VBT# Just Shelby - Brooklyn James
I
am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the JUST SHELBY by Brooklyn James Blog Tour
hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.
Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Brooklyn James
Pub.
Date: October 27, 2020
Publisher: Arena Books
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 290
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, Smashwords
A secret note square found in a handmade guitar proves that small town gossip is not only ubiquitous but occasionally true. This gossip comes with strings rivaling those on Ace Cooper’s guitar, the safest strings he will ever have around his heart.
Ace’s father warns him to stay away from the Lynn girl. Daughter of a deceased bootlegger and a barely living addict, Shelby Lynn is no stranger to small town contempt. She keeps her nose in the books and feet to the ground, a college scholarship the only escape from her tumultuous life.
As Ace’s heartstrings unravel, so does his family’s role in Shelby’s broken past. Thrust into a precarious journey of their roots brimming with music and betrayal, the two have never been closer…to the truth of how Shelby’s father died. One truth transforms every facet of their lives forever.
A dual POV friends-to-first-love story, Just Shelby is an unsuspecting
mystery that depicts how growing together can sometimes hurt worse than growing
apart.
A few years back I read
Brooklyn's debut novel at that stage "The Boots My Mother Gave Me"
and enjoyed it and when I saw the cover of the book "Just Shelby". I
knew I wanted to read it as the cover drew me in and at that stage, I hadn't
fully connected that the authors of the books were the same, that came a bit
later in conversation. The book Just Shelby starts with Shelby and Ace who are
neighbors and best friends living in a small town which is part of the
Appalachians. Shelby has always felt that she is better than the town and can't
wait to escape as this town killed her father and got her mother hooked on
drugs and it is also going to have everyone she loves have their lives ruined.
Shelby is an amazing track star and her best friend Ace Cooper is an amazing
musician but like her, if he isn't lucky he will be stuck in the town working
in the mines like his previous four generations of men. The book has Ace
discovering an old band called "Bootleg" which featured Shelby's
parents and a friend. The friend ended up making it big and in a new band
called Contra Band and soon the pair will track down parts of the band's
equipment and in doing so uncover dangerous secrets that surround both Shelby
and Ace's conceptions, the day they were born and how all their sets of parents
are connected which will then unfold some dangerous truths that the town has
tried to hide. I have to admit the book started good, but near the end, it
started having a bit too many tangents for my liking and in the end felt like a
jumbled mess and left me feeling confused as I finished the book. Overall, I
have a bag of mixed feelings about Just Shelby by Brooklyn James which puts
this review as a borderline 3 star.
Amazon : https://amzn.to/321e57b
About Brooklyn:
Brooklyn James is an author/singer-songwriter
who savors any opportunity to blend books with music. Her first novel, The Boots My Mother Gave Me, has an
original music soundtrack, making for a unique Audible experience. Out of Boots
grew a platform where it was Brooklyn's honor to serve as a guest speaker with
a focus on awareness and prevention of domestic violence and suicide.
Her latest speaking engagements centered around accessibility, rights, and
choice in birth, as well as writing workshops on how to put pen to paper composing
one's own birth story with the release of her birth memoir, Born in the Bed You Were Made: One Family's
Journey from Cesarean to Home Birth.
Just Shelby gifted both the challenge
and the thrill of this author's primary exploration into the Young Adult genre.
She cherishes reader reviews, if you should be so inclined.
Moonlighting occasionally in voice-over and film, Brooklyn played a Paramedic
in a Weezer video, met Harry Connick Jr. as an extra on the set of When Angels Sing, appeared in Richard Linklater's
Boyhood for all of a nanosecond, and
was a stand-in and stunt double for Mira Sorvino on Jerry Bruckheimer's Trooper pilot for TNT. Although reading,
dancing, working out, and a good glass of kombucha get her pretty excited, she
finds most thrilling the privilege of being a mother to two illuminating little
souls and a wife to the one big soul from whom they get their light.
Brooklyn holds an M.A. in Communication, a B.S. in both Nursing and Animal
Science, and lives in Texas Hill Country.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a Signed Paperback
that comes with a 3-set candle gift pack (one limited edition Just Shelby book
scent "Gray Fog," one fall scent, and one winter scent). The Signed
Paperback/Candle Set is valued at $35. US Only.
3 lucky winners will receive an eBook of
JUST SHELBY, International.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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10/19/2020 |
Interview |
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10/19/2020 |
Instagram Stop |
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10/20/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/20/2020 |
Instagram Stop |
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10/21/2020 |
Guest Post |
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10/21/2020 |
Instagram Stop |
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10/22/2020 |
Review |
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10/22/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/23/2020 |
Interview |
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10/23/2020 |
Instagram Stop |
Week Two:
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10/26/2020 |
Review |
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10/26/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/27/2020 |
Review |
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10/27/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/28/2020 |
Review |
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10/28/2020 |
Excerpt |
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10/29/2020 |
Review |
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10/29/2020 |
Instagram Stop |
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10/30/2020 |
Review |
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10/30/2020 |
Excerpt |
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