What to Read Based on Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor! By Mara Brashem What to Read Based on Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor!Ice cream is a core food group in my diet. (As are lactaid pills.) Ask quite literally anyone I know, and they will tell you allllll about my long-standing love affair with all things ice cream. My parents love telling the story of my first visit to Baskin Robbins at the ripe age of two, where I demanded to lick everyone’s treats. Nothing has changed in the years since. As I consider myself something of an ice cream cone-noisseur (tee-hee) and a book expert, allow me to help you find your next favorite read based on your favorite ice cream flavor.* I realize this is an impossible decision to make. You may retake the quiz as many times as you wish to prevent having to declare any sort of flavored allegiance.<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/titles/tess-sharpe/6-times-we-almost-kissed-and-one-time-we-did/9780316302791/">6 Times We Almost Kissed (And the One Time We Did)</a>In my family, soft serve is lunch. It’s sweet, satisfying, and when you gobble down the last bit, you usually find yourself asking, “Hey! Where’d my ice cream go?!” Well, that’s precisely what you’ll say when you finish this heartfelt page-turner.And much like this book, if you don’t like sprinkles, I don’t think we can talk. Penny and Tate have always clashed. Unfortunately, their mothers are lifelong best friends, so the girls’ bickering has carried them through playdates, tragedy, and more than one rom-com marathon with the Moms. When Penny’s mother decides to become a living donor to Tate’s mom, ending her wait for a liver transplant, things go from clashing to cataclysmic. Because in order to help their families recover physically, emotionally, and financially, the Moms combine their households the summer before senior year. So Penny and Tate make a pact: They’ll play nice. Be the drama-free daughters their mothers need through this scary and hopeful time. There’s only one little hitch in their plan: Penny and Tate keep almost kissing. It’s just this confusing thing that keeps happening. You know, from time to time. For basically their entire teenaged existence. They’ve never talked about it. They’ve always ignored it in the aftermath. But now they’re living across the hall from each other. And some things—like their kisses—can’t be almosts forever.<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/titles/deya-muniz/the-princess-and-the-grilled-cheese-sandwich-a-graphic-novel/9780316538725/">The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich</a>50% fruity, 50% cheesy, 100% nomnom-able. This is not your average ice cream flavor, and neither is this uniquely brilliant graphic novel. Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land is that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she does the only thing she can: She disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the Kingdom of Fromage to start over as Count Camembert.But it’s hard to keep a low profile when the beautiful Princess Brie, with her fierce activism and great sense of fashion, catches her attention. Camembert can’t resist getting to know the princess, but as the two grow closer, will she able to keep her secret? A romantic comedy about mistaken identity, true love, and lots of grilled cheese.<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/landing-page/novl-series-page-belladonna/">Belladonna</a>Much like I pity those who have never tasted Honey Lavender ice cream, I pity those who have never read Belladonna. Go get yourself a scoop and allow it to transport you to the lushly manicured gardens of yore as you eagerly devour this Gothic page-turner.Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her last remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at the glittering and gloomy estate of Thorn Grove. Thorn Grove’s patriarch, Elijah, mourns his late wife, Lillian, through wild parties and drink, while eldest son Percy grapples for control of the family’s waning reputation and daughter Blythe suffers from the same mysterious illness that killed her mother. And when Lillian’s spirit confronts Signa and claims she was poisoned, Signa realizes that Blythe could be next to die.Signa’s best chance of uncovering the culprit and solving Lillian’s murder is an alliance with Death himself—the very man she hates most. And Death, that fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side, shows her that their connection may be more powerful than she ever dared imagine.<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/titles/kelly-mcwilliams/your-plantation-prom-is-not-okay/9780316449939/">Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay</a>Arguably one of my top favorite ice cream flavors, Salted Caramel packs a punch. It’s a complex balance of salty and sweet that stands for itself and makes a statement the world needs to hear. All of this is holds true for Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay as well. Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South’s few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the past alive.Harriet’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of mother and daughter Claudia and Layla Hartwell—who plan to turn the property next door into a wedding venue, and host the offensively antebellum-themed wedding of two Hollywood stars.Harriet’s fully prepared to hate Layla Hartwell, but it seems that Layla might not be so bad after all—unlike many people, this California influencer is actually interested in Harriet’s point of view. Harriet’s sure she can change the hearts of Layla and her mother, but she underestimates the scale of the challenge…and when her school announces that prom will be held on the plantation, Harriet’s just about had it with this whole racist timeline! Overwhelmed by grief and anger, it’s fair to say she snaps.Can Harriet use the power of social media to cancel the celebrity wedding and the plantation prom? Will she accept that she’s falling in love with her childhood best friend, who’s unexpectedly returned after years away? Can she deal with the frustrating reality that Americans seem to live in two completely different countries? And through it all, can she and Layla build a bridge between them?<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/landing-page/novl-series-page-the-stolen-heir/">The Stolen Heir</a>Kinda icy, deliciously sweet, dangerously messy if it melts. Are we talking about the sorbet or this book? Definitely both. Eat/read fast. But just beware: Don’t smile too wide. You’ll look scary and your teeth will probably be stained purple.A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both. Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/titles/benjamin-dean/the-king-is-dead/9780316519144/">The King is Dead</a>This scrumptious flavor hides absolutely nothing and is best served in a waffle cone. With the sweet spice of romance, each chocolate chip is like the whisper of a good bit of gossip. Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father’s recent passing, and with a new boyfriend to hide, James is woefully unprepared for the sudden shine of public scrutiny.When his secrets come spilling forth across tabloid pages and the man he thought he loved has suddenly disappeared, James finds himself on the precipice of ruin. As every detail of his life becomes public knowledge, his sense of safety is shattered and the people he trusts the most become the likeliest suspects.What dangers lurk behind the palace walls—and will the new king find out before it’s too late?<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/landing-page/series-theinheritancegames/">The Inheritance Games</a>You know how every time you eat Cookie Dough ice cream you wish there were abundantly more cookie dough bites? That is exactly the same feeling you will experience upon finishing The Inheritance Games. Thank goodness there are more books in the series to scoop up and satisfy your craving. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch–and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he’s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/landing-page/novl-series-page-twilight/">Twilight</a>Don’t let your ice cream melt from the heat of your blush, Bella! Of course, our favorite vampires don’t eat ice cream. But if they did, you just know it would be Moose Tracks.About three things I was absolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of him—and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden relationship ripens against the backdrop of small-town suspicion and a mysterious coven of vampires. This is a love story with bite.I scream. You scream. WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!!!Which of these ice cream cones speak to you the most?
