Confessions of a Literary Addict

I’ve decided, months after stopping, to do the occasional book tag again. I unintentionally stopped doing them, and I kind of miss them.

I can’t remember any of the ones I had previously been tagged in, but there are a bunch of book tags in my liked posts, so I’m just picking some off of there to do every so often. The first one up is going to be The Sims tag, which I picked up from Kourtni @Kourtni Reads. Original tag by Hailey @Hailey in Bookland!

I play Sims 4 regularly (and I have a legacy series going ;D ), so I like this tag quite a lot.

The Original Sims – The Best Author Debut

Though I 100% agree with Kourtni’s pick (Ruta Sepetys is an all-time fave, as you know), and there are so many I could pick for this one, I’m going to go with The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton.

The Grim Reaper – Saddest Character Death
(This is kind of a spoiler, in a sense, beware.)

I’ll put it in gray, so you can highlight it to actually see my answer. ⇒ Noah’s death, even though we already knew he was dead by the time we got to this book, is what killed me. Not the death we first find out about, but the way he just fades away from the story outright killed me. I’m not saying it shouldn’t have happened, because there was no way to bring him back and he wasn’t the same boy he was alive as he was as a ghost, but. It killed me. ⇐ Answer is between here.

Sims Getting Stuck – A Character that Just Got in the Way

*cough*GALE*cough*

(Peeniss all the way.) But for real, he annoyed me. A lot. Maybe he didn’t get in the way in the actual story, but ugh.

Simlish – A Book with Amazing Writing

A contender for Best Debut Author, The Night Circus has amazing writing. The imagery you’re given is unbelievable, and that’s the point.

Expansion Packs – A Series Where the Books Keep On Getting Better

Since I’m not going to repeat series or use Harry Potter (because I use Harry Potter for everything), I’m going to go with my favorite of Tamora Pierce’s series, The Immortals Quartet. Such a good series.

Sim Romance – The Worst Case of Insta-Love

… *cough*

Cheats – A Book That Was Entirely Unrealistic

The first books weren’t the problem, but the longer this series went on, the more I found myself going, “How the heck is this still managing to be a thing?” Shepard wrote it in a pretty convincing way and didn’t leave a bunch of plot holes, but jfc. It was unrealistic, even with the time-jump, how much crap those girls could get themselves into.

Needs Fulfilment – A Character Who Made All the Wrong Decisions

I’m going to have to agree with Kourtni’s choice for this one. Tris Prior made all the wrong moves, and while they may have worked out in the end for her (y’know, for the most part), there could have definitely been better ways to go about making those decisions.

Error Code 12 – A Series that Started Off Great but Went Downhill from There

I could go on about this series for days. DAYS. It was so good and had so much potential, and then it hit second-book-slump, and then … ugh.

The Sims Vortex – A Book/Series that Completely Engrossed You

This series. This series. Hnnghghghn I love so much. Even though all six books, it was so good. I need to reread it.

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And that ends the tag! I won’t tag anyone because I don’t know who’s still active around their blogs and looking for tags to do, but if you’d like to do it, go on ahead!

Thanks for reading!