Hi! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!). It’s Valentine’s Day in a couple days, so this week is a love freebie. So I’m going to talk about some of my favorite ships! Some you can probably already guess, but hopefully there will be some new ones in there too. I’ll try to include at least some that are different from the Favorite Couples in Books that I did last year.
So as I’m writing this, I realize there might be some spoilers within the paragraphs for each book. If you don’t want any spoilers on each ship, like if you haven’t read the book yet, just skip the paragraph, please. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.
My favorite ship is Day and June from Legend. I’m a sucker for cinnamon roll boys and strong girls (which will probably become apparent in this post).
Since I did do a similar topic last year, I’m going to mix it up with come couples that I didn’t mention before. I really love Jude and Cardan in The Cruel Prince. Yes, they are toxic. But they’re toxic together, at least! I don’t think I’d like them as a couple if one of them was a bully and the other was a victim, but they seem to be okay with being wicked together, and I’m okay with that.
Divergent is one of my favorite books of all time and I blame Four and Tris for that. This is one of the series I plan on rereading this year, and I’m so excited! I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read this book (which I’ve also read in Spanish and German, and the first 50 pages in Russian) because I read this book several times before I started using Goodreads to track it. I love this book!
Dimple and Rishi in When Dimple Met Rishi are the cutest couple! This is a book I just couldn’t put down! It was such a funny book and they make such a cute couple. It doesn’t hurt that Dimple is into computers.
I know some people like to ship other couples in the Grishaverse, but I happen to like Alina and Mal. There’s just something I find sweet about these two teens who grew up friends with each other and eventually fell in love.
I adore Adelina and Magiano from the last two books of The Young Elites series. This book would have been a much different book without the twist that happened at the end of the first book. This is one of the series I plan on rereading this year and I’m so looking forward to it!
I don’t think I’ll be able to find time to reread Fangirl this year, but I absolutely adore this story! Cath and Levi are such a sweet couple.
Enchantée was my favorite book I read in 2018 and I absolutely love Camille and Lazare. I’m so glad I get to read another book with these characters, set in the French Revolution. I’m a little sad it won’t come out on Bastille Day this year, but I’d rather wait a little longer to get a better book than get a rushed book in July. I feel the same way about An Ember in the Ashes 4.
I loved Akos and Cyra in Carve the Mark. And here’s another ship I love with a boy with a sad story (he was kidnapped) paired with a strong girl. Weird that the book I’m writing and the book I’m editing are both stories like that. I read this story in 2019 so I probably won’t get around to reading this one again this year. But I’m sure I’ll read it again someday.
So I know I’ve already mentioned two Veronica Roth books today already, but this is a new ship! Ms. Roth just writes these beautiful characters I fall in love with, sorry! But I loved Matt and Claire in “Inertia.” It’s a short story (also available in Summer Days and Summer Nights if you enjoy short stories set in the summer by various authors) but I just can’t help but love these two characters, long after I read this story the first time. It was optioned for a movie, but there’s so many steps between getting optioned for a movie and it actually getting made.
So those are some of my favorite ships! I know there were a few repeats from last year, but there are some people I just can’t get off my mind! What are your favorite ships? I’m looking forward to seeing what you did for Top Ten Tuesday this week!
Oh I forgot about Cath and Fangirl- arghh! And Four and Tris rock. 🙂
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It’s such a sweet book.
Fangirl! You reminded me I haven’t read this goodness yet!
You definitely should :-).
Great list! You’re not alone – I like Alina and Mal, too. Tbh I kind of wanted Alina to end the series single, but I think her and Mal suit each other.
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I love that whole childhood friends to lovers dynamic they have.
June and Day forever, and now I feel even better about them, because I finally read Rebel. When June wondered if they would have fallen in love had they met under different circumstances and then the way Champion ended. My heart could hardly take it
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Rebel was a really nice way to end it. I wanted them together so much that prior to Rebel, I wrote two post-Champion fanfic novels where they end up together. Rebel was good for closure.
Cath and Levi were a great couple for sure.
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Now I want to reread the book! Probably won’t be able to this year though.
Day-June and Cardan-Jude are also my favorite! I just finished The Folk of the Air series a week ago and I’m still obsessed with them <3
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Do you follow the Incorrect Cruel Prince Twitter account? It’s great.
I hope you have fun rereading the Divergent series.
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I’m sure I will. I love that series!
Four and Tris forever <3 I can't believe I didn't add them to my fav OTP's list! Love that we had the same idea for a topic!
🙂 I can’t wait to read those books again! I was SO into FourTris fanfiction a few years ago.
Cath and Levi were a great couple!
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Jude & Cardan are absolutely my jam! I know they’re problematic but I just didn’t care haha. They had such amazing chemistry together and by the end I think they’d worked it out. I also really love Levi and Cath from Fangirl as well.
Yes, I like how Jude and Cardan eventually worked it out. They were definitely flawed people, but you could tell they loved each other.
I loved Cath & Levi the first time I read FANGIRL. And then I did a reread a few months ago and didn’t love them as much. They’re still cute, but just not as cute as I remembered.
That’s so sad to hear! I guess sometimes people’s tastes change though.
I’ve also been wanting to reread Fangirl. And Eleanor & Park. Rainbow Rowell writes amazing characters! Great post. 🙂
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Swooning over LITERALLY ALL OF THESE PICKS. (If the all caps shouting didn’t make that obvious!)
Hahaha I love when people are so excited they have to use all caps!
I’m ALL ABOUT a good ship! Still need to read ‘Dimple’ and someday I’d like to read more of Marie Lu’s novels as I did enjoy the “Warcross” duo. 🙂
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I hope you get the chance to read some of them soon!
Jude and Cardan, June and Day are both some of my favorites!!
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Thanks, I didn’t know Enchantée
It was my favorite book I read in 2018!
I am right there with you with Alina and Mal! Also YESSS to Claire and Matt, that story made me feel ALLLL the things my goodness. I am glad I am not the only one! As for my favorites, I think they’ll always be Katniss & Peeta, and Bellamy & Clarke from The 100 (canon in the books hah).
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Short stories don’t always get talked about much, but that was one I just love!
I was of a Gale person myself. I don’t know must about The 100.