Bad Apple Book Tour

Yes, this is a new year and we're going to be changing things up which means getting Bad Apple in front of readers in an improved and coordinated way.   If you have a chance, stop by and add your support to our efforts to help Bad Apple.  You'd show up for a concert Neal and Tru gave, right?  (I would!  Wait, is it going to be at night?)

January 7 Reviewing in Chaos   

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January 7 Zone Out Mode 

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January 8 Books in the Hall 

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January 8 Bookishly Devoted

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January 9 Lunar Haven Reviews & Designs

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January 10 Bex 'n' Books 

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January 11 A Bibliophiles Thoughts on Books

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January 12 JeanzBookReadNReview         

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January 12 Sapphyria's Book Reviews

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January 13 Books & Tales

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January 13 Buffy's Ramblings

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January 13 Boekie's Book Reviews

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January 14 Books & Other Spells. 

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January 14 Musings From An Addicted Reader

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Flash a Freebie

That sounds like putting on a raincoat and going to the nearest park.
Considering we're under a blizzard warning, I'll skip the raincoat and stick with survival clothing.

Flash is indeed free today and for the next 2 days after this so if you don't already have it now is a good time to introduce yourself to Kip Chanin and Alex Milne.

FLASH

Pass or Fail

I don't believe I mentioned this Mature YA.  I'll explain why.  It contains some very difficult situations and I didn't want someone to be excited by Dream Horse and say (like an adult did not long ago) "I'm going to buy everything by Barbara!" and then find out there's sex, drugs and rock and roll in this, very unlike pony club.  So I published it under another pen name but then this Mature YA label started to surface and I thought, okay, if I can put that label on it, maybe the wrong audience won't be so easily exposed to this material.

I'm sure kids see far worse at 7:30 on their televisions.  But that's not my problem.  I have to do what I think is right.

That's why you haven't heard of this book.

Pass or Fail is based on some rumors I once heard and that's as far as I'll go with that for the moment.

It's a story about desires so deep and so demanding that all sense of what's right and good and appropriate is swept away in order to fulfill those needs.

Flash Blog Tour

I'm a complete beginner to blog tours, but a very nice woman, Megan McDade, set up one for me in England.
Here is the first review Flash received and you can't ask for a better reception than this.  If 5 stars is Shakespeare....

My Thoughts:

Flash by Barbara Morgenroth is a book that hooked my from page one and didn't let me go until I had finished the very last page. And even then, it played on my mind for so long after I finished reading it!!!

Kip Chanin dreams of being a news photographer. Graced with talent and artistic intuition when it comes to her craft, but to support herself and her mother she puts those dreams aside and reluctantly joins the ranks of the paparazzi. She takes a photo of actor Alex Milne and from taking one single image both of their lives will be changed.

Kip is such a strong female lead. She's pretty much had to grow up incredibly quickly to be able to get by, but she has this underlying layer of vulnerability. Having been independent for so long it was nice to see the relationships that she formed and see her allow someone to get close enough to offer her some support. As for the relationship that she has with Alex... It was very much a will they or won't they, are they or aren't they scenario for a lot of the book, but there is no doubt the impact that they each had on the other!! There is definitely an intensity to their feelings for each other.

The author had this ability to end a chapter leaving me with so much anticipation as to what was going to happen next that there was no way that I could stop reading. I don't know how many times I said to myself "Just one more chapter" and before I knew it, I had completely finished the book.

I'm not usually a fan of huge cliffhangers, and let me tell you that the end of this book was a doozy that completely blew me away. It was definitely an "OH. MY. GOD. ending!!! But thank heavens that the sequel is out and ready for me to purchase and read.

Never having read anything by Barb Morgenroth before, Flash turned out to be a real gem of a book and I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to read it. A fantastic book full of gritty and real characters!!

4.5/5 Stars!!

Young Adult Book Addict