Character Madness and Musings

Proof of Lies (Anastasia Phoenix #1) by Diana Rodriguez  Genre: YA Spy Thriller Entangled Teen Some secrets are best kept hidden… Anastasia Phoenix has always been the odd girl out, whether moving from city to international city with her scientist parents or being the black belt who speaks four languages. And most definitely as the orphan whose sister is missing, presumed dead. She’s the only one who believes Keira is still alive, and when new evidence surfaces, Anastasia sets out to follow the trail—and lands in the middle of a massive conspiracy. Now she isn’t sure who she can trust. At her side is Marcus, the bad boy with a sexy accent who’s as secretive as she is. He may have followed her to Rome to help, but something about him seems too good to be true. Nothing is as it appears, and when everything she’s ever known is revealed to be a lie, Anastasia has to believe in one impossibility. She will find her sister. On sale for just 99¢! Amazon ...

Losing Normal  Francis Moss  Publication date: November 5th 2018 Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult Everyone we love, everything we know, is going away… and only an autistic boy can stop it. Alex knows exactly how many steps it takes to get from his home to Mason Middle School. This is normal. Alex knows the answers in AP math before his teacher does, which is also normal. Alex knows that something bad is coming out of the big screen in his special needs class. It’s pushing images into his head, hurting him, making him forget. Alex pushes back, the screen explodes, and nothing is normal any more. Giant screen televisions appear all over the city. The programming is addictive. People have to watch, but Alex cannot. Sophie, the sentient machine behind all this, sees the millions and millions of eyeballs glued to her and calls it love. To Sophie, kids like Alex are defective. Defectives are to be fixed…or eliminated. Goodreads / Amazon Excerpt Chapter On...

A Soldier and a Liar  Caitlin Lochner  Published by: Swoon Reads Publication date: February 19th 2019  Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult In a world on the brink of war, four superpowered teens must learn to work together for peace in Caitlin Lochner’s action-packed debut novel, A Soldier and A Liar. Lai Cathwell is good at keeping secrets. As a Nyte, a supernaturally gifted teenager who is feared and shunned by the ungifted, this skill is essential to survival. Orchestrating her own imprisonment to escape military duty has only honed her ability to deceive others. But when rebels start attacking the city, Lai is dragged back into the fight with a new team of Nytes. Thrown together with Jay, a self-conscious perfectionist consumed by the desire to be accepted; Al, a short-tempered fighter lying for the sake of revenge; and Erik, an amnesiac hell-bent on finding his memories and his place in the world, Lai realizes she’s facing an entirely...

I am so excited that CLOUDED BY ENVY by Candace Robinson is available now and that I get to share the news! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Candace Robinson, be sure to check out all the details below. This blitz also includes a giveaway for a $10 Amazon GC courtesy of Candace, The Parliament House Press, and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. CLOUDED BY ENVY Candace Robinson Pub. Date: February 19, 2019 Publisher: The Parliament House Formats: Paperback, eBook Pages: 215 Find it:  Goodreads , Amazon , B&N , iBooks Brenik has always been envious of his twin sister, Bray. Growing up as fairy-like creatures, known as bats, everything came easier to Bray. While Brenik spent his time in her shadows, never feeling he was enough. After escaping their world of Laith, and living on Earth for ten years, Brenik attempts to strike a deal with the Stone o...

CURSE OF THE FAE QUEEN  Delia Castel  Pub. Date: February 14, 2019  Publisher: Delia Castel  Formats: Paperback, eBook  Pages: 231  Find it:  Goodreads , Amazon A Huntress of Faeries. Five cursed Fae Princes. An evil that will destroy the world.  When Eighteen-year-old Neara saves a villager from the clutches of a deadly faerie, the Fae Queen sends warriors to abduct her dying father in revenge. To gain his freedom, Neara must venture into the Shadowlands and obtain three enchanted objects under the supervision of the bestial Prince Drayce. As Neara and Prince Drayce grow closer, she discovers the Queen’s scheme to release an ancient evil and enslave the mortal world. To thwart these plans, she must break the curses of five Fae Princes, but the cost of doing so is her Father’s life. Torn between saving the human realm and saving her father, Neara must navigate this treacherous world and choose between love, liber...

150 Playful Mindfulness Activities for Kids and Teens (and Grown-Ups too!) Non-Fiction, Children, Teens Published: January 2019 Kick-start and sustain a fun mindfulness practice with kids and teens. “This book makes it easy and is a must-have for every parent and teacher!” – Denise Besic, Mother and Teacher Give kids lasting life skills to de-stress and calm down, navigate difficult emotions, control impulses, focus on what matters, and nurture empathy, kindness, and joy. In Ultimate Mindfulness Activity Book you will find:     150+ playful mindfulness activities     Tools for calm, focus, joy, kindness, and emotional intelligence and regulation     A 21-step guide to kick-start and sustain your practice together     Inspirational examples of how mindfulness makes positive change     Easy to understand explanations on how to e...

Travel Diaries of the Dead and Delusional  Lauren Nicolle Taylor  Published by: Clean Teen Publishing Publication date: February 18th 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Nineteen-year-old Langley is crazy…like get out the straight jacket and prepare the padded room kind of crazy. She knows it, and the kicker is—she’s choosing to stay that way. She clings to the persistent and intrusive hallucination of her dead sister by choice. Sure, it might be nice to live life in the real world. But not if it means she has to let Sarah go. Tupper’s life is charmed. He has loving adoptive parents, and several athletic college scholarships on the table. But his passion is for the arts, for the beauty of solid ink lines on paper. His illustrations are eerily similar to a keepsake from his birth mother, Anna: comic-book-style drawings scrawled across an old map…her version of a travel diary. At eighteen, Tupper sidesteps his planned future and starts his jour...