Smack and Gabi face off in their 3rd Annual Mysterious Galaxy Summer Bingo Showdown Throwdown (etc., etc.)!! Smack is the defending champion in this contest to find out who had the more enjoyable summer bingo experience. So far this year, Gabi, the underdog, is helped along by Rock, Paper, Scissors tie-breakers, at which she is inexplicably talented. P.S. Readers interested in Alexandra Vasti’s Halifax Hellions series can only get free access to them until the end of November 2023 so sign-up for her newsletter here ASAP!
In this part one of (probably) two, the books showdowned throwdowned in this episode include:
- White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder #1) by David R. Slayton v. Night Watch (Soul Reader #1) by Annie Anderson
- Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava #2) by Roshani Chokshi v. The Curse of Saints (The Curse of Saints #1) by Kate Dramis
- Deadbeat Druid (Adam Binder #3) by David R. Slayton v. She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
- Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton v. The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
- Gutter Mage by J.S. Kelley v. The Surviving Sky (Rages #1) by Kritika S. Rao
- Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper v. The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
- Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore v. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
- The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnstonv. Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
- Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill v. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
- Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell v. In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation (Halifax Hellions #1) by Alexandra Vasti
