It’s here! it’s here! The blogging from A to Z April Challenge is HERE!!! As with most challenges, we’ll begin at the beginning:
My theme for the Challenge is to young adult books (YA). There may be some you know and some you don’t know; hopefully, we’ll both find new books to add to our To Be Read piles!
Today is the first day of the challenge so of course the letter is A! Today’s book is Aces Up by Lauren Barnholdt
How cute is that cover? Here’s what goodreads says about it:
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Shannon Card needs money. And lots of it. She’s been admitted to Wellesley, but her dad just lost his job, and somehow she has to come up with a year of tuition herself. But Shannon’s dream of making big bucks waitressing at the local casino, the Collosio, disappears faster than a gambler’s lucky streak. Her boss is a tyrant, her coworker is nuts, and her chances of balancing a tray full of drinks while wearing high-heeled shoes are slim to none. Worse, time is running out, and Shannon hasn’t made even half the money she’d hoped.
When Shannon receives a mysterious invitation to join Aces Up, a secret network of highly talented college poker players, at first she thinks No way. She has enough to worry about: keeping her job, winning the coveted math scholarship at school, and tutoring her secret crush, Max. But when Shannon musters up the nerve to kiss Max and he doesn’t react at all, the allure of Aces Up and its sexy eighteen-year-old leader, Cole, is suddenly too powerful to ignore.
Soon Shannon’s caught up in a web of lies and deceit that makes worrying about tuition money or a high school crush seem like kid stuff. Still, when the money’s this good, is the fear of getting caught reason enough to fold?
Sounds cute, right? I love the idea of a teenage girl playing poker!
Have you read it? What did you think?
Special thanks to Arlee Bird for getting the party started!
Stay tuned for letter B; any ideas what the book might be?