Today, I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the THE GIRL IN THE CASTLE by James Patterson & Emily Raymond BLOG TOUR hosted by Rockstar
Book Tours. It's a YA Fiction release coming NEXT WEEK that explores the powers of the mind, our ability to connect with others, and just how far we're willing to go to protect ourselves. Check out my review post, make sure to enter the giveaway, and click on over to the other sites participating for more bookish fun!
Author: James Patterson & Emily Raymond
Pub. Date: September 19, 2022
Publisher: jimmy patterson
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 368
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
Beloved #1 bestselling author James Patterson delivers a thrilling novel about a teen caught between two worlds and the truths that could set her free—or trap her forever.
My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me
NOW: Hannah Doe is brought to Belman Psych, kicking and screaming, told she is
suffering from hallucinations and delusions.
1347: Hannah Dory and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter.
Hannah seeks out food and salvation in the baron's castle. If she is caught
stealing, she will surely hang.
NOW: Hannah knows the truth: she is Hannah Doe and Hannah
Dory, and she must return to the past before it's too late to save her sister.
Can Jordan, the Abnormal-Psych student who seems to truly care, be the one to
finally help her?
Jordan isn't sure what to believe, and Hannah has even bigger problems: if she
doesn't make it back, her sister will die, but if she keeps going back, she
might never escape.
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It's a rare occurrance for me to stay up later (than usual) reading. Once I get into bed, it's sleepy time, not reading time, and I can't help my body's natural reaction to the environment. HOWEVER, I was so close to the end on this one when it was getting REALLY REALLY late and I had to adult in the morning (or rather in a few hours because it was already morning!), I found myself unable to put it down.
Despite Hannah's perplexing case, unless we were going total sci-fi fantasy, the life she leads in medieval times had to be in her head. I mean, she goes sort of catatonic in the here and now during those minutes, hours, or days, so it'd be hard to explain a similar situation happening to another body that she is bouncing cognitively between...however it doesn't seem IMpossible either. The story she tells of her life in this other world, it never repeats. It just continues on as if she only went to sleep, and now that she had awoken, the days progressed. It was fascinating to explore, and puzzle out alongside Jordan, who really did care about our Hannah...and letting her slip away, letting her be pushed out into the cold without any answers was unacceptable to him. He dug and dug like a dog after a bone, a man on a mission, until he strikes gold. Well, perhaps gold isn't the right term because it certainly doesn't glitter, and yet, in the end, it was the proverbial pot at the end of the terrible rainbow.
Throughout the story, we me characters with varying degrees of of psychosis, trauma, and histories to contend with...not all of their stories end with the hoped for HEA either, but as much as it hurts, it's real. These are things that can and do happen. People suffer, every day, and sometimes we never know about their struggles until it's too late. Taking time to notice others, taking time to care is what helps us all make it through. Hannah needed someone to really care about her to make things happen, but that's not to say it was like waving a magic wand and POOF...everything was okay, because it wasn't. What it did though was allow Hannah the chance to heal herself, the chance to find her way out of her own mind and back to reality, even if there were things here worth escaping. The ending is a surprise twist, and if you've watched In the Mouth of Madness, you'll definitely have a moment where you can talk yourself into a spiral about this book being about a book, about a person, about a life, about a fantasy...and so on...but it's all worth it in the end.
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About the authors...
For his
prodigious imagination and championship of literacy in America, James
Patterson was awarded the 2019 National Humanities Medal, and he has
also received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American
Literary Community from the National Book Foundation. He holds the Guinness
World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers,
including Confessions of a Murder Suspect and the Maximum Ride
and Witch & Wizard series, and his books have sold more than 400 million
copies worldwide.
A tireless champion of the power of books and reading, Patterson created a
children’s book imprint, JIMMY Patterson, whose mission is simple: “We want
every kid who finishes a JIMMY book to say, ‘PLEASE GIVE ME ANOTHER BOOK.’” He
has donated more than three million books to students and soldiers and funds
over four hundred Teacher and Writer Education Scholarships at twenty-one
colleges and universities. He also supports 40,000 school libraries and has
donated millions of dollars to independent bookstores. Patterson invests
proceeds from the sales of JIMMY Patterson Books in pro-reading initiatives.
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~~~ GIVEAWAY ~~~
Ends September 27th, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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9/12/2022 |
Excerpt/IG Post |
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9/12/2022 |
Excerpt |
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9/13/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/13/2022 |
Review |
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9/14/2022 |
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9/14/2022 |
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9/15/2022 |
IG Review |
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9/15/2022 |
IG Review |
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9/16/2022 |
IG Spotlight |
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9/16/2022 |
IG Review |
Week Two:
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9/19/2022 |
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9/19/2022 |
IG Spotlight |
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9/20/2022 |
IG Review |
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9/20/2022 |
Review |
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9/21/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/21/2022 |
IG Review |
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9/22/2022 |
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9/22/2022 |
IG Review |
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9/23/2022 |
IG Review/FB Post |
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9/23/2022 |
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