meet your match; the fantasy edition part 1

Meet Your Match is a creation of the Violet Team for the Book Blogger Creativity Project, organised and hosted by the wonderful Nori @ ReadWriteLove28. It is a genre-based quiz that will prompt a suggestion for your next read. If you’ve read the book you’re suggested at the end of the quiz, well, that’s okay! Let’s talk about it, and you can try with another quiz next time around.

This was planned as a monthly feature, but for now we’re starting slow, with just a few basic genres, though we hope to recommend a variety of genres and topics.

1. What are you looking for in your protagonist?
   a) a teenage girl trying her best to protect the people she cares about while keeping her secrets.
   b) a group of young people who have developed powers they do not understand and are struggling to find their place.
   c) a young woman who knows what she wants in her life but has to hide half of herself in order to reach her goal.
   d) a teenage girl and her friends from different walks of life, who come together to solve a mystery even while keeping secrets of their own from each other.
2. What sort of tropes are you looking for in your fantasy story?
   a) forbidden love and family secrets.
   b) hidden depths and shadowy secrets haunting characters’ steps.
   c) a big family secret that the protagonist is not aware of at first.
   d) a self-fulfilling prophecy, pretty much.
3. What sort of conflict are you looking for?
   a) something that affects a large group of people but is ultimately personal.
   b) a darkness spreading in the shadows that is affecting innocents and loved ones.
   c) between two classes of characters, with wide-reaching consequences.
   d) between what the characters want and what they know to be true.
4. Which of these lines are you most intrigued by?
   a) ‘Hurting someone you loved was even worse than being hurt. That stayed with you longer, and weighted you down all through the night into dawn.’
   b) ‘Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.’
   c) ‘I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.’
   d) ‘A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn’t change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren’t all the truth.’

If your answers to the questions were dominated by As, consider checking out Spellcaster by Claudia Gray, a story about a young witch working with a young man under a family curse to break both the curse, and prevent a disaster threatening the town they live in.

If your answers to the questions were mostly Bs, The Diviners by Libba Bray might be more your speed. Set in 1920s, the story follows a young woman with a supernatural gift who falls into a hunt for a murderer, intertwined with stories of other young people with gifts caught in their own troubles.

You might want to check out Seraphina by Rachel Hartman if your answers were mostly Cs, a story that involves mathematical dragons and a young woman who gets caught between the factions of dragons and humans when a member of the royal family is murdered.

Or if your answers were mostly Ds, you might want to check out the popular The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, a story about unlikely friends getting caught up in a strange and sinister twist of fate.

Two more quizzes to go this week! Be sure to check out Kim @ Divergent Gryffindor‘s Contemporary quiz tomorrow and Tiffany @ The Bookish Thought‘s Historical Fiction quiz on Saturday!

In the meantime, what suggestion did you end up with? Have you read it? Is it already on your TBR? Do you want to put it on your TBR? Let me know!