Book Hype hosts Jen, Karen, and Marama join together to discuss book news, their favorite characters, and books they can’t wait to read.

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What are we reading?
–Queen of Hearts: The Crown by Colleen Oakes
–Firstborn by Lorie Ann Grover
–The One by Kiera Cass
–The Lovely and the Lost by Paige Morgan
–We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

News
-Kiera Cass is writing a prequel novella, The Queen.
-Are Jen and Marama excited for this?
-Diversity in Books campaign gets a spot at BookCon.
–Frankenstein M.D.
-We want a webseries about Narnia.
-Also 1984 and Lord of the Flies.
–The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time got banned in Tennessee.

Marama’s favorite books
–To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
-Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Our favorite literary characters
-Marama: Atticus Finch, Hermione Granger, Matilda
-Karen: Hermione Granger, Eustace Scrubb, Frankenstein’s Monster
-Jen: Fanny Price, Hermione Granger
-But really, how could we choose?

Favorite literary settings
-Jen: Paris in Anna and the French Kiss, Prague in Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Victorian England
-Karen: Wonderland, The Great Tree of Avalon, Lilliput
-Marama: His Dark Materials parallel universes, The Merlin Conspiracy multiple universes, The Diviners 1920s New York

Books we’re looking forward to
–Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead, Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins, Landline by Rainbow Rowell, Forget Me by Kim Harrington
–Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, My Last Kiss by Beth Neal, The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
–Just One Night by Gayle Forman, Fan Art by Sarah Tregay

Feedback
-You tell us your favorite books and series.
-We try to give book club reading recommendations, but it’s so hard!
-A commenter has a bone to pick with Karen.

Our May Book Club Book is We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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