Book Spotlight - The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson + Giveaway

About the Book:

Title: THE SUN CASTS NO SHADOW

Author: Mark Richardson

Pub. Date: February 9, 2020

Publisher: Whiz Bang

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 178

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, Kobo

Wellington Thorneycroft is content picking pockets, taking Ambrosia, screwing prostitutes, and simply surviving in the hellish, walled City. But everything changes when he spots a spectral woman who wordlessly conveys the message: We’ll escape together. Suddenly, Thorneycroft’s life is turned upside down as he’s pulled along a circuitous path to an unknowable freedom: a path marked by violence, sex, and metaphysical dread.

Reviews:

"The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson is a dark and twisted tale of a city's underbelly...A fascinating yarn that will captivate readers, The Sun Casts No Shadow easily earns five stars. Richardson has produced an exceptional work that readers will relish and avidly share for years to come."―Portland Book Review

"A lowly man searches for a way out of a seemingly inescapable City in the dystopian noir...Richardson coats his short, engaging novel in a gleefully dense atmosphere...A dark, stylish tale that revels in its ambiguity."―Kirkus Reviews

 

About Mark Richardson:

Mark Richardson is the author of the novels The Sun Casts No Shadow, and Hunt for the Troll.

 His short stories have appeared in numerous crime and literary publications, including Hobart, Fugue, Segue, Crime Factory, Switchback, and Nth Position.

Born in the Chicago area, he graduated from the University of Iowa, and promptly escaped the midwestern winters for sunny California, first living in Los Angeles and then San Francisco. He spent thirty years working as a writer and marketer for tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Mark now lives in the East Bay with his wife, two children, and the world’s cutest dog. He spends his time writing fiction, obsessing about the Chicago Cubs, attending his daughter’s softball games, and reading stacks of books. He loves genre-bending fiction, especially speculative writing with a noir flavor. In 2019, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and supports the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will win a $10 Amazon GC courtesy of Rockstar Book Tours, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/31/2022	Rockstar Book Tours	Kickoff Post
1/31/2022	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt
2/1/2022	YABooksCentral	Guest Post
2/1/2022	Mythical Books	Excerpt/IG Post
2/2/2022	BookHounds	Guest Post
2/2/2022	@jaimerockstarbooktours	IG Post
2/3/2022	Rajiv's Reviews	Review/IG Post
2/3/2022	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Review
2/4/2022	Jazzy Book Reviews	Review
2/4/2022	Sadie's Spotlight	Excerpt/IG Post

Week Two:

2/7/2022	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
2/7/2022	Jaime's Book World	Excerpt
2/8/2022	The Girl Who Reads	Review/IG Post
2/8/2022	Prison Wife Reviews	Review/IG Post
2/9/2022	Wottaread	Excerpt
2/9/2022	Coffee and Wander Book Reviews	Review/IG Post
2/10/2022	@jypsylynn	Review/IG Post
2/10/2022	Two Points of Interest	Review
2/11/2022	The Momma Spot	Review
2/11/2022	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post

Book Spotlight - Justice At Sea by Christian Klaver + Spotlight

About The Book:

Title: JUSTICE AT SEA (The Empire of the House of Thorns)

Author: Christian Klaver

Pub. Date: December 7, 2021

Publisher: CamCat Books

Formats: Hardcover, paperback, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 320

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle,  Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

The tides of the Faerie War are turning, but at how high a cost for the Kasric family?

Justice Kasric, her siblings, and her parents are locked in combat on both sides of the Human-Faerie War. At fifteen, Justice may be the youngest ever Admiral to command her own ship and lead a resistance, but she has the magic and the will to do it. If only nearly every other member of her family weren't either in immediate danger of dying-or attempting to kill her!

Forced to make dangerous pacts with more than one unpredictable ally, only Justice can decide how far she'll go to save London. Is it worth sacrificing even a member of her own family?

Praise for Shadows Over London

"Klaver dazzles with an adventure rooted in complex feelings about family loyalties, and magically full to the brim with faerie mystery." -Tobias S. Buckell, World Fantasy Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling Author

"An enchanting and enthralling series opener." -Kirkus Reviews

"Fantasy at its most fantastic. Monsters, mystery, and magic in a beautiful and frightening world all their own. Justice Kasric and her strange family are a delight from first to last." -Steven Harper, author of The Books of Blood and Iron series

"This first title in a new series slowly builds into a magical adventure in a world that is dark and unique . . . the plot and world building are sure to enthrall readers." -School Library Journal

"Klaver's rich, lyrical descriptions augment the fantastical source material in this engaging series starter." -Publishers Weekly

About Christian Klaver:

CHRISTIAN KLAVER has been writing for over twenty years, with a number of magazine publications, including Escape Pod, Dark Wisdom Anthology, and Anti- Matter. He’s the author of The Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes, the Empire of the House of Thorns series, and the Nightwalker series, but has written over a dozen novels in both fantasy and sci-fi, often with a Noir bent. He worked as a bookseller, bartender and a martial-arts instructor before settling into a career in internet security. He lives just outside the sprawling decay of Detroit, Michigan, with his wife Kimberly, his daughter Kathryn, and a group of animals he refers to as The Menagerie.

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of JUSTICE AT SEA, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/10/2022	Rockstar Book Tours	Kickoff Post
1/11/2022	Mythical Books	Excerpt or Guest Post
1/12/2022	YABooksCentral	Excerpt or Guest Post
1/13/2022	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt or Guest Post
1/14/2022	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt

Week Two:

1/17/2022	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
1/18/2022	Jaime's Book World	Excerpt
1/19/2022	The Girl Who Reads	Review
1/20/2022	GivernyReads	Review
1/21/2022	Sadie's Spotlight	Excerpt or Guest Post

Week Three:

1/24/2022	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review/IG Post
1/25/2022	Karen Dee's Book Reviews	Review
1/26/2022	@sunnydeelights	Review
1/27/2022	Fire and Ice	Review
1/28/2022	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt or Guest Post

Week Four:

1/31/2022	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
2/1/2022	Pick A Good Book	Excerpt or Guest Post
2/2/2022	The Momma Spot	Review
2/3/2022	More Books Please blog	Review
2/4/2022	Coffee and Wander Book Reviews	Review

Week Five:

2/7/2022	@lexijava	Review
2/8/2022	@jaimerockstarbooktours	IG Post
2/9/2022	BookHounds YA	Review
2/10/2022	Two Points of Interest	Review
2/11/2022	@jypsylynn	Review

Week Six:

2/14/2022

Books a Plenty Book Reviews

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Book Spotlight - Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books (January 4, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643138871
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643138879

Praise for LUCKENBOOTH

“[Luckenbooth] is a cabinet of curiosities that is both a love letter to the Scottish capital, and a knife to its throat. The sparking nervous system of the book is its characters, all broken, all reassembled in their own ways, like Kintsugi, the Japanese process of highlighting cracks by mending them with gold...Despite its darkness, the novel is carried by jagged delight and optimism, a bright hope coming through the walls and a fundamental belief in people. Filled with blistering social critique, Luckenbooth is an ambitious and ravishing novel that will haunt me long after.” —Lauren Beukes ― The New York Times

“Luckenbooth is a deliciously weird gothic horror. Fagan once again examines the way people are affected by unhealthy spaces. Having survived the state care system that bounced her among dozens of homes, she writes about placement and displacement with an arresting mix of insight and passion. ‘No. 10 Luckenbooth,’ Fagan writes, ‘has some kind of purple memory vibrating through it like an endless hum.’ But it’s not so much a hum as a muffled scream—with a feral melody and a thundering bass line. Her prose has never been more cinematic. This story’s inexorable acceleration and its crafty use of suggestion and elision demonstrate the special effects that the best writers can brew up without a single line of Hollywood software—just paper, ink and ghosts." —Ron Charles ― The Washington Post

"In this inventive, experimental novel, Jenni Fagan traces a century in one Edinburgh tenement building and the lives of its occupants. When an unholy union forms between a childless government minister, his wife, and their fertile young maid — who happens to be the Devil’s own daughter — the building they live in is cursed for decades, affecting residents for generations." —Bustle ― Most Anticipated Books Of January 2022

"Fagan pulls out all the stops, looking evil straight in the eye and working the numerous components of this ambitious tale into a cohesive whole. " —The Washington Independent Review of Books

"In Jenni Fagan’s stunning new novel, an apartment building at 10 Luckenbooth Close in Edinburough first is scene to a terrible crime, then witness to all the blazing currents of the 20th century, moving on to explore visions of alternative history and future dystopias. Perfect for those who liked Things in Jars by Jess Kidd." —Molly Odintz ― CrimeReads, Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022

"The interwoven lives of the tenants of No. 10 Luckenbooth Close, a tenement in the heart of Edinburgh, drive this outstanding novel from Fagan (The Panopticon), set over the course of the 20th century. All the tenants’ stories enchant as the action builds to a satisfying conclusion. This highly original novel with its fairy tale quality will appeal to fantasy fans as well." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR THE PANOPTICON

'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years' Irvine Welsh

'Dazzlingly ambitious' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'A gloriously transgressive novel' Ian Rankin

1910, Edinburgh. Jessie, the devil's daughter, arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement building and knocks on a freshly painted wooden door. She has been sent by her father to bear a child for a wealthy couple, but, when things go wrong, she places a curse on the building and all who live there - and it lasts a century.

Caught in the crossfire are the residents of 10 Luckenbooth Close, and they all have their own stories to tell. While the world outside is changing, inside, the curse creeps up all nine floors and through each door. Soon, the building's longest kept secret - the truth of what happened to Jessie - will finally be heard.

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Photo Content from Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter and artist - she has published several fiction novels and poetry collections, and her work has been translated into numerous languages to great critical acclaim worldwide. Jenni has been on multiple award lists including becoming a Granta Best of Young British Novelist - a once in a decade accolade - for her debut The Panopticon. Her first two fiction novels received the front cover of The New York Times Book Review, who described her as “the Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins.”

She has written for The Independent, Marie Claire and the New York Times, and been on lists for Desmond Elliott, Encore, James Tait Black, Sunday Times Short Story Award, BBC International Short Story Prize among others, and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has concluded a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2020, becoming a Dr. of Philosophy, and has a vast body of photography and other artworks that she intends to collate and exhibit at some point. She is the current Poetry Lecturer at Strathclyde University.

Jenni grew up in the local authority care system for 16 years, before spending several years in homeless accommodation, she has moved over forty-five times and spent her teens and early twenties playing in punk and then grunge bands. She has been a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow in Grez, France, a Gavin Wallace Fellow as Poet in Residence at Summerhall for a year where she engraved poetry onto bones and installed her poems around the building, also a University of Edinburgh Writer in Residence, Arvon Tutor and she has worked with young people, blind and visually impaired writers, people in prison or secure facilities, among other vulnerable groups.

Jenni has held residencies at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, writing several of her poetry collections there, it is her favourite place to read and she considers it one of her literary homes.

She is working on several projects across the page and screen.

        

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Book Spotlight - Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian + Giveaway

 

About the Book:

Title: CASTLES IN THEIR BONES (Castles in their Bones #1)

Author: Laura Sebastian

Pub. Date: February 1, 2022

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 528

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. Immerse yourself in the first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series.

Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes.

Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides—because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal—to bring down monarchies— and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother’s grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vesteria.

The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans—and their mother hasn’t told them all of hers.

Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can’t trust anyone—not even each other?

Reviews:

"Enchanting...filled with captivating court intrigue and espionage." --Kirkus Reviews

“A page-turner that brilliantly blends magic, romance, and adventure. A twist ending leaves readers reeling but ready for the second installment in the planned trilogy.” --Booklist

"Sebastian excels at world building...and a few tantalizing open threads certainly warrant interest in the future two volumes in this trilogy." --The Bulletin

"Anextravagantly built series starter" --Publishers Weekly

 

 

About Laura:

Laura Sebastian grew up in South Florida and attended Savannah  College of Art and Design. She now lives and writes in London, England, with her two dogs, Neville and Circe. Laura is the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series: Ash Princess, Lady Smoke, and Ember Queen, as well as Half Sick of Shadows, her first novel for adults. To learn more about Laura and her books, follow @sebastian_lk on Twitter.

 

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Giveaway Details:

 

3 winners will receive a finished copy of CASTLES IN THEIR BONES, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/31/2022	YABooksCentral	Interview
1/31/2022	History from a Woman’s Perspective	Review
2/1/2022	A Court of Coffee and Books	Review
2/1/2022	onemused	Review
2/2/2022	Star-Crossed Book Blog	Review
2/2/2022	Lifestyle of Me	Review
2/3/2022	Two Points of Interest	Review
2/3/2022	Celia's Reads	Review
2/4/2022	The Bookwyrm's Den	Review
2/4/2022	@lexijava	Review

Week Two:

2/7/2022	The Caffeinated Reader	Review
2/7/2022	The Reading Devil	Review
2/8/2022	BookBriefs	Review
2/8/2022	Momfluenster	Review
2/9/2022	The Momma Spot	Review
2/9/2022	@drewsim12	Review
2/10/2022	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
2/10/2022	A Bookish Dream	Review
2/11/2022	More Books Please blog	Review
2/11/2022	Nerdophiles	Review