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We’re giving away four subscriptions to OwlCrate Jr to four lucky Riot readers! Three winners receive a one-month subscription, and one winner receives a three-month subscription.
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We’re giving away three copies of The Rainbow Fish and the Storyteller by Marcus Pfister plus three Rainbow Fish folding storage boxes over on Instagram!
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Create a special moment every day with NEW Bonne Maman Herbal Teas, available in five delicious flavors. Get started with a warm mug of your favorite tea flavor, and curl up with a good eBook on a brand new Kindle Oasis.
Don’t have a Kindle Oasis? You could! Book Riot is teaming up with Bonne Maman to give away one grand prize pack that includes:
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We’re giving away a copy of Book Riot’s Reading the Stars with an Obvious State celestial print, notebook, and tote bundle to one lucky reader.
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Reading the Stars by Book Riot will help you better understand how your zodiac sign shapes your reading life. Reading the Stars offers book recommendations to help you build on your strengths, explore areas of growth, understand your own sign, and learn about others. Publishers Weekly calls Reading the Stars “an ideal gift for bookworms with a celestial bent.”
We’re giving away three copies of The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang to three lucky Riot readers!
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An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang’s debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs. On sale from Tor Books on September 27, 2022!
Hello, Epic Insiders! May your books be plentiful and the right mix of escapist, engaging, and enlightening. No announcements this week, so let’s dive right in.
Reading friends!
This weekend was… a lot. I hope everyone is doing okay with everything going on.
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I did get some reading in towards the beginning of the weekend, somehow. I made a lot of progress with Book Lovers, which has some of the best banter between characters I’ve seen in a while. Case in point (remember, the main character is widely seen as being kind of cold):
“You seem pretty pleased with yourself,” he says, “for a woman who just found out she was the inspiration for Cruella de Vil.” I scowl at him. Charlie rolls his eyes. “Come on. I’ll buy you a martini. Or a puppy coat.”
A read! I’m also really liking how Nora and her sister Libby’s childhood is being unfolded. We’re seeing how differently Nora viewed their childhood struggles compared to Libby, and the issues they have in their sibling relationship are just starting to come to the surface. Sibling issues are an interesting addition to a romance for me, and I think a lot of what is in the book rings true for many. There’s also a bit of a mystery surrounding some of Libby’s behavior that I’m looking forward to getting to the bottom of.
As far as the other books I’ve mentioned, I haven’t made too much progress with Chinua Achebe’s Collected Poems , or The Children on the Hill, but did start and read all of the available chapters of Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto. It’s about a teen, Denji, whose dad died leaving him in debt to the yakuza. To pay it off, and stave off hunger, he works for them as a devil hunter. As a hunter, he kills “devils,” which are physical manifestations of what people fear. To save his life, he ends up needing to make a contract with his pet devil dog Pochita, which grants him strength and the ability to turn parts of his body into chainsaws. Yes, it is super on the nose and a little campy, but it was pretty enjoyable I think. It was a super wild ride and I’m curious to see how its adaptation will turn out since its release is so highly anticipated.
What have you been reading? Click through to add your reading list to the comments!
-Erica
We’re giving away three copies of The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson to three lucky Riot readers!
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Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks it’s the wrong guy. Unlikely friends Alice and Iris are out to find who really killed Brooke—but the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and Riverdale can’t miss this page-turning who-done-it that’s sure to be the next must read Young Adult thriller!
We’re giving away five copies of The Prince of Nowhere by Rochelle Hassan to five lucky Riot readers!
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Roda isn’t afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. But when she rescues an injured crow on the instruction of her secret pen pal, Anonymous, she’s surprised to learn she’s brought one of the so-called monsters home. Because her crow is really a shape-shifting boy named Ignis.
Ignis doesn’t remember where he was going before he crashed. But Anonymous brought him and Roda together for a reason—and the only way to find out what Anonymous wants is to follow the trail of baffling clues in Roda’s letters.