Skip to content
  • Home
  • Review Policy
  • Linktree
  • Contact
  • Menu Item
  • Menu Item
  • Menu Item
  • Menu Item
  • Menu Item

Westveil Publishing

Jenna Rideout | Illustrator, Book Reviewer, Author

  • Home
  • About
    • Meet Jenna
    • Review Policy
    • Linktree
    • Spam Concerns
  • Blog
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews & Guest Posts
    • Book Promos
    • Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • Contact
  • Toggle search form
  • Barrenworld by J Edwards Holt – 5 Star Book Review Author Interviews & Guest Posts
  • Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson – 4 Star Book Review Book Reviews
  • Fonts: Why Kids Books Should Be a Little More Boring Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi – 4 Star Review Book Reviews
  • The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas – 5 Star Review Book Reviews
  • The Night Circus – 5 Star Book Review Book Reviews
  • Dreams of Fire by Nathaniel Wayne – 4 Star Review Book Reviews
  • Breaking the Lore by Andy Redsmith – 4 Star Book Review Book Reviews

Would You Rather Book Tag

Posted on October 3, 2020 By Jenna Rideout No Comments on Would You Rather Book Tag

I’m not sure who originally started this tag, and I was not technically tagged myself, but I found it on Howling Library‘s blog this week and I decided I’d do it. Why not, right?

In this tag you answer the bookish “would you rather” questions posed by the person who tagged you (I’ll be using the questions Howling Library posed to the blogs they tagged) and then you ask a set of new questions for the people you tag. I’ll be tagging both some bloggers I follow and some BookTubers, as I’ll be giving my answers in both places.

Ready? Let’s go! My BookTube rendition in embedded here and my written responses are below.

1. Would you rather a series you love never get its final book, or have its final book with an ending you dislike?

That’s a tough question, because I feel like that’s exactly where we’re at with The King Killer Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss. He published The Name of the Wind in 2007, The Wise Man’s Fear in 2011, and we’ve been waiting for book three ever since. It’s meant to be a trilogy that launches a larger literary universe. We’ve had short stories since 2007, but not in the last 5 or 6 years. We got the novella The Slow Regard of Silent Things in 2014, but it didn’t further the story. We’re at a point where a lot of fans are now calling the main books a duology and vowing not to read The Door of Stone even if it ever does come out. Am I one of those people? No, I’ll probably read it. Will I be disappointed if it sucks? Heck yes, but I honestly won’t be surprised. I truly don’t think Rothfuss enjoys writing now that it’s his job, and that may reflect in his work when he finally turns something in.

So answer the question already, right? I think even if The Door of Stone is really disappointing I would regret not reading it and never getting that ending to the saga, even if it’s not what I’m hoping for. I’m a completionist. I would rather the series has a bad ending than no ending at all.

2. Would you rather your favorite series get a cheesy adaptation with the perfect cast, or an otherwise good adaptation with a cast you hate?

Good adaptation with a less perfect cast, for sure. I can let go of who the actors are (or what they look like) if the adaptation itself is really good. I’m assuming that the actors are good/skilled actors and I hate the cast for other reasons, because if they suck at acting it wouldn’t be a good adaptation.

3. Would you rather cry at every book you read, or never feel strong emotions about any book you read?

I’m an emotional woman and I’m not ashamed of it! Make me cry, bring it on! Most good books do at some point anyway.

4. Would you rather meet your favorite author or your favorite character?

I’ve already met my favourite author and I can’t possibly pick one favourite character, so let’s go with the cop-out answer of already done: meet the author. I met Robert J. Sawyer during his book tour for Wonder in 2011 when he spoke and signed at the Vancouver Public Library in BC.

5. Would you rather every book you read have romance, or never read a book with a romance again?

Another tough question! I don’t mind romance as part of another genre, but I usually don’t reach for the romance genre itself, so I’d have to say I’d rather never read a romance plot again than only read romance.

6. Would you rather read a book with a great plot and unlikable characters, or a boring plot and amazing characters?

I always say a good plot will keep me in a book regardless of the characters, so that’s my answer, but I would like to point out that I’m also the sort of reader who doesn’t mind a little pointless hanging out with great characters. That said, no, I don’t want to read a book that’s just hanging out with characters. It does need a plot, and the plot does need to move.

7. Would you rather visit any bookish world you want, but only for an hour, or only visit one bookish world, but stay as long as you want?

Give me fire elemental powers, drop me in Mercedes Lackey’s mid-20th century Europe, and leave me there forever!

8. Would you rather never blog again, or have to post a blog post every single day?

I already do blog every day, just about!

9. Would you rather give up your blog and keep all bookish social media, or keep your blog and leave all bookish social media?

It would be a lot harder to network without social media, but I see the other platforms as an extension of my blog, not the other way around, so I would rather keep my blog.

10. Would you rather read outside on a sunny day, or inside on a rainy day?

I’d rather read inside on a rainy day, because if I’m outside on a sunny day so is my toddler, and that means I’m not getting more than a page read at once!

* * *

Your Turn!

My questions:

  1. Would you rather only buy new books at full price from now on but be able to get them as soon as they release, or only buy used and bargain books but never get anything within 6 months of publication?
  2. You can only read one format from now on: physical, ebook, or audio. Which would you rather be stuck with?
  3. Would you rather be forced to skip the first chapter or ever book you read, or the last?
  4. Would you rather only read one genre from now on, or only read from one particular publisher? Specify which genre or publisher you would pick.
  5. Would you rather only re-read books from now on but the ending will always be a surprise, or never be allowed to re-read ever again?
  6. Would you rather be forced to watch every film or TV adaptation ever made of books you have read, or be forced to read every print adaptation spawned from every original film or TV franchise you watch? Option 2 includes fanfic that gets published in print or ebook.
  7. Would you rather only have your favourite bookmark forever and be guaranteed never to lose it, or have an endless supply of free bookmarks but lose them constantly?
  8. Would you rather listen to an audiobook narrated by the author or by someone else? (A perfectly acceptable non-answer is that all audiobooks should be narrated by Neil Gaiman.)
  9. Would you rather only read alone, or always have your pet around but they’ll always get in the way at least one every time you sit down to read?
  10. Would you rather be known for your book reviews but never acknowledged by a single author, or make friends with every author you rate 4 or 5 stars but never gain much of a review following?

For bloggers I tag…

  • Storme Reads a Lot
  • The Shaddy Shepherd
  • That Happy Reader
  • The Bookwyrm’s Den
  • Rae’s Reads and Reviews
  • …and whoever else wants to answer my 10 questions!

For BookTubers I tag…

  • Mariah M (Twiiter @MariahNotes)
  • ReadWithAnsu (Twitter @ReadWithAnsu)
  • Plums & Books (Twitter @plumsandbooks)
  • Bunny Cake’s Tomes of Endless Wonder (Twitter @BunnyCakesMB)
  • The Molly Show (Twitter @classiclits)
  • …and whoever else wants to answer my 10 questions!

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Email
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Mastodon

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Book Talk, Tags & YouTube Tags:booktube, would you rather, would you rather book tag, youtube

Post navigation

Previous Post: Resistor [Book Blitz with Excerpt]
Next Post: Kingdom of Honor [Book Tour: Spotlight with Character Profiles]

Related Posts

  • Baby It’s Cold Outside Book Tag Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • My Re-Read List Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • Kindle is Retiring Mobi! An Update for Readers and Reviewers. Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • Answers Can’t Be Books Tag [Tagged by Portable Magic] Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • New Channel, Who ‘Dis? Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • Top 5 Books with Love Triangles I Want to Read Book Talk, Tags & YouTube

Comments (0) on “Would You Rather Book Tag”

  1. Rae says:
    October 6, 2020 at 12:33 AM

    Thank you so much for tagging me! I love your questions 😀 I’m a super emotional reader too so if a book doesn’t make me cry, there’s usually an issue with that book

    Loading...
    Reply

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

We migrated web hosts and we're still working on restoring images. Thank you for your patience!

Subscribe

Badges

Professional Reader
Reviews Published
80%
50 Book Reviews
NetGalley Beta Tester
Frequently Auto-Approved
Intellifluence Trusted Blogger
  • Author Interviews & Guest Posts
  • Blog
  • Book Promos
  • Book Reviews
  • Book Talk, Tags & YouTube
  • Featured
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Mad Cruel World [Book Tour Spotlight] Book Promos
  • Cover Reveal: The Magi Manifesto by Kale Lawrence Book Promos
  • Tasha by L.R. Starr, The Glam Ones Book One Book Promos
  • Critical Hit [Book Blitz] Book Promos
  • The Holy Man’s Sinner by T. M. Smith Book Promos
  • The Eulogimenoi Series [Book Series with Excerpts] Book Promos
  • Witches of Grimm Dark Fantasy Series by C.M. Adler Book Promos
  • Author Guest Post with Heidi Skarie: The Star Rider Universe Series Author Interviews & Guest Posts

Original content © 2021-2024 Westveil Publishing | Submitted content rights remain with the rights holders.

%d