Avengers Blog Tag

With Endgame just around the corner, I thought I'd steal from RM and do an Avengers-themed post. 

Iron Man
A book that made you laugh

Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer), every time man. I was recently rereading The Infinity Code and stumbled across a joke I hadn't recognised before (the bad guy ran a company called Fission Chips (get it? Fission Chips? Fish and chips?)) and I fell in love all over again. (I have a thing for young Irish criminal geniuses, alright?)

Thor
A character with strength you admire

Kady Grant from Illuminae (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff), mostly because she runs through the galaxy kicking butt, hacking supercomputers, is a space monkey, and is besties with a murderous AI. If I were Kady I would have given up on life near chapter three of the book but somehow she keeps pushing through to book three, and isn't that something we can all aspire to do?

Captain America
A book set in another era.

I don't read historical books as much as I should, but a couple of months ago I read the non-fiction The Nazi Officer's Wife (Edith Han Beer) which was absolutely fantastic. This lady was a Jew living in Nazi Germany who ended up marrying a Nazi officer in order to stay safe (people like her were called U-boats) and faked papers, family, and friends in order to avoid detection. The crazy thing was that a couple of weeks ago I was telling my mom about the book and she said that my great-grandmother was actually a U-boat as well. Books are amazing, aren't they?

Hulk
A book that made you angry

Twilight (Stephenie Meyer). I'm sorry guys, I tried so hard. I've been making fun of Twilight ever since it came out, but never having read it I felt bad because I'm a firm believer in having some kind of knowledge about a topic before complaining about it (a belief that obviously didn't extend to the Twilight saga (I know, I know, I'm a horrible, no-good hypocrite)). I actually took the audiobook out and tried to get through the first book, but I got maybe five or six chapters in before I was close to throwing my phone across the room.

Hawkeye
An underrated book

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness). Because Patrick Ness, guys. And I know the movie's supposed to be coming out this year and it's won a tonne of awards but for some reason not many people I've talked to IRL know about this fantastic series.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch
Sibling Love

I've been sitting here for way too long trying to think of a book featuring siblings but I'm coming up empty, so I'm going to break the rules a little and name The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) instead. (I know it's a comic book but I haven't read it, I've only seen the TV show.) While I think the Luther/Allison thing is gross, I love how the siblings are bickering idiots but they always (well, mostly) show up for each other in the end. 

(Also, can we talk about how Quicksilver shows up in The Avengers 2, (spoilers) dies, then is never brought up again? Scarlet Witch sure does get over his death quickly. (Usually they milk a death for ages but he disappears off the face of the MCU, which I thought was a bit weird.))

Antman
A book you want to read but can't

Can I put Twilight here again? (I know it's cheating, but it's my blog and I do what I want.)  Because I tried. I really did. It was just awful. I wanted to be proven wrong, I wanted to like it, but here we are. 

Loki
An antagonist you like
Victor Vale. My dudes, if you haven't read Vicious (V.E. Schwab) yet then you have a treat coming your way. It's one of those rare superhero stories where no one is really the hero and everyone has a little bit of a villain in them.

Well that's all folks. Is anyone else incredibly nervous about Endgame? Because my nerves are a bit high-strung at the moment.