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Here are the prompts, for your convenience!ROMANCE IN THE PAGES 💒
Read books with...
- Your favorite romance trope
- Your favorite bookish couple
- Your bookish crush
- LGBTQ+ romance
- A wedding in the story
CRUSH ON COVERS 💖
Read books with...
- A heart on its cover
- The color red or pink on its cover
- LOVE in the title
- HEART in the title
- FLOWERS in the title
- Flowers on the cover
- A cover you love
BOOKWORM LOVE 🐛💕
Read books...
- You would gift to someone for Valentines Day
- By an author you love
- set somewhere you would love to visit
- That is your friend's favourite book
Book: I Believe in a Thing Called Love - Maurene GooTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: Flowers on the cover
Extras: X
Total Hearts: 1
Book: Phantom Limbs - Paula GarnerTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: Heart on the cover
Extras: A Cute Cat
Total Hearts: 3
BOOK: The WitcherTEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: book with your favourite romance trope, book with your favourite couple
EXTRAS: nope!
TOTAL HEARTS: ❤️❤️
Book: Camp - Lev A.C. RosenTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: Red on the cover
Extras: X
Total Hearts: 1
BOOK: Faith: Taking Flight by Julie MurphyTEAM: Crush on Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The color pink on its cover, A cover you love
EXTRAS: A scene where a character has a beauty makeover, A spoiled date
TOTAL HEARTS: 4
BOOK: Aurora RisingTEAM: Bookworm Love
PROMPTS COMPLETED: would gift to someone for Valentine's day because of the sheer amount of shipping potential
EXTRAS: 496 pages, fancy romance quote (ableit very very very cheesy) ("Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?")
TOTAL HEARTS: 2
BOOK: Empire of StormsTEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: Favourite romance trope (enemies to lovers)
EXTRAS: 689 pages, fancy romance quote ("Even when the world is a whisper of dust between stars, I will still love you.")
TOTAL HEARTS: 2 🧡🧡 (1 + 1/2 + 1/2)
BOOK: Shiny Broken Pieces by Sona CharaipotraTEAM: Crush on Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The colour pink on the cover, A cover you love
EXTRAS:
TOTAL HEARTS: 2
Book: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire SáenzTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: Red on the Cover
Extras: A Fancy Romance Quote
(I thought of that look of love and compassion that she wore as she looked at me. “Ashamed? Of loving Dante?”
I took Dante’s hand and held it.
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?)
Total Hearts: 1 1/2
BOOK: The Night Circus TEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: book with book with your favourite couple, LGBTQ romance
EXTRAS: cute cat, has 516 pages, fancy romance quotes
TOTAL HEARTS: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (❤️+❤️+💕+💔+💔)
Book: The Night Circus - Erin MorgensternTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: Red on the Cover, A Cover I Love
Extras:
400+ Pages (516)
A Cute Cat
Fancy Romance Quote
(“Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”)
Total Hearts: 5
BOOK: Legendary by Stephanie GarberTEAM: Crush on Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The colour red on the title, A cover you love
EXTRAS: Over 400 pages (451), A spoiled date, A fancy romance quote (“She was beginning to understand how hearts could slowly be given away, without a person even realising. How sometimes just a look or a rare moment of vulnerability like the one Dante had just shared with her, was enough to steal a fraction of a heart.”)
TOTAL HEARTS: 4 1/2
@Keyden I love the Night Circus! Do you? :D
@amanda artist catOh my god I loved it so much. It was my first time reading it and it’s probably somewhere in my top 10 favorites now
Keydon wrote: "@amanda artist catOh my god I loved it so much. It was my first time reading it and it’s probably somewhere in my top 10 favorites now"
Yayyyyyy!! It's in my oh-too-heavenly-to-be-true shelf xD
BOOK: Hunting Prince DraculaTEAM: Crush On Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The color red on its cover
EXTRAS: Book has 435 pages
TOTAL HEARTS: 1.5
BOOK: Throne of GlassTEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS: My favourite romance trope (enemies to lovers)
EXTRAS: A makeover scene (half a heart)
TOTAL: 1.5 Hearts
BOOK: Finale by Stephanie Garber TEAM: Crush on Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: A heart on the cover, A cover you love
EXTRAS: 475 pages, A fancy romance quote (“This is my choice, and I choose you, Donatella. I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.”
TOTAL HEARTS: 3 1/2
Book: Strange the Dreamer - Laini TaylorTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: A Cover I Love
Extras:
400+ Pages (532)
A Spoiled Date
Total Hearts: 2 1/2
Mod
Team: Bookworm Love
Prompt Completed: An author you love
Heart(s): 1
BOOK: The EliteTEAM: Crush On Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The color red on its cover
EXTRAS: A scene where a character has a beauty makeover, A spoiled date
TOTAL HEARTS: 3
BOOK: Heartstopper: Volume OneTEAM: Crush On Covers
PROMPTS COMPLETED: The color pink on its cover, HEART in the title
EXTRAS: none
TOTAL HEARTS: 2
BOOK: King of ScarsTEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: my favourite bookish couple (Nina and Matthias 😭), LGBTQ romance, my favourite romance trope (enemies to lovers)
EXTRAS: character makeover scene, a wedding, spoiled date
HEARTS: ❤️❤️❤️💔💔💔
Book: Muse of Nightmares - Laini TaylorTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: A Cover I Love
Extras:
400+ Pages (514)
Total Hearts: 1 1/2
Book: We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah FaizalTeam: Crush on Covers
Prompt Completed: A Cover I Love
Extras:
400+ Pages (472)
Total Hearts: 1 1/2
BOOK: Six of Crows TEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: my favourite bookish couple (Wylan and Jesper), LGBTQ romance, my favourite romance trope (enemies to lovers), my bookish crush (Wylan!)
EXTRAS: more than 400 pages, a fancy romance quote
HEARTS: ❤️❤️❤️❤️💔💔
P.S. The challenge ends on the 28th of February! :)
BOOK: Clockwork PrincessTEAM: Romance in the Pages
PROMPTS COMPLETED: my favourite bookish couple (Jem and Will {and Tessa}), my favourite romance trope (enemies to lovers; Gabriel and Cecily), my bookish crush (Jem 🥰), a cute cat (Churchhh)
EXTRAS: More than 400 pages, fancy romance quote(s)
("I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.”
“You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever.”
“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.”)
HEARTS: 💔💔🧡🧡🧡💕
FLASHLIGHT READERS
Books mentioned in this topic
Heartstopper: Volume One (other topics)The Elite (other topics)
Hunting Prince Dracula (other topics)
Every prompt you complete will gain your team one heart - ❤️
In the EXTRAS section, you can score extra hearts! If your book has:
- Over 400 pages: half a heart 💔 (two halves make one heart!)
- A fancy romance quote: one 💔
- A scene where a character has a beauty makeover: one 💔
- A spoiled date: one 💔
- A cute cat 💕 (two hearts!)
The team with the most hearts win, of course! I'm too lazy to think of anything else...
Post the books you've read here in thus format, please.
BOOK:
TEAM: (ex. Bookworm love)
PROMPTS COMPLETED: (ex. A book you'd gift a friend)
EXTRAS: (ex. Book has 500 pages)
TOTAL HEARTS: (ex. One and a half or ❤️💔)