Time for ‘The Bedtime Book Tag’

A great tag for the sleep deprived blogger..

A big thank you to Gem @ gemsbooknook for sharing this fantastic tag!

So I found this great booktag in my drafts the other day, Lord only knows how long it’s been sitting there, but I decided to finally give it a go.
This is a simple, yet mildly challenging way to keep your bookish brain occupied while you continue to fall behind on reviews.. (oops)

I hope you enjoy my book choices and find something that catches your interest.
Happy Reading!

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A BOOK THAT KEPT YOU UP ALL NIGHT READING

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.

A BOOK THAT MADE YOU SCARED TO SLEEP

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

To be fair.. I was only around twelve or thirteen when I read this one so, yea, I’m not all that shocked that it freaked me out.

They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease.

But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined…

A BOOK THAT MADE YOU GO TO SLEEP

I’ve never fallen asleep reading a book.. Even the ridiculously boring ones.
Wait. Do textbooks count? Let’s say they don’t.

Now.. if I had to choose:

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

It wasn’t a five star read to begin with but.. The movies really did ruin any kind of interest I had in the series.

Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.

Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife — between desire and danger.

A BOOK THAT LEFT YOU TOSSING AND TURNING ALL NIGHT IN ANTICIPATION OF ITS RELEASE

I don’t actually think this has ever happened..
There are so many other books to occupy my thoughts that, even as exciting as some of the new releases are, I don’t really toss and turn from impatience.

A BOOK THAT HAS YOUR DREAM BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND

.. Can I just get a cat or something?

A BOOK THAT WOULD BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE TO LIVE IN

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years—leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneticists seek a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.

When Rhine is sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement; her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next; and Rhine has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive.

Together with one of Linden’s servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

A BOOK COVER THAT REMINDS YOU OF NIGHT TIME

The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion

On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor’s kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn’t have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour?

It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old Niki, a former foster child, comes to live with Sharon, she notices suspicious activity at the Flemings’ house as well. When calling social services doesn’t result in swift action, the two decide to investigate on their own.

A BOOK THAT HAS A NIGHTMARISH CLIFFHANGER

You shouldn’t be allowed to have a cliffhanger in a book you have no intention of making a series..
It’s not right.

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.

Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they’re changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.

But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time–something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren’t the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they’ve been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.

A BOOK THAT YOU ACTUALLY DREAMED ABOUT

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Hey.. it’s all fun and games until it’s your ass the raptors are after.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.

Until something goes wrong. . . .

A BOOK MONSTER THAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO FIND UNDER YOUR BED

Wait.. is there a book monster that you want to find under your bed?
Scratch that. Of course there is.

The Return by Rachel Harrison

Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her.

Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?

That’s all for now..
Thank you for taking a moment to check out this post, I hope you enjoyed it!

Have you read any of these books?