I was recently contacted to become an affiliate for Book Of The Month YA. Since I’ve heard nothing but good things about BOTM, I decided to give it a try. Please note that this is not a website for Book of the Month. I’m just promoting it. You can follow the link below which will take you to the site.
I will be posting around once a month and the posts will always include my affiliate link. Please know that I do get a commission for every new sign up using my link. So thank you in advance to anyone who gives it a try.
We were given permission to share the July 2019 book choices a little bit early. I believe they usually announce on the first of the month.
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Here are the book choices for July:
Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg
Small-town Wisconsin high school senior Allison Smith loves her life the way it is-spending quality time with her widowed father and her tight-knit circle of friends, including best friend Marian and maybe-more-than-friends Neil. Sure she is stressed out about college applications . . . who wouldn’t be? In a few short months, everything’s going to change, big time.
But when Ally files her applications, they send up a red flag . . . because she’s not Allison Smith. And Ally’s-make that Amanda’s-ordinary life is suddenly blown apart. Was everything before a lie? Who will she be after? And what will she do as now comes crashing down around her?
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt.
But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead–her gumiho soul–in the process.
Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl–he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to humans. He’s drawn to her anyway.
With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous . . . forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon’s.
All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.
Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame.
But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally summon a pair of ancient creatures devoted to avenging the wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family she’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.
Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds―and falls head over heels―in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.
Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She’s always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius―but she’s never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes. And working in the same hospital as her mother certainly isn’t making things any easier.
But life gets complicated when Saira finds herself falling in love with a patient: a cute teen boy who’s been diagnosed with cancer. And when she risks her brand new career to try to improve his chances, it could cost her everything.
It turns out “heartbreak” is the one thing she still doesn’t know how to treat.
In her solo debut, Sona Charaipotra brings us a compelling #ownvoices protagonist who’s not afraid to chase what she wants. Symptoms of a Heartbreak goes from romantic comedy highs to tearjerker lows and is the ultimate cure-all for young adult readers needing an infusion of something heartfelt.
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed
Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.
When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse.
All of these books sound so good, but this is the one I chose.
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Do you currently get books from Book Of The Month? Are you interested in one for just YA books? What do you think of this month’s selections? Thank you again for anyone who decides to try it out using my link!
This is pretty cool! Congratulations on this new partnership! I like the looks of the books that month too!
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Thank you! I’m really excited to be able to help promote it. Anything that gets people reading more is great.
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Congrats!
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Thanks!
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congrats on becoming an affiliate! the selections look awesome!
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Thank you! I’m excited to see what they chose for August.
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Congratulations! I’m very excited for Wicked Fox. Unfortunately, BOTM isn’t in Canada I believe
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It’s unfortunately not. I’m really hoping they will eventually expand. I did have to mark which countries I reach, so I put US, Canada, and UK since that’s where the majority of views come from. I have no idea if that means they’re looking into it or if it was just something they had to put down.
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OH MY GOSH, Congratulations!!!!
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Thank you!
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I had no idea that they had a YA exclusive subscription now! That’s awesome. Congrats on becoming an affiliate!
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Thank you! I’m pretty sure it’s fairly new. I hope it does well.
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I’m sure it will! BOTM has always been a fantastic subscription and I remember hearing quite a few people wishing they had more YA options included so hopefully those people get in on this!
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I really hope so. I know so many people subscribe to the regular one.
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