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Interview with Elisa A. Bonnin, author of Dauntless

Happy Friday, tea party attendees! I am so excited because today we have a very special guest joining our tea party this afternoon. Today, we’re joined by author Elisa A. Bonnin, whose debut novel Dauntless will be released in 2022! Check out our interview below to see what we chatted about, and to learn more about this exciting book!

A teen girl must bring together two broken worlds in order to save her nation in this lush, Filipino-inspired young adult fantasy novel from debut author Elisa A. Bonnin.

“Be dauntless, for the hopes of the People rest in you.”

Seri’s world is defined by very clear rules: The beasts prowl the forest paths and hunt the People. The valiant explore the unknown world, kill the beasts, and gain strength from the armor they make from them. As an assistant to Eshai Unbroken, a young valor commander with a near-mythical reputation, Seri has seen first-hand the struggle to keep the beasts at bay and ensure the safety of the spreading trees where the People make their homes. That was how it always had been, and how it always would be. Until the day Seri encounters Tsana.

Tsana is, impossibly, a stranger from the unknown world who can communicate with the beasts – a fact that makes Seri begin to doubt everything she’s ever been taught. As Seri and Tsana grow closer, their worlds begin to collide, with deadly consequences. Somehow, with the world on the brink of war, Seri will have to find a way to make peace.

Links for Dauntless: Goodreads | TheStoryGraph | IndieBound

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Blog Tour + Review: The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Content Warnings: scary images, death

The Conjuring meets Sadie when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare takes an internship in a haunted house and finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit.

Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts.

Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she’s keeping her doubts to herself—because she’s the voice of Attachments, her brand-new paranormal investigation podcast, and she needs her ghost-loving listeners to tune in.

That’s what brings her to Arrington Estate. Thirty years ago, teenager Atheleen Bell drowned in Arrington’s lake, and legend says her spirit haunts the estate. Dare’s more interested in the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death—circumstances that she believes point to a living culprit, not the supernatural. Still, she’s vowed to keep an open mind as she investigates, even if she’s pretty sure what she’ll find.

But Arrington is full of surprises. Good ones like Quinn, the cute daughter of the house’s new owner. And baffling ones like the threatening messages left scrawled in paint on Quinn’s walls, the ghastly face that appears behind Dare’s own in the mirror, and the unnatural current that nearly drowns their friend Holly in the lake. As Dare is drawn deeper into the mysteries of Arrington, she’ll have to rethink the boundaries of what is possible. Because if something is lurking in the lake…it might not be willing to let her go. 

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ARC Review: When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord

An effervescent, endearing, joyful contemporary romance of one young woman searching for her birth mother one summer, by New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord.

Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price’s dream to become a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super-introverted dad, who after raising Millie alone, doesn’t want to watch her leave home to pursue her dream. Not her pesky and ongoing drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. And not the “Millie Moods,” the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, always at maddeningly inconvenient times. Millie needs an ally. And when a left-open browser brings Millie to her dad’s embarrassingly moody LiveJournal from 2003, Millie knows just what to do. She’s going to find her mom.

There’s Steph, a still-aspiring stage actress and receptionist at a talent agency. There’s Farrah, ethereal dance teacher who clearly doesn’t have the two left feet Millie has. And Beth, the chipper and sweet stage enthusiast with an equally exuberant fifteen-year-old daughter (A possible sister?! This is getting out of hand). But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one, without leaving any marks? And why is it that when you go looking for the past, it somehow keeps bringing you back to what you’ve had all along?
Joyous, heartfelt, and brimming with emotion, WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE is a novel about falling in love, making a mess, and learning to let go that will have you happy-sobbing and cheering all the way to the end.

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Wrap Up: August 2021

Hi, hello friends! Another month done and dusted: where has the time gone? This month was a good reading month for all of us here at teatimelit, and we cannot wait to see what we read next month too. This month Caitlyn read 22 books, Cossette read 28 books, and Mary read 8 books.

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Let’s Talk: August Reading Prompt Jar Wrap Up

At the beginning of this month I decided that I’d choose all of my August reads – with the exception of ARCs and book club reads – by pulling prompts out of a jar. With August coming to a close (Miss Swift was right, August really did slip away into a moment in time) I thought it would be fun to look back on the prompts and books I read this month.

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Openin’ Up: theatreathon announcement

Hi friends! We’re so excited to bring to you today the theatreathon! To celebrate the incoming Tony Awards, and celebrate theatre in general, we thought it would be fun to host a read-a-thon to combine both of our loves! The theatreathon will run from September 1st – September 30th. You can find the official prompts and book recommendations for the read-a-thon below, and be sure to keep up to date with us on our socials! You can follow [@] theatreathons to see how everyone else participating is progressing, and be sure to use the hashtag #theatreathon to stay connected!

To keep up the excitement, we’ll be hosting reading sprints throughout the read-a-thon through our twitter page, to keep everyone inspired and motivated. We hope you enjoy this read-a-thon, and have as much fun participating as we did make it! 

While there’s a lot of prompts in this read-a-thon, feel free to pick and choose the ones you feel inspired by! Do as much, or as little, as you’d like to do – the purpose of this is to have fun, celebrate theatre, and read some new books!

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Let’s Talk: How Audiobooks Positively Changed My Reading Habits

In the last two years I’ve read more than I ever have before. That’s partially due to quarantine, but I also noticed a huge change in my reading statistics towards the middle-end of 2019 when I started to really get into audiobooks. As my love for audiobooks has grown exponentially since then, I thought I’d take some time to talk about how audiobooks have changed some of my reading habits and why I love them so much!

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Let’s Talk: August TBR + Reading Prompt Mason Jar

In case y’all didn’t know, I’m a mood reader. Meaning there are books that have literally been on my TBR for years that I haven’t read, for no reason other than I haven’t been in the mood to read them. While my mood definitely influences what I decide to read and when, I thought that in the month of August it would be fun to switch it up a little bit!

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Wrap Up: July 2021

Hello, hello friends and welcome to yet another teatimelit monthly wrap up! We hope this month has been kind to you, and you’ve read many good books. This month Caitlyn read 17 books, Cossette read 42 books, and Mary read 2 books.

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