Book of the Month:

Kronos by Carlos_G_Peralta ❤️

Please read at least three chapters of the BotM before June!

*Note* if you've read Kronos, you can read more of Carlos's work for the same point value!

You only need to read one chapter of ANY of the other books. Meaning, only four chapters total are required per month, but it is highly encouraged to read as much as you can. If you have the most points by the next month, your book becomes BotM! Plus, it's better to engage with your fellow club members ❤️

You can also earn five bonus points for every chapter of one of our raid books that you leave ten comments on. This month, we have three raid books, by AdrielleReina, SarahQuinnMcGrath, and Olvaaarrdd ! So, check out those too when you can in the FBWC RAIDS book!

*If you read the raid books, please specify whether you raided them or did a regular book club payment!*

Other Books and Authors by Genre:

Poetry:

Username: WinterlyHeights
Title: The Boy Who Plays With Doves (6 chapters so far)
Genre: Poetry
Subgenre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Pitch: Callum, the Seamstress's son, is a shy boy and an easy target for the village bullies. When Callum accepts help from a mysterious magick man to punish his tormentors, he finds himself in even more danger than before.
Mature: No, just some descriptions of PG-13 blood/gore
Audience: Children 6-13
Partnership/s:
Point Tallies: 0

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Chick Lit:

Username: MiniMoxx
Title: The Art of Remembering
Genre: chick lit
Subgenre: general fic/romance
Pitch: 11 years after her childhood best friend left, Addison's husband falls ill and they both have to put their trust in the one man Addison swore to forget.
Mature: no
Audience: new adult
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 47

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Username: JSPRomComs
Title: Finding Chef's Kiss
Genre: Chicklit
Subgenre: Comedy
Pitch: An NYC food critic is forced to work with an annoyingly handsome chef & restaurant owner in order to cover up a mistake that could cost her everything.
Mature: No but PG-13 for swearing and sexual themes
Audience: Adult
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 30

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Romance:

Username: HappyCoati
(HIATUS)
Title of Book: Drugs, Treasons and Other Demons
Genre: Dark Romance
Subgenre: Thriller
Pitch: Sarah Kennedy's miserable life takes a turn for the worse when she is kidnapped by a narcissistic drug lord. Surrounded by threats and with no home to go back to, Sarah slowly realizes there might be no escape from her gilded cage.
Mature: yes, strong language, drug use, violence, emotional abuse
Audience: Young adult and Adult
Partnership/s: 
Point Tally:

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Username: idio2stupid
Title: Yours Lovingly
Genre: Romance
Subgenre: Slice of life
Pitch: A young widow and soon to be mom Aadvika faces many twists in life as she meets another single dad. Their lives get entangled as they move on with life in a cruel narrow-minded society.
Mature: Not really
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 10
Strikes: 1

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FanFiction:

Username: MermaidAriel13
Title of Book; Loyalty and Mischief
Genre; Fanfiction (Loki - MCU)
Subgenre; romance, mythology
Pitch; When the beautiful Lady Sigyn arrives in Asgard, the Trickster-God, Loki, is determined to use her for his next scheme. But not all is as it seems, and Loki may just get a lot more than he bargained for.
Mature; yes - battle scenes, sex, trauma
Audience; adult (side note, prior knowledge to the MCU isn't necessarily required as the story starts 200yrs before 1st Thor movie)
Partnership/s:    
Point Tally: 44

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Historical Fiction:

Username: AnnamitaMuscaria
Title : Hell is an Empty Heart
Genre : Historical Fiction
Subgenre : Fantasy, Fanfiction, Adventure.
Pitch : Persephone is a young Goddess whom everybody knows but Persephone herself doesn't know who she is yet. This will change on the day Zeus agreed for her to be Hades' bride behind her Mother's back, thus for him to take her to his Realm.
Persephone's disappearance hit Demeter like a stab to the heart that pushes her on a self discovery journey to understand who she is too and how to fight back Zeus. While Persephone will have to fight Hades but mostly how to survive on her own.
Mature : because it is a retelling faithful to its material works, there is incest, violence, mention of rape but absolutely no swear words.
Audience : Adult
Partnership/s: 
Point Tally: 128

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Username: AshlynLynx
Title: Lawless Heaven
Genre: Historical Fiction
Sub-Genre: Dystopian Adventure
Pitch: "Christians aren't necessarily good people, they're just forgiven."
Mature: Some profanity
Audience: New adults and older
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 0

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Username: craftychicken
Title: Hurting and Deserting
Genre: Historical Fiction
Subgenre: Romance
Pitch: A young kitchen maid aids a deserter from World War 1 in finding his family. Meanwhile he struggles with his own truama and secrets which he'll do anything to hide.
Mature: Yes
Audience YA +
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 0

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Mystery/Thriller:

Username: RobertLHarpur
Title of Book: HereAfter Dark
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Subgenre: Paranormal
Pitch: Ever wondered what happens when you die? Carter Cheval Ryder is the male anchor of a current affairs TV program called After Dark.
As an investigative journalist he must enlist the aid of a ghostly figure called Teacher to try to prevent terrible things happening to members of his media family. His investigations uncover Lies, Secrets, Political conspiracy and Religious intrigue leading to assassinations to protect a master plan for world domination emanating from the Vatican.
Mature:Yes. Necessary sex scenes, language and adult themes.
Audience: Mature adult fiction lovers who question the meaning of life.
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 21

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Fantasy:

username: AtheinaVismark
Title of the Book: Oath of Steel
Genre: Fantasy
Subgenre: Action-mystery
Pitch: To uncover the conspirators plotting against the crown; a lethal assassin and an abstruse banker will have to work together before time runs out. Between veiled truths and realistic illusions, will they survive to see a new dawn?
Mature: Yes
Audience: NA
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 17

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Username: eatingher_words
Title: The Sinuous Bargain of a Cowardly Prince
Genre: Fantasy
Sub: Romance
Pitch: a prince must fill his warrior brother's shoes fast, and he enlists the help of a cute girl elf to guide him.
Mature: nope
Audience: New Adult
Partnership/s:
Points Tally: 122

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Username:  Beetlemaniac (HIATUS)
Title: The Runaway Rebels- Book 1
Genre: Fantasy
Subgenre: Adventure
Pitch: Immortals, Gods, Spirits. A tale of the friendship and antics of three young Deities caught in a world of many-a huge personality. Though very different in many ways, can these three Goddesses find in each other, a home, and a family, they would not have expected? Will they help each other to break out of the molds that have been made for them?
Mature: No, however it is worth giving a TW for slight mentions of neglect and abuse [there are abusive parents involved in the story], there is violence but I would rate the books at a PG- 13 level myself.
Audience: YA and above
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 0 (hiatus)

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Username: mikrokosmos96
Title : I'm an Extra in a Tragedy Novel
Genre : Fantasy
Subgenre : Dark-romance, angst, historical
Pitch : When Calypso opened her eyes after almost drowning in a lake, she suddenly remembered her past life as Park Hanbyeol, thirty-year-old music producer and successful entrepreneur who lived in modern world South Korea.
That was when she realized that the world she was currently living in was inside a tragedy novel that she once read where all the main characters including the heroine, the male lead and even the villain regressed and went back in time with the memories of the first timeline intact.
Then who is she? The heroine? Of course not.
She played the role of Empress Calypso Berenice. The male lead's wife, a mere extra who was executed after the villain took over the empire.
Her tragic death wasn't even mentioned in the story, so why the hell is she regressing as well? And to top it all out, she even remembered her past life.
Mature : Yes (mentioned of rape, torture, execution, mental health issues, physiological trauma, etc)
Audience : Adult (I recommend this for adult audience due to heavy topics)
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 29

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Username: Carlos_G_Peralta (BOTM - free month, no reads required)
Title: Kronos
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Adventure
Pitch: An expecting father is ripped away and dropped into the world of Greek Mythology. Along the way, he's forced to confront the trauma of his past while utilizing a power to help him get back home.
Mature: Yes (violence, PTSD)
Audience: 18 and above
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 23

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Username: writergirl81
Title of book: TBD
Genre: fantasy
Sub genre: teen fiction
Pitch: an orphaned teenage girl who has always wondered why her parents gave her up, suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar land, filled with dangers and learns more than she expected to about her past.
Mature: Yes. Mention of sex, some profanity and violence.
Audience: teen to young adult
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 27

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Username: Anunimouse96 (HIATUS)
Title: COLISEUM.
Genre: Fantasy
Blurb: Fighters from different dimensions and universes have gathered to compete in a massive Coliseum of epic proportions to fight against anonymous adversaries.
A tournament conglomerated with aliens, angels, deities, dinosaurs, elves, spellcasters, and average fighters to determine who will be bold enough to dominate the arena and come out victorious. Which of the competitors will get the knock out? Which of these opponents will get thrown out of the arena? And who will drop out? Though not all is what it seems within the stadium walls. What secrets are hidden behind the scenes?
The doors part to expose the division between their staff members — after the next advertisement.
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: (on hiatus for May)

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Username: Benhauthor
Title: Merlin's Curse
Genre: Speculative
Sub-genre: MG Sci-fi
Pitch: Merlin is the almost-greatest-eleven-year-old nerd the world doesn't know because his name has cursed him--he's all parts nerd and zero parts magic--and all he wants is to be cool.
Mature: no
Audience: MG / Teen Fiction
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 296

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Action/Adventure:

Username: OneWinterNight
Title: The Last Coffee Shop
Genre: Adventure
Sub-Genre: Post-apocalyptic/Low fantasy
Pitch: Mads Capot only wants to run her coffee shop and survive the bills until the next wave of intragalactic tourists arrives. The last thing she wanted was a dangerous stranger and his complicated world of outlaws, renegades, and ancient curses to make her life far more interesting.
Mature: No, but pg-13 level violence, sexual themes, and language
Audience: YA/NA
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 59

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Young Adult/General Fiction

Username: Olvaaarrdd
Title of book: The Boy With Strange Blood
Genre: YA
Sub-genre: coming of age/ family drama
Pitch: per blurb — "Black words, black music, black hair—Efren wants it all. Efren is a 13-year-old bi-racial boy who, against his Filipina mom's frenzied opposition, attempts to embody his black father, affectionately called Pops—whose infidelity, abandonment, and death so fractured their family."
Mature: no
Audience: 13+
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 37

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Horror

Username: SarahQuinnMcGrath
Title of Book: Darkheart
Genre: Horror
Sub-Genre: Cosmic Horror
Pitch: One summer, four teens discover something they'd forever wish they hadn't about the resort that is the heart of their otherwise sleepy community. Fifteen years later, they are called home for a reckoning.
Mature: Yes
Audience: 18+
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 229

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Sci-Fi/Dystopian

Username: AdrielleReina
Title: A Ballad of Inferno and Ruin
Genre: Dystopian
Sub-Genre: Sci-Fi, Speculative
Pitch: After losing all that she loves, Emma Sandalwood joins a rebellion in the midst of a Civil War in the Former United States and an overarching World War across the globe. However, she soon learns that there is more for humanity to contend with– an abomination of nature and engineering.
Mature: Yes, very distressing and violent content.
Audience: New Adult and above.
Partnership/s:
Point Tally: 19

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