Waiting on Wednesday: The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases you are eagerly anticipating.

Title: The Unnaturalists
Author: Tiffany Trent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Release Date: August 14, 2012

From Goodreads:
In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.

Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large. Syrus Reed’s Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured to be refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa’s—and with the Unnaturals.

As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London—and the world.

***

The Unnaturalists has so many of my favorite elements that I know I have to read it as soon as it comes out. It reminds me a bit of Clockwork Angel with a little Darker Still thrown in. 

Review: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti

Title: Illuminate
Series: Gilded Wing #1
Author: Aimee Agresti
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Publication Date: March 16, 2012
Pages: 531
Source: Publisher and NetGalley

From Goodreads:
Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit.

As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers that these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and company: they’re in the business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?

Illuminate is an exciting saga of a teen’s first taste of independence, her experience in the lap of luxury, and her discovery she may possess strength greater than she ever knew.

***

I think the best way to review Illuminate is in list form. There are just too many awesome things and I fear I will write a novel if I don't just list my favorite things.

1) Set in a hotel in downtown Chicago. (I live in Chicago and work for a hospitality company. There you have it.)
2) The MC, Haven. Smart, funny, and a total BA.
3) Lance, one of Haven's fellow hotel interns. Mysterious, sweet, and cute.
4) Dante, Haven's BFF. Hilarious, super social, and the life of the party.
5) Lucian, the sexy hotel worker. Ohhh man, Lucian definitely wins the swoonworthy title in this book.
6) The paranormal element. I won't reveal what that is, but it's an interesting twist on a "normal" element.
7) The fact that this is a series and we have even more to look forward to!

And there you have it. In a nutshell - go read Illuminate!

In My Mailbox (59)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that gives readers the chance to share the books they bought/received/swapped/borrowed over the past week.

A very small book week, but two great books nonetheless.

Gilt by Katherine Longshore

Thank you Lindsi!

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Thank you Sash & Em!

(for the DAC ARC Tours - keep your eye out for the sign-up)

Review: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Title: Pandemonium
Author: Lauren Oliver
Series: Delirium #2
Publisher: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books
Publication Date: February 28, 2012
Pages: 375
Source: Borrowed from Heidi

From Goodreads:
I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

***

I am still reeling over this book. I have so many feelings and thoughts and emotions and GAH. But, I can't really share all of them because I can't spoil a single thing for this gem of a story.

What I can say is this. Lauren Oliver is a GENIUS. Plain and simple. She has somehow managed to rip me to pieces even more than Delirium. I thought that was impossible. The new characters, the new settings, the new issues - all of it worked in perfect harmony to create one hell of a story. 

I can't even begin to predict what will happen in book #3. How many more twists and turns can my poor heart take? Well, my friends, it'll take anything Lauren Oliver can throw at me because Requiem promises to be incredible.

Waiting on Wednesday: Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases you are eagerly anticipating.  

Title: Reunited
Author: Hilary Weisman Graham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 12, 2012

From Goodreads: 
1 Concert
2000 Miles
3 Ex-Best Friends

Alice, Summer, and Tiernan are ex-best friends.

Back in middle school, the three girls were inseparable. They were also the number one fans of the rock band Level3.

But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Summer ran with the popular crowd, Tiernan was a rebellious wild-child, and Alice spent high school with her nose buried in books.

Now, just as the girls are about to graduate, Level3 announces a one-time-only reunion show.

Even though the concert’s 2000 miles away, Alice buys three tickets on impulse. And as it turns out, Summer and Tiernan have their own reasons for wanting to get out of town. Good thing Alice’s graduation gift (a pea-green 1976 VW camper van known as the Pea Pod) is just the vehicle to get them there.

But on the long drive cross-country, the girls hit more than a few bumps in the road. Will their friendship get an encore or is the show really over?

***

Road trip? Check. BFFs? Check. Drama? More than likely check. I love everything about this book, from the super-cute cover to the intriguing summary. This should be an excellent summer read come June.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'd Quickly Save in a Disaster

As always, the lovely ladies over at The Broke and the Bookish deserve a shoutout for hosting Top Ten Tuesday!

This week's topic is to list the top ten books I'd save if a disaster hit. This one was a breeze because I only have a few books that I absolutely treasure beyond belief (fourteen books to be exact). And surprise... I would save both my hardcover and paperback copies of the Harry Potter series. Besides the fact that I just love the series, here are the main reasons why I'd save one book in the series in particular:

Hey Rupert Grint

I love you Luna Lovegood

Weasley twin take 1

Weasley twin take 2

Okay, before I get really out of control with the pictures, here is the kicker... this is why I would grab that one book:

Yep, that's the first book in the series signed by a bunch of the cast members at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. In other words, my most prized book possession. EVER. I will treasure that book until the day I die and hopefully pass it on to my kids when that happens in the way distant future. So yes, I sort of cheated with the Top Ten Tuesday by only picking one book but I think you might agree that it's a pretty sweet book :)

Book Review: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

Title: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Author: Michelle Moran
Publisher: Broadway
Publication Date: December 27, 2011
Pages: 464
Source: Publisher

From Goodreads:

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire…but who was this woman and how did she become one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous story comes to life as only Michelle Moran could tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin…

Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American Ambassador, Thomas Jefferson, to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Marie’s museum provides Parisians with the very latest news on fashion, gossip, even politics. Her customers hail from every walk of life, and when word arrives that the royals themselves are coming to see their likenesses, Marie never dreams that the king’s sister will request her presence at Versailles as a royal tutor in wax sculpting. Yet when a letter with a gold seal is delivered to her home, Marie knows she cannot refuse—even if it means time away from her beloved Salon and her increasingly dear friend, Henri Charles.

As Marie becomes acquainted with her pupil, Princess Élisabeth, she is taken to meet both Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, who introduce her to the glamorous life at court. From lavish parties with more delicacies than she’s ever seen, to rooms filled with candles lit only once before being discarded, Marie steps into to a world entirely different from her home on the Boulevard du Temple, where people are selling their teeth in order to put food on the table.

Meanwhile, many resent the vast separation between rich and poor. In salons and cafés across Paris, people like Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out against the monarchy. Soon, there’s whispered talk of revolution…Will Marie be able to hold on to both the love of her life and her friendship with the royal family as France approaches civil war? And more importantly, will she be able to fulfill the demands of powerful revolutionaries who ask that she make the death masks of beheaded aristocrats, some of whom she knows?

Spanning five years from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror,Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.

***

You guys know that I am all about the historical fiction. It is one of my favorite sub-genres of YA and I have made it a goal to read even more hist-fic novels in 2012. So, I was absolutely thrilled when Random House contacted me about reviewing Madame Tussaud and helping to introduce the novel to a different audience.

I was completely entranced with the story right from the very beginning. Marie Groscholtz (aka Madame Tussaud) is such a strong, independent woman and nothing like the typical women of her time. She isn’t concerned with marrying and having babies – she’s focused on her work as a wax sculptor and helping her uncle build their business into a world-renowned wax museum. Marie’s drive and determination made me instantly drawn to her and she never wavered during the story, making me love her even more.

The scenes throughout the story that helped depict the time period of the French Revolution could not have been described more perfectly by the author. You actually feel like you are right there in the crowds, or at the palace, or walking through the wax museum as a paying customer. I had such a vivid portrait in my mind of what everything looked like and that completely sucked me into the story even more.

Of course, the book wouldn’t be complete without a little romance. While it didn’t overpower the story, Marie’s romance with a certain someone did add a great amount of intrigue and sentiment that definitely played a role in her decisions. I can’t help but fall head over heels for romances in historical fiction and the romance in Madame Tussaud was no exception.

Even though Madame Tussaud is considered an “adult” novel, I think anyone who loves historical fiction will absolutely love this story. I cannot wait to read Michelle Moran’s other novels about strong women throughout history (see Nefertiti, Cleopatra’s Daughter, and The Heretic Queen).

In My Mailbox (58)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that gives readers the chance to share the books they bought/received/swapped/borrowed over the past week.

This week was a fabulous book week! Not only did I get some amazing books, but I also attended the first stop of the Breathless Reads Tour!

First up is the Breathless Reads Tour. Marie Lu, Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, and Andrea Cremer were all at Anderson's on Wednesday, along with some amazing book bloggers. The authors were all so nice and funny to boot! 

Jessica Spotswood, Anna, me, and Andrea Cremer

Marie Lu, Anna, me, and Beth Revis


And of course, the loot:

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Legend by Marie Lu


On to the rest of the books. This next gem was generously donated by the author for the DAC ARC Tours (keep an eye out for the sign-up form on the website!)

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
(and bookmarks!)

From Netgalley:
Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard

And last but certainly not least, my last two books this week are from an awesome publisher and an awesome blogger :)

Borrowed from Ginger:
In Honor by Jessi Kirby

From Scholastic:
Abandon by Meg Cabot

Book review: Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown

Title: Picture the Dead

Author: Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: February 1, 2012 (originally published May 1, 2010)
Pages: 264

Source: Publisher

From Goodreads:

A ghost will find his way home.

Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiancé falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, but is haunted by a mysterious figure that refuses to let her bury the past. 

***

When I received the review request for this book, I thought I’d give it a go because of the following reasons:

1) The book had elements of historical fiction, paranormal, and mystery. 
2) The book had illustrations, which is not something I’m used to reading in YA.
3) I was just plain intrigued.

While I enjoyed Picture the Dead overall, I wasn’t as in love with the book as much as I thought I would be. I expected a little more historical fiction and a little less paranormal. What I got was the complete opposite, and that left me a little bummed. 

I do think the illustrations were well done and really added something extra and different to the story. 

All in all, Picture the Dead is a great story for those who are interested in ghosts and paranormal phenomenon with a little historical fiction and mystery thrown in.

Book review: The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez

Title: The Knife and the Butterfly

Author: Ashley Hope Perez
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication Date: February 1, 2012
Pages: 216

From Goodreads:

After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he can't really remember what happened or how he got picked up. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. There were bats, bricks, chains. A knife. But he can't remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars.

Azael knows prison, and something isn't right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember.

Lexi Allen would love to forget the brawl, would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from. And her mother and her lawyer hope she chooses not to remember too much about the brawl—at least when it's time to testify.

Lexi knows there's more at stake in her trial than her life alone, though. She's connected to him, and he needs the truth. The knife cut, but somehow it also connected.

***

The Knife and the Butterfly is definitely a different book than what I normally read. I’ll be totally honest – my favorite genres are what I read 99% of the time, and I don’t exactly branch out into the different or less popular very often. When the opportunity arose to read The Knife and the Butterfly, I jumped on the chance to, you know, broaden my horizons and read something completely different for me.

Well, my leap of faith outside of Tara world paid off. I had to think on it for a full day but finally came to the conclusion that I enjoyed the book. At first I wasn’t so sure, but then the more I thought about it (don’t you love it when a book makes you think), the more I realized that I was quite happy with the story. And here’s why.

This book centers around life inside a gang – violence, drugs, abuse, degrading women – and that is just not something I’m used to reading about in young adult literature. But, it’s still a real and sadly true world that exists, even though I have never personally experienced it myself. Make no mistake, The Knife and the Butterfly is gritty, hard, and definitely geared towards an older YA audience. But with all of that, I think it’s a book that needed to be written and definitely has its place within the young adult genre. I can see this book helping individuals who are either on a path towards gang life or for those who want to get out.

I give mad props to Ashley for writing this novel and can’t wait to read her other novel, What Can’t Wait, which was recently added to the ALA's 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list.

Waiting on Wednesday: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases you are eagerly anticipating.  

Title: My Life Next Door
Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 14, 2012

From Goodreads: 
"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time."

The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen year old Samantha wishes she was one of them… until the day Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything.

Jase can sense that his beautiful neighbor is missing something in her sterile home, and as the two fall fiercely in love, his family makes her one of their own.

But when the bottom drops out of Sam's world, which perfect family will save her–and will her perfect love survive?

Set among the haves and have-nots of a coastal New England town, My LIFE NEXT DOOR captures the angst, the heartache, and the raw-nerve emotions of first time love—and biting loss.

***

I am pretty sure I haven't read a book that has the same plot as My Life Next Door, and that completely intrigues me. I want to know more about Samantha's family and what happens that makes her question both her family and Jase's. All I can say is, hurry up June!

Review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Title: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Publisher: Poppy, an imprint of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: January 2, 2012
Pages: 236
Source: Publisher

From Goodreads:
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's in seat 18C. Hadley's in 18A.

Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.

***

My quest for reading more books that take place over a 24-hour time frame continues with The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. Let me just say - these types of books are seriously some of the best I have read.

This book is a straight up true love story, all packaged up into one lovely little present. You will read it in one sitting because it is that good and you have to know how it ends. I sacrificed sleep on a Sunday night to read this book and it was WELL worth it.

I can't say enough about the two main characters, Hadley and Oliver. They leapt off the page for me and were unbelievably real. Very rarely do characters come to life for me as much as these two did, and I will always remember them. I absolutely fell in love with Oliver with his British accent and his witty banter. And Hadley dealt with some major emotions throughout the story but she still kept it together and pulled through. 

If you haven't read The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, I highly recommend changing that as soon as you can. It is such an incredible love story that will make you laugh and cry all at the same time. And if that doesn't convince you - did I mention there's a British guy ;)

In My Mailbox (57)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that gives readers the chance to share the books they bought/received/swapped/borrowed over the past week.

I have to say, I had a very awesome book week and wasn't even expecting it! Surprise mail is always the best, don't you think?

For review:

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

The Rivals by Daisy Whitney

(thanks Little, Brown!)

Won:

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Story of Us by Deb Caletti

(thanks Sash & Em!)

Borrowed:

The Survival Kit by Donna Freitas

(thanks Ginger!)

Gifted:

ADORABLE card and bookmark

(you're the best, Heidi!)

Gifted:

SWAG galore from Denise Jaden!

(stay tuned for a giveaway)

Blog Tour: The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez

I am thrilled to have Ashley Hope Perez on my blog today! Ashley is the author of What Can't Wait (which was just named to ALA's 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list), and her newest novel, The Knife and the Butterfly. Ashley is going to share with you all how to handle characters and their flaws like a pro and also give you a taste of The Knife and the Butterfly with an excerpt from the book.

***

Ever want to reach into a novel, grab a character, and just shake him or her until there’s some sign of sense? Now imagine that you’re the writer, and you have to put up with a badly behaving character through the WHOLE process. Trust me, it’s not easy. But flawed characters are also fascinating, so they’re usually worth the struggle. In a second, I’ll serve up a short excerpt from The Knife and the Butterfly and tell you what I did to keep from throwing my characters out the window while I was writing. 

But first, let me get you oriented with a bit more about The Knife and the Butterfly:

Azael Arevalo wishes he could remember how the fight ended. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. He can picture the bats, the bricks, the chains. A knife. But he can’t remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars. Azael knows jails, and something isn’t right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember.

Lexi Allen would love to forget the fight, would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from. And her mother and her lawyer hope she chooses not to remember too much about the brawl—at least when it’s time to testify. Lexi knows that there’s more at stake in her trial than her life alone, though. Azael needs the truth. The knife cut, but somehow it also connected.

Didn’t my publisher do a gorgeous job with that synopsis? I’m so glad I didn’t have to write it. A summary that doesn’t give away too much = the most difficult two paragraphs ever. 

Here’s something I DID write, and it comes from Chapter 7 of The Knife and the Butterfly. Pakmin is Azael’s caseworker, and this is the first day that Azael has been sent to watch Lexi:

The same guard who picked Lexi up from the meeting room unlocks the door and lets her in. She throws herself onto the bed and says something, but I guess the microphones in her room aren’t turned on because nothing comes out of the speakers by the ceiling. I take a crack at this mind control thing to try to get her to change clothes so I can see her tits, but no luck. She lies there picking at her arm, like maybe she has a scab there or something. After a while, she reaches over to the desk and pulls out a spiral notebook and a pen. For a long time she doesn’t write anything, just pulls a piece of her hair into her mouth and sucks on it. Then she scribbles in the notebook for a while before she flops onto her side.

I get bored of watching her and keep thinking Pakmin has to come for me soon. I’m looking around the observation room, and I realize that the long wall opposite the one with windows onto Lexi’s side is also covered with mirrored glass panes. 

Maybe this is how the things look from the other side of the windows I’ve been looking through, and I’m guessing that Pakmin or somebody like him is probably watching me right now. Pakmin is watching me watching her. Waiting to see what the rat watching the rat will do. And maybe there’s even another row of windows behind that one, and somebody else is watching Pakmin watch me watch Lexi.

It makes me think of these bottles of drinking water my grams used to buy when she’d visit us. They had a label with a picture of a happy family carrying one of the bottles, which also had a picture of a family carrying a water bottle, and I imagined that that just went on forever. If you thought about it right, it seemed like you’d never run out of water because on every label there was a tiny water bottle with a tinier water bottle on it, all the way until you got to these little fairy-sized drops of water inside containers so small they’d be almost invisible. Or like how when you’re standing between two mirrors in just the right way you can see yourself shrinking into infinity.

So here’s the thing: Azael has this whole (very annoying) macho thing going on. And “I try to get her to change clothes so I can see her tits” isn’t even the worst of it. But there’s a lot of show to this; in fact, it’s kind of a performance that the reader will see fall away bit by bit as Azael gets caught up in bigger problems. Of course, I can’t tell the reader that yet, but I can let Azael have a semi-tender memory that makes him a bit more relatable. I mean, how fed up can you stay at someone who imagines fairy-sized drops of water when he looks at a water-bottle label? 

The point is, already there’s more to Azael than he himself recognizes. He’s got issues—no happy family in his recent past, for sure—and a fear of disappearing, of not mattering to anyone. So already his bravado turns out to be an attempt to compensate for something he feels like he’s missing. Don’t get me wrong: acting up is acting up, but we can take it a bit longer when we sense that there’s more to the story.

And what about the “more” to Lexi’s story? That comes later in the novel, when Azael gets his hands on her journal. But for now, let me just tell you that she doesn’t have angel wings, either. To get over my frustrations with her, I even gave her some of my own flaws, ones I could understand. For example, she can never make the care packages sent by her grandmother last more than a day or two, and she writes in her notebook, “when you’re stuck in a little room with nothing to do, how are you going to keep yourself from pulling that box out from under the bed and scarfing down another peanut butter cookie?” 

Listen, y’all, I so get this flaw. And I gave it to Lexi because it made it a little easier for me to relate to her lack of self-control in other areas of her life, too.

A reviewer recently called The Knife and the Butterfly “An uncompromising look at two characters most readers would otherwise look away from.” I’m not entirely sure he meant it as a compliment, but I think it is. Because one of the things I most wanted to do with The Knife and the Butterfly was to get readers to see two people who were deeply flawed as two people whose stories—and choices—still mattered.

I hope you’ll check out The Knife and the Butterfly and let me know what you think about Azael, Lexi, and their world.

***

Thanks so much for stopping by Ashley! I loved learning more about Azael and how you coped with your characters' flaws while writing the book.

More interviews, excerpts, guest posts, and secrets (including two truths and a lie) coming throughout Ashley’s The Knife and the Butterfly blog tour. See the full tour schedule here.

Ask for The Knife and the Butterfly from your favorite local bookseller or order it online. 

Can’t get enough? Check out Ashley’s blog, follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook.