Release Day Blitz + Giveaway - Other Breakable Things by Kelley York and Rowan Altwood

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Other Breakable Things
by Kelley York and Rowan Altwood

presented by Entangled Teen!

Congratulations Kelley York and Rowan Altwood!!

According to Japanese legend, folding a thousand paper cranes will grant you healing.

Evelyn Abel will fold two thousand if it will bring Luc back to her.

Luc Argent has always been intimately acquainted with death. After a car crash got him a second chance at life—via someone else’s transplanted heart—he tried to embrace it. He truly did. But he always knew death could be right around the corner again.

And now it is.

Sick of hospitals and tired of transplants, Luc is ready to let his failing heart give out, ready to give up. A road trip to Oregon—where death with dignity is legal—is his answer. But along for the ride is his best friend, Evelyn.

And she’s not giving up so easily.

A thousand miles, a handful of roadside attractions, and one life-altering kiss later, Evelyn’s fallen, and Luc’s heart is full. But is it enough to save him? Evelyn’s betting her heart, her life, that it can be.

Right down to the thousandth paper crane.

Other Breakable Things by Kelley York and Rowan Altwood
Publication Date: April 4 ,2017
Publisher: Entangled Teen

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It dawns on me that I’ve never even seen Luc shirtless. When he straightens up and turns to face me, it also dawns on me why that is.

I knew he’d have a scar from his heart surgery. Common sense. It never occurred to me what it might look like, or that Luc might be self-conscious of it. It starts at his clavicle and runs straight down his chest, ending at just below his ribcage. It’s prominent. It’s unmissable. And I see him absently touch a hand to it like, yes, he’s aware this is the first time I’m seeing it and he doesn’t like it.

Kelley York and Rowan Altwood are a wife and wife writing team living in central California with their daughter and way too many cats. Kelley is the author of Hushed, Made of Stars, and Modern Monsters, and Other Breakable Things is Rowan’s debut.

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Cover Reveal - The Canary Club by Sherry D. Ficklin

The Canary Club by Sherry D. Ficklin
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: October 16th 2017
Genres: Historical, Young Adult

“Bad Luck” Benny is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Recently released from jail, he has vowed to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. But he also needs to care for his ailing sister and the rest of his struggling family, and he’ll do anything to make that happen—even if it means taking a position with a notorious crime boss. He soon finds himself in over his head—and worse still—falling for the one dame on earth he should be staying away from.

Masie is the daughter of a wealthy gangster with the voice of an angel and gun smoke in her veins. Strong-willed but trapped in a life she never wanted, she dreams of flying free from the politics and manipulation of her father. A pawn in her family’s fight for control of the city, and with a killer hot on her heels, she turns to the one person who just might be able to spring her from her gilded cage. But Masie is no angel, and her own dark secrets may come back to burn them both.

Two worlds collide in this compelling story of star-crossed lovers in gritty prohibition-era New York.

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Author Bio

 

Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

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Review - A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Title: A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Author: Sara Barnard

Pages: 320

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

Release date: 12th January 2017

Blurb from Goodreads:

 

Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder... 

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it. 

The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things is a love story about the times when a whisper is as good as a shout. 

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My Review:

*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley*

 

Steffi struggles with selective mutism and panic attacks but this year is going to be different - this year Steffi must try to speak more to prove to her parents that she will be able to cope with university.

Then Steffi meets Rhys who is a new student and deaf. Assigned to look after Rhys, Steffi uses her limited sign language to talk to him.

Steffi and Rhys soon grow close, but can they have a future together?

So far it seems to be a theme with Sara Barnard's books that I'm slightly, well, underwhelmed after reading them.

Obviously, I found it interesting that A Quiet Kind of Thunder was about a selective mute and someone that was deaf, but that was really the best part of the book for me.

For the most part I liked Steffi. I felt sorry for her - having selective mutism for most of her life must have been really hard.

Rhys was okay but he annoyed me at times.

I liked Tem and Steffi's relationship with her.

The plot was alright but I predicted certain things that happened and lost interest a few times.

I wasn't a huge fan of the romance but I thought Steffi and Rhys were cute together.

Overall this was okay read.