Hey everyone! I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the blog tour for LOST CROW CONSPIRACY by Rosalyn Eves! I love Rosalyn and this book is freaking fantastic!
I have a playlist to share with you today! And make sure to enter the giveaway below!
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Sixteen-year old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding—and Praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, wreak havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates lose theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more.
Anna Arden did not know breaking the Binding would break the world.
Anna thought the Praetheria were on her side, content and grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice to the disarm the spell would bring peace, equality, justice. She thought her future looked like a society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor.
But with the Monarchy breathing down her neck and the Praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun.
As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas.
Now on to the playlist!
Book Playlist
Link to spotify list: https://open.spotify.com/user/22j6gs4az3zrjjipkgbdb7vaq/playlist/55lbM4AykoRym4qPU5ThIx
Some notes on the playlist:
Like most of my book playlists, this one is eclectic: some of the songs
convey a mood or theme, others help me establish the setting or characters.
To start with, “I of the Storm,” by Of Monsters and Men is Anna’s theme
song, as she grapples with her shadows and demons in the aftermath of BLOOD
ROSE REBELLION.
Coldplay’s “Spies” echoes in fun ways the conspiracies that run through
the book (and the book’s title!)
Ruelle’s “Monsters” speaks to a recurring theme in LOST CROW CONSPIRACY:
what is a monster? And how do we confront what is monstrous in ourselves?
The fourth song, Johann Strauss’s Zeitgeister is a waltz published just
prior to the period of the novel and would have been a likely choice at any of
the balls Anna attends in Vienna.
Goran Bregovićs haunting
“Ederlezi” is a popular Romani folksong from the Balkan region. It’s not a song
that Gábor or his contemporaries would have known, as it was written during
World War II, but it has roots in the haunting Romani folksongs Gábor would
have been familiar with. The title “Ederlezi” references a Romani celebration
of St. George’s day—though in this case, the title carries
dual weight, as St. George’s day (May 6th)
was also the day a train carried cars of Romani prisoners from Sarajevo to
German concentration camps.
Faure’s “Pavanne,” with its otherworldly melodies speaks to both the
human and praetherian magic in the story.
The next couple of songs are for my second point of view: one of Anna’s
cousins and one of my favorite voices to write. Scott Stapp’s “Dying to Live”
will make sense in context of the story (I don’t want to spoil anything) and
Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades.”
Passenger’s “Blooddstains” echoes the bittersweet arc of the romance in
LOST CROW—plus, the album is called Flight of the Crow, so how
could I pass that up?
Both Hozier’s “Arsonist’s Lullaby” and Of Monsters and Men’s “Wolves
Without
Teeth” are for some of my praetheria, both dangerous and beautiful:
Zhivka and Vasilisa.
The final two songs—Twenty-one Pilot’s “Truce” and 2WEI’s
“Survivor” capture the feeling at the end of this middle book in my trilogy:
fighting to survive against daunting odds.
I had fun putting this together—hopefully readers
enjoy it too!
About Rosalyn:
Rosalyn is represented by Josh Adams of Adams literary.
Rosalyn Eves grew up in the
Rocky Mountains, dividing
her time between reading books and bossing her
siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an
adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of
her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or
writing,she enjoys spending time with her chemistry
professor husband and three children, watching British
period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape
of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes
housework on principle.
her time between reading books and bossing her
siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an
adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of
her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or
writing,she enjoys spending time with her chemistry
professor husband and three children, watching British
period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape
of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes
housework on principle.
She has a PhD in English from
Penn State, which means she also endeavors to
inspire college students with a love for the English language. Sometimes it even
works.
inspire college students with a love for the English language. Sometimes it even
works.
Rosalyn is represented by Josh Adams of Adams literary.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners
will receive a signed finished copy of LOST CROW CONSPIRACY & A Magnet, US
Only.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Ends on March 27th at Midnight EST!
Tour Schedule:
Week
One:
3/5/2018- YA Books Central- Interview
3/6/2018- FICTION FARE- Review
3/7/2018- Owl Always Be Reading- Excerpt
3/8/2018- YA and Wine- Review
3/9/2018- A Dream Within A
Dream- Excerpt
Week
Two:
3/12/2018- The Book Nut- Review
3/13/2018- A Gingerly Review- Review
3/14/2018- Book Briefs- Review
3/15/2018- Two Chicks on Books- Guest
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