Spotlight and Giveaway: The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie

Finale of NYT Bestselling HAUNTING OF SUNSHINE GIRL Trilogy

Available April 4, 2017

THE SACRIFICE OF SUNSHINE GIRL

TV Series Based On Sunshine Phenomenon in Active Development

by The Weinstein Company

NEW YORK (January 2017) – She was supposed to die today... reads the chilling opening of The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl. But thewildly successful paranormal young adult series is alive and flourishing: the final installment is due in stores April 4, 2017 and hot on its heels is a television series coming from The Weinstein Company.

The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl picks up the suspenseful story from Books 1 and 2 in the trilogy: the original The Haunting of SunshineGirl, which spent four weeks among the top ten Young Adult paperback bestsellers on The New York Times, and its sequel, TheAwakening of Sunshine Girl. The first two books have sold more than 200,000 copies.

The Sunshine Girl series was created in 2010 by then sixteen-year-old high school junior, Paige McKenzie, who began playing Sunshine in a series of paranormal-themed videos on her YouTube channel of the same name. The bestselling author and YouTube star now boasts more than 250 million views on the channel, averages 7.5 million unique views per month, and maintains more than 500,000 active subscribers.

In The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl, Sunshine Griffith returns for the gripping finale with full control of her powers as a luiseach, an ancient race who have lived among humans for centuries, protecting them from dark spirits. Having barely survived an abyss full of demons in Book 2, Sunshine must now figure out who- or what- has been organizing the forces of darkness against her. Thanks to her brainiac boyfriend, Nolan, they not only unearth that Sunshine's death would trigger a calamitous event, but that all civilization depends on her survival. So when an unexpected event unleashes a fierce war between the luiseach and the demon army, Sunshine will learn a shocking truth about herself. Can she bring herself to make the ultimate sacrifice to save humankind?

While The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl marks the culmination of the book trilogy, this suspenseful story is in active development for television by The Weinstein Company. With a pilot now in place, The Weinstein Company is hopeful for a Fall 2017 television premiere.

Written in McKenzie’s familiar voice that has earned her millions of fans, and with its “creeptastic” storyline that will keep readers at theedge of their seats until the very last page, The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl is the grand finale of this much-celebrated young adult series. 

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About Paige McKenzie: Paige McKenzie is the YouTube star and NYT Bestselling author behind the enormously successful Sunshine Girl series. In 2010, thethen sixteen-year-old McKenzie teamed up with producer Nick Hagen and her mother, actress Mercedes Rose, to record an episodic series of paranormal-themed videos, which soon had millions of fans. Signed to The Weinstein Company, McKenzie has been covered by Entertainment Weekly, The Today Show, Seventeen, The New York Times, USA Today, TIME and others. Her YouTube channel today boasts more than 250 million total views, averages 7.5 million unique views per month and maintains more than 500,000 monthly subscribers. McKenzie lives in Portland, Oregon. 

Visit Sunshine Girl online:Website:

http://thehauntingofsunshinegirl.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hauntedsunshinegirl

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hauntedsunshine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHauntingOfSunshineGirl

Instagram: http://instagram.com/hauntedsunshine/

Visit Weinstein Books online:

Website: http://www.weinsteinbooks.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeinsteinBooks

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WeinsteinBooks

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It's Release Day: Still Point (Awaken #3) by Katie Kacvinsky

It's Release Day!!

STILL POINT

 Still Point 

Awaken Series #3

by Katie Kacvinsky

Publication Date: September 2, 2014

Published by

345 Pages

about Still Point

In the final installment to the trilogy begun with "Awaken, " Maddie returns home to make her final stand against Digital School, and uncovers deeply guarded secrets about her family an new truths about herself.

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Is STILL POINT and the Awaken Series new-to-you? Catch up with the first two books of the trilogy.

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Awaken - book 1

Middle Ground - book 2

Waiting on Wednesday: Elegy by Tara Hudson

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Elegy
by Tara Hudson
Published by HarperTeen
Publication Date: June 4 , 2013












(from Goodreads)

 A stalker ghost, misguided Seers, and spellbinding wraiths—Amelia Ashley has faced them all. Now her greatest hope is to spend the rest of her afterlife with her living boyfriend, Joshua. But the demonic forces return to give her an ultimatum: turn herself over to the darkness or watch them murder one living person per week until she does.

Amelia fears she might really be doomed, until the forces of light give her another option. She can join them in their quest to gather souls, with a catch: Once she joins them, she can never see Joshua again.

Faced with impossible choices, Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands—and fight back.

Since there are still a few hours left of this Wednesday, I wanted to share what I am waiting on this week. I had no idea that the cover for Elegy had been revealed and when I went to Goodreads to find out the release date, there it was. Seeing it sparked my interest in finding out how this trilogy ends. I've read Hereafter (read my review) twice and Arise, which I still need to review, and have many questions about how this story is going to end. I hadn't read the synopsis until today, and I have to say, this story can still go in some many directions. 
This will be the another trilogy I'm looking forward to finishing this year (Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Unearthly by Cynthia Hand, and Hourglass by Myra McEntire are the others). 

 

Waiting on Wednesday: Requiem

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Requiem
by Lauren Oliver
Published by HarperTeen
Publication Date March 5, 2013














(from Goodreads)

Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.

After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.

After listing the series books I haven't finished in yesterday's Top Ten Tuesday, I realized just how much I want to read Requiem right now. Just thinking about Lena and Hana and Alex took me back to the moment of when I finished Delirium and was overcome with emotion. I'm reading Hana now and all I can say is thank you Lauren Oliver for giving your readers something to tide us over.