This or That with Joey from One Moment (One Moment Blog Tour)

Today we have Joey from One Moment here for a this or that interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for One Moment by Kristina McBride.You can find out all about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops if you'd like to know more about One Moment!

Sunrise or sunset?

Sunset.

Half-empty or half-full?

Half-full

Summer or winter?

Summer

Vanilla or chocolate?

Vanilla

Outdoors or indoors?

Outdoors

Jeans or sweats?

Jeans

Coffee or tea?

Mountain Dew

Cats or dogs?

Dogs

Polka-dots or stripes?

Stripes

Being in a crowd or being alone?

Being the center of the crowd

Being able to change the past or living with your mistakes?

Change the past. If I could go back, things would be very different now.

Superpower: being invisible or flying?

Flying would have served me well that day at the cliff...

Make sure to visit all the other stops of the tour, and keep your eye out for One Moment, which has already been released. Come back tomorrow for my review of One Moment!


One Moment by Kristina McBride

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This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie’s life. Now it's the one she'd do anything to forget. Maggie Reynolds remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout party the night before. She remembers climbing the trail hand in hand with her perfect boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss, soft, lingering, and meant to reassure her. So why can’t she remember what happened in the moment before they were supposed to dive? Why was she left cowering at the top of the cliff, while Joey floated in the water below – dead? As Maggie’s memories return in snatches, nothing seems to make sense. Why was Joey acting so strangely at the party? Where did he go after taking her home? And if Joey was keeping these secrets, what else was he hiding?

This or That with Alice from My Life Next Door (My Life Next Door Blog Tour)

Today we have Alice from My Life Next Door here for a this or that interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick.You can find out all about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops if you'd like to know more about My Life Next Door!

Sunrise or sunset?

Sunrise. Things always look better at the beginning.

Vanilla or chocolate?

Chocolate is always good. Coming upon a good vanilla is harder.

Half-empty or half-full?

They are the same thing.

Summer or winter?

Summer. Winter and having to get up in the dark and clear off the car before school and then leave it running while you go back into the house to get something and then wind up spending twenty minutes searching for one of your brother’s lost boots or your sister’s mittens or whatever—Blah. Summer.

Jeans or sweats?

Jeans. I wear scrubs often enough as it is, and you can’t LIVE in things with elastic waists.

Cats or dogs?

Cats. They keep their own secrets.

Coffee or tea?

Both. Coffee during the day when I really need to keep going and tea when I’m trying to relax.

Polka-dots or stripes?

Neither. I like things solid. My first bikini was polka dotted—pink, of all things—and I loved it, but that is so embarrassing now.

Being in a crowd or being alone?

Being in a crowd or being alone? Both. I love being in a crowd with my family or my friends, but sometimes you need to regroup.

Being able to change the past or living with your mistakes?

Living with your mistakes. What else can you do? Although I did have this one boyfriend sophomore year who I really wish I could just delete from my memory bank.

Superpower: being invisible or flying?

Flying. I would never want to be invisible.

Make sure to visit all the other stops of the tour, and keep your eye out for My Life Next Door, which releases today!


My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
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The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen year old Samantha wishes she was one of them… until the day Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything. Jase can sense that his beautiful neighbor is missing something in her sterile home, and as the two fall fiercely in love, his family makes her one of their own. But when the bottom drops out of Sam's world, which perfect family will save er–and will her perfect love survive?

Character Interview with Chloe from Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe (Welcome Caller, This Is Chloe Blog Tour)

Today we have Chloe from Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe here for a character interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell. You can find out all about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops if you'd like to know more about Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe!


1. How did your fall-out with your former best friends, Brie and Mercedes, affect your experience at the radio station? How would it have differed if you'd still been best friends with Brie and Mercedes?

In radio jargon, silence is called Dead Air. After Brie and Merce left me, my life was full of booming, miserable Dead Air. Initially I tried to fill the silence with my talk shows, but the radio staff and my callers helped me discover that sometimes I just need to go to a quiet place and listen. Honestly, I’m not sure if I could have found that quiet place if I were still best friends with Brie and Merce. They expected—maybe even needed—me to be bubbly and cheerful, especially Brie who’s been having serious home problems for years.

2. I loved reading about your talk show and the radio station in general. Are radio shows something you could see yourself doing in the future?

Definitely. I love connecting with people, and talk radio is all about people and finding out what’s on their minds and in their hearts. I could also see myself operating a people-oriented business, maybe a restaurant like Dos Hermanas Mexican Cantina.

3. If you had to describe yourself as a color, what would you be?

Poppy – a brilliant shade of red-orange

4. Shoes play an important part in your life. Could you explain why they're so important to you?

My fascination with vintage shoes is all about the people who once wore the shoes, about the roads they travelled and places they saw and fellow travelers who crossed their paths. I can’t help but think… what stories these shoes could tell if only they had a different sort of tongue.

5. Your grandma suffers from Parkinson's, and you have to see her health steadily deteriorate. How did that affect your day-to-day life?

Imagine the one person in your life who has always been there for you, who’s been your biggest cheerleader but demands that you dig deep into your heart, find your truth, and live it. That’s Grams. It crushes me to think of her dying. But it also makes me realize we have to cherish and celebrate those around us every day.

Thanks for having me on your blog, Hannah. May your world be filled with good books and great people!

To learn more about Chloe’s high school radio world and win a $50 electronic/radio store gift certificate or one of ten CHLOE swag packs, go to Shelley Coriell’s website. Good luck to all!


Make sure to check out all the other stops of the tour if you'd like to find out more about this book, and keep your eye out for Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe, which has already been released.

Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell
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Big-hearted Chloe Camden is the queen of her universe until her best friend sheds her reputation and her school counselor axes her junior independent study project. Chloe is forced to take on a meaningful project in order to pass, and so she joins her school's struggling radio station, where the other students don't find her too queenly. Ostracized by her former BFs and struggling with her beloved Grams's mental deterioration, lonely Chloe ends up hosting a call-in show that gets the station much-needed publicity and, in the end, trouble. She also befriends radio techie and loner Duncan Moore, a quiet soul with a romantic heart. On and off the air, Chloe faces her loneliness and helps others find the fun and joy in everyday life. Readers will fall in love with Chloe as she falls in love with the radio station and the misfits who call it home.

This or That with Luke from The Summer of No Regrets (Summer of No Regrets Blog Tour)

Today we have Luke from The Summer of No Regrets here for a this or that interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for The Summer of No Regrets by Katherine Grace Bond.You can find out all about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops if you'd like to know more about The Summer of No Regrets!


Sunrise or sunset?

Sunset.

Half-empty or half-full?

Half-full

Summer or winter?

Summer

Vanilla or chocolate?

Vanilla

Outdoors or indoors?

Outdoors

Cats or dogs?

Cats

Coffee or tea?

Coffee

Being in a crowd or being alone?

Alone

Being able to change the past or living with your mistakes?

Living with Mistakes

Superpower: being invisible or flying?

Being invisible 

Katherine wasn't satisfied with Luke's one-word answers, so she had a little talk with him:

Sunset Half-full
Summer
Vanilla
Outdoors
Cats
Coffee
Alone
Living with mistakes
Being invisible

K: Luke, I don’t think a string of one-word answers was what they were after.
L: Hey, read them all together. Doesn’t it look like a poem?
K: Ummm
L: If you squint.
K: Can’t really see it.
L: *sigh* You know, I’ve been up all night.
K: Really? Why?
L: Someone wrote a book about me. It’s supposed to come out today.
K: This makes you nervous?
L: Anyone ever write a book about you?
K: Well…
L: Yeah.
K: You going to do something with those one-word answers?
L: “I sit outdoors pondering cats in the half-full sunset of summer…”
K: Luke!
L: Brigitta would like it. She appreciates poetry.
K: She appreciates good poetry.
L: Hey, I’m just getting warmed up. I haven’t even gotten to “alone” “living with mistakes” and “being invisible.”
K: What about those things?
L: Weren’t we talking about coffee? I could’ve sworn we were talking about coffee.
K: Why would you rather be invisible?
L: Think I’m going to tell you?
K: It’s an intriguing answer, considering you may be a movie star in hiding.
L: Oh, don’t start on that!
K: Brigitta wonders if you are.
L: She doesn’t, really.
K: Au contraire, mon ami!
L: No she doesn’t. She doesn’t care about stuff like that.
K: More than you think.
L: I think I know her a little better than you do.
K: That’s cheeky.
L: No offense, but you’re just the author. There’s a lot we don’t tell you.
K:
L: You’re speechless!
K: Are you Trent Yves?
L:
K: Now you’re speechless.
L: No. Just tired of that question. Give it a rest.
K: All right…Half empty or half full?
L: “In the summer I am a half-full kinda guy, alone with my mistakes, invisible until sunset when the cats offer me vanilla coffee and promise to interpret my dreams…”
K: ???
L: Told you I was tired.

Make sure to visit all the other stops of the tour, and keep your eye out for The Summer of No Regrets, which is out today!

The Summer of No Regrets by Katherine Grace Bond
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The day Brigitta accidentally flings herself into the lap of a guy she’s never met, her friend Natalie is convinced he’s Trent Yves, egotistical heartthrob-in-hiding. Brigitta hopes he’ll hide far away from her. But Trent wouldn’t be the only missing person. Since her grandparents both died, Brigitta has felt lost—especially with her dad refusing to talk about them. When the boy, who calls himself Luke, is nearly eaten by a cougar, Brigitta finds herself saving his life, being swept into his spectacular embrace and wondering if she wants Natalie’s fantasy to be true. But as she comes to know him, Brigitta realizes she wants more than an idol. And she may not get to choose.

Multicharacer Interview with the Cast from Breaking Beautiful (Breaking Beautiful Blog Tour)

Today we have the cast from Breaking Beautiful interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf. You can find out all about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops if you'd like to know more about Breaking Beautiful!

Allie

Tell us three things about yourself (almost) no one else knows.

1. I still sleep with my silky, a piece from the edge of the blanket I had as a baby.

2. I’ve kept everything Trip ever gave me.

3. Sometimes I wish I lived anywhere else but Pacific Cliffs.

If you had to describe yourself as a color, which color would you be?

Green, vibrant emerald green, like my eyes.

What's a major pet peeve of yours?

People who are fake.

What would you do if you had just one day left lo live?

Gather up everyone I’ve ever wanted to say something to, good or bad and just say it. If I’m going to be gone, what’s the point of keeping it all in?

How has Trip's death affected or changed your life? be?

Trip was my first love, so I was devastated when I found out about the accident. We’ve always had a kind of connection, you know, you never fall out of love because you never stop caring. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about what might have been.

Andrew

Tell us three things about yourself (almost) no one else knows.

1. I probably know more gossip than anyone else at school. When you’re stuck in a chair all the time, people forget that you can hear.
2. I keep a tell-all blog under an assumed name. (Look at the first question, again. Are you scared?)
3. I’m a pretty good liar, but since I have a hard time talking, I guess lying is easy, because no one asks too many questions. (But knowing I’m a great liar, are you wondering about question one and two now?)

If you had to describe yourself as a color, which color would you be?

Steel grey. Analytical, precise, and useful. Seems like I should throw something warm and fuzzy in their too, but right now that’s all I’ve got.

What's a major pet peeve of yours?

When people look over and around me and won’t look me in the eye. Like they don’t know how to act around me so they pretend I’m not there.

What would you do if you had just one day left lo live?

Say good-bye to everyone I loved and then do something incredibly insane like skydiving, with or without a parachute.

How has Trip's death affected or changed your life?

I don’t have to worry so much about Allie every time she walks out the door, I still worry because mentally she’s kind of a mess, but at least I know she won’t be trying to hide a bruise or something when she gets home. At least I know physically she’s safe.

Mom (Mrs. Davis)

Tell us three things about yourself (almost) no one else knows.

1. Even though I was “popular” I never felt like I fit in when I was in high school.

2. I loved moving around all the time, meeting new people and learning new things, but I wanted more stability for my kids. We moved to Pacific Cliffs for them, not me.

3. I wish I’d gotten some kind of college degree, but getting married so young and all the moving around and then having twins with one very sick little boy, I never got the chance. I feel like I have to be super woman in my job to make up for the fact that I’m not educated.

If you had to describe yourself as a color, which color would you be?

How about dark blue. It’s kind of no nonsense and practical because it hides stains and goes with almost everything.

What would you do if you had just one day left lo live?

My tendency would be to clean the house and make freezer meals for my family and make sure the finances were all in order at home and at work, but I hope I would be willing to let all that go and just spend a day at the beach with my family. (The beach in Hawaii, not Pacific Cliffs, it is my last day after all.)

How has Trip's death affected or changed your life?

I worry about Allie all the time now. His death has completely destroyed her. When Trip was around I felt like she was taken care of. I know moving around was hard on her and that she didn’t have very many close friends. I was so happy that she found him. She and Trip were together all the time and I know he had lots of friends at school. It was nice to see her fitting in around her. The other thing that’s hard is I’m so relieved and grateful that Allie is alive, but I work all day with Trip’s family and I see how them struggling with their loss. Knowing that my child is still alive and theirs isn’t is difficult.

Thanks for the great answers, Jennifer!


Make sure to check out all the other stops of the tour, and keep your eye out for Breaking Beautiful, which has already been released!

Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

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Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a tragic car accident—including her memory of the event. All she has left are the scars and a sneaking suspicion that the crash wasn’t an accident after all. When the police reopen the investigation, it quickly turns on Allie and her best friend, Blake, especially as their budding romance raises eyebrows around their small town. As the threats begin and the survivor’s guilt sets in, Allie’s memories collide with a dark secret about Trip she’s kept for too long. Caught somewhere between her past and her future, Allie knows she must tell the truth. Can she reach deep enough to remember that night so she can finally break free?

Character This or That with Vee from Slide (Slide Blog Tour)

Today we have Vee from Slide by Jill Hathaway here for a This or That interview! This post is part of The Teen Book Scene's blog tour for Slide. You can find out more about the tour here. Make sure to visit all the other stops of the blog tour if you'd like to know more about Slide!


Summer or winter?

Winter

Vanilla or chocolate?

Chocolate

Cats or dogs?

Dogs

Day or night?

Night.

Coffee or tea?

Coffee

Movies or TV shows?

Movies... scaaaaaary movies.

Outdoors or indoors?

Indoors

Superpower: Being invisible or being able to fly?

Being invisible is too much like sliding, which I hate most of the time. I think being able to fly would rock.

Being in a crowd or being alone?

Being alone with my music.

Being able to change the past or living with your mistakes?

If only I could change the past. If only.

Thank you, Hannah!!!

Thanks for the interview answers, Jill!


Make sure to check out all the other stops of the tour, and keep your eye out for Slide, which has already been released!


Slide by Jill Hathaway
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Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered. Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body. Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane. Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again.