It’s Halloween! | Trick or Treat Book Tag

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Analee @ Book Snacks7 Comments

Hello everyone! I hope you guys are all enjoying Halloween today! (Can you even believe it’s already the end of October?!) Although many of you may not be trick-or-treating this year, it’s still Halloween and I thought, why not do a book tag in honor of this celebration? I found this book tag on Bea’s blog (When Curiosity Killed the Cat) and thought it was a fitting one to do for today. Credit to Alyssa for the creation of this book tag!

Let’s get on with it!

Kit Kat Bar – An anticipated release

That shall go to Winter, hands down! I can’t wait to get my hands on this! That reminds me, I should probably get my reviews up on the previous books in the series so I don’t have to rush them when I finish reading this installment of the series.

M&Ms – A book with a colorful cover

I feel like I answer this for literally everything, but I’m going to go with A Thousand Pieces of You. I mean, just LOOK at the cover!

If that isn’t colorful, I don’t know what is. Its sequel’s cover is just as colorful too! This series sure knows how to attract attention.

Milky Way – Name a book that makes you feel all gooey in the middle.

Umm… almost every contemporary romance?! Have to say, I’m kind of a sucker for those. But I’m going to go with Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, because although it’s technically a fantasy, that isn’t to say it didn’t have romance—and the romance was perfectly done!

Sugar Babies – An underrated book or character

Although my immediate answer would be Shadow Falls—I’ve used that answer so many times for questions like these that it’s become a natural thought—I’m going to go with a different answer this time and choose the Goddess War series by Kendare Blake. I haven’t heard of this series being talked about much, though it definitely deserves to be! Great for Greek Mythology lovers. 😉

Sour Patch Kids – A book that started off sour and ended up being sweet.

I’m honestly having such a blank space in my head right now. *Cue Blank Space music* I know I answered a question like this before for another tag, but I just can’t remember my answer. Oh well. I think I’m going to go with The Heir by Kiera Cass for this! To be precise it kind of went up and down on the sour-and-sweet scale, but overall it started off kind of iffy but I liked it by the end of it.

Hershey Kiss – Your favorite first kiss!

Okay, this is a question where I think I’m going to have to skip. You’d think it was such an easy question, but there are so many first kisses I love, so I honestly can’t choose just one. Nope! You all know how terrible I am with choosing just one.

Favorite book to read during Halloween-time?

Anything creepy! Having read not many Halloween-type books, I can’t exactly say what’s my favorite. Although from the ones I have read I definitely enjoyed Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, The Dead List by Jennifer Armentrout and some other ones. 😉

So that’s it for this Halloween-themed book tag! Tell me; what would you answer for these? I’m not going to be tagging anyone, but if you comment down below that you’re interested, I’ll definitely add your name to the post! What scary books do you recommend? And also; what is your favourite Halloween candy or chocolate? Yes, this is an important question. 🙂

Trick or Treat and Happy Halloween!

Book Travelling Thursdays #1 (October 29th, 2015): A Book That Scared You

October 29, 2015November 5, 2015 Analee @ Book Snacks15 Comments

Hello! It’s Thursday and although I usually don’t have a meme on a Thursday, today I decided to give a try to Book Travelling Thursdays, a meme hosted by Catia @ The Girl Who Read Too Much and Danielle @ Danielle’s Book Blog. I can’t say whether I will regularly do this, since it all depends on my schedule and how much time I have to blog, but either way, let’s get on to…

How it Works:

1. Choose a book that fits with the theme of the week (which are listed per month on the Book Travelling Thursdays Goodreads group).

2. Include a short explanation as to why you chose the book.

3. Pick out different cover editions of your book: the original cover, the cover from your country, your favourite cover, and your least favourite cover.

Alright then! Let’s get on with it, shall we?

This week’s topic is, in honor of Halloween, of course, A Book That Scared You. To be honest, I can’t really think of any truly scary books that I’ve read off the top of my head! That definitely is a sign I should probably get going on some more creepy reads. Nonetheless I’m going to choose The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkins! It’s not outright a horror read or anything, more of a book with a thriller or paranormal feel than anything else, but it still had me pretty chilled while reading it.

Original Cover + Cover from my Country(?)

This cover isn’t bad! It really portrays the whole dark theme going on with this book. I’m pretty sure this is the cover that’s in my country too (Canada), though I’m not sure since there are a lot of different editions of this book, with the same style but with a different background color. Talk about confusing! Anywho, this looks pretty cool so I’m good with it.

Favourite Cover

That isn’t to say I don’t like the originals, I do, but for some reason this one interests me a bit more. This is the UK cover, if I’m not mistaken, and I just think the background coloring stands out, really makes the book look dreamlike and haunted at the same time, as Cassandra Clare blurbs the book. That being said I still like the other cover!

Least Favourite Covers

I believe the first is the Russian cover? Not 100% sure, but pretty sure. Either way, it looks more like a mermaid fantasy than anything else! Or is that just me? It just doesn’t go with the book, in my opinion.

The second one is the Italian cover, if I’m not mistaken, and I just feel as it the color theme is off. I don’t know, it just doesn’t work for me that much.

And the last one is the German cover, which, although doesn’t look that bad, still rubs the wrong way. Maybe it’s the way the font is set up? I don’t know.

So that’s it for today’s Book Travelling Thursday! Tell me, what are some books that have scared you? (Feel free to give me some recommendations.) Did you read this book? Did you find it as haunting (and awesome) as I did? What covers do you like the most? Dislike? Feel free to tell me whatever in the comments!

Happy Thursday and early Halloween! ❤

Top Ten Tuesday #26 (October 27th) | Halloween Freebie: Top 10 Creepy Covers

October 27, 2015 Analee @ Book Snacks35 Comments

It’s Tuesday once again, and that means it’s time for a Top Ten Tuesday, a meme from the wonderful bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie:

Halloween themed freebie — your choice (ie. 10 best ghost stories, 10 things that scare you in books, 10 literary Halloween costumes, 10 vampire novels, 10 books that WILL scare you, 10 non-scary books for Halloween, 10 scariest covers, etc.)

I’ve decided to go with top 10 creepy covers! There are so many of them out there, I decided to spotlight a few and make a list out of it. I haven’t read any of these, by the way, so I’m not going to be going into much detail about why I chose the covers… not that I should need much explaining, if the covers are doing their job! (Also, I’m warning you. Some of these are pretty creepy, so if you do somehow get freaked out, please don’t come and murder me out of revenge? I’m only half-joking. :P) Let’s get on with it, shall we?

1. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

2. Asylum by Madeleine Roux

3. The Fury by Alexander Gordon Smith

4. Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

5. Engines of the Broken World by Jason Vanhee

6. The Suffering by Rin Chupeco

7. The Possession of Cassie Quinn by Kathryn Knutson

8. Dead City by Joe McKinney

9. Shutter by Courtney Alameda

10. I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

So there we have it! I think I’m kind of reconsidering this whole theme because some of these covers are majorly creepy… I may have a tolerance for horror at times, but let’s just say I’m going to be staying away from a lot of these books.

So anyway. I managed to make this list without completely flinching and hiding away in terror, so tell me;

What do you think of these covers? Which ones could you handle? Which ones made you cower away? What topic did you choose for this week’s TTT? (Feel free to link it if you want!)

Let me know whatever thoughts you may have down below, I’d love to know what you think! And while we’re at it…