#BookReview: Swimming with Ghosts by @michellebrafman @TurnerPub

Synopsis: It's June 2012 at the magical and slightly cultish River Run swim club when a perfect storm brews between team moms and best friends, Gillian Cloud and Kristy Weinstein. The ghost of family addiction has turned up, looming over their carefully planned pasta parties, tie-dye nights, and pep rallies, forcing them to face their unresolved childhood trauma. Gillian responds by trying to control everyone around her, and Kristy relapses into her dangerous addiction to love. Real sparks fly the night the derecho--a freak land hurricane--sweeps through Northern Virginia, knocking out power for days. The storm sets fire to a tinder box of secrets, leaving Gillian and Kristy alone in the hot dark, their only company their shame. In the vein of Little Fires Everywhere, the characters in Swimming with Ghosts discover that sometimes ashes make the best fertilizer for planting new fields and that they have the power to dodge the history they fear they are doomed to repeat. At times satirical, this book club novel captures the ethos and the ruin of any children's competitive sport or activity where parents work out their demons and in turn lose their way.

This title will be released on June 13, 2023.

Unexpected Inspiration for New Worlds with @jchabotauthor #Giveaway

Unexpected Inspiration for New Worlds By: Jason Chabot, Author of The Broken Sky Chronicles

Keeping Faith in the Headlights with @jchabotauthor #Giveaway

Keeping Faith in the Headlights By: Jason Chabot, Author of The Broken Sky Chronicles

#Giveaway: Broken Sky Chronicles Set by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian/Fantasy 

About the Book:

In the epic conclusion to Jason Chabot's Broken Sky Chronicles, Elia is a fugitive, on the run from the Imperial Guards, who have launched a city-wide manhunt and offered a reward for her capture. 

Hokk is also on Elia s trail one step behind and all too aware of the mortal danger she is in. 

Elia possesses evidence that could topple the oppressive monarchy, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to know who is an enemy and who is an ally in the quest to overcome those who have wrought misery in the realms of Above and Below. 

As their worlds drift ever farther apart, Elia and Hokk will have to decide where it is they truly belong and what it means to be reunited.

#Giveaway: Conversation with @jchabotauthor Part 2

Here is part 2 of the conversation with author Jason Chabot.  Remember to enter to win  the complete three-book set of The Broken Sky Chronicles by Vancouver author, Jason Chabot.  

#Giveaway: Broken Sky Chronicles set by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner Publishing 

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian

About the Book:

The epic adventure continues. . .

Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive.

 Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no one dares to cross except for the ritual burials that send their dead to Below. 

Together, these teens embarked on a quest to return to the homes they've lost-but now their journeys have diverged, and their futures are more uncertain than ever. 

Without Hokk, does Elia have any hope of returning to Above and rescuing her family? 

Without Elia, will Hokk become just another lost soul roaming the endless plains of Below? 

#Giveaway: Conversation with @jchabotauthor Part One

Throughout the month of August, we are pleased to be hosting a giveaway for the complete three-book set of The Broken Sky Chronicles by Vancouver author, Jason Chabot.  In conjunction with the giveaway, we recently had a chance to connect with Jason for this two-part interview to learn more about his books and his unexpected path into the world of publishing.

#Giveaway for Broken Sky Chronicles set by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian 

About the Book:

No one but the dead dare venture Below . . .

The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick, Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age.

Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped in a life of endless toil and drudgery as a laundress for the Mirrored Palace. To Elia, the islands edges are borders that no one dares cross until the ancient ritual that delivers the dead to Below. But a series of natural disasters rumbling through Above sends Elia s world crashing into Hokk s and she falls Below.

Their journey together will propel them across endless plains and through shattered cities in a centuries-old battle for the very earth and sky around them . . ."

#BookReview: Beyond (Broken Sky Chronicles #3) by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian/Fantasy 

About the Book:

In the epic conclusion to Jason Chabot's Broken Sky Chronicles, Elia is a fugitive, on the run from the Imperial Guards, who have launched a city-wide manhunt and offered a reward for her capture. 

Hokk is also on Elia s trail one step behind and all too aware of the mortal danger she is in. 

Elia possesses evidence that could topple the oppressive monarchy, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to know who is an enemy and who is an ally in the quest to overcome those who have wrought misery in the realms of Above and Below. 

As their worlds drift ever farther apart, Elia and Hokk will have to decide where it is they truly belong and what it means to be reunited.

#BookReview: Above (Broken Sky Chronicles #2) by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner Publishing 

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian

About the Book:

The epic adventure continues. . .

Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive.

 Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no one dares to cross except for the ritual burials that send their dead to Below. 

Together, these teens embarked on a quest to return to the homes they've lost-but now their journeys have diverged, and their futures are more uncertain than ever. 

Without Hokk, does Elia have any hope of returning to Above and rescuing her family? 

Without Elia, will Hokk become just another lost soul roaming the endless plains of Below? 

#BookReview: Below (Broken Sky Chronicles #1) by @jchabotauthor @TurnerPub

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 

Publisher: Turner

Recommended Age: Young Adult 

Genre: Dystopian 

About the Book:

No one but the dead dare venture Below . . .

The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick, Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age.

Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped in a life of endless toil and drudgery as a laundress for the Mirrored Palace. To Elia, the islands edges are borders that no one dares cross until the ancient ritual that delivers the dead to Below. But a series of natural disasters rumbling through Above sends Elia s world crashing into Hokk s and she falls Below.

Their journey together will propel them across endless plains and through shattered cities in a centuries-old battle for the very earth and sky around them . . ."

#BookReview: The United Continuums (The Continuum Trilogy #3) by @JenniferBrody @TurnerPub

  In the epic conclusion to the award-winning Continuum Trilogy, Aero leads a group insurgents from the Second Continuum to overthrow his rival Supreme General Vinick and unite his space colony s military forces, while Seeker takes on a secret mission back to her home colony to reinforce Earth's defenses and defend the First Continuum against an even greater threat. Meanwhile, Myra s nightmares have become a reality as the Dark Thing hurtles toward Earth with designs on eradicating the planet s fledgling populace. The only thing standing in the way are the three Carriers and those who would join them to fight against a second coming of the Doom.

#BookReview: Return of the Continuums (The Continuum Trilogy #2) by @JenniferBrody @TurnerPub

   

Reaching the surface was just the beginning.

As Myra and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, they must navigate a hostile landscape and even more hostile inhabitants of other continuums with their own ideas about the future of human race. In the pulse-quickening sequel to "The 13th Continuum," the young heroes must make an unlikely ally if they are to survive long enough to reach their destination and learn the secret behind humanity's destruction and the hope for its survival.

#BookReview: The 13th Continuum (The Continuum Trilogy #1) by @JenniferBrody @turnerpub

    One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the survivors take refuge in continuums designed to sustain the human race until repopulation of Earth becomes possible. Against this backdrop, a group of young friends in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum dream about life outside their totalitarian existence, an idea that has been outlawed for centuries. When a shocking discovery turns the dream into a reality, they must decide if they will risk their own extinction to experience something no one has for generations, the Surface.

#BookTour: Return of the Continuums (The Continuum Trilogy #2) by @JenniferBrody @TurnerPub @The_FFBC

   

Reaching the surface was just the beginning.

As Myra and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, they must navigate a hostile landscape and even more hostile inhabitants of other continuums with their own ideas about the future of human race. In the pulse-quickening sequel to "The 13th Continuum," the young heroes must make an unlikely ally if they are to survive long enough to reach their destination and learn the secret behind humanity's destruction and the hope for its survival.

The 13th Continuum (The Continuum Trilogy #1) by @JenniferBrody #BookReview @turnerpub

    One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the survivors take refuge in continuums designed to sustain the human race until repopulation of Earth becomes possible. Against this backdrop, a group of young friends in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum dream about life outside their totalitarian existence, an idea that has been outlawed for centuries. When a shocking discovery turns the dream into a reality, they must decide if they will risk their own extinction to experience something no one has for generations, the Surface.

#BookReview of The Goblin Crown by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & #Giveaway via @TurnerPub

Billy Smith is having a rough first day of high school. The new kid at exclusive Francis Drake Prep, Billy embarrasses himself in front of fiery, beautiful Lexi Aquino. He makes an instant enemy in Kurt Novac, the school s surly star quarterback. Then suddenly Billy, Lexi, and Kurt are mysteriously transported to an underworld teeming with goblins, strange animal hybrids, and powerful magic the fact that they re stuck there is probably Billy s fault, too. With help from an unlikely goblin leader named Hop, the teens soon discover that goblins can be both fierce and friendly, with their own rich language, culture, and history a history that foretells of a human arriving to claim the Goblin Crown and lead them to victory against the deadly, invading Hanorians. Could Billy anxious, awkward Billy be the mythical Goblin King? Could saving the goblin race be his destiny and the key to getting him, Lexi, and Kurt back home?"

#Review #Giveaway of Below: Broken Sky (Broken Sky Chronicles #1) by @JChabotAuthor @TurnerPub

    No one but the dead dare venture Below . . .

The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick, Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age.

Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped in a life of endless toil and drudgery as a laundress for the Mirrored Palace. To Elia, the islands edges are borders that no one dares cross until the ancient ritual that delivers the dead to Below. But a series of natural disasters rumbling through Above sends Elia s world crashing into Hokk s and she falls Below.

Their journey together will propel them across endless plains and through shattered cities in a centuries-old battle for the very earth and sky around them . . ." 

The 13th Continuum by @JenniferBrody is a cataclysmic read that shouldnt be missed! #Review #Giveaway

The 13th Continuum
by Jennifer Brody
Publisher: Turner Publishing
Release Date: April 19th 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Rate:  5 Stars

Synopsis:

One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the survivors take refuge in continuums designed to sustain the human race until repopulation of Earth becomes possible. Against this backdrop, a group of young friends in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum dream about life outside their totalitarian existence, an idea that has been outlawed for centuries. When a shocking discovery turns the dream into a reality, they must decide if they will risk their own extinction to experience something no one has for generations, the Surface.