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Tour Sign Up: The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

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      Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE WATER OUTLAWS? Synopsis: Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart. In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own. Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society...

Tour Sign Up: Stone Heart by Kitty Shields

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  STONE HEART? Synopsis: What if the woman you loved gave her heart to you in the form of a perfect red diamond? And what if you were an absolute imbecile and broke that heart into pieces? Edward, the Marquess of Winchester, doesn’t believe in nonsense and he certainly doesn’t believe that the woman he cast aside six months ago was true to him. But when the death of a famous actress leads him to realize he’s made a grave mistake, Edward sets out across 1790s Europe to save his love, battling jewel thieves, demons, and old family foes along the way. The question remains: can he put the pieces back together and heal a stone heart?  ABOUT THE TOUR The tour for Stone Heart will take place July 31st to August 13th. This tour is open to bookstagrammers internationally and eBooks will be provided. We usually expect reviews from participants but please indicate on the form if you'll be unable to provide this. Don't ...

Tour Sign Up: Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander

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     Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  GALLOWGATE? Synopsis: From bestselling horror master K.R. Alexander comes this twisted take on a school for magic, where the line between life and death grows thinner with every nightfall. Sebastian Wight is cursed. He sees things other kids don't see. Things he shouldn't  see. Ghosts. Monsters. Ghouls. And now, they want him dead. Sebastian's home is no longer safe . . . and the only place that will take him in is Gallowgate Academy, where students are taught to hunt the things that haunt them. There are some lessons, though, that the school doesn't want to teach Sebastian. Secrets about his deadly family history that refuse to stay in the shadows. Plus, there’s Sebastian’s eccentric classmates and a growing crush on a boy who barely looks at him twice... For Sebastian, fighting the dead might be hard . . . but it's the living who may destroy him. ABOUT THE ...

Tour Sign Up: V by Aura Marquez

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   Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  V? Synopsis: Being an autistic Chicana in L.A. isn’t easy…especially when you’re a vampire. V’s undying love for humans doesn’t allow her to fit in, and nobody understands her but Mya, her best friend, soul mate, and fellow vampire. V's inherited an ancestral gift that intensifies once she becomes a vampire and creates a psychic connection to those she feeds on, an ability she desperately wants to learn to control.  Living with Mya allows her to have the lavish lifestyle she’s always wanted, but V still can’t seem to find peace. As she works to discover who she is as a vamp, all she has to do is not fall in love with a human.  No big deal, she can manage that. …and then, she meets Madís. ABOUT THE TOUR The tour for V will take place August 21 to September 3. This tour is open to bookstagrammers internationally and ebooks will be provided to all readers.  We usually expect reviews fr...

Tour Sign Up: Alchemyia by Katey Hawthorne

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  ALCHEMYIA: THE TOWER? Synopsis of the two novellas: Alchemiya  Eugenia was born to privilege in the Ratna clan, nobility famed for their alchemical jewel production. Eugenia’s a talented alchemist herself—but the patriarchy insists her less able brother is the heir to the family secrets and property. As if that weren’t insult enough, an accidentally public tryst with another woman means Genie is shunned by polite society altogether. Enter the gorgeous Lord Oliver Plumtree, scion of one of the oldest alchemical families in Chrysopoeia and master of the foreboding Waldgrave Abbey. But Lord Oliver is actually Olivia, and on the lookout for a wife—one who requires an escape from the same crushing social mores that have forced Olivia to masquerade as her own long-dead brother to keep her family’s estate intact. Genie and Liv seem a perfect match from the get-go, and things heat up quickly between them. But befo...

Tour Sign Up: Wander the Night by Sydney Cobb

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  WANDER THE NIGHT? Synopsis: The fey can’t lie, but secrets never die. Robin Goodfellow is at home in a world of chaos, and there is plenty while serving in the Green Court of Faerie, a place of veiled magical deceit, and fickle immortal kings and queens. When it is discovered a servant is the rightful successor to the throne, Robin's kingdom faces falling apart as a dangerous invading land prepares to steal the heir for their own cruel ends. In order to save the secret prince he helped raise, Robin must rebel against everything he has ever known. To come out alive, he will have to take action and sacrifice every false identity he’s ever created. Because who he really is—beyond the trickster persona and under the hilarious wit and sarcasm—easily could be more valuable and feared to his power-hungry enemies than to himself. Treacherous adventures, deadly consequences, and powerful truths that cannot be unspoken p...

Tour Sign Up: The Guilty Twin by Holly Riordan

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE GUILTY TWIN? Synopsis: Evan has spent the last decade trying to forget senior year—the panic when Faith Flynn disappeared, the lies she told the police, the secrets she still plans to take to her grave. After graduation, she couldn’t move away fast enough, but divorce has forced her back to her dreary hometown. As if living with her parents at almost thirty isn’t punishment enough, she’s welcomed home with messages from Faith. Or, at least, someone claiming to be her. Fiona has been receiving similar messages from Faith, her twin, the one everyone believes she murdered in cold blood. And it doesn’t feel like a coincidence that this is happening as soon as her ex-best friend Evan has arrived in town. As the ten-year anniversary of Faith’s disappearance looms closer, the encounters grow more disturbing. No one is safe from the mysterious person stirring up trouble in their small town, but Evan and Fiona will ...

Tour Sign Up: A Bit of Murder Between Friends by Elliot Hay

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  A BIT OF MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS? Synopsis: Cupcakes are sweet … but vengeance is sweeter. Baz, Peggy, Carole, and Madge aren’t your regular grannies. Behind their smiles and pots of tea lies a dark secret. When they’re not knitting or exchanging juicy titbits of gossip, they’re keeping the streets safe – and they’re not afraid of using a little murder to make it happen. A predator is stalking south-east London and the four women decide to take matters into their own hands. With the community at risk and the police unwilling to help, the ladies set out to unravel a sinister mystery. But their notion of justice isn’t bound by the law. These women aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty – and their mission is to bring the whole criminal underground to its knees. A Bit of Murder Between Friends is cosy(ish), noir(ish), humorous crime fiction that will delight fans of Killers of a Certain Age and An Elderly Lady is U...

Tour Sign Up: All About Romance by Daniel Tawse

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  ALL ABOUT ROMANCE? Synopsis: Roman Bright appears assured and confident, but in reality school is a tricky space for them.  Finding love – or even friends – when you’re the only non-binary kid for miles around isn’t easy.  When anonymous postcards from ‘Big Red’ start showing up in Roman’s locker and, shortly  afterwards, entire walls of brightly-coloured graffiti appear around the school signed by the  same person, Roman is intrigued. Do they have a secret admirer? Roman thinks they know who is leaving these messages – their  mega-crush and almost-boyfriend from last year, JJ. But when it becomes clear JJ isn’t going to  reveal themselves, Roman must decide if they can be brave enough to make the first move.  Will Roman finally get their happily ever after? Or is the writing on the wall for Roman’s chances  of romance? ABOUT THE TOUR The tour for All About Romance will t...

Tour Sign Up: Everyone’s Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni

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Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  EVERYONE'S THINKING IT? Synopsis: Two Nigerian girls find themselves at the heart of a mysterious conspiracy at an elite British boarding school in this sharply observed, highly entertaining contemporary YA novel brimming with drama, gossip and romance. Bursary student Iyanu is comfortable on the fringes of high-school society, but when she photographs the matchmaker event for the Valentine's Ball, everything changes. Someone steals Iyanu's photographs, spilling the most popular students' secrets - and the prestigious Wodebury Hall School erupts into chaos. Now Iyanu is thrust back into the orbits of her ex-best-friend Quincy and her estranged cousin Kitan, two of the few other Black students at Wodebury. Together, they form a sleuth squad to uncover who was behind the stunt, get back Iyanu's stolen work, and bring the culprit to justice - before the web of rumours snares them all. ABOUT THE TOUR The tour f...

Tour Sign Up: Ugly by Kelly Vincent

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   Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  UGLY? Synopsis: She’s struggling to know her authentic self. When a teenager loses her best friend, can she muster the strength to forge a different path? Small-town Oklahoma. Nic Summers feels deflated. Overweight and cruelly labeled as an “ugly lesbian” despite liking boys, the fifteen-year-old artist is devastated when her best and only friend announces their family is relocating to Scotland. And after a well-intentioned makeover freaks her out, the desperate introvert tumbles down an internet rabbit hole questioning her gender identity. Trying but failing to make new friends before she’s left all alone, Nic is plagued by self-doubt. And when her soul-searching leads her to stumble on the label “gender-nonconforming,” she fears sharing that revelation might only make things worse. As she battles uncertainty and cruel judgment, can Nic learn to feel comfortable in her own skin? ABOUT THE TOUR The tour f...

Tour Sign Up: The Rules of Us by Jennifer Nissley

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     Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram and TikTok tour for  THE RULES OF US? Synopsis: Come out. Break up. Stay friends? In this heartwarming queer love story about love of all kinds, exes navigate new crushes, new feelings, and a newly uncertain future after unexpectedly coming out to each other on prom night turns their lives--and their friendship--upside down. Can they figure out how to move on without losing each other? Jillian and Henry are the kind of couple who do everything together. They take the same classes, have the same hobbies, and applied for the same super-competitive scholarship so they can go to the same dream college. They even come out as gay to each other on the same night, after junior prom, prompting a sudden breakup that threatens their intertwined identities and carefully designed future. Jillian knows the only way to keep everything on track is to approach their breakup with the same precision and planning as their schol...

Tour Sign Up: How to Die Famous

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  HOW TO DIE FAMOUS? Synopsis: London-born Abel has landed the role of a lifetime for an upcoming blockbuster. On the face of it he’s Hollywood’s latest teen star, but below the surface he’s an undercover journalist on a mission to expose the ‘squeaky clean’ entertainment industry and the part they played in his brother’s ‘accidental’ death. As Abel steps into the spotlight alongside fellow actors Lucky, Ryan and Ella, he soon discovers that beneath the glittering surface of fame and riches lies a darker world of secrecy, scandal and murder. Nobody is who they seem when the cameras are off, and everybody has something to hide. But who’s next in line to die famous? ABOUT THE TOUR The tour for How to Die Famous will take place July 17th to July 30th. This tour is open to bookstagrammers in the UK and physical copies will be provided.  We usually expect reviews from participants but please indicate on the form ...

Tour Sign Up: Ailene by Annabel Den Dekker

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  AILENE? Synopsis: Hayden Navarro has only one concern: protecting the ones he loves. At nineteen, he learns the world is in danger. An anonymous terrorist organization has attacked several countries all across the planet. When his parents suspect there might be a mole in the Council of Ailene, they ask Hayden to go undercover as an intern. Once in Ailene, he quickly becomes overwhelmed by everything and everyone around him. He struggles to keep his best friend, Lowell, safe while fending off the ever-present voices inside his head telling him that one day he’s going to lose everything, and he’ll be the one responsible for it all. He’s close to falling apart altogether when he crosses paths with Alexander Collins, a funny and handsome Council member who makes him feel happy and understood. His days suddenly become a little bit brighter—but nothing in Hayden’s life is ever easy. There’s a strict rule against work...

Tour Sign Up: The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE BODY IN THE BACK GARDEN? Synopsis: In this queer cozy series debut perfect for fans of Ellen Byron and Ellery Adams, Luke Tremblay is about to discover that Crescent Cove has more than its fair share of secrets…and some might be deadlier than others.    Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt’s sudden death, he’s inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to Toronto as soon as he can…but Crescent Cove isn’t done with him just yet.    When a stranger starts making wild claims about his aunt, Luke sends him packing. The next morning, though, Luke discovers that the stranger...

Tour Sign Up: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

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    Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  The Death I Gave Him? Synopsis: A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death, and a dying wish: Avenge me… With the lab on lockdown, Hayden is trapped with four other people—his uncle Charles, lab technician Gabriel Rasmussen, research intern Felicia Xia and their head of security, Felicia’s father Paul—one of whom must be the killer. His only sure ally is the lab’s resident artificial intelligence, Horatio, who has been his de...

Tour Sign Up: New Adult by Timothy Janovsky

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   Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  NEW ADULT? Synopsis: Nolan Baker longs to be "thirty, flirty and thriving" in this charmingly quirky LGBTQIA+ romance that's one part 13 Going on 30 and one part One Last Stop. WHY CAN'T WE SKIP TO THE GOOD PART? Twenty-three-year-old Nolan Baker wants it all by the time he's thirty. Too bad he's single, barely able to cover his own expenses, and still paying his dues at a prominent NYC comedy club. When faced with his perfect sister's wedding, Nolan takes it as a wakeup call. It's time to quit comedy and make good on his practical dreams—most importantly, asking Drew Techler, his best friend, to be his date. But right as Nolan is about to give it all up, he's asked to fill a last-minute spot for a famous comedian. Score! He crushes his set, but stands Drew up, misses his sister's big day, and disappoints his entire family. After major blowouts with everyone he loves, Nolan desperat...

Tour Sign Up: What a Desi Girl Wants by Sabina Khan

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  WHAT A DESI GIRL WANTS? Synopsis: Mehar hasn't been back to India since she was four.She hasn't visited her father, or any of her family. Why would she? Her father made it clear that she's not his priority when he chose not to come to the US with her and her mum. But when her father announces his engagement to socialite Naz, Mehar reluctantly agrees to return for the wedding. Maybe she and her father can heal their broken relationship. And after all, her father is Indian royalty, and his home is a palace. While her father still doesn't make the time for her, and she hates Naz and her social media influencer daughter, Mehar barely cares once she meets Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant. Though they come from totally different worlds, their friendship slowly starts to blossom into something more . . . Mehar thinks. But she can tell Naz is using her dad for his money and putting a stop to the wedding might ...