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Tour Sign-Up: Heretical by Emma Whitehall

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         Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  HERETICAL? Synopsis : Ignatia Heretical isn’t shaping up to be much of a Hero. The daughter of the most famous Villain in the country, Ig is finding that no matter how hard she tries, no one at her illustrious Hero academy seems to trust her. Or, you know. Like her. At all. Her only friend is Pisces – the beautiful, popular girl she’s been hopelessly in love with since she started school at the Lunalist Academy For The Gifted and Talented. However, Ig’s chance to prove herself comes when she’s signed up for a secret reconnaissance mission; infiltrate Shackleton School for Villains and work out their nefarious plans. Pretend to be a Villain. Make friends with an unhinged botanist, a mad scientist, and his insufferable clone/lab assistant. Find out their secrets. Go home a Hero. What could possibly go wrong? Please bear in mind trigger warnings for bullying, violence, ableist ...

Tour Sign Up: How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunmore

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        Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR MOVIE? Synopsis : Horror movie enthusiast Charley is determined to keep a low profile when she’s enrolled at a girls’ boarding school on a remote island. That is, until someone starts killing off her senior class! From elaborate scare tactics to severed heads in fridges, Charley has found herself at the centre of a teen horror movie. And that’s not the only alarming thing that’s happening – she’s now seeing the ghosts of her former classmates!  Haunted by her peers, and with everyone beginning to suspect her, Charley decides to do something about it. She and her only best friend Olive are going to solve the murders and find out who’s killing off the class before graduation. Charley just needs those pesky ghosts to shut up and give her a hand… A fast-paced tongue-in-cheek YA novel about two friends trying to survive senior year – literally! Perfect for fans of F...

Tour Sign-Up: Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas

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       Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  CELESTIAL MONSTERS? Synopsis : A heart-stopping duology finale, in which three young semidioses travel through a dark monster-infested world, facing down chaotic Obsidian gods, in a quest to save their friends and return the sun to the sky. Celestial Monsters is the sequel to Mexican inspired YA fantasy The Sunbearer Trials, from the New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas. Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsidian gods have been released from their prison, and chaos and destruction are wreaking havoc on Reino del Sol. All because Teo refused to sacrifice a fellow semidiós during the Sunbearer Trials. With the world plunged into perpetual night, Teo, his crush Aurelio, and his best friend Niya must journey to the dark wilderness of Los Restos, battling vicious monsters while dealing with guilt, trauma, and a (very distract...

Tour Sign Up: Time’s Agent by Brenda Peynado

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       Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  TIME'S AGENT? Synopsis : “What would you do, given another universe, a do-over?” Forty years ago, archeologist Raquel and her biologist wife Marlena once dreamed of the mysteries they would unlock in their respective fields using pocket universes— geographically small, hidden offshoots of reality, each with its own fast or slow time dilation relative to Earth time—and the future they would open up for their daughter. But that was then. Forty years later, Raquel is in disgrace, Marlena lives in a pocket universe Raquel wears around her neck and no longer speaks to her, what’s left of their daughter’s consciousness resides in a robotic dog, and time is a commodity controlled by corporations squeezing out every last penny they can. So when a new pocket universe appears, one that might hold the key to her failed calling, Raquel seizes one last chance to redeem herself to her wife, live up to her...

Tour Sign Up: Accidental Darlings by Crystal Jeans

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     Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  ACCIDENTAL DARLINGS? Synopsis : A delightfully subversive and darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations… 1924 When Anastasia’s beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with ‘the Aunt’ – too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with two servants and an unruly pack of dogs. The many mysteries of Skimpole are irresistibly intriguing: how did Anastasia’s father really die? Who wrote the extremely raunchy love letters she has found in the Aunt’s bedroom, signed ‘Big Willy’? And why does everyone in the village hate the Aunt so much? When some of the Aunt’s friends from her youth arrive at the house, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an air of debauchery, Anastasia may be closer to finding answers – but the truth she was so desperate to ...

Tour Sign Up: Ninth Life by Stark Holborn

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    Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  NINTH LIFE? Synopsis : After forty years of wreaking havoc across the galaxy, the outlaw Nine Lives – AKA Former General Gabriella Ortiz – has finally run out of lives. Shot down into a backwater at the system’s edge, she is rescued by Deputy Air Marshall Havemercy Grey. Hav is a true soul, trying to uphold what is right in the heedless wastes. Hav is determined to see justice done. And Hav could sure use that 20-million bounty… But escorting the most dangerous fugitive in the system across the stars is no easy task, especially when decades of fire and destruction are catching up with her, and every gutspill with a pistol wants that payday. So when Ortiz offers a deal – to keep them both alive, as long as Hav listens to the stories of her lives – Hav can’t refuse. There’s just one catch: everywhere they go, during every brawl and gunfight and explosive escape, people say the same thing – don’t let ...

Tour Sign Up: The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse

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   Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE GHOST SHIP? Synopsis : A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water ― its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship has hunted pirates to liberate enslaved prisoners. Now it, too, finds itself hunted. But the ship’s crew hides a secret, and the stakes could not be higher. The bravest among them are not what they seem: if arrested, they will hang for their alleged crimes. Can they survive their journey and escape their fate? A tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes, piracy and hidden secrets on the high seas, The Ghost Ship is the third instalment in The Joubert Family Chronicles, but is intended to be readable as a standalone novel. ABOUT THE TOUR How it wor...

Tour Sign Up: Shepherd of Souls By Liv Savell and Sterling D'Este

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                     Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for                                          the Shepherd of Souls Duology ? Synopsis : The dead are stirring in Ingola.  It's been fifteen years since he helped save his best friend from an ancient Goddess, and High Sorcerer Etienne wants nothing to do with the Gods—old or new—any longer. But when the lost spirit of a young noblewoman needs his help, Etienne finds himself pulled back into a world of dark magic, pirates, and Old Gods. Ryou is loyal to his Queen, the ruler of pirates and thieves, but when he is sent to assist Etienne with unraveling the mysteries of missing ships and walking dead, he finds his loyalties tested. Is the sly mage just a distraction or something more? It is up to the mage, the spirit, and the pira...

Tour Sign Up: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

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  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE PAIRING? Synopsis : From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston comes a deliciously sexy romantic comedy The Pairing. Theo and Kit have been childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and, after a brutal breakup four years ago, estranged exes. It’s not until Theo and Kit are trapped on board a tour bus that they discover that they’ve each had the same idea: to take their dream European food and wine tour – alone. And now they’re stuck with each other for three weeks of the most romantic sights and sensuous flavours of France, Spain, and Italy. But it’ll be fine. They’re absolutely over each other. So, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is game. In fact, why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition? But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can’t have. ABOUT T...

Tour Sign Up: Out of Touch by Michael Sarais

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                    Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  OUT OF TOUCH? Synopsis : When Teddy Clarke sees Vincent Stewart's Facebook profile in 2008, he isn't sure why, but sending him a friend request seems like a good idea. Over the weeks and months ahead, the two teenagers become friends and maybe-possibly-something more, through late night chats and hasty confessions. Breaking more rules than Vincent could dream of, he agrees to meet Teddy in London and for one magical night, it feels like the start of their forever. Or so they hope. When real life intervenes, the two boys struggle to stay on the same page. Still, Teddy and Vincent carry a torch for each other and the love story they almost had. Over the years their lives intertwine in unexpected ways, two boys who are clearly meant to be together...if they can ever manage to be in the right place...at the right time. The author has provided a list of ...