November Tour (Completed)
EyeLeash: A Blog Novel by Jess C Scott
"Jade Ashton is a sassy virgin. In her blog, she vents about “fitting in” a world where superficiality reigns supreme.
Suddenly all logic flies out the window when she meets Novan: a delicious songwriter-musician. They decide to be “friends-with-benefits.” But it’s Novan—with his poems and riddling passages on his own blog—that backs out.
EyeLeash captures self-discovery in the 2000s, and showcases the colorful, intricate drama in two youths’ relentless search for themselves—and what’s really in their hearts."
Excerpt (First 5 Pages)
Longer Excerpt (First 50 Pages)
Tour Stops:
November 11th--Tower of Books's Review
November 12th--Leslie's Review
November 13th--Catt
November Tour (Completed)
When The Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton
"Midnight rituals. Secret initiations. A father who belongs to a secret society. Join Jimmy Cannon as he navigates the mysteries – and changes – that steam through his 1940's railroad town as he comes toe-to-toe with his stubborn father and his own uncertain future.
My father's childhood experiences inspired this novel. In the 1940's, train engines switched from steam to diesel and the economy in small towns across America changed forever. WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS is a timely novel about coming of age in the face of economic change.
The novel is written as a series of short stories, each set a year apart to the day, that build together to form the overarching story of Jimmy’s transition from boyhood to manhood. It is a book about the meaning of home, family, loyalty, friendship and most of all, change in the face of difficult economic times."
Tour Stops:
November 7th--Kristen's Review
November 8th--shelburns
November 9th--Heather's Review
November 11th--Steph Su's Review
November 12th--Melanie's Review
October/November Tour (Completed)
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
"Andrew Zansky is a seriously overweight teenager who doesn't fit: in his pants (size 44), in his family (parents are divorced), or in school (a too-small desk, a too-beautiful girl). If only his mom weren't a caterer. If only his parents were back together. If only he were thin. Andy imagines his life would be completely different. But she is, they're not, and he isn't. What to do? Discover a hidden talent for football, of course.
This compelling and laugh-out-loud funny YA novel follows the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a thoroughly believable character, complete with AP American History, a libidinous best friend, and the new girl who sees beyond the obvious. As Andy inches toward adulthood, he comes to understand that feeling different doesn't make him weird or special; it makes him just like everyone else."
Tour Stops:
October 27--Kristi's Review
October 28--Sharon
October 29--Steph Su's Review and Interview
October 30--Irish's Review
October 31--Michelle's Review
November 1--Alea's Review and Guest Post
November 2--Khy's Review
November 3--Catt's Review
November 4--Harmony
November 5--Mitali's Review
October Tour (Completed)
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter by Lisa Klein
"The daughter Macbeth might have had, if Shakespeare had thought to create her…
Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her mother of her father, the powerful Macbeth. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she’s been raised by three strange sisters. It’s only when the ambitious Macbeth seeks out the sisters to foretell his fate that Albia’s life becomes tangled with the man who leaves nothing but bloodshed in his wake. She even falls in love with Fleance, Macbeth’s rival for the throne. Yet when Albia learns that she has the second sight, she must decide whether to ignore the terrible future she foresees—or to change it. Will she be able to save the man she loves from her murderous father? And can she forgive her parents their wrongs, or must she destroy them to save Scotland from tyranny?
In her highly anticipated follow-up to Ophelia, Lisa Klein delivers a powerful reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, featuring a young woman so seamlessly drawn it seems impossible she was not part of the Bard’s original play."
Tour Stops:
October 22--Cinnamon
October 23--Sarahbear's Review
October 24--Hope
October 25--Catt's Review
October 26--Khy's Review
October 27--Jessica Marie
October 28--Ali's Review
October 29--Mitali's Review
October 30--Tasha
October 31--Complusive Reader's Review
October Tour (Completed)
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Tour Stops:
October 13 --Book Chic's Review
October 14 --Karin
October 15 --Lauren's Review
October 16 --Yan's Review and Interview
October 17 --Epic Rat's Review
October 18 --Sharon's Review
October 19 --Ravenous Reader's Interview
October 20 --Irish's Review
October 21 --Jacqueline
October 22 --Alea's Review
October Tour (Completed)
The Kindling of GreenFyr by Mark Freeman
Tour Stops:
October 11 --Tasha
October 12 --Cinnamon
October 13 --Erica's Review
October 14 --Mariah's Review
October 15 --Robbie's Review
October Tour (Completed)
The Tear Collector by Patrick Jones
Summary: "Fans of urban fantasy should prepare for a new kind of vampire–one that feeds off of tears instead of blood. Descended from an ancient line of creatures that gain their energy from human tears, Cassandra Gray depends on human sorrow to live. Only Cass has grown tired of living this life and wants to live like a human, especially now that she's met someone worth fighting for."
Tour Stops:
October 3 --Kelsey's Review
October 4 --Sara's Review and Interview
October 5 --Sarah's Review
October 6--Steph Su's Review
October 7 --Heather's Review
October 8 --Darcy's Review
October 9 --Senfaye's Review
October 10 --Harmony's Review
October 11 --Karin's Review
October 12 --Krista's Review
October Tour (Completed)
Slept Away by Julie Kraut
But this summer Laney’s mother has other plans for Laney. It’s called Camp Timber Trails and rustic doesn’t even begin to describe the un-air-conditioned log cabin nightmare. Laney is way out of her element—the in-crowd is anything but cool, popularity seems to be determined by swimming skills, and the activities seem more like boot camp than summer camp.
Splattered with tie dye fall out, stripped of her cell, and going through Diet Coke withdrawal, Laney is barely hanging on. Being declared the biggest loser of the bunk is one thing, but when she realizes her summer crush is untouchably uncrushable in the real world, she starts to wonder, can camp cool possibly translate to cool cool?
Summer camp might just turn this city girl’s world upside down!
Tour Stops:
October 1 --Irish's Review
October 2 --Kelsey's Review
October 3 --Cassandra's Review
October 4 --Michelle's Review
September Tour (Completed)
Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe
But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass's whole scheme hangs in the balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.
As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim's life, she's surprised to realize he's not so bad--and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it's time to give the living another chance..."
Tour Stops:
September 21 --Khy's Review and Interview
September 22 --Cinnamon's Review and Interview
September 23 --Sharon's Review and Interview
September 24 --Alea's Review
September 25 -- The Book Resort's Review and Interview
September Tour (Completed)
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life."
Tour Stops:
September 11--Harmony's Review
September 12--Marie's Review
September 13--Robbie's Review
September 14--Robin_titan's Review
September 15--Lauren's Review
September 17--Karin's Review
September 18--Steph Su's Review
September 19--Michelle's Review
September 20--Ali's Review
September Tour (Completed)
DupliKate by Cherry Cheva
Meet Kate’s computer-generated twin. Kate doesn’t know why she’s here or how to put her back where she belongs, but she’s real. And she’s the last thing Kate has time to deal with right now. Unless. . .could having a double be the answer to Kate’s prayers?"
Tour Stops:
September 26--Tasha's Review
September 27--Catt's Review
September 28--Hope's Review
September 29--Lauren's Review
September 30--Shelly's Review
September Tour (Completed)
Bedeviled by Shani Petroff
Summary: "All Angel’s father (a.k.a. the Devil) wants is to be a part of her life. And in return he has the power to give her anything she wants—including popularity and a date with her long-time crush, Cole Daniels. But Angel will only accept him on her terms: get out of the devil business and leave his special powers out of the equation. Is Angel condemning herself to an eternity of lunch at the losers’ table? Or can she and Daddy Dearest strike some kind of deal?"
Tour Stops:
September 6--Cinnamon's Review
September 7--Steph Su's Review and Interview
September 8--Harmony's Review
September 9--Bookworm's Review
September 10--Michelle's Review
September Tour (Completed)
Sleepless by Thomas Fahy
SOMEONE ELSE WILL DIE, AND I'LL BE RESPONSIBLE.
A few days after the first time you walk in your sleep, you kill someone.
That's how the end begins
Emma Montgomery has been having gruesome nightmares. Even worse, when she wakes up, she isn't where she was when she fell asleep. And she's not only the only one. One by one the students of Saint Opportuna High start having the nightmares, and sleepwalking. And the next morning one of their classmates turns up dead.
Something is making them kill in their sleep. Emma and her friends need to band together, to keep themselves awake until they can figure our what's behind the murders—before anyone else dies.
Tour Stops:
September 1--Yan's Review
September 2--Carol's Review
September 3--Karin's Review
September 4--Sharon's Review
September 5--Vania's Review
August Tour (Completed)
This Is What I Want To Tell You by Heather Duffy Stone
Fraternal twins Nadio and Noelle share a close connection—and as Noelle's best friend since they were five, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But everything changes after Keeley spends the summer before junior year at Oxford. When Keeley returns, Nadio falls in love with her. Noelle, ripped apart by resentment, sees her as an ungrateful rich girl. But Keeley has a painful story that she can't tell yet. As Nadio and Keeley hide their romance, Noelle dives into something of her own—a destructive affair with an older boy.
Tour Stops:
August 22--Sharon's Review
August 23--Michelle's Review
August 24--WhatBriReads' Review
August 25--Robin_titan's Review
August 26--Steph Su's Review
August 27--Mitali's Review
August 28--Yan's Review
August 29--Reverie's Review
August 30--Cecilia's Review
Auust 31--Hope
August Tour (Completed)
Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
elegant governess. Rumor and mystery follow the Faust teenagers to the city’s most prestigious high school, where they soar to suspicious heights with the help of their benefactor’s extraordinary “gifts.”
But as the students claw their way up - reading minds, erasing scenes, stopping time, stealing power, seducing with artificial beauty - the side-effects of their own addictions. And as they make further deals with the devil, they uncover secrets more shocking than their most unforgivable sins.
At once chilling and wickedly satirical, this contemporary reimagining of the Faustian bargain is a compelling tale of ambition, consequences, and ultimate redemption.
Tour dates:
August 19 -- Green Bean Teen Queen's review and interview
August 20--Karin's Review
August 21--Sharon's Review
August 22--Book Chic's Review
August 23--Carol's Review
August 24--Alea's Review
August 25--Epic Rat's Review and Interviews with Dina and Daniel
August 26--Yan's Review and Interview
August 27--Vania's Review
August 28--Kristi's Review
August Tour (Completed)
As You Wish by Jackson Pearce
Tour Stops:
Aug 14-Friday--Kristi's review
Aug 15-Saturday--Reverie's review
Aug 16-Sunday--Steph Su's review
Aug 17-Monday--Alea's review
Aug 18-Tuesday--Yan's review and interview
Aug 19-Wednesday--Fantastic Book Review's review and interview
Aug 20-Thursday--Harmony's review
Aug 21-Friday--Senfaye's review and interview
Aug 22-Saturday--Sharon's review
Aug 23-Sunday--Khy's review and interview
August Tour (Completed)
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
Tour Stops:
August 10--Alea's Review
August 11--Yan's Review and Interview
August 12--Sharon's Review
August 13--The Book Obsession's Review
August 15--Hope's Review
August 16--Shalonda's Review and Interview
August 18--Kristi's Review
August 20--Kelsey's Review
Prophecy of the Sister by Michelle Zink
Summary:
An ancient prophecy divides two sisters-
One good...
One evil...
Who will prevail?
Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.
Lia and Alice don't know whom they can trust.
They just know they can't trust each other.
Tour Dates:
August 1--Laura's Review
August 2--Reader Rabbit's Review and interview
August 3--Karin's post
August 4--Steph Su's Review
August 5--Ravenous Reader's Review
July Tour (Completed)
Behind Every Illusion by Christina Harner
Summary:
All creatures born of human parents must be human and therefore must be ordinary.' Even the soft-spoken eighteen-year-old Tatiana Lewis wholeheartedly accepts this logic. So when she begins to experience unusual changes, she has no clue where to turn and instead keeps her new abilities a secret. But her best friend and brother, Isaac, sees past her illusions and together they explore the significance of her differences and search out the meaning behind them. Amidst tragedy, unimaginable transformations and an unexpected friendship, Tatiana has to learn to reveal the girl hidden behind her illusions and what it means to face the world in order to preserve not only the forest but her very existence.Tour Dates:
July 25--Sarah's Review
July 27--Yan's Interview and Review
July 29--Senfaye's Review
July 30--Fantastic Book Review's Interview and Review
July Tour (Completed)
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev
Summary:
Beatrice Shakespeare Smith lives in a theater. She's not an actress, but she knows every part. The Theatre Illuminata is the only home Bertie has ever know. But one mishap too many has the Theater Director determined to send Bertie on her way -unless she can prove that she is a valuable part of the Theater. Now, Bertie must fight for her home while unlocking the secrets of her past...
Tour Dates:
July 1--Karin's Review and Interview
July 2--Lenore's Review and Interview
July 4--Carol's Review and Guest Post
July 5--Vania's Review and Q&A
July 6--Senfaye's Review and Interview
July 7--Liviana's Review
July 8--Kristi's Review
July 9--Hope's Review
July 10--Yan's Review and Interview
- Winner: Lexi
July Tour (Completed)
Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
Summary:Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not the cliched ones where a diva hits her highest note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the true ballads: the punk rocker or the country crooner telling the story of their life in three minutes, the chorus reminding their listeners of the numerous ways to screw things up. In high school, Kara helped maintain the 'Stories of Suburbia' notebook, which contained newspaper articles about bizarre and often tragic events from suburbs all over and personal vignettes that Kara dubbed 'ballads' written by her friends in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. Those 'ballads' were heartbreakingly honest tales of the moments when life changes and a kid is forced to grow up too soon. But Kara never wrote her own ballad. Before she could figure out what her song was about, she was leaving town after a series of disastrous events at the end of her junior year. Four years later, Kara returns to face the music, and tells the tale of her first three years of high school with her friends' 'ballads' interspersed throughout.
Tour Dates:
July 21--Kristi's Review and Interview
July 22--Tirzah's Review
July 23--Steph's Review and Guest Post
July 24--Khy's Review and Interview
July 25--Yan's Review and Interview
July 27--Alea's Review
July 28--Kelsey's Review and Guest Post
July 30--Kelsey's Guest Post
June Tour (Completed)
Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog
Summary:
Morgan Sparks and Cam Browne are a match made in heaven. They've been best friends since birth, they tell each other everything, and oh yeah- they're totally hot for each other.
But a week before their joint Sweet Sixteen bash, everything changes. Cam's awkward cousin Pip comes to stay, and Morgan is stunned when her formerly perfect boyfriend seems to be drifting away.
When Morgan demands answers, she's shocked to discover the source of Cam's distance isn't another girl- it's another world. Pip claims that Cam is a fairy. No, seriously. A fairy. And now his people want Cam to return to their world and take his rightful place as Fairy King.
Determined to keep Cam with her, Morgan plots to fool the fairies. But as Cam continues to change, she has to decide once and for all if he really is her destiny, and if their “perfect” love can weather an uncertain future.
Tour Dates:
June 21-Sunday--Tirzah's Review
June 22-Monday--Lenore's Review and Character Interview
June 23-Tuesday--Carol's Review
June 24-Wednesday--Alea's Review and Interview
June 26-Friday--Book Chic's Review
June 27-Saturday--Yan's Interview and Review
June 29-Monday--Story Siren's Review
June 30-Tuesday--Karin
June Tour (Completed)
It's Not You, It's Me by Kerry Cohen HoffmanSummary:
Zoe loves Henry.
Henry dumps Zoe.
Zoe wants Henry back—at any cost.
Zoe’s two best friends come up with a plan to help Zoe get what she thinks she wants. The plan: make Henry jealous.
But the plan takes a surprising turn. . . .
Spanning thirty-one days in the cycle of a breakup, Kerry Cohen Hoffmann’s humorous and poignant novel depicts a girl whose single-minded focus on her ex-boyfriend has pulled her far from the person she most needs to win back—herself.
Tour Dates:
June 12--Kelsey's Review
June 13--Sharon's Review
June 14--Alea's Review and Interview
June 15--Lauren's Review
June 17--Amy's Review
June 18--Khy's Review and Interview
June 19--Kristi
June 20--Yan's Review and Interview
Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
Summary:
Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole -- a charm that keeps her alive -- and they want it badly enough to kill again.
Danger draws even closer when a brother and sister come to the Ryves family for help. The boy wears a demon's mark, a sign of death that almost nothing can erase...and when Alan also gets marked by a demon, Nick is des-perate to save him. The only way to do that is to kill one of the magicians they have been hiding from for so long.
Ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Nick starts to suspect that his brother is telling him lie after lie about their past. As the magicians' Circle closes in on their family, Nick uncovers the secret that could destroy them all.
This is Demon's Lexicon. Turn the page.
Tour Dates:
June 2-- Yan's Review and Interview
June 3-- Carol's Review
June 4-- Karin's Review and Interview
June 5-- Vania's Review
June 6--Sharon's Review
June 7--Alea's Review and Interview
June 8--Steph W's Review and Interview
June 9-- Khy's Review and Interview
June 11-- Kristi
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Summary:
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best girlfriends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first summer romance, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.
Tour Dates:
June 1-Lauren's Review and Guest Blog
June 3-Yan's Review and Interview
June 4-Alea's Review and Interview
June 5-Hope's Review
June 6-Shalonda's Review
June 7-Sharon's Review
June 8-Erika's Guest Post
May Tour (Completed)
Dull Boy by Sarah Cross
Summary:
What do you do if you can deadlift a car, and you spend your nights flying to get away from it all? If you’re fifteen-year-old Avery Pirzwick, you keep that information to yourself. When you’re a former jock turned freak, you can’t afford to let the secret slip.But then Avery makes some friends who are as extraordinary as he is. He realizes they’re more than just freaks—together, maybe they have a chance to be heroes. First, though, they have to decide whether to trust the mysterious Cherchette, a powerful would be mentor whose remarkable generosity may come at a terrible price.Tour Dates:
May 21--Vania's Review and Interview
May 22--Carol's Review and Interview
May 23--Lauren's Review
May 24--Sharon's Review
May 25--Alea's Review and Interview
May 26--Kristi's Review
May 27--Cecilia's Interview
May 28--Erika's Review and Guest Post
May 29--Tasha's Review and Interview
May 30--Liviana's Review
May Tour (Completed)
Exclusively Choe be J.A. Yang
Summary:
Chloe-Grace can't help it—she's spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well— she's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe's sixteen, and she is tired of every undesired moment of the world's attention. She wonders what it would be like to be a 'normal' kid in a regular school. To really understand it, though, she would need to go undercover. So after getting a 'make-under' at the hands of her mother's fabulous stylist, she enters the 'real' world. But she soon finds out that there is just as much drama there as there is in Hollywood....
Tour Dates:
May 25-- Yan's Review and Interview
May 26-- Senfaye's Review and Interview
May 27-- Erika's Review
May 28-- Alea's Review and Interview
May 30-- Kelsey's Review
May 31-- Steph Su's Review and Interview
June 1-- Sarah's Review and Interview
June 2-- Claire's Review and Interview
June 3-- Kristi
May Tour (Completed)
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father’s three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters. Or at least without questioning them much—if you don’t count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that Kyra must marry her 60-year-old uncle—who already has six wives—Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family.Tour Dates:
May 1--Yan's Review
May 2--Carol's Review
May 3--Sharon's Review
May 4--Lauren's Review
May 5--Karin's Review
May 6--Kelsey's Review and Interview
May 7--Sophie's Review
May 8--Liv's Review
May 9--Kristi's Review
May 10--Alea's Review and Interview