Pick a meme that sums up your 2020, we’ll give you a book to read in 2021 By Emilie Polster </p> <section> <h2> <h2>Pick a meme that sums up your 2020, we’ll give you a book to read in 2021</h2> </h2> <p><p>While 2020 was a year unlike any other, the one good thing it gave us was an abundance of quality memes. Pick a meme that sums up your 2020, we’ll give you a book to read in 2021.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/beyondtherubyveil"><em>Beyond the Ruby Veil</em></a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/marafitzgerald">Mara Fitzgerald</a></strong></h2> </h2> <p><p>Emanuela Ragno always gets what she wants. With her daring mind and socialite schemes, she refuses to be the demure young lady everyone wants her to be. In her most ambitious move yet, she’s about to marry Alessandro Morandi, her childhood best friend and the heir to the wealthiest house in Occhia. Emanuela doesn’t care that she and her groom are both gay, because she doesn’t want a love match. She wants power, and through Ale, she’ll have it all. But Emanuela has a secret that could shatter her plans.</p> <p>In the city of Occhia, the only source of water is the watercrea, a mysterious being who uses magic to make water from blood. When their first bruise-like omen appears on their skin, all Occhians must surrender themselves to the watercrea to be drained of life. Everyone throughout history has given themselves up for the greater good. Everyone except Emanuela. She’s kept the tiny omen on her hip out of sight for years.</p> <p>When the watercrea exposes Emanuela during her wedding ceremony and takes her to be sacrificed, Emanuela fights back…and kills her. Now Occhia has no one to make their water and no idea how to get more. In a race against time, Emanuela and Ale must travel through the mysterious, blood-red veil that surrounds their city to uncover the secrets of the watercrea’s magic and find a way to save their people-no matter what it takes.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/noneshallsleep">None Shall Sleep</a></em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/noneshallsleep"> </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/elliemarney">Ellie Marney</a></strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>In 1982, two teenagers—serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell—are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can’t crack. But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case—a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers—things begin to unravel. Working against the clock, they must turn to one of the country’s most notorious incarcerated murderers for help: teenage sociopath Simon Gutmunsson.</p> <p>Despite Travis’s objections, Emma becomes the conduit between Simon and the FBI team. But while Simon seems to be giving them the information they need to save lives, he’s an expert manipulator playing a very long game…and he has his sights set on Emma.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong><em><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892338-legendborn">Legendborn</a></em> by Tracy Deonn</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.</p> <p> A flying demon feeding on human energies.</p> <p>A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.</p> <p>And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.</p> <p>The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.</p> <p>She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/theinheritancegames">The Inheritance Games</a> </em>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/jenniferlynnbarnes">Jennifer Lynn Barnes </a></h2> </h3> <p><p>Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why—or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch–and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.</p> <p>Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he’s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/gossipgirl">Gossip Girl </a></em>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/cecilyvonziegesar">Cecily Von Ziegesar</a></strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep–sometimes with each other.</p> <p>S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely…</p> <p>You know you love me.</p> <p>gossip girl</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kingdomofthewicked">Kingdom of the Wicked </a></em>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kerrimaniscalco">Kerri Maniscalco</a></strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden.</p> <p>Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems…</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/fence">Fence: Striking Distance</a></em> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/sarahreesbrennan">Sarah Rees Brennan</a>; Illustrated by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/johannathemad">Johanna The Mad</a></strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>The boys of Kings Row bout with drama, rivalry, and romance in this original YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan–inspired by the award-nominated comic series by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad.</p> <p>Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of getting the proper training he could never afford. After earning a place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes, friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the road to state championships–where Nicholas might finally have the chance to spar with his golden-boy half-brother.</p> <p>Coach Williams decides to take advantage of the boys’ morale after a recent victory and assigns them a course of team building exercises to further deepen their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, several hilariously bad dates, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together than they could ever be apart.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>Pick a meme! </strong></h2> </h2> </section> <p>
