Name: Virtual Book club After Dark (now in May)
Start: 2024-05-05T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-05T21:30:00-07:00

📚 Based on heat level discussions in our bookclubs channel on Discord, we decided it was high time we had a Book Club for the kind of books that might get bypassed in our regular Book Club due to being too risqué but are still fantastic reads that are fun to talk about. This month's book was the runner up from tie breaker in our first poll. We will put out a poll based on sub-or main-genre of romance each month to determine the books we will discuss.

This month we will read **From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout**

Blurb from the author's site: [https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/](https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/)

"NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLING BOOK

## CAPTIVATING AND ACTION-PACKED, FROM BLOOD AND ASH IS A SEXY, ADDICTIVE, AND UNEXPECTED FANTASY PERFECT FOR FANS OF SARAH J. MAAS AND LAURA THALASSA.

***A Maiden…***
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.
***A Duty…***
The entire kingdom’s future rests on Poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.
***A Kingdom…***
Forsaken by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is rising once more, determined to take back what they believe is theirs through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of those cursed draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right becomes blurred. Poppy is not only on the verge of losing her heart and being found unworthy by the gods, but also her life when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel."

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This event will be held through our Discord server, on the General voice channel. h[ttps://discord.gg/VtW3Cr3Svw](https://discord.gg/VtW3Cr3Svw) If you have not signed up for Discord yet, please do so ahead of the event and take some time to check out all the fun there is to discuss!

🎫\*\*Many of these books are available across multiple library systems. Remember, as Maricopa County residents, you are able get a card to Phoenix Public Library systems, Chandler Public Libraries, Mesa Public Libraries, Tempe Public Library, and Maricopa County Public Libraries. Wooooo for libraries!

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