Fierce and Fragile definitely sounds a lot better than A Heart So Fierce and Broken. I quite like Vicious as a title, so many books have such long titles, it’s nice when they are only one word! I agree, Fated makes much more sense for Finale, that title really only fits it being the final book in the series, not anything else in the book itself. I laughed at your Red Queen and Hazel Wood titles, they’re a bit of a mouthful but very funny. I thought at the time of reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue that the title didn’t really fit, but I read Maggie Stiefvater’s Twitter thread about it and apparently it was meant to be a mirror? I still think it’s an odd title though. Gentleman’s Guide is way too long of a title, yours definitely rolls more off the tongue and gets right to the point. I actually didn’t really think much to The End as a title when I read the book, but I think I like The Inevitable Ending better.
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I know can they just hire me for book titling? I’d do a great job 😂 fair, I agree some books are way too long and people make them into acronyms I never understand 🙄 yeah I could see why they called in Finale but it felt like an easy cop out from coming up with a real title. Honesty makes the best titles? 😂 Oooh I never got that! Although it still doesn’t fit so I don’t think I’d approve it anyway. I don’t like guide book titles, not sure why, and I didn’t think about it before writing this list but it defo sounds more Ominous
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Ha ha I’m sure you would. I get most of them but there are some where I’m just like What?. Oh I definitely agree, it’s certainly a lazy way to title your final book. Yeah but there would definitely be some awkward acronyms coming out of those. I’m not really sure what I’d title that book, like I said, terrible with titling. Fair enough. It definitely does sound more ominous.
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue has always confused me as a title. Yours makes more sense.
My TTT.
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Apparently it’s meant to be a mirror? But yeah it really doesn’t fit with the titling theme they had going on. Thanks for the link!
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These are all FANTASTIC titles!!! I had such a hard time with this week’s theme that I did something else instead!
My Top Ten Tuesday!
Happy reading! 🙂
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Thank you! What did you do? Thanks for the link!
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Loved this list! I chickened out of using what little creativity I have and did an old Top Ten Tuesday instead! Is book title giver a career? I think you’d make it!
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Thanks! Ooh what did you do instead? Can it please be a career, this was so fun 😂
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I did an old one, books on my TBR I’ve been putting off!
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Oh, I thought that Blue Lily, Lily Blue was because Blue was revealed to be that ‘mirror’ thing or something (I don’t remember that well lol) and the words kind of mirror each other? I had no idea it was from some song! 😀
And I think ‘Vox’ means voice in Latin? But I don’t know Latin so that’s just a suspicion!
Great list! I had fun reading it. And your version of SOUE is how it should be! 🙂
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Oh wow you got that?! Apparently she revealed that on a Twitter thread, although I was totally unaware of it before reading the comments 😂 too subtle for me. I thought the weird Glendower daughter women kept singing it 🤔 yeah I heard it does! My Latin wasn’t good enough to pick up that titles nuances. Thanks!
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These made me laugh! Although, I still love Blue Lily, Lily Blue. it was on my TTT for last week. 😉
I couldn’t think of any titles I’d change so I had to do a twist. Here’s my TTT!
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Ah fair! Apparently it’s meant to be a mirror which is why it repeats! I never got that though… Ooh what topic did you do? Thanks for the link!
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Excellent titles. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/
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Thanks!
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