#there's this one book thief quote i want to use but that feels too pretentious for a bachelorette au so i'll hide it in the tags

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*banging pots and pans together* THE FINAL CHAPTER HAS ARRIVED AT AN AO3 NEAR YOU! GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT!

In all seriousness, I still can't quite believe it's actually done. I'll have more thoughts tomorrow.

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Five Books

I was tagged by the wonderful @writcraft and marvellous @magpiefngrl (one day imma stop using bad alliteration) to talk about five books that have left a deep impression on me over my life and ngl most of them are my teen ones. I often find myself overly caught up in books as I get utterly emersed in the worlds and they plague my thoughts for days after I’ve finished reading them, but these are the ones that truly stayed with me

1. The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling

Look we all knew this was going to be here, look at my blog name, look at my life choices, i couldnt have made this list without having Harry Potter at the top -- though admittedly while i’ve always loved HP it’s been later years the obsession has grown. It’s a movie quote but Sirius saying “the ones that love us never really leave us.” sums up my feelings on the HP series because no matter what point in my life i’ve been in, it’s always been here for me. It was there for me as a child when i was desperate to see magic in the world. It was there for me when I was 15 and experiencing a rather intense bout of depression and needed reminding that good friendship was real. It was there for me at 17 when I was getting ready to leave school for good. And it was here for me at 19/20 when i came out of a 4 year relationship and had to learn who I was again. These books always have been and always will be sooo important to me and i cant imagine a point in my life where they wont matter.

2. The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

Now these were the literal books of my childhood!!! I grew up alongside Percy Jackson and i adored him, i would blame 90& of my sarcastic tendancies on thinking Percy was hilarious and wanting to be like him. I adored the character of Percy Jackson and have the biggest soft spot for this series because I can really trace both from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief to Blood of Olympus and it goes a fair way through my schooling. This series inspired my love of Greek myths which influenced my studies and thus my life really. Also i just really adore sooo many of these characters and their stories <3 What Would Percy Jackson Do got me through a lot of life issues

3. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

i am literally the least pretentious English student ever so here we go, now this series was one that i utterly fell in love with, the first two books are two of my favourite ever written and i cannot tell you how many times i’ve read The Raven Boys my copy is worn through and high-lighted to shit. I think a lot of my life I have put far too much emphasis on the aesthetic and a need for something more, and books like this filled that hole. The friendship dynamics were what I longed for so desperately the idea of being truly known and I found it in these books with these characters and the beauty of the writing has really stayed with me.

4. Looking For Alaska by John Green 

Now this is the official book I have read more times than I can count, I think i read it about twice a year from whenever I first got it till when i was about 17. It was a fair bit of me living vicariously through novel characters and longing for more than I was experiencing, and I guess I stopped having to read it because I finally started living. I think the girl who read this book from cover to cover every time would be pretty happy with the way I’ve ended up

5. We Were Liars by E. Lockheart

I can remember finishing this book and just sitting on my bed with tears streaming down my face at the absolute roller coaster of emotions I had just stepped off. The ending of this book fucking destroyed me in the best way possible and I think I had book hangover for a good couple of weeks afterward just rolling the events I had read over and over in my head. I’ve reread it a couple of times since and while it’s never been as hard hitting as it was that first time I’ve always enjoyed it.

Honourable Mentions: Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer The Secret History by Donna Tartt  Both Sarah J Maas series Between by Jessica Warman

I’m unsure who has done this but I’ll just tag @aibidil @gingertodgers @frnklymrshnkly  @untilourapathy @violetclarity @thealmostrhetoricalquestion @henrymercury