Aladdin Book Tag

I’m going to see Aladdin tonight with the family, so I thought, what better time to do the Aladdin book tag?! I found this tag over at A Great Read, but it was actually started by Amber at Du Livre.

The creator of this tag would like you to link to the original post (Du Livre, listed above).

There are so many good fantasy books out there, but I think that one fantasy book that ended up not getting enough appreciation was Veronica Roth’s Carve the Mark. I don’t really blame readers for not wanting to give this book a chance… after all, the ending of Allegiant didn’t exactly give me the warm fuzzies and drove me into fanfiction. Then, the tagline for The Fates Divide is He’d die for her. She’d kill for him. I don’t blame people for not wanting to read it.

But… this is not an Allegiant part two. I actually liked the ending! I’m also looking forward to The End and Other Beginnings, which comes out on October 1st.

No offense to Mr. Haffner (I’m assuming this is is face) but the cover to Defying Hitler leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately, I heard about this book from a podcast, not by browsing the shelves. This book is about a guy who was a teenagers in the years leading up to Hitler taking over Germany. It’s really interesting because the people around him started off normal, but then they started getting sucked into the Nazi propaganda. Towards the end of the book, it even tells of his time in a forced Nazi boot camp.

Definitely more interesting than the cover implies.

This tag has some difficult questions! So many characters in books I’ve read either turn evil, simply develop as characters, or come to a bad end as a part of their redemption. I had to go with Jesper from Six of Crows for this question. He made a lot of stupid mistakes and almost loses his father’s farm, but he ends up examining himself, figuring out how to turn his life around, and he does just that. Plus, he doesn’t die as a part of redeeming himself!

So I think I have to give this one to Day from Legend. He grows up poor, last sees his dad on his eighth birthday, spends his tenth birthday in the morgue, spends the next five years living on the streets, then is almost murdered by the government! Oh, and then he nearly dies, gets amnesia and loses the love of his life. Still, he manages to maintain his humanity and become a hero in the process.

I really hope he gets a happy-ish ending in Rebel.

I might have a good time hanging out with Cath from Fangirl. We both like to write, and we’ve both written fanfiction. Plus, we both really don’t like hanging out with strangers. So there’s that too.

Besides, there’s safety in numbers, even for those of us who’d rather spend our time sticking needles underneath our fingernails than going to a party full of strangers. We could both find the cafeteria together, and then we wouldn’t have to eat energy bars to keep ourselves from starving to death.

So that is the Aladdin book tag! If you want to do this tag too, please do! Don’t forget to tag Du Livre if you do, and I’d be happy to see what you have for this tag too!