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  Today I’m talking about A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy, and I’m fairly certain that this is a book that I found out about because of Twitter. I don’t know who on Twitter I saw it from, but you know how Twitter is slowly showing you less and less from people you follow? I think seeing this book was a result of that. And also, I know the phrase, “a little bit country” is a phrase that is just out there in the world, but whenever I see the title of this book, I can’t help but think of that one Vine of the girl going, “Country boy, I love you!” So, that queen was on my mind. Anyway, the country-fried blurb of this book says that Emmett Maguire wants to be country music’s biggest gay superstar—a far reach when you’re seventeen and living in Illinois. But for now, he’s happy to do the next best thing: stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee, for the summer and perform at the amusement park owned by his idol, country legend, Wanda Jean Stubbs. Then, Luke Barnes hates...

  Afterlove by Tanya Byrne, that’s the book I’m talking about today, and I’ll be honest, it’s one of those that I have no idea where I saw it first. I think I might have bought it in a physical store, but I genuinely don’t remember. The old blurb says: Car headlights. The last thing Ash hears is the snap of breaking glass as the windscreen hits her and shatters into a million pieces like stars. But she made it, she’s still here. Or is she? This New Year’s Eve, Ash gets an invitation from the afterlife she can’t decline: to join a clan of fierce girl reapers who take the souls of the city’s dead await their fate. But Ash can’t forget her first love, Poppy, and she will do anything to see her again… even if it means they only get a few more days together. Dead or alive… We open up on a prologue with Ash (Ashana Persaud) picking up this girl, Alice, who has just died. It took me moment to understand everyone’s position and the voice and where/who everyone was. But I got the vibe th...