Author: Sara

Read the Prologue and First Chapter of BENCHED!

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I’m so excited that we are just about a month away from the Benched. I have some really fun things planned and I can’t wait to share them soon. In the meantime, I want to celebrate the fact that the book is done and ARCs are out in the world and to do so, I want to share the prologue and first chapter, to hopefully get you hyped for the release.

Don’t forget you can preorder your ebook copy of Benched at the following links:

Kindle / Nook / Kobo / Apple Books 

There is going to be some news soon about a special signed book BOX and maybe even some news about an audiobook? Stay tuned! In the meantime, enjoy!

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Book Review: They Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

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Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed Midwestern town. But it’s okay — Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down . . . until she’s reminded of her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen. There’s nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but despite her devastating fear of the spotlight she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get to Pennington.

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Waiting on Wednesday {50}

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This week’s Waiting on Wednesday is the sequel to Jennifer L Armentrout’s surprise release this year, From Blood and Ash – A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire. JLA surprise dropped the new adult fantasy romance this year and it totally blew the minds of old fans and a ton of new fans as well. It left off on quite the cliffhanger so I know that I was not the only one to be SO sad that it would take time before the second book came out. Then…another surprise! The wait would be SO much shorter than before! Even still, I’m still sitting here, anxiously awaiting the sequel!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books with Colors In the Titles

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The Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly challenge post previously hosted by The Broke and Bookish and now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. You can follow along for each weekly post here. This week’s post was originally about books you loved but never reviewed. I know that I have a TON of those but I have 8 years of GoodReads and my blog to go through and I just didn’t want to HAHA. So I decided to do LAST week’s since its been awhile since I’ve done these. Let’s talk about books with COLORS in the title!

What I’ve learned from this is…I don’t read books with colors in the title, apparently LOL

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Three TV Shows I’ve Binged and Loved During Quarantine

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If there is one thing that I’ve learned during covid quarantine, its that I will definitely NOT use all my newfound free time to read. To be fair, I’ve been in a reading slump long before I was forced to stay home, but I just can’t seem to read more than a couple books here and there. But what I HAVE been really great at doing during all this free time – besides working on Benched, which is getting better and better by the minute – is binging a LOT of television.

And I do mean, a lot. A lot of it has been stuff that I’ve already seen before because I have found that when I’m feeling particularly anxious, like during a global pandemic, I tend to prefer watching things I’ve already watched before. So I totally rewatched the entirety of Greek and Avatar the Last Airbender.

But I did decide to finally give some new shows a try and some of these are shows that I’ve had recommended to me in the past, even if the past is just the past couple months lol, and I’m SO glad I gave them a try!

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TV Show Review: Get Even

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I’ve been reading Gretchen McNeil’s books religiously since I met her in 2013 and when she started talking about this series, she pitched it as John Hughes with a body count. I grew up on John Hughes’ movies and Gretchen is one of the few people on this planet that can get me to read murder and horror, so I was IN.

When I found out it was going to be developed into a TV show by BBC, I was SO excited and I’ve been anxiously awaiting its arrival on Netflix. It was just released this past Friday, July 31st and the second I got home from work, I turned on Netflix and settled in, refusing to go to bed until I had finished the show. I am SO insanely proud of Gretchen and SO happy for her because I thought the show was AWESOME.

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