All right, the sure sign, it's the holiday season. We're back. I tried to go look and I got

bored of filtering through.

The first year we did this.

We don't have a great categorization system and like once you scroll past a few hundred

episodes in iTunes or something like that, it's very difficult to look at a whole list. I think this is our fifth year.

Today's episode is brought to you by Bloom Books for Young Adults.

From Number One New York Times, best-selling author Jennifer L. Arment Trout comes a book I have to tell you about. It's half blood. And it follows Alex and her mom who spent years on the run from the Covenant, a school with her pure descendants

of God's home their powers and half mortal teens train to kill demons for them.

When her mom is murdered, Alex has two options.

She can become a servant for the pures or work twice as hard to catch up in her training. The second option seems easier, but it gets a little complicated you see when pure blood Aiden becomes her personal trainer.

So falling for Aidan isn't her biggest problem, surprisingly.

As demons close in, she must fight to stay alive, even while others around her are dropping dead.

So again, Jennifer L. Armentrout does the thing when it comes to romance, fantasy, adventure,

all those things.

Other books are Blood and Ash, a Shadow and the

Ember, all those good things. Make sure check out Half Blood by Jennifer L.

Armentrout. And thanks again to Bloom Books for Young Adults for

sponsoring this episode.

This episode is sponsored by Celadon Books, publishers of Honey by Isabel Banta.

And if you like me grew up listening to late 90s, early 2000s era pop music,

you're going to want to pay attention to this one.

It's 1997, and Amber Young has received this life-changing opportunity to join a girl group called Cloud 9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town.

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