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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista

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Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Don’t Tell My Mother, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
With an overly zealous mother as her guide, 19-year-old Sam has never had a problem navigating through Christian suburbia before. But, all that changes when she befriends and becomes intrigued with Clara, her widowed neighbor and the village’s social outcast.

When their friendship grows into the ‘unnatural’, Sam is forced to examine her upbringing and come to terms with who she really is.

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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Chasing Mr. Prefect by Katt Briones

First things first: Don’t forget to follow #SparkPlugs on Twitter to see the rest of the Spark Books line-up in this blog series!

Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Chasing Mr. Prefect, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Chasing Mr. Prefect by Katt Briones
For the first time in her life, Vinnie finds herself on the brink of academic suspension.

While standing up to a bully is something she’ll never regret, she has to take on additional responsibilities in lieu of punishment for the offense. This unfortunately involves working with Cholo, the head disciplinary prefect, who seems to take delight in other people’s blunders. Her determination to match his expectations eventually leads her into a crazy chase to keep up.

Will Vinnie be able to carry on and eventually catch up? Or will the chase be too much for her to handle?

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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Serenade by Claire Du

First things first: Don’t forget to follow #SparkPlugs on Twitter to see the rest of the Spark Books line-up in this blog series!

Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Serenade, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Serenade by Claire Du
What would you tell your 15 year-old self if you come face-to-face with your boy band crush, 10 years later?

Elise Rodriguez is a 25year-old corporate junkie who has everything she could ask for except for a boyfriend. So when her best friend dares her to join a dating website, she decides she should do at least one thing she will regret when she turns 30. No one meets her expectations better than handsome surgeon Julian, who becomes her boyfriend. To celebrate her 365th day with him, Elise flies to the Queen City of the South for some couple time and, yes, canoodling. But she finds out her perfect boyfriend isn’t so perfect after all.

Enters boy band has-been Connor Ortiz—snobbish, easy going, and hot. Connor challenged Elise to see the world in a different angle. Set in Cebu, Elise and Connor takes us to amazing tourist spot destinations.

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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Simply Joei by Clare Elisabeth Marquez

First things first: Don’t forget to follow #SparkPlugs on Twitter to see the rest of the Spark Books line-up in this blog series!

Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Simply Joei, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Simply Joei by Clare Elisabeth Marquez
Pay -up Time! Or Is it?

One never gives up on true love. So Jake didn’t.

Holding on to the one that shouldn’t have gotten away, gorgeous Jake Calleja – engineer, entrepreneur and all-around hunk of a man – brings up old debt to bring in possibilities of future love with the beautiful and elusive Josephine Telencio. The two had a brief but unforgettable “history” in college, a past that Jake would seek to bring back in order to bring his “Joei” back in his life. To face their “unfinished past” entails a make-believe relationship for the sake of an ailing matriarch, an unforgettable country drive into the heart of the storm, a family drama of the queen mother and the wicked sisters, the inevitable supermodel ex, and lots of sparks in between.

A story of second chances and risking it all for a journey to a lifetime love – Jake and Josephine will take you to laughs and tears, to the highs and lows, to knowing when to hold on … or to let go.

Are things better left in the past? Or will true love prevail in the future?

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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Midnights in Bali by Carla de Guzman

First things first: Don’t forget to follow #SparkPlugs on Twitter to see the rest of the Spark Books line-up in this blog series!

Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Midnights in Bali, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Midnights in Bali by Carla de Guzman
Ava Bonifacio has always been the girl with The Plan —a life plan that would give her everything she’s ever wanted, including becoming a lawyer, a role she was sure she was born into. Sure, her determination may be seen as heartlessness, but Ava doesn’t care. What she does care about is getting into law school —but she doesn’t. She cares about her boyfriend Matteo—who breaks up with her.

In an act of desperation, Ava books herself a ticket to Bali and tries to get over her own failures. In Bali she meets Scott McLeod, a rude and grumpy Scottish traveler who thinks there’s a lot more to Ava than meets the eye.

But as Ava reveals more about herself, she finds Scott slowly pulling away from her. He was never part of The Plan, but Ava is determined to make sure he doesn’t slip away.

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#SparkPlugs || EXCERPT: Sounds Like Summer by Six de los Reyes

First things first: Don’t forget to follow #SparkPlugs on Twitter to see the rest of the Spark Books line-up in this blog series!

Do take that trip to your nearest National Bookstore or Powerbooks or go ONLINE to get your print copy of Sounds Like Summer, then add and/or rate it on Goodreads. ♥

Sounds Like Summer by Six de los Reyes
It’s not just a weekend for Lux Castelo. She has a plan, of course.

Phase One: Escape to the beach for a music festival.
Phase Two: Deal with what she can’t control.
Phase Three: Return to reality whole and ready.

Nowhere in that plan is Micah Jacinto, self-proclaimed adventurer and the kind of boy with his head stuck in the clouds and the moon inked on his arm—everything her rational sense tells her to stay away from. And yet Lux finds herself welcoming the distraction. As they spend the entire weekend together, Micah leads her to rediscover the lost pieces of herself amidst the excitement and the confusion of a raving mosh pit.

But all weekends come to an end and Lux needs to return to the dreaded reality she’s running away from. Does being brave enough to leave summer behind mean being brave enough to ask Micah to stay?

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SHAME GAME! (Because social media and fandom be cray.)

[Open to PH residents only.]

Surprise! August isn’t over yet. Which means my birthday month isn’t over yet. Which also means #BuwanNgMgaAkdangPinoy isn’t over yet either. (Let’s be real, every month should be Buwan Ng Mga Akdang Pinoy, yes? YES.)

So here’s another giveaway with books that might introduce you to new feelings along with the #romanceclass feelings you already know (basically all the feelings, okay). These stories are scandelicious!

You know the drill, save the image below:

Iris After The Incident by Mina V. Esguerra + Scandalized by Tara Frejas

Post it on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #ShameGameGiveaway, and tag me @chiyurodriguez. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced on Monday, August 22, 2016! Go on, gossip about it. Good luck!

GEEKAWAY! (Because why not call it that, sure.)

[Open to PH residents only.]

I’ve pretty much resolved to do whatever the hell I want this month, because it’s my birthday month… also because I’m turning 30 tomorrow. And when you’re about to turn 30 you tend to want to do random shit. (Or that could just be me.)

We’re also celebrating #BuwanNgMgaAkdangPinoy! There are so many Filipino-Authored books out there that you haven’t seen, many of which can make you feel all the things, and these #romanceclass books might be two of those. So save the image below:

Post it on Twitter or Instagram with the hasthtag #GeekawayGiveaway, and tag me @chiyurodriguez. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced on Monday, August 15, 2016! Chirp, chirp and cheers to your #innerdyromantic! (I’m so making that a thing.)

17 Feels that Rushed in Because of #FeelsRushIn

(I honestly don’t know why I ended up with 17 again, but there you go.) Hey! It’s been a while. It was a bit difficult to top #AprilFEELSDay. I kinda shrunk into a pit of I NEED MORE and nearly died in there… until #FeelsRushIn.

There’s that Thing I did to document all the things that happened at Trinoma last weekend. But how much can a video say, really? (Aside from, THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN OKAY.) So I’m making it a tradition. GIFs. GIFs to explain all the feelings whenever #romanceclass decides to be even more awesome than it already is. Feel on, my feels friends…

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17 #AprilFEELSDay Feelings

So a Thing happened yesterday. That Thing that everyone had been looking forward to as early as March finally happened… and it was glorious. We got there way too early, and left long after everyone else had gone home. I got home extremely tired, and woke up feeling so sore. It was as if I’d finished a Triathlon!

Honestly, I don’t even know where to start. I thought I was able to process it enough already, having spent until nearly midnight talking to everyone about it. But no, of course not, how could that be possible? After all I am simply a living, breathing, human shaped casing of feels. So let me just express my feelings in a way that I know everyone will be able to understand… here are my 17 moments of feels during #AprilFEELSDay.

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