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Monday, June 13, 2016

Blog Tour and Giveaway: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

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TITLE: My Lady Jane

AUTHOR: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

PUBLISHER: Harper Teen

PUBLICATION DATE: June 7, 2016

FIND IT: Goodreads / HarperCollins / Amazon / Book Depository / Barnes and Noble / iBooks / Indiebound /Chapters Indigo

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SYNOPSIS:

For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey.

Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger—and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that’s the least of Jane’s problems. She’s about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong.

(Get a taste of this novel by reading the prologue!)

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AUTHOR INFORMATION:

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We're the authors of the upcoming young adult novel, MY LADY JANE, which will be out with HarperTeen on June 7, 2016. Our group is made up of Brodi Ashton (author of the EVERNEATH series and DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY), Cynthia Hand (New York Times bestselling author of the UNEARTHLY series and THE LAST TIME WE SAY GOODBYE), and Jodi Meadows (author of the INCARNATE and the ORPHAN QUEEN series). Between the three of us we've written thirteen novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems, but this is the first time we've taken a stab at writing a book together. We're friends. We're writers. We're fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time.

FIND THE LADY JANIES: WEBSITE || TWITTER || FACEBOOK

Giveaway:

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Three (3) copies of My Lady Jane for three lucky winners! The giveaway will be open internationally, as long as Book Depository ships to you.

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Tour Schedule:
DATE
June 6    Angie @ Lady Knight Reads    Sarah @ The YA Book Traveler
June 7    Sarah @ What Sarah Read    Lauren @ Love is Not a Triangle
June 8    Lauren @ Bookmark Lit    Stephanie @ A Dream Within a Dream
June 9    Mary @ Mary Had a Little Book Blog    Nori @ Read Write Love 28
June 10    Bonnie @ A Backwards Story    Gail @ Ticket to Anywhere
June 13    Kelly @ Belle of the Literati    Lisa @ Lisa Loves Literature(You are here!)
June 14    Lori @ Writing My Own Fairytale    Alyssa @ The Eater of Books
June 15    Mishma @ Chasing Faerytales    Sarah @ Aphonic Sarah
June 16    Jessica @ Step Into Fiction    Jen @ The Starry-Eyed Revue
June 17    Kassiah @ Swoony Boys Podcast    Lisa @ Lost in Literature

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we're eagerly awaiting. I've chosen what I believe is another standalone novel this week. A historical fiction told by three of my favorite YA authors. The blurb doesn't give away much, here it is from Goodreads:

For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey.

Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger—and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that’s the least of Jane’s problems. She’s about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong.

Now, it sounds really good, just from that little bit, but if you're still not sold, you can read the prologue on the book's website HERE.

That's my choice this week. What book are you eagerly awaiting?

Monday, March 9, 2015

Cover Characteristic: Masquerade

The Cover Characteristic meme is hosted at Sugar and Snark. Here are the guidelines for how it works if you want to join in:

Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite covers with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, then just make a post, grab the meme picture (or make your own) and leave your URL in Linky (so we can visit).
You don’t even need to participate, just stopping by and saying hi would be great! Don’t forget to stop by the other participants!

I try to choose books I've read. This week was harder than I thought! Kind of a specific topic. For some there was more than one in a series, so I included all of the series as one of my choices.

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1. And my favorite, the books that always come first to my mind when I think of covers with masks on them:

Have you read any of these? Can you think of any other book covers that fit this topic?

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Review: Asunder (Newsoul #2) by Jodi Meadows (September Sequels Challenge #3)

FINALLY!!! I feel like it took forever to get through this book. And not because it was hard to read, but because I just never seemed to have time to read. I remember that I really enjoyed the first book, Incarnate, but once again, it just seemed to take me forever to get around to reading it. And just like with the first one, what a beautiful cover, and again, there are some hints on the cover about bits and pieces of the story. Now it did take me a bit to get back into it, being as it had been over 2 years since I'd read the first one as an e-galley. And of course, since it is a second book, my synopsis will include some spoilery things.

The end of the first story we had left off after a major tragedy, Menehem had caused a problem that made many of the people lose their chance to be reincarnated by allowing Newsouls, like Ana, to have the chance to be born. Ana is still fighting the prejudice of those who think she is an abomination and who hate for whoever's place she took. Ana is still with Sam, although he is still taking it really slow. While he is 5000 years old from all the reincarnating, she is only the exact number of years she actually is, 18. So everyone tells them it is wrong for them to do anything. So all they do is kiss. But she is really enjoying the music that she makes with Sam. We also begin the story with Sam and Ana taking a trip out to Menehem's lab, to try to figure out what he had been doing. They haven't told anyone that is what they are doing. People already don't trust her, and knowing that she has his journals will only make her look as if she knew what he was doing all along. They meet another old soul, Cris, who was the creator of the blue roses around where Ana grew up. It seems that Cris may have been another person who was once in a relationship with Sam in a past life or two. The more Ana finds out though, the more she realizes that what Janus has in store for even the old souls isn't going to be so great, and it definitely isn't good for the Newsouls. And as two babies are born as Newsouls, the townspeople of Heart grow restless and begin causing trouble. Destroying all of Sam's instruments that he'd spent thousands of years worth of lifetimes on. They blow up the houses of those pregnant, to try to prevent any more Newsouls from being born. And they push Ana, along with some other friends into the temple, and take the key so that they will be stuck in there.

Ana must try to convince the townspeople that what is happening is bad, she must try to fight the fact that Janus has made certain memories fade so much quicker, the memories that keep them in the dark about what is really going on. And we find out Sam, and all of them, may not be as innocent in all of Janus's plans as they would seem to be.

By the end I was back into the whole story, and now eager to read on and see what will happen next. I won this book in some contest a while back. But it was before I started doing Stacking the Shelves on a regular basis, as well as I now put little post it notes in the books I win, so that I remember who to thank. A great 2nd book, now I must get ahold of the 3rd and finish it all up. Since I don't own the first one, because I read it as an e-galley, I will be donating my copy of this 2nd book to the high school library where I work. We have the first one that I ordered last year, and this way I won't have to spend library money on the 2nd one, just will probably go back and order the 3rd one.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A - Z Book Challenge

So, I really only did one book challenge last year, the Debut Author Challenge hosted by

The Story Siren. And I'm now debating whether to do that one again this year or not. But this is a challenge that sounds really interesting and different. So I'm going to try it. I'm going to go with the "B" method, of just as I read adding titles to the the list. In order to make this list, what I'll probably do is make a post, and then just add to it as I add books to the list and update it. Not sure how else to keep a list on my blog right now. I'm not so great with all the design stuff. But if any of you have suggestions on how I can do it, I'd love it! I'm kind of at the mercy of using Blogger's little widgets right now.