Folklore Book Tag

 Warning for spoilers!

the 1 - a love triangle that didn't end the way you wanted it to.

I can't remember it now, but there was this book where when the girl made her choice my reaction was "NO, NO, NO, NOOOOO!!!" :-D

cardigan - favorite young adult couple
Let's say Ziri and Liraz from Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy

the last great american dynasty - favorite classic novel
I like Jane Eyre

exile - heartbreaking breakup
Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid, The Bridges of Madison County.

my tears ricochet - saddest character death

Quite a lot of them in Harry Potter... but I say Diarmuid in The Fionavar Tapestry. The most unnecessary, heartbreaking death of one of my absolute favorite characters... I loved him. He was about the only good part in those books.

Oh, The Book of Sorrows and the death of Coyote's wife and son. That was the most horrible, sad death in any book I have ever read.

mirrorball - a character you relate to

Laura Chant in The Changeover by Margaret Mahy.

seven - favorite middle grade novel

Susan Cooper's Darkness Rises

august - a doomed relationship you can't help but root for

Dan and Bess from Jo's Boys

this is me trying - a popular book you didn't like, but tried hard to

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

illicit affairs - favorite romance trope

Soul Mates. My all times favorite romantic movie is LA Story. (And Love, Actually). I love happy endings.

invisible string - your first otp

Aragorn and Arwen

mad woman - your favorite female character
Mary Poppins. Pippi Longstockings. Eowyn. Jadis. Virginia Revel. Dame Ragnelle. Esmeralda Weatherwax.

You favorite male character?

Gandalf. R. Daneel Olivaw. Athos, Count de la Fère. Sherlock Holmes. The Marquis de Carabas.
Diarmuid. Havelock Vetinari

epiphany - a book/something you read in quarantine

Let's say The Last Witch

betty - favorite book kiss
 
There was a kiss, that made me jump out of the bed and run to share it with my husband. Can't remember which, or where, or between whom, but it was long awaited for and amazing.

peace - favorite young adult contemporary

I don't read young adult contemporary. Let's say Star Girl. I suppose it counts.

hoax - favorite conclusion to a fantasy series

Lord of the Rings. It ends well.