Happy Monday everyone! Today I’m bringing you my event recap of the #BigBookBrunch blogger event by Hashtag Reads, Simon and Schuster and I had the best time. It was my first blogger event on 2019 and I was so excited to go. It was also the first the blogger event that Simon and Schuster have hosted as well. I hope they do many many more. One week from the event and I’m still buzzing. So today I thought I would share some of the highlights of the event.
Lovely publicists Eve and Olivia, presented some of the key YA titles coming out this year including Five Feet Apart, I have this book and I can’t wait to read it and then they shared the trailer…. this honestly choked me. I tried hard to not let it show but oh god. I then try to talk to one of my junior librarians who has read it and said, “Is it a sad ending?”, “You’ll have to find out, Miss.” I have raised those junior librarians too well. Ha.
Followed by SLAYER by Kierstin White, can’t wait to sink into this book, so bad. Then Eve, introduced our first guest Laura Bates, author of YA debut, The Burning.
Some other YA highlights from S&S were: The Cold in her Bones losely based on mytholgy and medusa, a brand new series from Cassandra Clare – The Red Scrolls of Magic. Romance novel about finding an author from author, Jenn Bennett – Serious Moonlight, new novel from Sarah Carroll, The Words that Fly between Us – finding strength to face your fears and finally a new novel from T.E. Carter, All We Could Have Been. I Stop Somewhere was one of my favourite books of 2018. It’s a harrowing story but one that needs to be heard. Her second book has a bit more of an uplifting tone to it. I have a proof and I can’t wait.