Disruptor Blog Tour: Author Guest Post

Disruptor (Seeker #3)
Author: Arwen Elys Dayton
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Publisher: Delacorte
 
Description:

For readers of Sarah J. Maas and of Marie Lu’s Legend trilogy comes Disruptor, the sequel to Traveler and the thrilling conclusion to the Seeker series.

“Readers of the first two volumes will find their long-awaited conclusion here, and Dayton will have found fans for life.” -Booklist

Quin has spent her life as her father’s pawn. She was trained to kill and manipulated to guarantee her family’s power. And now that she’s broken free of that life, she’s found herself trapped again, hostage to a plot that has been centuries in the making. 

It’s taken generations for the pieces to come together, and finally all is in place. Her best friend Shinobu’s mind has been corrupted, the Young Dread has aligned with her enemy John, and the bloodthirsty Watchers are being awakened and gathered. Now there is nothing that can stop the force of time. 

But Quin will no longer be a pawn. She’s a Seeker, who stands for light in a shadowy world. She will face the vengeance of the past and its enemies and save herself and the ones she loves, or she will die trying. 

     

The SEEKER Series:
 
“Katniss and Triss would approve.” -TeenVogue.com

“In this powerful beginning to a complex family saga…Dayton excels at creating memorable characters.” -Publishers Weekly

In the Seeker series, a teenage girl called Quin has spent most of her life training for what she believes is a noble purpose, only to discover that her family is turning her into an assassin instead.

“Fans of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Marie Lu’s Legend, and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series: your next obsession has arrived.” -School Library Journal

Quin has grown up in the remote Scotland Highlands, where she and two boys her age—one her oldest friend, and one her boyfriend—have spent years preparing to inherit two ancient artifacts, which have been handed down in their families for hundreds of years.

These artifacts allow them to do astonishing things, including appearing and disappearing from anywhere in the world. Quin expects to inherit this power for noble purposes, but her father intends to use her as an assassin, plain and simple.

“Both past and present choices shook me to the core, and the final pages left me trembling... and then internally cursing that I’ll have to wait until 2017 for a final resolution!” -Fanboy Comics

The story is set in the near future, in a world where the hooded cloaks of Seekers and ancient Scottish ruins live comfortably next to futuristic airships and advanced medical techniques. 
It’s into this world that we watch Quin try to escape when she discovers the fate that’s waiting for her. And it is in this world that Quin is followed, helped, betrayed and abandoned by those she trusted the most.

Thanks for having me on A Dream Within A Dream!

Because Seekers can use the ancient artifact called an athame to go anywhere in the world almost instantly, the series takes us to many far-flung places. In the first two books, the Scottish Highlands and the busy, dark futuristic streets of Hong Kong were two of the main locations, and those places still feature prominently in the story. But there are some new parts of the world that get explored in Disruptor. Sometimes the characters end up in these locations on purpose, other times they find themselves dragged to them or tricked into going:

In Iceland, a natural amphitheater of basalt has been a Seeker stronghold for hundreds of years. There is a confrontation between Shinobu and John in a place a lot like this one. 

We learned in book two, Traveler, that every Seeker house has its own sanctuary somewhere in the world. In Disruptor, John discovers one such hideaway, a breathtaking complex of caves, in South America, much like the famous Marble Caves of Patagonia. 

The Young Dread has been training and molding John, using the harsh methods she herself was subjected to. A sprint across icy ground in the frozen temperatures of the Arctic Circle? Why, yes. It builds character. 

Arwen Elys Dayton is hard at work on the SEEKER series, a grand YA story for Random House.

Arwen began her career as a teenage staff writer at a foundation that produced Peabody Award-winning educational shows for PBS. Soon afterward, she began writing screenplays and novels, including Sovereign’s Hold and Resurrection, the #1 Amazon bestseller in Sci-Fi in both the US and the UK.

She spends months doing research for her stories. Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid (which she explored by flashlight when researching Resurrection), Hong Kong and its many islands, and lots of ruined castles in Scotland. She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire.

Arwen lives with her husband and their three children on the West Coast of the United States. You can visit her at arwendayton.com and follow @arwenelysdayton on Twitter and Instagram, or reach her by email at arwenelysdayton@gmail.com.

Links:
http://www.arwendayton.com/ 
http://www.twitter.com/arwenelysdayton 
http://www.instagram.com/arwenelysdayton

Tour Schedule:

February 6^th - Winterhaven Books

                           Adventures in YA Publishing

February 7^th - The Cover Contessa

February 8^th - Unbound Worlds   

February 9^th - The Eater of Books!

February 10^th - Once Upon a Twilight

February 11^th - Adventures in YA Publishing

February 13^th - A Dream Within A Dream

February 14^th - Two Chicks on Books

February 15^th - Seeing Double in Neverland

February 16^th - Mundie Moms

February 17^th - Take Me Away to a Great Read

February 21^st - Bookhounds YA

February 22^nd - The Reading Nook Reviews

February 23^rd - The Fandom

February 24^th - Page Turners Blog

February 27^th - Fiction Fare

February 28^th - YA Books Central




 

A Totally Awkward Love Story Blog Tour: Author Interview + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A TOTALLY AWKWARD LOVE STORY! I have a great interview with the authors to share with you today - and don't forget to enter the giveaway! To follow the rest of the tour, check out the schedule at the bottom of the post.

A Totally Awkward Love Story
Authors: Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Publisher: Delacorte

Description:

For fans of The DUFF, this hilarious and true-to-teen romance is Broad City meets Judy Blume.
 
The summer before college, Hannah swears she’s finally going to find The One. And for five perfect minutes, Hannah does find him. He’s cute and makes her laugh like crazy. She just wishes she’d caught his name, because Toilet Boy Cinderella really lacks sex appeal.
 
For Sam, the summer is off to a bad start for a million reasons. But for five minutes his luck changes: in a fancy restroom painted purple like it belongs in a Bond villain hideaway, Sam falls head over heels for some strange and hilarious girl. Of course, he doesn’t know her name. With his luck, he’ll never see her again, and he’ll remain a girlfriendless, moony-eyed virgin. Forever.
 
But another chance meeting brings them together, only to have a chance misunderstanding drive them apart . . . and then the cycle starts all over again. Madcap mishaps, raunchy hilarity, and deep romance follow these two wherever they go. For two people so clearly destined for each other, they sure have a hell of a lot of trouble even getting together.

1. What gave you the idea for A TOTALLY AWKWARD LOVE STORY?
In 2011, Lucy was teaching at a girls’ school in London, and her students were mostly sixteen- to seventeen-year-old girls. They were always talking about how they didn’t feel there were many funny books aimed at them—they said they used to love authors like Louise Rennison when they were thirteen or fourteen, and they still wanted that awkward, cringeworthy comedy, but no older YA books seemed to be doing it. So that gave us the idea that maybe it would be interesting to write something awkward and funny aimed at older teens. And we had wanted to work on a writing project together for a while—we tried writing a sitcom script, which was pretty awful—so this idea for a YA comedy novel seemed like a good opportunity! We just sat down and talked about all the funny or awkward stuff that happened to us when we were seventeen or eighteen years old, and that became the framework for the plot of the novel.

2. Where do you normally get your ideas/inspirations?
We take a lot of stuff from our real-life experiences. We used to date when we were teenagers, so things in ATALS are taken from our real-life relationship. Plus, we based a lot of the characters on friends of ours—the character of Robin in the book is based on Tom’s real-life friend Robin (we didn’t even change his name), and a lot of the dialogue is from stupid things that our mates actually said when we were teenagers!

3. What’s the hardest thing about being an author, in your opinion?
It’s definitely hard to keep your confidence up, and keep convincing yourself that people will want to read what you have written. That’s why we are lucky, writing as a duo, because we always have each other to spur the other one on.

4. What’s your favorite book? Or who’s your favorite author?
TOM: Mine is probably either The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (the ULTIMATE awkward teenage comedy novel), or At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien.

LUCY: I love I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I read it most summers. It is romantic but also brutally real about how heartbreaking love can be.

5. Do you have any tips for aspiring writers?
First, find yourself a deadline! We wrote A TOTALLY AWKWARD LOVE STORY for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction competition in the UK, and it was only that looming deadline that kept us going and made us finish it. There would be moments where we felt like giving up, or we felt the story wasn’t working, but we’d keep that deadline in mind and say to each other, “Let’s just get it finished so we can send it into that competition.” So I don’t think we’d have finished the first draft without that inspiration. Other tips . . . it’s an obvious one, but read a lot! The more you read, the more you get an idea of what you like—and what you don’t—and that’ll help you become a better author.

6. What’s up next for you?
We are writing another awkward/comic YA novel about teens in their first term of university—that will be out in summer 2017!

TOM ELLEN AND LUCY IVISON met at the end of high school and quickly became sweethearts. Though they broke up in college, they remain best friends. Lucy runs the online teen magazine Whatever After and teaches in girls’ schools across London, specializing in building confidence and creativity. Tom is a journalist and has written for Time Out, VICE, ESPN, Glamour, and many other publications. They co-wrote A Totally Awkward Love Story, which was partially inspired by their own high school relationship. This is their first novel. Follow Lucy on Twitter at @lucyivison. 

 

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BLOG TOUR:

April 25: Take Me Away To A Great Read

April 26: Fiktshun 

April 27: The Fandom 

April 28: A Dream Within A Dream

April 29: Reviews Coming At YA

May 2: YA Books Central

May 2: Adventures in YA Publishing

May 3: Hypable.com

May 4: A Midsummer Night's Read

May 5: Lost in Literature

May 6: Bibliophile Support Group

May 7: Adventures in YA Publishing

May 9: Once Upon a Twilight

May 10: The Social Potato

May 11: Butter My Books 

May 12: Peace Love Books

May 13: Tales of a Ravenous Reader

May 16: Me, My Shelf and I

May 17: No More Grumpy Bookseller 

May 18: The Irish Banana

 

 

A Matter of Heart Blog Tour: Guest Post + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A Matter of Heart by Amy Fellner Dominy! Today I have a fun guest post by the author to share with you - and don't forget to enter the tour wide giveaway! To follow the rest of the tour, click on the banner above.

A Matter of Heart

Author: Amy Fellner Dominy

Genre: YA Contemporary

Release Date: May 12, 2015

Publisher: Delacorte

Description:

Readers will happily sink into this emotionally grounded, contemporary young adult novel about the sudden end of one girl's Olympic swimming dreams and the struggles she endures before realizing there are many things that define who we are.

Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition. Now Abby is forced to discover who she is without the one thing that's defined her entire life.

TOP FIVE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES 

For someone whose job requires imagination, I’m surprisingly terrible at coming up with good Halloween costumes. Usually, this is only a problem once a year but it became a bigger problem while I was working on A Matter of Heart. In the book, all the characters meet up at the biggest party of the year, which just happens to be—you guessed it—a Halloween costume party.

So, I needed costumes for everyone. All I knew was that Abby and Jen couldn’t agree. Connor was keeping his costume a surprise and Alec, well, is Alec the type of guy who would dress up?

What did they wear…and were they awesome costumes? I’ll let you decide. But in the meantime, here is my top five.

TOP FIVE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES:

EASIEST COSTUME I’VE EVER WORN: SMARTYPANTS - Pin Smarties candies to a pair of pants and voila!

MY CUTEST COMIC COSTUME: SPONGE BABE

BEST IDEA TAKEN FROM CURRENT NEWS: NBC news anchor Brian Williams—wearing a kid’s helicopter beanie hat. (He’s the guy who lied and said he was on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq.)

BEST COSTUME I’VE BOUGHT OFF OF EBAY:

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (And what I’m going to wear this year!)
Make a sign to wear that says this:

Five gallon bucket
Water bucket
Lunch bucket
Sand bucket
Wooden bucket
Bucket seat
Bucket of dreams
And that’s it—you’re A BUCKET LIST!  :)

I admit, those are mostly lame. How about you? Any great costumes you’ve made or ideas you have? (In case, you know, I need to steal them for my next book.)  :) 

Amy Fellner Dominy worked as a copywriter in the advertising business before leaving to earn her MFA in playwriting. Her plays for adults and children have been staged in various cities around the country. Amy's novels for teens include OyMG (Walker, 2011) and AUDITION & SUBTRACTION (Walker, 2012.) Amy's next book is a contemporary YA coming Spring, 2015 from Random House. It's called A MATTER OF HEART.

AUTHOR LINKS:

http://amydominy.com/

https://twitter.com/amydominy

https://www.facebook.com/amyfellnerdominyauthor
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4074046.Amy_Fellner_Dominy 

BUY LINKS:

Amazon (paperback)

Barnes and Noble

Book Depository

iTunes

Kobo

Prize: Win (1) of (3) autographed copies of A MATTER OF HEART by Amy Fellner Dominy (US Only)

 

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The Fearless Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway

Hey everyone! Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Fearless by Emma Pass! Today I have my review of the book to share with you - and don't forget to enter to win a signed copy!

The Fearless

Author: Emma Pass

Genre: YA Science Fiction/Dystopia/Thriller

Release Date: April 14, 2015

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Description:

For fans of The Hunger Games, Matched, Divergent, and The Fifth Wave, this fast-paced futuristic thriller tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cass and her fight to protect her younger brother from an unimaginably terrifying enemy.

The Deadliest Enemy feels no fear.

When the Fearless invaded, they injected everyone in their path with the same serum that stripped them of humanity.

Life became a waking nightmare.

Cass has the invasion seared in her memory. Seven years later, she and her brother, Jori, are living on Hope Island in a community of survivors. No one can enter, and no one can leave.

It's the only way to stay safe.

But when Hope Island's security is breeched and Jori is taken by the Fearless, Cass will risk everything to get him back. 

The Fearless is a captivating young adult dystopian thriller that will have readers eagerly turning the pages to find out what will happen next. The story follows our leading lady - Cass - as she tries to live a normal-ish life with her younger brother Jori on Hope Island - an island that houses survivors of the Invasion. There's one major rule on the island: Nobody can leave and absolutely nobody can enter. Cass can remember the day of the Invasion like it was yesterday - not seven years ago. She remembers seeing the Fearless and the horrific things that they caused. So when the island's security is compromised and Jori is taken by the Fearless - Cass knows what she has to do. She has to leave the island to travel the unknown and horrifying world outside so she can find Jori and bring him back.

When I first read the description of this book, I was instantly intrigued. It sounded like a perfect blend of dystopia and thriller with an original plot. I haven't read any of the author's other works before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Happily, I wasn't disappointed in the least. The author does a great job creating a truly terrifying dystopian world where a drug that was supposed to help soldiers during and after serving has a severe side effect: most of the people who take it lose the ability to feel fear. The drug soon escaped the military's hands and was given to tons of people across the globe - infecting them with the same outcome - the loss of fear. I think the world the author created for the book is terrifying because, if you think about it, this could actually happen in our world today. Who knows what kind of drugs the military and government are working on? And a side effect of aggression that morphs into loss of fear is capable of occurring now. There's honestly nothing about how Cass's world came to be that isn't possible of happening to our society right now. That's a really scary thought. We see how fast the world disintegrates and falls into chaos - forcing people to hide in order to keep themselves and their families safe. Again - not very far-fetched, in my opinion. I loved learning how the drug came to be, how it changed from being a helpful medicine for soldiers into the dreadful poison that creates the Fearless, and how people live in a world so frightening.

Cass is a great main character for the book. She's ten years old when the Invasion happens, so she remembers what the world was like before the Fearless overtook it. She also remembers the horror of the Invasion itself - the panic it caused worldwide, all of the destruction that happened, and having to move to Hope Island to be safe. Because of this knowledge, Cass is a down to earth teenage girl who is incredibly protective of her little brother, Jori. She will do anything to keep him safe and out of harms way. She's always on her guard on the island, just in case something were to go wrong. She's a loving and kind person who will do whatever it takes to make things right or to fight for what she believes in. We see her character grow throughout the book as she goes to find Jori - she matures both mentally and physically in the outside world. By the end, Cass is a very different person from the one at the beginning of the book - having to fight to stay alive changes her in a lot of ways, not all of which are easy to see.

The plot was fascinating, just like the description promised. Like I mentioned above, the world that the author created freaked me out because it was so realistic and could actually happen. The story is fast paced with loads of action and lots of suspense. I found myself reading as fast as I could to see what was going to happen next. Cass's journey to find Jori was full of obstacles and problems that always seemed to get in her way. The Fearless were freaky and one of the best parts of the book. I think it's because of their grotesque behavior and odd appearance that had me so fascinated. It was like a wreck - it's gruesome and terrifying, but you just can't stop yourself from watching. The one thing I did notice was that some of the dialogue seemed choppy and didn't sound like a normal conversation. When I came across parts like this, it pulled me out of the story a bit, which then took a little while for me to get immersed into the novel again. This is solely my opinion and I'm sure that other readers had no issues with it. For me though, it broke the trance-like state that a good book can put you in several times and each time I had to get myself back into that mindset. If the dialogue was more natural and flowed easily, I would have given the book a higher rating. Overall, this was a solid YA dystopian thriller that fans of both genres will enjoy, along with those who like suspense, action, and science fiction. It's a great book for anyone to read and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Emma Pass grew up at an environmental studies centre near London, went to art school in Cornwall and now lives in the north-east Midlands, UK. Her YA dystopian thriller ACID is out from Random House Children's Books on 25th April 2013 (UK), Mondadori on 13th June 2013 (Spain) and Delacorte on 1st April 2014 (US). Another standalone thriller, The Fearless, will follow in the UK in 2014. (Author bio and picture taken from Goodreads.)

Author Links:

http://emmapass.com/ 

http://emmapass.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.twitter.com/EmmaPass 

https://www.facebook.com/EmmaPassAuthor 

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Cover Reveal: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

 

 

The Here and Now

Author: Ann Brashares

Expected Release Date: April 8, 2014

Publisher: Delacorte Press

 

 Description:

Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.

Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. Ann Brashares’ first novel for teens since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.

Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.

Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when she falls for Ethan Jarves.

More from the Random House Press Release:

New York, NY, August 20, 2013—Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, will publish THE HERE AND NOW, a new novel by Ann Brashares, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, on April 8, 2014, it was announced today by Beverly Horowitz, Vice President, Publisher, Delacorte Press. THE HERE AND NOW jacket image was revealed today as well.

“THE HERE AND NOW is unlike anything Ann Brashares has ever written, and at the same time it’s classic Ann—with beautiful writing, powerful and memorable characters, and the unforgettable themes of loss, love, identity, and courage,” says Horowitz. “THE HERE AND NOW is a thrilling, intoxicating, and emotional novel from a master storyteller.”

In THE HERE AND NOW, a teenage girl tries to blend in to a suburban community, knowing she’s a potentially lethal threat to everyone she comes in contact with, including the boy she loves. Exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, THE HERE AND NOW is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. A girl from the future might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.

Horowitz acquired world rights from Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at William Morris Endeavor, and Brashares’s longtime editor, Executive Editor Wendy Loggia, is editing the novel. Listening Library will simultaneously publish the audio edition.

Ann Brashares’s beloved Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels were #1 New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and Book Sense bestsellers, with sales of more than 9 million copies in the U.S. and Canada. The series has earned the love of readers across the country and around the world, and inspired the major motion picture releases of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Ann Brashares is also the author of 3 Willows, The Last Summer (of You & Me), and My Name Is Memory. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

THE HERE AND NOW

By Ann Brashares

Delacorte Press | On sale April 8, 2014 | Ages 12 up

Hardcover: 978-0-385-73680-0 | $18.99 U.S. / $21.00 Can.

Ebook: 978-0-307-97615-4

Listening Library CD: 978-0-8041-2132-3 | $50.00 U.S. / $58.00 Can.

Listening Library Audio Download: 978-0-8041-2133-0 | $24.00 U.S. / $28.00 Can.

What do you think of the cover? Are you adding this to your TBR list? Leave a comment!

 

Book Review & Giveaway: The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles

The Kissing Booth

Author: Beth Reekles
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 14, 2013 (Paperback edition)
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Description:

A cool, sexy romance novel written by seventeen-year-old British sensation Beth Reekles.

Meet Rochelle “Elle” Evans: pretty, popular—and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn: badass, volatile—and a total player.

When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer. This romance seems far from a fairy tale.

Is Elle headed for heartbreak or will she get her happily ever after? 

 

The Kissing Booth is a young adult contemporary romance that follows our main character, Rochelle "Elle" Evans - a pretty, popular highschooler who gets the idea of running a kissing booth with her best friend, Lee, for their school's spring carnival. Enter Lee's older brother, Noah Flynn. He's gorgeous, older, and known to be a womanizer. Although Elle's convinced herself that her crush on Noah ended years ago, it's hard to ignore her racing heart when he's around - especially now that he's paying extra attention to her. When Noah kisses Elle - her first kiss - at the booth, her entire world is turned upside down and she finds herself quickly falling head over heels for Noah. Should she keep her distance or listen to her heart and let herself fall for him? Will this story end in heartache or happily ever after?

I don't normally read YA contemporary novels - they don't really appeal to me. I decided to give this book a shot after pitched by the publisher to review it. I'm so glad that I stepped outside my norm to give this one a shot! It's a really great read - fun and heart-warming - and one that I will definitely be recommending to others. The story itself was interesting and original despite the seemingly cliched description. I really loved Elle as the lead character. She was the epitome of a teenage girl that everyone wants to be - smart, popular, pretty - but she is also very trusting, sweet, and a bit naive. This only made me like her more because she was down to earth and realistic. I immediately liked her and found myself rooting for her right away. Noah is the typical love interest - gorgeous, older, a bit mysterious, a "player" but a sweetheart underneath. Although the relationship between Elle and Noah - the whole crushing on the best friend's older brother, etc. - wasn't anything super original, I still liked seeing where things would go between them and I was definitely hoping for the happy ending. The writing was very well done - the pace was perfect and easy to devour the pages. The descriptions, happenings, and setting were vivid and I could easily see myself alongside Elle throughout the story. The dialogue between the characters flowed naturally and easily - it didn't feel forced or fake, which happens in some books. Overall, this was a really fantastic YA contemporary novel, one that fans of the genre will definitely want to get their hands on. Highly recommended!

Beth Reeks is seventeen years old and lives in South Wales. She is studying A-Levels in Physics, Maths, French and Spanish, and is hoping to study Physics at university. She's an undeniable bookworm and an avid drinker of tea. Beth has been writing on platforms such as Wattpad, to great acclaim, for a year or so: The Kissing Booth is the most-viewed, most-commented-on teen fiction title on the site - 19 million reads, 40,000 comments to date. The Kissing Booth was winner of the Most Popular Teen Fiction Watty Award. 

Blog: http://authorbethreeks.tumblr.com/ 
Wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/user/Reekles 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Reekles/177624152296662
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Reekles  

Giveaway: The publisher has generously offered (2) paperback copies of The Kissing Booth! US only!

 
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