January's First Class Post & Monthly Recap

First Class Post - because this post is first class!

Books Purchased:

Physical Copies:

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely (29th August 2017)
You Don't Know Me but I Know You by Rebecca Barrow (29th August 2017)
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow (6th November 2018)
Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers (21st December 2010)
What Goes Around: Cracked Up to Be / Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (3rd September 2013)
This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (19th June 2012)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1st May 1999) York Notes On "Frankenstein" by Glennis Byron (6th April 2004)

Physical Copies:



The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (7th March 2017)

Books Received for Free from the Publishers in Exchange for an Honest Review:

Books with an * are reading copies I received as a book seller.

Proofs:

Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom by P.M. Freestone* (7th February 2019) Colour Me in by Lydia Ruffles* (7th February 2019)
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy (26th March 2019)

eARCs:



Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi (8th January 2019)
Outside by Sarah Ann Juckes (3rd January 2019)
We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo (4th April 2019)
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (10th January 2019)



The Girl King by Mimi Yu (10th January 2019)
A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel (5th February 2019)
Proud anthology, ed. by Juno Dawson (7th March 2019)
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan (4th March 2019)



Internment by Samira Ahmed (19th March 2019)
We Are Not Okay by Natália Gomes (2nd May 2019)
The Year After You by Nina de Pass (14th February 2019) The Orphanage of Gods by Helena Coggan (21st February 2019)


Thank you to Scholastic, Hodder Children's Books, Rock the Boat, and HarperCollins Children's Books, Penguin Random House Children's Books, Bloomsbury YA, Simon & Schuster Children's Books, Gollancz, Atom, Stripes, HQ Young Adult, Ink Road, Hodder & Stoughton via NetGalley for the review copies.
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On the blog:

Reviews:

• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi - An incredible, fast paced, action packed #OwnVoices high fantasy! So, so good!
• A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna -
• - An enjoyable, quick read full of family drama, politics, and the promise of war!
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold - An important story, and one everyone should read, but I also expected more. Not a huge amount actually happens.
• Sadie by Courtney Summers - Such an incredible story! It's absolutely heartbreaking and terrifying, but also so beautiful. I can't stop thinking about it.
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake - A powerful and emotional story, but not the story I was expecting. Not much happens, and I was expecting more in regards to how Mara and Owen's relationship changes. Kind of disappointed.

Once Upon a Retelling:

• Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
• The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

Blog Tours:

• An Excerpt From Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard

Discussions:







Other Posts:




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What I've Been Reading Online:

Cover Reveals:

• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (+ Excerpt) on Novl.
• I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest (+ Excerpt) on Book Riot.
• The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh (+ Excerpt) on Bustle.
• This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura (+ Excerpt) on Bustle.
• We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal on EW.
• Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite (+ Excerpt) on Bustle.
• Colour Outside the Lines anthology, ed. by Sangu Mandanna on Pop! Goes the Reader
• The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis on Book Riot.
• Wicked Fox by Kat Cho (+ Excerpt) on EW.
• When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis on Novl.
• I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi (+ Extract) on Hypable.

Books:

• Don’t miss these LGBTQ+ YA books being released in 2019 on Hypable.
• 25 of Our Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Books of 2019 on B&N Teen Blog.
• 8 Books With South-Asian Characters Releasing in 2019 || Make Your TBR More Brown on Fannatality.
• 6 YA Anthologies to Look For in 2019 on Book Riot.
• 8 Authors on the Enduring Impact of Speak on Book Riot.
• Movie Magic: 8 YA Books Netflix Should Adapt on Bookish.
• Twitter thread list from G. Donald Cribbs of books featuring ape, abuse, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, and human trafficking.
• The Best New YA Books Coming In 2019 on Marie Claire.
  
• Rachel Lynn Solomon's Goodreads List of Jewish YA not focusing on the Holocaust.

Authors:

• Nic Stone: 2018 Proved Black Kids Read (And White Kids Read Books With Black Leads) on Huff Post.
• Inspired by her daughter, this first-time author is shining a light on LGBT Muslim teen experiences on NBC News.
• The Girl King Author Mimi Yu in Conversation with A Curse So Dark and Lonely Author Brigid Kemmerer on B&N Teen Blog.
• A Girl Like Me: Sangu Mandanna on Verve.
• Rachel Roy and Ava Dash Discuss Their YA Debut, 96 Words for Love on B&N Teen Blog.
• Laurie Halse Andersen: I’ve Talked With Teenage Boys About Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know on Time.
• Watch Us Rise | An Interview with Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan on SLJ.
• Alexndra Sheppard on Mixed Up: ‘I don’t believe that Britain has ever fully reckoned with its racist past’ on The Metro.

Book-to-Screen Adaptations:

• Netflix Orders ‘Shadow And Bone’ Series Based On Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse Novels From Eric Heisserer & Shawn Levy on Deadline.
• Kiernan Shipka Leads a Very Charming Cast of Teens for Netflix’s John Green Adaption Let It Snow - the headline deigns not to mention Let It Snow is by Lauren Myracle and Maurean Johnson, too - on Vulture.

Bloggers:

• On Classics, YA, and High School English: Why Teens Avoid Classics on Vicky Who Reads.
• Every Sexual Character in 2018 YA on Jelly Fable
• The Pond Gets Loud: 8 Book Bloggers Share Their Experiences of Balancing Blogging and Life – Part I  and Part II on The Quiet Pond.
• 20(ish) Books For Readers Who are 20(ish) // A List of NA Books Written in the YA Style on Novels & Waffles.
• Year of the Asian Reading Challenge 2019: Have Fun Reading More Diversely! on Vicky Who Reads.
• 20BiTeen: Anticipating a Bi Year in Books on Ace of Bens.
• 10 Books to Read to Give You All the Happy Feels on Drizzle & Hurricane Books.

Misc.:

• A Quick Guide to Transgender and Non-Binary Identities by Madeleine Perkins on Medium.
• Author Sherrilyn Kenyon Files Lawsuit Accusing Husband of Poisoning Her on Tennesean.

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