Tour Schedule: Incendiary (Hollow Crown #1) by Zoraida Córdova

Incendiary (Hollow Crown #1)

by Zoraida Córdova
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Release Date: April 28th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Synopsis:

I am Renata Convida.

I have lived a hundred stolen lives.

Now I live my own.

Renata Convida was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King's Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucia. As a Robari, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata's ability to steal memories from royal enemies enabled the King's Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people.

Now Renata is one of the Whispers, rebel spies working against the crown and helping the remaining Moria escape the kingdom bent on their destruction. The Whispers may have rescued Renata from the palace years ago, but she cannot escape their mistrust and hatred--or the overpowering memories of the hundreds of souls she turned "hollow" during her time in the palace.

When Dez, the commander of her unit, is taken captive by the notorious Sangrado Prince, Renata will do anything to save the boy whose love makes her place among the Whispers bearable. But a disastrous rescue attempt means Renata must return to the palace under cover and complete Dez's top secret mission. Can Renata convince her former captors that she remains loyal, even as she burns for vengeance against the brutal, enigmatic prince? Her life and the fate of the Moria depend on it.

But returning to the palace stirs childhood memories long locked away. As Renata grows more deeply embedded in the politics of the royal court, she uncovers a secret in her past that could change the entire fate of the kingdom--and end the war that has cost her everything.

Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels including Star Wars: A Crash of Fate, the Brooklyn Brujas series, and The Vicious Deep trilogy. Her novel Labyrinth Lost won the International Book Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2017. Her short fiction has appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft. Her upcoming books include Incendiary, book one in the Hollow Crown duology (Hyperion 2020) and she's the co-editor of Vampires Never Get Old (Imprint 2020). Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. When she isn’t working on her next novel, she’s planning her next adventure.

April 28th

The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

April 29th

Novel Lives - Review

Fangirl Pixie Blog - Review + Playlist + Dream Cast

A Dream Within A Dream - Review

The Reading Life - Review

The Clever Reader - Review

April 30th

Whispers & Wonder - Review + Instagram

Lauren's Boookshelf - Review + Playlist + Instagram

Write, Read, Repeat - Review + Instagram

L.M. Durand - Review + Favourite Quotes

dinipandareads - Review + Favourite Quotes

May 1st

Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes

Wishful Endings - Review

biblioxytocin - Review + Favourite Quotes

Your Words My Ink - Review

Books and Zebras - Review

May 2nd

Confessions of a YA Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

The Little Mouse - Review + Playlist + Instagram

Sometimes Leelynn Reads - Review + Dream Cast

Captivated Reading - Review

The Reading Chemist - Review

May 3rd

The Bookish Ballad - Review + Favourite Quotes

Book Briefs - Review

Foals, Fiction & Filigree - Review + Favourite Quotes + Instagram

Dazzled by Books - Review

The Perks of Being Noura - Review + Favourite Quotes

May 4th

Here's to Happy Endings - Review

In Between Book Pages - Review + Favourite Quotes

Frayed Books - Review

Books.Bags.Burgers - Review + Favourite Quotes
@womanon - Review

Adele Is Reading - Spotlight

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Tour Schedule: The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos

The Mystery of Hollow Places
by Rebecca Podos
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Release Date: January 26th 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery

Synopsis:

All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist, she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed by a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as troubled waters.

When Imogene is seventeen, her father, now a famous author of medical mysteries, strikes out in the middle of the night and doesn't come back. Neither Imogene's stepmother nor the police know where he could've gone, but Imogene is convinced he's looking for her mother. She decides to put to use the skills she's gleaned from a lifetime of her father's books to track down a woman she's never known, in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she's carried with her for her entire life. 

Rebecca Podos' debut is a powerful, affecting story of the pieces of ourselves that remain mysteries even to us - the desperate search through empty spaces for something to hold on to.

Rebecca Podos' debut YA novel, THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES, is forthcoming from Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins) on 1/26/16. A graduate of the Writing, Literature and Publishing program at Emerson College where she won the M.F.A. Award for Best Thesis, her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Glyph, CAJE, Paper Darts, Bellows American Review, and Smokelong Quarterly. Past Awards include the Helman Award for Short Fiction, the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Prize for Young Adult Writers, and the Hillerman-McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing. She works as a YA and MG agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston.

A Reading Nurse & The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

The Fox's Hideaway - Guest Post

Ink of Blood - Review

Book Sp(l)ot Reviews - Review + Dream Cast + Playlist

Arctic Books - Interview

Hiver et Cafe - Review

When Curiosity Killed The Cat - Review + Favorite Quotes

Confessions of a Readaholic - Review

Curling Up With A Good Book -Promo

Here's to Happy Endings - Review

Literary Meanderings - Interview

The Cover Contessa - Guest Post

Reading Addict - Promotional Post

Such a Novel Idea - Review + Playlist

A Perfection Called Books - Review + Favorite Quotes

Her Book Thoughts - Review

Rhea's Neon Journal - Review

A Dream Within A Dream - Review

Geeky Chiquitas - Review + Playlist

Once Upon a Twilight - Promotional Post

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Tour Sign-Up: The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos

Hello FFBC Team! We are now announcing a new tour we're hosting for The Mystery of Hollow Places, released on January 26th, 2015 by Balzer & Bray.

The tour will run from February 20th - January 26th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Interview with the author (Only 2 Available)
• Guest Posts (Only 2 Available)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Dreamcast (Blogger's Choice)
• Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Promotional Post

Remember that January 18th is reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick January 18th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book via Edelweiss, so make sure you have an account before filling out the form. 

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.

The Mystery of Hollow Places
by Rebecca Podos
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Release Date: January 26th 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery

Synopsis:

All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist, she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed by a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as troubled waters.

When Imogene is seventeen, her father, now a famous author of medical mysteries, strikes out in the middle of the night and doesn't come back. Neither Imogene's stepmother nor the police know where he could've gone, but Imogene is convinced he's looking for her mother. She decides to put to use the skills she's gleaned from a lifetime of her father's books to track down a woman she's never known, in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she's carried with her for her entire life. 

Rebecca Podos' debut is a powerful, affecting story of the pieces of ourselves that remain mysteries even to us - the desperate search through empty spaces for something to hold on to.

Rebecca Podos' debut YA novel, THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES, is forthcoming from Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins) on 1/26/16. A graduate of the Writing, Literature and Publishing program at Emerson College where she won the M.F.A. Award for Best Thesis, her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Glyph, CAJE, Paper Darts, Bellows American Review, and Smokelong Quarterly. Past Awards include the Helman Award for Short Fiction, the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Prize for Young Adult Writers, and the Hillerman-McGarrity Scholarship for Creative Writing. She works as a YA and MG agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston.

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