I've had my eye on Micol Ostow's YA horror novel, Amity, for quite a while. Publication day is almost here! I want a book that scares me beyond words and I think Amity just might be the book to do it. I'm pleased to be a part of this tour, hosting Micol and offering a copy of Amity to one lucky reader.
AMITY
by Micol Ostow
Published by EgmontUSA
Publication Date: August 26, 2014
368 Pages
About Amity
For fans of Stephen King and American Horror Story, a gruesome thriller suggested by the events of the Amityville Horror.
Connor's family moves to Amity to escape shady business deals. Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start after she's recovered from a psychotic break.
But something is not right about this secluded house. Connor's nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons and destruction. Dreams he kind of likes. Gwen has lurid visions of corpses that aren't there and bleeding blisters that disappear in the blink of an eye. She knows Amity is evil and she must get her family out, but who would ever believe her?
Amity isn't just a house. She is a living force, bent on manipulating her inhabitants to her twisted will. She will use Connor and Gwen to bring about a bloody end as she's done before. As she'll do again.
Alternating between parallel narratives, Amity is a tense and terrifying tale suggested by true-crime events that will satisfy even the most demanding horror fan.
Connor's family moves to Amity to escape shady business deals. Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start after she's recovered from a psychotic break.
But something is not right about this secluded house. Connor's nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons and destruction. Dreams he kind of likes. Gwen has lurid visions of corpses that aren't there and bleeding blisters that disappear in the blink of an eye. She knows Amity is evil and she must get her family out, but who would ever believe her?
Amity isn't just a house. She is a living force, bent on manipulating her inhabitants to her twisted will. She will use Connor and Gwen to bring about a bloody end as she's done before. As she'll do again.
Alternating between parallel narratives, Amity is a tense and terrifying tale suggested by true-crime events that will satisfy even the most demanding horror fan.
For my stop on the blog tour, I've asked Micol to share some books that made her fall in love with reading and writing.
Welcome Micol!!
Good question! Happy to share a few of
my favorites.
Eloise, Kay Thompson
(illustrated by Hilary Knight)
Eloise lives at the Plaza hotel, and she
is interested in people when they are not boring. I think we all can relate! Eloise is one of my favorite
read-alouds. It taught me all about voice, character, language, and the
interplay between words and text. There’s a reason she’s a classic.
A Little Princess, Frances
Hodgson Burnett
When it comes to Hodgson Burnett, I find
people to be pretty divided between Princess
and The Secret Garden when it
comes to choosing favorites. I always came down on the side of Little Princess because, as we see from
Eloise, I have a soft spot for charming young girls with absentee parents and
lots to share with the right reader. My mother read this one aloud to me long
after I was old enough to be reading it myself.
Tiger Eyes, Judy
Blume
Judy Blume was the first author I
encountered who didn’t talk down to teens and wrote about issues we were
actually concerned with, in a non-moralistic way (death! sex! adolescent
friendships!). She felt very fresh and modern to my pre-teen eyes. From there I
moved on to others in the same vein, like Paul Zindel and Paula Danziger, but Tiger Eyes was the beginning of it all
for me.
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret
Atwood
Everything Atwood writes is whip-smart,
incisive, and even humorous in its darkest moments, but Handmaid’s Tale was the first of her novels that I encountered. It
was as subversive as Catch-22 or Lord of the Flies but unique to me in
that it dealt with gender issues and feminism, which, as a high school student
I was just beginning to be interested in. It’s more accessible than some of her
later work, but it’s indelible, and it packs a punch. Atwood 101.
Giveaway Details
Prize: One copy of Amity by Micol Ostow
(provided by EgmontUSA)
Must be 13 years or Older to enter
U.S./Canada addresses only
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Giveaway ends August 28, 2014
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Tomorrow's Tour Stop
August 19, 2014
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Micol
Ostow is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish, half editor, half writer, half
chocolate, half peanut butter. When she is under deadline, she is often
half asleep. She believes that the whole is greater than the sum of the
parts except in the case of Chubby Hubby ice cream. Micol is the author
(or ghostwriter) of over 40 books for teens, including Egmont USA’s
family and So Punk Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother).
Amity is her first horror novel. She
received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the
Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in New York City, where she
practices liberal consumption of coffee, cheese, and chocolate.
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