June YA Book Club 2024

Come join us for our Young Adult Book Club meeting in June 2024! We'll be gathering at Dymocks Joondalup for a fun and engaging discussion on the latest YA books. This is our fun bookish day of the month, so we hope you can join us for giveaways, games and chats about books! We welcome book lovers of all ages who enjoy young adult and fantasy.
This is a free event and we offer 10% off all full priced items in-store on the night, but bookings are required. If you can no longer make it on the night, we ask if you please let us know.

June's book club pick is The Revenant games by Maggie Fuston:

All of Us Villains meets Kingdom of the Wicked in this action-packed fantasy following a teen determined to win the competition held by warring vampire and witch kingdoms, only to develop complicated feelings for the vampire she's supposed to hand over.

Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games.

Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. Alongside life-changing riches, the witches will raise one person from the dead for whoever captures the highest-ranking vampire. In turn, the vampires offer immortality to whoever captures the most powerful witch. For most humans, the games are a ticket out of poverty. For Bly, it's a chance to get back her dead sister, Elise, and save the life of her dying best friend, Emerson.

Together, she and Emerson forge a dangerous plan to play both sides and win both prizes: resurrection for Elise and immortality for Emerson. But when the vampire they capture stirs a passion in Bly that she hasn't felt in a long time, she'll have to make a choice: her sister or the boy who's shown her there's more to life than just survival.