Afterparty Blog Tour Schedule and Giveaway
I'm so pleased to kick off the Afterparty Blog Tour! We've got a ton of great blogs featuring this edgy YA novel by Ann Redisch Stampler. There will be guest posts, deleted scenes, interviews, reviews, and a huge giveaway! Make sure you hit all the stops along the way for more chances to win.
About the book
Emma is tired of being good. Always the dutiful daughter to an overprotective father, she is the antithesis of her mother--whose name her dad won't even say out loud. That's why meeting Siobhan is the best thing that ever happened to her... and the most dangerous. Because Siobhan is fun and alluring and experienced and lives on the edge. In other words, she's everything Emma is not.
And it may be more than Emma can handle.
Because as intoxicating as her secret life may be, when Emma begins to make her own decisions, Siobhan starts to unravel. It's more than just Dylan, the boy who comes between them. Their high-stakes pacts are spinning out of control. Elaborate lies become second nature. Loyalties and boundaries are blurred. And it all comes to a head at the infamous Afterparty, where debauchery rages and an intense, inescapable confrontation ends in a plummet from the rooftop...
This explosive, sexy, and harrowing follow-up to Ann Redisch Stampler's spectacular teen debut, Where It Began, reveals how those who know us best can hurt us most.
Buy it now on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, BookDepository.com, IndieBound.org and from other fine booksellers.
About the author
Ann Redisch Stampler is the author of young adult novels Where It Began and Afterparty, as well as several picture books, including The Rooster Prince of Breslov. Her books have been an Aesop Accolade winner, Sydney Taylor notable books and an honor book, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist and winner, and Bank Street Best Books of the Year. Ann has two adult children and lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband.
Website: annstampler.com
Twitter: @annstampler
Facebook: https://facebook.com/WhereItBegan
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751652-afterparty
Please tweet with the hashtag #afterpartybooktour
Review
I love a good bad-girl, I do. If I can live a thousand lives vicariously through reading, I'd rather relate to the bad girl over the good girl, not because good girls are boring, but because they are a known quantity. I crave something new and different, but still safe--something I can tuck back between the covers of a good book when I'm done with it. A good bad-girl is just the thing--likeable, but wild, just the right kind of chaotic element to make an equation add up to something a little unexpected. And when you're done with her, just close the book.
Emma Lazar has no such luxury, however. She craves the new and different, stepping out into the hot Los Angeles haze, leaning away from her father's overprotective shadow and towards the bright, sparkling beacon of fun that is Siobhan Lynch. As Emma's friendship with Siobhan grows, her relationship with her father begins to falter. With an uninhibited partner in crime, Emma begins to change, and not necessarily for the better.
Afterparty explores the life of the good girl, the bad girl, and all the gray areas in between them. Emma agonizes over her identity: is she Emma the Good, taking insanely perfect notes and following her moral compass to an unequivocal North? Or is she Emma the Bad Seedling, as the handsome but perhaps untrustworthy Dylan Kahane calls her: lying, sneaking out, with moral compass spinning wildly out of control? Is she her (junkie, derelict, deceased) mother's daughter, despite all the effort she and her father put in to avoid just such an outcome?
Evenly-paced, snarky, and bursting with bad decisions, Afterparty is a fascinating and highly entertaining addition to contemporary realistic YA fiction. I highly recommend it!
Originally posted by Alethea at readnowsleeplater.com
Afterparty by Ann Redisch Stampler (Excerpt) by Simon and Schuster
Blog Tour Schedule
Mon, Oct 6 - Read Now Sleep Later
Tue, Oct 7 - What a Nerd Girl Says
Wed, Oct 8 - Fiktshun
Thu, Oct 9 - Adventures of a Book Junkie
Fri, Oct 10 - Recently Acquired Obsessions
Mon, Oct 13 - Nite Lite Book Reviews
Tue, Oct 14 - The Windy Pages
Wed, Oct 16 - A Bookish Escape
Fri, Oct 17 - Movies, Shows and Books and Once Upon a Twilight
Mon, Oct 20 - She Reads, She Blogs
Tue, Oct 21 - Books Unbound
Wed, Oct 22 - The Consummate Reader
Thu, Oct 23 - Kid Lit Frenzy
Fri, Oct 24 - The O.W.L. for YA
Mon, Oct 27 - The Thousand Lives
Tue, Oct 28 - Books Turn Brains
Wed, Oct 29 - Fangirlfeeels
Thu, Oct 30 - Romance Bookie
Fri, Oct 31 - The Reader’s Antidote
Mon, Nov 3 - Proud Book Nerd
Fri, Nov 7 - Girls with Books
It's GIVEAWAY time!
We actually have 2 giveaways you can enter.
Giveaway #1:
This is the big prize! I really love how Ann took the time to find so many of the items found in the book.
A hardcover copy of Afterparty
Emma’s contraband Sephora make-up
Emma’s Kate Spade make-up bag
Emma’s Bob Marley t-shirt
Emma’s vintage mother-of-pearl barrette
Emma’s cat’s eyes sun glasses
Emma’s ice blue nail polish
The sparkly hair pins Dylan pulls out of Emma’s hair
Dylan’s Kurt Cobain t-shirt
Siobhan’s gold nail polish
Mara’s Bakelite-style orange bracelet ( two more)
Mara’s (tiny) Felix-the-Cat ring
An Afterparty tote bag
Giveaway #2:
This one's my giveaway! Well, the book and tote will be coming from Simon Pulse, but the nail polish will be coming from me through the Zoya website. I love Afterparty, obviously, but I also love the cover! I'm not creative enough to come up with a Manicure Monday for it right now, but I hope Thuy from Nite Lite Book Reviews will have a fun idea or three. Or maybe you will?
The winner of my giveaway can get 2 of any available Zoya colors in addition to the book and bag. Here are my faves from the Entice & Ignite collections for Fall 2014: (l to r) Teigen, Ryan, and Remy.
Good luck!
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- Open to US residents only. Ends 10/21/2014.
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