Tour Sign-Ups: Emmie and the Tudor Queen (Hearts and Crowns Book 2) by Natalie Murray

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Emmie and the Tudor Queen that is being released August 25th, 2020.

The tour will run from August 19th to August 250th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Interview
• Official Dream Cast
• Official Book Playlist
• Story in 3 or 5 GIFs
• Video Interview
• Favourite Quotes Reaction (Only if reviewing the book)
• Top 5 list
• Book Style (by blogger)
• Favourite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)

Remember that August 19th this reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick August 19th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through Book Funnel. So make sure you are able to accept this format before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

Emmie and the Tudor Queen (Hearts and Crowns Book 2)

by Natalie Murray

Release Date: August 25th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance

Synopsis:

True love has never been more deadly in this lush sequel to the best-selling Emmie and the Tudor King.

For an extraordinary love, Emmie Grace has given up her life in the modern world to move to the sixteenth century and marry the Tudor king she bravely saved from a dreadful fate. However, not everyone is pleased to see the glorious King Nick betrothed to the unknown and uncultured Emmie—especially the noblemen commanded to protect her.

As Emmie is drawn deeper into Nick’s sumptuous and savage world—where beheadings are way more popular than time travelers—the Tudor court heads on progress across the country, and a growing rebellion against the promised queen looms.

With life and love at stake, Emmie must face the cost of changing the path of history and realize that her greatest sacrifice is yet to come.

Natalie Murray is the author of EMMIE AND THE TUDOR KING (June 11, 2019) and EMMIE AND THE TUDOR QUEEN (August 25, 2020). A fast-paced YA time-slip romance, the Emmie and the Tudor King trilogy follows an American high school girl to a reimagined Tudor England, where she meets a doomed, but utterly dreamy, Tudor king. Emmie and the Tudor King has already received acclaim from Foreword Reviews, YA Books Central, and popular YA authors Brigid Kemmerer (A Curse So Dark and Lonely) and CJ Flood (Infinite Sky), among others. You can visit Natalie at nataliemurrayauthor.com.

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Tour Schedule: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

The Black Kids

by Christina Hammonds Reed

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Release Date: August 4, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

Los Angeles, 1992

Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.

Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.

As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson.

With her world splintering around her, Ashley, along with the rest of LA, is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?

Christina Hammonds Reed holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. A native of the Los Angeles area, her work has previously appeared in the Santa Monica Review and One Teen Story. The Black Kids is her first novel.

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The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

L.M. Durand - Welcome Post

July 30th

Kait Plus Books - Guest Post

Ya It’s Lit - Review + Favourite Quotes
100 pages a day - Review

July 31st

Yours A-fiction-ately - Review + Favourite Quotes

deepireads - Review
Starlight Reads - Review + Mood Board 

August 1st

The Shelf Life Chronicles - Review

BookishEnds - Review + Playlist
Writingyouthereviewsyouneed - Review

August 2nd

Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes

literaryintersections - Review
A Bronx Latina Reads - Review

August 3rd

Books and Dice - Review + Favourite Quotes

Novelsnerd - Review
The YA Obsessed - Review

August 4th

White Rose Stories - Review + Favourite Quotes + Mood Board

Colby Wilkens - Review
Blossoms and Bullet Journal - Review and Mood Board

August 5th

Emelie's Books - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rampant_Reading - Review + watercolor costume design art
Pirouettes.And.Pages - Review + Mood Board

August 6th

Book-Keeping - Review

Lauren Marie’s Musings - Review + Favourite Quotes
Metaphors and Miscellaneous - Review + Favourite Quotes

August 7th

Books and Zebras - Review

Nay's Pink Bookshelf - Review + Dream Cast + Favourite Quotes
The Book View - Promo Post

August 8th

Library of a Book Witch - Review

Lisa Loves Literature - Review -
Chrisycat - Review + Favourites Quotes + Mood Board

August 9th

The Reading Corner for All - Review + Favourite Quotes

Stuck in the Stacks - Review

August 10th

Morgan Vega - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rajiv's Reviews - Review
Mabookyard - Review + Mood Board

August 11th

Reading Stewardess - Review + Playlist
Living My Best Book Life - Review

Evelynreads - Review

Bri's Book Nook - Review

August 12th

A Gingerly Review - Review

dinipandareads - Review + Favourite Quotes
Turnthe.paige394 - Review

August 13th

book_bound_ - Review + Favourite Quotes

fictionthoughts - Review
Trapped Inside Stories - Promo Post

August 14th

Books, Tea, Healthy Me - Review + Favourite Quotes

missmaddychats - Review
The.Magicalpages - Promo Post

August 15th

Confessions of a YA Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

her book thoughts - Review
Feed Your Fiction Addiction - Review

August 16th

BiblioJoJo - Review

books_n_sunshine - Review + Mood Board
Lexisbookreview - Review

August 17th

Wishful Endings - Guest Post

The Reading Life - Review
Bumbleebeela - Review

August 18th

Yna the Mood Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

onemused - Review
The Baroness of Books - Review + Favourite Quotes + Mood Board

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Tour Signs-Up: Bright Raven Skies by Kristina Perez

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Bright Raven Skies that is being released on August 25th, 2020.

The tour will run from August 25th - August 31st and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
• Mood Board (Blogger's Choice)
• Official Mood Board
• Video Interview
• Top 5/10 List
• Tell Your Story in 3 or 5 Gifs
• Promotional Post

Please note that August 25th is reserved for the Welcome Post. This date will not be available to bloggers on the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through NetGalley. So before signing up, make sure you have an account on NetGalley and can receive e-copies through the site.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

Bright Raven Skies

by Kristina Perez

Publisher: Imprint

Release Date: August 25, 2020

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Retelling, Romance

Synopsis:

Bright Raven Skies is the thrilling conclusion to the lush and heart-wrenching romantic fantasy trilogy about ancient magic, warring families, and star-crossed lovers by Kristina Pérez.

To save the kingdom, Branwen embraced the darkest aspects of her magic. But she may have lost herself––and the two people she loves most.

Tristan and Eseult are missing. As Branwen searches for them, she must hide the truth surrounding their disappearance from both the king and her lover. Above all, she must find the Queen and her Champion first.

New and old enemies circle Branwen, clamoring for power and revenge, and threatening to destroy the fragile peace that she has sacrificed everything to secure.

Kristina Pérez is the author of THE MYTH OF MORGAN LA FEY (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She holds a PhD in Medieval Literature from the University of Cambridge.

Her debut YA Fantasy, SWEET BLACK WAVES––a Tristan and Iseult retelling––was published by Imprint/Macmillan on June 5th, 2018. The sequel, WILD SAVAGE STARS was published on August 27th, 2019. The conclusion to the trilogy, BRIGHT RAVEN SKIES will be released on August 25th, 2020.

Writing as K.K. Pérez, her first YA Sci-Fi, THE TESLA LEGACY was published by Tor Teen on March 12, 2019.

She is a literary agent at the Zeno Agency in London, UK representing adult, YA/MG, fiction and non-fiction.

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Tour Sign-Ups: Some Kind of Animal by Maria Romasco Moore

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Some Kind of Animal that is being released August 4th, 2020.

The tour will run from August 4th to August 10th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Interviews
• Guest Posts
• Favourite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
• Promotional Post

Remember that August 4th this reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick August 4th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through NetGalley. So make sure you are able to accept this format and/or have an NG account before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

Some Kind of Animal

by Maria Romasco Moore

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Release Date: August 4th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Mystery

Synopsis:

A story about two girls guarding a secret no one would ever believe and the desperate lengths they will go to in order to protect each other from the outside world.

Jo lives in the same town where her mother disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone knows what happened to Jo’s mom. Now people are starting to talk about Jo. She’s barely passing her classes and falls asleep at her desk every day. She’s following in her mom’s footsteps. Jo has a secret — she has a twin sister. Her sister is not like most people. She lives in the woods, wild and free. Night after night, as often as she can manage, Jo slips out of her bedroom window and meets her sister in the woods, where together they run, fearlessly.

When Jo’s twin attacks a boy from town, the people in town assume it must have been Jo. Now Jo has to decide whether to tell the world about her sister or to run. SOME KIND OF ANIMAL is an accessible, feminist thriller that digs into themes of sisterhood, family, and friendship.

Maria Romasco Moore is the author of Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her first novel, Some Kind of Animal, will be out in 2020. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Interfictions, Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction. 

She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design. 

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