Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a good week, mine has been relatively quiet, just the usual Uni work. Anyway, I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I was nominated for this tag by Joyce @ The Jinxed Goblet (http://www.thejinxedgoblet.com/2017/01/mystery-blogger-tag.html), and I figured since I hadn’t done a tag in a while, I’d give it a whirl. Thanks to Joyce for nominating me and to Okoto Enigma for creating this tag! (https://okotoenigma.wordpress.com/)
The Rules:
1. Put the award logo/image on your blog.
2. List the rules.
3. Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well.
5. Tell your readers 3 things about yourself.
6. You have to nominate 10 – 20 people.
7. Notify your nominees by commenting on their blog.
8. Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify).
9. Share a link to your best post(s).
Three things about myself:
- I write YA fantasy. I’ve been working on a YA fantasy based around the four elements at the moment, called This Is Not A Love Story, which I’m hoping to finish and edit this year. I also have plans for another fantasy based around underground magicians in different cities in Europe. I actually hadn’t written properly in years until last year because I hadn’t had any ideas that I was really excited about, so I’m really happy that I have these two stories that I’m really excited about to write.
- I love to travel, and it’s a dream of mine to get to live in a different country at some point during my life.
- I have a slight Merlin obsession (the BBC TV show) and want to name my future dogs Merlin and Arthur!
My Questions:
- Which fictional character (or characters) do you think you’re most like?
I think I’m a combination of characters probably, but I suppose that’s true of everyone. I’m definitely a lot like Hermione, I love reading, I did well in school, I look a lot like her as well with my incredibly frizzy hair. I’m also a lot like Belle from Beauty and The Beast, again with the reading thing and Belle’s yearning for adventure is definitely something that I can relate to. I also relate a lot to Rory Gilmore, with her love of books and movies and junk food. I have the same dry, sarcastic sense of humour as Percy Jackson. I’ll stick with those for now, but I could honestly do a lot more, I can find myself in any bookworm or sassy character really.
2. What is your favourite song at the moment?
My favourite song at the moment is the same as my favourite song has been for a long time, Come What May from Moulin Rouge. It will probably remain my favourite song for a long time!
3. How would you describe your fashion type?
I don’t know? Most of the time I’m pretty casual, just jeans and long sleeved t-shirts, I live in Scotland so it’s cold! When I get dressed up, my style is quite girly I guess, I like patterns, florals and polka dots are my favourites. I love 1950’s dresses with the full skirts and the polka dots, they are my actual favourite things in the world.
4. What is one movie you’d recommend everyone watch?
Moulin Rouge! It’s my absolute favourite movie ever, Ewan McGregor is gorgeous, the music is amazing, the costumes are wonderful, the story is tragic yet incredibly fun at the same time, it’s definitely something I’d recommend everyone watch. I’ve forced it on most of my friends by now (luckily my flatmates love it just as much as me, they even got me a cardboard cutout of Ewan McGregor!).
5. How many books can you stack on one hand before it topples over?
I tried this, the books toppled at 12!
My Best Posts:
I don’t know what my most read posts ever are, so I’m just going to choose my favourite posts I’ve ever done! These are both discussion posts that I’ve done that I’m really proud of:
- https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/jo-talks-books-on-whether-parents-should-censor-childrens-reading/
- https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/jo-talks-books-on-whether-there-is-a-double-standard-between-male-and-female-characters-in-young-adult-fiction/
Questions for my nominees:
- If you could be friends with any character from any book, who would you be friends with?
- What fantasy world would you most like to live in?
- If you could only read one author’s books for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
- Biggest celebrity crush?
- How many oreos can you fit in your mouth at once (weird one)?
I nominate whoever hasn’t done this tag and wants to!
I’ll admit this now, I never have nor will I ever read Twilight. I like my vampires to be scary, not sparkly and I’m not big into vampire books anyway. Plus from what I’ve heard about this book, Bella and Edward is a classic example of an abusive relationship which I’m not at cool with. Still you can’t deny how big this book is in YA fiction, it’s one of the books that made it so popular, so I felt I had to include it for this one, even if it’s not to my personal taste.
I breezed through this book, and I didn’t know where to turn the whole time, was Anna guilty, wasn’t she? What really happened to Elise? It keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time and the ending is the like the part on the roller coaster when you come down from a massive drop!
Let’s face it, all of Maggie Stiefvater’s books are book cover eye candy, but I think that this one is particularly eye catching!
The first character I thought of for this was Aelin Galathynius/Celaena Sardothien. Her character change between Heir of Fire and Queen of Shadows was quite sudden and to be honest I didn’t like it too much. I’m all for her accepting her identity as Queen of Terrasen but in QOS she seemed to give up all the parts of her that were great as Celaena and I didn’t like that. She was Celaena for the best half of her life and I didn’t like that she acted like she wanted to forget everything she was when she was Celaena.
I DNF’ed this book, so naturally it didn’t really leave a lasting impression on me. I know people say it gets better if you get through the first bit, but the main character was so unbearable I couldn’t make it past the first fifty pages.
When I first started reading Pure, I assumed that Pressia and Partridge were going to be involved, they had the whole both names beginning with P thing going on, one was a pure, the other a wretch, it seemed like another star crossed lovers romance was in the cards. As it turned out however, they’re half brother and sister!
Divan, the black market organ harvester in this book, is a pretty creepy, but also pretty awesome villain.
Okay so I’m cheating a little here by choosing two characters, but I can’t pick one favourite Weasley twin. Fred and George both made me laugh so hard! Damn JK Rowling for what she did to Fred!
Okay I think the point of this one was to compare two books that you are always confusing, but I don’t exactly have any of those, so instead I chose a book that I mistakenly thought would be something else when I bought it. From the blurb, I thought Panic would be kind of like a contemporary Hunger Games, and it was contemporary all right but it was nothing like The Hunger Games.
I love Sarah J Maas and her other series Throne of Glass was one of my favourites, plus everyone was raving about this book before I read it, so I had high expectations, but I didn’t love this book as much as I wanted it to, most of it was kind of a drag for me and I wasn’t really convinced by the romance. Still, I have the second book in the series, hopefully, I’ll like that one better.