HALLOWEEN BOOK TAG!!!

**The Halloween Book Tag: Exploring Fears and Favorites**

As the spookiest time of the year approaches, readers often find themselves facing off against their fears in the form of horror novels. But what happens when the terror is too much to handle? In this article, we'll explore a popular book tag that takes readers on a journey through their favorite Halloween-themed reads and discuss some of the most unsettling stories that left our reader feeling uneasy.

**Choosing a Character to Visit Like**

For many of us, the idea of visiting fictional characters like Dumbledore or Gandalf from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is an alluring one. Imagine being able to pick up the phone and ask for advice, just as we would with any other friend. In fact, our reader here confesses to having always wanted to dress up as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and attend a party, not realizing that others might not immediately understand their enthusiasm.

**Favorite Harry Potter Moments**

When it comes to J.K. Rowling's beloved series, there are so many moments that have captivated readers over the years. For our reader, one of their absolute favorites is the epilogue from the final book in the series, where Hagrid reveals to Harry that he's a wizard for the first time. This moment represents the beginning of an entire world of magic and wonder, making it all the more unforgettable.

**The All-Encompassing Power of Hogwarts**

Speaking of memorable moments, there are so many in the Harry Potter series that could be considered iconic. For our reader, one of these is when Hagrid takes Harry on a tour of Hogwarts for the first time. This moment sets the stage for everything that's to come and represents the beginning of an incredible journey.

**Bloodsucking Fears: A Review of Two Unsettling Novels**

While many readers enjoy horror novels during the Halloween season, others may find themselves taking breaks from their reads due to sheer unease. Our reader here has confessed to having to take a step back while listening to two particularly unsettling audiobooks: "You" by Caroline Kepnes and "Sadie" by Courtney Summers.

For those who haven't heard of these novels, they both delve into the darker side of human nature. "You" tells the story of a stalker who becomes obsessed with his victim, while "Sadie" explores themes of murder, revenge, and trauma. Both books are gripping and intense, but also leave readers feeling uneasy due to their dark subject matter.

**Taking a Break from Thrillers**

When it comes to thrillers, our reader finds themselves drawn to stories that are less gory and scarier than outright terrifying. One novel that fit the bill is "The Girl with All the Gifts" by M.R. Carey, although even this one proved too intense for them at times.

Another book that left our reader reeling was "Sadie", which they found to be both captivating and unnerving due to its dark themes and complex characters. For those who enjoy a good thriller but find themselves getting overwhelmed, these recommendations may prove helpful in finding the perfect balance between suspenseful storytelling and manageable fear levels.

**The Halloween Book Tag: A Conclusion**

And so, our reader's journey through their favorite Halloween-themed reads comes to an end. While not every book left them feeling uneasy or disturbed, there were certainly some that pushed them to their limits. Whether you're a seasoned horror fan or just looking for something new to sink your teeth into, these recommendations offer a taste of what the season has to offer.

**Tips for Overcoming Fears and Enjoying Halloween Reads**

For those who struggle with finding the perfect balance between fear and enjoyment when it comes to Halloween-themed reads, here are some tips:

* Take breaks: It's okay to step away from a book if it becomes too much to handle. Grab a different genre or pick up something entirely new.

* Choose your poison: If you're not a fan of gore or outright terror, look for books that still capture the spirit of Halloween but in a more subtle way.

* Seek out recommendations: Ask friends, family, or fellow readers for suggestions on what to read. You might be surprised by some hidden gems!

Whether you're looking for a spooky tale to send chills down your spine or something more lighthearted and fun, there's something for everyone when it comes to Halloween reads. Happy reading!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and happy Halloween so today is Halloween and I couldn't be dressed more on Halloween ish not dressed enough this year I rarely dress up because I don't go to parties and stuff I don't have a life I won't be taking my son trick-or-treating so that will be fun but other than that I thought today I would do the Halloween book tag because it is said holiday it is Halloween tag was created by Naomi the book lover and I will link her original video right here as well as down below so please go check her out and give her some love this tag was made a like four years ago but either way I think people are doing it every single year a vigorous prompt is carving pumpkins what book would you carve up and light on fire now of course I'm sure everyone that has done this tag says that they do not that they do not recommend lighting books on fire I think all of us even if we hate a book we don't want to light it on fire but if I had to pick one book to light on fire one book that I really just don't like is going to be the hypnotist love story by LeAnn we're all ready I know everyone loves Leah Moriarty as do I but that book has got to be one of my least if not the least favorite book I've ever read in my entire life I just don't like it I really don't like that book I'm not I'm making a video soon all about her books and I'm gonna talk about how much I don't like that book again not looking forward to next question is trick-or-treat what character is a treat and what character is a trick oh I don't know a treat I mean there's a lot of characters for me that are treats that I just love for tree I'm gonna have to go ganti from the Raven boys because I love candy and all these books and I love dancing the character as a whole and I really think he's just a delightful treat as far as trick to me that represents somebody that you just can't really trust I could pick a lot of people from Harry Potter but I don't want to do that I want to try to think outside the box here Oh perfect this one is full of characters that you just don't know one page you're like I'm with you the next page are like I'm not so sure about that so either you can take Victor or Eli probably Eli in this book in particular because he does a lot of really horrible things and you know sometimes you know if you think there's a Redemption art for him and sometimes there's not this one definitely is full of trickster characters throughout it the next question is candy corn what book is always sweet oh I have enough I have a lot of options for this one as well because I read a lot of really freaking adorable books to read so many adorable books I'm gonna go with the most recent one I've read that's really adorable and that is Justin Hazel's guide to not dating by Christina Lauren any of her books really are kind of just very sweet very cute this one is definitely very sweet it's just really over the top romance and adorableness and I eat that stuff up like candy corn even though I don't really like candy corn candy corn you either hate it or you love it let's just be honest here I don't know but I don't hate it but like if I had two options if that was my only option of like a Halloween treat I don't even think I would eat it I know I don't know why I just don't like it next up we have ghost what character would you love to visit you as its ghost oh I didn't want to say Harry Potter but let me say Harry Potter but I feel like a lot of characters I would love to visit like I would love for them to visit me as a ghost like Dumbledore I would love for him to instill will like wisdom upon me I mean Gandalf the Lord of the Rings would be a great person to visit me as a ghost a lot of people from Harry Potter let's just put it that I guess we got dressing up in costume why I said I really don't do what character would you want to be for a day I don't dress up a lot of costumes last time I dressed up was like for my stranger things party dangerous was Lucas um but if I could pick to be any character for a day luckily a book but it's rather a show and that is Buffy you guys don't know I'm a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I always wanted to dress up like her and I haven't because I don't think people will get it like you know I think if I dressed up as her and like walked around trick-or-treating went to a party I think maybe a few people will get it but overall people will be like oh so that's why I have it maybe one day I will maybe you guys look at me the courage there's the mic Buffy because I've always loved Buffy ever since like middle school years I've loved Buffy witches and wizards what is your favorite Harry Potter moment so many I don't know if I have an ultimate favorite I mean I love the epilogue of the very last chapter of the series that's amazing I love when Hagrid tells Harry you're a wizard Harry I love that part and I love that mean there's just so many like very noteworthy and monumental moments in Harry Potter for me just to pick one I think for me it'd be like the Hagrid one because it's like the encompassing that he is a wizard or him holding his wand for the first time or seeing Hogwarts for the first time that oh I think that might be my favorite just because that's just like truly the start of it all soon as Hogwarts comes into his view so amazing and the last question is his blood Inc or what book was so creepy that you had to take a break from it for a while I have to for this because if you don't know I'm not the best with like really scary books I do like to read a lot of thrillers like particularly like there's not a lot of gore a lot of lot of scariness but this year I read two that were kind of out of my comfort zone because I am trying to push myself out of that as much as I can because I don't like that stuff first one is actually when I just finished and it took me a while to finish it because number one it was a long audio book number two I had to take so many breaks because I was just like whoa and that is you by Carolyn Katniss I had to take several breaks from this book because it just got very intense for me if you don't know what you was about it's an adult thriller it's about a guy named Joe who meets a girl named back and he becomes a stalker he stalks her and he comes obsessed with her and things just surrounded from there it's very creepy because it's told from his point of view so it's like I'm watching you and not only that but like every character in this book is just horrible I have never read a book where I've hated every single character every character this one yeah this one did that for me I had to take several breaks for that one another one I had to make several breaks from is Sadie by Courtney so resume why a thriller and it's just very intense it's very gripping very harrowing and it's got too dark for me at times that I had to take a step away and like watch like an episode the office like cool down because I was like this is getting really intense this is kind of got like a podcast element involved it's about a murder and aggro going after her sister's murderer and very intent so those two I definitely had to take breaks from and there you have it there is the Halloween book tag I hope you guys enjoy it and I hope you have a great Halloween whether you are at home passing out candy to trick-or-treaters whether you're having a scary movie marathon there you are going to a party whether you're taking your kids out trick or treating or just going with other people kind of trick-or-treating and destroy you know fun or if you're just not doing anything at all for Halloween I hope you have a great one me I'll be taking my kid out trick-or-treating I hope he'll understand it this year we'll see ya I hope you have a great one and if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up hit subscribe and I will see you in my next one byehello everyone and happy Halloween so today is Halloween and I couldn't be dressed more on Halloween ish not dressed enough this year I rarely dress up because I don't go to parties and stuff I don't have a life I won't be taking my son trick-or-treating so that will be fun but other than that I thought today I would do the Halloween book tag because it is said holiday it is Halloween tag was created by Naomi the book lover and I will link her original video right here as well as down below so please go check her out and give her some love this tag was made a like four years ago but either way I think people are doing it every single year a vigorous prompt is carving pumpkins what book would you carve up and light on fire now of course I'm sure everyone that has done this tag says that they do not that they do not recommend lighting books on fire I think all of us even if we hate a book we don't want to light it on fire but if I had to pick one book to light on fire one book that I really just don't like is going to be the hypnotist love story by LeAnn we're all ready I know everyone loves Leah Moriarty as do I but that book has got to be one of my least if not the least favorite book I've ever read in my entire life I just don't like it I really don't like that book I'm not I'm making a video soon all about her books and I'm gonna talk about how much I don't like that book again not looking forward to next question is trick-or-treat what character is a treat and what character is a trick oh I don't know a treat I mean there's a lot of characters for me that are treats that I just love for tree I'm gonna have to go ganti from the Raven boys because I love candy and all these books and I love dancing the character as a whole and I really think he's just a delightful treat as far as trick to me that represents somebody that you just can't really trust I could pick a lot of people from Harry Potter but I don't want to do that I want to try to think outside the box here Oh perfect this one is full of characters that you just don't know one page you're like I'm with you the next page are like I'm not so sure about that so either you can take Victor or Eli probably Eli in this book in particular because he does a lot of really horrible things and you know sometimes you know if you think there's a Redemption art for him and sometimes there's not this one definitely is full of trickster characters throughout it the next question is candy corn what book is always sweet oh I have enough I have a lot of options for this one as well because I read a lot of really freaking adorable books to read so many adorable books I'm gonna go with the most recent one I've read that's really adorable and that is Justin Hazel's guide to not dating by Christina Lauren any of her books really are kind of just very sweet very cute this one is definitely very sweet it's just really over the top romance and adorableness and I eat that stuff up like candy corn even though I don't really like candy corn candy corn you either hate it or you love it let's just be honest here I don't know but I don't hate it but like if I had two options if that was my only option of like a Halloween treat I don't even think I would eat it I know I don't know why I just don't like it next up we have ghost what character would you love to visit you as its ghost oh I didn't want to say Harry Potter but let me say Harry Potter but I feel like a lot of characters I would love to visit like I would love for them to visit me as a ghost like Dumbledore I would love for him to instill will like wisdom upon me I mean Gandalf the Lord of the Rings would be a great person to visit me as a ghost a lot of people from Harry Potter let's just put it that I guess we got dressing up in costume why I said I really don't do what character would you want to be for a day I don't dress up a lot of costumes last time I dressed up was like for my stranger things party dangerous was Lucas um but if I could pick to be any character for a day luckily a book but it's rather a show and that is Buffy you guys don't know I'm a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I always wanted to dress up like her and I haven't because I don't think people will get it like you know I think if I dressed up as her and like walked around trick-or-treating went to a party I think maybe a few people will get it but overall people will be like oh so that's why I have it maybe one day I will maybe you guys look at me the courage there's the mic Buffy because I've always loved Buffy ever since like middle school years I've loved Buffy witches and wizards what is your favorite Harry Potter moment so many I don't know if I have an ultimate favorite I mean I love the epilogue of the very last chapter of the series that's amazing I love when Hagrid tells Harry you're a wizard Harry I love that part and I love that mean there's just so many like very noteworthy and monumental moments in Harry Potter for me just to pick one I think for me it'd be like the Hagrid one because it's like the encompassing that he is a wizard or him holding his wand for the first time or seeing Hogwarts for the first time that oh I think that might be my favorite just because that's just like truly the start of it all soon as Hogwarts comes into his view so amazing and the last question is his blood Inc or what book was so creepy that you had to take a break from it for a while I have to for this because if you don't know I'm not the best with like really scary books I do like to read a lot of thrillers like particularly like there's not a lot of gore a lot of lot of scariness but this year I read two that were kind of out of my comfort zone because I am trying to push myself out of that as much as I can because I don't like that stuff first one is actually when I just finished and it took me a while to finish it because number one it was a long audio book number two I had to take so many breaks because I was just like whoa and that is you by Carolyn Katniss I had to take several breaks from this book because it just got very intense for me if you don't know what you was about it's an adult thriller it's about a guy named Joe who meets a girl named back and he becomes a stalker he stalks her and he comes obsessed with her and things just surrounded from there it's very creepy because it's told from his point of view so it's like I'm watching you and not only that but like every character in this book is just horrible I have never read a book where I've hated every single character every character this one yeah this one did that for me I had to take several breaks for that one another one I had to make several breaks from is Sadie by Courtney so resume why a thriller and it's just very intense it's very gripping very harrowing and it's got too dark for me at times that I had to take a step away and like watch like an episode the office like cool down because I was like this is getting really intense this is kind of got like a podcast element involved it's about a murder and aggro going after her sister's murderer and very intent so those two I definitely had to take breaks from and there you have it there is the Halloween book tag I hope you guys enjoy it and I hope you have a great Halloween whether you are at home passing out candy to trick-or-treaters whether you're having a scary movie marathon there you are going to a party whether you're taking your kids out trick or treating or just going with other people kind of trick-or-treating and destroy you know fun or if you're just not doing anything at all for Halloween I hope you have a great one me I'll be taking my kid out trick-or-treating I hope he'll understand it this year we'll see ya I hope you have a great one and if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up hit subscribe and I will see you in my next one bye\n"