Thursday, May 21, 2020

BLOG TOUR: Eden's Echo by Lynn Veevers



I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the EDEN’S ECHO by Lynn Veevers Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About the book:
Title: EDEN’S ECHO
Author: Lynn Veevers
Pub. Date: May 15, 2020
Publisher: Lynn Veevers
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 300
Find it: GoodreadsKindle, Amazon

RWA (CIMRWA) ELEVATION OF LOVE 1ST PLACE WINNER 2018

True love knows no boundaries, it sees no color, even if that love is forbidden. Believing that got Eden’s mom, Echo killed at the age of sixteen, and the identity of Eden’s father was one of many secrets she took to the grave. Instead of moving on, Echo’s soul moved in. With her mother’s presence in her body, Eden can feel Echo’s emotions and hear her thoughts. When Eden tells, pseudo father, Uncle Daryl, about the voice in her head, it takes her down a road that leads to a diagnosis of multiple personalities. Now at seventeen, Eden has a secret love affair of her own with Drew. If Uncle Daryl ever found out the consequences would rip them apart, but that’s the least of Eden’s problems. As new clues surface surrounding her father’s identity, Eden finds herself on a dangerous path that could answer her paternity questions and the mysteries of her mother’s death, but at what cost? Eden can feel the weight of the secrets Echo keeps from her—secrets that have Echo’s killer returning after seventeen years with a mind to make history repeat itself.





About Lynn:

Lynn Veevers is originally from Washington State. An award winning author she is both traditionally and self published. With her mother being from Christchurch, New Zealand and her father being a well-traveled retired Navy Chief, Lynn has always had a fascination with different cultures around the world. An avid reader, she prefers books that take her to a place she's never been and teach her something new at the same time. The Young Adult Genre is her absolute favorite to read, so it comes as no surprise that it is also her favorite to write. Lynn, on average, pens two to three novels a year.

Aside from being an author, Lynn is also an award winning graphic designer, and an editor. You can see this side of her here:
https://www.storiedgraphics.com/

Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.

Giveaway Details:
One lucky winner will receive a $10 Amazon gift card, International.



Tour Schedule:
Week One:
5/15/2020
Excerpt

Week Two:
5/18/2020
Excerpt
5/18/2020
Instagram Stop
5/19/2020
Excerpt
5/19/2020
Excerpt
5/20/2020
Excerpt
5/20/2020
Excerpt
5/21/2020
Review
5/21/2020
Review
5/22/2020
Review
5/22/2020
Review

Week Three:
5/25/2020
The Try Everything
Excerpt
5/25/2020
Day Leitao author
Excerpt
5/26/2020
A Dream Within A Dream
Review
5/26/2020
Jaime's World
Review
5/27/2020
Mythical Books
Review
5/27/2020
Hurn Publications
Review
5/28/2020
The Phantom Paragrapher
Review
5/28/2020
Reese's Reviews
Review
5/29/2020
Popthebutterfly Reads
Review
5/29/2020
Twirling Book Princess
Excerpt

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

BLOG TOUR: Our Friend Hedgehog by Lauren Castillo



I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the OUR FRIEND HEDGEHOG by Lauren Castillo Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About the Book:
Title: OUR FRIEND HEDGEHOG: The Story of Us
Author: Lauren Castillo
Pub. Date: May 5, 2020
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 122

From a Caldecott Honor-winning artist comes a cozy classic-in-the-making about finding your friends and sticking together through thick and thin.

"Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh . It's so warm and full of joy and love. It's got classic written all over it." --Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl

Sometimes you make a friend,
and it feels like you have known that friend your entire life. . . .

Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend. Following the trail of clues Mutty left behind, brave Hedgehog meets a wiggly Mole, a wordy Owl, a curmudgeonly Beaver, a scatterbrained Hen and Chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood, Annika May. With bravery and teamwork, there's nothing that can stop these seven from finding Mutty, but along the way they discover something even more important: each other.

The first book in a new series from Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us has the feel of a timeless classic, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters who will star in many more adventures to come.

About Lauren:

Lauren studied illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is the author and illustrator of the 2015 Caldecott Honor winning book, Nana in the City, as well as The Troublemaker and Melvin and the Boy. Lauren has also illustrated several critically acclaimed picture books, including Kirkus Prize finalist Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera, Twenty Yawns by Jane Smiley, and Yard Sale by Eve Bunting. She currently draws and dreams in Harrisburg, PA.



Giveaway Details:

3 winners will win a finished copy of OUR FRIEND HEDGEHOG, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
5/1/2020
Excerpt

Week Two:
5/4/2020
Spotlight
5/5/2020
Review
5/6/2020
Review
5/7/2020
Review
5/8/2020
Excerpt

Week Three:
5/11/2020
Review
5/12/2020
Review
5/13/2020
Review
5/14/2020
Excerpt
5/15/2020
Review

Week Four:
5/18/2020
Review
5/19/2020
Review
5/20/2020
Interview
5/21/2020
Review
5/22/2020
Review

Week Five:
5/25/2020
Excerpt
5/26/2020
Review
5/27/2020
Review
5/28/2020
Review
5/29/2020
Excerpt

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Review: A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin



It took me two weeks to read this. This is the third installment in the Song of Ice and Fire series and it is my favorite one so far. I was irritated at first that it was taking me so long to get through it, but now I am glad that I took my time because I remember a lot more of this one than the second book. 

One thing that I really enjoyed was having the POV of Theon Greyjoy out. I did not enjoy reading from his perspective in A Clash of Kings. I also didn't like reading from Davos in the second book, but in this one, I got my first shock factor when he was meeting with King Stannis. 

Some of the important parts I knew from being spoiled on Tumblr because of the show and then the other morning I was spoiled again by some show pics on Instagram and the book 4 synopsis. 

The main thing I have to tell you all about this book is that we are down a couple of kings and dire wolves. Alliances are made and broken and some characters are becoming more developed and some are just meeting their end. I have been waiting to watch the second season until after I finished reading this installment and now I can binge the second and third seasons. 

Monday, May 4, 2020

Review: Flawless by Sara Shepard


After reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, I needed an absolute trash book. I needed something that wouldn't make me think and that I could fly through and not have a care in the world. This was that book. This was the book that was the complete opposite of what I had previously read.
This is the second book in the Pretty Little Liars series and it is just about a bunch of snotty, bitchy over privileged white girls who have basic first world problems. The characters are super one dimensional and bland. I had a hell of a time of keeping up with who was who. They are all the same and not different at all. I would read a part about Hanna and think that it was really Emily.

They are being "harassed" by this person named A who is threatening to tell their worst secrets and all of the family problems.  They refuse to go to authorities and report it because they don't want to reap the consequences of what happened that made their friend Ali disappear.

I have never watched the show and I basically know the ending, but when my daughters are in the teenage years and they want to read these books and watch the show, then I will sit down and watch with them, but until then, I may continue to read this series if and when my library opens back up and if they have the next book in this garbage guilty pleasure.

Sunday, May 3, 2020

APRIL 2020 READING WRAP UP

This month I read two more books than I did in March and I had a few 5 star reads that really made me consider putting them on my favorites list of the year, probably also on all time favorite list as well.

The first book I finished this month was a nonfiction that I didn't get to finish in March for my A-Z reading challenge and that challenge has been put on hold until my town library opens back up because I am not buying all those books that I have chosen to read. 











Review: Is This A Cry For Help by Emily Austin

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