Today I am a host of the Blog Tour of Just Like You Said It Would Be by C.K. Kelly Martin. This Blog Tour is coordinated by Xpresso Book Tours.
PUBLISHER: Create Space
DATE PUBLISHED: 15th February 2017
PAGES: 301
BLURB:
Did you ever want something so much that it felt like a kind of sickness, one you didn’t want to be cured of? On New Year’s Eve the feeling compels seventeen-year-old Amira to text the Irish ex-boyfriend she’s been missing desperately since they broke up at the end of summer, when she returned to Canada.
They agreed they wouldn’t be friends, that it would never be enough. But that was then—back when Amira’s separated parents had shipped her off to relatives in Dublin for the summer so they could test-drive the idea of getting back together on a long haul cruise. Back when Amira was torn away from a friend in need in Toronto only to fall in love with a Dublin screenwriting class and take a step closer to her dream career. And only to fall for cousin Zoey’s bandmate, Darragh, the guy who is first her friend, then her enemy and later something much more complicated—the guy she can say anything to, the guy who makes every inch of her feel wide awake in a way she hadn’t known was possible. The guy she might never see again. Or is there, despite the distance, somehow still a chance for them?
REVIEW:
The cast of characters within this book and their complexity and diversity stole the show. The primary focus of the novel is the relationship between the two protagonists, Amira and Darragh. However, the subplots and relationships between these different characters were really engaging and kept you reading through this contemporary novel. The music is almost a character itself within the novel and was an amazing element for this book. The plot of the book was engaging for me but the pacing was a little slow at the beginning. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and found the primary setting of Dublin to be stunning. This is a contemporary book that will leave you entranced with the complex characters and the overall plot.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Long before I was an author I was a fan of books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and anything by Judy Blume. Throughout high school my favourite class was English. No surprise, then, that most of my time spent at York University in Toronto was as an English major–not the traditional way to graduate with a B.A. in Film Studies but a fine way to get a general arts education.
After getting my film studies degree I headed for Dublin, Ireland and spent the majority of the nineties there in forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable people and enjoying the buzz. I always thoughts I’d get around to writing in earnest eventually and I began writing my first novel in a flat in Dublin and finished it in a Toronto suburb. By then I’d discovered that writing about young characters felt the freshest and most exciting to me. You have most of your life to be an adult but you only grow up once.
Currently residing near Toronto with my Dub husband, I became an Irish citizen in 2001 and continue to visit Dublin as often as I can. My first young adult book, I Know It’s Over, came out with Random House in September 2008 and was followed by One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, My Beating Teenage Heart and Yesterday. I released Yesterday’s sequel, Tomorrow, in 2013 and put out my first adult novel, Come See About Me, as an ebook in June 2012. My most recent YA book, The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing, was published by Cormorant Books’ Dancing Cat Books imprint in 2014 and I’m pleased to announce they’ll be releasing my upcoming contemporary young adult novel, Delicate, on September 16th. Watch my website for more details!
Author links:
http://www.ckkellymartin.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ckkellymartin
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3015727.C_K_Kelly_Martin
LINKS:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33975313-just-like-you-said-it-would-be
Purchase:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1542749468/
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-like-you-said-it-would-be-c-k-kelly-martin/1125660708?ean=9781542749466
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/just-like-you-said-it-would-be
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/lu/book/just-like-you-said-it-would-be/id1205047739?mt=11
GIVEAWAY:
Tour-wide giveaway (INTL)
$40 Amazon gift card + a signed copy of Just Like You Said it Would Be
If you would like to enter this giveaway, click here.
Keep Calm and Read On,
Kati
To Be Read 