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Tour Schedule: Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei #1) by Abigail Hing Wen

/ Nov 21, 2019

Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei #1)

by Abigail Hing Wen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: January 7th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Travel, Asian Literature

Synopsis:

For fans of Crazy Rich Asians or Jane Austen Comedy of Manners, with a hint of La La Land

When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be, including Rick Woo, the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents’ yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.

Unbeknownst to her parents, however, the program is actually an infamous teen meet-market nicknamed Loveboat, where the kids are more into clubbing than calligraphy and drinking snake-blood sake than touring sacred shrines.

Free for the first time, Ever sets out to break all her parents’ uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?

Abigail was born in West Virginia to a family of immigrants: Her mother is from the Philippines and her father from Indonesia, and her grandparents emigrated to those countries from Fujian and Shandong provinces in China.

Abigail grew up in Ohio and graduated from Harvard University and Columbia Law School. She worked in Washington DC for the Senate, as a law clerk for a federal judge. and now in Silicon Valley in venture capital and artificial intelligence. She also earned her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

In her spare time, she enjoys long walks with her husband and two boys, and hanging out with friends and over 100 family members in the Bay Area. She loves music and dances to it when no one is watching.

January 1st

The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

January 2nd

We Live and Breathe Books - Review

Read.Sleep.Repeat. - Review + Favourite Quotes

Kayla Reads and Reviews - Review

Young Adult Media Consumer - Review

Write, Read, Repeat - Promotional Post

January 3rd

Library of a Book Witch - Review

Bookishaestha - Review + Favourite Quotes

Jinxed Reviews - Review + Playlist

Mahkjchi's Not-So-Secret Books - Review + Favourite Quotes

Heart’s Content - Review + Favourite Quotes

January 4th

Sometimes Leelynn Reads - Review + Favourite Quotes

The Layaway Dragon - Review + Favourite Quotes

Cluttered Books - Review + Favourite Quotes

Yna the Mood Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

My Bookish Escapades - Promotional Post

January 5th

Novelishly - Review

String of Pages - Review + Favourite Quotes

Fanna Wants The World To Read - Review

Playita reads - Review

Kait Plus Books - Promotional Post

January 6th

The Mind of a Book Dragon - Review + Playlist

Books and Blends - Review + Instagram

The Baroness of Books - Review

Words of Hannah Kay - Review

Utopia State of Mind - Promotional Post

January 7th

Magical Reads - Playlist

Confessions of a YA Reader - Review

Reads and Thoughts - Review + Favourite Quotes

biblioxytocin - Review + Playlist + Instagram

To All The Books I've Read Before - Promotional Post

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Tour Sign-Ups: Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei #1) by Abigail Hing Wen

/ Nov 16, 2019

Hello FFBC team!! We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Loveboat, Taipei that is being released January 7th, 2020.

The reviews only tour will run from January 1st to January 7th and there will be available the following types of posts:

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

Remember that January 1st is reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick January 1st in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through Edelweiss. So make sure you are able to accept this format and/or have an EW 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.

Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei #1)

by Abigail Hing Wen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: January 7th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Travel, Asian Literature

Synopsis:

For fans of Crazy Rich Asians or Jane Austen Comedy of Manners, with a hint of La La Land

Free for the first time, Ever sets out to break all her parents’ uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?

Tour Schedule: Alone in Paris by Ashley Earley

/ Apr 3, 2017

Alone in Paris

by Ashley Earley

Publisher: CreatSpace

Release Date: April 1, 2017

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Breathe, Taylor.

Taylor Clay's family isn't exactly perfect. They may look the part with the nice, big house and her dad's fancy job, but that's what's tearing them apart. That, and her dad's sudden recurring drinking problem. Though her family is close to falling apart, she never wished for something like this to happen. She never wished for her father to drive off a bridge. Especially not while they were on vacation; especially not when her and her mom were in the car with him at the time.

Breathe.

She's devastated after the fact. And it isn't helping that the papers are gossiping about how the pristine lawyer could have driven off the bridge on purpose. And just when she thinks nothing could possibly make things worse, she realizes she's left alone with no relatives to care for her. So she's alone. Her parents are dead. And she's stuck in the country her family was visiting for their vacation. She's alone in Paris.

Just breathe.

Then Nathan walks into the picture. Funny, snarky, persistent, and sometimes, just flat out rude, he annoys Taylor to no end. He won't leave her alone, but Taylor doesn't know whether or not she should push him away.

Ashley Earley is a 20-year-old author that is working toward her B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. When she’s not writing, she’s posting on her blog, reading, obsessing over a book character, or spending time with friends. Her obsession with books started at the age of twelve, before developing into a love for writing at the age of fourteen, when she wrote her first novel.

Her Thriller/Suspense short story, Chasing Hair of Gold, won first place in the 2016 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards.

You can visit her at www.ashleyearley.com.

April 17

The Bookworm Central- Review + Favorite Quotes

April 18

LadyTechie's Book Musings- Review + Favorite Quotes

Pink Polka Dot Books- Guest Post

April 19

Never Too Many To Read- Q&A

Tour Schedule: Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus

/ Aug 18, 2015

Romancing the Dark in the City of Light
by Ann Jacobus
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Release Date: October 6th 2015

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Travel, Fiction, France

Synopsis:

A troubled teen, living in Paris, is torn between two boys, one of whom encourages her to embrace life, while the other—dark, dangerous, and attractive—urges her to embrace her fatal flaws.

Haunting and beautifully written, with a sharp and distinctive voice that could belong only to this character, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light is an unforgettable young adult novel.

Summer Barnes just moved to Paris to repeat her senior year of high school. After being kicked out of four boarding schools, she has to get on track or she risks losing her hefty inheritance. Summer is convinced that meeting the right guy will solve everything. She meets two. Moony, a classmate, is recovering against all odds from a serious car accident, and he encourages Summer to embrace life despite how hard it can be to make it through even one day. But when Summer meets Kurt, a hot, mysterious older man who she just can't shake, he leads her through the creepy underbelly of the city-and way out of her depth.

When Summer's behavior manages to alienate everyone, even Moony, she's forced to decide if a life so difficult is worth living. With an ending that'll surprise even the most seasoned reader, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light is an unputdownable and utterly compelling novel.

Ann Jacobus earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lived with her family for many years in the Arabian Gulf and in Paris, France. She now lives in San Francisco where she writes, reads, volunteers weekly on a suicide crisis line, and frequently resorts to crock-pot meals of canned soup, fowl and whatever's in the fridge.