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b'This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Samantha Cohoe, author of Bright Ruined Things.
\\nAbout Bright Ruined Things: The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island\\u2019s magic and its spirits. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her.
\\nBut tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island\\u2019s magic and started producing aether \\u2013 a magical fuel source that has revolutionized the world. With everyone returning to the island, Mae finally has the chance to go after what she\\u2019s always wanted.
\\nWhen the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae realizes that things aren\\u2019t what they seem. And Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir to the Prosper magic, may hold all the answers \\u2013 including a secret about Mae\\u2019s past. As Mae and her friends unravel the mysteries of the island, and the Prospers\\u2019 magic, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on.
\\nIn this YA fantasy, Samantha Cohoe wonderfully mixes magic and an atmospheric setting into a fantastically immersive world, with characters you won\\u2019t be able to forget.
\\nAbout Samantha Cohoe: Samantha Cohoe was raised in San Luis Obispo, California, where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood of beach trips, omnivorous reading, and writing stories brimming with adverbs. She attended Thomas Aquinas College, a Great Books college in California, and graduated with a BA in liberal arts. After studying Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School, she decided academia wasn\\u2019t for her, and rediscovered her love of writing stories brimming with adverbs. In 2011, she moved with her family to Denver, where she currently divides her time between teaching Latin, mothering, writing, reading, and deleting adverbs. She writes historically inspired Young Adult Fantasy.
\\nThis week\\u2019s picks:
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\\n* Samantha: Wearing High Heels
\\n* Tracy: Bootleggers (Boardgame)
\\n* Patrick: Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 (Paramount+)
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\\nLinks:
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\\n* Samantha on Twitter
\\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\\n\\xa9 2022 Patrick Hester
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