tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82358114063144506632024-03-21T18:23:54.326-04:00Never Too Many To Read Jennifer Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876043336500888359noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235811406314450663.post-30972725249850397222020-02-17T10:00:00.000-05:002020-02-17T17:03:44.456-05:00Cover Reveal: Flawless Foundations by Lauren Helms<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Levi</i></b></div>
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It's no secret I was born from money. And I'm destined to take over the family business, King Cosmetics when my father retires.</div>
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Until my father decided to impose some stupid rule about being married before I take the reigns. Everything I've worked for hangs in the balance and the future of the company is in jeopardy without a King behind the controls. </div>
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I never considered Becca part of the plan for taking over, but when one kiss leads to so much more, I can't help but wonder if she's the answer to my problem.</div>
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There are two things I love - my beauty blog and Levi King. </div>
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Coming from the same social circle has given me ample opportunity to crush on the next generation of King Cosmetics, but he made it clear a long time ago that I would never be anything more than "like family" to him.</div>
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Feeling the need for some serious changes in my life, I start shaking things up. </div>
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It wasn't part of my plan to kiss Levi, but one kiss could never be enough. When that kiss turns into a relationship and I find out that Levi's been keeping a secret, I begin to question if our love affair was too good to be true.</div>
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Looks like we're about to find out if we can truly build flawless foundations for the rest of our lives. After all 425 Madison is the perfect place to fall in love.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>About Lauren</b><br /><br />Lauren Helms has forever been an avid reader from the beginning. After starting a book review website, that catapulted her fully into the book world, she knew that something was missing. Lauren decided to take the plunge and write her first novel. While working for a video game strategy guide publisher, she decided to mix what she knew best--video games and romance. She decided to take the plunge and joined NaNoWrimo and a month later, she had her first draft.<br /></span><br />
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Jennifer Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876043336500888359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235811406314450663.post-20289650746774274982020-02-16T09:00:00.000-05:002020-02-16T21:46:17.677-05:00Blog Tour: Witness Protection Widow by Debra Webb...Review & Excerpt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">DEBRA WEBB is the award winning, USA Today bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including reader favorites the Faces of Evil, the Colby Agency, and the Shades of Death series. With more than four million books sold in numerous languages and countries, Debra's love of storytelling goes back to her childhood on a farm in Alabama. Visit Debra at <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://www.debrawebb.com/">www.DebraWebb.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Allison James is determined to see her evil, murdered husband’s criminal family go down by testifying at trial about their involvement in organized crime. Until that can happen, she’s been placed in witness protection. But shortly before the trial, a car accident injures the U.S. Marshal who has been guarding her requiring her to get a replacement...enter U.S. Marshal Jaxson Stevens, Ali’s ex from when they were younger.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ali is the last person Jax thought he’d ever see again, especially after she married into the Armone crime family. He is also surprised to find feelings he thought were long gone might still be lingering. As he works to do his job and keep Ali alive to testify, the two grow closer, but relationships can be tough when someone is trying to kill you.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I love reunion romance stories and this is a good one with two likable characters that you want to see find a happy ending together. Although, Ali seems just a tad naive at the beginning in regards to her husband’s criminal activity, I admire her backbone and determination to do what’s right and keep those she cares about safe. And I loved Jax’s protective streak, as well. I also liked the many secondary characters and what they added to the story. Besides the chemistry between the main characters and the fascinating secondary characters, there is also plenty of action and intrigue with an interesting plot making it an entertaining, fast-paced romantic suspense. </span></div>
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From small towns to the big city, Payton and Cody are not the same people they once were. They will need to decide if what is between them is worth fighting for. Can a childhood friendship become so much more? Readers will want to saddle-up with this childhood friends romance from Marcie Shumway. The 425 Madison series is back with season two and HIS LAST RIDE is now live!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Payton had a way of soothing more than just the wounds that were skin deep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">There’s one small problem, I’m not sure that I want to be just her friend anymore.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><b>Payton</b><br />He was my childhood friend. The one who always accepted me for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For years, I didn’t realize my life was missing anything and, then Cody came back into it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Just like when we were kids, he brought all the pieces back together. He made me feel things </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">I didn’t know I could feel. How can I be his friend when I want so much more?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />I won’t be his buckle bunny.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Adjusting to very different lives, Cody and Payton need to decide if what is between them is worth fighting for. From small towns to the big city, they’re not the same people they once were.</span><br />
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“Your legs are longer than mine, jerk,” she retorted on a huff. “Slow down.”</div>
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I turned and checked on her, she was climbing the hill easily behind me. Her face was flush from our run up the lower portion, and her blue eyes sparkling. She looked more relaxed then I’d seen her all summer. Normally, Payton, or Pay as I called her, was as laid back as they came. This summer for some reason when she’d shown up, she’d been different. More reserved.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">“If we don’t hurry, we’re going to miss it,” I chided, reaching my hand out for hers</span><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre;">. </span><span style="text-align: center;">A minute later, we reached the top and plopped down on the large rock. She broke the connection of our hands and sat on hers. I missed it instantly, but let it go. As we’d gotten older, the simple things we used to do together turned a little weird. I wasn’t sure why. We were friends.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">She looked up, and when she saw my hand, her cheeks turned a darker shade of pink. I shook it with a ‘take it’ look on my face, with a roll of her eyes, she did intertwining our fingers. I picked up the pace again and brought her along with me.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">“I’m going to miss this,” she whispered wistfully, taking in the landscape.</span></div>
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We were sitting at the top of a hill that overlooked some of the pastures on my grandparent’s property. It gave us the perfect view of the mountains and the sunset. On the last day of the summer, we would come up here and sit. We had flashlights in our backpacks for the walk back.</div>
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“Me too,” I agreed. “But there is always next summer.”</div>
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Payton had been coming to visit her grandmother every summer since she was five. The two of us clicked immediately. Our grandmothers started this tradition of bringing us up here, we continued it on our own when we turned ten. Swearing we didn’t need them to babysit us. Since it was only a mile from one of the barns on our property, they hadn’t argued.</div>
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“Right,” she sighed sadly.</div>
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“Something you aren’t telling me?”</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">My breath caught. The idea of not seeing her made my chest hurt. I counted on summers with Payton. Sure, I had friends in school, but there was something about her. I didn’t have to put on an act. I could just be me with her.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The sunset that night was beyond amazing. Purples, pinks, reds, and oranges swirled together, putting on a show that I’d never forget. When the colors started to fade and the sun started to dip below the mountain in front of us, I felt Pay slide her hand back into mine. I looked over and saw tears leaving trails down her face. Squeezing her hand, I faced forward again and put up a silent prayer; this wouldn’t be the last time we did this.</span></div>
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<br />Marcie Shumway is a small-town girl, born and raised in Maine. She resides with her high school sweetheart on a family-owned farm just miles from where she grew up. Her hubby and their four furbabies are her first loves, but they are followed closely by her writing, apple pie, and chocolate.<br /><br />Marcie started writing short stories in middle school for her classmates to enjoy. They were always love stories with happy endings and spurred her dream of being a published author. Chasing that dream as an adult, she continues to write stories for her readers to love. An avid reader herself, Marcie thrives on the books of her favorite authors and when not writing, can be found curled up in her favorite spot with a good book in hand.<br /><br />Facebook ➝ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mshumwayauthor">https://www.facebook.com/mshumwayauthor</a><br />Twitter ➝ <a href="https://twitter.com/marcie_shumway">https://twitter.com/marcie_shumway</a><br />Goodreads ➝ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14764341.Marcie_Shumway">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14764341.Marcie_Shumway</a><br />Amazon ➝ <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marcie-Shumway/e/B01MZ6VQM9">https://www.amazon.com/Marcie-Shumway/e/B01MZ6VQM9</a><br />Instagram ➝ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marcieshumwayauthor/">https://www.instagram.com/marcieshumwayauthor/</a><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">When an injury sidelines bull rider Cody and he makes the move to New York City, the last person he thought he’d run into was his old friend Payton, who has been living in the city working as a veterinarian technician. They may have went their separate ways, but neither forgot the person who gave them some of the best memories from childhood. As the two get to know each other again, things heat up between them and they both realize that their feelings of friendship may run deeper.</span></div>
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<br />Welcome to 425 Madison Ave the perfect place to fall in love. Nine delicious romances set in fast-paced & sexy NYC just waiting for you to read.<br /><br />This season will feature some new authors as well as some of season one's favs. Back for season two is Allie York, Leigh Lennon, MK Moore, Aubree Valentine, Lauren Helms, and Katy Ames. Plus a warm welcome to KC Enders, and Marcie Shumway!<br /><br />Not only do we have a sexy mix of new and returning authors, prepare for pages packed with new romances, characters, and tropes all from the same well-loved high-rise apartment building in NYC.<br /><br />Make sure to follow the 425 Madison Avenue Facebook page for more on release dates, cover reveals and author spotlights. For exclusive excerpts, giveaways, and news subscribe to our 425 Madison newsletter!<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/425MadisonSeries">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://eepurl.com/gaz8fL">Newsletter </a><br />
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She’s a bubbly, sugary sweet pastry chef. Living her best life in the Big Apple. Luxury apartment. Successful patisserie. Everything is great–better than great. It's absolutely perfect.<br />
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Karin is a New York Girl living in a Midwest world. A connoisseur of great words, fine bourbon, and strong coffee, she’s married to the love of her life and is mother to two grown men, she is proud to say can cook and clean up after themselves, and always open doors for the ladies (you’re welcome, world).<br />
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Bianca checked all the things for a wonderful life off her list, but always longed for something different. Mick knows that not everything is meant to be. When tragedy strikes the two finally have a shot at a second chance at love. Readers will love this friends-to-lovers romance from Leigh Lennon. The 425 Madison series is back with season two and MUST LOVE FOREVER is now live!</div>
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<b>Bianca</b><br />
Handsome husband—check.<br />
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Beautiful house—check.<br />
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Wonderful life...I could never put a check next to this.<br />
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Through it all, I longed for a different life. With a man I had called my best friend. A man who is not my husband.<br />
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When the unspeakable happens and I’m left alone, its Mick who is there to pick me up.<br />
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<b>Mick</b><br />
Not everything is meant to be.<br />
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Watching the woman who owned my heart start a life with someone else - broke me to the core.<br />
But time goes on and I try too.<br />
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Until one phone call changes both our lives.<br />
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She could have been taken from me forever. Instead, a tragic accident takes away the only man I thought ever made her happy.<br />
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When she starts over again, in my city, in my home; sharing slivers of her story with me it's then that I learn not everything is as it appears.<br />
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None of this matters though, when I’ve been given a second chance to prove we’re meant to be.<br />
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After all, 425 Madison is the perfect place to fall in love.<br />
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"This book was a total feel-good romance. Gwen and Leo hit it off right from the begging and I really loved how the story is not just about them, their kids, all three of them get a bit of a spotlight and help the story move forward. Even the judge was a great addition to the story." —Amazon Reviewer<br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">While reading </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: italic;">More than Forever</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, I fell in love with Mick and Bia...two childhood friends from different backgrounds who took different paths in life yet reconnect following an unexpected tragedy.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mick has always been Bia’s protector, but he lost his chance to be more once she got married. However, there are secrets about Bia’s marriage that even he can’t protect her heart from. In order to fully heal, Bia has to face the trauma and secrets so she and Mick can build the relationship that should always have been.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I really cared about Bia and her story is a lot more emotional than I anticipated. Mick is a sweetheart showing patience and kindness as well as a determination to “win the girl” this time around. The understanding and chemistry that can only come from YEARS of knowing someone helps move this relationship along and I enjoyed seeing what the author would reveal to us next about both their pasts and their budding relationship.</span></div>
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<b><i>This year I’ve decided to get myself out of a reading rut and be more active in the reading community. One of those ways is to participate in various reading challenges. Over the next few days, I will share these challenges with you. Some will overlap...in fact, most will, but all will be fun...I hope. Wish me luck and join me if you wish! I’ll need all the encouragement I can get!</i></b></div>
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The Pondathon is a co-operative and story-driven readathon hosted and run by CW from The Quiet Pond. The aim of the Pondathon is to read books and collect points to protect the friends over at <a href="http://thequietpond.com/">The Quiet Pond</a> from the encroaching malevolent forces that threaten our friends in the forest.
Have fun participating in the Pondathon readathon by <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/16/pondathon-prologue-we-need-you-and-your-magic-choose-a-team">joining one of five teams, each with a unique way to collect points</a> and <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/18/pondathon-prologue-join-us-in-battle-and-armour-up-sign-up-create-your-character">signing up</a>! You can also <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/12/pondathon-prologue-somethings-wrong">follow the story of the Pondathon as it unfolds</a>, and participants can also complete 'side quests' during the readathon to collect extra points. The readathon takes place from January 24th 2020 to March 7th 2020. <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/14/pondathon-prologue-its-time-to-protect-and-fight-readthon-information">More information about the readathon can be found here</a>.<br />
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<li>To join the Pondathon, <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/18/pondathon-prologue-join-us-in-battle-and-armour-up-sign-up-create-your-character">simply sign up anytime</a> between January 18th 2020 to March 5th 2020.</li>
<li>Choose a team, <a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/18/pondathon-prologue-join-us-in-battle-and-armour-up-sign-up-create-your-character">create your own animal character for the Pondathon and create a character card</a>!</li>
<li>Create a blog post, bookstagram post, booktube video, Twitter thread, or whatever medium you wish, with '#Pondathon' in the title or your tweet. Share the character you have created and your character card!</li>
<li><a href="http://thequietpond.com/2020/01/14/pondathon-prologue-its-time-to-protect-and-fight-readthon-information">Link back to this post</a> so that others can find this readathon and join in.</li>
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Share your updates on your blog/bookstagram/booktube and social media. You are more than welcome to tag @<a href="https://twitter.com/thequietpond">thequietpond</a> or @<a href="https://twitter.com/artfromafriend">artfromafriend</a> on Twitter or Instagram in all your updates! <b>We'd love to see all of the beautiful and awesome characters that you create!</b>
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My Pond Character is called Kally, and she's the Reader of ALL of the Books! Kally is a cuddly (and a bit nerdy) Koala who is much more of a lover than a fighter, but she is determined to help protect her new friends and the forest as she’s seen the devastation that comes when malevolent forces attack. She is a member of Team Varian, and has been tasked with reading books to help research ways to help. She hopes to learn how others have battled evil forces or faced challenges in their lives in various worlds and time periods and perhaps that will lead her friends to victory. If that doesn’t work she has her trusty bow and arrows (as long as she doesn’t shoot herself in the foot...again). Kally doesn’t want to fight, but she’ll do anything to help her friends and the forest.<br />
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<br /><br />Cody<br /><br />She was my childhood friend. The one person outside of my family that I could always count on.<br /><br />Fate drew us apart, but when my life was turned upside down, it brought us back together.<br /><br />And, much like when we were kids, she made it right again.<br /><br />Payton had a way of soothing more than just the wounds that were skin deep.<br /><br />There’s one small problem, I’m not sure that I want to be just her friend anymore.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Payton<br /><br />He was my childhood friend. The one who always accepted me for me.<br /><br />For years, I didn’t realize my life was missing anything and, then Cody came back into it.<br /><br />Just like when we were kids, he brought all the pieces back together. He made me feel things<br /><br />I didn’t know I could feel. How can I be his friend when I want so much more?<br /><br />I won’t be his buckle bunny.<br /><br />Adjusting to very different lives, Cody and Payton need to decide if what is between them is worth fighting for. From small towns to the big city, they’re not the same people they once were.<br /><br /><br />Can a childhood friendship become so much more?<br /><br />Only time will tell.<br /><br />After all, 425 Madison is the perfect place to fall in love!<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Release Date: July 2, 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Riley Sager is the pseudonym of a former journalist, editor and graphic designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Now a full-time writer, Riley is the author of FINAL GIRLS, an </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">international bestseller that has </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">been published in 25 languages, </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">and the New York Times bestseller THE LAST TIME I LIED. His </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">latest book, LOCK EVERY DOOR, will be published in July.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">With </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Lock Every Door</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, Riley Sager has solidified himself as one of my favorite authors of thrillers and suspense. As he did with his previous two novels, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Final Girls</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Last Time I Lied, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Sager created a story and characters that I’m not likely to forget any time soon. This time it all centered around a fascinating, old apartment building with a storied past, The Bartholomew.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Jules Larsen is having the worst luck ever when she gets the chance to live and work as an </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">apartment sitter in the luxurious apartment building that she has dreamed about for years, The Bartholomew. It seems almost too good to be true and soon Jules begins to suspect it just might be </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">with its strange rules, secretive residents, and dark past. Her suspicions kick into high gear when </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fellow apartment sitter Ingrid disappears and Jules learns all is not what it seems at The Bartholomew.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Lock Every Door</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is a page-turner that I couldn’t put down. Mystery, suspense, drama, horror, there’s a little bit of everything and a nice balance of all. As a fan of thrillers, I enjoyed every bit of this story, from the beginning where we get a brief glimpse of what’s to come to the shocking ending with its horrific twist. I could easily see </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Lock Every Door </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">on the big or small screen someday as it reminded me of some of my favorite films from the thriller/suspense genre.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In addition to successfully handling the genre, Sager also manages to breathe life into The Bartholomew making me view it as its own character despite it being an inanimate building. From the wallpaper with flowers like faces and vents with openings like mouths that swallow dropped items, each description brought this building to life and made it real. It is just as important as the human characters in the story and it is probably my favorite part of the story. Just imagining the floor plans, the history, the residents, and extravagance of it all makes me wish I could see it as it was meant to be.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I also really enjoyed how Sager managed to tie Jules’s past to her present situation even though they seem completely unrelated. The Bartholomew is the setting of her missing sister’s favorite book, a book-within-a-book whose author turns out to be a resident at the apartment building. And fellow sitter Ingrid reminds Jules of her sister which sort of motivates Jules in her search for Ingrid and answers when the girl disappears. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As for those answers, I can’t lie and say I didn’t see them coming...well some of them...but I enjoyed watching them play out. And as I read the ending, I realized little clues had been dropped along the way (which is one reason why I wasn’t completely surprised...I had my Nancy Drew hat on). Now I want to reread the book to see what clues that I might have missed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">surroundings and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">accepts the terms, ready to leave her</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">past life behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As she gets to know the residents and staff of the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story . . . until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Riley Sager is the pseudonym of a former journalist, editor and graphic designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Now a full-time writer, Riley is the author of FINAL GIRLS, an international bestseller that has </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">been published in 25 languages, and the New York Times bestseller THE LAST TIME I LIED. His </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">latest book, LOCK EVERY DOOR, will be published in July.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">A native of Pennsylvania, Riley now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">My Favorite Character from </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Lock Every Door</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">...</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">One of my favorite things about Riley Sager’s writing is his knack for creating fascinating and complex characters that you want to know more about. And </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Lock Every Door</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> definitely doesn’t lack colorful characters. Each character has its own idiosyncrasies and unique personality that makes them memorable. They also have a backstory that makes them intriguing and you long to discover more about what brought them to this particular moment in life. My favorite character in </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Lock Every Door</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> has all of these traits and just happens to be The Bartholomew, the apartment building in which the main character and most of the other characters reside. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, there are plenty of human characters in the story that I could have easily chosen. The residents of The Bartholomew are definitely eccentric, secretive people who make you curious to know their story and what brought them to this apartment building. There are quite a few I loved. But Riley Sager manages to bring The Bartholomew to life giving it its own quirks and personality as well as providing it with a fascinating back story. From the wallpaper that looks like tiny faces to the giant gargoyles to the old-fashioned elevator, everything about The Bartholomew intrigues me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bartholomew is more than just a setting or building to me, it is integral to the story because without it and its supposed curse, the story falls apart and loses what makes it so interesting. I won’t say anymore...you’ll just have to read to find out what exactly happens and judge for yourself. But to me, it is a character in the story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">But The Bartholomew isn’t the only building that is important or could be looked at as its own character throughout literature or fiction. Can you imagine the Harry Potter series without Hogwarts? </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Shining</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> without the Overlook Hotel? </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Haunting Of Hill House</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> without Hill House? These are just a few examples.</span></span></div>
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Sorry for the silence...it’s a very long story that I’ll explain very soon.<br />
But I apologize to those I let down in my absence and those who wondered what was going on.<br />
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Anyway, I’m going to be working on updating some stuff and changing a few things here on the blog in the next few weeks...which I’ll also explain soon.<br />
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But I did want you to know that you should be on the lookout for new content next week!<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b>Hello! I want to apologize to the people at the Fantastic Flying Book Club & To Somaiya Daud. I was supposed to post this earlier in the week, but I was very sick with a migraine and completely forgot to make sure it went up. Oops.</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Somaiya Daud was born in a Midwestern city, and spent a large part of her childhood and adolescence moving around. Like most writers, she started when she was young and never really stopped. Her love of all things books propelled her to get a degree in English literature (specializing in the medieval and early modern), and while she worked on her Master’s degree she doubled as a bookseller at Politics and Prose in their </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">children’s department. Determined to remain in school for as long as possible, she packed her bags in 2014 and moved the west coast to pursue a doctoral degree in English literature. Now she’s preparing to write a dissertation on Victorians, rocks, race, and the environment. Mirage is her debut, and is due from Flatiron Books in 8/28/2018.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">With a hint of romance, a bit of sci-fi, and a touch of its own mythology and history, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Mirage</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> was easily one of the most surprising books I read this summer. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Due to her resemblance to the princess, Amani is forcibly taken from her home and taken to the palace where she undergoes harsh training and body modification </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">so she can be the body double for the controversial and disliked Princess. As the cruel Princess Maram’s stand-in, she must know the history of the royal family, everything about the Princess’s inner circle including her fiancé, Idris, not to mention her speech patterns and mannerisms. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">One wrong move or slip up could mean her death. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">She truly undergoes a transformation that fools almost everyone, yet she never loses her strength, spirit, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">and determination. They may be able to physically change her, but they can’t break her. She is truly a great character with a big heart </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">who I wanted to see succeed and can’t wait to read more about.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In addition to strong characters, </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">Somaiya Daud h</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">as created a fascinating world with different planets and moons and more. The beautiful descriptions had me picturing the lush landscapes and various settings that our main characters visit. I wanted to see it for myself. There is also a fascinating backstory and history to this world that is revealed that made me want to know more about all the characters, traditions, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">and different lands.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">As for the genre of the book...well, this is where I struggle to define or find the words to explain what exactly this book is. It felt like a little bit of everything and that is why I found it so surprising. There are several science fiction elements (bots, modes of travel, scanners, weapons, etc.). If you’re not a fan of that genre and you’re thinking of skipping this book because of that, don’t. I didn’t think there were</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;"> enough elements to overpower the story and turn you off, if that makes sense. There is so much more to the story. For example, there is also a bit of romance in the story (I won’t say who) as well as drama, mythology, suspense, politics, and so much more. There were even times when I felt like I was reading a historical novel set in a faraway land...I completely forgot the sci-fi elements existed as I became lost in the story. Anyway, all of these different genres or elements from the different genres shouldn’t have meshed together so well, but Somaiya Daud found a way to do it and make it entertaining. It’s </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">unlike anything I’ve read lately.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Title:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> FRESH INK Anthology </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Author: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Lamar Giles, Nicola Yoon, Malinda Lo, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Eric Gansworth, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Gene Luen Yang, Sharon G. Flake, Schuyler Bailar, Aminah Mae Safi</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Pub. Date:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> August 14, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31292315-fresh-ink?ac=1&from_search=true"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Goodreads</span></a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/2LkDWQd"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Amazon</span></a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/2NtgnSR"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Audible</span></a>, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fresh-ink-lamar-giles/1127504036?ean=9781524766283"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">B&N</span></a>, <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/fresh-ink/id1315357197?mt=11"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">iBooks</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Fresh-Ink-Lamar-Giles/9781524766283/?a_aid=twochicksonbooks"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">TBD</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors come together in this remarkable YA anthology featuring ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All it takes to rewrite the rules is a little fresh ink in this remarkable YA anthology from thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors writing today including Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and many more, and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. This collection features ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print. It will give readers the opportunity to discover how the next chapter is up to them.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written--whose next chapters are up to you.</span></div>
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Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play. This collection will inspire you to break conventions, bend the rules, and color outside the lines. All you need is fresh ink.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">“I absolutely love this mix of established and newer talents, and I’m really intrigued and excited by the mixed formats.” –BookRiot</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Fresh Ink</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is a fantastic anthology filled with not only a variety of diverse short stories, but also a play and even a graphic novel. The anthology as a whole is not only entertaining, but also provides a little bit of something for every reader especially those looking for diverse reads.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In the letter to the reader, editor and cofounder of We Need Diverse Books, Lamar Giles, points out the lack of diversity in YA books and his own disappointment as a child who read. In the 12 entries in this anthology each author provides readers with varying POVs, genres, and styles that also include different races, genders, and sexualities.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In each of these stories, many of </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">the themes are universal despite the genre with the characters facing their own set of problems or issues that everyone can relate to regardless of race, gender or sexuality. Each short story left me wanting to read more and were left a bit open-ended providing readers with the opportunity to expand on or imagine what might happen next. This might either</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> disappoint or inspire some, it all depends on your perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As with most anthologies, you are bound to have stories or entries that seem</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> stronger than others and those that seem</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> weaker. But as with all books, what doesn’t work for one reader</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;"> might work for another. That was the case for me with <i>Fresh Ink</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">...some stories captured my attention more than others. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">That being said, I was particularly moved by TAGS, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">the play by Walter Dean Myers,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">for some reason and plan to</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> check out more of his other work</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. In fact, I plan to check out work by ALL of the authors in this anthology and encourage you to do the same.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Pub. Date:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> July 31, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">First there was the car accident—two girls gone after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls were killed by the man next door. The police shot him, so no one will ever know why he did it. Monica’s sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. No one wanted to be reminded of the girls they lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">That was five years ago. Now the faculty and students at Sunnybrook High want to remember the lost cheerleaders. But for Monica, it’s not that easy. She just wants to forget. Only, Monica’s world is starting to unravel. There are the letters in her stepdad’s desk, an unearthed, years-old cell phone, a strange new friend at school. . . . Whatever happened five years ago isn’t over. Some people in town know more than they’re saying. And somehow Monica is at the center of it all.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Kara Thomas is a true crime addict and the author of THE DARKEST CORNERS, LITTLE MONSTERS, and THE CHEERLEADERS, all published by Delacorte Press. You can find her on Twitter (@karatwrites), Instagram (@kara__thomas), or at <a href="http://www.kara-thomas.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.kara-thomas.com</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">With </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">The Cheerleaders, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Was it going to be a mystery? A thriller? A horror story? A drama? Well, it turned out to be all of these things in a way and more....well, maybe not so much a horror story, but </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 10pt;">I still loved every bit of it.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">When </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">The Cheerleaders</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;"> first begins we meet Monica, a high school dance team member going through some personal drama. Her sister also happens to have been one of the local high school’s last cheerleaders. You see, five years ago, after the tragic deaths of five cheerleaders, the squad was disbanded. Two of the five were killed in a car accident, two were murdered, and one, Monica’s sister, killed herself. Now, as the anniversaries of the deaths approach, Monica is discovering things may not quite be what they seem when it comes to these deaths and she is trying to discover what really happened and if the deaths were connected in some way.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">To be completely honest, when I first started reading, I had no idea what direction author Kara Thomas was going to take the story. </span><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">Would history repeat itself?</span><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">Was this going to be a story of justice finally being served? </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Or would this turn out to just be a case of an unreliable narrator? I won’t spoil the story and say exactly </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">what happens, however, I will say that </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">while there were so many different ways Thomas could have taken or handled the actual main plot and mystery of the story that Monica sets out to investigate, I was both surprised and pleased with how the story unfolds</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">In </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">The Cheerleaders</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;"> each new discovery Monica makes or the author reveals through flashbacks from other characters’ POVs, leads to a new twist or turn exposing a new detail in the story from the past ultimately leading to a fascinating and stunning </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">conclusion as everything begins to click into place</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. From beginning to end, it was perfect and I couldn’t wait to see how the story would play out and how </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 10pt;">the characters we meet throughout the story were connected or involved in the overall plot, if at all. Everyone seemed to have a secret related to </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 10pt;">or a connection to the tragedy. Like</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Monica in the story, I was</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> never quite sure who or </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">what</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> was relevant. And </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I definitely was not expecting the outcome, but thoroughly enjoyed it and the entire book. I love reading suspense and mysteries and dramas or whatever you want to classify this book as...it had a little bit of everything that would surely please fans of all of these genres.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">7/25/2018- <a href="http://www.portraitofabook.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 11pt;">Portrait of a Book</span></a>- </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Review</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Title:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> LETTING GO OF GRAVITY</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Author: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Meg Leder</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Pub. Date:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> July 17, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Publisher: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Simon Pulse</span></div>
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Where Charlie is fearless, Parker is careful.</span></div>
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Charlie is confident while Parker aims to please.</span></div>
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Charlie is outgoing and outspoken; Parker is introverted and reserved.</span></div>
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And of course, there’s the one other major difference: Charlie got leukemia. Parker didn’t.</span></div>
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But now that Charlie is officially in remission, life couldn’t be going better for Parker. She’s landed a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology—which is why the anxiety she’s felt since her Harvard acceptance is so unsettling. And it doesn’t help that her relationship with Charlie has been on the rocks since his diagnosis.</span></div>
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Enter Finn, a boy who’s been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Parker can’t stop thinking about those messages, or about Finn, who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt, free to make mistakes, and free to confront the truth that Parker has been hiding from for a long time.</span></div>
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That she keeps trying to save Charlie, when the person who really needs saving is herself. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Letting Go of Gravity</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> was an unexpected surprise...I mean that in a good way, I promise. I was a little worried I’d be a sobbing mess by the end of the story after reading the blurb and considering the subject matter, but surprisingly I smiled as much as I cried reading this one, if not more.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The main focus of the story are fraternal twins Parker and Charlie, individuals who couldn’t be more different. A recent high school graduate, Parker is an introverted, people-pleaser who has her life planned out...a summer internship at the local Children’s Hospital and then on to Harvard where she hopes to study to become a pediatric oncologist. On the other hand, her twin brother Charlie is extroverted, outspoken and has no clue what the future holds as he has fallen a year behind in school thanks to a recent reoccurrence of leukemia. Parker’s carefully planned out summer doesn’t quite go as planned thanks to her changed relationship with Charlie and to renewed acquaintance Finn, a street artist who has been leaving cryptic graffiti messages all over town as well as a few discoveries she makes about herself.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This could have easily been a super heavy and emotional read, but there was still a lightness to it, if that makes sense. The characters of this story help with that as does Meg Leder’s way of telling us the story.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As for that story, it is told from the POV of Parker and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Letting Go of Gravity </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">is definitely Parker’s story so I understand why we only get her perspective, but to be honest I wouldn’t have minded getting Charlie’s perspective on a few things. There are occasions and interactions between the two early on where I could sense Charlie’s frustration at the situation and how people treat him, yet Parker seems oblivious to it. But I wonder if that is how it is in real life sometimes...that we are sometimes too close to a situation to actually see what is really happening or what we are doing or saying, but a third party can easily see it. I admit this made me frustrated with Parker, but it also added a realness to the story.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Hannah Jayne is one of my go-to authors when I’m in the mood for a good thriller and I am so pleased to be able to tell you about her latest release from <a href="https://www.firereads.com/">Sourcebooks Fire</a>, <i>Copycat!</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">“A twisty rollercoaster ride that mixes fiction with reality and truth with misconceptions...lovers of mysteries will certainly enjoy this fast-paced page turner.” —</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet-bolditalic"; font-size: 11.00pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Library Media Connection</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">From the author of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Escape</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Twisted</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Truly, Madly, Deadly</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> comes a chilling new thriller that asks: what happens if your real life became stranger and deadlier than fiction?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Everyone is dying to read the latest book in the popular Gap Lake mystery series, and Addison is no exception. As the novels biggest fan, she’s thrilled when the infamously reclusive author, R.J. Rosen, contacts her, giving her inside information others would kill for.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Addison’s always dreamed of what it would be like if the books were real…. But then she finds the most popular girl in school dead. Murdered. And realizes that life imitating fiction is more dangerous that she could have imagined. As other terrifying events from the books start happening around her, Addison has to figure out how to write her own ending—and survive the story.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">There was something inordinately creepy about being at school after dark. The place was deserted—the benches and picnic tables in the quad looked ominous and foreboding under the flickering yellow lights. Crystal Lanier shivered and pulled her jacket tighter against an imaginary chill. The weather was mild at Gap Lake in September; the days still sunbaked, the nights, like this one, a gentle mix of fading summer and impending fall. But the bare bones of the deserted campus had put a chill in the air, and shot a blast of cold right through Crystal.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“I’m creeping myself out,” she muttered shifting her books from one arm to the other.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">She spun, her long black hair fanning over her shoulders. “Is someone there?” She knew she sounded like every horror movie victim ever, and her heart hammered in her throat as her skin prickled with beads of sweat.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">This was Gap Lake, she reminded herself. It was a tiny town where everyone knew everyone else, and nothing bad ever happened. She was thinking that when the shadow approached. When he reached out for her long black hair. She was thinking what a nice, safe place Gap Lake was when he clamped a hand over her mouth. When he strangled her scream and drove the needle straight into her throat.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“The book, Addison.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“You are the biggest, nerdiest R. J. Rosen fan ever.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Hey, I’m president of his fan club. It’s mainly research.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Who you calling borderline?” Addison flashed a wide grin. “It’s not entirely my fault. Rosen needs to write faster. If he could keep up with the public’s rabid love for the Gap Lake mysteries, I wouldn’t need to constantly reread—”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“‘Plans afoot’? ‘So forth and stuff’? Who are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“It’s my lifeblood.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Tell me you still want to be a writer and haven’t decided on serial killing as a career goal.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Well, I know what to get you for Christmas.” Maya stopped dead in her tracks. “Don’t look, but you’re being ogled. Possibly even being fantasized about in weird and uber-sexual ways.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“If it’s a cardboard cutout of Declan Levy, sign me up.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“So you are into serial killers.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">Maya rolled her eyes. “Declan totally did it. He killed Crystal, then did Andy and Rhodes. It’s textbook. I know because I am the daughter of cops, times two.” She held up two fingers a half inch from Addie’s nose. “He had motive, opportunity—all those other CSI words.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“That’s what the author wants you to think. And you totally fell for it! You are so R. J. Rosen’s target audience!”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“And you’re his secret side chick.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Well, it seems like Spencer Cohen is your biggest fan, and he’s coming over here.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Hey, Addie.” Spencer grinned, one of those three-point grins that hit his dark-brown eyes, chin dimple, and Crest-white smile.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">I’m not in love with Spencer, she told herself. Infatuation. Puppy love, maybe. He’s just so cute…</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Hey, Spencer.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">Maya stepped forward. “Addie was just telling me how much she loves water polo. And dancing.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">Addie blinked. “I was?”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“I play water polo.” Spencer brightened and Addie gritted her teeth. She had been to nearly every one of his matches. True, she was usually up on the last bleacher with her nose in a book, but she watched whenever Spencer was in the pool. He never even noticed her.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Yeah,” she said with a slow nod. “I’ve seen. I mean I know. I know because I’ve seen you. Not in a weird way, like in a fan way. Not, like, a weird mega fan or anything but, like, a Hornets fan. You know.” Addie fisted her hand and punched at the air. “Go team!”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">Maya threaded her arm though Addie’s and gave it a yank. “We have to go.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Why did you do that?” Addie hissed once they were out of earshot. “Spencer and I were having a conversation.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Have you ever heard the term dead in the water? Because that’s what you were. ‘Go team’?” She shook her head sadly.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Did I sound that bad?”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Yes, yes you did.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 10pt;">“Oh honey,” Maya slid an arm over Addie’s shoulders. “At this point I don’t even think your book boyfriend would talk to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The Last Time I Lied</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15263414.Riley_Sager">Riley Sager</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Publisher: Dutton Press</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Release Date: July 3, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Genre: Adult, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Now a full-time author, Riley's first thriller, FINAL GIRLS, became a national and international bestseller and was called "the first great thriller of 2017" by Stephen King. Translation rights have been sold in more than two dozen countries and a film version is being developed by Universal Pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Riley's next book, THE LAST TIME I LIED, will be published in July. It was inspired by the classic novel and film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and one horrible week Riley spent at summer camp when he was ten.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">A native of Pennsylvania, Riley now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. When he's not working on his next novel, he enjoys reading, cooking and going to the movies as much as possible. His favorite film is "Rear Window." Or maybe "Jaws." But probably, if he's being honest, "Mary Poppins."</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Last Time I Lied</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is a fabulous thriller filled with suspense, mystery, and everything I love about the genre. I am huge fan of suspenseful thrillers. Give me plot twists, red herrings, mysteries, and more and I am one happy camper (no pun intended considering what </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Last Time I Lied</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is about, I promise...even though I love a good pun).</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">There are several types or subgenres that fall under the thriller category and many of them overlap. But I thought I’d share a few of my favorites with you. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">So in no particular order here are 10 of my favorite types of thrillers...</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In this type of thriller, you have multiple deaths that are connected and usually someone (perhaps the main character) trying to catch the killer or the main character/narrator may even turn out to be the killer! You never know and you never know who might die next. There are so many ways to go with this theme and so many types of books, movies, and TV shows that use it in a variety of ways.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In this type, a character either knows or maybe they don’t know that someone is watching their every move. Perhaps they get threatening letters or people close to them begin to be hurt or killed. There are so many ways this can go. The author or filmmaker may choose to reveal the stalker’s identity and his or her motives or keep it a secret just to keep readers guessing.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">So technically the first two and a few of the others could fall under this category, but this one is for all of the other types of crimes that can occur in a thriller or suspense. Kidnapping, bombing, heists, robberies, serial rapists or attackers, etc. Like the others you may know who the guilty party is or you may be kept in the dark like the protagonist. Or who knows? The twist might be the protagonist is the guilty one all along!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">By this I’m talking a good old-fashioned mystery such as an Agatha Christie novel or maybe a book featuring the beloved Sherlock Holmes. Or any written in that vein, Just a simple or not-so-simple mystery where something happens and someone solves it by the end of the story using clues throughout the story. There are plenty of red herrings, plot twists, and just when you think you know whodunnit you begin to question yourself. These are the type I grew up reading and are so much fun for me.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This is pretty much any thriller, but I’ve gave it its own category because sometimes the stakes are higher in one suspense than in another and in these the stakes are raised immensely. By “race the clock,” I mean when you have to do something such as find a victim, deactivate a bomb, find a cure, locate a killer, etc. before it’s too late. You are in a time crunch.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">These are some of my favorites...especially movies. In medical thrillers, there’s usually a sick patient or a virus that is quickly spreading or some medical mystery that the protagonist must figure out how to cure before it’s too late.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I love historical novels, but historical mysteries and thrillers have recently some of my favorites to read. They typically feature a protagonist who must solve a case or help capture a killer before he or she takes another victim. They fascinate because they don’t always have the forensic knowledge that we have today so it makes it even more complicated for them and interesting for me to see them solve it.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Romantic thrillers typically involve the protagonist falling in love with either someone involved in or related to the main case of the story. For example, it could be a witness falling for their protector, a victim who has given them information to help solve the case falling for a detective, or two victims finding love with each other. There are many ways to write a romantic suspense thriller.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In this type of thriller, the case involves technology (well, obviously, Jennifer, that was in the header). Okay, by that I mean computer, cell phones, recording devices, etc. it could be anything from cyber stalking to identity theft, computer viruses to hacking. Anything is possible and everyone’s a suspect because everyone uses technology. There are so many scary possibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So, there you have it...10 types of thrillers that I enjoy. There are many more, but I stopped myself at ten. As you can see, many of the subgenres of the Thriller genre do overlap, but that is what makes it fascinating to me. There are so many different things happening in a good suspenseful thriller, and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Last Time I Lied</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is definitely one of the best I’ve read in awhile so I hope you’ll check it out.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">You can do one or you can do two or you can do all three! It’s up to you!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Each entry gives you a chance to win so that’s up to 3 chances!!!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Chloe Snow is back is the wonderful follow-up to Emma Chastain’s <i>Confessions Of a High School Disaster.</i></span></b></div>
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<b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Keep reading to learn more about <i>The Year Of Living Awkwardly</i> and to read about my awkward year of high school ...plus there’s a giveaway!</span></b></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/788361.Emma_Chastain">Emma Chastain</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Publisher:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> Simon Pulse</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Release Date: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">July 10, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Genre:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> Young Adult, Contemporary</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">High school student Chloe Snow chronicles another year in her life while she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in her diary.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">It’s Chloe Snow’s sophomore year of high school, and life has only grown more complicated.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Last year, Chloe was the star of the musical. This year, after an audition so disastrous she runs off the stage in tears, she’s cast as a lowly member of the ensemble. Will she be able to make it through the show knowing everyone’s either pitying her or reveling in her downfall?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Chloe’s best friend, Hannah, is no help: she’s been sucked into the orbit of Lex, the velvet-gloved, iron-fisted ruler of the sophomore class. Chloe’s dad is busy falling in love with Miss Murphy, and Chloe is no longer speaking to her mother, who is sending her increasingly desperate and unhinged emails from Mexico. As her parents’ divorce negotiations unravel, a custody battle looms.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If only Chloe could talk to Grady about it: his parents are divorced, and he’s easy to talk to. Or he was, until he declared his love for Chloe, and she turned him down because despite all her rational brain cells she can’t seem to get over Mac, and then Grady promptly started going out with Lex.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As the performance of the show approaches, Chloe must find a way to navigate all the messy elements of her life and make it through to the end of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Like Chloe, Sophomore year was definitely an awkward and busy year for me. I was pretty much an introverted reader who mostly kept to herself...kind of like I am now...with very few friends (if any, really). I spent lunch hour reading books and never really talked to people. But that year, I met one of the best friends I would ever have and probably the main reason I made it through high school...and it all started because of the Spice Girls.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">You see, my friend was absolutely obsessed with the Spice Girls and that is how we met. We were in gym class and I was pretending to practice playing basketball (basically I was standing at the back of the court with a ball in my hand which I’d bounce occasionally and chase when it decided to run away from the non-athletic bookworm). I was counting down the minutes until I could get out this nightmare when this tiny pixie-like girl came and stood next to me with a ball in her hand (we’d later bond over our lack of athletic ability). After a few awkward minutes where I wondered why this stranger had approached and what I should do or say, she randomly asked, “Can you believe the Spice Girls are breaking up?” </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I had no response to this because honestly I didn’t really care. The Spice Girls were not my thing. She must have taken my stunned silence and staring as an invitation to continue and for the rest of the period she vented her frustrations at her favorite girl group and her disappointment. I nodded and tried to appear sympathetic at the appropriate time and it must have worked because we went from talking about Posh and Ginger Spice to talking about others things. Turns out we had a lot in common. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">At the end of class she finally introduced herself and said she’d seen me around school the last couple of years, but had never approached because she was nervous. From that moment on I had a new friend...one who didn’t mind what we talked about or did because it turns out she was just as awkward, shy, and nerdy as me.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Besides our first meeting, I have some another favorite memory with her from Sophomore year that started out fun but turned out to be one of the most awkward weekends of my high school experience. It was Halloween and we went to an amusement park. I didn’t want to wear my glasses because I didn’t want to lose them or mess them up so I left them at home...that was probably not the greatest idea, but back then my eyesight wasn’t quite as bad as it is now and I figured that I wouldn’t need to read anything anyway and could see if I squinted. My friend wore hers though...and well, it turns out that maybe my idea wasn’t that bad because, well, um...she lost hers on a rollercoaster when it went upside down. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">So for the rest of the night, it was the blind leading the blind. Honestly, it was kind of hilarious and we laughed so hard because things like this only happened to us, but it was definitely an interesting night. Especially since it was Halloween and they had people in scary costumes walking around...something we didn’t see until they were right in front of us.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Later that night, after the disappearance of the eyeglasses, I had probably my most awkward encounter with a guy and experience flirting ever. We were in line for a ride and two cute (well, I assume they were cute...I had to squint to see their faces) guys overheard us talking about my German class. One turned around and said, “Oh, you speak German?” and proceeded to speak to me in perfectly fluent German. I squinted up at him and had absolutely no clue what he said or what to say to him. My friend nudged me and I informed him that it was just beginning German and told him my name using German and he told me his. Keep in mind that this entire time my friend and I are squinting at these two guys (turns out she’s practically blind without her glasses and I’ve had to direct her or hold her hand all night). We stand in awkward silence for a bit (my friend and German-speaking dude’s friend oddly have not said a word) and I ask about their favorite rides (no clue why, or what possessed me to prolong this strange encounter) Then, thank goodness, it’s our turn to ride and “Poof!” German-speaking guy & his silent friend disappear probably wondering why those two girls squinted at them the entire time we were talking.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The next couple of years were rough for both me and my friend health-wise (something else we had in common and bonded over), but we got through it and finally graduated. My health issues caused me to miss a lot of school and we weren’t as close as we once were, which makes me sad. I am also sad that I lost touch with her after graduation as we both went our separate ways and to different colleges. I just hope she knows how much her friendship meant to this awkward teen girl who was so grateful to have a friend like her.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15852879.Demetra_Brodsky">Demetra Brodsky</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Author Demetra Brodsky has created a wonderful Mood Board for </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Dive Smack </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">that I am thrilled to be able to share with you today. It’s absolutely perfect for this story and the images she chose are gorgeous! I particularly love the center message.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">To see more, be sure to check out Demetria’s Pinterest Board for <i>Dive Smack</i> by clicking <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/demetrabrodsky/dive-smack-a-novel-2018/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favorite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Not to mention the neighbor who seems to be bent on sabotage and a storm that is bent on drenching everything. The justice of the peace is missing. The band will only play covers. The guests are all crazy. And the wedding planner’s nephew is unexpectedly, distractingly…cute.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Over the course of three ridiculously chaotic days, Charlie will learn more than she ever expected about the family she thought she knew by heart. And she’ll realize that sometimes, trying to keep everything like it was in the past means missing out on the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Morgan Matson was born in New York City and grew up there and in Greenwich, Connecticut. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, but halfway through a theater degree, she started working in the children’s department of Vroman’s Bookstore and fell in love with YA literature.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Following college graduation (and the proud bearer of an incredibly useful theater/English degree) she received her M.F.A. in Writing for Children from The New school and worked as an editor for YA novels. She received a second M.F.A. (for reasons that made sense at the time) in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages, and published all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Morgan’s first novel, Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, was inspired by her love of road trips, snacks, and the quest for the perfect playlist. It was named an ALA Top Ten Best Book, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying Start book, and was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Book Prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her second novel, Second Chance Summer, was inspired by her experiences spending summers in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. It was the winner of the California Book Award (YA category) and was named to the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List, selected for the Oklahoma Sequoya List, and selected as a School Library Journal Best Book.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Her third novel, Since You’ve Been Gone, was published in 2014, and was a Publisher’s Weekly and international bestseller. It was named to the YALSA Teens Top Ten list, and the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award List.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Morgan’s fourth novel, The Unexpected Everything, was published May 3rd, 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Murphy.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">In </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Save the Date</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">, Charlie’s family is gathering for her older sister’s wedding and all Charlie wants is for everything that weekend to be perfect and I won’t spoil things, but you guessed it...it’s one disaster after another. And to be honest with you, this is what makes weddings and wedding planning, both real and fictional, fun for me. I love the imperfections and hijinks that can occur...of course, I’ve never been a bride so it’s never been MY wedding, so I might have a different opinion if that were the case. But you kind of just have to go with the flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For example, my brother & sister-in-law’s cake almost toppled over as they cut into it and they spent their wedding night bailing the best man out from jail. At my sister’s wedding, my mom caught my younger cousins drinking directly from the chocolate fountain, their heads completely under it. And my grandmother got the champagne mixed up with the nonalcoholic grape juice all night and thought her camera was broken as she tried to take photos with it upside down and backwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But nothing is ever perfect, but that’s what makes life fun. And each of these fictional weddings or films about weddings proves this. In no particular order, here are some of my favorite fictional weddings from films, television, and books. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet-bolditalic"; font-size: 11.00pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Sixteen Candles</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> (film, 1984)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Honestly, this was the very first thing that came to mind when I first read the synopsis for </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Save the Date. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In this classic movie from the 80s, which happens to be one of my favorites, Samantha’s sister is getting married and in all the hoopla her family seems to have forgotten her 16th birthday. She’s also dealing with a crush on the hottest guy in school as well as embarrassing moments with her family. I love this movie and technically it’s not the wedding that makes it a favorite, but it’s such a big part of the movie and so fun.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you’ve seen the show, then you know story of how they all became “The Brady Bunch.” This was one of the first weddings that came to mind when I saw the cover of Save the Date as it involves a backyard wedding reception with a mishap involving the cake...although Mike Brady was not as graceful-looking as our cover model. It is also one of the most memorable TV weddings.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet-bolditalic"; font-size: 11.00pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Wings</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> (TV Show, 1995, Season 6, Episode 26)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Another memorable TV wedding, this one involves two of the main characters of the show that fans waited years to see if they’d finally end up together. A dropped ring and a hand stuck in a toilet require the ceremony to move to a bathroom of all places, the groom on the floor. But for fans of the show and the couple, it was perfect for the couple and worth the wait.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">4. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet-bolditalic"; font-size: 11.00pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Wedding</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"> by Julie Garwood</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> (book, 1996)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The only book on my list (although others could have made it), the wedding in this one is one of my favorites because it made me laugh. To be honest, no one does weddings or marriages of convenience in historical romances quite like Julie Garwood and I could have put several of her books on this list, but the wedding in <i>The Wedding</i> definitely stood out and is one I remember years and thousands of books later.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">5. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet-bolditalic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Father of the Bride </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">(film, 1991)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I haven’t seen the original version, but this version with Steve Martin is one of my favorites (as is the sequel). I love his relationship with his daughter and the interactions with the kooky wedding planner played by Martin Short are such fun. The buildup to the wedding is what makes this movie so much fun for me.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This is another favorite movie of mine. I love the craziness that is Toula’s family and can relate even though I am not Greek. I definitely have some...um...interesting...family members, too. There is just so much to love and to laugh about in this movie.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This movie is a fun one with each character trying to ruin the other one all because they are getting married on the same day at the same place. Now, I would hope real friends wouldn’t behave the way Liv and Emma do in this movie considering how long they’ve been friends and they’re supposed to be lifelong best friends, but you never know...they say weddings make people crazy. And the actual wedding day turns out pretty cool.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The wedding of Marshall and Lily...hilariously, just about everything goes wrong...well, hilariously for viewers, but eventually the couple does make it to the “I Do’s,” but it is still one of my favorite episodes and one of the most memorable TV weddings I’ve seen.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Starring one of my favorite actors, Robin Williams, this film is about an engaged couple who have to go through a wedding prep course in order to get married at the bride’s church and of course each test has hilarious, yet detrimental results. Like </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Bride Wars</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, it’s another fun movie that you would hope wouldn’t happen in real life, but you never know. It’s also more about wedding prep, but I still enjoy it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Today I am a stop on the <i>Always Forever Maybe </i>Blog Tour!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It’s an emotional read about abuse in a relationship and I share some rambling (but hopefully coherent) thoughts on the topic, so keep reading!</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1299199.Anica_Mrose_Rissi"><span style="color: #bfb282; font-size: 12pt;">Anica Mrose Rissi</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">When Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush to the heart. Even before they share a first kiss, Betts already knows the two of them are destined to become an us.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Betts has a bruised, cautious history with love, but she feels safe and empowered in Aiden's arms. He trusts her with the darkness in his troubled past, and his devotion opens up a new future for Betts just as everything else in her world is changing. With graduation inching closer, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Betts and her best friend, Jo, have been sliding slowly apart, and that fissure is blown wide open by Aiden.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Betts has only ever kept one secret from Jo, but suddenly there's a long list of things she won't tell her, things Jo wouldn't understand. Because Jo doesn't see how good Aiden is for Betts. She finds him needy. Possessive. Controlling.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">She's wrong. With a love like this, nothing else matters.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Anica Mrose Rissi grew up on an island off the coast of Maine. After college, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a cheesemonger and book editor. She now writes, fiddles in the electro-country band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, and walks with her dog, Arugula, near their home in Princeton, New Jersey. Anica is the author of several books for younger readers, and her essays have been published by The Writer and the New York Times. Always Forever Maybe is her YA debut. Visit her online at <a href="http://anicarissi.com/"><span style="color: #032eed; font-size: 12pt;">anicarissi.com</span></a>, and follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @anicarissi.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">When I first read the synopsis of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Always Forever Maybe</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">, a million post ideas ran through my head for this. Now, as I sit here trying to write down exactly what I want to say, I am struggling. This book and its subject matter is a tough one, both to read and to write about...especially if you’ve lived it or are currently living it.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Now, I don’t want to give you the wrong idea, I was never in a controlling or possessive relationship like the one portrayed in the book...no, I was the friend who wanted to help, the family member who watched a loved one suffer at the hands of her abuser, the one who always said, “That won’t be me” and still prays it never is.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">But I can easily understand how it could happen...even more so now that I am an adult than when I was a teen and that’s what is so hard for me about abuse in teen relationships. Because many teens don’t get it, they don’t see or know the signs because no one has told them or they interpret them as something else. Some long for any attention or affection and sometimes that comes with a price...sometimes they tell, sometimes they don’t. And occasionally friends don’t want to get involved or don’t want to ruin a friendship or are unsure themselves of what’s going on so they stay quiet, too. Like I did...a decision I still regret all of these years later.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Guess I better start at the beginning with that one. I knew a girl in elementary school who became more of a friend in middle school. We weren’t super close, but we had lunch and gym together so we would hang out and talk then. Around this time Reese Witherspoon </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt;">and Mark Wahlberg had a movie out called </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Fear</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt;"> about a teen girl who gets involved with an older boy who ends up being possessive and abusive (this movie was actually the very first thing I thought of reading the synopsis for </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Always Forever Maybe</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12pt;">). While I absolutely hated the Wahlberg character, my friend loved him and thought he was so sexy and romantic. He was an abusive jerk, I would say and she’d counter with, but he loved her a lot. I was left wondering if we saw the same movie. Then it clicked...my friend had an older boyfriend, one she rarely talked about, but everyone at school knew about. Could he be like Wahlberg’s character? I dismissed the thought because surely my friend would’ve said something or left him or something. I began paying more attention to things after that. Small bruises on her arms and legs...I bruise easy, she’d say. A few weeks later, she came to school with her arm in a brace and a black eye...a door she said. I finally called her out on the lie and asked her who hurt her and she told me it was him, but her parents had pressed charges so it was over. She was also moving. I felt terrible for not voicing my suspicions to someone before it had gotten to this point and told her so. She said that it wouldn’t have mattered because no one would’ve believed me without proof and she would’ve just lied...she still loved him. She moved a few weeks later and I never saw her again. But I still wonder about her.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">I can’t help but also wonder if she and other teens would have benefited from one of the best college classes I ever took: Self Defense. Yes, I learned ways to defend myself against would-be attackers, but we also spent a lot of time discussing a topic you wouldn’t think you’d need to know about in this type of class...abuse in relationships. We learned warning signs to look for in people we date, warning signs in other people’s relationships, where and how to get help for ourselves and others, and so much more. We shared personal stories and it opened my eyes to things that I might not have realized were warning signs before. It also gave me a better understanding of those who stay in abusive relationships and the cycle these types of relationships creates. My only regret is that I didn’t get this information until my 20s...I believe that teens, especially those who date, could really benefit from of all of this info and I hope there are programs that provide it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Earlier I mentioned the film </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Fear</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, and how the synopsis of the book reminded me of it, there is another movie I want to bring up because it brings to light the fact that it’s not just females who are the victims, for lack of a better word, in abusive relationships. Years ago, network TV stations would air “Movies of the Week” that were like Lifetime movies, but better (in my opinion). There is one that has stuck with me since I was a child...</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Men Don’t Tell</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. In the film, the husband is being physically abused by the wife but no one believes it and he gets blamed because he is the male in the relationship. It takes the couple’s daughter asking if Mommy was going to get in trouble for hurting Daddy for people to finally start to understand what’s really happening. This film struck a chord with itty bitty kid me and stuck with me for years because it is one of the first times where I had seen them portray the man as the victim. It’s important and I wanted to mention it because we often forget that guys can also be victims of abusive relationships as well and deserve the same help and consideration as girls.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Author: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Christy Sloat</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Pub. Date:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> May 28, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">"With the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland and the romance of Outlander dive back into the next installment in the Librarian Chronicles."</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">While researching infamous Scottish outlaw Sir Malcolm Wash during the raging conflicts of the 14th Century, Savannah loses the only thing that tethers her to her own time. She must rely on her knowledge of both the present and the past to survive long enough to find a way home. Along the way, she enlists the help of a misfit named Eoin. With his guidance, she might just get home. It’s a risky and dangerous adventure, but then, so is Eoin.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Archivist</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is a fun and fascinating follow-up to Christ Sloat’s first book in “The Librarian Chronicles” series, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Librarian</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">. Don’t worry if you haven’t read </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Librarian</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, you can read this book first as it stands on its own, but you might want to pick that one up anyway as it’s pretty good, if you ask me, and helps you understand what being a “Librarian” with a capital </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">L </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">means (although </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Archivist</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> does a good job at explaining this, too).</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As for </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Archivist</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, in it we are introduced to Savannah, a college student who comes from a family of Librarians, or people with the ability to travel through time through books. Savannah is traveling to 14th century to discover what happened to the notorious Scottish outlaw Sir Malcolm Walsh during the few years he seemed to fall off everyone’s radar and to make sure that historians got things about that time period correct. However, things don’t go quite as Savannah planned on one of her journeys to the past. What should have a simple trip to research and preserve history turns into a dangerous adventure as Savannah must use her knowledge of the past and the help of others as she tries to survive long enough to find a way back home.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I love time travel stories and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Archivist</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is definitely a fun and interesting one. It got off to a really quick start, which made me feel like I may have missed something, but once I got into the story and Savannah began her “mission,” I fell into a reading groove and couldn’t put the book down as Savannah first journeyed between the past and the present trying to balance both of her very different lives. It was fascinating to see life in medieval Scotland through the eyes of a modern young lady and get a better understanding of Savannah’s role as a Librarian as well as see the effects it has on her life. Sloat could easily make things overcomplicated or too flowery, but she manages to write in a style that makes for easy understanding while not being too simple...I hope that makes sense.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Things definitely get tricky for Savannah when she unexpectedly gets stuck in Scotland on one of her trips to the past. As she tries to keep her secret and work to figure out a way back home, she encounters Eoin, a fascinating young man who attempts to help her on her journey back home even if he doesn’t initially know that’s her goal and she faces several risks across the dangerous medieval Scottish countryside. It was quite a ride filled with several interesting encounters and some unexpected moments. And a bit of romance.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Sloat has also created some interesting and complex characters. I have to be honest though, at first, I wasn’t sure I was going to like Savannah. She just seemed a bit too nice and too self-deprecating as everyone else seemed to take advantage of her or be flat-out rude to her, but I found myself relating to her on some levels so perhaps that was why she irked me at first. On one hand she is a typical college student who struggles with family issues, time management, and other issues facing others her age. But she also struggles with her gift and responsibilities as a Librarian and how that affects her life and relationships. I loved the growth Savannah showed throughout the story as she became stronger and more confident...she definitely has a backbone and it was great to see her show it throughout the story.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">She turned out to be quite a complicated character filled with contradictions...insecure, yet proud...naive, yet knowledgeable...fearful, yet adventurous. It was a little confusing as I wasn’t sure which Savannah we were going to get from chapter to chapter and she was a hard character to really get a feel for because she was a little bit of everything, but I guess that is realistic in a way considering who and what Savannah is. She has learned to hide her true </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">identity and adapt to new environments as a Librarian, which can make for a very complicated personality</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">A few of the other characters rubbed me the wrong way a time or two and were a little hard to get a read on as well. But Savannah and the others grew on me and I wanted to know more about them even while wanting to smack some sense into a few of them.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Overall, it was a entertaining read that made me wish I could time travel or jump into a book, but definitely with the ability to come back home...I need my modern-day hygiene products and gadgets, thank you very much. If you enjoy stories with time travel, rich history, relatable characters, touching romance, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">and intriguing plots, then I recommend you try </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Archivist</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">5/23/2018- <a href="http://www.never2many2read.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Never Too Many To Read</span></a>- </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Review</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">5/28/2018- <a href="http://www.owlalwaysbereading.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Owl Always Be Reading</span></a>- </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Excerpt</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">5/29/2018- <a href="https://booksofteacups.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Books of Teacups</span></a>- </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Review</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">5/29/2018- <a href="http://www.novelnovice.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Novel Novice</span></a>- </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Guest Post</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">5/30/2018- <a href="https://book-o-craze.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Book-o-Craze</span></a>- </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Review</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">5/31/2018- <a href="http://evie-bookish.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Bookish Lifestyle</span></a>-</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> Interview</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">5/31/2018- <a href="https://rhythmicbooknerd.wordpress.com/%20/t%20_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">RhythmicBooktrovert</span></a>-</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> Review</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">6/1/2018- <a href="http://www.bluestockingbookworm.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt;">Bluestocking Bookworm-</span></a> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Review</span></div>
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Hi everyone! Remember me?<br />
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I am so sorry that I disappeared and haven’t been posting anything lately...it’s a long, boring story that I plan to share soon. But if you follow me on Twitter, then you probably know that I’ve been very ill. Things are slowly improving (fingers crossed) and I’m slowly trying to get back to normal (whatever that is).<br />
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I am so behind on things including emails, so if you’ve emailed me, I appreciate your patience and apologize profusely! If it’s really important, you might want to resend it. I am slowly sifting through them and don’t know how long that will take, to be honest, as my body adjusts to changes in meds.<br />
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But, I wanted to check in, let y’all know that I plan to get back in the swing of things with even more posts and several needed updates to the blog itself.<br />
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So, I hope all is well in your corner in the world. Hope you stick around and next time bring a friend or two or three...<br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Author</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Stacy Kestwick</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Narrators</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Stephen Dexter, Tracy Marks</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Length</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: 9 hours 5 minutes</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Publisher</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Stacy Kestwick</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11pt;">⎮</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">2017</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Genre</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Contemporary Romance</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Release date</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Dec. 4, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Synopsis</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Traditions are important. Especially in the South. College football. Rivalries. Tailgating. Halftime shows. Some things just don’t change. Until Reese Holland shows up with her long legs and no-bullshit attitude to audition for the prestigious all-male Rodner University snare line. It doesn’t matter how much hazing she has to endure from Laird Bronson, with his narrowed green eyes and arrogant smirk. She wants that damn spot, and she’s more than good enough to earn it. She expects there to be tension. Even friction. But not sparks hot enough to burn the entire campus down.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Narrators</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">: Stephen Dexter, Tracy Marks</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Confession...I was a little nervous about listening to a romance audiobook. I mean, I love the genre and have read many, many romances of all types, but I had never listened to an audiobook one before and was a little worried it’d be weird or uncomfortable. But I was curious to try and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Drumline</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> sounded like an awesome story, so why not? And why it might have been a little out of my “audiobook comfort zone,” I was definitely not disappointed in either the story or the two narrators who brought it to life...in fact, I may have just added a new favorite to my list.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Drumline</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is a fun New Adult romance set at southern University where traditions are everything, but one feisty, strong young lady is determined to buck tradition and be the first female on an all-male snare line...and she’s willing to do anything to make it. Reese Holland knew it wouldn’t be easy to make her way into what had always been an “all-boys club,” but she’s determined and faces everything from sexism, hazing, rumors, and more. Despite this she remains determined. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am excited to be a part of the Falling Kingdoms Blog Tour! Prior to this tour, I had never read this series, but I ran to the library to check out the books I didn’t have and binge read them over two days. And y’all I have added this series to my list of favorites,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I am thrilled to tell you about Book 5: <i>Crystal Storm</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">MAGNUS and CLEO are forced to test the strength of their love when Gaius returns to Mytica claiming he's no longer the King of Blood but a changed man seeking redemption. LUCIA, pregnant with the child of a Watcher, has escaped the clutches of the unhinged fire god. Her powers are dwindling as she goes forth to fulfill a prophecy that will keep her baby safe . . . but could mean her demise. JONAS treks back to Mytica with a plan to overtake Amara, but fate takes hold when he runs into the beautiful Princess Lucia and joins her on her perilous journey. AMARA has taken the Mytican throne, but with no way to unleash the water magic trapped within her stolen crystal, she'll never be able to seize glory and get sweet revenge. And </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;">what kind of darkness will descend--and who will be safe--after Prince Ashur reveals the dangerous price he paid to cheat death?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Morgan Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series and the Falling Kingdoms spin-off series, the Books of Spirits and Thieves. Under another pen name, she's an award winning author of more than two dozen novels. Morgan lives in Southern Ontario, where she's currently hard at work on the next Falling Kingdoms book.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Format: Hardcover</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This series continues to amaze me and just when I think it can’t get any better, it does!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Crystal Storm</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> continues the saga of the land of Mytica with characters both old and new. After reading the previous book in the series, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Frozen Tides</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, I couldn’t wait to see what Morgan Rhodes had in store for us and I was definitely not disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I’m going to try my best to review this book without spoiling anything...which is very difficult because SO much happens (plus if you haven’t read the previous books, the blurb could even be considered a spoiler). In </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Crystal Storm</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, the battle for control continues with several groups eager to take (or retake) the throne. We learn quite a bit about the motivations that drive certain characters and we get to see other characters in new ways. We also get to meet a few new characters that are definitely a surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I would definitely recommend you read the previous books in the series prior to picking up this one. You could read them at your leisure or do as I did and binge read them. I became lost in this fictional world and so enthralled by its characters that I couldn’t wait to see what would happen.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">And Morgan Rhodes is definitely isn’t afraid to play with your emotions. No character is safe so prepare yourself. But I think that is what makes this series and book so enjoyable, you never know what to expect. It draws you in and you become invested in the lives of these characters and their story, but you know anything can happen at any time. It reminds me a bit of one of my favorite series where there is also a battle for the throne, Game of Thrones.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Look for the next book in the series, Immortal Reign out February 6, 2018!</span></b></div>
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