A big Thank you to the wonderful Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse for the tag. Be sure to check out her wonderful blog.
1. An Over-Hyped Book:
Situation: You’re in a store when the zombie apocalypse hits. The military informs everyone that over-hyped books are the zombies only weakness. What book that everyone else says is amazing but you disliked do you start chucking at the zombies?
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher: I had seen nothing but glowing reviews for this book but when I actually cracked open the book I was stumped. I mean I can understand why people like it but to me it just didn’t work or have the impact I thought it would have.
2. A Sequel:
Situation: torrential downpour. What sequel are you willing to use as an umbrella to protect yourself?
Allegiant by Veronica Roth: I actually understood why a certain character death had to happen and that’s not my gripe with the book. I just felt like I was reading a completely different series and we’re introduced to an entire new “branch” of this world that had not been mentioned prior to the book and it felt like the development and the cause of tension in the first two books amounted to nothing in the end.
3. A Classic:
Situation: You’re in English class and your professor raves about a Classic that “transcends time”. If given the opportunity to travel back in time, which Classic would you try to stop from ever publishing?
Chaucer – The Wife of Bath. Even though this is part of the wider collection known as the Canterbury Tales, I only studied this one in school and I honestly couldn’t tell you what happened. My mind zoned out during these lessons because I just couldn’t get in to it.
4. A Least Favorite Book:
Situation: apparently global warming = suddenly frozen wasteland. Your only hope of survival for warmth is to burn a book. Which book will you not regret lighting?
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer: Need I say more?
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My Midnight Musing 
I’m 100% with you on Thirteen Reasons Why. Reading it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth, and I didn’t like that book at all.
Such great choices! I think Allegiant will be a popular choice for #2. 😛
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I remember feeling very cold when I finished Thirteen Reasons Why, I couldn’t get in to that book. Oh Allegiant, what a mess of a book that was. 😛
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Me too! Tbh though I think my feelings for that book might be a bit controversial. I didn’t sympathise with the protagonist (the girl) at all and kind of just really hated her for various reasons.
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THISSSS! I thought I was the only one. I really could not find it in me to sympathise with her at all.
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Yeah, I thought it was just terrible what she put everyone else through. She sounds SO unlikable and really hateful.
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Lol, I kind of sheepishly have to admit that I didn’t exactly hate Twilight (but in my defense I read it as a preteenager and my opinion may change if I read it now). XD And, oh my gosh, I’m so surprised with your answer using Thirteen Reasons Why! Even the critics’ remarks are pretty positive for that one. I actually remember it always being featured on the teen shelf in my local library. I never picked it up though. 😅
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My 13 year old self semi-enjoyed them but I read them more because all of my friends had and I wanted to see what the hype was all about haha.
I think if I’d have read it when I was in my early teams I might not have had such a negative reaction but I just remember feeling very cold when I finished it. It didn’t make me feel anything at all.
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Same, all of my friends were reading it-even the ones that didn’t like reading. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have picked them up… but then that made me get into the paranormal genre and books with vampires (I’m pretty sure I’ve read or tried almost all the YA vampire series of that time). 😂
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See, I feel like Twilight had the opposite effect on me because I usually avoid vampire books. I think it’s because when it comes to the mythology there’s not a whole lot you can do with vampires but who knows haha.
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They’re so cliche and have plenty of loopholes, but I guess they’re a guilty pleasure for me. 😂
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I wasn’t the biggest fan of Allegiant either, so I’m glad I’m not alone in that. And I was pretty meh about 13 Reasons Why as well. It was a decent book, but I don’t quite understand why it’s so hyped. Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous answers! ❤
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Yeah. I was expecting to be blown away by Thirteen Reasons Why but I actually had to force myself to finish it and when I did it left me cold.
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I so agree with you Alligiant pick. That book was so frustrated to read. Thanks for doing this one! 🙂
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I’ve basically tried to block out most of Allegiant cause I kept getting frustrated with it when I thought about the book.
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You know what the odd thing? I reworded this tag prompts because the initial post I was tagged in was a paragraph long for each and I was like “yeah, no” and it’s lovely to see my edited prompts still being used LOL.
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haha you’ve clearly made a mark on this tag. I had no idea that these prompts had been altered so on behalf of us all Thank you. 😛
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I didn’t hate Allegiant as much as most. My answer for #2 would be Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard.
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I’m more indifferent about Allegiant than I am hateful. I’ve heard a lot of mixed/negative things about Glass Sword so I think I’ll give it a pass.
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Hate may have been the wrong word. I didn’t hate Glass Sword either, I was just really disappointed.
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This is such a cool tag. I always look at it and never do it myself. I’ve never read any of these books either hehe.
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You should definitely do the tag. It’s so much fun. I wouldn’t make these books a priority read, they’re not worth it haha.
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