#allyson dahlin

[selkiemaidenfae]

books read in 2023: cake eater by allyson dahlin

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"the crowd parts, full of faces smiling and curious. i try not to look too closely, and let the music and champagne move me. i feel it all uncurling in my belly, and it seems like i’m dreaming in the neon half-light, dancing in the court of versailles with my new family of strangers."

[blueberryexistence]

the demisexual representation in cake eater >>>>>>>

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Marie: Are you okay???

Louis: Yeah- yeah I'm great. I'm just playing a game

Marie: What game?

Louis: It's called "is it asthma or a panic attack"

Marie:

Louis: I'm not winning

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 9th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin

How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis

New Sequels: 

Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic #2) by Liselle Sambury

Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle #3) by Rosaria Munda

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Happy reading!

[publishedtoday]

Cake Eater - Allyson Dahlin 

She has a million followers on social media. She uses her fashion-forward eye to pick the perfect angle and filter on every photo. She’s iconic. She’s a trend-setter. She’s Marie Antoinette, the year is 3070, and she’s arrived in the Franc Kingdom to marry the prince, secure an alliance, and rake in likes from her fans. Versailles is not the perfect palace Marie’s seen on The Apps. Her life is a maze of pointless rules, and the court watches her every move for mistakes. Her shy husband Louis is more interested in horses and computer-hacking than producing heirs. Versailles seems like a dream full of neon-lit statues, handsome android soldiers, and parties till dawn. Under the surface, it’s a creepy den of secrets: surveillance in Marie’s bedroom, censored news feeds, disappearing courtiers. When Marie and Louis become king and queen long before they’re ready to rule, any efforts to aid their suffering subjects are stamped out by the mega-corporations of the First Estate. Between riots in Paris and image-wrecking social media firestorms, Marie can’t afford to lose her head. Using her social media savvy and Louis’ hacking knowledge, they try to fix their reputations and change their kingdom for the better, but the royals may find it’s already too late. They’re ruling over the end of an era.

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Louis: Jellyfish have been living for 60,000 years without brains

Elisabeth: A ray of hope for Philippe

[blueberryexistence]

my current read is cake eater by allyson dahlin but the two main themes in that book are social media influencing and marie antoinette / the french revolution so it's really funny how my mind is constantly circling back to that one legends episode

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Title: Cake Eater

Author: Allyson Dahlin

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, retelling, science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, dystopia, LGBT+

Blurb: She has a million followers on social media; she uses her fashion-forward eye to pick the perfect angle and filter on every photo; she’s iconic; she’s a trend-setter; she’s Marie Antoinette, the year is 3070, and she’s arrived in the Franc Kingdom to marry the prince, secure an alliance, and rake in likes from her fans. Versailles is not the perfect palace Marie’s seen on The Apps; her life is a maze of pointless rules, and the court watches her every move for mistakes. Meanwhile, her shy husband Louis is more interested in horses and computer hacking than producing heirs. Versailles seems like a dream full of neon-lit statues, handsome android soldiers, and parties till dawn...but under the surface, it’s a creepy den of secrets: surveillance in Marie’s bedroom, censored newsfeeds, and disappearing courtiers. When Marie and Louis become king and queen long before they’re ready to rule, any efforts to aid their suffering subjects are stamped out by the mega-corporations of the First Estate. Between riots in Paris and image-wrecking social media firestorms, Marie can’t afford to lose her head. Using her social media savvy and Louis’ hacking knowledge, they try to fix their reputations and change their kingdom for the better, but the royals may find it’s already too late...they’re ruling over the end of an era.