Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Title: Spoiler Alert

Author: Olivia Dade

Genre: Romance

Based on a series of fantasy books, the series "Gods of the Gates" is finally coming to an end. Actor Marcus Castor-Rupp is ready to move on, but after years of playing the affectionate dumb actor will he be able to be himself, or will he need to keep playing the smiling pretty boy? The place he feels most comfortable is in the world of fan fiction, where he is able to express his opinions about his show character under the name, Book!AeneasWouldNever (BAWN), away from the watchful eye of show executives.

April Whittier is ready to move on from a fast paced consulting job, to a less paying but better civil service job testing field sites for soil contamination. If there’s something she loves more than finding out what’s beneath the soil, it’s the world of fan-fiction around "God of the Gates", the books, the show, and the mythology she loves.

As UnapologeticLaviniaStan, April rules the fan forums, but her best online friend is Book!AeneasWouldNever. With her new job, April is ready to be her true self, and hopefully meet up with her online friends, and maybe start something with BAWN.

When April posts her Lavinia cosplay picture online she gathers a lot of attention, not all positive. Marcus sees the picture, and asks her out, thinking a lucky fan will get the date of a lifetime. What he doesn’t expect is that April is UnapologeticLaviniaStan, the woman he feels the most connected to online. Not wanting to out himself as BAWN, he quickly shuts down his fan account, and hopes to connect to April in real life. Of course, it’s hard to not admit how he knows so much about April, and the longer he hides who he really is, the harder it is to tell her.

A fan fiction writers dream, Spoiler Alert is for anyone who has ever wondered, what would it be like for my favorite actor to fall in love with me, just as I am? Fans of romance will appreciate the steamy scenes between the characters, and if you’ve ever complained about how a TV or movie series ended, you will love the way the characters write their own versions of the story.

- Katie

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Books! Live with Katie 3.24.2021

Here are some of the weird and wonderful books Katie talked about during the March 24th session of Books! Live with Katie: Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith Please Ignore Vera Diez by A.S. King Going Bovine by Libba Bray My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahari Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Skippy Dies by Paul Murray What Girls are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold The Girls by Lori Lansens (this is the one I couldn't remember the author!) Next Live session will be April 28th, 10 AM on Facebook Live!

Survival of the Thickest by Michelle Buteau

Title: Survival of the Thickest

Author: Michelle Buteau

Genre: Memoir, Comedy

Books of humors essays can run the gauntlet from random thoughts and observations to life events that are relatable and hysterical. Michelle Buteau gives us both with her collection Survival of the Thickest. From growing up in Jersey, to her life in Florida, to her eventual move to New York City, Michelle highlights important and relatable moments of her life with humor.

Her stories are as varied as dating a man who could not read, to her struggles with getting pregnant and IVF. Throughout the book she stresses the importance of family and friends, and those people that you really connect with. Buteau’s vibrant personality comes through, and you can see how people would be magnetically drawn to her.

For fans of memoirs by comedians, slice of life stories, and those just in need of a good laugh, try Michelle Buteau’s Survival of the Thickest.

- Katie

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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

Title: Midnight Sun

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance

Stephanie Meyer (Twilight series) has pulled an E.L. James and reproduced her most popular story from the male point-of-view. In Midnight Sun, the meeting of Bella is told from Edward's perspective and thus fleshes out more of his history and feelings. It is long and doesn't have as many surprises if you're already familiar with their love story, but it does add enough new material that if you are a fan of these sun-crossed lovers then you will appreciate the added nuances to their complicated romance.

- Sarah R.

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One by One by Ruth Ware

Title: One by One

Author: Ruth Ware

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

If you want a thriller with an And Then There Were None vibe, give Ruth Ware's One by One a try. Set in a ski chalet high in the French Alps, a tech start-up's retreat takes a nasty turn when an avalanche hits isolating the guests and staff. Can the cook and housekeeper keep it together long enough for help to find its way to them or will they all disappear, one by one?

- Sarah R.

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