RABT Book Tours Reviews: August 2023

Friday, August 25, 2023

Tour Wrap Up: Sushi and Sea Lions by Rachel Corsini

Women's Fiction

Date Published: 05-16-2023

Publisher: Creative James Media

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When a career-ending injury and a messy breakup send prima ballerina Daniela Verdi back to Queens, New York, she fills her days with countless distractions: meaningless sex, pinot grigio, and video games.

It takes a chance meeting with her brother's best friend, Vincent LaBate, for her to remember who she was before the stage lights and distractions of the Upper West Side. She's convinced that Vincent could never love a girl like her: broken, insecure, and stumbling her way through life. What Daniela didn’t count on is that Vincent is as scarred as she is after divorcing his cheating wife and going through an equally messy child custody fight. Soon enough, old vulnerabilities rear their ugly heads, opening a crack in Daniela’s perfectly imperfect romance.

As Daniela and Vincent's relationship develops, will Daniela learn to accept that a dream life isn't all it's cracked up to be?

Currently a 4.7* Rating on Amazon.

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

August 14 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

August 14 - The Sexy Nerd Revue - Spotlight

August 15 - Matters That Count - Excerpt

August 16 - Novel's Alive - Review

August 17 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

August 18 - The Avid Reader - Interview

August 19 - Books Blog - Spotlight

August 21 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

August 22 - Novel News Network - Review

August 23 - A Life Through Books - Interview

August 24 - Texas Book Nook - Review

August 25 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

About the Author

After declaring herself a pretty pink princess during her first ballet class, Rachel dreamt of sugarplums and began pirouetting her way through life. While studying to become a ballerina, she compulsively read books under her covers by flashlight and scribbled in spiral-bound notebooks. The urge to tell stories culminated in her graduation from Columbia College Chicago with a B.F.A. in fiction writing.

Never one to keep her feet on the ground, she traveled the world from Prague to Cape Town. Once settled back in Queens, she dabbled in journalism before working as an Editorial Assistant for a medical publisher. Seeking a more fulfilling career, she earned her MAT from Queens College and currently works as an English teacher in an alternative program in NYC.

Rachel spends her time sipping coffee, trying to cook, and practicing her pirouettes. She currently resides in Freeport, Long Island.

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Tour Wrap Up: DOC by Tory Richards

Book 8 Desert Rebels MC series

Romantic Suspense

Date Published: 08-01-2023

Doc has been a member of the Desert Rebels for a long time. He had his own clinic until a sweet, beautiful nurse came on board and ruined everything. Harlow is married and a complication Doc didn't need. He tried; he really did. But after a while he couldn't stand working beside a woman he wanted more than he needed air to breathe

Giving his practice up seemed the only solution, but life has a way of kicking you in the ass when you least expect it. Harlow becomes friends with some of the old ladies and suddenly she's frequenting the clubhouse and club owned bar. There's only one way Doc can survive being around her.

Make the beauty hate him any way he can.

This book has a current Amazon rating of 4.4*'s.

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

August 14 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

August 14 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

August 15 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

August 16 - Matters That Count - Excerpt

August 17 - BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog - Spotlight

August 18 - Iron Canuck Reviews - Review

August 19 - Books Blog - Spotlight

August 20 - Brittany's Book Blog - Excerpt

August 21 - The Avid Reader - Interview

August 22 - On a Reading Bender - Review

August 23 - Our Town Book Reviews - Excerpt

August 24 - The Indie Express - Review

August 25 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

About the Author

Tory Richards is an author who writes smut with a plot. She's an Amazon bestselling author in erotic romance and romantic suspense categories. Born in Maine, she's lived most of her life in Florida where she went to school, married, and raised her daughter. She's retired from Disney and spends her time with family and friends, traveling, and writing.

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Tour Wrap Up: Does Love Always Win? by Diane Billas

YA romance

Date Published: 06-20-2023

Publisher: Creative James Media

Does Love Always Win is a sapphic coming of age young adult novel that explores coming out and understanding one's sexual orientation.

Sam "Shorty" Daniels has a plan for her senior year, but her romantic life being a hot mess was not part of the agenda. Shorty quickly discovers she's not attracted to her newest boyfriend and fellow marching band member Zack, despite her many hours of daydreaming of what it would be like to date him. Their previous flirting had been so intense that those feelings have to come back again, right?

When Shorty's asked to show the snarky new girl around high school, Shorty's instantly intrigued by Kristy's wit, and they bond over their love of writing. They quickly become inseparable, and Shorty has a breakthrough moment realizing why none of her other relationships worked out.

Just as Shorty is about to break up with Zack, her bitter ex-boyfriend Bryan threatens to out her to the entire school and Shorty's conservative parents. Will Shorty be able to overcome Bryan's ridiculous blackmail scheme and get her dream girl?

Current Amazon Rating of 4.5*'s.

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

August 14 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

August 14 - The Sexy Nerd Revue - Spotlight

August 15 - Buffy Kennedy - Excerpt

August 15 - Fiction Lux - Review

August 16 - MX Phoebe's Viewpoint - Review

August 16 - Gale Stanley - Spotlight

August 17 - Novel's Alive - Review

August 18 - Candlelight Reading - Review

August 19 - Never Hollowed - Excerpt

August 20 - BRVL Book Reviews Virginia Lee Blog - Spotlight

August 21 - The Avid Reader - Interview

August 22 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

August 23 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

August 24 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

August 25 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

About the Author

Diane Billas lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son. When she’s not writing she can be found reading multiple books at once, performing the French horn and piano, or dreaming of the next country she’s going to visit. Diane can be found at dianebillas.com, on Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook @dianebillas, and on Instagram @dianebillaswrites.

Diane Billas is the author of the YA contemporary romance LGBTQ+ novel DOES LOVE ALWAYS WIN? releasing June 2023 and the YA superhero LGBTQ+ novel SUPERFICIAL releasing September 2024.

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Tour Wrap Up: The Federal Plantation by Larry A. Lee

A Tale of Subjugation and Injustice

Political Fiction

Date Published: April 26, 2023

Publisher: ‎ MindStir Media

A WRITER IS A WARRIOR, so Liam harnessed and used his fear to expose the Federal Service's subjugation and injustice for the greatest good. Institutions are not what people think they are. Liam saw the Federal Service as an intimidating giant, yet he recognized the very thing that made the giant robust made it vulnerable. Liam knew a powerful institution was something he could not fight back with only hope and the thought of fairness. An institution is not even somebody. It is nothing, and one cannot fight nothing. Liam knew an institution loses its power once it has a human face.

Hilda the Widowmaker was the Angeles' Plantation owner and a highly skilled institutional assassin. She is a disciple of the Enemy, the fallen angel who dominates Paradise Lost. Since the beginning of time, the elite has created a complex system of policies and laws to protect the costly blunders of management. Outmoded rituals and inappropriate dogma have belittled humanity into slaves.

The physical world assaults Liam's faith. The result is an unusual perspective of some of the most ossified traditions in the Federal Service and eye-opening lessons that can be applied when David meets Goliath on the battlefield again.

Currently a 4.8* Rating on Amazon.

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

July 24 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

July 24 - Books Blog - Spotlight

July 25 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

July 26 - Matters That Count - Excerpt

July 27 - Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

July 31 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

August 1 - BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog - Spotlight

August 2 - The Avid Reader - Interview

August 3 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

August 7 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

August 8 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

August 9 - Texas Book Nook - Review

August 10 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

August 14 - Writers N Authors- Spotlight

August 15 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

August 16 - Our Town Book Reviews - Excerpt

August 17 - A Life Through Books - Interview

August 18 - Novel News Network - Review

August 21 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

August 22 - The Indie Express - Review

August 23 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

August 24 - On a Reading Bender - Review

About the Author

The obstacles in Larry A. Lee’s life opened his heart and mind to turn silences into words. A dream lived inside of him as a young boy. Wisdom through struggle and compassion, his self-educated imagination describes the tragic, comic, absurd, ironic, hopeful, and surreal moments of his life. Larry‘s book Out of the Field demonstrates how important it is to dream in one’s life, and he shows adversity unlocks one’s real strengths and values.

Larry wrote Out of the Field to inspire other lost boys and girls to envision another life beyond the conditions of their circumstances, so their futures will not vanish from their mind’s eye. By virtue of self-reflection, he broke free of the imprisonment of a black and white world, and the relentless discovery of Self bore the purity of wisdom through forgiveness. The truth is ugly and uncomfortable, but the future begins with the right choice. Formidable and in the distance, Larry presses forward into the unknown, and he hopes others will follow their dreams.

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