Ann: Top Five Fictional Cities

Top 5 Wednesdays are hosted by Ginger Reads Lainey and you can find the goodreads page here.

1) Ludania from The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

Although I didn't really like the book I did like the City it was set in. The way it was described made it sound like a really nice place all except for the fact they had different languages for the poor and rich which I didn't like.

2) The Capitol from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This may make me sound like a complete and utter wierdo and I would just like to say I didn't like the idea of The Hunger Games but I loved the idea of everyone dressing however they liked and looking the way they wanted to.

3) The Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

I love The Emerald City and The Wizard of Oz so this one is definitely on my list!

4) The Castle, Wizard Tower and The Ramblings from Magyk by Angie Sage

I love the Magyk series so I was obviously going to pick the place where it is set for this question.

5) Alicante from The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.

I love the Mortal Instruments and would really like to live in Alicante.

EXTRA

I thought of this one after thinking of my original five so decided to put it as an extra one.
Noddy Town 

I loved the Noddy books when I was younger and always thought it would be nice to live there.

Tuesday Intros and Teaser Tuesdays

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Because this is our first Tuesday Intro/Teaser Tuesday of the month we will also be including an excerpt from our Classics for this month.

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

""Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress."I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy with an injured sniff."

Teaser Tuesday:

"It was a moist, pleasantly odorous night in early spring."

I liked this quote because I always love the descriptions in these books and this was one I picked out of many options.

Clare:

Tuesday Intro:

"There was a thing waiting in the darkness.It was ancient and cruel, and paced in the shadows leashing his mind. It was not of his world, and had been brought here to fill him with its primordial cold. Some invisible barrier still separated them, but the wall crumbled a little more every time the thing stalked along it's length, testing its strength.He could not remember his name."

I am not going to do a teaser for this one because I don't want to spoil myself when I am just starting it. But isn't that intro good? It's so atmospheric and I love the first sentence. I want to keep reading straight away!

 

Teaser:

"She tried to be sad so as not to be angry, but it made her angry that she couldn't be sad."

Aww poor Kate. This is from the second page since I have only started this today. But I kind of like her at the moment. I am not sure if that will last, I am always wary with Henry James because he can take characters I thought I loved and make me despise them and vice versa. But so far - I like her. I also like this sentence because I know that feeling. 

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Top Ten Characters You Just Didn't Click With

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. I (Clare) actually really struggled with this one. Characters are my main thing when reading, I can take a dodgy plot if I like the characters but I can't do the reverse. So if I don't click with a character, I tend to put the book aside and never finish it. Which means I tend to forget they ever existed. 

1) Lara Jean in To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Clare: I feel like this was the one thing that I really didn't enjoy about this series. I loved Peter (for the most part) and Lara Jean's little sister was wonderful (her big sister I had problems with). But although I didn't hate Lara Jean, I never really liked her either.

2) Mal in Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Clare: I love the Darkling. He was such an interesting character, so well written, kinda sympathetic despite all the awful things he did. I'm a sucker for villains. But Mal.... he was so, so meh. I can't remember any of the descriptions of him. He just bored and annoyed me somehow. And maybe that's just my Darkling love coming out but, god he was so boring.
Ann: I didn't really like any of the love interest in Shadow and Bone they were all kinda boring especially Mal. 

3) Bella from Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Clare: I heard someone say once, that one of the biggest problems with Twilight is that the side characters are actually kinda interesting, but their stories get drowned out by Bella and Edward. And I agree with that. Bella is so annoying to me, she is whiny and ugh. If you like Bella, you'll disagree with every bad point I could make and if, like me, you really dislike her, you'll already know why she is annoying. So I'll just leave it there.

4) Lena from Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Clare: Ann may kill me for this one because she loves this series. And I liked the premise, and I liked Alex, but I feel nothing for Lena. Nothing. Which means, although I have the sequels and I think I will read them, they are really not a priority.

5) Ever from Evermore by Alyson Noel

Clare: I own the whole series (an impulsive charity shop buy) but I have only read the first book. So maybe she improves. I don't know. I just felt all her priorities were so twisted around and she made such annoyingly bad decisions that by the end of the book I really didn't care what happened to her.

6) Todd from The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Ann: I have only just started reading The Knife of Never Letting Go but so far I just don't really like him very much. 

7) Lena from Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margret Stohl 
Ann: I just didn't really click with her but I loved her cousin Ridley. 

8) Gale from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ann: I loved Peeta so much that I didn't really pay any attention to Gale so never really liked him.

9) Mrs Lynde from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Ann: I never really liked Mrs Lynde because of the first time she met Anne and was very mean to her and because I love Anne straight away I dislike Mrs Lynde and never really clicked with her at all.

10) Thomas from The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Ann: I didn't really like Thomas and I prefered Teresa so I never really clicked with Thomas. 
Clare: See I actually really didn't like Teresa, I kind of liked Thomas in a vague way but probably this applies to me too.