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They Both Die at the End

2/26/2021

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Author: Adam Silvera
Pages: 389
Overall: 3.5/5
Setting: 3/5
Characters: 5/5
Plot and Themes: 4/5
Cheers Factor: 3/5
Pairing: Virgin Lemon Drop Martini
I recently found this fun mocktail account that’s inspiring me so here is a mocktail for this book because any alcohol would have made me cry more while reading it.

"I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows."
Ingredients
-2 oz lemon concentrate
-2oz water
-1 oz simple syrup
-dash of bitters
-lemon zest
-sugar
-ice
Instructions
-Grate a lemon peel for zest
-combine with sugar
-dip martini glass in a plate with water so the rim is wet
-combine all liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake
-strain into glass and enjoy
“You definitely don’t need the same blood to lose a part of yourself when someone dies.”
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Take a Shot: In this fantasy of the real world a service by the name of Death Cast exists. Death Cast is a service that calls people on the day of their death. On this fateful day strangers Rufus and Mateo both receive their calls. Determined to live out their last day by going out with a bang Rufus and Mateo find each other on Last Friend an app for Deckers (people who are set to die) and those who wish to spend their last days with them. 

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These Violent Delights

2/23/2021

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Author: Chloe Gong
Pages: 449
Overall: 4.5/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 4/5
Plot and Themes: 5/5
Cheers Factor: 5/5
Pairing: Mary Pickford
This is a fun drink that comes from the 1920’s which is when our R&J retelling takes place.



Ingredients
-2oz gold rum (Bacardi)
-1 ½ oz pineapple juice
-⅙ oz maraschino liqueur (Luxardo)
-⅙ oz grenadine syrup
-ice
Instructions
-Combine all ingredients in a shaker
-Shake and strain into a glass
-Enjoy


“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all - they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”


Take a Shot: We all know Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, but we’ve never known them to be from warring gangs in 1920’s Shanghai where a suspicious monster is spreading madness that makes those infected rip out their own throats is killing gangsters and common folks alike. When Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai have to work together to extinguish the madness that threatens their very lives and way of life, memories of their past love resurface and become increasingly hard to ignore.


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A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOTAR #2)

2/20/2021

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Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 626
Overall: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Plot and Themes: 5/5
Cheers Factor: 5/5
Pairing: Starfall
Empress Gin has a stunning color. For this drink there is no substitution on the liquor merely for the color. The light purple you get with this drink reminds me of starfall and the colors that our characters see in the sky. It’s such a hopeful time and it’s truly a wonderful moment for Feyre. I think it’s when she truly begins to forgive herself and I love that a very light drink can represent that.
Ingredients
-2oz Empress Gin
-1oz fresh lemon juice
-¾ ounce egg white
-ice
Instructions
-Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice
-Shake and strain to remove ice
-Shake again without ice
-Fine strain into glass​

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“Love- love was a balm as much as it was a poison.”

Take a Shot: After surviving the harrowing events of Under the Mountain Feyre and Tamlin are trying to forget the horrors they both suffered. However, forgetting might not happen as easily as either of them assumed. With their upcoming nuptials Feyre is feeling scared and still so broken from surviving Amarantha’s trials while also adjusting to her new life as a High Fae. Then she has to remember her bargain with Rhys and when he conveniently calls upon their bargain during her wedding day events begin to unfold that will put Feyre on a path that maybe she was meant to be on all along.
Check Out Book #1's Review Here

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Ninth House

2/16/2021

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Author: Leigh Bardugo
Pages:  459
Overall: 3/5
Setting: 4/5
Characters: 3/5
Plot and Themes: 2/5
Cheers Factor: 3/5
Pairing: Cherry Crypt Cider by True Brewing
This choice comes more from an aesthetic point. It’s super tasty as well, but I just love the dark can and the ominous name. It feels very fitting for a book with dark organizations that are cult like and ritual based using tombs and their own kinds of crypts.

"I let you die. To save myself, I let you die."
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Take a Shot: Galaxy (Alex) Stern is a new student at Yale and the newest member of Leith House. She comes from a troubled past and she found out she was going to Yale when she awoke in a hospital bed after an almost fentanyl overdose and a murder scene that would make any detective squeamish. She is absconded of guilt seeing as the murderer was left handed, she’s right handed and she was nearly dead of an overdose. However, her superior Darlington is missing and she’s been limping along in hopes of eventually bringing him back from wherever he is in the universe after being sucked into a black hole.

"A lie isn't a lie until someone believes it."

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR #1)

2/10/2021

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Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 432
Overall: 4/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 4/5
Plot and Themes: 4/5
Cheers Factor: 4/5
Pairing: Faerie Wine
This is what I imagine the wine Feyre drinks at the Summer Solstice would taste like. Slight warning it uses the whole bottle of champagne so you can share with friends...or not I’m not here to judge you.

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Ingredients
-1 bottle of Champagne chilled (I used Lamarca Prosecco it achieves the same purpose and just depends on which type of sparkling wine you prefer)
-1 bottle of ginger ale (2 liter)
-2 10oz bags of frozen strawberries
Instructions
-Combine ingredients in pitcher or punch bowl serve and enjoy​​

"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
Take a Shot: In this Beauty and the Beast retelling follow Feyre as she is taken North of the wall into Prythian, the faerie realm, to pay a debt where no human has gone and come back from. Watch as the secrets of what is happening in this foreign land entangle themselves with Feyre’s life and she finds herself as the one who could potentially save the man she loves and his entire species.

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