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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Blog Tour: Bright Burning Stars by A.K. Small ~Spotlight + Giveaway~

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Bright Burning Stars by A.K. Small!

Please see about the book below and enter the giveaway!

Bright Burning Stars
by A.K. Small
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery

Synopsis:

Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they’ve formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kate begin to ask themselves what they would do to win the ultimate prize: to be the one girl selected to join the Opera’s prestigious corps de ballet. Would they die? Cheat? Seduce the most talented boy in the school, dubbed the Demigod, hoping his magic would make them shine, too? Neither girl is sure.But then Kate gets closer to the Demigod, even as Marine has begun to capture his heart. And as selection day draws near, the competition—for the prize, for the Demigod—becomes fiercer, and Marine and Kate realize they have everything to lose, including each other.

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A.K. Small is thrilled for her debut novel, BRIGHT BURNING STARS, to come out May 21,2019 through publisher Algonquin Young Readers. Her talent for writing and passion for classical ballet fuse together in this novel and earned A.K.Small the honor of an Entertainment Weekly review.

In addition to BRIGHT BURNING STARS, A.K. Small spends time on short stories. Her short story, Anthrocon, 2017 was just nominated for a Pushcart prize by the Bellevue Literary Review. Other stories such as the Flour Baby and The Interior Designer were also nominated or runner-up to prizes.

She also ran a column titled, "A French Girl's View Du Monde" at Barrelhouse Magazine.

A.K. Small graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2009 with an MFA in fiction. When she's not reading her favorite authors (Rainbow Rowell, Angie Thomas, Anna Gavalda, Jandy Nelson, Ann Hood, Sue Miller, Anais Nin, Tayari Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wright, and J.R.R. Tolkien, to name a few!), she's studying her favorite dancers: Sylvie Guillem, Noella Pontois, Marie-Agnes Gillot, and Aurelie Dupont.

A.K. Small grew up near the Sacré Coeur in Paris and married her Tobagonian soulmate. She has three gorgeous daughters and owns a min-chi named Dallas.

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Prize: Win (1) of (2) copy of BRIGHT BURNING STARS by A.K. Small

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Start Date: May 13th2019

End Date: May 27th2019

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Sunday, April 14, 2019

Blog Tour: Last Girl Lied To by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn ~Spotlight & Giveaway~

Last Girl Lied To
by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Publisher: Imprint
Release Date: April 16th 2019
Genre: Young Adult,Contemporary

Synopsis:

Something made him angry that night.
Something made her cry.
Something made Trixie disappear.
What if it was all the same thing?

Fiona claims she doesn’t remember anything about the night her best friend left a party early and walked into the ocean. But the truth is, she wishes she could forget.

Trixie’s disappearance is ruled a suicide, but Fiona starts to believe that Trixie isn’t really dead. Piecing together the trail of a girl who doesn't want to be found leads her to Jasper, Trixie’s former friend with benefits, and Beau—the boy who turned Fiona down, who loved someone else, who might be happy Trixie is gone.

The closer Fiona gets to finding out what happened, and the closer she gets to Jasper and Beau, the more she realizes that the girl she knew better than anyone may have been a carefully constructed lie—and she might have been waiting to disappear the entire time.

Told in alternating chapters between the past and the present, Last Girl Lied To is a gripping emotional thriller.

Book Links

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Laurie Elizabeth (L.E.) Flynn is the author of Firsts and the upcoming psychological thriller Last Girl Lied To, along with an untitled thriller to follow in 2020. She is also the author of Wattpad featured series The Boys Tell All. Her other short fiction has been named a finalist for the John Kenneth Gailbraith Literary Award.

Flynn is a former model who worked in Tokyo, Athens, and Paris. She now lives in London, Ontario, with her husband, daughter, and the world’s most spoiled Chihuahua. When she’s not writing about unlikable girls, you can likely find her hiking in the woods with her family, perusing thrift stores for vintage dresses, or binging reality TV.

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Tour Schedule

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-Prize: 1 Copy of Last Girl Lied To by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
US Only
Starts: 4/9
Ends: 4/30

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Blog Tour: The Window by Amelia Brunskill ~Review & Giveaway!~

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Window by Amelia Brunskill!

Check out my review and enter the giveaway below!

The Window
by Amelia Brunskill
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis:

Anna is everything her identical twin is not. Outgoing and athletic, she is the opposite of quiet introvert Jess. The same on the outside, yet so completely different inside--it's hard to believe the girls are sisters, let alone twins. But they are. And they tell each other everything.

Or so Jess thought.

After Anna falls to her death while sneaking out her bedroom window, Jess's life begins to unravel. Everyone says it was an accident, but to Jess, that doesn't add up. Where was Anna going? Who was she meeting? And how long had Anna been lying to her?

Jess is compelled to learn everything she can about the sister she thought she knew. At first it's a way to stay busy and find closure . . . but Jess soon discovers that her twin kept a lot of secrets. And as she digs deeper, she learns that the answers she's looking for may be truths that no one wants her to uncover.

Because Anna wasn't the only one with secrets.

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Amelia Brunskill was born in Melbourne, Australia, but she grew up mostly in Washington state where she picked a lot of blackberries, read a lot of books, and failed to properly appreciate the epic beauty of the mountains and the Pacific ocean.

She earned her bachelors degrees in psychology and art from the University of Washington and her master in information studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She now lives in Chicago, where she eats as much Thai food as possible and works as a librarian.

The Window is her debut novel.

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I thought The Window was a really interesting book and an intriguing mystery. It's also a story that shows the bond and rivalry between two twin sisters, and the grief that follows the loss of a loved one.

The cover is what initially drew me to this book. It is an eerie looking cover- featuring a small photo of a girl staring out a window, with her hand up on the glass, looking worried, scared, or possibly a little sad. Then I read the synopsis and this definitely sounded like a story I would enjoy. Anna and Jess are twin sisters with very different personalities. Anna is outgoing while Jess is more of an introvert. When Anna dies after falling out her bedroom window, Jess sets out to find exactly what happened to her sister. Did Anna accidentally fall from her window or did something more sinister happen? Was Anna keeping secrets from Jess? How well did Jess really know her twin sister?

I thought this was a pretty quick read, with short chapters, and an intriguing mystery that kept me turning the page. There were some parts of the book that were a little slow paced, but I never found myself getting bored with the story. I needed to know what happened to Anna and what led to her death. It was interesting to follow along with Jess as she tried to find out what happened to her sister.

The story is mostly told from Jess's perspective, with some of Anna's thoughts mentioned before the start of certain chapters. I really liked getting the perspectives of both sisters and I especially enjoyed reading Anna's thoughts leading up to her tragic death.

I thought it was interesting to read about the relationship between the twin sisters. Jess thought she knew everything about her sister, Anna. They were really close when they were younger, but eventually they became more distant. Jess learns that there were many things she didn't know about her twin. There were certain parts of this story that made me really sad, especially in the beginning, with Jess suddenly having to adjust to life without her sister. It was heartbreaking to read about the loss of Jess's twin, and how the loss affected the entire family.

Overall, I thought this was an intriguing debut novel that I would recommend, especially if you like young adult mysteries. I look forward to reading more from Amelia Brunskill in the future.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5 Stars)

*Thanks to the publisher and the Fantastic Flying Book Club for providing me with an advanced reading copy of this book for review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.