Today's theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a FALL FREEBIE! So I've created a collage of ten of my favorite fall things!
1. Fall leaves
2. Pumpkins
3. Sweatshirt weather
4. Hot chocolate
5. Reading time
6. Thanksgiving
7. Halloween
8. Baking season
9. Rain
10. Soup weather
What do you love about fall?
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Genre: YA romance
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐
I was lucky enough to get approved for an ARC from Netgalley for this one I read it this past week while on the Oregon Coast. It's very similar in feel to all other Lynn Painter books which means a fun, banter-y romance that has me constantly turning the pages.
This one is about our girl who ends up getting an inheritance from someone her family befriended and they end up moving from their small town in Nebraska to a huge mansion in the middle of New York City.
The person who bequeathed this to them happens to be the uncle of our boy. And he is not at ALL happy with the situation. And then it turns out these two are in the same grade in the same school and he ends up tutoring her in math.
He thinks of it as a sort of joke or way to see what's going on with her and her family, but then he falls fast and hard for her. He is a pretty smug sort of dude, so it's fun to see this happen to him. And to get to know the better, and softer.. side of him. I loved that.
So much banter! Did I say that already!? I love all the banter in Lynn Painter books. Definitely my favorite part. This book also had the added joy of being set in New York in the fall, so that was cool.
Anyway I really enjoyed it a lot as expected. One disclaimer I'd like to throw out there, I see Lynn Painter books being recommended all the time for young teens as a good clean romances. Which they are for the most part, but they (this one especially) are full of F-bombs, so if that's not something you want for your younger teens looking for romances to read, be warned.
This one comes out tomorrow, September 29!
In my previous post I mentioned that Sara B. Larson is self-publishing a book that I'm really looking forward to reading. At the time of writing that post, the cover had not been revealed yet, but now it has!
And since I'm on the launch team I can share it with you!
Doesn't this look like so much fun! Excited!
This week's prompt for Top Ten Tuesday (list and link up is over at That Artsy Reader Girl's blog) is:
I have many books I'm wanting to read this fall! Here are ten of them! A few of them I have ARCs to read, some of them I have physical copies that have been patiently waiting their turn, one of them I plan to listen to while driving this next week, one of them I've started and just need to finish, and one doesn't even have a cover reveal yet!
Are any of these also on your list? Or have you read any and have thoughts? I'd love to know!
The topic for TTT this week is a fun one! (Be sure to check out the list of everyone participating in Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl's Blog!)
Oh boy, where to start! I started what I call my author stalking phase many many years ago, probably right about the time I started this blog (20 years this coming March) and have reported on most of them here. What a walk in time that would be to check out all those posts. But I get so nostalgic and sad at the same time. What good old days that was... kids were little, authors were newbies, I was discovering writing and the fun of the online world back then. It was an awesome time.
I feel like author events aren't happen as much as they were in the past, but I'm still going, still supporting and still buying everyone's books!
1. Bree Despain for her launch of The Killing Rules
2. Julie Berry for her launch of If Looks Could Kill
3. Beth Brower at the Storymakers Conference
4. Alex Kennington for the launch of her second book in her romantasy series
5. Alice Feeny for the launch of her book My Husband's Wife
6. Jennifer Nielsen for the launch of her book The Free State of Jax
8. Michael Finkel who wrote The Art Thief
10. Mary E. Pearson for the launch of her book The Courting of Bristol Keats
BONUS: But of course my favorite will always be: MARKUS ZUSAK!
Coming up in a few weeks I get to met another favorite author: Sabaa Tahir. So excited! Stay tuned for how that turns out!
Who are some authors you've met? Who has been YOUR favorite?
Genre: YA romance, classic retelling
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I've been anxious to read this one ever since I first heard about it. A retelling, or reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility set in the Ming dynasty in China. Intriguing premise, yes?
The story does follow the original fairly closely, but I loved seeing how the author weaves Chinese culture into it. So fun and very effective.
We have our family, who has recently lost their father. There are three sisters. The story is told form the POV of the two older sisters. One of them is a painter and is hoping to help the family out financially through selling her art. The younger one is amazing on the zither and ends up teaching some students also.
The older one is, of course, very prim and proper and concerned with following all the social rules. It's crazy, then, that she randomly falls in love with this guy who she comes across one day and who ends up being connected to her family. She knows this is against the norm, but it happens anyway. They sort of make promises to each other, but then we find out later, that he seems to already be promised to someone else.
She is obviously upset by this, but instead of finding out what's really going on, she decides to give up any of her happiness to insure that her family's reputation stays intact.
Meanwhile, the second sister is falling for a guy who everyone but her seems to know is a scoundrel. But she thinks the other guy, who is much more decent, giving her attention is not worth her time. Until, of course, she sees the light!
Anyway, it's so very much fun, especially if you are a Sense and Sensibility fan, or a Jane Austen fan in general, and if you are curious how this would look like set in a Chinese culture, I would highly recommend! Look for it to be released on September 15th!
