Review and Excerpt Tour with Giveaway: The Impossible Vastness of Us by Samantha Young @AuthorSamYoung @InkSlingerPR

   

From New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young comes a story of friendship, identity, and acceptance that will break your heart—and make it whole again. Order your copy of THE IMPOSSIBLE VASTNESS OF US today!

   

About THE IMPOSSIBLE VASTNESS OF US:

“I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has.”

India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped never to be seen as again: trash.

But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact, everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold them together, what’s left are truths that are brutal, beautiful, and big enough to change them forever…

   

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My Review:

My rating:  5 stars

Samantha Young has been one of my favorite authors since I first read her book On Dublin Street only a little over a year ago.  From that point on I devoured her books, mostly through audio the first time.  One of my all-time book boyfriends, above almost all others - probably top 3, Nate Sawyer, came from her book Before Jamaica Lane.  While I was sent an egalley of this book to read and review for the tour, when I found someone willing to trade a physical ARC, I jumped on that chance since I had to have at least one physical ARC of one of my favorite author's books.  The way she writes both the characters as well as the events in the story always leads to an emotional and memorable read.  If I had not had any other responsibilities, such as work, this is one I would have read in one sitting.  In fact I read it in about 3 sittings, as each time I was barely able to put it down for anything else.  I read the last 100 pages in one sitting, at the park near my house, in my car, where I knew there would be no one to distract me from reading.  And that last part of the book was packed full of tear-jerking scenes, where anyone who had seen me sitting in my car crying might have wondered just what was going on.

I feel all of the characters and most of the reactions were pretty realistic.  There wasn't anything that was way out there, used just to create drama for the story.  Honestly everything that happened was something that I could see happening in real life, or maybe had actually seen happen to others around me, or to myself.  Nothing in the extreme bad things, just the way that people reacted to situations is very realistic to me.  Even the mean girl, yeah, she was kinda a mean girl, and her friends knew it, and would call her on it.  The reaction of people to finding out someone in their life was a different person then they'd been led to believe, that their very best friend had lied to them, well, it was pretty true to human nature.  Young really had a great grasp on real life and how people interact.  I'm so excited to finally have a book by her that I can definitely put in my high school library and share with my students.  Hopefully alerting them to an author they will also fall in love with and pick up every book she writes from now on.

A wonderfully emotional story, showing that it doesn't matter what walk of life you come from, the things you keep hidden about yourself can be the same, and do affect you and the rest of your life just as much as they do anyone else.

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Samantha Young’s THE IMPOSSIBLE VASTNESS OF US – Review and Excerpt Tour

June 19^th

BookWorm221 – Review and Excerpt

Clare's Mad About Books – Review and Excerpt

Joyful Shimmy – Review and Excerpt

Little Red's Reviews – Review and Excerpt

Naturally Nerdy Books – Review and Excerpt

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Book Boyfriends – Review and Excerpt

June 20^th

Beware Of The Reader – Review and Excerpt

Books For The Living – Review

Kindle and Me – Review and Excerpt

Melissa's Book Obsession – Review

Read more sleep less – Review

To Be Reviewed Books – Review and Excerpt

June 21^st

A Fortress of Books – Excerpt

Becky on Books – Excerpt

Enjoying life a day at a time – Review

Mustreadbooksordie – Review and Excerpt

MrsLeif's Two Fangs AboutItBook Reviews – Review and Excerpt

SJ's Book Blog – Excerpt

June 22^nd

Actin' Up with Books – Review

Books,Dreams,Life – Excerpt

Fiction Fare – Review and Excerpt

Movies, Shows, & Books – Excerpt

Take Me Away To A Great Read – Review and Excerpt

What Is That Book About – Excerpt

June 23^rd

A Literary Perusal – Review and Excerpt

Adventures in Writing – Excerpt

BJ's Book Blog – Review and Excerpt

Ficwishes – Review

Kimberly's Hot Reads – Review and Excerpt

Read, Write, Design – Review and Excerpt

June 24^th

Ali's Reviews and More – Review and Excerpt

Crazii Bitches Book Blog – Review and Excerpt

Lacey's Love Of Literature – Review and Excerpt

Nose Stuck in a Book – Review and Excerpt

Reading Between the Wines Book Club – Excerpt

Tales of the Ravenous Reader – Review and Excerpt

June 25^th

All Romance Reviews – Review and Excerpt

Book Lovers Hangout – Review and Excerpt

PBC – Excerpt

Ramblings From This Chick – Excerpt

TSK TSK What to Read – Review and Excerpt

With Love for Books – Review

June 26^th

Angie and Jessica's Dreamy Reads – Review and Excerpt

Book Reader Chronicles – Review and Excerpt

Calling All Bookaholics – Review and Excerpt

Liezel – Review and Excerpt

Reads and Reviews – Review

The Readdicts – Review and Excerpt

June 27^th

4 the Love of Reading – Review and Excerpt

ADDICTED TO BOOKS – Review and Excerpt

Lisa Loves Literature – Review

Miss Riki – Review and Excerpt

Peace Love Books – Review

The Inked In Book Blog – Review and Excerpt

June 28^th

Bookalicious Babes Blog – Review and Excerpt

Greyland Reviews – Excerpt

Literary lust – Review

My Girlfriends Couch – Review and Excerpt

Read Love Blog – Review and Excerpt

The Life of a BooknerdAddict – Review and Excerpt

June 29^th

Author Groupies – Review

Blushing babes are up all – Review and Excerpt

Book Enticer – Review and Excerpt

The Book Avenue – Review and Excerpt

The Review Loft – Review and Excerpt

Three chicks and their books – Review and Excerpt

June 30^th

I Read Indie – Excerpt

Shh Moms Reading – Review and Excerpt

The Bookish Introvert – Review

Total Book Geek – Review and Excerpt

Vi3tbabe – Review and Excerpt

Witchy Richey's Booktastic Reviews – Review and Excerpt

July 1^st

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Southern Belle Book Blog – Excerpt

The Fairest of All Book Reviews – Review and Excerpt

About Samantha Young:

Samantha Young is the New York Times,  USA Today  and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of adult contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series and Hero, as well as the New Adult duology Into the Deep and Out of the Shallows.  Every Little Thing, the second book in her new Hart’s Boardwalk series, will be published by Berkley in March 2017. Before turning to contemporary fiction, she wrote several young adult paranormal and fantasy series, including the amazon bestselling Tale of Lunarmorte trilogy. Samantha’s debut YA contemporary novel The Impossible Vastness of Us will be published by Harlequin TEEN in ebook and hardback June 2017. Samantha has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for On Dublin Street, Best Romance 2014 for Before Jamaica Lane, and Best Romance 2015 for Hero. On Dublin Street, a #1 bestseller in Germany, was the Bronze Award Winner in the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2013, Before Jamaica Lane the Gold Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2014 and Echoes of Scotland Street the Bronze Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2015. Samantha is currently published in 30 countries and is a #1 international bestselling author.  

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Excerpt Reveal: The Impossible Vastness of Us by Samantha Young @AuthorSamYoung @InkSlingerPR

   

From New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young comes a story of friendship, identity, and acceptance that will break your heart—and make it whole again. Don’t miss THE IMPOSSIBLE VASTNESS OF US releasing June 27, 2017, and get a sneak peek of the book below!

   

About THE IMPOSSIBLE VASTNESS OF US:

“I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has.”

India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped never to be seen as again: trash.

But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact, everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold them together, what’s left are truths that are brutal, beautiful, and big enough to change them forever…

   

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EXCERPT:   

When Hayley arrived I got into the car without a word and we drove home to the apartment in silence. Once inside, Hayley finally spoke. 

“I thought we could do takeout tonight.” 

We couldn’t afford to do take-out nights all the time. Take-out nights were reserved for birthdays and the last night of school summer vacation. Sometimes even Thanksgiving. 

Something was up. “Aren’t you supposed to be on a flight somewhere right about now?” 

She shrugged, avoiding my gaze as she wandered into the kitchen. 

I followed her, watching as she pulled take-out menus out of our kitchen drawer. 

“What do you want? Chinese, Indian, Thai, Lebanese?” 

“I want to get this ‘talk’ over with.” 

Hayley regarded me, taking in my tension and the hard look in my eyes. 

Finally she sighed. “This is good news, India. Truly it is.” 

“Just say it.” 

“Theo proposed. I said yes. And we don’t want to wait. We’re getting married this December.” 

My mouth dropped open. “I haven’t even met him.” 

She pinched the bridge of her nose at my shout. “And that would be a concern if you were younger. But you’re starting junior year. You’re sixteen. Before we know it, you’ll be going off to college.” She stepped toward me and grabbed my hand. I let her squeeze it. “And, sweetheart, you can go to any college you want now.” 

“How?” 

“Theo is…well, he’s wealthy. And he’s already made it perfectly clear that he wants the very best for me, and that means the very best for you.” 

“Are you trying to buy my acceptance of this whole ridiculous thing? You are aware that this isn’t normal, right?” 

Hayley dropped my hand. “Don’t be melodramatic. I just want you to know that yes, or course it will be difficult to leave behind school and your friends here and move to Massachusetts, but the upside is that we’ll never have another financial worry in our lives. Ever.” 

Jesus, how wealthy was this guy? 

As if she read the question on my face, Hayley smiled dreamily. “He’s an incredibly well-respected attorney from a wealthy family. Boston’s elite.” 

“And he’s marrying you?” 

“Nice,” she snapped. “Very nice.” 

“I didn’t mean it like that.” I shrugged. “I just…I thought those people stuck to their own.” 

“Usually. But Theo doesn’t care about that stuff. He just wants to marry the woman he loves.” She waved away my negativity with a shake of her hair over her shoulders. “He married a well-to-do woman, and they had a daughter, Eloise, before she died of cancer a few years ago. He hasn’t been serious about another woman since, until me.” 

“Oh my God.” I shook my head in disgust. “You think you’re living in a fairy tale.” 

“Don’t talk to me like that.” 

“You’re hauling me across the country to move in with some guy I’ve never met!” I heard the hysteria creep into my voice, but couldn’t seem to stop it. “Let’s remember the last guy you chose that I had to live with. Or have you already forgotten?” 

Understanding dawned on Hayley’s face. It was shocking that I even had to say it out loud. A good mother would have known exactly why I was taking this so hard. “Oh, sweetheart.” She moved toward me but stopped when I flinched back. “Theo is not like him. Not anything like him. I’m not a stupid kid anymore. I wouldn’t make that mistake again.” 

I stared at the floor, trying to will my heart rate to slow. I could barely hear anything over the whooshing of blood in my ears. 

I started at Hayley’s touch and looked up. She’d decided to ignore my body language and cross the room to take hold of my arms. She ducked her face to stare into my eyes. 

“No one,” she whispered fiercely, “no one will hurt you. I promise.” 

Liar. 

LIAR. 

LIAR! 

The scream rang out inside of me but somehow I swallowed it. 

This was happening.        

About Samantha Young: 

Samantha Young is the New York Times,  USA Today  and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of adult contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series and Hero, as well as the New Adult duology Into the Deep and Out of the Shallows.  Every Little Thing, the second book in her new Hart’s Boardwalk series, will be published by Berkley in March 2017. Before turning to contemporary fiction, she wrote several young adult paranormal and fantasy series, including the Amazon bestselling Tale of Lunarmorte trilogy. Samantha’s debut YA contemporary novel The Impossible Vastness of Us will be published by Harlequin TEEN in ebook and hardback June 2017. Samantha has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for On Dublin Street, Best Romance 2014 for Before Jamaica Lane, and Best Romance 2015 for Hero. On Dublin Street, a #1 bestseller in Germany, was the Bronze Award Winner in the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2013, Before Jamaica Lane the Gold Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2014 and Echoes of Scotland Street the Bronze Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2015. Samantha is currently published in 30 countries and is a #1 international bestselling author.  

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Can't Wait Wednesday: The Impossible Vastness of Us by Samantha Young

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.   (Do you like my new button above?  Can't decide if maybe it is too busy)   

My pick this week is in an all new world of its own.  It is the first YA book by a favorite romance author of mine, Samantha Young.  I am so excited to be able to finally share her wonderful character writing with the students that I work with in my  high school library.  Here is the blurb from Goodreads:

I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has.

India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped never to be seen as again: trash.

But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact, everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold them together, what’s left are truths that are brutal, beautiful, and big enough to change them forever…

I love Samantha Young's writing so much, that even though I'm normally not much of a contemporary YA reader, I will read anything by her.  I can't believe that I have to wait until June though to read it!  My fingers are crossed that I get an advanced copy some how.  In fact, I may have to do what I rarely do, and email the publisher to request it.

So that's the book I can't wait on this week, what book are you eagerly anticipating?

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