The summer reading challenge
Is your TBR overflowing? Do you have great plans to read over the summer, but struggle to follow through? Are you craving connection with other readers?
Join us for the summer reading challenge!
The summer reading challenge will:
Help motivate you to hit your reading goals
Help you discover new-to-you authors
Connect you with fellow readers to discuss the weekly book!
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During the summer reading challenge, you'll receive:
- a printable punch card and social media graphics so you can track and share your progress
- access to the author’s reader group (Discord or Facebook)
- daily discussion questions or book prompts
- behind the scenes fun facts (dependent on the author)
- prizes (books, swag, maybe even some personal sized pizzas?)
- zoom calls with Q&A (dependent on author)
- entry for our GRAND PRIZE, which will be drawn at the end of the challenge
FAQ
What if I've already read the weekly pick?
Each author will provide a list of alternate titles you may pick from
What if I can't keep up with 1 book/week?
We will have 2 tracks:
- 8 book track: 1 book/week
- 4 book track: 1 book/2 weeks
You are welcome to jump in and out of the challenge as suits your schedule. HOWEVER only those who get all 8 stamps (for reading all 8 books) or all 4 stamps (for reading 4/8 books) will be eligible for our grand prizes.
Will the zoom calls be available for replay?
We will try to make this happen, but cannot promise with 100% certainty. Your best bet is to try to make the live calls.
Where will the challenge take place?
The virtual location will change each week depending on where the author’s reader group is located.
For example, week 1 will take place in Demi’s discord group, but week 2 will take place in Melissa’s Facebook group.
Consider your weekly email from Demi your ‘home base’ with all the links and instructions you’ll need for the week.
Week 1
july 6-12
THE ROAD OF BONES BY DEMI WINTERS
Travel the Road of Bones with Silla Nordvig as she flees the queen’s assassin. But when the Bloodaxe Crew find her hiding in their wagon, she’ll have to convince them not to kill her…
zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
- Any Ashen Series book
- For She is Wrath by Emily Varga
- Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana
- Our Vicious Oaths by NE Davenport
Week 2
July 13-19
TORTURED SOULS BY MELISSA K ROEHRICH
Need broken and flawed characters who become the closest found family? Need a series where you can’t decide who’s hunting who? Need a neurodivergent FMC, a MMC with something to prove, and a broody dragon who’s trying to pit them against one another? Get ready for The Avonleya Series.
zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
Week 3
July 20-26
WE WHO WILL DIE BY STACIA STARK
Filled with vengeful gods, combat, and magical creatures, We Who Will Die is perfect for readers who are fans of enemies to lovers, Ancient Rome-inspired worlds, and slow burn romance.
zoom Q&A? NO
Week 4
July 27-Aug 2
THE EVER KING BY LJ ANDREWS
“Hello, love. I promised I’d come for you.” Says the Pirate King as he kidnaps the princess he is secretly obsessed with.
When it’s not just “who did this to you…”…. but more of an “I’ll make you a necklace from the bones of your enemies” situation.
When the love interest might be a villain: He dances with her at a ball…then kidnaps her. He calls her “love”…. then provides bone jewelry of their enemies.
ZOOM Q&A? YES
Week 5
Aug 3-9
SMOKE & SCAR BY GRETCHEN POWELL FOX
She’s the infamous shadow-wielding fae, he’s the morally white knight who hates her… but who she can’t seem to stop saving anyway.
Zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
Week 6
Aug 10-16
KISSED BY THE GODS BY CATY ROGAN
She’s a serf. He’s an Altor. But she’ll bring him to his knees in this sweeping epic romantasy.
Zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
- Unwritten by the Gods – prequel novel
- Sea of Song and Sirens by Whit Stanfield
- I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
Week 7
Aug 18-23
THIS MONSTER OF MINE BY SHALINI ABEYSEKARA
Four years after being thrown off a tower, a scarred barmaid returns as a prosecutor to the corrupt city she nearly died in and begins a dangerous game of lied with the icy judge who could be her assailant, her salvation, or her ruin.
Zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
- This Blade of Ours
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
- A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena
Week 8
Aug 24-30
BETWEEN TIDES & THUNDER BY LEENA KAZAK
HE’S the realm’s most powerful stormwielder… …and SHE’S terrified of thunderstorms. Princess Mayah agrees to an arranged marriage with the enemy kingdom to end the decades-long war. But when her betrothed’s ruthless brother, the Dark Commander, arrives to escort her across rebel-torn lands, the less certain she is of where the monster ends and where the man begins.
Zoom Q&A? YES
Back up books:
- Between Sky & Sea
- Bound to Burn
- A Sea of Song & Sirens by Whit Stanfield
- Bloody Black by Rhiannon Hargadon