Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:
We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is: Bookish Places I’ve Visited (Share all the cool places you’ve been that are bookish or tied to books! This includes neat libraries, book stores, places featured in books, places inspired by books, author homes/places they’ve stayed, etc. You can also share your bucket list of the bookish places you’d like to visit someday.) (submitted by Susan @Bloggin’ ’bout Books)
Dungeons and Drama (Gaming and Romance #1)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pub Date: 9 January 2024
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(4.5 pandas)
When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks!
Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop.
Riley can’t waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous.
But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan’s Dungeons & Dragons game… or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn’t require as much acting as she would’ve thought.
Parental health scare (a parent has a heart attack, off-page)
TL;DR: It has been a hot minute since I’ve read a YA contemporary that I genuinely enjoyed as much as I did Dungeons and Drama. It was such a feel good, wholesome and perfectly adorkable YA contemporary! Was it perfect? No. But is it fun, entertaining, and probably perfect for theatre geeks and gamer nerds both young and old? If you’re looking for a good time then absolutely, yes! This is a book my younger self would’ve obsessed over and I wish that I had a cousin/niece/nephew/friend’s kid who was a young reader that I could recommend this to. I understand why so many readers have loved this book (and the others in this series)!
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We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today.
I spent a large part of my Sunday in bed with The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett. I did not expect that I’d binge and finish this book today, but it happened and I loved it. It’s so so messy, definitely darkly humorous, outlandish and slightly ridiculous, but also incredibly heartwarming and hopeful. Traveling across the country with PJ, Sophie, Ollie, Luna and Pancakes was such a ride and I had a great time with them! 💜
What book do you have in bed with you this Sunday?
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Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are the rules:
First lines:
“Yadriel wasn’t technically trespassing because he’d lived in the cemetery his whole life. But breaking into the church was definitely crossing the moral-ambiguity line.”
Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?
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Happy Thursday, friends! I’m here today as part of the blog tour hosted by Toppling Stacks Tours for Dungeons & Dimwits by James Mascia and illustrated by Xoana Kodaris, and I’ll be sharing my thoughts on this new debut graphic novel.
Thanks to Dren Productions for providing a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Click the banner above or here to check out the other incredible bloggers on the blog tour!
Dungeons & Dimwits: Issue 1
Publisher: Dren Productions
Publication Date: 3 February 2025
Genre: MG Fantasy Graphic Novel
Rating:
(4 pandas)
What happens when the game your playing goes completely out of control?
That’s what happens when a group of friends are playing their latest role-playing game. The game takes over and the players suddenly find themselves in their character’s shoes and fighting for their lives.
A little Jumanji with a Critical Role theme that pokes fun at TTRPGs and the people who play them.
Dungeons & Dimwits takes all the funny, quirky, humorous (and sometimes kinda screwed up) things that happen when we play our tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and puts them into stories. If you you play these games, and don’t see yourself in here somewhere, you aren’t playing correctly.
Blood, death, violence
Dungeons & Dimwits was a highly entertaining MG graphic novel! Here we have a group of friends who magically get sucked into their TTRPG and they wind up assuming their character roles in a fantastical game world facing monsters, baddies, and other dangers of their creation. It gave Stranger Things x Jumanji x Delicious in Dungeon (the battles specifically) x Dungeon Crawler Carl (but for a younger audience). If you like the sound of all of the above, then I would recommend checking it out. Much like the group in Stranger Things, this group of friends will bicker constantly over how to do every little thing, but there’s never any doubt about them always being in each other’s corner, no matter what happens.
Read More » Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:
We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is: Book Series I Want to Catch Up On (or series you’d like to start)
Happy Monday, book pandas! 🐼 I’m excited to be back with another Fantasy with Friends post today. Also, I’m so sorry if parts of this don’t make sense or if I’m more rambly than usual. I’m fallen ill and the medicine just hit me as I started writing 🤣
Fantasy with Friends is a discussion meme hosted by Briana and Krysta on Pages Unbound. Questions are posed every Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. The yearly schedule is available on Pages Unbound so you can prepare way in advance! Don’t forget to leave a comment and link on the scheduled day so your post can be linked up. You can also tag @pagesunbound on Twitter and/or Bluesky!
Today’s Fantasy with Friends question:
Do anachronisms in fantasy bother you? Should fantasy be “similiar” to the time period it’s based on, either in terms of language used or things like invention, fashion, customs, etc.?
We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today.
I’ll be spending some part of my Sunday night in bed reading The Unbroken by C. L. Clark. This is my next buddy read with Becky and it’s been an interesting beginning so far! I think I had very different thoughts on the writing style, so I’m happy to say that it’s pretty easily readable. I’m very curious to see how the story evolves!
What book do you have in bed with you this Sunday?
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