Top Ten Tuesday: New to me Authors

 This week's topic is authors I read that were new to me in 2024

Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors

 This week's topic is new to me authors I read in 2023. 

Just a few this year and several of these are debut. 

Top Ten Tuesday: 2023 Debut Books

 This week's topic is all about 2023 debut books we want to read.

YA Books:

Any of these also on your list?

Review: Would Like to Meet

Evie's spent the last seven years working as an assistant. But she's been ready for more. Her boss tasks her with getting their only superstar client to write the pages of his contract. Up until now, he hasn't been writing anything.

He seems to be uninspired by the rom-com genre. Ezra doesn't believe rom-coms could happen in real life. When Evie's boss tells her she will be fired if those pages do not get written and delivered, she makes a deal with the devil.

Evie will spend the next two months creating meet-cutes in order to meet someone whom she could potentially love. And Ezra will write the pages. Evie delivers her side of the bargain, mostly through terrible disastrous stories that sometimes compromise her friendships and her job. But it will be worth in the end, right?

My Thoughts: I really really enjoyed this novel. I loved the rom-com mentions. I loved how Evie acted so many of them out. They added so much humor to the story. I love how in doing so, she began to find her confidence. I enjoyed her meetings with Ben and Anette - they made me smile. I loved that in writing up her "Dates", Evie found her writing voice again. I didn't want this book to end, it was just the book I needed. An impressive debut, can't wait to see what comes next from this author.

Cover Thoughts: Cute
Source: My Library
Library Recommendation: A really fun read for your romance collection - particularly your new adult romance collection.

Blog Tour: Sam Saves the Night

About the Book

Title: SAM SAVES THE NIGHT

Author: Shari Simpson

Pub. Date: October 1, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 304

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B and N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

What would you do if you could stay out all night and not get in trouble?

Thirteen-year-old Sam has no friends, but you can't really blame her. She lives her life in a state of chronic exhaustion thanks to her nightly sleepwalking jaunts, which include trips to the store, treehouse-building projects, and breaking-and-entering escapades-none of which she remembers in the morning. Her condition is taking its toll on her family (and her life), so when her mom takes her to see a wacky strip-mall sleep specialist, Sam is wary, but 100 percent in.

The night after the doc works his mojo, Sam wakes up outside her body, watching herself sleep. FREAKY! But once she gets over the panic attack, she realizes there's a whole world of detached-souls out there, called SleepWakers-cliques of kids like the Achieves, who use their sleep time to learn new things; the Numbs, who eat junk food and play video games all night long, and the OCDeeds who search for missing things and organize other people's stuff. And then there are the Mean Dreams, led by Madalynn Sucret, the nicest girl in Sam's school, who shows Sam that she can use her power to get back at a bully who's been tormenting her. Sam is intrigued-until it becomes clear that Madalynn is the real bully and the "tormentor" is just, well... sad. Now Sam is faced with uniting the various tribes of SleepWakers to fight back against Madalynn and the Mean Dreams in the most epic battle the night has ever seen.

My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this book. I'm hoping it's the start of a new series because the end left us hanging - just a little bit. I loved the idea of SleepWalkers being able to do different things during the day - opposites from their daytime self. But also maybe more like their inner soul. I like how everyone found their own tribe. I felt terrible for Sam and her family for all that they had been through. I enjoyed uncovering more information about the SleepWalkers with Sam and seeing how she fit into the that world. I loved how she finally stood up for herself and pulled other people with her. 

Cover Thoughts: Cute
Source: Book sent for review
Library Recommendations: A fun middle grade read for your library.

About the Author:

Shari Simpson is a playwright and screenwriter who cowrote the off-Broadway hit Maybe Baby, It's You and the Disney Channel Original Movie The Swap, both with her longtime writing partner, Charlie Shahnaian. She also won the 2012 BlogHer Voice of the Year for Humor Writing. Shari lives in Hoboken, NJ, with a patient husband, two hilarious teenagers, a demonic cat, and her pug, Mila Kunis. This is her first novel.

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Follow the Tour:

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10/18/2019- The Try Everything- Excerpt

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of SAM SAVES THE NIGHT, US Only.

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2016 Debut Author Challenge

Yesterday after completing my Top Ten Tuesday list, I learned about this upcoming challenge. I've participated in challenges before, and sometimes lost sight of them. I thought I'd try another one:

There are so many good look debuts coming out. 

Plus there's a Goodreads group and a list of books.

I hope to read 15 debut novels next year

Interested? See more about the challenge here

Top Ten Tuesday: New to me authors

This week's topic is authors new to me this year. I've read a lot of books this year, so as usual I'm going to split them up between YA and adult. While I try to read debut authors, not all of these authors are debuts - some of them are just new to me or authors I've been meaning to read for a while and finally did. 

- meme from The Broke and the Bookish

Emery Lord: Loved Open Road Summer

Justin Somper: What a cliffhanger! Great high fantasy novel

Alecia Whitaker: Excited to read more about Birdie's new life.

Amy Finnegan: Loved reading about Hollywood

Nina Lacour: A fantastic love story set in Hollywood

Sara B Larson: Danger, romance, a feirce warrior - what's not to love?

April Linder: A reimagined classic set in modern day

Varian Johnson: Heist!

Justina Chen: the vacation of a lifetime set against family drama

Rebecca Behrens: Modern day meets Alice Roosevelt.

New Adult:

Nicole Chase: Loved her royal series

Adult:

Robin Carr: Friends on the same block trying to help each other

Kenda Leigh Castle: Returning home after 10 years and maybe to a new romance

Mary Kennedy: Sweets and Dreams for this new cozy series

Nancy Parra: A new business leads to murder

Laura Lee Guhrke: Regency Matchmaker 

Barbara Ross: Clam bakes and murder in Maine

Christine Ridgeway: A new series set in the mountains in a troubled resort 

Michele Summers: A small town designer gets to work on her dream house

Who's new on your list?

Top Ten Tuesdays: Debuts

 Top Ten 2013 Debuts - This list should be easy since I'm participating in Debut Author Challenge. - Meme from the Broke and the Bookish

Taken
Dualed
Level 2
Mila 2.0
How My Summer Went Up in Flames
Wig in the Window
Strange of Bronze and Gold
Cinders and Sapphires
Games Set Match
Maid of Secrets

Debut Author Challenge 2013

This is my 3rd year participating in this challenge. Here are some of the books I'm looking forward to reading.

1. Taken
2. Dualed
3. Level 2
4. Mila 2.0
5. How My Summer Went Up in Flames
6. Reboot
7. Wig in the Window
8. Strange of Bronze and Gold
9. Red
10. Art of Wishing
11. Vengeance Bound
12. Cinders and Sapphires
13. Games Set Match
14. Maid of Secrets

Debut Author Challenge 2012

The List I created, which is different from the books I did read.

1. Struck
2. Grave Mercy
3. Throne of Glass
4. Catching Jordan
5. Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters
6. Pretty Crooked
7. Cross My Heart
8. The Selection
9. Wentworth Hall
10. Smart Girls Get What They Want
11.Girl Named Digit
12. Love and Leftovers