Top Five Tuesday | Fictional Friendships!

T5T is a weekly meme hosted on BionicBookWorm so check out their blog. Today’s topic is such a nice one, because it celebrates fictional friendships! I really love it when there’s a well-written friendship in a book, because we get so many romantic relationships, but rarely ever platonic ones! So let’s get into it 🙂

1. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Review)
   How can I not mention this friend squad. I admit, they’re not all super platonic, and one totally hates the rest for a big part of the book, but it’s also just a really cool and slightly overdramatic, I-would-die-for-you-no-questions-asked squad. See this quote:
   “Kaz leaned back. “What’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet?”
   “Knife to the throat?” asked Inej.
   “Gun to the back?” said Jesper
   “Poison in his cup?” suggested Nina.
   “You’re all horrible,” said Matthias.

   I rest my case.

2. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
   I know the topic of today isn’t ‘friend squads’ but I really love friend groups in fiction, okay. These four, too, they just have such interesting dynamics between them.
3. Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills
   Another friend squad! I love friend squads! I especially love friend squads that have been together for forever, like these kids in this book. Often when friendship is central in a book it’s about people who just met, but here it’s about a group who have known each other for such a long time (and also there’s a new person, I admit, but still). I also love how they’re both a ‘group entity’ but also have strong relationships individually with each other? Like they sometimes do things with just the two of them, and have traditions only they share and not with the rest of the group, and they all have that. It’s so realistic and I love it.
4. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (Review)
   It’s been a while since I last read this, but I remember the strong friendship between the MC and her best friend. Mostly because it showed how they love each other fiercely, but are also sometimes jealous and don’t always understand each other. In short, that they’re not perfect, that they’re human. I really loved that.
5. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
   … Okay I might just have a fierce thing for friend squads. Because this is another one. I really love these four girls who all have their own damage, but also have each other’s backs. The story itself maybe isn’t about their friendship, but it’s such a big part of it and I love it.

 

That’s it for this week ^^ hoped you enjoyed it.

 

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