BLOG TOUR: FREEDA THE FROG AND THE TWO MOMMAS NEXT DOOR by Nadine Haruni

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the FREEDA THE FROG AND THE TWO MOMMAS NEXT DOOR by Nadine Haruni Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: FREEDA THE FROG AND THE TWO MOMMAS NEXT DOOR

Author: Nadine Haruni

Pub. Date: June 2, 2020

Publisher: Mascot Books

Pages: 38

Formats:  Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

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

Gold Mom’s Choice Award winner

In this newest entry in the Freeda the Frog Series, Freeda and her family are back again to meet some brand new friends: Jessica and her two mothers, Morgan and Irene. The tadpoles have never had met anyone with two mothers before, but they soon find out that it does not makes any difference. By becoming friends with Jessica’s parents, the tadpoles discover that families don’t all have to be the same, and that no matter what, love really is all that you need.

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About Nadine:

Nadine Haruni has gone through a divorce herself and is now re-married with 5 children. Nadine is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Aside from writing, Nadine is an attorney and a certified yoga instructor.

The Gold Mom's Choice Award-winning Freeda the Frog™ Children's Book series focuses on awareness & acceptance of different types of family situations, as well as helping children cope with various life issues.  See the Books page and stay tuned for Nadine’s future Freeda the Frog™ books, where Freeda and the tadpoles continue to help kids face more of life’s challenges and understand that everyone’s family is special and unique.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will win a $10 Amazon GC, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

6/1/2020	BookHounds YA	Spotlight
6/2/2020	Simplydanielradcliffe	Review
6/3/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Spotlight
6/4/2020	Lisa Everyday Reads	Spotlight
6/5/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review

Week Two:

6/8/2020	Hurn Publications	Spotlight
6/9/2020	Jazzy Book Reviews	Spotlight
6/10/2020	Jaime's World	Spotlight
6/11/2020	YA/NA Book Divas	Spotlight
6/12/2020	Little Red Reads	Review

Week Three:

6/15/2020	The Suburban Lifestyle	Review
6/16/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
6/17/2020	Nerdophiles	Review
6/18/2020	Twirling Book Princess	Spotlight
6/19/2020	JaimeRockstarBookTours	Spotlight

MAY 2020 READING WRAP UP

This post is late and I apologize. I honestly forgot about it. By now, my blog has turned into a full book blog. Anyways, I did not read the much in May because I read a 900 page book that took two weeks to finish.

1. Flawless by Sara Shepard

2. Time Sight by Lynne Jonell

3. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

4. Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart

5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

6. The Starspun Web by Sinead O'Hart

7. Hunger by Michael Grant

BLOG TOUR: Nocturne by Cheryl Mahoney

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the NOCTURNE by Cheryl Mahoney Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: NOCTURNE (The Guardian of the Opera #1)

Author: Cheryl Mahoney

Pub. Date: June 5, 2020

Publisher: Stonehenge Circle Press

Pages: 300

Formats:  Paperback, eBook

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

Set against the backdrop of 1880s Paris and the stunning Opera Garnier, The Guardian of the Opera: Nocturne brings you the familiar tale from a different direction. Meg Giry met the Phantom once when she was twelve years old, a new ballet dancer lost in the Opera’s maze. Years later, when an Angel of Music offers singing lessons to her best friend Christine Daaé, Meg is sure she knows what’s actually happening. But as strange events unfold and the pieces stop adding up, Meg has to wonder if she truly understands the Phantom—or Christine.

Erik is a man of many talents and many masks, and the one covering his face may be the least concealing. The opera house is his kingdom and his refuge, where he stalks through the shadows as the Phantom of the Opera, watching over all that occurs. He never intended to fall in love; when he does, it launches him into a new symphony he’s certain can only end in heartbreak.

About Cheryl:

Cheryl Mahoney lives in California and dreams of other worlds. She is the author of the Beyond the Tales quartet, retelling familiar fairy tales, but subverting expectations with different points of view and new twists to the tales. She is also a co-author of The Servants and the Beast, and its companion piece, After the Sparkles Settled. Cheryl loves exploring new worlds in the past, the future or fairyland, and builds her stories around characters finding their way through those worlds–especially characters overlooked or underestimated by the people around them.

She has been blogging since 2010 at Tales of the Marvelous (http://marveloustales.com). Her weekly Writing Wednesday posts provide updates about her current writing, including excerpts. She also posts regularly with book and movie reviews, and reflections on reading. She has been a member of Stonehenge Writers since 2012, and has completed NaNoWriMo seven times.

Cheryl has looked for faeries in Kensington Gardens in London and for the Phantom at the Opera Garnier in Paris. She considers Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness Quartet to be life-changing and Terry Pratchett books to be the best cure for gloomy days.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will win a finished copy of NOCTURNE, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

6/1/2020	Lone Tree Reads	Guest Post
6/1/2020	Mythical Books	Guest Post
6/2/2020	Hurn Publications	Guest Post
6/2/2020	Smada's Book Smack	Guest Post
6/3/2020	BookHounds ya	Interview
6/3/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Review
6/4/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
6/4/2020	Twirling Book Princess	Excerpt
6/5/2020	Fire and Ice	Excerpt
6/5/2020	JaimeRockstarBookTours	Instagram Post

Week Two:

6/8/2020	History from a Woman’s Perspective	Review
6/8/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
6/9/2020	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
6/9/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
6/10/2020	Jaime's World	Excerpt
6/10/2020	Reese's Reviews	Review
6/11/2020	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review
6/11/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Guest Post
6/12/2020	Popthebutterfly Reads	Review
6/12/2020	A Gingerly Review	Review

REVIEW: The Other People by C.J. Tudor

I finally got my hands on my library hold a couple of days ago and started it immediately. I have had this book on my radar from the time it was announced. I put it on my holds at my local library in February because of a book club chose it to read in February.

I first read a C.J. Tudor book a couple years ago with her debut novel, The Chalk Man and it was a favorite read of that year. She immediately became an auto buy author for me. This is her third book and she just keeps getting better.

This story is about a man named Gabe who is suspected of his wife and daughter's murder. We met him on the M1 motorway, stuck in gridlock traffic. He is late for dinner with his wife and daughter and he is behind the rusty old car with a bunch of bumper stickers. Then in the rear window, a little girl pops up and looks straight at him and calls out daddy.

A couple years later, we are following multiple people and they are all connected. We meet mysterious characters and there were multiple times where I thought I figured out who done it and who was behind everything. There were a lot of plot twists and it was an amazing connect the dots story. There was a time or two where I wanted to stop reading it at night because I was getting freaked out.

I did want a little more paranormal and I found myself having to reread the main part at the ending because it went over my head and it was difficult to visualize what exactly happened.

Review: Freaks I've Met by Donald Jans

This book is under 200 pages and took me two days to read because it had me laughing and going WTF at the crazy parts. We follow this guy named Jack who is tired of the small town life in Spokane, Washington. One day he gets "noticed" by a L.A. model scout who invites him to come to Los Angeles. He accepts the offer and it goes to his head straight away that he is going to be living it up pool side instantly and be friends with all the famous people.

He gets there and it's not what it seems. The whole time, he thinks about the woman he worked for, Mrs. Pohlkiss who is kind of an arch enemy to him. He calls her a crochety old bitch and wants to prove her wrong the entire book.

With the chapters being short, I thought it would be a one sit read, but nope. The content in this book had me laughing at his word vomit and lack of filter. His talk of sex toys and smacking people in the face with dildos and threesomes had me going, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK am I reading and then I had to go find my hubby to read to him the crazy shit I was reading and he got a kick out of it.

I remember that I got this book as a Goodreads giveaway win and it was in my mailbox the day we went to Six Flags in Atlanta.

I have to read more from Donald Jans. 4 out of 5 stars!

Review: Hunger by Michael Grant

Last year, I read the first book in this series by Michael Grant. Right away I found it so similar to Stephen King's Under the Dome and I didn't really like it. Cayce ended up picking these up at the little free library and the second one was just staring at me from my bookshelf. I made the decision that if this second book was not very great and was not original like the first, then I would quit the series altogether.

This second installment was OK. It was more action packed and violence heavy which was not fun to read about currently since I have to read about more violence in the news.

This series is about a town called Perdido Beach. One day, everyone ages 15 and up disappear...poof out of existence. Then this huge dome is over the town and surrounding area including a desert with a gold mine and a nuclear power plant. Some of the kids start developing these super powers and there is an all out war between the Perdido Beach kids and the trouble makers from Coates Academy.

In this book, the main plot is on the Darkness and how everyone including it, is hungry. They are going after animals and stealing. There are even thoughts about cannibalism.

I was going to give this a 4 but near the end, I saw a word that I really despise and hate with all of my being. It was used 3 times on the same page, almost the same damn paragraph and that is the dreaded R word. Also it kept jumping back and forth between so many characters and they kind of seemed very similar and not defined.

I will be giving the third book a read eventually, but I won't be waiting a year because I found myself not remembering who was who and I actually had to go and skim the first book, because I thought one of the characters went poof and it wasn't memorable even though it happened to the main character.

BLOG TOUR: Rebel in the Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander *updated*

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the REBEL IN THE LIBRARY OF EVER Zeno Alexander Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: REBEL IN THE LIBRARY OF EVER (The Library of Ever #2)

Author: Zeno Alexander

Pub. Date: April 28, 2020

Publisher: Imprint (Macmillan)

Pages: 224

Formats:  Hardcover,eBook

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

Illustration copyright © 2020 Matt Rockefeller

Rebel in the Library of Ever continues Zeno Alexander’s acclaimed middle-grade fantasy series with a dangerous takeover of the magical Library as our heroine fights to make knowledge free for everyone.

Lenora returns to the magical Library―which holds every book ever known on its shelves. But she discovers the Library is under new management, its incredible rooms and corridors turned dark and sinister.

She quickly connects with a secret resistance that’s trying to free knowledge from the shadows threatening it. Her new friends introduce her to an ancient lost city, hang-gliding, and mathematical beings larger than the universe itself. And they help her face the mysterious Board of new leaders―who are leading the Library into darkness.

Now it’s up to Lenora to prove that knowledge is always more powerful than ignorance and fear.

An Imprint Book

“Further proof that librarians are mighty in all universes.” ―Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Library of Ever:

“Zeno Alexander's The Library of Ever reads like someone mixed Neil Gaiman with Chris Grabenstein, then threw in an extra dash of charm. Reading it is like getting lost in an entire library full of books, and never wanting to leave!”―James Riley, New York Times bestselling author of the Story Thieves series

“Full of whimsy and pluck, The Library of Ever is a total delight!”
―Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author 

Grab book 1 THE LIBRARY OF EVER NOW!

About Zeno: 

After emerging from the shadows of the past, his history yet to be fully explained, Zeno Alexander spent years exploring the world's libraries before settling down in his lavish underground bunker, where he regularly hosts exquisite dinner parties and tends to his collection of extinct plants. His friendship with the famous librarian, Lenora, has turned into a series of biographical works devoted to chronicling her adventures.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will win a signed finished copy of REBEL IN THE LIBRARY OF EVER, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

5/25/2020	Lone Tree Reads	Excerpt
5/25/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
5/26/2020	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
5/26/2020	BookHounds	Instagram Post
5/27/2020	Kait Plus Books	Review
5/27/2020	Little Red Reads	Excerpt
5/28/2020	JaimeRockstarBookTours	Instagram Post
5/28/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
5/29/2020	Do You Dog-ear?	Review
5/29/2020	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review

Week Two:

6/1/2020	Eli to the nth	Review
6/1/2020	@_ebl_inc_	Review
6/2/2020	Trapped Inside Stories	Review
6/2/2020	Annej Reads	Instagram Post
6/3/2020	Fazila Reads	Excerpt
6/3/2020	Fazila Reads	Instagram Post
6/4/2020	lifeofafemalebibliophile	Review
6/4/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Excerpt
6/5/2020	Popthebutterfly Reads	Review
6/5/2020	Popthebutterfly Reads	Instagram Post

REVIEW: shocked to see a sexist quote on page 169.

" she's lying, said a man who had Leonora's left wrist. "you know how females are".

not only the words are disturbing, but how the man is holding the Leonora's wrist. There was no consequences of this action or debate against the statement. 

Also the director is Donald Trump... YOU'RE FIRED! so whiney about things not going his way and people not bowing to his every need. Thinking he is the greatest and smartest when he is the biggest idiot in the whole book or in this case the universe.