BLOG TOUR: High School Musical: The Road Trip by Melissa de la Cruz

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE ROAD TRIP by Melissa de la Cruz Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Book:

Title: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE ROAD TRIP

Author: Melissa de la Cruz

Pub. Date: May 4, 2021

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 272

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

An original novel inspired by the hit Disney+ television series HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE MUSICAL, by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Descendants series, Melissa de la Cruz.

Join everyone's favorite Wildcats from the Disney+ smash hit original series High school Musical: The Musical: The Series in this novel by New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.

On the heels of their wildly successful run of High School Musical, the gang learns of a can't-miss opportunity—a High School Musical convention in the next state. There's something for everyone: panels about mounting your next hit show, cafeteria-tray-dance workshops, Wildcat cosplay, and even a special appearance from the pooch who played Sharpay's dog (well, one of her puppies, that is).

Ready to hit the road, the crew immediately begins making plans. Nini can't wait to use the weekend to show how much she cares for Ricky (especially since they just got back together). Kourtney debates signing up for a singing workshop (especially if she's maybe, just maybe, considering auditioning for the next show), and Gina and Ashlyn decide it'll be the perfect trial run for living together (especially because Gina has never actually had a friendship last this long). Carlos can't wait to help Miss Jenn prep for the spring musical, even if Seb has to stay behind to help with the family farm. But car breakdowns, late starts, and a lost E.J. throw a wrench in their plans. 

Will the East Highers get the weekend getaway of their dreams? Or will the bumps on the road get the better of them?

Praise For HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE ROAD TRIP:

A breezy and fun read, the book contains chapters that offer pithy first-person accounts from each character, including quirky Miss Jenn; Carlos and his boyfriend, Seb; recently reunited couple Nini and Ricky and their BFFs, Kourtney and Big Red; popular senior E.J. and his songwriter cousin, Ashlyn; and talented triple threat Gina. The plot includes references to the series and themes straight from the musical: nurturing your talent, showing others how much they matter, and acknowledging the importance of teamwork. Although race isn’t mentioned overtly, the characters are cued as racially diverse, following the casting of the TV show. Fans will appreciate the inside jokes, but explanations in the text make it accessible even to those unfamiliar with the program.

 

A lighthearted and charming read.—Kirkus Reviews.

 

REVIEW: COMING SOON!

 

About Melissa:

Melissa de la Cruz (www.melissa-delacruz.com) is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Descendants series, as well as many other best-selling novels, including all the books in the Blue Bloods series: Blue Bloods, Masquerade, Revelations, The Van Alen Legacy, Keys to the Repository, Misguided Angel, Bloody Valentine, Lost in Time, and Gates of Paradise. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

 

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Giveaway Details:

 

3 winners will win a finished copy of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE ROAD TRIP, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

5/1/2021

jillpiscitello

Excerpt

Week Two:

5/2/2021	YA Books Central	Excerpt
5/3/2021	Living in a Bookworld	Excerpt
5/4/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
5/5/2021	Perusewithcoffee (blog)	Review
5/6/2021	Musing of Souls	Review
5/7/2021	Kait Plus Books	Excerpt
5/8/2021	The Book View	Review

Week Three:

5/9/2021	onemused	Review
5/10/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
5/11/2021	Emelie's Books	Review
5/12/2021	Midnightbooklover	Review
5/13/2021	Fire and Ice	Review
5/14/2021	Shelf Love	Review or Excerpt
5/15/2021	Jenguerdy	Review

Week Four:

5/16/2021	Margie's Must Reads	Review
5/17/2021	Amani’s Reviews	Review
5/18/2021	two points of interest	Review
5/19/2021	Haunted By Books	Review
5/20/2021	booksaremagictoo	Review
5/21/2021	fictitious.fox	Review
5/22/2021	The Reading Wordsmith	Review

Week Five:

5/23/2021	Momfluenster	Review
5/24/2021	michellemengsbookblog	Review
5/25/2021	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
5/26/2021	Struck by Stories	Review
5/27/2021	Fyrekatz Blog	Review
5/28/2021	BiancaBuysBooks	Review
5/29/2021	Do You Dog-ear?	Review

Week Six:

5/30/2021	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
5/31/2021	Lady Hawkeye	Excerpt

Review: House of Rougeaux by Jenny Jaeckel

 

I won this book a couple years ago in a Goodreads Giveaway win and it has always been on my mind. I finally picked it up thanks to the Buzzword reading challenge. May's word was House + Home and when I was making my TBR for the words, I immediately wrote this title down and I am so glad that I did. This is now one of my favorite books of the year and I knew that it would be from the very first chapter or part. 

At first, I thought it would be confusing and hard to follow because in the index, the chapters are family names and what year they lived, and the years weren't chronological. It was confusing at one point but I looked back on the index and it was fine. 

This book starts off on the island of Martinique in the middle of the Caribbean. We are following a slave girl named Abeje. She lives and works on this sugar estate with her mom and her brother. Her mom is murdered one night by the Master and the rest of the village takes in the kids. One day a healer from another estate on the other side of the island comes to her village and helps heal some of the sick and the healer zooms in on Abeje and sees that she has a spiritual mark and helps her hone in on her abilities. 

This first part when her mother died hurt me and made me very sad and I felt horrible for Abeje because even though she had her brother, she still felt alone in the world and I just wanted to hug her and just give her all the love.

The rest of the story is from her family members living in Canada and their lives dealing with racism, and finding their way in the world. There is LGBTQ+ representation and sexual assault and rape. 

BLOG TOUR: 10 Truths and A Dare by Ashley Elston

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the 10 TRUTHS AND A DARE by Ashley Elston Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Book:

Title: 10 TRUTHS AND A DARE

Author: Ashley Elston

Pub. Date: May 4, 2021

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 304

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

This companion to Ashley Elston's beloved 10 Blind Dates follows Sophie's high-achieving cousin Olivia as she juggles last-minute P.E. credit, end-of-year parties, and a secret new romance in the chaotic week before graduation.

It's Senior Party Week, that magical in-between time after classes have ended but before graduation, chock-full of gimmicky theme parties, last-minute bonding, and family traditions. Olivia couldn't be more ready. Class salutatorian and confident in her future at LSU, she's poised to sail through to the next phase of her life.

But when the tiny hiccup of an unsigned off-campus P.E. form puts Olivia in danger of not graduating at all, she has one week to set things straight without tipping off her very big and very nosy extended family. Volunteering to help at a local golf tournament should do it, but since Olivia's mom equipped her phone with a tracking app, there'll be no hiding the fact that she's at the golf course instead of all the graduation parties happening at the same time. Unless, that is, she can convince the Fab Four--her ride-or-die cousins and best friends Sophie, Charlie, and Wes--to trade phones with her as they go through the motions of playing Olivia for the week.

 

Praise for 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston:
2020 ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Top Ten Title

2020 Florida Teens Read Book List

"POSITIVELY DELIGHTFUL—all caps—from beginning to end."—NPR

"This piece-by-piece romance doesn't need its Christmas theme to sell, but it makes it glitter all the more."—Booklist

"A fun story of finding love, getting to know yourself, and getting to know your family."—Kirkus Reviews

"In a funny holiday romance that has Sophie dog-sitting in a hockey rink, watching porn at a drive-in theater, and playing the Virgin Mary in a middle school Nativity, Elston cleverly reflects the family members' personalities through their choices of dates for Sophie."—Publishers Weekly

Grab 10 BLIND DATES now!

 

REVIEW: COMING SOON!!

About Ashley:

Ashley Elston is the author of several novels including: 10 Blind Dates (a Top Ten ALA Quick Pick and the companion to this book), The Rules for Disappearing (a finalist in the Best Young Adult Novel category of the International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards), This Is Our Story, and The Lying Woods. She has a liberal arts degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and worked for many years as a wedding photographer before turning her hand to writing. Ashley lives in Shreveport with her husband and three sons. For more information about Ashley and her books, please visit www.ashleyelston.com.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of 10 TRUTHS AND A DARE, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

5/1/2021

The Book View

Review

Week Two:

5/2/2021	What A Nerd Girl Says	Excerpt
5/3/2021	YA Books Central	Excerpt
5/4/2021	Fire and Ice	Review
5/5/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
5/6/2021	YA Book Nerd	Review
5/7/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
5/8/2021	Moonlight Rendezvous	Review

Week Three:

5/9/2021	Jenguerdy	Review
5/10/2021	Ficticiouswonderland	Review
5/11/2021	Book-Keeping	Review
5/12/2021	Amani’s Reviews	Review
5/13/2021	booksaremagictoo	Review
5/14/2021	Eli to the nth	Review
5/15/2021	Emelie's Books	Review

Week Four:

5/16/2021	Kait Plus Books	Excerpt
5/17/2021	Zainey Laney	Review
5/18/2021	onemused	Review
5/19/2021	Midnightbooklover	Review
5/20/2021	amandainpa	Review
5/21/2021	Geauxgetlit	Review
5/22/2021	two points of interest	Review

Week Five:

5/23/2021	Book Briefs	Review
5/24/2021	Momfluenster	Review
5/25/2021	Star-Crossed Book Blog	Review
5/26/2021	michellemengsbookblog	Review
5/27/2021	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
5/28/2021	Do You Dog-ear?	Review
5/29/2021	Books and Zebras	Review

Week Six:

5/30/2021	My Fictional Oasis	Review
5/31/2021	Popthebutterfly	Review

BLOG TOUR: Stuffed Into Darkness by Liz Braswell

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the INTO DARKNESS (Stuffed #2) by Liz Braswell Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: INTO DARKNESS (Stuffed #2)

Author: Liz Braswell

Pub. Date: May 4, 2021

Publisher:  Disney-Hyperion

Pages: 315

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

From New York Times Bestselling Author Liz Braswell, comes the second novel in the STUFFED series! Set at summer camp, Foon’s boy, Clark, is kidnapped by an evil monster bent on revenge and Foon must enter the Darkness in order to save him.

No Stuffy has ever gone into the Darkness and returned....

Clark can’t wait to go away to camp this year. For the first time ever, he has actual friends to hang out with. Catherine-Lucille and D. A. will both be at Camp I Can with Clark, and C. L. has already promised to induct him into her exclusive camp club—the one for campers who know everything there is to know about the world of Monsters and how Stuffies protect kids from them. And now that he knows (or suspects . . . very strongly) that his grandma-made Stuffy, Foon, heroically saved his own father from a horrible fate, Clark is obviously bringing Foon to camp along with him.

But once Clark gets to camp, he and his friends discover things are off. There are strange, gooey findings in some of the bunks, the adults are acting weird, and, worst of all, their Stuffies and dolls go missing right at the moment they need them the most—when they go on the intersession camping trip and end up trapped in a creepy old cabin. What Clark and his friends don’t know, and what the mighty Foon soon discovers, is that the Monsters have launched a revenge campaign against Foon—a campaign that entails sucking the very life out of Clark. Now it’s up to Foon to enter the World of Darkness and take on the Monster in charge in order to stop the plot and save Clark’s life. 

In the long tradition of Stuffies vs. Monsters, this one’s a battle for the ages—one that will certainly go down in Stuffy history.

PRAISE FOR STUFFED:

“A warm and engaging tale” – Kirkus Reviews

 Grab Book 1, STUFFED Now!

REVIEW: Imagine all of your stuffed toys that you had as a kid coming alive to fight all the shadow monsters that come out at night. You can leave your foot hanging off the bed and no more running leaps into bed so the monsters underneath wont have a chance to grab you because all your stuffies will be there to the rescue. I have three young daughters and my oldest is 12. I now have a good reason to continue to buy her Animal Crossing and Pokemon plushies her little heart desires. 

 

About Liz:

Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales, catching frogs, and going on adventures in the woods with her stuffed animals. She has a degree in Egyptology from Brown University (and yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs). After making video games for ten years Liz now writes full-time and plays video games for fun. She has written Snow, Rx, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, and several books in the best-selling Twisted Tale series, including Part of Your World and As Old as Time. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish, and five coffee trees, and still sleeps with a Stuffy.  You can email her at me@lizbraswell.com or find her on Instagram and Twitter @LizBraswell.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of INTO DARKNESS (Stuffed #2). US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/26/2021	Kait Plus Books	Review
4/26/2021	PopTheButterfly	Review
4/27/2021	Nerdophiles	Review
4/27/2021	booksaremagictoo	Review
4/28/2021	The Momma Spot	Review
4/28/2021	BookHounds Ya	Review
4/29/2021	For the Love of KidLit	Interview
4/29/2021	fictitious.fox	Review
4/30/2021	Moonlight Rendezvous	Review
4/30/2021	I'm Shelfish	Review

Week Two:

5/3/2021	Midnightbooklover	Review
5/3/2021	Two Points of interest	Review
5/4/2021	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
5/4/2021	Eli to the nth	Review
5/5/2021	The Book Nut : A Book Lovers Guide	Review
5/5/2021	Little Red Reads	Review
5/6/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
5/6/2021	Celiamcmahonreads	Review
5/7/2021	michellemengsbookblog	Review
5/7/2021	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt

TOP TEN TUESDAY: 10 MOST RECENT READS or April Wrap Up

 

Today's top ten Tuesday prompt is your Ten Most Recent Reads and is hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl. This post also serves as my April Wrap Up because I read 11 books last month. 

1. Living Dead Girl by Kelly Gunderman
2. Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
3. Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
4. Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab
5. The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
6. Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin
7. Amulet: The Cloud Searcher by Kazu Kibuishi
8. Cog by Greg Van Eekhout
9. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engles
10. Smile by Raina Telgemeier
11. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Also here is my Top Ten Tuesday YouTube video for the ten May releases that I want to read.