#Wren Martin Ruins it All

[movlit]

Forgot to mention he's also president of student council only by a technicality! So proud of my annoying son!

#i spent way too long on this #so i'm posting it here #wren martin ruins it all #amanda dewitt #ace #asexual #thoughts.lit #movlit

[aroaessidhe]

2023 ACE & ARO books - part 3

A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT - Feb 23 - aroacespec MC

THE STONES STAY SILENT - April 14 - aroace MC

PAPER PLANES - May 16 - aroace MC

WANDER THE NIGHT - June 6 - aroace MC

RIDE OR DIE - June 6 - ace-spec (unsure of details)

HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD - Aug 22 - acespec MC

ONE WORLD - Oct 24 - ace & demi MCs

JUST LIZZIE - Nov 14 - ace MC

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL -  Nov 7 - ace MC

REEL LOVE - no cover, no date - ace MC  

part 1 / part 2 / part 4

#asexual books #ace books #this has been sitting in my drafts waiting for enough cover reveals to make a post HAHA #aroace books #A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT #THE STONES STAY SILENT #HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD #THE SIREN THE SONG AND THE SPY #FOURTH WORLD #IAMOS TRILOGY #JUST LIZZIE #WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL #WANDER THE NIGHT #asexual #2023 aspec books

[starrlikesbooks]

Wren Martin Ruins it All is one of my very few 5 star reads of the year! 💜 🖤

#asexual #ace #ace rep #book rec #wren martin ruins it all #bookblr #starrlikesbooks #book recs #new books #queer books

[lgbtqreads]

Happy International Asexuality Day 2023!

Happy International Asexuality Day! Today we’re celebrating books with main characters all along the ace spectrum, so check out these titles and find your perfect next read! As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can! Please note this roundup only features titles that were not previously featured [with covers] in past…

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#Ace-Spec #Ann Zhao #Anna Zabo #Asexual #Asexuality #Dear Wendy #Emma K. Ohland #Here Goes Nothing #Jax Meyer #Just Lizzie #Karen Wilfrid #Love Letters for Joy #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Racquel Marie #Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture #Rising from Ash #Sherronda J. Brown #Wren Martin Ruins it All #You Don&039;t Have a Shot

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Wren Martin from Wren Martin Ruins It All is asexual!

#wren martin #wren martin ruins it all #canon aspec #asexual

[the-final-sentence]

‘And get out of my chair.’

Amanda DeWitt, from Wren Martin Ruins It All

#Amanda Dewitt #wren Martin ruins it all

[magicalyaku]

Happy new year! After the slump of the previous months and my last artist alley of the year, I finally had a lot to read in December! I bought so many books in November, I had to get at least through a few in order to include them in my yearly awards. xD Work was still shit but reading was fun again. :D

Dark Heir (Dark Rise 2) (C.S. Pacat): This was my last book of 2023 and easily my most anticipated. And did it deliver! Left me emotionally devastated for days! xD Seriously, I don't want to know what my neighbors thought what was going on, in case they heard me going "Aaah! No! No no no nooooo! Kya! NOOOO!!" during two certain scenes. /D The nice thing about this series is that I have absolute faith in Pacat's ability to write it well und give me an outcome I am satisfied with. I mean, go look at Captive Prince. The way the relationship between Damen and Laurent develops (even after MAJOR shit going on between them!), the political threads and all that, it's just done very well. And now, here's the Dark Rise series and I sit and watch the spiral of doom the characters are caught up in it and apart from maybe Sinclair not a single one of them is fully good or bad. And it's sooo interesting (and emotionally devastating)!! Hng!! I would actually like to write much more about what I loved and suffered through, like the whole thing with the Visander situation and how Sarcean made all of his worst enemies because he just couldn't keep it in his pants. And James. James. And Cyprian! And everything. But I can't because whenever I try I still feel the excited giggles in my brain and can't have a coherent thought. It's great, but also ... Hnggg!!

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer (S.E. Harmon): This was fun! At some point early on I looked up what other books the author has written and it's more than ten and I thought "Yes! It feels like being written by someone with a lot of writing experience!" There's just something about the liveliness of the characters and the dialogues. Also so much adventure with a slightly different flavor than usual being set in the jungle and all, I loved it.

By any other Name (Erin Cotter): I wonder why all of my historical fiction books are set in England. This is another highly adventurous story. I was a bit surprised as one thing that's mentioned in the summary already only appears like after half the book. But other than that it was pretty good. It has spies and theatre and pretty nice characters. And I did not anticipate everything that happened which is good!

Wren Martin Ruins it all (Amanda deWitt): The author's previous book Aces Wild: A Heist was one of my top books in 2022, this one does not quite reach those heights but it was still very good and very enjoyable. Wren is such a messy and fun character. As reader I absolutely knew what was going on and who was writing with whom but it was nice to follow the characters' path to awareness. In a way Wren's aceness is not as heavy as in other books (see the next one for instance) but at the same time it deals with a few of the social issues a_spec people are faced with which was nice.

Just Lizzie (Karen Wilfrid): This is a middle grade book about a girl coming to terms with being ace. The heroine has a really nice character arc. And the other characters are sometimes what you expect them to be and sometimes they are not. And maybe … that's ok, right? And I loved it and I cried through half of the book. I guess, it hit home a little more heavily than I expected. :'D (Like that one time where Lizzie is wondering how she will spent Christmas when her parents aren't around anymore? Haaa. It had just been Christmas when I read this and I'm in my 30ies and my Dad is above 70 now so that is a concern I actually have, you know. It's not nice to be reminded. :'D) It's a really good book, I think, thoughtful and well put together and empowering, too.

A Hundred Vicious Turns (The Broken Tower 1) (Lee Page O'brien): Now this was difficult. The cover is gorgeous. Easily my favorite one this year. I only lament that there's no real gold printed. The wasted opportunity. yAy The content is … difficult. I like the story on a whole. The premise and the magic system are really interesting. The characters … were interesting as well? They're fine, their motivations are not easily seen which, in a plot full of mysteries, is actually quite okay. I just didn't build the emotional connection. There's also a lot of anxiety, especially on Rat's part. There was one bit in the writing style that irked me a little. The overuse of pronouns. Because Rat was the only one with 'they' and in most scenes it was only one other person with them, so there often really long stretches where only the pronouns would be used instead of the names. It wa snot confusing because you could easily tell the characters apart, but it felt weird. I'm very used to reading the names a lot. Oh well. It's not a fun read, but it is intruiging and I will read the next volume to see where it goes.

A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea 1) (Judy I. Lin): I managed to squeeze in a YA heroine inbetween all the gay boys! And I liked it better than most other female-led YA fantasies I read recently. Doesn't mean I loved it, but Ning was pretty okay as a heroine. The thing is, the circumstances under which I started this book weren't the best and that probabbly reflected on the whole experience. I picked up the German audiobook for a very long bus trip, but listened to it only later while doing some hours of very boring tedious work. The audiobook itself was okay, except that the reader could not decide how to pronounce some names. For instance, Kang was Kong first, then Kuang before she settled on Kang. And that kind of thing drives me mad. How am I to connect with a character when I am left this uncertain how their name is?! The German translation also decided to leave some of the names in English (especially the teas) which in my opinion doesn't make sense because why would the teas in Fantasy-China have English names when everything else is either translated into German or left Chinese? D: I couldn't stand it and finally switched to my printed edition (in English). /D It got better from there, but it's hard to forget the echo. As for the story, I don't really like court intrigues. Cruelty and injustice are just things I really struggle with to read about. (They make me angry and I don't want to be angry at my books.) But it never tipped over the edge into annoying area. I have the sequel at home as well, so I'll it. The covers are beautiful after all.

That was 2023! Next up is my big Best and Worst award ceremony! uAu~

#yaku reads #books #queer books #lgbtq books #queer lit #bookblr #the first and last adventure of kit sawyer #dark heir #a hundred vicious turns #just lizzie #wren martin ruins it all #a magic steeped in poison #by any other name #look at all these pretty covers

[novelswithariana]

books I've read in 2023 📖 no. 04

Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt

“Why does this say”—he turns it around to read it—“Mr. and Mr. Wren and Leo Martin?”

#wren martin ruins it all #amanda dewitt #peachtree teen #peachtree publishing #2023 reads #books #booklr #novelswithariana #bookstagram #arc #moodboard #aesthetic edit #colored pages book tours #lit edit #book quotes

[logarithmicpanda]

I am super bored with astrology mentions in books in the first place, but having the main character comment on his dislike of apps matching people based on their signs, only to make comments like "Scorpio (yikes)" ten pages later is... Ugh.

#wren martin ruins it all #panda rambles

[kookykuni]

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

You've got a crush on Wren, don't you?

#if this turns out to be the case i'm going to feel SO big brained about this #leo reyes i'm onto you #leo reyes #wren martin #wren martin ruins it all #amanda dewitt

[itachi86]

"The Canopy is actually a part of the White Sand Hotel and Resort, presumably named because Rapture Hotel and Resort sounds like the kind of place you go to join a doomsday cult."

-Wren Martin Ruins It All

#book things #wren martin ruins it all #quotes #the canopy

[movlit]

maybe I am a little bit obsessed with Wren Martin ruins it all that I even made this venn diagram but I swear it's such a cute read I can't 💖

#if you liked this you should read this lgbt+ edition #the chickens maybe weren't that important to the story but THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY #wren martin ruins it all #amanda dewitt #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #becky albertalli #so this is ever after #ft lukens #ace #gay #bisexual #asexual #lgbt+ #book recs #thoughts.lit #movlit

[aroaessidhe]

 2023 ACE & ARO books - part 2

LOVE LETTERS FOR JOY - June 6 - pan ace MC

A SONG OF SALVATION - July 11 - demi MC

ETHERA GRAVE - July 18 - ace MC , sequel

THIS DARK DESCENT - Sep 26 - ace-spec MCs

BEING ACE - Oct 10 - ace anthology

LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD - Oct 17 - ace lesbian MC

part 1 / part 3 / part 4

#asexual books #aroace books #asexual #2023 books #ace books #love letters for joy #a song of salvation #ethera grave #this dark descent #being ace #let the dead bury the dead #wren martin ruins it all #the siren the song and the spy #queer books #fourth world #one world #i should have just labelled this ace books bc there's no aro ones here (from the info i have) :/ #2023 aroace books

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: From the author of Aces Wild: A Heist comes a hilarious and compassionate romantic comedy for fans of Casey McQuiston and Netflix’s Love is Blind!

“My mouth still hurts from all the smiling.”—Sonora Reyes, National Book Award Finalist

Now that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s going to fix Rapture High. His first order of business: abolish the school’s annual Valentine’s Day dance, a drain on the school’s resources and general social nightmare—especially when you’re asexual. 

His greatest opponent: Leo Reyes, vice president and all-around annoyingly perfect student. Leo has a solution to Wren’s budget problem—a sponsorship from Buddy, the anonymous “not a dating” app sweeping the nation. Now instead of a danceless senior year, Wren is in charge of the biggest dance Rapture High has ever seen. He’s even secretly signed up for the app. For research, of course. 

But when Wren develops capital F-Feelings for his anonymous match, things spiral out of control. Wren decided a long time ago that dating while asexual wasn’t worth the hassle. With the big night rapidly approaching, he isn’t sure what will kill him first: the dance, his relationship drama, or the growing realization that Leo’s perfect life might not be so perfect after all. 

In an unforgettably quippy and endearingly chaotic voice, narrator Wren Martin explores the complexities of falling in love while asexual.

Review:

Who knew trying to get rid of a Valentine's Day dance would lead to possibly falling for your rival. Wren Martin wants to fix Rapture High and the first thing he wants to do is to get rid of the school's annual Valentine's Day dance that drains all the school's resources, the only issue is that his opponent is Leo Reyes, vice president and one of the most perfect students who gets under Wren's skin. Wren is asexual and wants nothing to do with the Valentine's Day dance but Leo offers an alternative to Wren's budget problems, he'll get sponsorship from Buddy, the anonymous "not dating" app that has been sweeping the nation. Wren agrees but he hates the dating app, yet when he is convinced to try it he suddenly finds himself befriending and possibly falling for his anonymous match, yet he is also spending more time with Leo, his supposed enemy who he is realizing he doesn't really know outside of the supposedly perfect image he has of him. Wren is struggling with working through his feelings and trying to understand dating while he is asexual yet his feelings are growing and Wren is going to have to face the chaos of it all, that is unless he ruins it. This was a fun and cute rom com about an asexual individual discovering his feelings and dating app shenanigans. This was a cute time and I think it's a quirky overall enjoyable read.

*Thanks Netgalley and Holiday House / Peachtree / Pixel+Ink, Peachtree Teen for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #wren martin ruins it all

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Asexual YA Romance

Forward March by Skye Quinlan (f/f) Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (m/f) You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie (f/f) Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (m/f) Planning Perfect by Haley Neil (f/f) Bonus: Coming later this year, Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See (m/f) and Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda DeWitt (m/m)

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#Ace Lit #Ace Romance #Ace-Spec #Asexual #Claire Kann #Contemporary Romance #Forward March #Haley Neil #Kathryn Ormsbee #Let&039;s Talk About Love #Love Letters for Joy #Melissa See #Planning Perfect #Racquel Marie #Skye Quinlan #Tash Hearts Tolstoy #Wren Martin Ruins it All #YA #You Don&039;t Have a Shot #Young Adult

[bemtevis]

man I could write an entire essay comparing chloe green and wren martin

#should I do that. I might do that #after I finish wmria #Ily arrogant nerds who act like you're better than everyone to cope with a deep deep insecurity #it's soooo satisfying when you grow as a person #actually Idk if wren is gonna grow yet. but I read aces wild and I'm choosing to trust the author #nathan reads #wren martin ruins it all #I kissed shara wheeler