Author: Natalia Heroux

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date December 2, 2020

Sponsored by Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley with Fierce Reads

“What do you get when you combine Tommy Orange, Angie Thomas, and Tomi Adeyemi?” —Entertainment Weekly

Firekeeper’s Daughter is a groundbreaking thriller centered on Daunis, a biracial unenrolled tribal member who’s never quite fit in. After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home.
How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known?

Keep the secret. Live the lie. Earn your truth.

The Stack

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date December 1, 2020

Sponsored by Barely Functional Adult by Mechi Ng and Harper Perennial

In this beautiful, four-color collection Meichi perfectly captures the best and worst of us in every story, allowing us to weep with pleasure at our own fallibility. Hilarious, relatable, and heart-wrenchingly honest, Barely Functional Adult will have you laughing and crying in the same breath, while taking solace in the fact that we’re anything but alone in this world.

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date December 1, 2020

Sponsored by The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each other, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before the cousins were born. So, when they receive letters inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they’re surprised.

Their parents agree: not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah arrive, it’s immediately clear that the family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over—and this summer, the cousins will learn everything . . . if they can survive the season.

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 28, 2020

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 27, 2020

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 25, 2020

We’re giving away six copies of Barely Functional Adult by Mechi Ng to six lucky Riot readers, and one grand prize winner will also receive a Barely Functional Adult plush toy!

Enter here for a chance to win, or click the cover image below!

Here’s what it’s all about:

From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 130k followers on Instagram, comes a never-before-seen collection of incriminating short stories about exes, murder, friendship, therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things, freaking out about things, calming down momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and other wonderful delights. In this beautiful, four-color collection, Meichi perfectly captures the best and worst of us in every story, allowing us to weep with pleasure at our own fallibility. Hilarious, relatable, and heart-wrenchingly honest, Barely Functional Adult will have you laughing and crying in the same breath, while taking solace in the fact that we’re anything but alone in this world.

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 24, 2020

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 24, 2020

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 23, 2020

We’re giving away five sci-fi/fantasy book bundles to five lucky Riot readers!

Enter here for a chance to win, or click the cover image below!

Here’s what it’s all about:

Win these three sci-fi/fantasy books! Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story, Ursula Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour in Changing Planes, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society. In a glorious new trade paperback complete with an original Introduction written by author Kim Stanley Robinson, Earth Abides remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth. Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke’s work.

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date November 23, 2020

Sponsored by Out of Her Mind by T.R. Ragan

Raised in a house of horrors, crime reporter Sawyer Brooks continues to fight through the trauma—by seeking justice for those who are just as vulnerable as she was. When a little girl’s bones are unearthed in Sacramento’s Land Park and a twelve-year-old girl disappears, solving these cases becomes an obsession for Sawyer. And the more Sawyer persists, the closer she gets to a disturbing place reminiscent of her own terrorized childhood. T.R. Ragan returns with the next thrilling read in the Sawyer Brooks series and the thrilling follow-up to Don’t Make a Sound. Read Out of Her Mind.