Blog Tour: Don’t Call Me Kit Kat by K. J. Farnham

Title: Don’t Call Me Kit Kat 
Author: K.J. Farnham
Genre: Contemporary
Age category: Young Adult
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Star rating: 3.5 / 5 stars

Blurb:

Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And a reputation is solidified that you won’t ever be able to escape. Everything you do and say, and everyone you spend your time with, matters.

Katie Mills knows that. She gets it. That’s why she tried so hard to get in with the cool girls at school. And why she was so devastated when those efforts found her detained for shoplifting and laughed out of cheer squad tryouts.

But Katie has more to worry about than just fitting in. Her parents are divorced and always fighting. Her sister never has time for her. And her friends all seem to be drifting apart. Even worse? The boy she has a crush on is dating the mean girl at school.

Everything is a mess, and Katie doesn’t feel like she has control over any of it. Certainly not over her weight, which has always topped out at slightly pudgier than normal—at least, according to her mother.

So when she happens to catch one of the popular girls throwing up in the bathroom one day, it sparks an idea. A match that quickly engulfs her life in flames.

Is there any going back once she gets started down this path?

And would she even want to if she could?

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Your WIP in GIFs Tag

I wasn’t exactly tagged by anyone but I saw Savannah @ TheBookProphet did this tag, and it seemed interesting. It has been awhile since I did a tag, or posted anything really, and to prevent this blog from being a ghost town, I thought, why not.

I don’t think I’ve ever talked about my WIPs, other than during CampNanoWriMo (and only to my cabinmates), so this would be the perfect opportunity.

I am working on 3 WIPs, and those 3 are connected to one another. It’s actually a series of standalone (although past characters will certainly have cameos), and there’s going to be 6 books in the series. In this tag, I’m going to focus on my WIP entitled, The Lilydale Line, which kind of came to life in 2014 (although it has a different name back then).

Blog Tour: Perfectly Misunderstood by Robin Daniels

 

 

Title: Perfectly Misunderstood (Perfect #4)
Author: Robin Daniels
Publication date: 4th April 2018
Published by: Bluefields

Genre: Contemporary, Romance/Romantic Comedy
Readership: YA

Format: Kindle edition
Pages: 304
Star rating: 3.5 / 5 stars

 

Synopsis: Jayden Valdez is an overachieving intellectual. Mike McGinnes is Franklin High School’s dumbest jock. Even though they barely know each other, she finds his personality repulsive and he thinks she’s got a giant stick up her you know what. Mike and Jayden are surprised and annoyed when their teacher pairs them together for Spanish tutoring. Both feel it’s a complete waste of time, since nobody could learn from a person who bugs the crap out of them. Not to mention that their reputations might be ruined if people realize what they’re doing. But it doesn’t take long for Jayden to discover that Mike has a secret—he isn’t the person he appears to be. Much to her dismay, Jayden finds ‘Secret Mike’ strangely attractive. And for some crazy reason, Mike is amused by Jayden’s clever insults and witty banter. Suddenly, they have a much bigger problem than their mutual disdain. What started as irritating tension is beginning to feel more like romantic tension and acting on it would be a very bad idea.

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Book Review: The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

Title: The Upside of Falling Down
Author: Rebekah Crane
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Published date: 30th January 2018
Published by: Skyscape
Available edition(s): Kindle
Source: Netgalley
Date read: 1st March 2018
Rating: 3.5 / 5 stars

Summary: For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission.

They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost.

With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a new one.

Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there’s an upside to a life that’s fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she’ll never forget?

I received a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Blog Tour: The Invisble Hand (Shakespeare’s Moon #1) by James Hartley

Title: The Invisible Hand (Shakespeare’s Moon #1)
Author: James Hartley
Published date: 22nd February 2017
Published by: Lodestone Books
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Readership: YA
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
Rating: 3.5 / 5 stars

Synopsis:

The Invisible Hand is about a boy, Sam, who has just started life at a boarding school and finds himself able to travel back in time to medieval Scotland. There he meets a girl, Leana, who can travel to the future, and the two of them become wrapped up in events in Macbeth, the Shakespeare play, and in the daily life of the school. The book is the first part of a series called Shakespeare´s Moon. Each book is set in the same boarding school but focuses on a different Shakespeare play.

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Book Review: The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Title: The Nowhere Girls
Author: Amy Reed
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Feminism, Realistic Fiction
Published date: 10th October 2017
Published by: Simon Pulse
Pages: 408
Trigger warning: Rape and sexual assault

Synopsis:

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.

Who are the Nowhere Girls?

They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:

Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.

Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.

When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

1 Day Blog Blitz: Far Cry From the Turquoise Room by Kate Rigby

Title: Far Cry From The Turquoise Room
Author: Kate Rigby
Genre: Literary Fiction
Published date: May 2011
Rating: 3.5 / 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon UK (Kindle)
Synopsis:

Told from both daughter and father’s perspectives, Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery, set just before the millennium. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty.

Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father’s favourite daughter.

But a holiday narrowboat tragedy has far-reaching consequences for the surviving family. Hassan withdraws into reclusive grief, when he’s not escaping into work, or high jinks with his men friends at his second home in Hampstead, leaving Leila to fend for herself in a lonely world of nannies, chess and star-gazing.

Leila eventually runs away from home and joins a family of travellers in Sussex, and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance – and further anguish for her surviving family. But how will she fare at such a young age and will her family ever find her?

Thank you to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources and Kate Rigby for giving me the opportunity to review this book as part of the one day blog blitz.