Book Tour | Secrets of the Deep by Marisa Noelle

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SECRETS OF THE DEEP
BY MARISA NOELLE | PUBLICATION: JULY 2023
GENRE: YA FANTASY

CORDELIA BLUE IS AFRAID OF WATER.

CORDELIA IS ALSO A MERMAID.

Determined to face her fear, Cordelia enters the ocean for the first time since her twin brother was killed and learns she is from the oldest bloodline of mermaids. Entrusted with a magical relic, it us up to her alone to break an ancient curse and free the mermaids from the water.

But the selachii - mysterious shark shapeshifters - also have their eyes on the relic. As tensions increase between the mermaids and selachii, Cordelia doesn’t know who to trust. Forced to choose between love and race, she doubts every decision and the intentions of those around her.

Trusting her head will lead to a path of betrayal, but she might just get her family back. If she chooses her heart, the mermaids may stay cursed to remain in the ocean forever.

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"This book felt perfect for teens, the overlooked part of the YA audience. It is about first relationships and grief as well as finding out you are a lot more magical than you realise."
-Sifa Elizabeth Reads
"Cordelia Blue was such a fascinating character with the coolest name I've ever read! I loved how she responded to the problems she faced as well as how she continued onwards despite the odds."
-TONIGHT WE ARE DINOSAURS


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About the Author:

   

Marisa Noelle is the writer of middle grade & young adult novels in the genres of science-fiction, fantasy, horror & mental health including The Shadow Keepers, The Unadjusteds Trilogy (The Unadjusteds, The Rise of the Altereds, & The Reckoning), The Mermaid Chronicles – Secrets of the Deep, & The Unravelling of Luna Forester. She is a mentor for the Write Mentor program that helps aspiring MG & YA authors. With dual citizenship, Marisa has lived on both sides of the Atlantic and uses settings in both the USA and UK as inspiration for her novels. When she’s not writing or reading or watching movies, she enjoys swimming. In the pool she likes to imagine she could be a mermaid and become part of some of her make-believe worlds. Despite being an avid bookworm from the time she could hold a book, being an author came as a bit of a surprise to her as she was a bit of a science geek at school. She lives in Woking, UK with her husband and three children. You can find her on Twitter @MarisaNoelle77, TikTok @MarisaNoelle12, or her website www.MarisaNoelle.com

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Blog Tour | BAD HABITS by Flynn Meaney

Welcome to my stop for the BAD HABITS Blog Tour, hosted by @TheWriteReads. I am very thankful and excited to be part of this.

     

BAD HABITS by Flynn Meaney
Publication: February 11, 2021
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Rating: ★★★★

Alex is a rebel with a purple fauxhawk and biker boots.

St Mary's Catholic School is a strict boarding school where she's currently trapped.

Despite trying everything she can to get expelled, she's still stuck with the nuns, the prudish attitude and the sexism.

Fed up with life inside the hallowed halls of St. Mary's, Alex decides to take matters into her own hands. She's going to stage the school's first ever production of The Vagina Monologues.

Which may be a challenge, as no one else at St Mary's can even bear to say the word 'vagina' out loud...

BAD HABITS is laugh-out-loud funny. Flynn Meaney’s supply of metaphors is impressive. And the Catholic school environment brought up some very familiar scenes from my grade school days.

Alex Heck’s semester goal is (...ummm) not to finish the semester. In her junior year, she wants nothing but to get expelled and go home to California. She tried her best –alcoholic and sexual escapades, vandalism, etc. Her words, not mine. She’s not a catholic boarding school material, but St. Mary’s is not ready to give up on her. Determined to have her way, though, the girl decides to stage her very own production of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues.

The school is not going to make anything easier for Alex. She needs to battle the administration in every turn and breakdown a culture of prude-ness. Kate, her French-braided, Laura Ingalls Wilder-look-alike best friend, can’t even say vagina out loud. The mention of Tampons sets Hockey boys sniggering. While Alex grudgingly made alliances and compromises, she still has more to bone up.

Alex is smart, with quick bad-ass comebacks every time. Her literary references are remarkable. Somehow, her protests are viewed as mere misbehavior because Alex is also impulsive, unruly, and foul-mouthed. For someone who is screaming for change and equality, Alex has her own biases. And so, I enjoyed how her friends (basically, everyone around) keeps her grounded. These second characters are marvelous around her. Despite all her flaws, Alex cares for people and self-reflects when needed.

A fun and inspiring read, asking readers to look deeply inside and break barriers. I recommend.

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About the Author:

Flynn Meaney is the author of The Boy Recession and Bloodthirsty. She studied marketing and French at the University of Notre Dame, where she barely survived the terrifying array of priests and nuns, campus ghosts, and bone-crushing athletes who inspired Bad Habits. Since completing a very practical MFA in Poetry, she works for a French company and travels often between New York (when she's in the mood for bagels) and Paris (when she's in the mood for croissants).

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