Mundie Moms

Friday, October 21, 2016

ROSE AND THORN by: Sarah Prineas / Blog Tour: Spotlight / Giveaway


Welcome to the last stop in the ROSE AND THORN blog tour, hosted by Rockstar Blog Tours. Today's stop features a spotlight and giveaway. First, here's a little bit about the book:

ABOUT THE BOOK



By: Sarah Prineas
Published by: HarperTeen
Released on: October 18th, 2016
Series: Rose & Bramble #2
Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks
Add it toGoodreads

This beauty isn’t sleeping! Sarah Prineas’s darkly imaginative retelling breaks down the classic story of Sleeping Beauty in a big, bold way. Brimming with action and romance, beautiful Rose must escape the curse that will force the kingdom to fall into a century-long slumber and fights for the freedom to find her own happily ever after.

After the spell protecting her is destroyed, Rose seeks safety in the world outside the valley she had called home. She’s been kept hidden all her life to delay the three curses she was born with, curses that will have drastic consequences if they take effect. Accompanied by the handsome and mysterious Griff and Quirk, his witty and warmhearted partner, Rose tries to escape from the ties that bind her to this forced fairy tale. But will the path they take lead them to freedom, or will it bring them straight into the prescribed story they are trying to avoid?

Set in the world of Prineas’s Ash & Bramble fifty years later, Rose & Thorn is a powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty. If you like your fairy tales dark, your heroines daring, and your suitors dashing, this is the book for you.


ABOUT THE SERIES 


By: Sarah Prineas
Released on: September 15, 2015
Published: HarperTeen
Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks
Add it to: Goodreads

When the glass slipper just doesn’t fit…

The tale of Cinderella has been retold countless times. But what you know is not the true story.

Pin has no recollection of who she is or how she got to the Godmother’s fortress. She only knows that she is a Seamstress, working day in and out to make ball gowns fit for fairy tales. But she longs to forsake her backbreaking servitude and dares to escape with the brave young Shoemaker.

Pin isn’t free for long before she’s captured again and forced to live the new life the Godmother chooses for her—a fairy tale story, complete with a charming prince—instead of finding her own happily ever after.

Sarah Prineas’s bold fairy tale retelling is a dark and captivating world where swords are more fitting than slippers, young shoemakers are just as striking as princes, and a heroine is more than ready to rescue herself before the clock strikes midnight. 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Hi there! I'm Sarah Prineas, author of the Magic Thief series published in the US by HarperCollins and in 17 other languages around the world, and the Winterling trilogy. I live in rural Iowa with my mad scientist husband, two kids, and two cats. My next book is called Ash & Bramble, and it's a YA.
Here's my website: http://www.sarah-prineas.com and here's my book website (with games, wallpaper, and extras!): http://www.magicthief.com


ENTER TO WIN 
3 winners will receive a finished copy of ROSE & THORN. US Only.



FOLLOW THE TOUR
10/10/2016- Novel Novice- Interview
10/11/2016- A Dream Within A Dream- Review
10/12/2016 Seeing Double In Neverland- Guest Post
10/13/2016- Mom with a Reading Problem- Review
10/14/2016- Two Chicks on Books- Interview

10/17/2016- Once Upon a Twilight- Review
10/18/2016- YaReads- Guest Post
10/19/2016- Eli to the nth- Review
10/20/2016- The Cover Contessa- Interview
10/21/2016- Mundie Moms- Review

THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab / Book Review


By: Victoria Schwab
Publisher: Greenwillow
Series: Monsters of Verity #1
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Buy: Harper Collins | amazon | Barnes and Noble | Book Depository
Add it to Goodreads
Rating: 4.5 stars - I loved it a lot!

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

I'm still shaking my head over this book. Victoria Schwab, what have you done!!!

What Victoria's done is created a world SO OUTRAGEOUSLY vivid and real that when you start reading it, you will find yourself thinking, waaaaaait, this all makes sense. No, seriously, you will.
In this world, horrific acts of violence create monsters. Three different types of monsters to be exact -- the Malchai, Corsai and Sunai. The first two are formed from murder and violence, but the last, the Sunai, are formed from mass tragedies. Just knowing this concept, I was hooked. Our world has become a violent place and the idea of repercussions to violence coming to life is a concept that made perfect sense inside this urban fantasy world.

The city of Verity is divided. On one side, there is Kate Harker's father, who reminded me of a mafia-style character. He offers protection, but uses monsters for control, and Kate wants nothing more than to win his approval and be as ruthless as him. On the other side of Verity, you have August, a monster who wants to be human. August and Kate's paths cross when he is sent on a mission by his father (who incidentally is in charge of the other half of Verity) to get closer to Kate. They are two people from very different worlds, and yet from the start you can see that they are destined for one another.

Before you think that this is a romance, it is so not that at all. It is a story of two people from different sides trying to survive a violent world. The catch is that one of them is trying for a power play over not just the other side, but also as a way to make her father notice her. I adored the way their characters developed throughout the story, and I'm looking forward to its conclusion in the sequel, Our Dark Duet.

Kate and August come from very different sides of the same world, but they are both survivors and they are determined to triumph. If you enjoy suspenseful and dark stories, with well written characters, pick up This Savage Song. Victoria stretches her writing style into new territory, and I fell right into it and found it impossible to put down until I reached that last page. Bravo to Victoria for tackling a different type of story (from her YA offerings like The Near Witch and Archived) and completely knocking it out of the ballpark.

Labels