Happy Wednesday, dear readers! Today I am happily hosting Vicky Alvear Shecter's Blog Tour with a giveaway of her latest YA Historical, Curses & Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii!
Pub Date: May 27, 2014 | Arthur A. Levine Books | Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Genre: YA Historical
When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?
TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.
LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air...
When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?
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About the Author
Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of the young adult novel, CLEOPATRA'S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2011), based on the life of Cleopatra's only daughter. She is also the author of two award-winning biographies for kids on Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. She is a docent at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Antiquities at Emory University in Atlanta.
Author Links
Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Monday, May 26Review at Flashlight Commentary
Review & Giveaway at The Mad Reviewer
Tuesday, May 27
Guest Post & Giveaway at Flashlight Commentary
Wednesday, May 28
Review & Giveaway at Fiction Folio
Thursday, May 29
Review at Good Books and Good Wine
Friday, May 30
Guest Post at Good Books and Good Wine
Monday, June 2
Review at Oh, For the Hook of a Book
Tuesday, June 3
Review at Geek Girl's Book Blog
Interview & Giveaway at Oh, For the Hook of a Book
Wednesday, June 4
Review at Book Drunkard
Thursday, June 5
Review at Book Lovers Paradise
Friday, June 6
Review at Manga Maniac Cafe
Monday, June 9
Review at Bibliophilia, Please
Review & Giveaway at A Bookish Affair
Tuesday, June 10
Review & Giveaway at Historical Tapestry
Wednesday, June 11
Review at The Book Belles
Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past
Thursday, June 12
Review at Let Them Read Books
Review at Svetlana's Reads and Views
Friday, June 13
Review at Broken Teepee
Guest Post & Giveaway at Let Them Read Books
Giveaway
To win a copy of Curses & Smoke, please enter the giveaway form below. Giveaway is open to residents in the US, UK, and Canada. Ends on June 21st. Good luck!a Rafflecopter giveaway
Been enjoying this virtual book tour. I have added this book to my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteI was fascinated with Pompeii when I was in high school. I read everything I could find about it. That was many years ago, but my interest is still there. This would be an interesting viewpoint.
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hmm, I don't remember reading a historical YA. ready to try! thanks for the giveawazy
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great historical and a time period I have not read yet.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting setting during a turbulent time.
ReplyDeleteThis book look very interesting to me. I would love to win it.
ReplyDeleteRecently I've been reading HF set in early, first century Rome and Judea. Having never read anything about Pompeii, this novel sounds especially interesting. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteOooooohhh, this looks really good! Can't wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway!
This book sounds great! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway. I would so love to see Pompeii!
ReplyDeletesounds like a book I would so thoroughly enjoy!!
ReplyDeletethank you for the giveaway!!
I love any historical fiction dealing with Pompeii and this one sounds amazing!
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