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What Old Hollywood Movie Should You Watch?
Girl About Town by Adam Shankman and Laura L. Sullivan transports readers to the days of Old Hollywood, when beautiful starlets and handsome leading men dominated pop culture. Get swept into the past in this thrilling story about a clever young starlet who’s accused of murder and determined to clear her name before the real murderer strikes again! […] -
Bringing Down an Oppressive Society: 10 Tales of Infiltrating the Enemy
Have you ever found yourself on the losing side of a political civil war? Does your team need a bit of a leg-up on the competition in an actual war? Are you a princess, in need of redeeming your conquered kingdom? Or perhaps you’re a poverty-stricken citizen being oppressed by a selfish and volatile ruling class? […] -
8 Ruthless Characters You Can Appreciate
As you will see in Such A Good Girl by Amanda K. Morgan, nothing will keep you turning page after page quite like a protagonist who doesn’t tell you their whole story. Riley Stone seems perfect on the outside, but as you discover more about her and her nonnegotiable plans to keep things that way, you […] -
5 Love Interests with a Twist
In In a World Just Right, protagonist Jonathan Aubrey has a unique power: the ability to create alternate worlds. The world he escapes to most often is one where he’s a better version of himself—the type of guy that can actually impress his crush Kylie Simms, and get her to date him. While I was […] -
5 Reasons You Should Read Such a Good Girl ASAP
I just finished reading Such a Good Girl by Amanda K. Morgan, and let me tell you all, I. AM. SHOOK. I don’t know if I can ever trust anyone again. This book makes me question literally everything about everyone, including myself. But before I go into details about why, read the book description: Pretty […] -
Behind the Book: Dangerous Lies
I grew up in a small town much like Thunder Basin, Nebraska, the setting for Dangerous Lies. Like Stella, the main character, I worked as a carhop at a local diner. As a seventeen-year-old girl, I spent a summer making shakes and onion rings by hand, listening to The Beatles on my Sony Walkman, sunbathing […] -
Join Riveted on Wattpad!
You guys know about Wattpad, right? It’s an amazing site where people—over 45 million of them!—share their stories. And what do we do every week here on Riveted? We share stories!! It seems like destiny that Riveted and Wattpad should finally meet. Kismet, even! Sure, Wattpad has a lot of suitors but Riveted’s a scrappy […] -
Behind the Book: The Potion Diaries
If you haven’t read The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward, you should. It’s kind of amazing (it’s also a free read until June 19th so you should get on it ASAP). The first time I read it I couldn’t stop talking about it! It reads like a fairy tale that’s fun, magical, and full of adventure, […] -
5 Wonderfully Hopeless Romantics
It’s summer, and love is in the air — particularly if you’re a hopeless romantic. We all know the type: dreams about falling in love, believes that love is the meaning of life, idealistic and sentimental. Now that I’m reading all of the wonderful romances available on Riveted this week for The Summer of Love, […] -
The Potion Diaries Scavenger Hunt
Samantha Kemi comes from a long line of skilled alchemists, gifted in concocting potions together to cure all sorts of ailments. In The Potion Diaries, Sam finds herself racing to find a list of obscure items (everything from merpearls to pink jasmine) in order to create a cure for Princess Evelyn, who has accidentally fallen in […]