HI guys!
Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.
Today, I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the COLD HEARTED by Serena Valentino Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. I've always wanted to check out this ever growing series, so I snagged my chance to get behind (or perhaps, inside?) of the classic story we all know and love...or so we thought. Check out
my review, the rest of the tour, and be sure to enter the giveaway before you go!
Author: Serena Valentino
Pub. Date: July 6, 2021
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 304
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
This
was supposed to be her happily ever after...
It’s a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A
doting father, frantic to bring a mother’s love back into his daughter’s life.
And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into that family―a woman so
unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl
a servant in her own home.
But who is that evil stepmother, that icy lady of the house? How did she become
so closed off that, in the face of a child’s grief, she thought only to seek
wealth and power for herself and her abhorrent daughters? Before that fateful
ball, before the glass slipper and the prince, there was another story―a story
of love and grief, of hope and of dreams dashed. It is the story of Lady
Tremaine.
Even the coldest of villains are sometimes wives and mothers, women who loved
and lost and hoped for something grander for their lives . . . once upon a
dream.
The latest novel in Serena Valentino’s deliciously devious Villains series
introduces the most famed and hated wicked stepmother of them all―but turns
everything you know about her on its head.
GRAB ALL THE VILLAINS BOOKS NOW!
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Once upon a dream...
...a lovely place to be...
...depending upon what side of it you're on.
As I said, I've been wanting to check out this series, so when I saw this tour come around and the villain it centered on, I couldn't resist! I mean, who doesn't love to loathe Lady Tremaine of Cinderella's story fame? The thing is...the story sheds a light on her time before becoming a stepmother, let a one an evil one with cruel intentions and self serving ways. For you see, once upon a TIME, she was a Londoner widow reeling from the loss of the love of her life, realizing the two daughters she adored were fairly spoiled brats, and tryin to see her way through to another day. Doesn't sound so evil, right? Ah, and you're assetment would be spot on...at least until the magic of the Many Lands works its way into her character, both heart and soul, turning what appears to be a chance at an ending much more pleasant than her current state of affairs into a nightmare from which she can't escape.
Oh, my friends, you are certainly in for a treat with this one. Meddling witches, fairies strung too tight, forgiving stepdaughter Queen's, and former households turned haunts for more than bad memories...all these things and more await you as you dive between the pages. I can't say it was what I expected, and yet I wasn't disappointed in the least. The different viewpoint given to a story that we've known our whole lives certainly makes you stop and think...but that forgiveness that Cinderella so easily offers is much harder to come by. Step into a fairytale that holds echoes of the things we held certain, while smashing to bits assumptions made with truths hard to swallow, but nevertheless revealing.
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About the author...
Serena
Valentino has
been weaving tales that combine mythos and guile for the past decade. She has
earned critical acclaim in both the comic and horror domains, where she is
known for her unique style of storytelling, bringing her readers into
exquisitely frightening worlds filled with terror, beauty, and extraordinary
protagonists. The books in her best-selling Villains series
are best enjoyed when read in the following order: Fairest of All, The
Beast Within, Poor Unfortunate Soul, Mistress of All
Evil, Mother Knows Best, Odd Sisters, Evil
Thing, and Cold Hearted.
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Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy of COLD HEARTED, US Only.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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7/1/2021 |
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7/2/2021 |
Excerpt |
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7/3/2021 |
Review |
Week Two:
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7/4/2021 |
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7/5/2021 |
Review |
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7/6/2021 |
Review |
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7/7/2021 |
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7/8/2021 |
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7/9/2021 |
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7/10/2021 |
Review |
Week Three:
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7/11/2021 |
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7/12/2021 |
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7/13/2021 |
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7/14/2021 |
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7/15/2021 |
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7/16/2021 |
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7/17/2021 |
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7/18/2021 |
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7/19/2021 |
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7/20/2021 |
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7/21/2021 |
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7/22/2021 |
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7/23/2021 |
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7/24/2021 |
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Week Five:
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7/25/2021 |
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7/26/2021 |
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7/27/2021 |
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7/28/2021 |
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7/29/2021 |
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7/30/2021 |
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7/31/2021 |
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Looks Amazing, I love fairy tale retellings!
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