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3 Sept 2018

We Can(ada) Read: #Review of CHAOTIC GOOD by Whitney Gardner + #Giveaway

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We Can(ada) Read is by Canadians for EVERYONE to learn more about some amazing Canadian authors! It is a highlight of Canadian Literature and those of us who promote it as much as possible.

 For a full schedule of events, please check out the Kick-Off post!

Thank you to Moonbeam Books for sponsoring the amazing giveaway! Scroll to the bottom!
Jamie is a Canadian book blogger who owns more books than she can fit in her room. She mostly reads YA but has a soft spot for all types Science Fiction and Fantasy, so she carries those around with her as well. Jamie typically reads while drinking tea, curled up in a little ball for maximum warmth. 

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CHAOTIC GOOD

Author: Whitney Gardner
Series: N/A
Source: Part of my Indigo Teen Box
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: March 13, 2018
Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Summary:
Cameron's cosplay--dressing like a fictional character--is finally starting to earn her attention--attention she hopes to use to get into the CalTech costume department for college. But when she wins a major competition, she inadvertently sets off a firestorm of angry comments from male fans.

When Cameron's family moves the summer before her senior year, she hopes to complete her costume portfolio in peace and quiet away from the abuse. Unfortunately, the only comic shop in town--her main destination for character reference--is staffed by a dudebro owner who challenges every woman who comes into the shop. 

At her twin brother's suggestion, Cameron borrows a set of his clothes and uses her costuming expertise to waltz into the shop as Boy Cameron, where she's shocked at how easily she's accepted into the nerd inner sanctum. Soon, Cameron finds herself drafted into a D&D campaign alongside the jerky shop-owner Brody, friendly (almost flirtatiously so) clerk Wyatt, handsome Lincoln, and her bro Cooper, dragged along for good measure. 

But as her "secret identity" gets more and more entrenched, Cameron's portfolio falls by the wayside--and her feelings for Lincoln threaten to make a complicated situation even more precarious.
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This was absolutely marvellous. A mix of all things geeky, fun, and feminine. The opening pages are things that have actually stopped me from participating in certain geek things. It was so nice to have my story told and Whitney Gardner does an amazing job. The adding in of the "comic like" panels for the DnD game was an added bonus. I thought the ending was a little too easy but I loved every second of this entire book. This is definitely a must read if you are sick of being called a fake geek girl.
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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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