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#READUKYA Book Club – July Titles + GIVEAWAY!

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After the inaugural Read UKYA Book Club in June (click here to see the titles!), it’s back in July with two more titles! Both books were voted for on the UKYA Facebook page, so you can join to be able to vote on next month’s title. Everyone’s welcome – you don’t have to live in the UK to join in or be a certain age (as long as you can legally be on Facebook), but it’s a must that you love books!

Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield

Lisa’s second novel after her début, Seed, was published last year, Paper Butterflies tells the story of June who faces daily abuse from her stepmother and stepsister at home. No one knows about it and June feels trapped until she meets a boy called Blister who sheds some hope on her terrible home life. The thing is, everything comes at a price, and what is the price of freedom?

Lisa Heathfield writes beautifully, with every point she makes 100% believable. Prepare many boxes of tissues for this one, as it’s bound to make you cry!

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The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

The Sin Eater’s Daughter was one of my favourite books of last year and the stunning first part of a trilogy that will take your breath away. Melinda Salisbury has created an intricate fantasy world in The Sin Eater’s Daughter in which the main character, Twylla, can kill with a single touch. Twylla is betrothed to the prince of Lormere, where she lives, and is made to kill the enemies of the Crown each month.

The Sin Eater’s Daughter will leave you on the edge of your seat whilst you’re reading it as it’s incredibly fast-paced but still complex, and you’ll become so attached to the characters that you’ll never want to let them go. Believe me, I haven’t since I finished reading it.

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There’ll be a discussion on Twitter at the end of the month on Wednesday 27th July at 8pm BST as part of #ukyachat on the theme of both books – so do join in to chat all about The Sin Eater’s Daughter and Paper Butterflies!

GIVEAWAY

Starting from this month, I’m giving you the opportunity to win a set of August’s (as yet unnamed) titles. There are a number of different ways you can enter and each way you do counts as an entry, so it’s possible to enter multiple times:

– Buy a copy of either The Sin Eater’s Daughter or Paper Butterflies during the month of July from an independent bookshop OR borrow either from a library and tweet a picture of your copy(ies) using the #readukya hashtag or share on the UKYA Facebook group.

– Write a review of either The Sin Eater’s Daughter or Paper Butterflies and post to your blog/Amazon/Goodreads during July and share using the #readukya hashtag on Twitter or to the UKYA Facebook group. Each review counts as TWO entries!

– Write a review of The Sleeping Prince or Seed and post to your blog/Amazon/Goodreads during July for ONE entry.

Happy reading!

Have you read The Sin Eater’s Daughter or Paper Butterflies already? If not, what are you most excited to read about in them? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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#readukya – January Titles

I have been planning and scheming away for months, and I’m so pleased that my plan can now come into fruition!

#readukya is going to be an online, interactive book club, bringing together the best of UK and Irish authors, bloggers, booktubers, librarians and booksellers. Starting in January, two books will be picked each month and a liveshow and Twitter chat at the end of the month will discuss the two chosen books.

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January’s theme: Love and War

The first book chosen is Vendetta by Catherine Doyle, a spell-binding romance similar to that of Romeo and Juliet. To put it simply, it’s Romeo and Juliet meets the Mafia.

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When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication.With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago.

When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion in her neighbourhood, Sophie Gracewell’s life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nicoli, Sophie finds herself falling into a criminal underworld governed by powerful families. As the boys’ dark secrets begin to come to light, Sophie is confronted with stinging truths about her own family, too. She must choose between two warring dynasties – the one she was born into, and the one she is falling in love with. When she does, blood will spill and hearts will break.

Book Two: Night School by C.J. Daugherty

Night School is the phenomenal first instalment in a major globally recognised series by C.J. Daugherty. This is a chance to catch up on the series if you haven’t read them yet, or re-read an old favourite, especially as the last book in the series is released in the summer.

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Allie Sheridan’s world is falling apart. Her brother’s run away from home. Her parents ignore her. And she’s just been arrested.
Again.
This time her parents have had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to boarding school, far from her London friends.
But at Cimmeria Academy, Allie is soon caught up in the strange activities of a secret group of elite students.
When she’s attacked late one night the incident sets off a chain of increasingly violent events. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, she finds out that nothing at Cimmeria is what it seems to be.
And that she is not who she thought she was.

If you’re interested in helping to host the liveshow at the end of January, you can contact me @LucyTheReader on Twitter or at contemporaryqueen@outlook.com via email to discuss. This would be a huge help, and lots of fun too! 

Will you be joining in?