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BBNYA Semi-finalists: The Unadjusteds – Marisa Noelle

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

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IF YOU COULD ALTER YOUR DNA WITH ONE PILL…WOULD YOU?

When the president declares all unadjusteds must take a nanite, sixteen year old Silver Melody has no choice but to flee the city. She has no genetic enhancements. She is 100% human, and wants to stay that way.

Escaping with her family and friends, Silver plans to hide out and deal with an awkward love triangle while her scientist father makes a cure. But she doesn’t count on her father being captured, on the president setting an immortal army and hellhounds on her tail, or dealing with her crippling anxiety.

Her only chance to recover her father involves teaming up with a new group of unlikely friends and rescuing him before the unadjusteds are wiped out.

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Marisa Noelle writes tense and pacy novels in dystopian, science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. The ocean and mental health are her two deepest passions (besides her family, naturally, and let’s not forget the dog). Although quite a few ocean settings a have made it into her novels, she can’t find an excuse to set everything by the sea. After dealing with her own mental health issues, mental health representation will always be reflected in her writing and 10% of her profits go to mental health charities.

Her books include:

The Unraveling of Luna Forester (Short listed for the Booklife Prize (Publishers Weekly))

The Shadow Keepers

The Unadjusteds Trilogy

The Mermaid Chronicles (5 book series)

Screen Writing:

When the Water Runs Dry was shortlisted for the 666 horror film competition.

Marisa’s side freelance editing and mentoring aspiring MG & YA authors through the Write Mentor program — helping many authors to achieve agent representation and gain traditional publishing deals. With dual citizenship, Marisa has lived on both sides of the Atlantic and uses both UK & USA settings as inspiration for her novels.

You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @MarisaNoelle77, TikTok @MarisaNoelle12, or her website www.MarisaNoelle.com 

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: The Trouble With Fairies – Emma Bradley

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.
If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Welcome to Arcanium, where the fairies never play fair

All Demi Darcy dreams of is a new life. Tormented by her human sisters for being born part-fairy, she wants to find somewhere she can truly belong. When she is invited to join Arcanium, one of the most prestigious organisations that oversees all Faerie realms, she believes it’s her big chance.

But all is not well in Faerie. Despite her best efforts to stay out of trouble, Demi soon stumbles on a plot to murder the Queen by an outcast group of Court Fae. Their goal? Return Faerie to the dark days of old, when humans were used for sport and half-breed fairies were ostracised.

Letting the Queen die isn’t something Demi’s willing to do, but neither is ruining her chance at a new life. A choice must be made, but time is short and life in Faerie soon turns out to be more dangerous than Demi’s darkest nightmares.

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Emma lives on the UK south coast with her husband, her plant collection and a very lazy black Labrador who occasionally condescends to take her out for a walk. Aside from creative writing studies, an addiction to cereal and spending far too much time procrastinating on social media, Emma is still waiting for the arrival of her unicorn. Or a tank, she’s not fussy.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: The Switchgrass Crown – Amanda Innes

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Seventeen-year-old Lucas Rowland is spending the summer with his family at the exclusive Lake Avalon, and things are getting… weird. His wealthy peers welcome him and his younger sister Fay with seemingly open arms, and by the time Lucas discovers why, Fay is already fully enmeshed in both high—and questionable—society. But does she need saving? Or is it all a harmless game? Lucas must decide whether to play along or put a stop to it.

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Amanda Innes is the award-winning author of THE GHOSTS OF MARSHLEY PARK and the popular Drew & Rayze series. Find her on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@mplbooks and on TikTok as Amanda_Innes.

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Blog Tour: Legends of Astrea: Cupid’s Arrow – Sophia Alessandrini

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Welcome to the tour for Legends of Astrea: Cupid’s Arrow by Sophia Alessandrini. Read on for more details and visit one of our Bookstagram hosts for a chance to win a book box!

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Legends of Astrea: Cupid’s Arrow

Publication Date: February 2018

Genre: YA Epic Romantasy

🏹 Epic Romantasy
💖 Coming-of-Age
🏹 Vampires & Werewolves
💖 Fated Love

Can the power of love save the world?

Ailie, a gutsy girl who possesses a sharp wit and a playful, irreverent voice that pairs well with that of her best friend’s, a werewolf; embarks on a quest for revenge with the help of her psychotic, warmongering, and good-hearted legal guardian. She alone can open the gates of hell just like Pandora did when she opened the jar that contained all evils.

And evil wants those doors open.
Fallen Angels conspire to help her with Cupid’s Golden Arrow.

She finds herself in a whimsical world of myths, legends, glittering gowns, priceless jewels, life threatening enemies, and eccentric immortals that call themselves Strzyga.

However, there are side effects to the arrow. What’s not to like about a gorgeous, two-hundred-year old Strzyga prince who is totally and completely head over heels for her?

But things never go as planned, do they?

Will Ailie manage to save the world, or will she accidentally open the gates of hell?

Find out in the exciting pages of this whimsical, legend-filled fantasy romance.

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About the Author

Sophia Alessandrini is a cum laude BS graduate in Mathematical Physics and a degree in International Relations. She studied and traveled all over Europe, always fantasizing about the middle ages, dragons, ghosts, and fairies. For fun she wrote short stories to read to her sister and young cousins during Christmas family gatherings. When she returned to America and discovered cooking, she became a Chef. However, stories were always popping in her head all the time, making her realize that her first love was writing.

She resides in sunny Southern California and enjoys walks on the beach at sunrise, collecting seashells and beach glass, always wondering about mermaids. She loves anything cute with little four legs, including frogs, and iguanas (although she avoids the kissing part), that she names after green food items when they show up at her doorstep.

When she escapes into the magic of the California forests, Sophia ponders about the existence of elementals, fairies, werewolves, and Big Foot. A geek at heart with an odd fascination for Chinese Kung Fu movies, Star Wars, and Vampire TV shows, plotting a way to time travel to the middle ages, meet dragons, talk to ghosts, and perhaps become a Ninja with pink hair like a forest fairy.

Her books keep her readers on their toes with her adrenaline-fueled adventures, suspense-filled cliffhangers, and romantic whimsical scenes. You will find her sitting down with a book in hand, hiding in corner of the nearest coffee shop when she isn’t writing.

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My thoughts: Ailie has had a difficult childhood, orphaned and raised by nuns, bullied by her classmates and mistreated by the Sisters, some of whom think she’s possessed.

But as her sixteenth birthday arrives, it’s finally time to learn about who she really is and why she’s so important. In a war between two races hiding among humans, she’s vital to the survival of her people, as long as she doesn’t open the gates to Hell first.

This was an interesting take on angels and demons, vampires and werewolves. Centered around a teenage girl who doesn’t know anything about this hidden world of ancient beings, cursed and at war.

I liked Ailie and felt for her, her confusion and mine matched at times, she was inundated with new information and struggled with understanding it all, and then trying to reconcile all of that with what she does know.

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Blog Tour: Hexed – Lisa Wakely

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After sixteen-year-old Harriet Flynn trips over an ancient gravestone etched with strange markings in a seventeenth-century holiday village and reads the inscription, she and her friends are alarmed to wake up with supernatural powers.

Having magical abilities is fun at first, but when a series of accidents cause the group to become frightened, Harriet becomes determined to find out what’s going on. 

While investigating the history of the gravestone they came across that night, Harriet realises she has unwittingly awakened a centuries-old, deadly curse and she is the only one who can put an end to it – and she has less than a day.

With time running out, Harriet must find the true magic key, to save herself and the ones she loves.

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Lisa Wakely is a writer, performer and radio presenter from Essex born to an Anglo-Indian mother and Anglo-Burmese father. She has been writing since she was twelve years old, after spending most of her evenings reading stories from the school library. Lisa lives in Colchester with her husband, dog and a cat. 

She enjoys engaging in heart-pumping activities such as skydiving and abseiling, all in the pursuit of charity. Her passion for writing and teaching performing arts is matched only by her boundless energy and unwavering determination. Her time working as a Guest Host at Madame Tussauds London really gave her a taste of what life at an entertainment attraction was like. 

Very much how it comes across in Hexed – minus the magic and 17th century madness!

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My thoughts: as a teenager my friends and I did occasionally wander through the various local church yards and cemeteries, but luckily never woke anything up! Harriet accidentally seems to have stirred up the ghost of a 17th Century woman executed as a witch. And she might actually have been one!

Passing on her powers and a warning to Harriet, she sets the teenager and her friends on a mission, but time is of the essence and there isn’t much of it.

Only by helping each other and working together can Harriet and her friends break the curse and stop Silas from destroying everything.

It’s a twisted, creepy story with lots of action and adventure, all in costume as they recreate the 17th Century village for a Halloween festival.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: The Hunting Moon – Susan Dennard

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In this heart-racing, jaw-dropping sequel to the New York Times instant bestseller The Luminaries, Winnie continues her fight against the monstrous nightmares of Hemlock Falls.

Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family has been welcomed back into the Luminaries, and overnight, she has become a local celebrity.

The Girl Who Jumped. The Girl Who Got Bitten.

Unfortunately, it all feels wrong. For one, nobody will believe her about the new nightmare called the Whisperer that’s killing hunters each night. Everyone blames the werewolf, even though Winnie is certain the wolf is innocent.

On top of that, following her dad’s convoluted clues about the Dianas, their magic, and what happened in Hemlock Falls four years ago is leaving her with more questions than answers.

Then to complicate it all, there is still only one person who can help her: Jay Friday, the boy with plenty of problems all his own.

As bodies and secrets pile up around town, Winnie finds herself questioning what it means to be a true Wednesday and a true Luminary―and also where her fierce-hearted loyalties might ultimately have to lie.

My thoughts: This definitely felt more exciting than The Luminaries – probably because all the world building and lore explaining was done in that book, and in this one there’s just lots more room for adventure and Winnie’s mission, to redeem her family, prove her dad was framed and stop the Dianas who have something to do with the Whisperer in the woods.

Winnie’s relationship with Jay is still rocky, and now he’s Senior Hunter for the Fridays, it’s harder to get through to him.

Someone might be watching her, especially when all her notes get stolen and she makes a discovery that changes everything, but put someone she cares about at risk, she now has more secrets than ever, doesn’t know who to trust and still has a lot to unravel. The adventure really ramps up and there’s a lot more tension and peril.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Cover Reveal: Bound by Promises and Lies – Sienna Archer

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What an absolutely beautiful cover! Read more about the next Realms of Magic book, Bound by Promises and Lies by Sienna Archer.

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Bound by Promises & Lies (Realms of Magic Book 2)

Expected Publication Date: February 19, 2024

Genre: YA Fantasy Romance/ LGBTQ2+

  • Fake fiancé
  • Slow burn Sapphic romance
  • Touch her and die
  • Plot twists
  • Family drama
  • Wish-granting sea faeries
  • Complex characters
  • Second in a series
  • YA romantasy

What if the only way to stop a war built on lies is by faking a betrothal?

With rumors circulating that her mama is planning an attack on the magic realms, Alathea must be the one to stop her—but after the disaster in the realm of Mizura, she is loath to leave her sister’s side. When Alathea’s ex-flame shows up uninvited in their safe haven, her best plan may be what she detests most: Leave her sister behind and return home to confront her mama with the high sorceress Lidja, whose tongue sharpens by the day.

As her mama drums the path to war, her ex-flame plots revenge, and whenever Lidja opens her mouth, everything ends up worse, Alathea has to find a way to stop battles on all sides…

…which may just mean making a promise even worse than her last: A magical fake betrothal and all the very real feelings that come with it.

Bound by Promises & Lies is the second book in the Realms of Magic YA fantasy series with a slow-burn queer romance, heart-pounding adventure, and shocking twists. If you liked Throne of Glass or A Vow So Dark & Lovely, you’ll love this fast-paced story by Sienna Archer.

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Sienna Archer believes romance should be epic, adventures magical, and the best characters are the ones who grow. She writes books featuring diverse characters and strong female leads that make readers laugh, shout, and cry.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Poison Forest – Lauri Starling

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

There has been a string of disappearances in the Triumvir of Corundum. Someone is stealing royal children, and Thedra’s childhood sweetheart Dette, the princess of a neighboring kingdom, is the latest to go missing.

When Thedra suspects the sorcerer she blames for her mother’s death is behind Dette’s disappearance, she refuses to let him harm anyone else. She sets out with the help of a dashing soldier and a secretive servant girl to find and rescue Dette before it’s too late.

Thedra would do anything to stop the disappearances and save her friend–even cross a cursed forest that brings her nightmares to life. But one of her companions is hiding something, and the forest seems to want her dead. To defeat the sorcerer’s twisted magic, she must face her worst fears and risk losing what she wants most: the freedom to love who she chooses.

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Lauri Starling writes historical romance with LGBTQ+ rep under the pen name L.S. Young. Poison Forest is her first published young adult fantasy.

She lives in Central Florida and loves to garden, read, and spend time with chosen family. She is an outspoken member of the neurodiverse and ex-evangelical communities.

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Book Blitz: Children of the Earth – Amanda Auler

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It’s release day!

We love this cover! It’s positively magical. Make sure to check out Children of the Earth and visit one of Bookstagram hosts for a great giveaway!

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Children of the Earth (The Mothmar Trilogy)

Publication Date: November 7, 2023

Genre: YA Fantasy

Receive from above or take from below,

Light versus Dark, you reap what you sow.

With her newly acquired Gift burning inside her, Solyana Marusda leads her group through the Mothmar snow in search of the prophecy’s secrets. But when they stumble upon the city of Takanah, they find themselves surrounded by the Taka Reu and all it threatens to unleash. Desperate for answers, Solyana finds herself on a path paved with the sacrifices of others—sacrifices that make her wonder whether she is the savior or the destruction of her people.

In the wake of carnage, nearly everything Pallah Bogson holds dear has slipped through her fingers. With a rumor of hope, she sets out in search of the truth that promises a place of belonging. But as her connection to the Mother Below grows, so too does the influence of forces beyond her control—and when Pallah finds herself the instrument of chaos, there is no way of telling what is or isn’t her own will.

All the while, someone is watching, waiting—with more sinister schemes than either girl can know.

A story of friendship, family, and the choices that shape us. Dive into the world of Mothmar and experience magic, animal companionship, and adventure layered through time and dipped in mystery.

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Amanda Auler is the author of Daughter of the Sun, the first in the Mothmar trilogy. As an advocate for stories steeped in theme, it’s no wonder some of Amanda’s favorite authors are Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, and Juliet Marillier. When she’s not at her laptop, Amanda can be found roasting coffee in her garage (usually with a book in hand), baking bread, and trying to keep up with her three growing boys. She and her husband live in central North Carolina where they stay up too late watching Top Chef and eating fancy ramen.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Mark of Eternity – Zachary Moulder

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Eve has never seen the light of day, nor known the beauty of a living world. Marooned on the dark side of an unforgiving planet, Eve and her parents, Eli and Nisma, scavenge the remains of their colony ship, the Eternity, with the hope of building their own means of escaping their post-apocalyptic prison.

But with time running out and constant setbacks and delays pushing everyone beyond their limits, Eve and her family soon find themselves at each other’s throats. Will they manage to pull together and flee their living hell? Or would they be doomed to a life of decay in an eternal night?

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Zachary Moulder is an average bloke who likes to write stories, paint very small miniatures and enjoy the company of his friends and family over a few beers. A former bartender, he was born in Brisbane, Australia, and presently resides in Townsville where he lives in constant dread for the inevitable arrival of North Queensland’s insufferable summer.