RABT Book Tours Reviews: February 2022

Monday, February 28, 2022

Tour Wrap Up: The Mystery of Frankenstein's Bride by Martha Wickham #blogtour #wrapup #paranormal #horror #giveaway #rabtbooktours @MarthaWickham

Paranormal, Horror

Date Published: December 20, 2020

When love takes a turn, what are you willing to do to keep it?

Terra's love life is a monster so she sets out to see her old flame Nathaniel Johnston. But when she finds he is no longer living either, eternity is theirs. Bringing him back will get her a husband because of her passionate feelings for him.

Johnston is her new life, but when they are on their honeymoon in Germany things take a bad turn. The castle they stay in creates too much distance between the two.

Can she get closer to him before it's too late?

Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

February 5 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

February 5 - I smell sheep - Guest Post

February 6 - Book Reviews by Virginia Lee - Spotlight

February 7 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

February 8 - Stormy nights reviewing and blogging - Spotlight

February 9 - A Life Though Books - Interview

February 10 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

February 11 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

February 14 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

February 15 - The Avid Reader - Interview

February 16 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

February 17 - Texas Book Nook - Review

February 18 - Sapphyria's Book Blog - Spotlight

February 19 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

February 21 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

February 22 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

February 23 - On a Reading Bender - Review

February 24 - Girl with Pen - Review

February 25 - Valerie Ullmer - Excerpt

About the Author

Martha has studied writing with Writer's Digest and has an Associate’s degree in Social Services. She has also written poems and songs and even studied screen writing and horror. She still writes and likes getting writing prompts. Her favorite author is VC Andrews.

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Tour Wrap Up: Mother Blues by Owen Thomas #blogtour #wrapup #mystery #fiction #rabtbooktours @otfiction @MKWebsiteandSEO

Mystery / Literary Fiction

Date Published:‎ September 30, 2021

Publisher: OTF Literary

What if your childhood harbored a dire warning about your future? What if your life and the lives of dozens of others, including your future child, depended on you deciphering that warning before it is too late?

Mother Blues is about the maternal relationships we never knew existed, the evil we never expect, and the redemption we never think possible. Subversively feminist and environmental, this is a novel about mothers: those we have loved and lost, those we have never known, and those who have always been there for us whether we have realized it or not. And while this is not a novel about blues music, the blues is everywhere in this story, both grounding it in history and pushing it forward in a slow, rhythmic ache.

If there is one maternal presence that binds together the characters of this novel, living and dead, it is the blues itself. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Mahalia Jackson, and all the timeless mothers to that quintessentially American genre are here, a soulful Greek chorus singing from the shadows, warning and imploring, offering hope, and bearing witness to lives adrift and in danger of capsizing.

Currently a 4* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour

February 14 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

February 15 - Book Reviews by Virginia Lee - Spotlight

February 16 - Our Town Book Reviews - Spotlight

February 17 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

February 18 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

February 19 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

February 21 - Sapphs Books - Spotlight

February 22 - The Indie Express - Review

February 23 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

February 24 - On a Reading Bender - Review

About the Author

Owen Thomas is a life-long Alaskan and avid reader. He has written five books: "The Lion Trees" (which has garnered over sixteen international book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, the Beverly Hills International Book Award and, most recently, a finalist in the 2020 Book Excellence Awards); "Mother Blues," (a novel of music and mystery set in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas); "Message in a Bullet: A Raymond Mackey Mystery," (the first in a series of detective novels); "Signs of Passing" (a book of interconnected short stories, and winner of fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction, also named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine); and "This is the Dream," (a collection of stories and novellas that explore that perplexing liminal distance between who we are and what we want). Owen maintains an active fiction and photography blog on Facebook, Tumblr and on his author website at www.owenthomasliterary.com.

For the ninth consecutive year since he has been measuring his commercial success as an author, Owen has not won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Also, to great acclaim, he has not won the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, in April of 2020, Owen was not nominated for a Pulitzer.

Owen makes his home in Alaska, Arizona and Hawaii. When he is not writing, Owen can be found recreating and taking photographs in the grandeur of these wonderfully picturesque locations. Some of these photos are posted on Owen's photo blog, 1000 Words per Frame.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Tour Wrap Up: Expedition Borneo by Daniel Side #blogtour #wrapup #giveaway #adventure #rabtbooktours @daniel_side @danside2

Adult Romantic Adventure

Date Published: February 2022

AN ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER.

One part, exotic, jungle setting, one part romance, two parts gripping, heart-pounding suspense

Jake Bennett knew a couple of things for sure: he needed a job, he didn’t want to die in the jungle… but he’d never met anyone like nurse Brockman.

The two clash when Jake discovers that Katherine Brockman’s mission has nothing to do with checking the condition of malaria in native villages.

The possibility of saving tens of thousands of lives unites them as they venture into the steaming jungle to discover if the “Legend of the Riverman” is true.

Soon, the dangers of the jungle wrapped in the unforgiving heat, threatens to end, not only their mission, but their lives.

But nothing can prepare them for what they discover, hidden deep in an unexplored jungle basin.

A new, action-packed, adult adventure

Currently a 4.3* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

January 30 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

January 31 - Pick a good book - Excerpt

February 1 - Book Reviews by Virginia Lee - Spotlight

February 2 - Sapphyria's Book Blog - Spotlight

February 3 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

February 4 - Nesie's Place - Excerpt

February 8 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

February 9 - Our Town Book Reviews - Spotlight

February 10 - The Avid Reader - Interview

February 11 - Texas Book Nook - Review

February 12 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

February 14 - A Life Through Books - Interview

February 15 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

February 16 - The Indie Express - Review

February 17 - Triquetra Reviews - Spotlight

February 18 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

February 19 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

February 21 - On a Reading Bender - Review

February 22 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

February 23 - Novel News Network - Review

February 24 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

February 25 - Valerie Ullmer - Excerpt

An avid reader as a youngster, Daniel began a teaching career at twenty, peppering his life with trail rides on his horse Kelly, scuba diving in the murky Great Lakes of Ontario and taking fencing lessons.

He married Lynda, five months after they met in a bar on a Thursday night. With her, he raised a family, wrote and produced school plays, built their log home, restored a classic Mustang, a '69 Mach 1 for enthusiasts, and took their three boys on many canoe trips in northern Canada.

Twenty years later, unable to find a science fantasy adventure he liked, with encouragement from Lynda, he wrote The Reedsmith of Zendar. Expedition Borneo is his sixth novel.

His books are varied, but whether suspense, a thriller, or an adventure story, all contain characters in trouble that you will care about and root for. He's never perfect and neither is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other on an adventure seldom of their choosing.

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Friday, February 25, 2022

Release Week Blitz: Song of the Adoël by Kevin King #promo #giveaway #yafatnasy #rabtbooktours

YA Fantasy

Date Published: 2/22/2022

Publisher: Brimstone Fiction

The Adoël keep their past a secret, speaking only of some great sin for which they pay penance by living as servants to the royal family. The curse that haunts them, that turns their skin pale and their hair white, is a shame too deep to even speak of.

Raendel resents being told he must pay for the guilt of others. Why should he have to suffer? Their actions had nothing to do with him. Or so he thinks.

When creatures out of the darkest legends attack the king in his own castle, and the prince runs off on a suicidal quest for vengeance, the 'sins of the past' suddenly become a very present reality. And very personal.

Excerpt

Urgent shouts of “Protect the king!” echoed in Raendel’s head while flashbacks of the vision from Master Othniel’s chamber pricked his conscience. He covered his ears with his hands, but he couldn’t block out Othniel’s voice that spoke inside his own mind. We failed our master. We must never fail him again.

Raendel argued back against his conscience. What can I do? I don’t know how to fight! The king has Master Lenore and Master Deborah to protect him. I would only get in the way.

The shadow creature knocked aside nobles and soldiers alike, advancing to within a few yards of the high table. Lenore and Deborah pulled the king through a door that opened into a passage ending at the king's chambers. He considered the advancing enemy and then the door where the king had gone. He didn’t know what he could do, but his conscience wouldn't let him just lie there and do nothing. With one last glance at the attackers, he leaped up and ran after the king.

About the Author

Kevin King grew up in south Louisiana, raised on a steady diet of gumbo and fiction novels. His hobbies include Renaissance Fairs, bookstores, fencing, and daydreaming. He lives outside of Seattle with his wife, his dog Frodo, and their combined book collection.

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