Tag: Halloween Creatures 2.0

I was tagged by Elley the Book Otter to do the Halloween Creatures 2.0 Tag. Let’s do it! This post has spoilers, so tread carefully. I’ll give you a warning when I’m about to spoil something.

Halloween Creatures 2.0 Tag

Witch: A Magical Character Or Book?

This book has “Magic” in the title. Also, it’s so magic that it matches my backyard in October (the most magical month of the year).

Werewolf: A Perfect Book To Read At Night?

At the time I’m writing this post, I’m spending my nights with Revival. It’s not scary enough to give me nightmares, but it’s weirdly intriguing enough to keep me awake until 1 AM. I don’t want to put it down and go to sleep.

Frankenstein: A Book That Truly Shocked You?

It didn’t “truly shock” me, but I liked An Absolutely Remarkable Thing a lot more than I thought I would. It has a great mystery. When I wasn’t reading the book, I wanted to be reading it. I may have neglected some adult responsibilities so that I could keep reading about space robots.

The Devil: A Dark, Evil Character?

Should I break out the Ramsay Bolton memes again? No? Then how about Randall Flagg. He’s the evil force in Stephen King’s universe. He does all kinds of bad things.

Grim Reaper: A Character That Never Should Have Died?

Skip this question if you don’t want to be SPOILED for Harry Potter.

Lupin and Tonks. I understand the symmetry: Both of Harry’s parents died in the First Wizarding War. Two parents of an infant died in the Second Wizarding War. Teddy is the new Harry. Blah, blah, blah. But, why? Why was that symmetry necessary? I don’t like it.

Zombie: A Book that Made You Hungry For More?

I was so happy when I learned that Vicious was getting a sequel. I was even happier when I got to see the author in person and buy the sequel.

Gargoyle: A Character You Would Protect At All Costs?

Skip this question if you don’t want to be SPOILED for Game of Thrones.

This is hard because I’m usually okay with character deaths. I like books that have high body counts. Um . . . maybe we shouldn’t kill Jon Snow again? He has important stuff to do! Tyrion Lannister is my favorite, so I’d be sad if he didn’t make it to the end of the series. I don’t want Theon Greyjoy to die in the show until he gets his redemption arc. After that, he can die infinity times. You shouldn’t have betrayed Robb, dude! You brought infinity deaths on yourself.

Vampire: A Book That Sucked The Life Out Of You?

Pretty much everything I had to read for Brit Lit classes in college. So many fancy fictional dinner parties. So many moral lessons. So much boredom.

Ghost: A Book that Still Haunts You?

These books from my preteen years. They were my favorites, so I read them all approximately a million times. I reread them incessantly instead of playing sports or socializing with my fellow preteens.

Demon: A Book That Really Scared You?

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Mad Cow Disease and the government cover-up surrounding it are the scariest things I’ve read about all year. In the 1980s, bad beef was killing people. Instead of trying to fix the meat-death problem, the British government suppressed information about the disease so that it didn’t hurt beef sales. How do politicians live with themselves? Seriously.

Skeleton: A Character You Have A Bone To Pick With?

Well, I already mentioned Theon Greyjoy, so let’s go with Leni’s parents in The Great Alone. They are both painfully terrible humans. They put their own petty arguments ahead of their child’s safety.

Mummy: A Book You Would Preserve Throughout Time?

If we’re picking books for a doomsday vault, I’d probably have to choose the ones that had the biggest impact on humanity. I’d pick the religious and philosophy texts that helped shape our modern cultures. I’d choose some science books so that post-apocalypse humans would know about all of the cool junk we had. Some history books need to go in the vault because you can’t forget history. I should probably toss in a few fiction classics. Oh, and Harry Potter is going in so that future humans don’t think we were incredibly boring.

Creepy Doll: A Cover Too Scary To Look At?

I wrote a whole post about this. Click and get ready to cringe. I still can’t believe that these are real books.

Monster Mash: If you want to answer these questions, consider yourself tagged.