I was tagged by Rebecca to do the Beauty and the Beast book tag. It always makes my day to find that I’m tagged in something, so thank you! Please check out her blog when you get a chance. 🙂
Tale As Old As Time: A Popular Theme, Trope or Setting You Will Never Get Bored of Reading
I’m never going to get sick of friends-to-lovers. Like, ever. Some recent friends-to-lovers books I’ve really enjoyed:
- Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
- Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
- The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde
Belle: A Book You Bought For Its Beautiful Cover That’s Just As Beautiful On The Inside Too
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, I love everything about Starry Eyes! It has such a nice cover, which is really the only reason I requested the ARC, and what I found inside totally blew me away. ❤
Beast: A Book That You Didn’t Expect Much From But Pleasantly Surprised You
I had never read anything from Tara Sivec before when I requested this ARC, but I loved it! I did not expect a book about feminism, finding yourself, and friendship, but that’s exactly what I got.
Gaston: A Book Everyone Loves That You Don’t
I wanted to love The Wedding Date. Given my reading history, I should have loved The Wedding Date. I did not love it. I did not even really like it. I was really disappointed.
LeFou: A Loyal Sidekick You Can’t Help But Love More Than Their Counterpart
I don’t know if I’d really call them “sidekicks,” but I loved Dylan and Fitz from Airports, Exes, and Other Things I’m Over and honestly couldn’t have cared less what happened to the main characters.
Mrs. Potts, Chip, Lumiere, and Cogsworth: A Book That Helped You Through a Difficult Time or Taught You Something Valuable
These are three really quick books (all less than 200 pages) that I feel like I learned something from:
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Something There: A Book or Series You Weren’t Into At First But Picked up Towards the End
Renegades by Marissa Meyer! There’s just so much going on in this book and everybody has two names and you have to keep track of whether they’re heroes or villains and it’s just a lot. But once I got everything straight in my head, I loved it.
Be Our Guest: A Fictional Character You’d Love to Have Over For Dinner
Michael Phan, please and thanks. 🙂
I’m going to tag anybody who likes Beauty and the Beast, or tags in general, to do this one! I think I’ve already tagged at least 20 people in the last week, so I’ll give you a break. 🙂 If you do the tag, please link back to this post so I get a notification!
I love friends to lovers too!! I’m excited to read more Christina Lauren books and I’m glad they have a book with that trope!! 🙂
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Love and Other Words is so good but it’s also so heartbreaking! I’m sure it’s going to be one of my favorites of 2018 and I highly recommend it. 🙂
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Great post! Have to admit that I prefer enemies to lovers though :p
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Thank you! I love enemies-to-lovers so much too, but I think I read more friends-to-lovers in general. Do you have any good enemies-to-lovers recommendations? 🙂
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Friends to lovers is the best trope ever… I could never get tired of it 😊😊😊
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Yes! Friends-to-lovers books always make me so happy! ❤
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Great tag! Loved your answered!Friends to lovers books are so much fun! They’re definitely a guilty pleasure of mine!
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Thank you! ❤ I'm glad you love friends-to-lovers too! Let me know if you read any good ones. 🙂
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Loved reading your answers. Friends to lovers are definitely an underestimated guilty pleasure 🙂 This one looks like so much fun, so I’ll definitely have to do this one at some point.
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Yes, please do it! I’d love to see your answers! 🙂 And I’m so happy about all the friends-to-lovers love on this post!!
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It is a great subject 😀 Is there any you can recommend? preferably without teenagers and triangle drama. Preferably more wholesome characters, without the usual special snowflake suspects :p
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I had to sit down and think about this one! I was trying to come up with friends-to-lovers that’s not YA and I was kind of struggling a little bit!
– the Addicted series by Krista & Becca Ritchie (although I don’t know if I’d call them wholesome characters)
– Infini by Krista & Becca Ritchie is a second chance friends-to-lovers romance and basically my kryptonite
– Dirty Sweet by Roxie Noir (novella, definitely on the smutty side but also cute)
– Head Over Heels by Serena Bell
– Blurred Lines by Lauren Layne
If I think of others, I’ll let you know!
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Ah brilliant, thank you ❤ They’r now added to my TBR list 😀
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I hope you like them! ❤️
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I’ll let you know whether you need to hide, or if you can bask in the glory of finding me new favourites 😀 no pressure there 😛
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Haha, I look forward to hearing from you! Hopefully I won’t need to hide!! 😉
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I totallllllllllllly agree about Starry Eyes! I was sold on the concept of it, saw that cover, and knew I had to read it. The inside was so wonderful as well. Wonderful answers and great post! 🙂
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Thank you! ❤ It's one of my favorites of 2018 and I'm so happy that you loved it too. 🙂
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Great post!! 🙂 I really enjoyed reading this. I love Beauty and the Beast so I’m going to try to do this tag in the next week or two and I’ll link it when I do!!
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Thank you! I can’t wait to see your answers! 🙂
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