This week, I’m not posting any reviews, so a Twelve Days of Christmas tag is kind of perfect, as I’m wrapping things up and looking towards 2017… I found this tag over at Kristen’s Metaphors & Moonlight, and the original was found by her on YouTube at LizzieLovesBooks. If you want to be tagged, consider yourself tagged.
Twelve Days of Christmas Book tag:
A Partridge in a pear tree: Favorite Stand-Alone Book?
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater blew me away! The mythology is very ‘other’ and the characters moved the story forward in such a way I thought they were almost real.
Two Turtle Doves: Fictional OTP/Favorite Ship?
Kate and Curran from Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series are awesome! They keep on loving each other, respecting each other and trusting each other.
But they’re tied with Patricia Brigg’s Mercy and Adam in the Mercy Thompson series, for the same reasons!
Three French Hens: Favorite Trilogy?
The Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi. Love, love, love!!
Four Calling Birds: Favorite Fictional Beast/Creature?
This is just unfair!! Vampires, werewolves, elves, pixies, witches, wizards… why do I have to choose one? I think I’ll have to go with shifter, though, because Curran and Adam…
Five Golden Rings: Show 5 Golden Books
So yeah, I cheated a little bit, as I didn’t have any books with completely golden covers, and I only had four with something golden on them at all…
Six Geese a Laying: Rotten egg – What’s your least favorite book?
I don’t really keep track of stuff I don’t like, I rather enjoy staying positive, so there’s nothing to see here. Carry on;)
Seven Swans a Swimming: Show a Book with Water on the Cover
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie – I needed a good murder mystery on this list, right?
Eight Maids a Milking: What fictional food do you wish you could taste?
I think I’d like to try something either from Faerie (but not while in Faerie) or something from Everafter, just because demons need to eat, too…
Nine Ladies Dancing: Favorite dance between two characters?
I absolutely loved the dancing that took place in Tara Lain’s Cowboys Don’t Come Out!!
Ten Lords a Leaping: Favorite Book-To-Movie-Adaptation?
Me Before You – I actually enjoyed the move more than the book, and that is unheard of for me!
Eleven Pipers Piping: Favorite Book-To-Movie-Adaptation Soundtrack?
The Hunger Games. There was a lot of great music in those movies, and that brought both the story and the characters to life in an amazing way.
Twelve Drummers Drumming: It’s the end of the song; what’s your favorite book ending?
In my fave fiction, I love it when things end well. So when the characters are as happy and safe as possible, I’m a happy reader… If the ending is somewhat open – so that I can dream of their journey continuing – all the better!
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope these last days of 2016 are treating you well, that you’re not stressed out about anything, and all ready for the new year to start 🙂
Oh Mercy and Adam. *swoons* They’re one of my favorite couples. Kate and Curran, too. <3
Mercy and Adam are made of awesome 😀
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I love The Hunger Games and thought that they did a great job with the movies (even if the books are still better). I’m also a huge fan of both Kate and Curran and Mercy and Adam (though I like Anna and Charles better).
I agree that the books were better than the movies, but the movies were really well done 🙂 I love Anna and Charles, too, but they’ve had less stories lately (or maybe because I started with them, and then afterwards I got caught up with Mercy and Adam 🙂 )
Yes, yes, yes!!! This is a fun way to show off some of your favorites, Lexxie. I think you know I stand in agreement with you on Mercy and Adam and Kate and Curran. I also loved The Hunger Games – books and movies. Anyway, thanks for sharing this. And The Scorpio Races *will* be read in 2017!!! (by me 😉 )
Oh my, you *still* haven’t read The Scorpio Races? How in the world is that even possible, wife? {{{HUGS}}}
Fun tag! I really liked the movie for Me Before You too. I don’t know if I liked it MORE than the book, but they are close.
-lauren
I wasn’t as into the book as most of my blogger friends, Lauren, but the movie totally did me in!
Yes to Mercy and Adam, along with Anna and Charles!
🙂 Anna and Charles are awesome, too, but I haven’t read anything new with them in for a while…
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Great list Lex!
I’m sooo reading the Golden son soon! Can’t wait to get to it. red Rising was on of my top this year
I must be the only so call Book Blogger of fantasy books that DNF Maggie Stiefvater! I’ll be trying The Raven Boys this year so hopefully I’ll read The Scorpio Races since you like it so much 🙂
Same with Patricia Briggs ‘s books. I can’t believe I haven’t read them yet [rolling my eyes at myself!]
Thanks for sharing this great list
Oh my gosh! I really, really hope you’ll love The Golden Son 🙂 The whole Red Rising trilogy was amazing, in my opinion.
Really? Which Stiefvater books didn’t you enjoy? Her Wolves of Mercy Fall are quite different from her other stuff…
Awwww… I feel just like I got the ultimate book hug!!! Thanks for visiting me this week or else I might have missed you MOST AWESOME post!! I had no idea that you were so into UF!!! OMG.. food from Faerie!!! Don’t you dare!!! And don’t go dancing in any fiddle circles or anything either!!!
I love your positivity!!! And YES on endings… may we never run out of books!!! Happy New Year, girl!!! xoxoxoxoxo
{{{HUGS}}} I’m into most anything in fiction, Kristin… And hey, if we eat food from Faerie, but not while we’re in Faerie, we should be safe, right? :p
<3 Thanks for stopping by, and Happy New Year to you, too!! xoxo
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Yes! The Wolves of Mercy series was the culprit! I’m planning on reading The Raven Boys so maybe that’ll go much better