Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers: Rockstar Book Tours presents... THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS by Romily Bernard

Friday, December 27, 2019

Rockstar Book Tours presents... THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS by Romily Bernard - EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!

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I am thrilled to be hosting a stop on Rockstar Book Tours promotion for THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS by Romily Bernard! First, we'll read all about it, then I've got a special excerpt for you, and finally, your chance to enter the giveaway for a finished copy of the book! Ready? Set? Here we go!

THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS

Romily Bernard

Pub. Date: December 10, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Pages: 304

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

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

Welcome to Bohring-home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse.

Correction: home to 454 people, now that Kick Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town (fake) psychic. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a hole through the kitchen floor, befriended a chicken-eating gator, and discovered that the town's hundred-year curse is upon them.

It's the Bohring curse and all the kids are about to become monsters-or so the legend goes. People are worried-except for Kick. She knows there's a scientific explanation for everything, especially curses and monsters. But Kick is the new kid in school and she's determined to make a name for herself . . . by pretending to be psychic.

According to her calculations: one teeny-tiny life + (fake) psychic skills = popularity. But when kids start disappearing and glowing creatures start showing up, Kick's theory quickly evaporates in a puff of foul-smelling swamp gas. Can Kick use her (real) science smarts to prove the curse is a hoax? Or is it just-maybe-sort of-somehow possible the curse is here?

Author Romily Bernard weaves a fast-paced middle-grade mystery filled with humor and scientific intrigue, set in a perfectly eerie Southern town.

*** EXCERPT ***

Crickets chirped in the long grass as Kick ran toward school. I’m going to be late, she thought, pushing herself faster. I’m going to have to walk into class, and everyone’s going to stare at me.

It was not a time to linger, but even so, she still snatched

glances at the swamp around her. It was just a swamp. No horrible smells. No growling. Nothing. That had to be a good sign, right?

Wrong.

And Kick knew it when she careened around the last corner, heading for the schoolyard. Everyone was outside—teachers, students, parents, the mayor—and everyone was talking all at once.

Or rather, shouting at once.

Miss Cleo—who owned the Curl Up and Dye and was known for her temper—kept shaking her fist at Mayor Burr, upper arms jiggling like broken-open cans of biscuit dough. Mr. Myer, on the other hand, kept his fists low, gripping his rust-stained apron. Only . . . was it rust? Because Kick suddenly wasn’t so sure.

About Romily:

Romily Bernard graduated from Georgia State University with a literature degree. Since then, she's worked as a riding instructor, cell-phone salesperson, personal assistant, horse groomer and exercise rider, accounting assistant, and, during a very dark time, customer service representative. . . . She's also, of course, now a YA novelist.

So don't let anyone tell you a BA degree will keep you unemployed.

Romily currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Find Me is her debut novel. It placed first in the 2011 YA Unpublished Maggie Awards (given by Georgia Romance Writers) and won the Golden Heart Award for YA Romance from the Romance Writers of America in 2012.

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a hardcover of THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS, US only.

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