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Feature & Follow is a feature to increase your blog followers, make friends and have something to post! Create a post every week, link it up in the host's linkups (Alison Can Read & Parajunkee) and comment on other people's posts/blogs! The point is to also FOLLOW them back and have fun at the same time! :)

Happy Friday!!

While Friday is such a great day (because TGIF right?), I woke up with both great and bad news today, so now I'm going to have to suffer through conflicted emotions throughout the day *NOOOO* Not to mention, I'm still suffering from the hangover last night, from caffeine. Yeap! I have caffeine intolerance. I get high just from drinking coffee! And it doesn't help my case because I love love love lattes, but have to restrain myself to not more than 3 cups per week (ugh), or else I'll start rambling really incoherent stuff and start preaching about the existence of unicorns. So, how did your Friday morning went? :D

This week's post prompt is actually inspired by my blog's name! Back in 2011, my friend and I brainstormed the name for my blog and I really wanted it to be a representation of the term escape into your dreamland because I was so engrossed in Rachel Caine's The Morganville Vampire series, the idea of living in a town ruled by vampires seemed like so much fun!

Thus with me being a teenager back then, Dreamland: A Teenage Fantasy was born. Pretty unoriginal if you ask me, but over the years the name had sort of became my personal "branding" and it was shortened to Dreamland Teenage Fantasy (because it was a mouthful! :P).

So I guess this picture speaks volume, because after 10 years since the first book was published, I am still holding on the to the shred of hope that one day I'll be living in The Glass House.

"I said, "Because if vampires built a town they'd probably put streetlights really far apart. So you'd have farther to run to safety." And almost immediately, my mind started spinning about a town designed by vampires. A maze of a town, designed for their comfort. It's their world, we just live there ... and pay them taxes in blood and money." - Rachel Caine,10th Anniversary Celebration for Rachel Caine's MORGANVILLE Series / Blog Tour: Guest Post / Giveaway

What's your favourite book world?

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Friday, October 07, 2016 12 comments

Happy Friday!

First of all, I would like to apologise for missing out on some of your FF replies last week because I was away to Singapore and wasn't able to go online much. I was supposed to attend a concert in Singapore but unfortunately they postponed it the day before I was supposed to fly! Instead of "burning" the ticket, I decided to go on a short vacation. It was a huge bummer but I did managed to visit the Universal Studios (for the first time after 21 years of waiting) and screamed my lungs out going on every single roller coaster ride (stay away from cyclon if you do not want to plunge to your death - just kidding! - I screamed every word of profanity during that 20 seconds of ride, did I mentioned I was afraid of heights?)

The first series that popped into my head was Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Blood series.

Back then during my Twilight days, I was on a vampire-seeking mission and there was when I'd came across the BB series. It was such a hype that everyone was either talking about it, buying or reading it and it landed on the bestseller section in my favourite bookstore. Promising really! So I decided to purchase my first book and guess what, it ended with a 3-star rating (because I hated giving anything lower than a 2).

I liked the idea of the story, but I had such a hard time with it I never planned to continue with the series. There's just something off about the character's relationship and I tried so hard to connect with them, I just gave up in the end. I've been putting off this series for 5 years and I guess I won't be revisiting it anytime sooner.