Hello y’all, and happy Monday! I hope that all of you are having a good start to the week. ☺
Today, I’ll be participating in the In Or Out Book Tag, which I saw over on Anna’s blog. It looked like so much fun, and she left an open nomination, so I thought I’d do this tag on my blog today!
This book tag is very simple: I will basically just respond to each reading-related thing with ‘in’ or ‘out’, depending on if I like it or not. As I said, very simple! Let’s just get right into it!
Reading the last page first.
Out, definitely. There are so many potential spoilers to be read. I used to read the last sentence first, but I won’t even do that now, because I absolutely hate spoiling myself!
Enemies to lovers.
In, but only if it is done well. I don’t love this trope, and I prefer rivals to lovers, but enemies to lovers can work if it is written well.
Dream sequences.
In, I guess.
Love triangles.
In. I like reading love triangles, as long as they’re done well, like I said about the enemies to lovers trope.
Cracked spines.
Out. I hate it when my book spines are cracked! I mean, I’ll still read books with cracked spines, but I won’t purposely crack the spines on my books.
Back to my small town.
I haven’t read any books with this aspect in them, but I would love to. In!
Monsters are regular people.
I’m not sure what this really means. I guess I am out with this one.
No paragraph breaks.
Out. I hate it when there are long sequences of text without paragraph breaks, and I often get lost when this happens. I feel like I also read more when there are breaks between some of the paragraphs.
Multi-generational sagas.
I haven’t read any books like this, but that sounds like it’d be interesting to read, so I’m in!
Re-reading.
In! I love to re-read my favorite books, just as long as it’s been a good length of time since the first read.
Artificial intelligence.
Usually out; I just don’t find myself very interested in those types of stories.
Drop caps.
I’m in for this one. They look especially cool in fantasy!
Happy endings.
I’m in and out on this one. I like when a story ends happily, but there does need to be some sadness and drama beforehand. I feel like I’m more of a fan of bittersweet endings.
Plot points that only converge at the end.
In. I love when everything converges at the end, or when everything lines up and makes sense.
Detailed magic systems.
Overall, I’d say I’m in. I don’t like it when they’re too detailed and complex to keep track of, but I don’t like when they’re just meh, either. As long as I can understand it, then I am in!
Classic fantasy races.
In, I guess.
Unreliable narrators.
Uhhh…probably out. Unreliable narrators usually annoy me.
Evil protagonists.
Out. I don’t think I’d like to read a book with an evil protagonist.
The chosen one.
In, but only if it’s well written, and the character isn’t annoying (which I find many of the chosen one characters tend to be.)
When the protagonist dies.
Out. I just hate this!
Really long chapters.
Out. I prefer shorter chapters and find them easier to read. I also finish the book much quicker when the chapters are shorter.
French flaps.
Out, because these annoy me quite a bit.
Deckled edges.
Out. I don’t very much like deckled edges.
Signed copies by author.
In! I don’t think I have any, but it would be so cool to own a signed book.
Dog-earing pages.
I guess I’d say out, although I’m not one of those readers that is totally against dog-earing pages. I just don’t personally do it anymore.
Chapter titles instead of numbers.
In and out. I like being able to check and see what chapter I’m on and how many more chapters I have, but chapter titles are interesting as well!
That’s all for my post today. Thank you so much for reading! I won’t be tagging anyone, but if you want to, definitely take this tag and do it on your blog! I’d love to see y’all’s opinions and answers to these reading-related topics.
How would you have answered these? Do you disagree with any of my opinions? I’d love to chat in the comments!
I will see you all next week with a monthly wrap-up (I can’t believe that March is almost over!) I hope that everyone’s week goes well, and bye for now!
~ Rebekah
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