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21 Feb 2018

#Discussion: 6 Non-Debut 2018 Releases I Can't Wait For!

21 February 2 Comments
My biggest flaw is focusing too much on the future: what is coming two, five, ten years down the line rather than the present. I do the same thing with blogging. Rather than focus on the books I already have on my shelves, I request new ones and am thinking more about books that come out in 6 months to two years and don't promote already published books that I absolutely love. We focus too much on debut authors rather than authors who have a book or two under their belt and I want to spend this post focusing on them. So here are 6 books I am really excited for whose authors are not debuts!


SAVE THE DATE

Author: Morgan Matson
Series: N/A
Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: June 5, 2018

Summary:
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.

The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster.

There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge.

There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favorite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo.

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.

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.
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FURYBORN

Author: Claire Legrand
Series: Empirium #1
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: May 22, 2018

Summary:
The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.

When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first.

A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable--until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.

As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world--and of each other.
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24 May 2016

BLOG TOUR: THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME THAN YOU by Lily Anderson \\ Guest Post

24 May 0 Comments
Hello and welcome to my blog tour stop for

THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU by Lily Anderson!

I have a Guest Post by the author, Lily Anderson, for you that includes Trixie's Pull List and how she determine her cosplay costumes! Last week, I reviewed the book on Queen of the Bookshelves, which I loved! So let's learn more about the book...


THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU

Author: Lily Anderson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: May 17, 2016

Summary:
Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing--down to number four.

Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.

The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.
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Trixie's Cosplay Guide

Because Trixie attends such a rigorous and competitive school, she really only has one day a year that she can go all out and dress up in costume—the annual Messina Academy Harvest Festival. She spends months digging through Pinterest boards and convention cosplay photos for inspiration before hunting through thrift stores and fabric stores for the perfect building materials.