#Robin Benway

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - May 11th - Nature

some books with natural titles 🌳💙💚🦋

#heather kassner #anna marie mclemore #emily lloyd jones #robin benway #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Maya/Claire- Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

Rebecca Laughlin/Theadora Calligaris- The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Alexander Vass/Colin Hyland- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Delilah Green/Claire Sutherland- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

#Maya #Claire #Far From the Tree #Robin Benway #Rebecca Laughlin #Theadora Calligaris #The Inheritance Games #Jennifer Lynn Barnes #Alexander Vass #Colin Hyland #If We Were Villains #M.L. Rio #Delilah Green #Claire Sutherland #Delilah Green Doesn’t Care #Ashley Herring Blake #polls #lgbt books #queer book ship tournament

[qbdatabase]

Daily Book - Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree Robin Benway YA Fiction, 2017, 374 pg adopted biracial Mexican female MC; lesbian female MC; straight male MC in foster care Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family ...

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#Far from the Tree #Robin Benway #2010s #300 pg #award winner #female protagonist #fiction #lgbtqia #male protagonist #queer books #YA books #lesbian #lesbian rep #poc rep #mexican rep #biracial rep #daily book

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Wicked Ones | Author: Robin Benway | Publisher: Disney Press (2023)

#books #The Wicked Ones #Robin Benway

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Far from the Tree

Author: Robin Benway

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2017

Genres: fiction, contemporary, LGBT+

Blurb: Being the middle child has its ups and downs...but for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family...including Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers...and when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs. Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him.

#far from the tree #robin benway #standalone #2017 #fiction #contemporary #lgbt

[bebe-benzenheimer]

Cover Redesign - Far From The Tree

#robin benway #far from the tree #dailylitgfx #pagesblr #litcreators #dailynovels #yaedit #bookedit #litedit #booklr #my edits #i am disappoint no edition has used a peach tree for its cover #come on! #it was RIGHT THERE!

[publishedtoday]

A Year to the Day - Robin Benway

It’s been a year—a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones—holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina’s boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he’d watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won’t give Leo the one thing she wants—the one thing she needs. He won’t tell her anything about the accident. He won’t talk about that night at all. As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. The only constant is the one person who can help her bear the enormous weight of her love for Nina—and East might be carrying too heavy a load of his own.

tw: fatal car accident, grief

#a year to the day #robin benway #harperteen #june 21 2022

[ilovethecolorpink]

i am so deeply invested in the taylor jenkins reid literary universe because i smile every time a character from one book is mentioned in another

#reading malibu rising. probably the book ive been most excited to read in a WHILE #because i feel like i havent been INVESTED in a book in awhile #well i read far from the tree by robin benway a few weeks ago and was pretty invested in that #but ya idk i just needed something i knew would make me excited to read #something with a STORY u know #i feel like i haven’t updated yall on my reading in forever #after it i read far from the tree and loved it (Cried sooo much too) #then i read the jungle by upton sinclar and was surprised by how much i liked it and how diff it was from what i expected #oh during all this time i was listening to educated by tara westover which was just spectacular and i loved it #truly have such high praise for it like i wanna find a physical copy so i can annotate it and just be able to display it on my shelf #which the other other audiobook ive ever wanted to do the same for was know my name (one of my top books of 2021) so.. that says it all! #then i read nine perfect strangers by liane moriarty which was just fine #my least fav from the 3 ive read tho the only one to make me cry?? the end was sweet idk #idk it was slow to start and i found most of the characters annoying but not annoying enough to dislike fjjejxwkd #actually i also did laugh out loud a couple times too but STILL idk it just wasnt giving what i needed it to give #i need to stop chasing the rush from big little lies she gave me #ok and now on audio i’m reading #the five: the untold lives of the women killed by jack the ripper by hallie rubenhold #liking it so far tho sometimes i find it hard to pay attention #and ive just recently started both notes on a native son by james baldwin and malibu rising by tjr #like less than 30 pages into both 😭 #my reading this summer has been very blah but im hoping to turn that around soon #mine #reading

[ethereal-maia]

tagged by @musicals-and-mushrooms: 9 people you want to get to know better!!

tysm for the tag btw!!

3 Ships: drawenna, danya, vanja x emeric (can you tell I have a ship type. It’s pretty obvious.)

1st ship: like my first ship ever? one that wasn’t stupid obvious like Prince Philip and Aurora (bc that was one of them hehee) was probably when I was like 11 and OBSESSED with poldark was probably drawenna again lmao. OH WAIT. OH FUCK IT WAS PROBABLY HARMIONE AAA 😭😭

Last song: The Opera from great comet

Last movie: Descendants unfortunately

Currently reading: The Horse and His Boy by C S Lewis, Gilded by Marissa Meyer, The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway (reread), Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (reread), Circe by Madeleine Miller (reread), aaaaand Flip the Script by Lila Lee (reread).

Currently watching: glee, awae (all the time bitch. All the time.), an animated The Little Princess movie I started as a joke but got too invested in once Minchin started singing about how money is her “Passion, it’s my HEro, it’s my kING! There’s nothing that I love more than sacks of Coins that JING!!”. Also finishing up rah cinderella 1965.

Currently eating: the dead skin off my lips. But earlier i had enchiladas for dinner and OUGH they were so good.

Currently craving: Raisin’ Canes!!!!! Oh my god all day long!!

npt: @bloody-mf-bsc @pealeii @morozovamaximoff @bookns @lighttupthiswholetown @swiftie-as-a-coursing-river @bicharliespring @recklessandyoung @mesmerizedmadeline ⭐️💛⭐️

#tag game

[sophsicle]

what's like one book you read you recommend to everyone

OKAY the thing is, recommending books always stresses me out cause I feel like books are such a personal thing y'know? BUT I will say this Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel = my favourite historical fiction novel ever written (specifically the first one in the series which imo works as a stand alone)

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway = my favourite YA

Darker Shade of Magic and Vicious by V. E. Schwab = my favourite fantasy series (first book of darker shade of magic is a bit slow but the second two books are BANGERS)

Green Creek by TJ Klune = my favourite found family series (also gay werewolves)

Love & Other Inconveniences by Catherine Cloud and Thrown Off the Ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick = my favourite hockey books

#soph rambles

[nathsketch]

Remember when you asked me if I was ever going to create a piece for our beloved Villains?

Well, how about a whole series of books?  😉

I’m so happy to finally be able to share with you what I’ve been working on for the past few months!

Here’s the official description of the project:

“Blood is blood…and one way or another, we all bleed."

Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family's fortune and their mother's dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of the house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves - and each other - that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold.

But both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine's tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. On the cusp of the royal debut party - their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother's expectations - the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine's intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. But never underestimate the power of a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood.

This first book in the new Disney Villains Dark Ascension series by National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway explores the complex sibling rivalry between the two wicked stepsisters from Cinderella that turned them into the characters we know today.

Full press release here! I hope you’ll enjoy this new series! 💜

Happy Tuesday! ⚜️📚

#disney art #disney villains #cinderella #evil stepsisters #disney books #the art of nathanna erica #nathsketch #my artwork #disney artist #artists on tumblr #things to come #let all your friends know #preorder #book illustration #book cover #cover art

[book-buni]

all the books I read in march 2024

1) “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand*

2) “The Do-Over” by Lynn Painter

3) “Ash House” by Angharad Walker

4) “The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain

5) “Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights” by Karen Blumenthal - ❤️

6) “The Ghosts of Rose Hill” by R. M. Romeo

7) “Scattered Showers: Nine Beautiful Short Stories” by Rainbow Rowell - ❤️

8) “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka - ❤️

9) “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys - ❤️

10) “The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power” by Deirdre Mask - ❤️

11) “The Ghost of Midnight Lake” by Lucy Strange

12) “Again, But Better: A Novel” by Christine Riccio - ❤️

13) “Emma” by Jane Austen - ❤️

14) “The Shame” by Makenna Goodman - ❤️

15) “Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted” by Daniel Sokatch - ❤️

16) “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett - ❤️

17) “Far from the Tree” by Robin Benway - ❤️

18) “The Lost Property Office” by James R. Hannibal

19) “A Little Princess” by  Frances Hodgson Burnett - ❤️

20) “Instant Karma” by Marissa Meyer - ❤️

21) “Once Upon a Broken Heart” trilogy by Stephanie Garber - ❤️

22) “Rosehead” by Ksenia Anske

*For Atlas Shrugged, I did enjoy reading it as a book but I didn’t agree with its values; with what the author (Ayn Rand) was trying to convey with her philosophy of objectivism. I did enjoy reading Anthem by her, but maybe I was too young to fully comprehend the intention of the story. I will say though that although I believe being selfish is good for one’s mental health, I do think there should be a limit to it. There’s such a thing as being too selfish (or maybe that’s just me). The type of people (aka Donald Trump) that like “Atlas Shrugged” probably says something about the book itself. But that could also just be me. In summary, this book made me think a lot of things and I would recommend trying it out just as a book, but I also wouldn’t recommend it because of what’s inside the book. Two very contradictory statements but take it as you will.

ALSO IF YOU WANT TO ASK ME WHY I GAVE A BOOK HEARTS OR WHY I DIDN’T DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS

#books #books and reading #book blog #bookworm #book review #march 2024 #book-buni #bookblr #ruta sepetys #salt to the sea #the metamorphosis #franz kafka #the shame #makenna goodman #the help #jane austen #atlas shrugged #ayn rand

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (January 10th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

We Are All So Good At Smiling by Amber McBride

Friday I’m In Love by Camryn Garrett

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

Waking Fire by Jean Louise

Riven by Mindee Arnett

Brighter Than The Moon by David Valdes

Cool. Awkward. Black. by Various

Be With Me by Jessica Cunsolo

The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney

A Tale of Two Princes by Eric Geron

New Sequels:

The Everlasting Road (Walking in Two Worlds #2) by Wab Kinew

Rebel, Brave, Brutal (Winter, White and Wicked #2) by Shannon Dittemore

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Happy reading!

#books #bookish #booklr #bookworm #bookaholic #bibliophile #book blog #book blogger #Features #on books #on reading #read #reader #reading #tbr #to-read #yalit #yareads #young adult #book list #new releases #new books #january 2023 #shannon dittemore #wab kinew #eric geron #shannon gibney #robin benway #jessica cunsolo #david valdes

[blusilurus]

I'm asking this separately because it didn't really fit but do you happen to have any favorite books? other than the outsiders?

(p.s pspspsps you might like Far From the Tree by Robin Benway, it's about siblings adopted by different families meeting each other and it made me cry like three times, very found family, very sweet book)

A handful of like old school reads for sure! (Think like The Outsiders, The Giver, The Great Gatsby)- I used to be all into Warrior Cats but dipped off around the “A Vision of Shadows” Arc! I consider manga in the books category to so Inuyasha was another huge one!

I’d have to say that’s it for fav books for now but I have a handful of miscellaneous ones to! I kinda am only just now getting back into reading again so maybe in the future I’ll have more LOL. I tend to lean more to manga or graphic novels though to! I’ll def add that one to my book list for the future to check out! \( ‘ w ‘ )/

#asks

[disneyboot]

Disney Book Series

Disney parkgoers have to stop the villains from taking over

Disney Villains (and also the Beast) get tragic backstories

A bit like Marvel's What If?, right down to some of them being absurd

Disney Villains try to give you goosebumps

Disney Princesses but in real life sort of

A bit like Midnight Sun, but with Disney Princes

Moody YA series where the Disney Villains show up in a city

Appears to center on evil minions, more information needed

Disney Villain Babies, they make your nightmares come true

#disney #books #kingdom keepers #villains series #a twisted tale #disney chills #the queen's council #disney prince novels #city of villains #the dark ascension #camp lil vills

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: A poignant and powerful story of a grieving girl willing to risk everything, perfect for fans of Robin Benway and Jandy Nelson. On prom night, Hannah MacLaren sits in the headmaster's office in her fanciest dress, soaked to the bone. She pulled the fire alarm right as the queen was about to be crowned, and she's in huge trouble. But Hannah had her reasons for ruining the biggest night of everyone's lives. One year ago, her cousin Sophie, who was also her best friend and the person she loved most in the world, died of an overdose. Drowning in grief, Hannah became obsessed with one question: Who gave Sophie those pills? Then she concocted a plan: enroll at her cousin's fancy private school with a new look and a mouthful of lies, and find out the truth once and for all. But she didn't expect all the lines to blur. She didn't expect Sophie's friends to be so complicated. She didn't expect to fall for her longtime enemy. Now, she has a choice: let herself really mourn Sophie and move on, or see her search through to its explosive end--even if it means destroying herself.

Review:

How far would you go to find the truth? After her friend/cousin dies from a mysterious overdose, Hannah MacLaren is left with so many questions and her grief, she is willing to do anything to find out what actually happened to her best friend and who is responsible.... but the answer is never simple and she’ll have to rely  on the one person she hates the most, her academic nemesis who broke her heart to help her. Hannah and Sophie are cousins and best friends, but one day Sophie dies from an overdose in their junior year and now Hannah is drowning in grief and left with the question of : who gave Sophie those pills? Hannah will  do anything to get the answer, even if it means transferring to her cousin’s elite school, pretending to be someone else, and investigating all the students who are suspects. To top it off she finds herself partnering up with the one person she least expect, her academic rival and boy who broke her heart, Christian. She just can’t seem to shake him and he is determined to not only get under her skin but to get her to see that their rivalry isn’t so much about being enemies but the fact that he might have been in love with her the entire time. Hannah is dealing with so much, but can she find the answer or will she destroy herself in the process? This was a really interesting read, it goes back and forth between Hannah’s junior year dealing with the grief of losing Sophie and coming up with the plan and her senior year, her investigation and current progress. I also liked the relationship between Hannah and Christian, they’re academic rivals but also friends who feel for each other (plus I am always a huge fan of academic rivals to lovers trope). The grief and pain Hannah was dealing with was so realistic, the need for answers and the obsession with finding out who was responsible was very well done. The overall mystery felt realistic and I honestly had a great time reading this one.

*Thanks Netgalley and Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, Bloomsbury YA for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #booksih #all thats left to say