[Blog Tour] #scandal by Sarah Ockler: Promo & Giveaway

[Blog Tour] #scandal by Sarah Ockler: Promo & Giveaway

Posted by Nina L. on 10:00 PM in blog tour, contemporary, Giveaway, promotion, Sarah Ockler, The Fantastic Flying Book Club Tours, YA,

Author: Sarah Ockler

Release date: June 17th 2014

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Series: N/A

Age Group: Young Adult

Genre: Contemporary 

Tour organized by: The Fantastic Flying Book Club Tours

Purchase: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository

Add to your library: Goodreads

Lucy’s learned some important lessons from tabloid darling Jayla Heart’s all-too-public blunders: Avoid the spotlight, don’t feed the Internet trolls, and keep your secrets secret. The policy has served Lucy well all through high school, so when her best friend Ellie gets sick before prom and begs her to step in as Cole’s date, she accepts with a smile, silencing about ten different reservations. Like the one where she’d rather stay home shredding online zombies. And the one where she hates playing dress-up. And especially the one where she’s been secretly in love with Cole since the dawn of time.

When Cole surprises her at the after party with a kiss under the stars, it’s everything Lucy has ever dreamed of… and the biggest BFF deal-breaker ever. Despite Cole’s lingering sweetness, Lucy knows they’ll have to ’fess up to Ellie. But before they get the chance, Lucy’s own Facebook profile mysteriously explodes with compromising pics of her and Cole, along with tons of other students’ party indiscretions. Tagged. Liked. And furiously viral.

By Monday morning, Lucy’s been branded a slut, a backstabber, and a narc, mired in a tabloid-worthy scandal just weeks before graduation.

Lucy’s been battling undead masses online long enough to know there’s only one way to survive a disaster of this magnitude: Stand up and fight. Game plan? Uncover and expose the Facebook hacker, win back her best friend’s trust, and graduate with a clean slate.

There’s just one snag—Cole. Turns out Lucy’s not the only one who’s been harboring unrequited love...(via Goodreads)

       

About the Author

Sarah Ockler is the bestselling author of novels for teens, including The Book of Broken Hearts, Bittersweet, Fixing Delilah, and the critically acclaimed Twenty Boy Summer, a YALSA Teens' Top Ten nominee and IndieNext List pick. Her latest, #scandal, hits the shelves in June 2014.

Sarah is a champion cupcake eater, coffee drinker, night person, and bookworm. When she's not writing or reading at home in Colorado, she enjoys taking pictures, hugging trees, and road-tripping through the country with her husband, Alex.

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E-ARC Review: The Book of Broken Hearts

E-ARC Review: The Book of Broken Hearts

Posted by Nina L. on 12:00 AM in 4-star, contemporary, E-ARC, romance, Sarah Ockler, YA,

Author: Sarah Ockler

Release date: May 21st 2013

Publisher: Simon Pulse 
Series: N/A

Purchase: Amazon | The Book Depository

Add to your library: Goodreads

When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A poignant and romantic novel from the author ofBittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer.

Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. She’s seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath—with candles and a contract and everything—to never have anything to do with one.

Now Jude is the only sister still living at home, and she’s spending the summer helping her ailing father restore his vintage motorcycle—which means hiring a mechanic to help out. Is it Jude’s fault he happens to be cute? And surprisingly sweet? And a Vargas?

Jude tells herself it’s strictly bike business with Emilio. Her sisters will never find out, and Jude can spot those flirty little Vargas tricks a mile away—no way would she fall for them. But Jude’s defenses are crumbling, and if history is destined to repeat itself, she’s speeding toward some serious heartbreak…unless her sisters were wrong?Jude may have taken an oath, but she’s beginning to think that when it comes to love, some promises might be worth breaking. (via Goodreads)

How many times have I been fooled by a synopsis? Either the synopsis is way out of the book's content or the book's content is even deeper than the synopsis itself. So have a guess about where this one falls.

Don't even be fooled, friends. It says that this is about Jude and Emilio's struggle to find their way into love. But with that comes their great responsibility about a lot of things. Jude's ailing father, her sisters' weird paranoia about the Vargas brothers and the oath she has taken when she was just, guess what, twelve years old.

I wouldn't really blame her sisters. They had their reasons. But for them to actually let their youngest sister do that oath is a little out of line. And hello! It was just about boys, boys and boys. Why do boys have this big role in a girl's life? Boys, you must be so flattered that girls really do consider you important in their lives.

Jude and Emilio's love was so pure and out of their plans. When it's love, it's love. It just happens when the right person is right there. It's just so swoony, you know. I swear. Emilio's such a charmer. I love that guy. He totally made me believe that he is nothing like his brothers. His character has this depth that I cannot even explain. He totally made me swoon. That's all.

I really don't know what's supposed to be the center of this novel. Whether it's the ailment of Jude's father or the growth of Jude and Emilio's love. Maybe both. It was like the ailment of Jude's father was the sole reason that Jude and Emilio even had the chance to meet. Also, because of her father's ailment, the two were tested a lot of times. Like how to handle this or that. Seriously, I can't count how many times I cried because of her father. It was so realistic. And his ailment is the one I'm actually totally scared of! Oh shoot, it's even my Dad's birthday today. I'm sending all my prayers to God that he wouldn't have that kind of ailment! Don't worry, I'm including all you guys in my prayer.

Don't get me wrong now, I truly love this book. It's just that, there's something about Jude that puts me off. I've been thinking about if for days but I cannot point it out! It's like I know her but at the same time, I don't. I guess I just didn't feel much of her character's deep feelings. I felt her and I didn't feel her. Am I making sense?

If you actually think that this is one of those light contemporary reads, you're totally wrong. This isn't even light. If you also think that this is just a book about broken hearts, then you're wrong again. It's a lot more than that. It has a deep feel that will absolutely make you feel. It's just so different over-all. Be ready to shed a few tears!

(Many thanks to Simon Pulse for allowing me to read this through Edelweiss.)

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