VBT# Control - Stephanie Guerilus
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the CONTROL by Stephanie
Guerilus Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the
giveaway!
About the Book:
Author: Stephanie Guerilus
Pub. Date: October 2, 2018
Publisher: Stephanie Guerilus
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 297
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Control, whose title is lifted from the iconic Janet Jackson song, embodies its name. Theresa Marie Jenkins is a 17-year-old who thinks she knows it all. As the saying goes, a hard head makes for a soft ass and Reesa learns the hard way that she doesn’t really know much about life.
Reesa quickly becomes an It girl after speaking up at a Black
Lives Matter protest but her activism gets in the way of her career. She wants
to be the next pop diva on the charts. For that to happen, Reesa will have to
be packaged; smile and wave as though she’s at a beauty pageant. She’ll have to
give control to advisers who want her to sing on cue, tap dance on command, no
throwing shoes at parties and keeping her mouth shut on the culture. If only
Reesa had just sat there and ate her food.
Control is a novel that addresses the political climate, #MeToo,
identity and what it means when you are a young woman of color who the world doesn’t
automatically think to protect.
I wasn't 100% sure what this
book was about when I started reading it, I just knew it had something to do
with the Black culture and that scene judging from the cover. Often books with
a strong African-American feel have the same sort of book covers. Reading
this book, it was again in the same vein as Angie Thomas's THUG and Our
Friendship Matters by Kimberley B. Jones, unlike those books, however, the
language used in Control was very much that of the black culture and the
majority of the characters were black characters. In Control, we meet Reesa
whose half-black and half-white and lives with her black mother while her white
dad is a politician with a new all-white family. Currently which made this book
more relevant now than in 2018 when it was published in the Black Lives Matter
protesting and wanting justice for innocent lives being taken by police. We
read as Reesa is targeted by a white neighborhood kid for standing up for what
she believes in and having to live her life with both influences of white and
black culture. Control also has aspects of romance, juggling life, and
finding her way in the world and also shows readers why it is never a good idea
to meet your idol and inspiration as they may hate us just like Rooney
experienced in Devyn Forrest's series, so did Reesa in Control. If you
are wanting a fiction book to read that explores more into the worlds and
thoughts of those involved with the BLM movement, then check out Stephanie
Guerilus "Control". Perfect for those aged 15-18 years.
Amazon Link : https://amzn.to/2GNvKrD
About Stephanie:
Stephanie Guerilus is a multimedia journalist and social media expert.
She is a native of Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Haitian immigrants. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Temple University and is the secretary of the New York Association of Black Journalists.
Prior to joining the chapter board, she has volunteered with the National Association of Black Journalists. In this role, she helped in functions related to the annual convention, media and organizing various panels that have featured April Reign and Vann R. Newkirk II.
Stephanie previously worked as a reporter at The Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest African American newspaper in the country. Through this position, she was assigned late breaking news coverage in addition to the community, religion and obituary beats. She interviewed such notable names as Rev. Al Sharpton, actress Victoria Rowell, Sen. Pat Toomey, Olympian Dawn Staley, gospel artist Mary Mary, Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and TV Personality and Professor Melissa Harris-Perry.
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Giveaway
Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy of CONTROL, US Only.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
Week One:
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10/1/2020 |
Interview |
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10/2/2020 |
Interview |
Week Two:
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10/5/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/6/2020 |
Guest Post |
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10/7/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/8/2020 |
Guest Post |
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10/9/2020 |
Review |
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10/12/2020 |
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10/13/2020 |
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10/14/2020 |
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10/15/2020 |
Review |
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10/16/2020 |
Guest Post |
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10/19/2020 |
Guest Post |
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10/20/2020 |
Review |
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10/21/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/22/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/23/2020 |
Review |
Week Five:
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10/26/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/27/2020 |
Instagram Post |
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10/28/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/29/2020 |
Review |
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10/30/2020 |
Review |
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