Happy Monday, bibliophiles!
I’m finally done with the semester, so I figured I would celebrate with a festive book tag! I found this one over at The Corner of Laura (who always finds the best tags), and the tag was originally created by Browsing for Books (note: at the time I’m doing this tag, this blog is no longer active).
Let’s begin, shall we?
☕️THE HOLIDAY DRINKS BOOK TAG☕️
HOT CHOCOLATE | Marshmallows and chocolate and whipped cream, oh my!
Recommend a book that’s sweet through and through.
Rom-coms typically aren’t my go-to, but Tweet Cute was so wonderfully fluffy and sweet—and full of tasteful food puns.
PEPPERMINT MOCHA | The flavor of peppermint is strong and distinct.
Recommend a book with a lot of strong emotions.
Our Wives Under the Sea packs an impressive amount of emotion into just over 220 pages—and all of it pays off.
APPLE CIDER | It’s so good, it can’t be good for you…but it’s from apples, that means it’s healthy, right?
Recommend a book full of characters with questionable morals.
A Memory Called Empire is rife with all sorts of political backstabbing, and just as many characters willing to turn on each other…
EGGNOG | It’s creamy and smooth with a little spice, and some people even add alcohol to it.
Recommend a book that’s mostly fun with just a hint of danger.
Flowerheart has enough stakes (read: brief flower-related body horror) to give it a kick, but despite its flaws, what I can say is that this book was wholesome and warm all the way through. This one could’ve worked for the first prompt too…
GINGERBREAD LATTE | A drink with a veritable explosion of spices
Recommend a book with a lot of action.
Victories Greater Than Death is absolutely chock-full of action! There was never a dull moment in this book, although it did get too heavy-handed with the action at some points.
I TAG ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE! Happy holidays, everybody!
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That’s it for this book tag! Have a wonderful rest of your day, and take care of yourselves!
The Bookish Mutant 
Great answers 😊 Totally agree with you on Our Wives Under The Sea. I really want to check out Flowerheart now.
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thank you!!! flowerheart is really cute—I feel like it would have worked better as a middle grade book, but it’s solid as ya nevertheless.
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I’m super intrigued by Flowerheart and Victories Greater Than Death. I love the covers of both so much. I think I’m also wondering how the whole flower-related body horror works.
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they’re both solid reads!! very different, but both worth reading. (and the flower thing is mostly just flowers blooming inside a character’s chest—they have it in the description, so it’s not a spoiler, don’t worry haha)
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Ohhhhh okay I can see that. That makes sense now.
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Tweet Cute is so good!!
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isn’t it?? I’m tempted to re-read it but I’m scared to tarnish the memory lmao
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Literally! Especially because I’ve continued on to read another of Emma Lord’s books and didn’t enjoy it even half as much.
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