Giveaway Spotlight - Spring Into Summer

Spring Into Summer Giveaway!

I smell summer in the air! I’m not sad about the melting snow out my window right now, that’s for sure! I hope your 2017 has been treating you well so far! How about I make it even better for you with an awesome giveaway!? :) These seasonal giveaways are my way to thank my incredible and hard-working tour hosts who just rock my world, as well as all my supporters!

Also, in case you didn’t know, Xpresso Book Tours always has a selection of review copies you can request from all genres and age groups, and I want to give a big THANK YOU to anyone who has ever reviewed for us!

This giveaway is not exclusive to tour hosts, but you do get extra entries if you participate in Xpresso Book Tours events.

What’s up for grabs:
2 WINNERS!

An Amazon Fire HD 8 – Open internationally (as long as Amazon ships to you)

AND
$200 Amazon Gift Card – Open Internationally!

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Book Blast & Giveaway - A Strange Companion by Lisa Manterfield

A Strange Companion

Author: Lisa Manterfield

Book Description:

Kat Richardson isn’t running away from grief; she’s just hiding out in a gloomy Welsh university town until she’s sure it’s gone. Now, one year, nine months, and 27 days after the climbing death of her first love, Gabe, she thinks she’s ready to venture out into the relationship world again. And Owen—a cake-baking, Super Ball-making chemistry student—appears to be a kind, funny, and very attractive option.

But the arrival of Kat’s newly adopted niece, Mai, forces her home to northern England, where she runs headfirst into all the memories of Gabe she’s tried to leave behind—and discovers that Mai stirs up an unnerving feeling of déjà vu. Before long, Kat’s logical, scientific beliefs about life after death are in battle with what she feels to be true—that reincarnation is real and Gabe has come back to her through Mai. The question now, is why?

Taking on the topics of love, loss, and how we deal with grief, A Strange Companion is a twisted love triangle among the living, the dead, and the reincarnated.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Age Six Racer by J. Addams

Age Six Racer

Author: Joe Vercillo

Genre: Adventure/Coming of Age

Publisher: Wild Thorn Publishing

Date of Publication: 03/25/2017 
ISBN: 9781520784137

ASIN: B06XFMNQNG
Number of pages: 150

Word Count: 36 000

Book Description:
 Now, I'm not sure if it's like this for every guy out there, but it seems like the main underlying reason for everything I do is because of a girl. It was 'the girl' who made me run away from my hometown. And it was 'the girl' who almost got me killed. But it was also because of 'the girl' that I ended up in New York City with my three best friends on a mad adventure.

My name is Princeton, and I'm a white-footed mouse.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Summer of Irreverence - The Rock Star by Cathrine Goldstein

Summer of Irreverence - The Rock Star
Author: Cathrine Goldstein
Genre: Adult Romance
Release Date: July 6th, 2016
The Wild Rose Press

Book Description:
Straight-laced, veterinary surgeon, Summer Wynters is ready to break the rules. And who better to break them with than the most irreverent of all men, mega rock star Malcolm Angel? With one last summer free from work obligations, Summer moves to New York City, and at the coaxing of her friend, pretends to be a model so she can spend one wild night with Malcolm.

Rock star, Malcolm Angel, tortured by a dark past, may be the poet laureate of romance, but he, like science-minded Summer, has never believed in romantic love. How could he? With his history, he doesn’t deserve to be loved.

When Summer’s honesty, kindness, and exuberance for life changes his perspective, the two discover they are in deeper than either dreamed possible. But when Malcolm discovers Summer’s been perpetuating a lie, will he forgive her? Even if forgiveness is possible, can a man immune to love teach someone else to believe in it?

Buy Links (The ebook is on sale for only $0.99 through April 21st!):
Amazon US ¦ UK ¦ Barnes & Noble ¦ TWRP ¦ Kobo ¦ All Romance ¦ The Romance Reviews

Book Trailer Reveal - Are You There Krishna? by Rachel Khona

Are You There Krishna?

It's Me Reshma. Or Rachel. Or Whatever.: Essays on Talking to Ghosts, Accosting Celebrities, Getting High, Sexism, Race and First-Generation Woes

Author: Rachel Khona

Publisher: Thought Catalog
Pages: 257
Genre: Humor/Memoir

Book Description:
Rachel knew even as a young child that she wasn’t like the rest of her Indian family. While her parents were plotting how she could make it into med school with her mediocre grades in chemistry and biology, she had other things on her mind, including such gems as:

· Why can’t she go to the temple on her period?
· Why don’t her Indian cousins like her?
· Why was it OK to be sexualized at a beauty pageant but not for herself?
· How can she straddle two cultures while retaining her sense of self?
· Why are women considered sluts and men considered studs?
· Why do people keep asking her if she was born in India?
· Should she wax down there?
· Why does she have crazy eyes?

After leaving home, Rachel got high in Amsterdam, met her pop singer idol in a bathroom, argued with a ghost, and got lost in the Pyrenees. But that didn’t stop her from questioning while men still tell her to smile. 'Are You There Krishna? It’s Me, Reshma. Or Rachel. Or Whatever.' weaves stories of Rachel’s life with observations on race, class, sex, feminism, and culture with humor and candor.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Indiesphere Feature - In a Blue Moon (Blue Moon #1) by R.A. Desilets

In a Blue Moon

(Blue Moon #1)

Author: R.A. Desilets

Genre: YA Fairy Tale Retelling

Publication Date: May 20th, 2016

Book Description:

When Effy stumbles down the rabbit hole, she discovers the wondrous fairy tale land of East Valley in chaos. Death and insanity reign after the release of the deadly blue moon curse. Teaming up with the only sane people left—Jack the giant killer, Hansel, and Cat from Cheshire—they traverse East Valley, desperately searching for an answer.

They know Effy’s the key to unraveling the curse, but everyone who remembers how to break the curse is… well, cursed. The murderous mob has Effy in their crosshairs. With Snow, Red, Rapunzel, Gretel, and Pinocchio on the group’s trail, Effy isn’t sure any of them will make it out alive.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean

Toward a Secret Sky

Author: Heather Maclean

Book Description:

Shortly after 17-year-old Maren Hamilton is orphaned and sent to live with grandparents she’s never met in Scotland, she receives an encrypted journal from her dead mother that makes her and everyone around her a target. It confirms that her parents were employed by a secret, international organization that’s now intent on recruiting her. As Maren works to unravel the clues left behind by her mother, a murderous madness sweeps through the local population, terrorizing her small town. Maren must decide if she’ll continue her parents’ fight or stay behind to save her friends.

With the help of Gavin, an otherworldly mercenary she’s not supposed to fall in love with, and Graham, a charming aristocrat who is entranced with her, Maren races against the clock and around the country from palatial estates with twisted labyrinths to famous cathedrals with booby-trapped subterranean crypts to stay ahead of the enemy and find a cure. Along the way, she discovers the great truth of love: that laying down your life for another isn’t as hard as watching them sacrifice everything for you.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK ¦ B&N ¦ Book Depository

Blog Tour Spotlight - MOM by Collin Piprell

MOM
Magic Circles Series
Book 1
Author: Collin Piprell
Genre: Sci Fi
Publisher: Common Deer Press
Date of Publication: April 5, 2017
ISBN: 9780995072961
ASIN: B01MZJ09T4
Number of pages: 373 pages
Word Count: 100k
Cover Artist: Common Deer Press

Tagline: A mystery thriller set in the second half of the twenty-first century, MOM is the first novel in Collin Piprell's darkly comic and always thought-provoking MAGIC CIRCLES science-fiction series.

Book Description:
A GOD IS BORN!

TOO BAD ABOUT THE PERSONALITY DISORDER

So reads the graffito.

MOM is the mall operations manager — the greatest intelligence in history, a machine awakened to self-awareness at a time when the last few human survivors have withdrawn to the last two remaining refuges on Earth. Quarantined from the global nanobot superorganism outside the malls and from each other inside, the mallsters are utterly dependent on MOM for everything — including the ever-more suspect information they're getting about the world Outside.

Now the malls are crumbling.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK ¦ Common Deer Press ¦ B&N

Cover Reveal - Fiery Passion (The Forbidden Darkness Chronicles #3) by Alec John Belle

Fiery Passion
(The Forbidden Darkness Chronicles #3)

Author: Alec John Belle

Genre: YA Paranormal

Release Date: September 2017

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Mark of Destiny by Azrael James

Mark of Destiny

Author: Azrael James

Genre: Epic Fantasy

Publisher: Branch Publishing

Date of Publication: 03/02/2017

ISBN: 1544070276

ISBN-13: 978-1544070278

ASIN: B06XDSHCSS

Number of pages: 403

Word Count: 82,331

Cover Artist: T.K. Chapin

Book Description:

Her destiny will change the world forever.

Belstrom—an ancient and mystical land where the Curo Wizards rule and life is cheap.

Tizrah—a lowly armory brat who dreams of one day becoming a warrior but fate has other plans.

Korlin—a recent graduate of the High Wizard’s School of Curogath is tasked with an assignment to eradicate a lost magic system that threatens the very stability of Belstrom. Mark of Destiny weaves together the threads of a captivating fantasy adventure, while remaining epic in scope, and modern in its originality.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Book Blast & Giveaway - The Fall by James Preller

The Fall

Author: James Preller

Book Description:

An innovative new perspective on the tragedy of teen suicide.

The summer before school starts, Sam's friend and classmate Morgan Mallen kills herself. Morgan had been bullied. Maybe she kissed the wrong boy. Or said the wrong thing. What about that selfie that made the rounds? Morgan was this, and Morgan was that. But who really knows what happened?

As Sam explores the events leading up to the tragedy, he must face a difficult and life-changing question: Why did he keep his friendship with Morgan a secret? And could he have done something-anything-to prevent her final actions?

From James Preller, the author of Bystander, another unflinching book about bullying and its fallout.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK ¦ B&N ¦ Book Depository

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I Know Of) by F.J.R. Titchenell

Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I Know Of)
Author: F.J.R. Titchenell
Genre: YA Horror-Comedy
Release Date: April 4th, 2017

Book Description:
The world is Cassie Fremont’s playground. Her face is on the cover of every newspaper. She has no homework, no curfew, and no credit limit, and she spends her days traveling the country with her friends, including a boy who would do the chicken dance with death to make her smile. Life is just about perfect—except that those newspaper headlines are about her bludgeoning her crush to death with a paintball gun, she has to fight ravenous walking corpses every time she steps outside, and one of her friends is still missing, trapped somewhere in the distant, practically impassable wreckage of Manhattan. Still, Cassie’s an optimist, more prone to hysterical laughter than hysterical tears, and she’d rather fight a corpse than be one. She’ll never leave a friend stranded when she can simply take her road trip to impossible new places, even if getting there means admitting to that boy that she might love him as more than her personal jester. Skillfully blending effective horror with unexpected humor, this diary-style novel is a fast-paced and heartwarming read.

Buy Links:

Kindle US ¦ UK ¦ Paperback US ¦ UK ¦ B&N (Paperback) ¦ Nook ¦ iBooks ¦ Kobo ¦ Smashwords ¦ Indigo ¦ Books-a-Million ¦ Indiebound

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Standing Ground by Alice Rachel

Standing Ground
(Under Ground, #2)

Author: Alice Rachel
Publication Date: October 27th, 2016
Genres: Dystopian, Romance, Young Adult

Book Description:

When the authorities strike to regain control over the riots in Eboracum City and use drastic measures as retaliation against the civilians, the citizens are forced to fight back to survive. A virus has spread through the Underground, taking down the refugees one by one, soon contaminating the rebels. If Thia wants to save the ones she loves, she will have to retrieve the cure, quickly. But certain decisions are costly, and not all actions are free of consequences.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Cover Reveal & Giveaway - Shifters & Glyphs by Christina Bauer

Shifters & Glyphs
(Fairy Tales of the Magicorum, #2)

Author: Christina Bauer
Published by: Monster House Books
Publication Date: October 30th, 2018
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Finding Molly: An Adventure in Catsitting by Justine Prado, Illustrated by Jenn St-Onge

Finding Molly: An Adventure in Catsitting
Author: Justine Prado
Illustrated by: Jenn St-Onge
Genre: YA Graphic Novel
Release Date: January 2017
Emet Comics

Book Description:
Finding Molly: An Adventure in Catsitting is a graphic novel about Molly Sanchez-Talebi, an unemployed art school grad who hesitantly starts catsitting to pay the bills. She dreams of breaking out of suburbia and her artistic rut, but she has a lot of self-discovery to do before that happens. The comic follows her funny misadventures as she learns that maybe these (sometimes) friendly felines are just what she needs to get her life on track.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK

Book Blitz - At First Blush by Beth Ellyn Summer

At First Blush
Author: Beth Ellyn Summer
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: April 4th, 2017
Bloomsbury Spark

Book Description:
Who would have thought that a teenager could have a successful career creating makeup tutorial videos on YouTube? For Lacey Robbins, this dream has been her reality. An up-and-coming YouTuber, she has thousands of fans and can't wait for the day when her subscriber count reaches the one million mark. And when she is offered a high school internship at On Trend Magazine, she figures that this could be the make it or break it moment.

But sometimes your dream job isn't all that it seems. Her editor is only interested in promoting junk products, and her boss in the Hair and Makeup department introduces her to the larger world of makeup artistry, making her wonder if making tutorials online is all she is meant to do. To top it all off, when the magazine's feature subject, musician Tyler Lance, turns his broodingly handsome smile her way, falling for him could mean losing her fans, forcing her to make a decision: her YouTube life or her real life?

Fans of Zoella's GIRL ONLINE will fall right into the world of this YA DEVIL WEARS PRADA and stay hooked from the first blush to the last glossy kiss.

Buy Links:

Amazon US ¦ UK ¦ B&N ¦ Apple ¦ Kobo ¦ Google Play ¦ Bloomsbury