{"id":15823,"date":"2021-12-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=15823"},"modified":"2021-12-19T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T20:57:06","slug":"favorite-covers-of-2021-the-second-half-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/favorite-covers-of-2021-the-second-half-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Covers of 2021 | The Second Half (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/favorite-covers-of-2021-january-1-june-1-bookending-winter-2020\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10042\" target=\"_blank\">first half of 2021<\/a> that I couldn&#8217;t wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/My-Favorite-Covers-Winter-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16033\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi! I put together my list of favorite covers from June 3-December 31 and uh&#8230; it was 46 books long. So! I decided to break it up into three posts, the first two with fifteen books and the third with sixteen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s post covers <em>(no pun intended)<\/em> fifteen of my favorite covers that published between June 3-July 8! I love love love pretty covers, and I&#8217;m so excited to start sharing some of the covers I loved most from 2021 with you! I hope you think these covers are as beautiful as I do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snowflakes-december-2021-divider-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snowflakes-december-2021-divider-1.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snowflakes-december-2021-divider-1-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snowflakes-december-2021-divider-1-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/instructions-for-dancing.png\" alt=\"Favorite Covers of 2021 | The Second Half (Part One)\" title=\"Favorite Covers of 2021 | The Second Half (Part One)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Instructions for Dancing<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/nicola-yoon\/\">Nicola Yoon<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  June 1, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/delacorte-press\/\">Delacorte Press<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 304 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/56643402-instructions-for-dancing\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolayoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolaYoon\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7353006.Nicola_Yoon\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3i4u8dl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/NicolaYoon\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.<br \/>\nAs Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything--including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he's only just met.<br \/>\nFalling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it's that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email\u2014and then he left for college without a response.<br \/>\nQuinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents\u2019 weddings. When he shows up at the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek\u2019s always loved the grand gestures in weddings\u2014the flashier, the better\u2014while Quinn can\u2019t see them as anything but fake. Even as they can\u2019t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn\u2019s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman.<br \/>\nQuinn can\u2019t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth about his silence, opens up about her own fears, and begins learning the art of harp-making from an enigmatic teacher.<br \/>\nMaybe love isn\u2019t the enemy after all\u2014and maybe allowing herself to fall is the most honest thing Quinn\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule.<br \/>\nAfter mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an elaborate estate-wide game. And she\u2019s tailored every challenge and obstacle to test whether they have what it takes to win--at any cost.<br \/>\nTold from the perspective of three dazzling players--Nicole: the new queen of Golden Rule; Luna: Jewel\u2019s biggest fan; and Stella: a brilliant outsider--this novel will charm its way into your heart and keep you guessing how it all ends because money isn\u2019t the only thing at stake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the Flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if anything means molding herself into the type of girl who could be courted by Prince Nikolai. But unbeknownst to Natasha, her newest recruit, Ella Neves, is driven less by her desire to survive the floods than her thirst for revenge. And Ella's mission could put everything Natasha has worked for in peril.<br \/>\nAs the oceans rise, so too does an undeniable spark between the two flyers. With the end of the world looming, and dark secrets about the Kostrovian court coming to light, Ella and Natasha can either give in to despair . . . or find a new reason to live.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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But when Maeve\u2019s ex\u2013best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn\u2019t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.<br \/>\nShunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily\u2019s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find\u2014even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church\u2019s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Henderson is in a rut. When he\u2019s not walking dogs for cash or responding to booty calls from his B-list celebrity hookup, he\u2019s holed up in his dingy Bushwick apartment obsessing over holograms of Aiden Chase, a fellow trans man and influencer documenting his much smoother transition into picture-perfect masculinity on the Gram. After an IRL encounter with Aiden leaves Pen feeling especially resentful, Pen enlists his roommates, the Witch and the Stoner-Hacker, to put their respective talents to use in hexing Aiden. Together, they gain access to Aiden\u2019s social media account and post a picture of Pen\u2019s aloe plant, Alice, tied to a curse:<br \/>\n<i>Whosoever beholds the aloe will be pushed into the Shadowlands.<\/i><br \/>\nWhen the hex accidentally bypasses Aiden, sending another young trans man named Blithe to the Shadowlands (the dreaded emotional landscape through which every trans person must journey to achieve true self-actualization), the Rhiz (the quasi-benevolent big brother agency overseeing all trans matters) orders Pen and Aiden to team up and retrieve him. The two trace Blithe to a dilapidated motel in California and bring him back to New York, where they try to coax Blithe to stop speaking only in code and awkwardly try to pass on what little trans wisdom they possess. As the trio makes its way in a world that includes pitless avocados and subway cars that change color based on occupants\u2019 collective moods but still casts judgment on anyone not perfectly straight, Pen starts to learn that sometimes a family isn\u2019t just the people who birthed you.<br \/>\nMagnificently imagined, linguistically dazzling, and riotously fun, <i>Future Feeling<\/i> presents an alternate future in which advanced technology still can\u2019t replace human connection but may give the trans community new ways to care for its own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Andrews<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/daughter-of-sparta\/\">Daughter of Sparta #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  June 8, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/jimmy-patterson-books\/\">Jimmy Patterson Books<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/historical-fiction\/\">Historical Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/mythology\/\">Mythology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/retellings\/\">Retellings<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 375 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50123234-daughter-of-sparta\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>Sparta forged her into a deadly weapon. Now the gods need her to save the world!<\/b><br \/>\nSeventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis\u2014who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands\u2014upends the life she's worked so hard to build. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus, and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit.<br \/>\nGuided by Artemis's twin\u2014the handsome and entirely-too-self-assured god Apollo\u2014Daphne's journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle-spinning Sphinx of Thebes, team her up with mythological legends such as Theseus and Hippolyta of the Amazons, and pit her against the gods themselves.<br \/>\nA reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, <i>Daughter of Sparta<\/i>, by debut author Claire M. Andrews turns the traditionally male-dominated mythology we know into a heart-pounding and empowering female-led adventure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! I put together my li\",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kait Plus Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/favorite-covers-of-2021-the-second-half-part-one\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Daughter of Sparta\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Claire M. 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And when they arrive at Camp Featherlite at the start of the worst blizzard in the history of Flagstaff, Arizona, it's clear that something isn't right.<br \/>\nVee barely has a chance to meet the other members of her pod, all who seem as unhappy to be at Featherlite as she does, when a camper goes missing down by the lake. Then she spots something horrifying outside in the snow. Something...that isn't human. Plus, the camp's supposed \"miracle cure\" for obesity just seems fishy, and Vee and her fellow campers know they don't need to be cured. Of anything.<br \/>\nEven worse, it's not long before Camp Featherlite's luxurious bungalows are totally overrun with zombies. What starts out as a mission to unravel the camp's secrets turns into a desperate fight for survival--and not all of the Featherlite campers will make it out alive.<br \/>\nA satirical blend of horror, body positivity, and humor, Kelly deVos's witty, biting novel proves that everyone deserves to feel validated, and taking down the evil enterprise determined to dehumanize you is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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So how does she somehow find herself living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms\u2026?<br \/>\nThe Best Friend Crush: Why is it suddenly so hard to act normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel? Must be time for a\u2014<br \/>\nMakeover(!): Black leather pants and some red lipstick are apparently enough to lend Gretchen the bravado to do an impromptu set at a comedy club, and catch the eye of\u2014<br \/>\nThe Roguish Bad Boy: Jeremy, the alluring young comic who thinks her name is Sabrina. It might just be\u2014<br \/>\nThe Perfect Cover: A funny-girl alter-ego that frees Gretchen to explore who she really is\u2014and what she really wants. But as rom-coms have taught her, leading a double life can only last so long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! 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Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined--it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri's unique family lineage.<br \/>\nWhen strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. There is more to Bri's sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it . . . until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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His main focus is on pushing these kids to their full academic potential.<br \/>\nAll he wants is for his colleagues\u2014and the endlessly meddlesome parents\u2014to stay out of his way.<br \/>\nIt's really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come--for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future.<br \/>\nOn the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends--countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic.<br \/>\nWhen their future comes to claim them, Elaine, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Morgana accompany Arthur to take his throne in stifling Camelot, where magic is outlawed, the rules of society chain them, and enemies are everywhere. Yet the most dangerous threats may come from within their own circle.<br \/>\nAs visions are fulfilled and an inevitable fate closes in, Elaine must decide how far she will go to change fate--and what she is willing to sacrifice along the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Martin\u2019s beloved Baby-Sitters Club series<\/b><br \/>\nIn 1986, the first-ever meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club was called to order in a messy bedroom strewn with RingDings, scrunchies, and a landline phone. Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne launched the club that birthed an entire generation of loyal readers.<br \/>\nAnn M. Martin\u2019s Baby-Sitters Club series featured a complex cast of characters and touched on an impressive range of issues that were underrepresented at the time: divorce, adoption, childhood illness, class division, and racism, to name a few.<br \/>\n In <i>We Are the Baby-Sitters Club<\/i>, writers and a few visual artists from the original BSC generation will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin\u2019s beloved series, thirty-five years later\u2014celebrating the BSC\u2019s profound cultural influence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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First question: What does it feel like to kiss someone?<br \/>\nXia is stuck in a lonely, boring loop. Her only escapes are Wiser, an artificial intelligence app she designed to answer questions like her future self, and a mysterious online crush she knows only as ObjectPermanence.<br \/>\nAnd then one day Xia enrolls at the Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley.<br \/>\nSuddenly, anything is possible. Flirting with Mast, a classmate also working on AI, leads to a date. Speaking up generates a vindictive nemesis intent on publicly humiliating her. And running into Mitzy Erst, Foundry alumna and Xia\u2019s idol, could give Xia all the answers.<br \/>\nAnd then Xia receives a shocking message from ObjectPermanence: He is at the Foundry, too. Xia is torn between Mast and ObjectPermanence\u2014just as Mitzy pushes her towards a shiny new future. Xia doesn\u2019t have to ask Wiser to know: The right choice could transform her into the future self of her dreams, but the wrong one could destroy her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.<br \/>\nRaikama has dark magic of her own, and she banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes, and warning Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die.<br \/>\nPeniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and, on her journey, uncovers a conspiracy to overtake the throne\u2014a conspiracy more twisted and deceitful, more cunning and complex, than even Raikama's betrayal. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in the very boy she fought so hard <i>not<\/i> to marry. And she must embrace the magic she's been taught all her life to contain\u2014no matter what it costs her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-12-22T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday! I had so much fun choosing my favorite covers of the first half of 2021 that I couldn't wait to share my favorite covers for the second half!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHi! 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