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Blog Tour Review - The House on Blood Street by Josh Hanson

 Blog Tour Review - The House on Blood Street by Josh Hanson Jack and Avery’s new home on Calliope Street is a fixer-upper’s dream.  The lurid collage of pornographic clippings on the basement wall seems  like a quirky (and campy) feature. But once the  house awakens, what seemed harmless becomes as horrifying as the blood  seeping from the carpet. The house is alive. It is intelligent. And it  demands homage. The House on Blood Street is a very weird and pretty darned creepy horror story. It is beautifully written. Throughout, the language, the imagery and the sense of tension and threat are all exquisite. The presentation is stunning too, a glorious, shiny hardback with lovely sprayed edges, everything about it evoking the horror movies it riffs off of. There's a poetry to the language, and it is full of references to poets, myths and songs, that give it a depth and power. I love the characters too. The relationship between Jack and Avery feels very real,...
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Exact Opposite of Okay - preorder offer

Hi there,

I'll be talking about The Exact Opposite of Okay again before its release. It's a funny, fierce, feminist novel by Laura Steven, that's out in March. There'll be a full review soon, and I'll be doing a write up on Laura's launch event at Waterstones Newcastle, where she'll be in conversation with Katherine Webber, author of Wing Jones.

For now though, I just wanted to bring this preorder offer to your attention.

Liam


Want to win a bonus chapter from THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OKAY?💖👊🏻✨
Fancy hearing the hilarious story of how aspiring comedian, impoverished orphan and slut extraordinaire Izzy O’Neill lost her virginity? 💀🙊
If you preorder The Exact Opposite Of Okay before 7 March 2018 – and email proof of purchase to theexactoppositeofokay@gmail.com – you’ll be sent a super exclusive BONUS SCENE on release day, exploring Izzy’s first time in painstaking detail 😈🔥
This scene won’t be available anywhere else, so the only way to find out how Izzy got the perfectly round bruise on her left buttcheek is by preordering The Exact Opposite Of Okay now 🎊✨
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Aspiring comedian Izzy O’Neill never expected to be eighteen and internationally reviled. But when photos involving her, a politician’s son and a garden bench emerge, the trolls set out to take her apart. Armed with best friend Ajita and a metric ton of nachos, she must figure out who’s behind the vicious website – while keeping her sanity intact. 
Izzy is about to find out that the way the world treats girls is not okay. It’s the Exact Opposite of Okay.
This is a book for anyone who’s ever called themselves a feminist … and anyone who hasn’t.  
‘Funny, unapologetic and shameless in the best possible way, this is a YA heroine (and book) that you’ve never seen before’ - Louise O'Neill, award-winning author of Asking for It
'This book will make you laugh out loud, nod in agreement, cringe with recognition, and stand up and cheer. I adored it’ - Katherine Webber, author of Wing Jones
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