Top 5 Magical Creatures

Oh boy. I have a feeling I’m about to break a bunch of rules with this this week’s Top 5 Tuesday. Or at least spark a few debates about what qualifies a creature as magical. Or something as a creature. Or the purest example of ‘a waste of time.’

Anyway… MAGICAL CREATURES!

 

Fawkes —Harry Potter

Let’s be honest. Most of us could probably fill out this whole like with creatures from the Harry Potter series. That’s why I restricted myself to choose ONE creature from any book/series. It was tough, but I had to choose Fawkes. And is it just me or are there a lot of similarities between Harry and Fawkes. Always there when needed, usually providing the key to defeating the enemy, rising from the dead. Just saying.

Anouk — Grim Lovelies

The mouse turned person, turned slave, turned rebel, turned BAD ASS!

Black Rock Witch – HEX

Maybe my most debatable choice… She certainly was a person at one point. But she’s hundreds of years old. Seemingly disappears and appears at will. Magic? Check. Creature? *shrug*

The Six-Armed Warrior – Godsgrave

This choice probably comes from how recently I finished reading this book, and how in love I am with everything connected to it. But that six-armed warrior was a total bad ass. Made me think of Mortal Kombat! And yes, I have completely forgotten its real name. Six-armed warrior will have to do.

Domovoy — The Bear and the Nightingale

Okay. I want some of these for my own house. I have absolutely no problem leaving bread and milk out if it gets things around the house taken care of. If I do that now, the only things that show up are ants!

Fun fact about this post: Kind of wanted to add Zombies  from ALMOST EVERY BOOK OF ALL TIME! Creature? Debatable. Magical? Not usually.

Top 5 books I want to reread

Who has time for rereads?! There are so many books still waiting for first reads!

I’m going to assume that Shanah’s Top 5 Tuesday this week takes place in a magical world where time is limitless and I have no other responsibilities or distractions to pull me away from reading.

I CAN ROLL WITH THAT!

Illuminae

Illuminae

Maybe I spoke too soon about not having time, because I am in fact re-reading this one. But maybe I spoke too soon about that, because I already put the book aside to deal with a few others…

Red Rising

If I did read this again, it would be the third time through. Nothing wrong with that.

Six of Crows book cover

Six of Crows

I’d especially like to do this one since I’m going to be reading Crooked Kingdom soon.

Robopocalypse

This is kind of an odd one, because it wouldn’t really make any other top 10 lists of mine. But there’s a sequel and I’d really like to remember what happened in this one before moving on.

Ex-Heroes

Again, for sequels, but also because it was such a fun thrill-ride the first time. I burned through the pages so quickly the cover was smoking by the time I was done!

Fun fact about this post: A Robopocalypse re-read will be happening shortly, in audiobook form!