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#bookreview / #blogtour I Was Told There Would Be Romance By Marie Arnold @tbrbeyondtours #bookblitz

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My 5 Reasons to read I Was Told There Would Be Romance By Marie Arnold



1. You follow a teen Haitian girl named Fancy, and you see how she doesn’t apated well to change. Any little change can affect everything for her. She is trying to nativage high school while trying to get invited to the popular girl’s birthday party, yet kind of stalking a boy she likes.

2. You can see the friendship between fancy and and Tilly. How fancy cares for Tilly but would risk her friendship over a small lie from telly just to not hurt fancy.

3. Fancy has strict haitian parents. She’s not allowed to date or wear outfits that aren’t approved. If Fancy doesn’t pick her grades up she can risk being  sent back to Haiti.

4. Even though boyfriends (fake boyfriends) have come between Fancy and Tilly, their friendship shows much stronger in the end.

5. The authors writing style I enjoyed. I liked the witty sarcastic voice of fancy. It was easy to relate to her and see how she deals with different situations.

Rating 4 🌟

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Fancy Augustine is a Haitian American girl with simple desires. She’d like to trade in her floppy, oversize boobs for cute, perky ones. She’d love a boyfriend. And she’s desperate for an invite to the biggest event of the school year: Imani Park’s birthday party. When Fancy learns her BFF, Tilly, has received a coveted invite and has a secret boyfriend, she is (understandably) devastated and wholeheartedly determined to do whatever it takes to get her own happily ever after.

So what if she makes a deal with the devil (Imani) that guarantees her an invite—but only if she can bring a boyfriend? And what’s so bad about letting her crush, Rahim, believe that she can create a voodoo potion for him in exchange for him posing as her boyfriend? And, yeah, maybe she’s destroying her friendship with Tilly and falling hopelessly behind in her schoolwork, but Fancy knows it’ll all be worth it in the end. Plus, it’s not like Fancy’s parents would really make good on their threats of sending her back to Haiti…right?

About author

Marie Arnoldwas born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and came to America at the age of seven. Shegrew up in Brooklyn, New York alongside her extended family. She attended Columbia College inChicago, where her main focus was creative writing. As Lola StVil, she is aNew YorkTimesandUSA Todaybestselling indie author. Over two million readers have downloaded herYoung Adult fantasy series GUARDIANS. She currently has 3 projects under development atDisney Junior and Disney Plus, one of which is an animated show based on her middle gradenovelThe Year I Flew Away.

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#BlogTour / #Bookpromotion Plan A By Deb Caletti @tbrandbeyond

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Synopsis

Book Info:
Plan A by Deb Caletti
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Publishing Date: October 3, 2023

Synopsis:
A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice. From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body in the World , this is both an achingly tender love story and a bold, badly needed battle cry about bodily autonomy and the experiences that connect us.
Ivy can’t entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didn’t even know it was possible from . . . what happened. But it is, and now she is, and instead of spending the summer working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, suddenly she’s planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother’s house on the West Coast, where she can legally obtain an abortion.
Escaping her small Texas town and the judgment of her friends and neighbors, Ivy hits the road with Lorenzo, who, determined to make the best of their “abortion road trip love story,” has transformed the journey into a whirlwind tour of the all the way from Paris, Texas, to Rome, Oregon . . . and every rest-stop diner and corny roadside attraction along the way.
And while Ivy can’t run from the incessant pressure of others’ opinions about her body or from her own expectations and insecurities, she discovers a new world of healing and hope. As the women she encounters share their stories, she chips away at the stigma, silence, and shame surrounding reproductive rights while those collective experiences guide her to her own rightful destination.
Content Warning: Abortion, harassment, assault, rape, trauma

Book Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75649849
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Plan-Deb-Caletti/dp/0593485548/
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/plan-a-deb-caletti/1142907954
IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/plan-a-deb-caletti/19650185

About the author

Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over twenty books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.
Author Links:
Website: https://www.debcaletti.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debcaletti/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/135786
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DebCaletti/

Tour Schedule:
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Blog tour/ Book Review: Phoebe’s Diary By Phoebe Wahl #bookreview #bookpromotion @tbrbeyondtours

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Synopsis

Drawn from real life, here is a bracingly honest illustrated diary of a teenage girl that captures the explosive turmoil and joy of adolescence.

Meet Phoebe. She’s cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic.

Like you.

And here is her diary, packed full of invaluable friends and heartbreaking crushes, spectacular playlists and vintage outfits, drama nerds and art kids, old wounds and new love. Based on her own teenage diary, Phoebe Wahl has melded truth with fiction and art with text, casting a spell that brings readers deep into the experience of growing up.

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Review/ thoughts:

Phoebe’s Diary is about a teenage girl who is really into theater and she is trying to juggle life with her friends yet still trying to have a successful dating life.

Here are my 5 reasons as to why you should read Phoebe’s Diary

1. This story follows how a lot of teen girls in high school think. Overthinking things, boy crazy, wondering what her friends may or may not think of her choices.

2. As the reader you can see how Phoebe trys to challenge herself especially when it comes to dating. Like she really wants to date and have a boyfriend but sometimes she isn’t sure how she should approach the situation.

3. The reader can also see some of Phoebe’s insecurities and yet she doesn’t allow them to get in her way.

4. This story has nice illustrations that go along with the book

5. Inside the story the reader will find some cool playlists I feel some people may enjoy.

Rating 3⭐

About the author:

Phoebe Wahl is a children’s book author and illustrator. Her first children’s book Sonya’s Chickens (Tundra Books) was the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for New Illustrator, and was listed by School Library Journal, Kirkus and HuffPost Books as being one of the Best Children’s Books of 2015. Her next book, Backyard Fairies (Knopf) will be released March 6th, 2018. Her upcoming titles include The Paper Mice (Simon & Schuster, written by Megan Wagner Lloyd) and Little Witch Hazel (Tundra Books). Phoebe lives in Bellingham, WA and is represented by Jennifer Laughran of Andrea Brown Literary.

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#BookReview Picture Day By Sarah Sax @tbrbeyondtours #middlegrade

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Review

This is a coming of age graphic novel about a 7th grader named Olivia going by the name Viv because there are so many other Olivia’s at her school and she is on a mission to be bold and different and live in her truth. On picture day at school her mom makes Viv were an old cardigan that Viv doesn’t like at all. Viv wants to stand out so badly so while at school she ends up cutting her braid off to send a message that she is ready to not be the same person any morere.

Viv follows a popular influencer named Quinn Sparks, Quinn seems to be someone Viv looks up to and gets a lot of advice from. Quinn tends to talk about being your true self and doing what makes you happy regardless of how others think.

Viv wants the recognition from some kids at school regarding her new change. Meanwhile her friends Milo and Al just want her to stay on task regarding the costumes in skate sequence that they’re doing for school.

I believe young kids and middle schoolers who read this will learn that trying to be too different comes at price and also following internet fame shouldn’t be as important as really loving who you are.

I enjoyed the illustrations and how colorful they were. This graphic novel has a good message for kids which is something I really appreciate.

Rating 4⭐

Synopsis

Book Info:
Picture Day by Sarah Sax
Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel
Publishing Date: June 27, 2023
Synopsis:
Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school is picture day ! And that’s exactly where
this yearbook-worthy graphic novel series opener with reinventing yourself, drama, popularity, and
the friends who see you through.
Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a
boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.)
But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair
of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid.
Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning
their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete
championships. She hardly even has time for her friends anymore. It’s exactly how she dreamed of
reinventing herself…right?
In the tradition of modern classics like Vera Brosgol’s Be Prepared , Svetlana Chmakova’s Awkward
, and Kayla Miller’s Click , Picture Day brings answers to perennial questions of what it means to be
true to yourself—and a true friend.

Book Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926934
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Day-Brinkley-Yearbooks-Sarah/dp/0593306880/
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/picture-day-sarah-sax/1142214029/
IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/picture-day/18885244

About author

Sarah cares deeply about encouraging young readers to discover and expand their sense of creative
confidence. She studied Storytelling and Sequential Imagery at Hampshire College and she’s since
worked as an educator at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, a volunteer with 826
Valencia, and as Creative Director at Lumosity, where she led a team of artists working with
scientists and game designers to transform problem-solving and memory skills into brain-training
games. She is the illustrator of the first three books (Escape This Book: Titanic; Escape this Book:
Tombs of Egypt; and Escape This Book: Race to the Moon) in the inventive, interactive Escape This
Book! series, which has been translated into eight languages. PICTURE DAY, her first of four graphic
novels in the Brinkley Yearbooks series, will be published in the summer of 2023. She lives in
Portland, Maine.

Author Links:
Website: https://www.sarahsax.me/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahsaxart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahsaxart/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18173552.Sarah_Sax
Tour Schedule:
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#BlogTour Dark Magic By Raluca Narita #fantasynovel #bookpromotion @tbrandbeyond

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Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Publishing date: June 27th, 2023

Synopsis:

The Goddess of Death, the Grimm Brothers, and the Devil collide in a thrilling new paranormal fantasy series.

Primrose Titan is the Goddess of Death, an ancient deity who reaps the souls of the dead and rules the Underworld. All life ends with death, and in death, there is no happiness. Primrose knows this better than anyone, and her heavy responsibility has twisted her reality, purging her of all feelings for humans—or so she believes.

When the Demon King Lucifer escapes his prison in Hell and threatens chaos on the human world, Primrose must hunt him down. The High Court, a council of deities, is skeptical Primrose can handle Lucifer on her own and appoints the handsome yet icy Atlas Grimm, one of the fabled Grimm Brothers, to assist her. Strange, dark magic and supernatural creatures sent from the Devil himself stand in their way, along with political enemies acquired over the millennia.

About the author

Raluca Narita was born in Romania and grew up in Southern California and West Texas. She currently resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and loves to travel in her free time. Raluca is the author of The Chronicles of the Underworld series.

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TOUR SCHEDULE: Dark Magic (The Chronicles of the Underworld #1) by Raluca Narita

#BookReview The Umbrella Maker’s Son By Katrin Leno #middlegrade @tbrandbeyond

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This is a fun and fast paced middle grade story about a young boy who is the son of an umbrellalla maker. Oscar lives in a place where it rains constantly and there are many different types of rain, that’s how much rain they get. So the umbrella business is always booming here.

The people of the city tend to buy cheap not well supported umbrellas just to get them through the day. The issue is they are breaking and just not good for the amount of rain they get. The people of the city would rather pay less then pay more for something that will last and actually work.

Oscar dad needs more help at his shop so his dad asks him to leave school to become his apprentice. Oscar doesn’t like this his passion is art not making and selling umbrellas.

In the story Oscar and his best friend Saige try to understand the weird weather in the city and other darkness that may occurcuring.

This was a fun lightheaded fast paced read I really enjoyed it.

Rating 4 ⭐

Synopsis

The Umbrella Maker’s Son by Katrina Leno
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Publishing Date: June 27, 2023
Synopsis:
From a critically acclaimed author comes a fantastical middle grade novel about a boy determined to
prove there’s more than just the weather behind his rainy town.
Oscar Buckle lives in a city where it’s always raining. And when it isn’t raining, it’s about to rain, so
the townspeople have learned to embrace it. Oscar’s father is an umbrella maker—appropriate for a
place where you can’t leave home without one!—but while Buckle Umbrellas are strong, reliable,
and high quality, they’re expensive . Because of this, people are buying from the competitor instead,
which is threatening Oscar’s family’s business.
To make ends meet, Oscar is forced to quit school and work in his father’s shop as an apprentice. But
when extraordinary events start to occur in their rainy town, Oscar becomes suspicious of their
competitor. Desperate to save his town, Oscar must enlist the help of his best friend, Saige, to
discover if there’s more than nature involved in their city’s weather.
Content Warning: Grief, loss of a parent

About the author

Katrina Leno was born on the East Coast and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of
seven critically acclaimed novels for young adults: Sometime in Summer, Horrid, You Must Not Miss,
Summer of Salt, Everything All at Once, The Lost & Found, and The Half Life of Molly Pierce. Her
eighth novel (and first middle grade) The Umbrella Maker’s Son, arrives June 27, 2023. She thinks
you are just lovely.

Author Links:
Website: https://www.katrinaleno.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katrinaleno
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrinalenobooks/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6549397.Katrina_Leno
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katrinalenobooks

Tour Schedule:
https://tbrandbeyondtours.com/2023/05/10/tour-schedule-the-umbrella-makers-son-by-katrina-
leno/