Taffy's SFFBC Challenge Threads - comments welcome

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⚜️ 2025 Annual Challenges ⚜️

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Booklovers Combat:
Completed - Fantasy Edition: 14/31

✧ Shape Shifting
☑ Change: Character changes shape/disguises himself ~
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

✧ Romantasy
☑ Love: Romantic relationship is central to the plot ~ Catching Fire
☑ Pairing: Has a couple on the cover ~ The House of Hades

✧ Magical Object
☑ Powerful: A magical object is central to the plot ~ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

✧ Undead
☑ Alive?: Undead character/character who returns from the dead ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

✧ Fantastic Flora
☑ Greenery: Plants are considered a character ~ Heartless
☑ Anti-Human: Plants on the cover [NO HUMANS] ~ The Blood that Divides Us

✧ Magic Powers
☑ Sorcerer: Character that has any kind of magic ~ The Prison Healer
Magi: Book w/ any kind of magician on the cover

✧ January Antagonist: Monster
☑ Ugly: Character that is noted for an unpleasant appearance ~ The Secret Garden

✧ February Antagonist: Rival
☑ Better Than You: MC has a rival ~ Mockingjay

✧ May Protagonist: Friendly Creature
☑ Pet: MC is/has a pet ~ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

✧ May Antagonist: Mother Nature
☑ ✧ You’re Edible Here: MCs encounter a hostile environment ~ Red Rising

✧ June Protagonist: Strong Female
☑ Girl: Female MC ~ The Blood Traitor

✧ June Antagonist: Sociopath
☑ Manipulative: Manipulative character ~ The Gilded Cage

Read All the Books 2025:
Completed: 2/12

☑ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies
☐ The Magicians' Guild [Black Magician Trilogy #1]
☐ The Immortality Thief [The Kystrom Chronicles #1]
☐ The Children of Gods and Fighting Men [Gael Song #1]
☐ The Thief [The Queen's Thief #1]
☐ Daughter of the Moon Goddess [The Celestial Kingdom #1]
☐ The Book Eaters
☐ To Sleep in a Sea of Stars [Fractalverse #1]
☐ The Night Circus
☐ The Bone Witch [The Bone Witch #1]
☐ The Way of Kings [The Stormlight Archive #1]
☑ Red Rising [Red Rising #1]

[Taffy :)]

My life through SFFBC Challenges:
✧ 2025
⤷ Sci-Fi & Fantasy Booklovers Combat:
⤷ Read All the Books 2025:

✧ 2024
⤷ 2024 TBR Cleanup Challenge(view spoiler)[: 25/25 🥳🥳

#1: Champion
#2:
#3: Once Upon A Broken Heart [OUABH #1]
#4:One of Us is Lying #1
#5: Killer Instinct [The Naturals #2]
#6: Of Mice and Men
#7: The Chaliceof the Gods [PJO #6]
#8: The Naturals #1
#9: Dry ~ Garrett
#10: Throne of Glass #1
#11: The Princess Bride
#12: Caraval #1
#13: The 5th Wave #1
#14: The Awakening [Zodiac Academy #1]
#15: Lord of the Flies
#16: The Cruel Prince [The Folk of the Air #1]
#17: Angelfall #1
#18: The Secret Life of Bees
#19: Frankenstein
#20: Six of Crows [SoC #1]

#3: Legendary [Caraval #2]
#5: Matilda
#6: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
#8: Kill Joy [AGGGTM #0.5]
#13: Princess of Souls [Hundred Kingdoms #2]
#19: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

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⤷ 11 Prime Time (view spoiler)[: 5/5 🥳🥳

- Ready Player One
- Frankenstein
- Six of Crows [SoC #1]
- Ender's Game [Ender's Saga #1]
- The Princess Bride

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⤷ 2024 Zodiac Challenge (view spoiler)[: 34/34 🥳🥳

Cyclic: 12/12 🥳
- Rat: 2008 [The Hunger Games #1]
- Ox: 1937 [Of Mice and Men]
- Sheep: 2015 [Six of Crows #1]
- Rabbit: 1987 [Hatchet]
- Dragon: 2012 [Throne of Glass #1]
- Snake: 1906 [Call of the Wild/White Fang]
- Horse: 1954 [Lord of the Flies]
- Tiger: 1818 [Frankenstein]
- Monkey: 2016 [Caraval (Caraval #1)]
- Rooster: 1993 [The Giver]
- Dog: 1958 [Old Yeller]
- Pig: 2019 [The Zwakening (Zodiac Academy #1)]

Descriptive: 12/12 🥳
1. Angelfall
2. Incendiary
3. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone [HP #1]
4. The Princess Bride
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder [AGGGTM #1]
6. Crooked Kingdom [SoC #2]
7. The Lost Hero [HoO #1]
8. The Secret Life of Bees
9. The Naturals #1
10. The Sea of Monsters [PJO #2]
11. Charlotte's Web
12. Chalice of the Gods [PJO #6]

Balanced: 5/5 🥳
- Characteristics: The 5th Wave
- Yin v. Yang: One of Us is Lying (Addy)
- Characteristics: All In [The Naturals #3]
- Mood: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Light v. Evil: Princess of Souls [Hundred Kingdoms #2]

Elements: 5/5 🥳
- Benevolent Wood: One of Us is Lying (#1)
- Respectful Fire: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (HP #3)
- Honest Earth: As You Wish
- Righteous Earth: The Cruel Prince (TFoTA #1)
- Wise Water: Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1)

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