In case you haven't heard about this upcoming release in 2019. Keep it on your radar, because I am pretty sure it is going to be the next great thing in happy-making contemporary fiction world. What book is this in case you haven't already seen the cover? It is...
Again, but Better
Release Date: May 21, 2019
416 pages
Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents...sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance...what's that?
Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure!
Easier said than done. She is soon faced with the complicated realities of living outside her bubble, and when self-doubt sneaks in, her new life starts to fall apart.
Shane comes to find that, with the right amount of courage and determination one can conquer anything. Throw in some fate and a touch of magic - the possibilities are endless.
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| photo by Christine Riccio via Instagram |
As a long time fan of Christine's, I have been watching her channel on YouTube since the eighth grade? Earlier? It is longer than I thought it was. I have been following her and seeing her book talks, funny videos, and recently the past two years, her writing endevours that were slowly giving me hope to write. You know, when they weren't also making me fear for my own creativity since she seems to never run out of it. I feel that Christine was one of the many people that gave me the courage to write about books and talk about books on this blog and everywhere I go. I wish I would have told her that when I casually was standing next to her at BEA in 2017...
So yes, I am so so excited about this book she has written. Watching her go through her own abroad experience from her vlogs during the early years of polandbananas, I now cannot wait to see what she includes for her main character, Shane. So excited that I wish I could make it to YallFest in November. I hear that arcs may appear. If anyone is going, save me a copy?
Will Again, but Better be the next Anna and the French Kiss, perhaps?
I have very good feelings for this upcoming read. Even if it is over seven months away.