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Hi hello and welcome to my first Book Tag Thursday! I’m not one hundred percent sure who started this, but I found it from Rachel at Life of a Female Bibliophile so be sure to drop by her blog and check out her post this week. Today, I’ll be doing the Bedtime Book Tag, created by Kelly from Barely Reading! I thought this was a funny and appropriate tag to do since I really enjoy writing my blog posts in bed on my iPad before I go to sleep. Let’s get started!
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1. What book kept you up all night reading?
While I did absolutely devour the Eluding Destiny series by Charlie Nottingham, for some reason I read New Normal in one sitting before going to sleep. Something about it just hooked me and my brain said I had to finish it before I could go to sleep, so I did. This entire series is wonderful and worth staying up all night to read so if you haven’t read it yet, I definitely recommend it!
2. What book made you scared to go to sleep?
I distinctly remember getting so spooked by Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes that I hid under my blankets and scrunched my feet up so the monsters under my bed couldn’t get me. This was such a good book and it really did make me scared to sleep because of how well-written it is. If you’re looking for a horror book set in space, I highly recommend this one!
3. What book almost put you to sleep?
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. This was a book I was so excited to read because of the insane synopsis of a woman trying to save her and her husband from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. As someone who struggles with their relationship with their own mother-in-law, this sounded perfect. Unfortunately, I just did not enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. There were parts that I could have sworn were written just for me, but most of it was just a struggle to read. But I have seen so many positive reviews for this so clearly while it wasn’t for me, a lot of otherpeople enjoyed this and I’m so happy that it found its audience with other readers!
4. What book has you tossing and turning in anticipation of its release?
I’m so excited for Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer that it’s not even funny. I’ve been following her TikTok for a long time and I’ve seen this go from short skits to a full fledged book and I could not be happier for Hannah! I already know I’m going to love it and I can’t wait to read this!
5. What book has your dream girlfriend/ boyfriend?
I am unashamedly a simp for both Delilah and Claire from Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake. I love them both so much and can definitely say that they are dreamy as can be. Delilah has the bad girl aesthetic and she’s a photographer and Claire has the single mom bookstore owner thing going on and I respectfully simp for them both.
6. What book world would be your worst nightmare to live in?
Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel immediately came to mind. This is a world where the Mother cult exists and its members believe one thing: women are meant to be pregnant and bring a little girl into the world because “a girl would be such a blessing.” And if you don’t want to have children? Well, that’s not what they want to hear because what else is a woman supposed to do with her life? And Mother forbid you give birth to a boy. The most terrifying part of this? There are actually people out there who believe the things that are said in this book and there’s a very real possibility that a cult like this could form (or already exist) in our world. Now that’s what I call horror.
7. What book cover reminds you of nighttime?
8. What book has a nightmarish cliffhanger?
Charlie Nottingham is an amazing writer, one of my all-time favorites. Charlie Nottingham is also so good at cliffhanger endings that literally make me scream. Raven’s Reckoning has a cliffhanger that made me stop, drop my iPad, pick it back up, and read it again and then promptly lose my entire mind. The Raven’s Cry series is fantastic and if you like paranormal book series with some great spice (and a healthy polyamorous relationship dynamic), this is definitely the book series for you.
9. What book have you actually dreamed about?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. I talk about this book more than any other and I'm sure it’s exhausting, but it's such an important book to me. I've had dreams about this book numerous times and I will probably continue to have dreams about it forever. Especially since I’m going to the Addie tour in April!
10. What book monster would you not want to find under your bed?
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And that does it for the Bedtime Book Tag! I’m so excited to add this post prompt to my weekly rotation because there are so many book tags out there which allows for a wide variety of books and answers to appear each week. I think starting off with this one was a good choice because it was a nice and easy 10 questions and I had a lot of fun talking about each of the books I mentioned. Have you done this tag before? Are there any books I talked about that you’ve read or are interested in picking up? Did you participate in Book Tag Thursday this week? Let me know in the comments below and be sure to link me your post so I can go check it out! Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you in the next chapter!
