Book Blitz: Zero Repeat Forever

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excited that ZERO REPEAT FOREVER by Gabrielle
Prendergast is available now and that we get to share the news!

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About The Book:

Title:

 ZERO
REPEAT FOREVER

Author: Gabrielle Prendergast

Pub. Date: August 29,
2017

Publisher: Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pages: 496

Formats: Hardcover,
eBook, audiobook

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He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the
details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.

Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.

His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.

Until a human kills her…

Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx
invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in
the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from
the human resistance.

Shelter in place.

Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven
doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have?

Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend.

Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel
only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit,
their survival comes to depend on trusting each other… 

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About Gabrielle: 

Gabrielle
is a writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada.  You
can read about her books here.
She is represented by Barbara Poelle at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.

In 2014 she
was the Writer in Residence at Vancouver Public Library. In 2015 she was nominated
for the BC Book Prizes and chosen to tour the province to promote BC Books. In
2017 Gabrielle took part in the TD Canada Children’s Book Week Tour. She has
also been nominated for the White
Pine Awardand the CLA
Award.

Gabrielle
won the Westchester
Award for Audacious. Audacious was included in CBC’s list of 100 YA Books That Make You
Proud to be Canadian. A poem from Capricious was
chosen for the 2014 Poetry
in Transit Program. Pandas
on the East Side was chosen as an Ontario Library Association Best Bet
for Junior Fiction in 2016. It was also nominated/shortlisted for the
Chocolate Lily Award, The Red Cedar Award, the Diamond Willow Award and the
Myrca Award.

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(1) winner
will receive a signed finished copy of ZERO REPEAT FOREVER, US Only &
Canada.

(3) winners will
receive signed postcards and bookmarks ZERO REPEAT FOREVER, US Only &
Canada.

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Book Review: The Secret History of Us

The Secret History of Us by Jessi Kirby

Released: August 1, 2017

Read: July 2017

Publisher: HarperTeen

Format: ARC, 288 pages

Series: Stand-alone

Description on Goodreads:

    Olivia wakes up to realize she doesn’t remember. Not just the accident—but anything from the last four years. Not high school. Not Matt, the guy who is apparently her boyfriend. Not the reason she and Jules are no longer friends. Nothing.

    That’s when it hits her—the accident may not have taken her life, but it took something just as vital: her memory. The harder she tires to remember things, the foggier everything gets, and figuring out who she is feels impossible when everyone keeps telling her who she was.

    But then there’s Walker. The guy who saved her. The one who broke her ribs pumping life back into her lungs. The hardened boy who keeps his distance despite Olivia’s attempts to thank him.

    With her feelings growing for Walker, tensions rising with Matt, and secrets she can’t help but feel are being kept from her, Olivia must find her place in a life she doesn’t even remember living.

Review:

    The Secret History of Us is your generic I-lost-part-of-my-memory-and-now-things-have-changed type of novel. It was a good read, but just that. It wasn't very exciting; it lacked the drive that makes you want to finish the book. I stayed until the end though, thinking that maybe, just MAYBE the plot might pick up a bit or something might pique my interest. No such luck. The ending was satisfying and decent enough, I just wish there was something more. Maybe a bigger, more extravagant plot twist, or a more in-depth examination of the accident.

Favourite Quotes:

• "Look down into the water below. It's calm. Slick and dark on the surface, giving nothing away. No indication of what happened here. It's been forgotten already. The memory of it washed away with the ebb and flow of the tides, and carried out to the open ocean to be let go."
• "Pay attention to your attention."

Rating: 4/10

Recommended if you like: memory-loss novels, contemporaries

Keep flipping pages,

Lauren

Book Blitz: The Hummingbird Heart

We are so
excited that THE HUMMINGBIRD HEART
by A.G. Howard is available now and that we get to share the news!

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haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author A.G. Howard, be sure to
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also includes a giveaway for a 5 AMAZING Prizes courtesy of A.G. and Rockstar
Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the
bottom of this post.

About The Book:

Title: THE
HUMMINGBIRD HEART

Author: A.G. Howard

Pub.
Date: August 15, 2017

Publisher: Golden Orb
Press

Pages: 339

Formats: Paperback,
eBook

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it: Golden Orb Press, Goodreads

Set 19 years after The Architect of Song:

Shortly after escaping a circus tragedy, young Italian orphan, Willow
Antoniette, seeks refuge at The Manor of Diversions—a holiday resort in England
born of a ghost story. For eleven years, she’s raised alongside the children of
the resort’s owners: Julian, his twin brother, Nick, and their younger sister
Emilia. Now that Willow is of marriable age, she's determined to escape
finishing school along with everyone's efforts to make her a proper lady. The
only man she wants to spend her life with is Julian, after all. Yet how can she
tell him, when he thinks of her as nothing but a friend?

As a machinist and engineer, Julian Thornton prefers a governable life.
He can't allow his ever-deepening attraction for Willow to distract from his
amusement park plans to lure a younger, wealthier clientele to their family's
resort. In hopes to escape Willow and find investors, Julian sets off on a
transatlantic ocean liner headed for the St. Louis World’s Fair, unaware Willow
has secretly stowed away on the same ship.

A tiny, mute orphan named Newton and a pair of haunted Italian shoes
bring Willow and Julian face to face on deck. Forced to work together to solve
the mystery of Newton and his vindictive, ghostly companion, Julian and Willow
can no longer fight their untapped passions. However, time to admit their true
feelings is running out, for the ghost and her murderer have enlisted them as
unsuspecting pawns in a karmic game of cat-and-mouse that could cost all of
them their lives.

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Title: THE
ARCHITECT OF SONG

Author: A.G.
Howard

Pub.
Date: August 15, 2016

Publisher: Golden
Orb Press

Pages: 425

Formats: Paperback,
eBook

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A lady imprisoned by deafness, an architect imprisoned by his past, and a
ghost imprisoned within the petals of a flower - intertwine in this love story
that transcends life and death.

For most of her life, nineteen-year-old Juliet Emerline has subsisted – isolated
by deafness – making hats in the solitude of her home. Now, she’s at
risk to lose her sanctuary to Lord Nicolas Thornton, a twenty-seven-year-old
mysterious and eccentric architect with designs on her humble estate. When she
secretly witnesses him raging beside a grave, Juliet investigates, finding the
name “Hawk” on the headstone and an unusual flower at the base. The moment
Juliet touches the petals, a young English nobleman appears in ghostly form,
singing a song only her deaf ears can hear. The ghost remembers nothing of his
identity or death, other than the one name that haunts his afterlife: Thornton.

To avenge her ghostly companion and save her estate, Juliet pushes aside her
fear of society and travels to Lord Thornton’s secluded holiday resort, posing
as a hat maker in one of his boutiques. There, she finds herself questioning
who to trust: the architect of flesh and bones who can relate to her through
romantic gestures, heartfelt notes, and sensual touches … or the
specter who serenades her with beautiful songs and ardent words, touching her
mind and soul like no other man ever can. As sinister truths behind Lord
Thornton’s interest in her estate and his tie to Hawk come to light, Juliet is
lured into a web of secrets. But it’s too late for escape, and the tragic love
taking seed in her heart will alter her silent world forever.

International and NYT bestselling author, A.G. Howard, brings her darkly
magical and visual/visceral storytelling to Victorian England. The Architect of
Song is the first installment in her lush and romantic Haunted Hearts Legacy
series, a four book gothic saga following the generations of one family as -
haunted by both literal and figurative ghosts - they search for
self-acceptance, love, and happiness.

New Adult: Recommended for ages 17+.

Excerpt:

In the dream, Willow was a child again. With each barefooted step around
the stacks of baggage in steerage, she found them taking on new shapes:
pyramids of clowns, bears, horses and feathered performers, all balanced atop
one another. She was back at the circus, albeit a much hazier and dimmer
rendition than she remembered. She skipped along the center ring, excited to be
home at last. Grit and discarded trash snagged between her little toes. A
spotlight clicked on to illuminate a trunk. From within came a thumping sound,
and girlish giggles.

“Tildey!” Willow cried out, racing across the distance to find her doll,
her pigtails slapping her face and neck upon each bounding step. The creak of
abandoned trapezes swung overhead, cutting intermittently through a thick cloud
of fog. Yet it wasn’t fog. It was tobacco—a stench that seeped into her
leotard, her tights, her very pores, until she could taste it coating her
tongue like bile.

The spotlight shifted from the trunk to a trapeze just above her where a
shape took form in the light: a graceful silhouette in a shimmery leotard and
glistening tutu.

“Mama?” Willow whispered in the dream, forgetting Tildey for the chance
to see her mother perform once more.

The trapeze vanished into thin air but the aerialist continued a controlled
descent toward her, held in place by harnesses attached to the center pole. A
face came into view, painted white like a clown, with bloody eyes and a hollow
of a mouth—stretched wide on a perpetual scream. Willow yelped and squeezed her
lashes shut, willing away the creature … for it was not Mama.

When she opened them again, the freakish performer exploded into a flock
of hummingbirds made of ink. They skittered around Willow, buzzing wings
scraping her skin and hair, imprinting tattoos everywhere they touched. She
screamed and stumbled backwards, bumping into the trunk which was somehow right
behind her. A tinkly, off-key lullaby drifted from inside the giant box. The
lid shook and shuddered, as if something wanted out.

Whimpering, Willow tried to back away, but her feet grew heavy. She
looked down and ballet shoes, covered in steel spikes, swallowed them up. The
empty harness that had held the ghastly aerialist slithered toward her like a
snake, coiling itself around her legs and arms to hold her in place.

On the final haunting strains of music, the trunk’s lid popped open, and
out from the midst rose a hunched old man, holding Nadia’s haunted shoes upside
down. Blood and water gushed out of them—a stench of copper and stagnancy—and
the man laughed with a voice that gnawed into her bones like a thousand
snarling wolves.

About A.G. Howard: 

A.G. Howard
was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always
wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute
to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a
child.



When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening,
and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century
graveyards or condemned schoolhouses to appease her overactive muse.

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(3) Third – Fifth Place prizes: Signed The Architect of Song
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Book Review: The Wood

The Wood by Chelsea Bobulski

Released: August 1, 2017

Read: July 2017

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends

Format: ARC, 320 pages

Series: Stand-alone

Description on Goodreads:

    When Winter’s dad goes missing during his nightly patrol of the wood, it falls to her to patrol the time portals and protect the travelers who slip through them. Winter can't help but think there's more to her dad's disappearance than she's being told.

    She soon finds a young man traveling in the wood named Henry who knows more than he should. He believes if they can work together to find his missing parents, they could discover the truth about Winter’s dad. 

    The wood is poisoned, changing into something sinister—torturing travelers lost in it. Winter must put her trust in Henry in order to find the truth and those they’ve lost.

Review:

    The Wood was such a great read. The main character, Winter Parish, is very independent and has a unique personality that I know everyone will love. She always feels the need to help and protect others, especially her mom, while she herself must deal with a hard task of her own: being the guardian of the Wood. Ever since her father mysteriously vanished in the Wood, Winter decided it was her job to find him. When she meets the young and heroic Henry, she discovers that she might actually be able to find out what happened to her dad. This is what made the plot start rolling and it was quite interesting.

    The author of the novel, Chelsea Bobulski, did an amazing job when it comes to world-building. Her descriptions of the Wood make you feel like you are really there, which can be wonderful and creepy at times. This world she's created is like an alternate version of our own. It's beautiful and fascinating. The only downside I found in the novel, is the lack of information on the Old Ones. We never learn how they became immortal, or why they don't guard the Wood themselves. I was left with a bunch of unanswered questions about them that I wished were answered. 

Rating: 8.5/10

Recommended if you like: thrillers, fantasy, romance, time-travel

Keep flipping pages,

Lauren

Book Blitz: The Epic Crush of Genie LO

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excited that THE EPIC CRUSH OF GENIE LO
by F.C. Yee is available now and that we get to share the news!

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haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author F.C. Yee, be sure to
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About The Book:

Title: THE EPIC
CRUSH OF GENIE LO

Author: F.C. Yee

Pub. Date: August 8,
2017

Publisher: Amulet
Books

Pages: 336

Formats: Hardcover,
eBook

Find it: Amazon, Barnes&Noble, iBooks, TBD, Goodreads

The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old
Genie Lo's every waking thought. But when her sleepy Bay Area town comes under
siege from hell-spawn straight out of Chinese folklore, her priorities are
suddenly and forcefully rearranged.

Her only guide to the demonic chaos breaking out around her is Quentin Sun, a
beguiling, maddening new transfer student from overseas. Quentin assures Genie
she is strong enough to fight these monsters, for she unknowingly harbors an
inner power that can level the very gates of Heaven.

Genie will have to dig deep within herself to summon the otherworldly strength
that Quentin keeps talking about. But as she does, she finds the secret of her
true nature is entwined with his, in a way she could never have imagined…

Excerpt:

“GREETINGS,” HE SAID, HIS ACCENT THICK BUT HIS VOICE LOUD and clear. “I
have arrived.”

Now, I’d done my best to describe this guy to the police. They pressed me
hard for details, as apparently this wasn’t the first group mugging in recent
weeks.

But I’d let Officers Davis and Rodriguez down. Nice eyes and a winning
smile weren’t much to go by. I was too frazzled to notice anything before,
which meant this was my first decent look at the boy without the influence of
adrenaline.

So a couple of things.

One: He was short. Like, really short for a guy. I felt bad that my brain
went there first, but he wasn’t even as tall as Mrs. Nanda.

Two: He was totally okay, physically. I didn’t see how anyone could be up
and about after that beating, but here he was, unbruised and unblemished. I
felt relieved and disturbed at the same time to see there wasn’t a scratch on
him.

And his mint condition just made Point Three even more obvious.

He was . . . yeesh.

Nothing good could come of our new classmate being that handsome. It was
destructive. Twisted. Weaponized. He had the cheekbones and sharp jawline of a
pop star, but his thick eyebrows and wild, unkempt hair lent him an air of
natural ruggedness that some pampered singer could never achieve in a million
years of makeup.

“Argh, my ovaries,” Yunie mumbled. She wasn’t alone, judging by the soft
intakes of breath coming from around the room.

“Arrived from where?” said Mrs. Nanda.

Quentin looked at her in amusement. “China?”

“Yes, but where in, though?” said Mrs. Nanda, trying her best to convey
that she was sensitive to the regional differences. Fujianese, Taishanese,
Beijingren—she’d taught them all.

He just shrugged. “The stones,” he said.

“You mean the mountains, sweetie?” said Rachel Li, batting her eyelashes
at him from the front row.

“No! I don’t misspeak.”

The class giggled at his English. But none of it was incorrect, technically
speaking.

“Tell us a little about yourself,” Mrs. Nanda said.

Quentin puffed out his chest. The white button-down shirt and black pants
of our school’s uniform for boys made most of them look like limo drivers. But
on him, the cheap stitching just made it clearer that he was extremely
well-muscled underneath.

“I am the greatest of my kind,” he said. “In this world I have no equal.
I am known to thousands in faraway lands, and everyone I meet can’t help but
declare me king!”

There was a moment of silence and sputtering before guffaws broke out.

“Well . . . um . . . we are all high achievers here at SF Prep,” said

Mrs. Nanda as politely as she could. “I’m sure you’ll fit right in?”

Quentin surveyed the cramped beige classroom with a cool squint. To him,
the other twenty-two laughing students were merely peons on whom his important
message had been lost.

“Enough wasting of time,” he snapped. “I came to these petty halls only
to reclaim what is mine.”

Before anyone could stop him, he hopped onto Rachel’s desk and stepped
over her to the next one, like she wasn’t even there.

“Hey! Quentin!” Mrs. Nanda said, frantically waving her hands. “Get down
now!”

The new student ignored her, stalking down the column of desks. Toward
mine.

Everyone in his way leaned to the side to avoid getting kicked. They were
all too flabbergasted to do anything but serve as his counterweights.

He stopped on my desk and crouched down, looking me in the eye. His gaze
pinned me to my seat.

I couldn’t turn away. He was so close our noses were almost touching. He
smelled like wine and peaches.

“You!” he said.

“What?” I squeaked.

Quentin gave me a grin that was utterly feral. He tilted his head as if
to whisper, but spoke loud enough for everyone to hear.

“You belong to me”

About F.C:

F. C. Yee
grew up in New Jersey and went to school in New England, but has called the San
Francisco Bay Area home ever since he beat a friend at a board game and shouted
“That’s how we do it in NorCal, baby!” Outside of writing, he practices
capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial arts, and has a day job mostly involving
spreadsheets.

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will receive Genie Lo prize packs—complete with a finished copy of the book and
a special Genie Lo horoscope (that doubles as a bookmark!), US Only.

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Book Review: The Revenge

The Revenge by Hannah Jayne

Released: July 4, 2017

Read: July 2017

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Format: ARC, 288 pages

Series: Stand-alone

Description on Goodreads:

    Tony just wanted a little revenge when he posted his ex’s location online. He never meant to lead a predator to her doorstep… 

    After Hope breaks up with Tony and embarrasses him at school, he's devastated. In a moment of revenge, Tony makes the location on her phone public. But a week later, when Hope calls Tony and begs him to stop the prank, he hears a shriek and a car door slamming. Then the call is dropped.

    When Hope isn't back at school the next day, Tony realizes that he may have put Hope's life in danger. Can he trace Hope's movements and save her before it's too late?

Review:

    The Revenge is truly a great book. With its easy-to-read format, it was hard to put down and I ended up finishing it in a matter of hours! The characters are very relatable and very distinct. They each have their own unique personalities and motives that drive them to act. The only complaint I have is over how the novel ends. The Revenge has about three different intertwined plot lines and only one of them is—in my opinion—completely solved. It would've been nice to find out everything else, and for the author to tie up the rest of the loose-ends, or at least so we don't have to make so many assumptions. Other than that, I really love this book and would recommend it to all thriller lovers. 

Rating: 8/10

Recommended if you like: thrillers, kidnapping, manipulation, reading about the downfalls of bad parenting

Keep flipping pages,

Lauren

Book Review: Frostblood

Frostblood by Elly Blake

Released: January 10, 2017

Read: August 2017

Publisher: Little Brown

Format: ARC, 371 pages

Series: Frostblood Saga #1

Description on Goodreads:

    The frost king will burn.

    Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who has concealed her powers of heat and flame from the cruel Frostblood ruling class her entire life. But when her mother is killed trying to protect her, and rebel Frostbloods demand her help to overthrow their bloodthirsty king, she agrees to come out of hiding, desperate to have her revenge.

    Despite her unpredictable abilities, Ruby trains with the rebels and the infuriating—yet irresistible—Arcus, who seems to think of her as nothing more than a weapon. But before they can take action, Ruby is captured and forced to compete in the king’s tournaments that pit Fireblood prisoners against Frostblood champions. Now she has only one chance to destroy the maniacal ruler who has taken everything from her—and from the icy young man she has come to love.

Review:

    Frostblood by Elly Blake was quite interesting. I loved how the characters all seemed to have their own passions and motivations that drove them to take action and stop the Frostking. Arcus seemed the most mysterious of all the characters, considering how unwilling he was to talk about his past. Despite this and his icy, hostile exterior, there was still something about him that made him lovable and respectable. Ruby on the other hand, was a complete open-book. Everyone always knew what she was feeling, and usually her intentions too. She was admirable and fierce, but kind of annoying at times because of how she constantly underestimated herself and believed things were her fault. But with all that, I still think she's a great main character to read a perspective from.

    The entire world Elly Blake created kind of amazes me. Even though the plot line she makes is really straight forward, the land is not. It felt like every country and chunk of land had its own opinions of the Frost King and his court. They also had their own beliefs. In general, they all believed in Neb and the goddess' four children, Cirrus, Eurus, Sud and Fors, but the myths about each alter depending on who tells the story. It reminds me of our actually history, where no one knows exactly what happened in certain events because the teller was usually biased.

    The ending was pretty great with all the action and twists, and I really hope the sequel holds up!

Favourite Quote:

• "Stillness was a kind of violence in the hands of people who played at handing out pain."

Rating: 8/10

Recommended if you like: elemental magic, overthrowing the government, dystopian, lightly comedic novels, romance

Keep flipping pages,

Lauren