Tour Schedule: CINDERELLA'S DRESS By Shonna Slayton



Hey everyone! We are super excited to announce the hosts and schedule for Shonna Slayton's CINDERELLA'S DRESS Blog Tour.

The tour runs for two weeks, from June 2nd-6th and 9th- 13th, and consists of reviews, interviews, and guest posts!

There will also be an awesome tour-wide giveaway!

We can't wait for CINDERELLA'S DRESS to release on June 3rd and for the tour to begin on the 2nd.

But until then, here are your hosts...

The Tour Hosts


Week One

6/2/2014- Zach's YA ReviewsReview
6/2/2014- Dark NovellaExcerpt
6/3/2014- Angelic Book ReviewsReview
6/3/2014- Pages From My ThoughtsInterview
6/4/2014- YA Book MadnessReview
6/4/2014- The Cover ContessaGuest Post
6/5/2014- Crossroad ReviewsReview
6/5/2014- Such a Novel IdeaGuest Post
6/6/2014- The NerdHerd ReadsReview
6/6/2014- Fire and IceExcerpt

Week Two

6/9/2014- Racing To Read- Review
6/9/2014- Paranormal Book ClubInterview
6/10/2014- The Phantom ParagrapherReview
6/10/2014- Addicted ReadersGuest Post
6/11/2014- Creating SerenityReview
6/11/2014- Every Free Chance Book ReviewsInterview
6/12/2014- A Backwards StoryGuest Post
6/13/2014- The YA's NightstandReview
6/13/2014- Curling Up With A Good BookExcerpt

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Title: CINDERELLA'S DRESS
Author: Shonna Slayton
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pub. Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 340
Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you’re the next keeper of the real Cinderella’s dress is even tougher.
Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella’s dress, life gets complicated.
Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart shipped off to boot camp, and her great aunt losing her wits, Kate has to unravel the mystery before it’s too late.
After all, the descendants of the wicked stepsisters will stop at nothing to get what they think they deserve.




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Tour Schedule: BRAZEN by Katherine Longshore



Hey everyone! We are super excited to announce the hosts and schedule for Katherine Longshore's BRAZEN Blog Tour.

The tour runs for two weeks, from June 2nd-6th and 9th- 13th, and consists of reviews, interviews, and guest posts!

There will also be a tour-wide giveaway for signed copies of all 3 books! US and International.

We can't wait for BRAZEN to release on June 12th and for the tour to begin on the 2nd.

But until then, here are your hosts...

The Tour Hosts


Week One

6/2/2014- Literary ExplorationReview
6/2/2014- The Anne Boleyn FilesGuest Post
6/3/2014- Romantic Reads and SuchInterview
6/4/2014- Page TurnersReview
6/5/2014- Magical Urban Fantasy ReadsGuest Post
6/6/2014- Parajunkee's ViewInterview

Week Two

6/9/2014- Gone With The WordsReview
6/10/2014- Tales of the Ravenous ReaderInterview
6/11/2014- Bewitched Bookworms- Guest Post and Review
6/12/2014- Two Chicks on BooksGuest Post
6/13/2014- Mundie MomsReview
6/13/2014- FiktshunInterview

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Title: BRAZEN
Author: Katherine Longshore
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Pub. Date: June 12, 2014
Pages: 528
Mary Howard has always lived in the shadow of her powerful family. But when she’s married off to Henry Fitzroy, King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, she rockets into the Tudor court’s inner circle. Mary and “Fitz” join a tight clique of rebels who test the boundaries of court’s strict rules with their games, dares, and flirtations. The more Mary gets to know Fitz, the harder she falls for him, but is forbidden from seeing him alone. The rules of court were made to be pushed…but pushing them too far means certain death. Is true love worth dying for?



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Cover Reveal- MIRROR X by Karri Thompson

Hey everyone! We are thrilled to announce a Cover Reveal Blast we're doing for Karri Thompson's upcoming novel MIRROR X which is slated to release on June 23, 2014 from Entangled Teen!

The reveal is scheduled for Tuesday, June 3rd at Midnight Eastern and we'd love to have you take part!

If you'd love to participate but won't be able to get your post up on Tuesday the 3rd, posting later that day or later in the week will be absolutely fine!

You do NOT need to be signed up as a host with Rockstar Book Tours to participate. EVERYONE is welcome to sign up.

The sign-up for the reveal will be super simple. We will provide the the cover, the blurb, exclusive excerpt, rafflecopter link, author details and all the links in a Word document.

And for those who don't want to do more than "tweak" their posts, we will provided a coded post for Blogger blogs that you can just add your own formatting to.

We will send everything you need for your posts on the Monday June 2nd. But if you'd like it a little bit earlier or if sign-ups have closed and you would still like to participate, just email us!

***Sign-ups will be open until June 2nd until noon PST***



We both think MIRROR X sounds amazing (Jaime already read it and loved it!) and cannot wait for its release!Which is why we just had to share the description so you could judge for yourself.



About the Book 
Title: MIRROR X
Author: Karri Thompson
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pub. Date: June23, 2014
Find it: Goodreads
I was born more than a thousand years ago.

Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.

But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.

Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets. 

The cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new world where “life is precious” but no one seems free to live it. The problem is, I don’t think he’s being totally honest with me, either.

When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…

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Tour Announcement: THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN Blog Tour by Allen Zadoff


Hey everyone! We are totally stoked to announce a new tour for THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN series by Allen Zadoff which releases on June 17, 2014.

The tour runs for two weeks -  June 16th- 20th and June 23rd- 27th- and will have one stop per day.

This tour will have a mix of reviews, guest posts, and interviews.

The bloggers who are chosen as hosts for a guest post or interview stop will be required to come up with guest post topics (at least three) or interview questions (at least five). Interviews can be author or character interviews.

Review copies of both books will be provided to review stops from Little Brown.

Giveaway Details: There will be finished copies of both books up for grabs throughout the tour (US Only).

If you'd like to be considered to be a stop on this tour, please first sign up as a tour host and then fill out the sign-up form HERE.

***Sign-ups are open until May 26th at noon PST**

Once the blog hosts have been chosen and the tour schedule finalized we will have a post announcing the tour.

Please note: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed.

We are so unbelievably thrilled to be hosting this tour for Allen's books THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN and I AM THE MISSION and we cannot wait for its release this June!



About the Books 


Title: I AM THE MISSION (The Unknown Assassin #2)
Author: Allen Zadoff
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date: June 17, 2014
Pages: 432

He was the perfect assassin. No name. No past. No remorse. Perfect, that is, until he began to ask questions and challenge his orders. Now The Program is worried that their valuable soldier has become a liability. 

And so Boy Nobody is given a new mission. A test of sorts. A chance to prove his loyalty.

His objective: Take out Eugene Moore, the owner of an extremist military training camp for teenagers. It sounds like a simple task, but a previous operative couldn't do it. He lost the mission and is presumed dead. Now Boy Nobody is confident he can finish the job. Quickly.

But when things go awry, Boy Nobody finds himself lost in a mission where nothing is as it seems: not The Program, his allegiances, nor the truth. 

The riveting second book in Allen Zadoff's Boy Nobody series delivers heart-pounding action and a shocking new twist that makes Boy Nobody question everything he has believed.

Title: I AM THE WEAPON (The Unknown Assassin #1)
Author: Allen Zadoff
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date: June 11, 2013
Pages: 352

Previously published under the title Boy Nobody 

They needed the perfect assassin.

Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a new name, makes a few friends, and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die-of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, moving on to the next target. 

But when he's assigned to the mayor of New York City, things change. The daughter is unlike anyone he has encountered before; the mayor reminds him of his father. And when memories and questions surface, his handlers at The Program are watching. Because somewhere deep inside, Boy Nobody is somebody: the kid he once was; the teen who wants normal things, like a real home and parents; a young man who wants out. And who just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's mission.

In this action-packed series debut, author Allen Zadoff pens a page-turning thriller that is as thought-provoking as it is gripping, introducing an utterly original and unforgettable antihero.
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LOVE, LUCY Book Blast, Guest Post + Giveaway


We are so excited to be able to help spread the word that LOVE, LUCY by April Lindner is now available to pre-order at Amazon and The Book Depository. LOVE, LUCY releases in January 2015, but until then we are thrilled to share an awesome guest post from Lucy Sommersworth on the Top Ten Things she loves about Italy. It sounds like she had an amazing time and we can’t wait to hear all about it in January.

If you haven’t yet heard about this amazing-sounding book, there’s some information and places to find it online below. And if you haven’t yet met April Lindner, her details are also below.

This blast also includes a giveaway for an Amazon eGiftcard, so if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

About LOVE, LUCY



Title: LOVE, LUCY
Author: April Lindner
Publisher: Poppy
Release date: January 27, 2015

Available to pre-order now at Amazon and The Book Depository

Description:

While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, 17-year-old Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her "vacation flirtation." But just because summer is over doesn't mean Lucy and Jesse are over, too.


The Guest Post



The Top Ten Things I Love About Italy

By Lucy Sommersworth


10. Train stations. They make my heart beat a little bit faster. I especially love the departure signs lit up with the names of exotic cities. They make me want to pick a destination at random—Venice or Milan or Naples, basically any place I’ve never been before—and just jump on, trusting that some kind of wonderful adventure will be waiting for me when I hop off. I would do it too except for the fact that Charlene, the friend I’m traveling with, likes schedules and order. I could never talk her into doing something that reckless.



9. The language. Italian is so lush and musical. Not that I can speak it, exactly. I took Italian in high school, and I can remember just enough to say basic things like excuse me and I would like the Spaghetti Bolognese, please. But even just reading the street signs out loud makes me feel like a different version of myself—more worldly and glamorous. And even the most ordinary words, the ones that mean ATM or supermarket—sound glorious in Italian.

8. Italian men. What can I say? I’ve always had a thing for dark brown eyes.



7. Window shopping. I could do it all day long. Window displays are different in Italy, quirkier and more colorful. I especially love the sparkling little jewelry stores on the Ponte Vecchio, the funky clothing store displays, and store windows full of colorful, exotic treats—marzipan fruit, and candied rose and violet petals.


6. Sidewalk cafes. Nobody minds if you linger forever over a single cappuccino, just soaking in the atmosphere and watching the people pass by.

5. Gelato. After a few hours, walking around Florence can make a person exhausted. Luckily, wherever you turn, there’s a glass storefront gleaming with refreshing gelato—a miniature rainbow-colored mountain range of it: raspberry, mango, lemon, dark chocolate, hazelnut, pistachio—and all of it amazing.


4. Street Performers. Though Charlene insists they’re just begging and we shouldn’t give them our money, I can’t help myself. I love them all: street musicians, the people who draw chalk masterpieces in the street, the folks who dress up as statues and pose for tourists. I’ve even got a soft spot for mimes!


3. Riding on a Vespa. Please don’t tell my mom, okay? She would have a panic attack if she knew.


2. Pretending I’m Audrey Hepburn. Roman Holiday is one of my all-time favorite movies, and the reason I wanted to go to Italy in the first place. Audrey Hepburn plays Princess Ann, who has grown deathly bored with having to give speeches and act stiff and regal. On a stop in Rome she runs away, and wanders through the city pretending to be a commoner. Of course she falls in love with Gregory Peck. Like her, he’s pretending, acting like a nice, ordinary guy who just wants to show her around Rome, when really he’s a reporter with ulterior motives. He recognizes her, and plans to write a tell-all story about her for his newspaper.

I won’t spoil the ending. I’ll just add that if you’re planning a trip to Rome, you need to see Roman Holiday first. And then, if you happen to meet a gorgeous, dark-eyed stranger, maybe you can get him take you on a Roman Holiday tour, and you can pretend to be Audrey Hepburn the way I did.

1. The amazing people I met along the way. Swapping stories with other backpackers about our travels and misadventures. Vacation flirtations with dark-eyed strangers. And, just maybe, experiencing a real summer romance.


About April Lindner




April Lindner is the author of three novels: Catherine, a modernization of Wuthering Heights; Jane, an update of Jane Eyre; and Love, Lucy, due out in January, 2015. She also has published two poetry collections, Skin and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. She plays acoustic guitar badly, sees more rock concerts than she’d care to admit, travels whenever she can, cooks Italian food, and lavishes attention on her pets—two Labrador retriever mixes and two excitable guinea pigs. A professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, April lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons.




The Giveaway


This blast includes a giveaway for a $15 Amazon eGiftcard to ONE winner.

++The giveaway is open to anyone who can accept Amazon eGiftcards from the U.S. store.

++The giveaway ends on May 26, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.


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Tour Announcement: REBEL NATION by Shaunta Grimes


Hey everyone! We are totally stoked to announce a new tour for REBEL NATION by Shaunta Grimes which releases on July 1, 2014.

The tour runs for two weeks -  June 23rd- 27th and June 30th- July 4th- and will have two stops per day.

This tour will have a mix of reviews, guest posts, and interviews.

The bloggers who are chosen as hosts for a guest post or interview stop will be required to come up with guest post topics (at least three) or interview questions (at least five). Interviews can be author or character interviews.

Review copies will be provided to review stops from Berkeley Trade.

Details on a giveaway are TK.

If you'd like to be considered to be a stop on this tour, please first sign up as a tour host and then fill out the sign-up form HERE.

***Sign-ups are open until May 16th at noon PST**

Once the blog hosts have been chosen and the tour schedule finalized we will have a post announcing the tour.

Please note: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed.

We are so unbelievably thrilled to be hosting this tour for Shaunta's book REBEL NATION and we cannot wait for its release this July!



About the Book 
Title:REBEL ATION
Author: Shaunta Grimes
Publisher :Berkeley Trade
Pub. Date: July 1, 2014
Pages: 320

Sixteen years ago, a plague wiped out nearly all of humanity. The Company’s vaccine stopped the virus’s spread, but society was irrevocably changed. Those remaining live behind impenetrable city walls, taking daily doses of virus suppressant and relying on The Company for continued protection. They don’t realize that everything they’ve been told is a lie…

Clover Donovan didn’t set out to start a revolution—quiet, autistic, and brilliant, she’s always followed the rules. But that was before they forced her into service for the Time Mariners. Before they condemned her brother to death, compelling him to flee the city to survive. Before she discovered terrifying secrets about The Company.

Clover and the Freaks, her ragtag resistance group, are doing their best to spread the rebellion and stay under The Company’s radar. But when their hideout is discovered, they are forced, once again, to run. Only this time, The Company has special plans for Clover, plans that could risk her life and stop the uprising in its tracks…

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Tour Announcement: CINDERELLA'S DRESS by Shonna Slayton


Hey everyone! We are totally stoked to announce a new tour for CINDERELLA'S DRESS by Shonna Slayton which releases on June 3, 2014.

The tour runs for two weeks -  June 2nd- 6th and 9th- 13th- and will have two stops per day.

This tour will have a mix of reviews, guest posts, and interviews.

The bloggers who are chosen as hosts for a guest post or interview stop will be required to come up with guest post topics (at least three) or interview questions (at least five). Interviews can be author or character interviews.

Review copies will be provided to review stops from Entangled Teen.

Details on a giveaway are TK.

If you'd like to be considered to be a stop on this tour, please first sign up as a tour host and then fill out the sign-up form HERE.

***Sign-ups are open until May 14th at noon PST**

Once the blog hosts have been chosen and the tour schedule finalized we will have a post announcing the tour.

Please note: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed.

We are so unbelievably thrilled to be hosting this tour for Shonna's book CINDERELLA'S DRESS and we cannot wait for its release this June!



About the Book 
Title:CINDERELLA'S DRESS
Author: Shonna Slayton
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pub. Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 340

Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you’re the next keeper of the real Cinderella’s dress is even tougher.
Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella’s dress, life gets complicated.
Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart shipped off to boot camp, and her great aunt losing her wits, Kate has to unravel the mystery before it’s too late.
After all, the descendants of the wicked stepsisters will stop at nothing to get what they think they deserve.

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Tour Schedule: THE LOVELY AND THE LOST by Page Morgan



Hey everyone! We are super excited to announce the hosts and schedule for Page Morgan's THE LOVELY AND THE LOST Blog Tour.

The tour runs for two weeks, from May 12th-16th and 19th- 23rd, and consists of reviews, interviews, and guest posts!

There will also be a tour-wide giveaway for signed copies of book 1 and book 2 plus swag! US Only.

We can't wait for THE LOVELY AND THE LOST to release on May 13th and for the tour to begin on the 12th.

But until then, here are your hosts...

The Tour Hosts


Week One

5/12/2014- Dark Faerie TalesGuest Post
5/13/2014- Alice Marvels - Guest Post
5/14/2014- Lili's ReflectionsReview
5/15/2014- Book SwoonReview
5/16/2014- FiktshunInterview Luc

Week Two

5/19/2014- Bookhounds YAReview
5/20/2014- YaReadsReview
5/21/2014- Tales of the Ravenous ReaderInterview
5/22/2014- Two Chicks on BooksGuest Post-Nolan
5/23/2014- Refracted Light ReviewsInterview

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Title: THE LOVELY AND THE LOST 
Author: Page Morgan
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pub. Date: May 13, 2014
Pages: 368
For readers of Lauren Kate's Fallen series comes the sequel to The Beautiful and the Cursed, The Lovely and the Lost finds the Waverly sisters in mortal danger and able to trust no one.
   Ingrid and Gabby Waverly moved to France expecting a quiet reprieve from London gossip, but the truth they face in their new home has a sharper—and deadlier—sting.
   Paris is plagued by an underworld of demons and gargoyles who all seem to want something from the Waverly girls. Saving Ingrid's twin, Grayson, from the fallen angel Axia nearly killed them. And they're still being hunted—only this time, demons aren't their only predators.
   Ingrid's blood is special: it bestows the power to command gargoyles. It's an ability no other human has, and in the wrong hands, it could be used to send her cursed guardian, Luc, and his fellow Dispossessed to extinction. There are those who will do anything to get Ingrid's blood—and they see no value in human life.
   The Alliance has vowed to protect the Waverlys, and a new gargoyle has been assigned to guard their abbey home alongside Luc. But no one can watch over Ingrid, Gabby, and Grayson all the time—which means the three must learn to fight for themselves.
   Because darkness follows the Waverlys. And sometimes darkness comes in the form you trust the most.



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Book Blast + Guest Post: LOVE, LUCY by April Lindner

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Hey everyone! We are thrilled to announce a Book Blast we're doing for April Lindner's LOVE, LUCY, to help spread the word that it's now available to pre-order.

LOVE, LUCY releases on January 27, 2015 and we can't wait to read it. But for now we're super excited to be able to get some buzz going and share a Guest Post by the author.

We're looking to have the blast go out on MONDAY, MAY 12TH at Midnight Eastern (Sunday, May 11th at 11PM Central/Sunday, May 11th at 9PM Pacific), so if you'd like to participate we'd love to have you help out.

Even if you won't be able to post it at Midnight Eastern, or if you won't be able to post it until later that week, that is more than fine! It just can't go up any earlier than Midnight Eastern on Monday.

You do NOT need to be signed up as a host with Rockstar Book Tours to participate. EVERYONE is welcome to sign up.

The sign-up for the reveal will be super simple. We will provide the cover, the guest post, book and author details and all links in a Word document.

And for those who don't want to do more than "tweak" their posts, we will provided a coded post for Blogger blogs that you can just add your own formatting to.

We will send everything you need for your posts on Saturday the 10th. But if you'd like it a little bit earlier or if sign-ups have closed and you would still like to participate, just email us!

***Sign-ups will be open until 5 p.m. Pacific on May 11th.***


LOVE, LUCY sounds amazing. And we are super excited for its release this winter.

About LOVE, LUCY


Title: LOVE, LUCY
Author: April Lindner
Pub. Date: January 27, 2015
Publisher: Poppy
Pages: 304
Find it: Amazon | Goodreads
While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, 17-year-old Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her "vacation flirtation." But just because summer is over doesn't mean Lucy and Jesse are over, too.
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