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Athena’s Child Book Tour

When faced with a monster, who ever looked to see beyond the teeth and talons?

For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of Greek mythology: Medusa. 

First, they loved her. Then, they abused her. Finally, they made her a villain.

Gifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with the Goddess Athena. But when she catches the eye of the lecherous but mighty Poseidon, she is beyond protection. Powerful men rarely answer for their actions, after all.

Meanwhile, Perseus embarks on a seemingly impossible quest, equipped with only bravado and determination…

Medusa and Perseus soon become pawns of spiteful and selfish gods. Faced with the repercussions of Athena’s wrath, blamed for her assault, Medusa has no choice but to flee and hide. But can she do so without becoming the monster they say she is?

Medusa’s truth has long been lost. History tells of conquering heroes, of men with hearts of gold. Now it is time to hear the story of how history treats women who don’t comply.

Thank you to @sourcebooks and @storygramtours for sending me a copy of the book and including me on this tour!

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Into The Bright Open Book Tour

YA contemporary, retelling, LGBTQ

RELEASE DATE: September 5, 2023

This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and horrifying.

Mary Lennox didn’t think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she’s never met.

At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people—most of whom are Indigenous—may be what she can finally call home.

Then one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a “nervous condition.” The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. When Olive’s domineering stepmother returns to the manor, it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.

With the help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds…

The publisher has decided to partner with us and do a giveaway! Please follow the link to enter: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/1e4a114d84/

Other Remixed Classics:

A Clash of Steel (Treasure Island)

 So Many Beginnings (Little Women)

 Travelers Along the Way (Robin Hood)

 What Souls Are Made Of (Wuthering Heights)

 Self-Made Boys (Great Gatsby)

 My Dear Henry (Jekyll & Hyde)

 Teach The Torches to Burn (Romeo & Juliet)

 Into the Bright Open (Secret Garden: coming September 2023)

 Most Ardently (Pride & Prejudice: coming January 2024)

Thank you to @turnthepagetours, @mackidsbooks, @cherie.dimaline for sending me a copy of the book and teaming up with me for this tour! nd a huge thank you to @macmillaaudio for providing me with a widget of the audiobook! I loved it!

 #turnthepagetours #intothebrightopen #cheriedimaline #indigenousauthor #macmillankids

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