Well, I originally intended to spend March reading my NetGalley approvals. Then I stumbled across Trope-ical Readathon, which you can read about here. This readathon includes 13 “Common Challenges” whose prompts contain common tropes (or their alternatives); 2 team-specific challenges; and 1 team book challenge (out of 2 choices). There are 6 teams and completion of a challenge earns your team points.

I decided to sign up because the prompts still provide me the option to read some of my backlog on NetGalley. If you want to join, you can still sign up through March 6. I signed up for Team Fantasy.

Here are the “Common Challenges” for all Trope-ical Readathon participants and the books I chose to fulfill them. No, I definitely don’t think I’ll read every single book listed here. Usually I’m lucky if I can read 6 books in a month. But I’ll do my best to support my team!

Here are the Team Challenges for Team Fantasy:
Team Challenge 1: The Woods (Read a book where woods/forests are heavily featured)
Team Challenge 2: Read a book featuring the “Quest” trope
New Team Book: The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
Old Team Book: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

The links to the Team books are affiliate links from Jen Jen Reviews, who runs this readathon.

If you want to learn more about the books I chose for this readathon, here’s a list with links to the official synopsis for each book. None of these links are affiliate links. My chosen prompt or alternate prompt is in bold.

For the TEAM CHALLENGE 1 (the woods) I chose Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

For the TEAM CHALLENGE 2 (a quest) I chose The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman.

PROMPT	ALTERNATE PROMPT	BOOK
Absent/dead parents	A book with more than one author	Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
Love triangle	Followers/Friends choose between 2 books	These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
Bookish themes	A predicted 5 star read	The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Platonic partnership	A buddy read	Over the Woodward Wall by Deborah A. Baker
Food themed	A “meaty” book (over 500 pages)	House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas
Blast from the past	A book published before 2000	The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Mixed media	An audiobook or ebook	A Thousand Steps into the Night by Traci Chee
(Post) apocalyptic	A comfort read	The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
Found family	A book in a series	A Storm of Wrath & Ruin (Daughter of Erabel #3) by Kristin Ward
Morally grey/anti-hero	A previously DNF-ed book	Gild (The Plated Prisoner #1) by Raven Kennedy
Multiple POV	Multiple POC characters	The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
The new kid in town	A genre you don’t usually read	The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
Retelling	A book with a tv or movie adaptation	The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh