Happy Thanksgiving week everyone!
I know that not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving, considering there is only one out of many countries in the world that celebrate the US holiday…the US. Crazy concept LOL.
But I’m bringing EVERYONE into Thanksgiving this week. This week I’m profiling the newest release from Rick Riordan and sharing an epic giveaway with you all!
First off, let’s revisit our good friend, Rick, why don’t we?
Hello everyone!
I am SO insanely excited to announce that I will be having a launch party for my debut novel, order The Awakened!
This is an incredibly exciting thing for me. Not only do I get to celebrate The Awakened finally being a real, tangible THING that people are actually going to read, but I get to celebrate this with YOU guys too!
This is amazing. I literally can’t handle this at all. I will be signing books and doing SO many exciting things and its just amazing as hell. SO great! I can’t wait.
Now let’s dive into the information!
Saturday, December 5th, 2015
3 pm t0 7 pm
215 West Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton, CA 92832
This will be a VERY casual event!
It takes place between 3 and 7 pm so show up whenever!
Roughly around 3:30 pm, I will be doing a reading from The Awakened, and a short Q and A with one of my very best friends/future author friend, Alexandra Campos! Then I will take questions from the audience, if you guys have any!
From there, I will sign books. I will personalize and sign as many as you want, and pictures are totally okay :) Just make sure I don’t blink in them!
There will also be giveaways featuring exclusives for the release party only!! Make sure to show up for those because they are going to be SO awesome!
There will be books to purchase at the event through Comic Book Hideout! They will be 15 dollars, and she accepts all forms of payment. There will be 50 copies available! Except checks I think. I’m not sure. Because, like, who uses checks besides old ladies anymore…
No offense old ladies..
However! Until November 10th at exactly midnight PST, you can preorder your copy through this eventbrite link!
By doing this, you guarantee that there will be a copy (or 2 or 3 or…) waiting for you to take home at the event! Preorders are only available for THREE days so take advantage of this while you can!
Note: Starting in December/January, there will be an option to purchase signed copies of The Awakened directly from me! I am working out the details on how I am accomplishing this but I definitely want to set this up! I know I have friends and fans and followers all over the place and I definitely want to make this option available for you! Keep an eye out for it, mid to late December or early January!
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I am so insanely excited for all of this! I hope to see a bunch of you there! If you live in Southern California, make sure to share with your family and friends! If you don’t live in Southern California…still make sure to share with your family and friends!
Can’t wait to see you all there!
Dear November…Thank you for having not so many releases. My wallet really really really thanks you ;)
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Remember to click the book title for reviews!
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Genre: Young Adult, order Fantasy
465 pages
1st in the Six of Crows series
September 29th, price 2015
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…
A convict with a thirst for revenge.
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.
A runaway with a privileged past.
A spy known as the Wraith.
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.
Leigh Bardugo has created yet another masterpiece that completely blows my mind. Its not just a great YA novel and its not just a great fantasy novel…its just a great book period. She created this incredible world in the Grisha trilogy, and made it so that it was one of my favorite series, period.
Then she goes and continues in this world, and she opens it up even more. She’s already created this beautifully complicated but addicting world, and she opens it up and it is so easy to just fall into it. This new place is so different than Ravka and what we were used to with Alina but it also feels familiar, like you’re stepping out of Ravka and traveling the rest of the world. That’s how great Leigh is at writing, that’s how fantastic she is at world building. World building is the one thing that I struggle with the most and its a HUGE part of why I admire Leigh so much.
But I also love how much more she opens up her world, and its more than just it taking place in another country. We get so close to Alina in the Grisha trilogy but in this book, there are six characters, so different from each other and yet they all have to work together in order to make this incredibly impossible thing work. Leigh’s ability to create such rich and interesting characters in the same book and make them all insanely likable and yet you kind of want to wring their necks too…I love it.
I never know what to say about Leigh’s books because I always just feel sort of socked in the stomach after I read her books. In a good way, of course. She’s just such an incredible writer. She tells amazing stories with these compelling characters and sometimes you feel like you could get lost in what’s going on, but it also is so easy to be a part of. Give it a few pages, you get yourself centered in the story and then bam! You’re there, you’re involved and literally can’t stop reading. She blows my mind. I throw myself at her feet. I could only hope to write as well as she does.
And she’s my friend. That part blows my mind too. I’m friends with someone who writes incredibly amazing books, YA or not, fantasy or not, just straight up these books ARE so good and I’m already addicted to this characters (Inej = life) and I can’t wait to read more!
5 out of 5 Stars
Genre: Young Adult, health Fantasy
522 pages
Spinoff of Fangirl
October 6th, 2015
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he’ll be safe. Simon can’t even enjoy the fact that his roommate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can’t stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you’re the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savor anything.
You know what I think amuses me the most about this book? This book is literally a fan fiction of a fandom that only exists in another fictional book. Its beautiful, and I love that this is a thing, and that its successful and even more, its SO damn good.
Its no secret that Fangirl literally is one of my favorite books that I’ve ever read. From page one until the last, I connected with Cath so much, and the story. Its just…its me and Harry Potter, easily. Which gave me an emotional attachment to Simon Snow and Baz and the rest of the characters…these characters that don’t even really have a story but Rainbow makes you love them.
And then there’s this book. THIS BOOK. Its just…I love it. Its a fan fiction of a not real story. And its a fan fiction of the finale to the not real series. Its absolutely absurd when you really think about it, but this is exactly what it is and it just WORKS.
I adore Simon. I adore Penelope and Baz and I love them all. My love for Baz is so deep, I can’t even begin to explain it. Even though this isn’t a real story, I guess, Rainbow makes it real. She makes it seem like you’ve been part of this huge Simon Snow for years and that’s exactly how I felt. I was like, HOW IS THIS GOING TO END? IS SIMON GOING TO FULFILL HIS DESTINY? WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH PENNY? AND OH GOD I SHIP SIMON AND BAZ SO MUCH.
Any author that can make me love these fictional characters so much, so easily, totally wins all the marbles in my book. Seriously. Because its just such a fun story. It has everything that I love about Harry Potter, which makes it the perfect fictional stand-in for Cath in Fangirl. Its hilarious and its action packed, but it has that sort of whimsical and magical feel of Harry Potter…and it has this romance that KILLS me in all the good ways, because there is just not enough fantasy out there with a M/M love story and I adore Simon and Baz together SO much.
But I also think that it makes such a great Harry Potter fan fiction as well. Its obvious what Simon Snow is supposed to be but that’s what makes it so great. Its Rainbow’s own little shoutout to this amazing series, and she takes it and writes her own fan fiction and its beautiful, and cheeky and the bad words make me laugh because its a total fan fic thing to do. It literally feels like a Harry Potter fan fiction but one of the best written and it doesn’t feel fake or, like its taking advantage of an already established fandom. Its like, she’s paying it a huge compliment.
It also really makes me want more Simon Snow, which makes NO sense because really, its ONLY the one book. It just makes me laugh at the absurdity and yet its just so freakin perfect.
Rating:
5 out of 5 Stars
