Scavenger Hunt- THE LAST MAGICIAN by Lisa Maxwell Meet Viola & Enter The Giveaway!

Hey everyone! I am thrilled to be hosting as part of the official street team for Lisa Maxwell's THE LAST MAGICIAN!!! For the rest of April 8 bloggers including myself will be posting quizzes, excerpts, character descriptions, etc. During the  next few weeks there will be clues in some of the posts for you to enter into a rafflecopter for extra entries in the giveaway! 

This week you get to meet the characters in the book so make sure to go to all the blogs! All sites this week have a special number in their post make sure to add up all the numbers for your special entry this week! And don't forget to share on social media using the #TheLastMagician hashtag!

Haven't heard of THE LAST MAGICIAN? Check it out!

Title: THE LAST MAGICIAN

Author: Lisa Maxwell

Release Date: July 18, 2017

Pages: 512

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Formats: Hardcover & eBook

Find it: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | iBooks

Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.

In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives.

Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta's training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.

But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.

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Meet Viola!

Name:

Viola Vaccarelli

Background:

I came to this country from Italia when I was just a little girl. My family, they protected me from the dangerous of this city. For a long time I didn’t know anything but our own tenement house, and the short block it sat on. I didn’t see nobody but others from my own town. For a long time, I was a good daughter, a good girl who did everything they expected of me. But when my brother started making a name for himself, he thought it was my duty to help him. I didn’t want that life. Let’s just say I’m not so good any more.

Likes:

A knife so sharp it can split a hair. The smell of bread baking in Tilly’s kitchen. Knowing that my brother can’t touch me as long as I’m with Dolph’s crew.

Dislikes:

The men who come to the Strega and think that they have some right to my attention…or my body. Anyone who gets in my way.

Role/Talent:

Dolph calls me his assassin, but I’ll tell you, the truth is more complicated. Still, I can hit any mark at any distance with my blade, Libitina, and I never miss. Never. They say that I can stop a beating heart without touching a person…They are not wrong.

Motto:

Choose your sins wisely, so you know the penance is worthwhile.

Scavenger Hunt # 13

About Lisa:

Lisa Maxwell is the author of Sweet Unrest, Gathering Deep, Unhooked, & The Last Magician (Simon Pulse, Spring 2017). When she's not writing books, she's an English professor at a local college. She lives near DC with her very patient husband and two not-so patient boys.

Find Lisa: Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Pinterest | Tumblr | Instagram

Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a signed/personalized ARC’s of THE LAST MAGICIAN, US Only.

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Blog Tour- MEET THE SEEKERS by Arwen Elys Dayton and a Giveaway!

Hey y'all! I'm excited to get to introduce you to Maud from Arwen Elys Dayton's SEEKER! She's one of my favorite ccharactersin the book. Oh and stick around for the giveaway!
Haven't heard of SEEKER? Check it out!

Title: SEEKER

Author: Arwen Elys Dayton

Pub. Date: February 10, 2015

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Pages: 448

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Find it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads

Their Legacy is…A calling. An Honor. A lie.

#SeekerSeries

The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor.

As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world.

And she’ll be with the boy she loves—who is also her best friend.

But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes.

Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought.

And now it’s too late to walk away.

Seeker Reviews

“Fans of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Marie Lu’s Legend, and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series: your next obsession has arrived.” —School Library Journal

“[A] powerful beginning to a complex family saga . . . Dayton excels at creating memorable characters.” —Publishers Weekly

“A tightly woven, action-packed story of survival and adventure, Seeker is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones.” —Tahereh Mafi, author of the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series                                                                                                                               “Secrets, danger, and romance meet in this unforgettable epic fantasy.” —Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures and author of Unbreakable

Now on to the introduction! 

The Young Dread, Maud

Her body was slender to the point of looking underfed, but her muscles told a different story. They were like delicate ropes of steel holding together her small frame.

 No one seems to know for sure, but Maud is perhaps fourteen years old. With unremarkable brown hair and light brown eyes, she could be any ordinary girl at first glance.

But Maud is a fighter so skilled, she bends the rules of space and time. She observes, then acts only when necessary. She may put too much faith in the rules she was taught as a child, but she does so for what she sees as the greater good.

If met in a dark alley, Maud might be one’s salvation or one’s end. On the surface, she shows little emotion about such life-or-death choices—her face betrays nothing—yet her feelings are there, buried deep, and her allegiances will be tested.

[EXCERPT FROM SEEKER]

          From where they lay, they could see a figure emerging from deeper in the woods, heading toward them. John pulled Quin up, hiding them from view behind the branches. They watched as the figure got close enough to identify. It was the Young Dread, with a string of dead rabbits slung over her shoulder.

          From the look of her face, they had figured her age at about fourteen, though of course, with the Dreads, age was a tricky thing. . . .

          She walked toward them with the strange gait shared by both Dreads . . . as steady and fluid as a marble sculpture brought to life.

          “Watch this,” Quin whispered, so softly that John could barely hear her, though his head was still only inches from hers. Silently, she pulled her knife from her waistband. She waited until the Dread had walked into a patch of sunlight that would make her momentarily blind to motion in the shadows. Then Quin drew back her arm and threw the knife at the Young Dread as hard as she could.

The blade arced through the shadows expertly, aimed just ahead of where the Dread was walking, so she would carry herself straight into its path and it would impale the side of her head.

          Yet that was not what happened.

          The Young Dread continued her steady approach until the weapon was almost upon her. Then her whole body exploded into action. Her right arm whipped forward and caught the knife out of the air. She spun around so quickly, she almost appeared to blur against the forest backdrop, and she released the blade back toward them much like a thundercloud releases a bolt of lightning. It was propelled at such high speed that they could hear it whistling through the air, and both John and Quin ducked.

          It made a perfect arc from the Dread, around the edge of the cluster of trees, and buried itself up to the hilt just inches from where Quin’s hand still rested against the tree trunk. The vibration of its impact traveled all the way down the tree, and John could feel it in his feet.

Meet Fiona Kincaid tomorrow at A Book and A Latte!

About Arwen:

Arwen Elys Dayton spends months doing research for her stories. Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid (which she explored by a single fading flashlight when researching Resurrection), Hong Kong and its many islands, and lots of ruined castles in Scotland. She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire.

Arwen lives with her husband and their three children on the West Coast of the United States. You can follow her @arwenelysdayton on Twitter and Instagram.

Website/Twitter/Facebook/Goodreads/Instagram

Giveaway Details: 1 Winner.

1 winner will receive an ARC of SEEKER, US only.

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