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Midnight Sun (Twilight #5)

10/30/2020

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Author: Stephanie Meyers
​Pages: 662
Overall: 4.5/5
Setting: 4/5
Characters: 3.5/5
Plot and Themes: 4/5
Cheers Factor: 5/5
Pairing: I See Red
I love pomegranates and pomegranate juice so I was utterly excited when I knew I was going to be able to make a pomegranate drink because of the cover of this book. I wanted to do a twist on a traditional cosmo and make a pomegranate version of it and it turned out to be very tasty. It’s a little rich because of the intensity of the pomegranate juice so I have an alternative addition that can be added if it’s a little too heavy in the juice. Overall, this one is very yummy and looks just like the blood a vampire drinks so with that drink up!
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Ingredients
3oz Pomegranate Juice
1oz vodka
½ oz triple sec
½ lime 
A few pomegranate seeds
ice
Step one: Cut a pomegranate and take a few seeds and place in bottom of a chilled martini glass
Step two: Measure out pomegranate juice, vodka and triple sec then combine with ice in shaker
Step three: Use a hand juicer to juice half a lime into the shaker
Step four: Shake until shaker is cold to the touch and ingredients are thoroughly mixed
Step five: Strain into the martini glass and serve immediately
​Optional addition: If the pomegranate juice is too strong top with a little bit of club soda to give it a fizzy twist!
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Take a Shot: By now Twilight has been a best selling book series, an international blockbuster movie franchise and a cult classic to many. Since the story of Bella and Edward began in 2005 their endeavors have been inspiration for parodies, fan-fiction and memes alike. However, now 15 years later the Twi-hards have a brand new installment with Midnight Sun. This novel follows the events of the first book, Twilight, entirely from Edward’s perspective. After the original version of this story was leaked and Meyers simply published the few chapters on her website, many thought that was the end of our journey into Edward’s head. Meyers thankfully was not done with this story and released the completed novel this year. I don’t want to give too much away especially since most people already know the story anyway, but I will say read all of Twilight before reading Midnight Sun. This is mainly because that’s how we all (I myself am a Twi-hard so that’s who we implies) had to do it and plus it helps with consistency of understanding the perspective of Bella solely in her words and then understanding Edward’s in retrospect. ​

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Shadow of Night (A Discovery of Witches #2)

10/27/2020

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Author: Deborah Harkness
Pages: 584
Overall: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Plot and Themes: 5/5
​Cheers Factor: 5/5
Pairing: Blueberry Lavender Cider by Summit Hard Cider and Perry Company
     Obviously there wasn’t a cider this fancy back in the 1500’s however, this is one that I personally really love. There’s a little bar right next to my apartment where my friends and I hang out and it is my go to. Summit Hard Cider is a micro-brewery in Fort Collins and I love finding fun new drinks to try from small businesses.

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Take a Shot: Shadow of Night picks up right where A Discovery of Witches left off taking Matthew and Diana back in time to Elizabethan London where they ingrain themselves in society there and meet Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. The pair are continuing their search for Ashmole 782 and Diana continues her search for someone to teach her magic so that she can finally unlock her true potential. The clock is ticking for them to get back to the present day before they change too much of the past and send shockwaves to the future.
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Dear Girls

10/16/2020

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Author: Ali Wong and Justin Hakuta
​Pages: 240
Overall: 4/5
Takeaways: 3.5/5
Cheers Factor: 4/5
Pairing: Spicy MF
1 ½ tequila
1 ½ Trader Joe’s Mango Nectar
¾ ounce Jalapeño simple syrup
½ lime juice
   The Spicy MF packs a punch in a little cup just like Ali Wong. It’s a tropical and spicy combo that looks like sunshine.
Step one: Pour ingredients into a mixer.
Step two: Shake with ice
Step three: use a plate filled with a little water and dip rim of glass into it
Step four: roll rim in plate with salt
Step five: strain onto fresh ice in glass
Step six: serve and enjoy

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A Discovery of Witches (A Discovery of Witches #1)

10/6/2020

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Author: Deborah Harkness
​Pages: 579
Overall: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Plot and Themes: 4/5
Cheers Factor: 5/5
Pairing: A big cup of Earl Grey tea. Diana prefers tea to coffee and drinks quite a lot of it throughout the book. The characters are all very studious so I figured it was good to give a recommendation to reflect that. I personally love this small tea house where I live called Happy Lucky's Teahouse. They hand craft all their teas and they make one called Madame Grey. I buy bags worth of it because I enjoy it so much and I get to support a local business.
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Take a Shot: ​Diana is a tenured professor at Yale who is currently doing research at Oxford. She’s also a witch but she refuses to use her powers. However, one day she’s able to call up an old manuscript that was thought to be lost and it just might be the key to the creation of witches, vampires and daemons. Matthew Clermont is also a professor at Oxford and a vampire and becomes interested in Diana for the purpose of obtaining Ashmole 782, but then he becomes interested in so much more than that.

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