Book Recs Based on How You Like Your Potatoes By Mara Brashem </p> <section> <h2> <h2>Book recs based on how you like your potatoes</h2> </h2> <p>Potato potato potato. I love potatoes. You love potatoes. We all love potatoes (and books)! Pick your favorite way to eat potatoes and we’ll give you a book rec to match!</p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2></h2> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kingdomofthewicked"><em>Kingdom of the Cursed</em></a> by Kerri Maniscalco</h1> <h3>Delicious choice 😉 Roasted potatoes are crispy and charred on the outside, yet soft and fluffy on the inside, just like our good friend (and dream man-demon) Wrath.</h3> </h2> <blockquote><p>After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she’s introduced to a seductive world of vice.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria…even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who really killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world…or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature?</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Emilia will be tested in every way as she seeks a series of magical objects that will unlock the clues of her past and the answers she craves…</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/maybewereelectric"><em>Maybe We’re Electric</em></a> by Val Emmich</h1> <h2> <h3>It <em>looks </em>like a mound of snow, but makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Which is absolutely what you need when your emotions are taken on the rollercoaster that is Tegan and Mac’s night in the museum together.</h3> </h2> </h3> <blockquote><p>Tegan Everly is quiet. Known around school simply as the girl with the weird hand, she’s usually only her most outspoken self with her friend Neel, and right now they’re not exactly talking. When Tegan is ambushed by her mom with a truth she can’t face, she flees home in a snowstorm, finding refuge at a forgotten local attraction—the tiny Thomas Edison museum.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>She’s not alone for long. In walks Mac Durant. Striking, magnetic, a gifted athlete, Mac Durant is the classmate adored by all. Tegan can’t stand him. Even his name sounds fake. Except the Mac Durant she thinks she knows isn’t the one before her now—this Mac is rattled and asking her for help.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Over one unforgettable night spent consuming antique records and corner-shop provisions, Tegan and Mac cast aside their public personas and family pressures long enough to forge an unexpectedly charged bond and—in the very spot in New Jersey that inspired Edison’s boldest creations—totally reinvent themselves. But could Tegan’s most shameful secret destroy what they’ve built?</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h2> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/strangethedreamer"><em>Strange the Dreamer</em></a> by Laini Taylor</h1> <h3>Listen, I don’t really know what tater tots have to do with <em>Strange the Dreamer</em>, except that tots are the best and so is this book. Both are magical gifts from above.</h3> </h2> </h3> <blockquote><p>The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old, he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams?</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>In this sweeping and breathtaking novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.</p> <p>The answers await in Weep.</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/beyondtherubyveil"><em>Beyond the Ruby Veil</em></a> by Mara Fitzgerald</h1> <h3>SO. MUCH. KETCHUP. (aka blood) You’ll probably need some napkins to mop it up.<strong></strong></h3> </h3> <blockquote><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></blockquote> <blockquote><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></blockquote> <blockquote><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></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/theinheritancegames"><em>The Hawthorne Legacy</em></a> by Jennifer Lynn Barnes</h1> <h3>Oooooh you think you’re fancy don’t you, with you with your steamy jacket potato? Maybe you have a <em>few </em>hot baked potatoes to choose from? <em>Mayyyybe</em> there are some secrets hiding within your potatoes…<strong></strong></h3> </h3> <blockquote><p><em>The Inheritance Games</em> ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions—including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, two of the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture—by any means necessary.</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h2> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/sidelined"><em>Sidelined</em></a> by Kara Bietz</h1> <h3>Your potatoes are actually yams. They are sweet, spicy, and a little ooey-gooey. Definitely more of a dessert than a side dish—just like this book.</h3> </h2> </h3> <blockquote><p>Julian Jackson has a short to-do list for his senior year at Crenshaw County High School in Meridien, Texas: football, football, and more football. He knows he’s only got one chance to earn a college scholarship and make it out of his small town, and keeping his head down, his grades up, and his cleats on the field is that one chance. And then Elijah Vance walks back into his life, throwing all of his carefully-laid plans into a tailspin.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Elijah and Julian used to be best friends, maybe even on their way to something more than just friends. But three years ago, Elijah broke into the school to steal money from the coach’s office, and Julian was the one who turned him in. After that, Elijah and his family disappeared without a trace. And now he’s back, sitting at Julian’s grandmother’s kitchen table.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>But time and distance haven’t erased all of their feelings, and Elijah knows that he finally has a chance to prove to Julian that he’s not the same person he was three years ago. But with secrets still growing between them and an uncertain future barreling towards them, it may be harder to lean on each other than they thought.</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h3> <h1><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/anarrowtothemoon"><em>An Arrow to the Moon</em></a> by Emily X.R. Pan</h1> <h3>“But I need more!!!” –me, sobbing, every time I finish a plate of delicious, savory, perfectly crispy hash browns. Also me when I finished this book.<strong></strong></h3> </h3> <blockquote><p>Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers from the intended path. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, his connection with the wind, and now this strange girl at his new school. He’s determined to escape the noose tightening around his wretched family in punishment for their past mistakes…but time is running out.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Luna Chang feels unmoored and overwhelmed by her parents’ expectations. It’s the last year of high school and graduation looms ahead, bringing with it the dreaded question of her future. The path forward is paved and waiting. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by a boy she can’t stop thinking about, and the curious arrival of fireflies who are much more than they appear.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>As Hunter and Luna navigate their families’ enmity and secrets, and as everything around them begins to fall apart, they must figure out who they are meant to become and what they are fated to do.</p></blockquote> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>How do you like your potatoes?</strong></h2> </h2> </section> <p> </p> <p>
