Book Reviews and Recommendations
Posted on August 30, 2019 by Katie @ Melting Pages
This is the challenge that was created by Jessethereader over on YouTube, and I’ve had such a fun time seeing everyone’s videos on it that I wanted to join in! Only problem is, I don’t actually post videos anymore on my channel. It didn’t seem fair to me that only booktubers could participate, but then I thought to myself that there isn’t any rule saying that you have to have a youtube channel to do this challenge. So here we are. I asked for some coordinates on both my twitter and instagram, and I was able to get enough responses to do the challenge! Let’s find out what my new life is like!
Coordinates: 3,17,67
Book: Dangerous Women (anthology edited by George R.R. Martin)
The first name that I see on this page is Nora! Since this is a series of short stories I don’t know who Nora is, but I’m assuming she’s a badass considering the anthology is about dangerous women. I’ll take it!
Coordinates: 4,6,193
Book: Vengeful
I guess I’m moving to the city of Merit. Does this mean I have the potential to become an EO? Do I already have powers? Maybe that’s why I’m a dangerous woman, I have some sort of super power!
Coordinates: 3,19,257
Book: The Eye of the World
I had to circle back around on this shelf because this one actually only holds 17, but I landed on The Eye of the World! The first object I saw was saddle, so I guess that means I make saddles…in Merit? Is there a need for saddles there? I mean, I guess they could have a mounted police force, but I have a feeling that I don’t make much money making saddles in Merit.
Coordinates:13,14,394
Book: Hero of Ages
I’m happy that I didn’t see any spoilers for this book because it’s the third in the Mistborn series and I’ve only actually finished the first book. The coworker that I start to develop feelings for is Elend! Not bad, but definitely not my first choice of book boyfriends.
Coordinates: 7,6.498—49
Book: Servant of Rage by A.Z. Anthony
“You know something of this power?” Hmmm, so maybe I’m an EO and my cover is saddle making, and maybe Elend discovers that I have some sort of power that he knows about. Maybe I’m a mistborn, or at least a misting!
Coordinates: 7,15,306
Book: The Girl from Everywhere
The first object I see is gold. If I’m too poor to have wedding rings, how can I afford gold??? Maybe I AM a mistborn after all….
Coordinates:7,13.137
Book: Children of Time
So there wasn’t any dialogue on page 137, so I went to the next section of dialogue I could find. Of course, the first line I see is literally “shut up”. Elend must’ve said something dumb because I don’t think I would’ve started my vows with that! Maybe he accidentally is revealing my identity as a mistborn in Merit at the wedding?
Coordinates: 1,19,76
Book: Wicked Saints
Tranavia….just perfect. A little blood magic for a honeymoon? Poor Elend, what did he get himself roped into?
Coordinates: 13,5,399
Book: The Fellowship of the Ring
With a book like The Fellowship I was really hoping I would get like, Legolas or Gandalf, but I got Gimli. My son is freaking GIMLI. I can’t even imagine Gimli as a child.
Coordinates: 5,16,29
Book: Bloody Rose
There unfortunately was no mention of Owlbears on this page, so poor little Gimli has a lute as a pet. Does Gimli even know how to play a lute? Does he care? What sort of parents are we??
Coordinates: 4,16,27
Book: These Rebel Waves
The first words that I see that could make any sort of sense on this page are Rehabilitation Council. That honestly doesn’t really sound like the school I would want to go to OR send my child there, but here we are. I’m imagining Miss Trunchbull as the headmaster or something.
Coordinates: 8,23,220
Book: Illuminae
Health concerns. Apparently living in Merit has opened my eyes to a lot of health concerns, so much so that I decided that I needed to tell everyone about it. I’m probably not a very popular person. I’m also considering this question to be about a blog and not a youtube channel since…I don’t use my channel anymore.
Coordinates: 12,19,50
Book:Dance of Thieves
I saw first sweat, gag, and hell. SO I guess my channel/blog is Sweaty Gag of Hell! Sounds like a legit name for a health concerns blogger. I’m DEFINITELY not a popular blogger with this name!
Coordinates:4,18,220
Book: The Descendant of the Crane
“You suspected something all along, didn’t you?” Maybe I’m just kidding and I’m not actually talking about health concerns! Or maybe all my viewers suspected I’m crazy, or that I have superpowers or something.
Coordinates: 4,9,7
Book: Three Dark Crowns
Greavesdrake: The Drafty Glass Sided Cage
I’m imagining this as a horror novel about an old haunted house that traps it’s victims. But I may need a ghost writer for it because I’m awful at coming up with plots and things. But it would have an awful and cheesy cover design, just because.
Coordinates: 9,6,317—31
Book: Anna Dressed in Blood
“We’re experts at this.” Soooo there’s some sort of ghost hunter/detective team like Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures and they’re going into this haunted house all confident, but then PLOT TWIST. The house traps them! Well, I guess it wouldn’t be a plot twist if its in the description of the book….see how bad at this I am??
Coordinates: 14,19,333
Book: Furyborn
Okay so my killer is Rielle, and I’m not sure how to feel about that. I wish it was someone a little more….badass. I guess you win some, you lose some, but being struck down by the sun queen makes me sound like some sort of villain if the sun queen is meant to save the world. Maybe that’s why my intro is “You suspected something all along, didn’t you?”
Coordinates: 2,19,98
Book:The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Of course the first object I see is carriage. Rielle doesn’t even want to use her magical powers to kill me I’m not even worth it! Just run her over with a carriage, it’s fine. Where was Gimli when all of this was happening and why doesn’t he save his mother???
Coordinates: 6,2,267
Book: Ravencry
“She wasn’t some Bright Lady.” Hmmmm is this not only how my life ends, but also a spoiler for Furyborn? Maybe Rielle isn’t the sun queen and is actually the blood queen! And maybe this whole time I was actually a good guy in the wrong place at the wrong time! DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!
Category: TagsTags: challenge, flip the page challenge
This challenge is so funny! The name of your YT channel is hilarious!XD
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Haha thank you! I had a lot of fun with this challenge ๐
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OMG! I love that you did this โค Definitely no rules that only BookTubers can do this one. It was actually fun to see it in blog format! So the coordinates are like the part of the shelf, the book on the shelf, and the page number? I want to get it right so I can try this one myself ๐
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Yes! I did shelf, book, page number. I estimated how many shelves and books on each shelf. It was a ton of fun and I would love to see yours if you do it!
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This challenge is so unique! I’m an awful map reader/ anything that has to do with that but I love your answers! A carriage wouldn’t be such a bad weapon, if used properly lol
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๐ it’s just my luck that I would be hit with the medieval equivalent of a car lol
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I relate lol
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Oh this challenge was so funny to watch on YouTube. Love your answers!!
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Thank you!! I love watching those videos and I just had to do it!
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Such a fun post! I enjoyed it very much.
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Thank you! It was a lot of fun to do ๐
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This is such a fun challenge!
I will try it sometime, and I also love all your answers!
– Emma ๐
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Thank you! I cant wait to see your answers! ๐
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This was hilarious ๐๐ I love this tag Jesse has created, maybe even I should do it
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OMG if you do it I would love to see it!
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