Wednesday, May 4, 2016

RT Booklovers Convention 2016 Recap! (+GIVEAWAY)

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A few weeks ago I traveled to Las Vegas for the 2016 RT Booklovers Convention! This was my fourth year attending and I had a blast!

My day started at around 8 am. I stayed in the hotel where the convention was being held, with my parents, and I decided to scope out where all the panels would be before the convention started. But when my mom and I went downstairs, we realized that the book fair line already started, so we went back and got my books and got in line.

The line for the early crowd. And my mom is on the left.

The book fair didn't start until 10:30 and went for 3 hours. Basically, the book fair is where you get all your books signed. There were hundreds of authors and you went to their tables to get your books signed. You were only supposed to bring 10 books at a time. I brought over 100 books with me to Vegas, so we had to keep going back to get more (thankfully my dad was sitting with all my books outside the book fair). I got all but I think 5 of my books signed, so it was successful! And fun! I got to see so many authors!

Entering the Book Fair!

After the mad rush to get books signed, we went to the Fierce Reads Sugar Rush Party. When we walked in the door, we were given Fierce Reads bags. In the bags were books (of course) including Nemesis, Been Here All Along, Flawed, as well as some other books.We also got to spin a wheel to get another free book. I got a copy of Kiss Cam. After getting my new books signed, we heading off to the Hogwarts Trivia.

Fierce and Swoon Reads Gift Bag
Not my own picture, but these are the bags that were handed out.

I didn't do so well in Harry Potter Trivia, because I have a horrible memory, but I had fun! My mom and I were in Ravenclaw and Brendan Reichs was our table's prefect. By the way, Brendan Reichs is hilarious!

After that we went to Family Feud, which Brendan Reichs was moderating. (Although, before family feud there was a fire alarm scare...). I'm sure you know the gist of family feud, add authors and book related questions, and you got the idea of what the panel was about.

After that we went to the Match Game. The Match Game was moderated by Gretchen McNeil and was disappointing. The game basically had the same questions asked as last year, so it wasn't as fun.
It was even moderated by Gretchen McNeil last year

Then it was time for the party, basically what I look forward to the most at RT! When we entered in the Teen Day Party, we found a table and sat down to find trivia sheets on the table. Colleen Houck hosted a trivia game. Authors were asked to pick a question, then we all answered on the sheet.

Once the trivia game finished, each table was called to go into the goody room, pretty much the highlight of the night. Each person got a pink bag filled with books and swag. The good room had tables stacked with books, mostly ARCs, and swag. Each person got to take two the first round, but there were enough books and enough swag that every got to go in line more than once. 
Teen Day Gift Bags!
The bags given out (not my picture)

All of the authors!

Now, the loot!
Here are all of the books I got! I'm too lazy to link and list them all (if you really want to know what books are pictured, here's my Goodreads shelf), but some I'm really really excited about are: Girl Against the Universe, Wanderlost, The Forgetting, My Lady Jane, and Recreated.


Overall, I had a fabulous time! I love RT and look forward to it every year! Of course, my parents were super nice to me during RT and helped me with my books, so I'm so thankful to have such amazing parents! I hope I can go again, but it's the weekend before finals, so that may not be the best time. Anyway, if you you're thinking about going to RT next year, I recommend it!

GIVEAWAY!
Most of you probably skipped down to this section, which is okay. I picked up some extra copies for you guys! I'm giving away...
-ARC of Places No One Knows
-ARC The Lovely Reckless
-HC The Sin Eater's Daughter
-ARC Flamecaster
and a whole lot of swag! Including Snow Like Ashes buttons, Glittering Court preview, Epic Read magazine, Swoon Reads post its, an a whole lot of bookmarks!


8 comments :

  1. I've read The Forbidden Wish and absolutely loved it!

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  2. I have read The UnEnchanted series Chanda Hahn, Everneath series by Brodi Ashton, and Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand!! Thanks for the great giveaway!! :D

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  3. Great haul and it sounds like you had a lot of fun. I would always like to attend something like this but there is never anything around really close to me and I don't travel that often.

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  4. I am currently reading Six of Crows and it's pretty good so far!

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  5. Wow, you got a ton of free books:) Sounds like you had a ton of fun!

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  6. The only book I read recently was The Girl on the Train! Amazing book and can't wait for the film:D

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  7. I have fallen in love with the After series by Anna Todd and the Marked Men series by Jay Crownover. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  8. Wow! Sounds like you had fun! Thanks very much for giving away all of these goodies!

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