Saturday 31 July 2010

Let the tours commence

OK guys, I'm about to start packaging up books for the tours. I'm going to try not to send a lot of books to one person at the same time so the running order for the tours may change. I.E. if you signed up first for a particular tour, you may not actually be first to get the book especially if you are already receiving another book from a separate tour. Does that make sense?

I'm going to need you to e mail me your addresses at lynseynewton@gmail.com Obviously this is for my information only but of course I will have to pass your address on to the person sending you the book next. You will need to let me know when you have received the book and contact me for information about who to send it to next. Please remember to familiarise yourself with The Rules.

If you don't receive a book and you were first on the tour, please bear in mind that I may not have received the book yet as I'm still waiting for some to arrive.

Happy reading and I hope you'll all write reviews. I think I'm going to have a separate page where I can link your reviews. We'll see... Also, don't forget to look at the UPCOMING TOURS page as I'm working really hard to get some great books for future tours.

LINGER Tour

I know that Linger has now been released but for those who haven't got themselves a copy yet, I'm putting my Linger ARC in a tour. Linger is of course the sequel to the best selling and thoroughly awesome Shiver by one of my favourite authors, Maggie Stiefvater. If you haven't heard of this book, um where have you been?! You can check out the GoodReads description here or read my spoiler free review on Narratively Speaking here. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY Tour

A HUGE thank you goes out to Kay Cassidy for donating a copy of her book The Cinderella Society to the tour site. I'm pretty excited to read this one as it's a combination of YA and chick lit and it sounds fantastic! If you're not familiar with the book, you can check out the GoodReads description here or even read the first chapter to get a little taste of what the book is like here. I read the first chapter recently and it made me laugh out loud. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

I've added add a new feature so you can link your reviews to the site. When you've read and reviewed the book, please remember to come back and link your review. Thanks :)

Friday 30 July 2010

THE HEAVENLY SERIES

Is anyone interested in reading Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens? I have to say that Jennifer is one of my favourite authors and I fell in love with this book so much. If you're not familiar with the book, you can check out the Goodreads description here or read my review on Narratively Speaking here. Let me know you're interested by leaving a comment and I'll see what I can do.

TOUR CANCELLED AS NOT RECEIVED A COPY OF THE BOOK.

Tuesday 27 July 2010

THE CRESCENT Tour

The Crescent by my good friend Jordan Deen is an amazing book. Apart from the gorgeous cover art, the story is to die for and I just loved it. Check out my review on Narratively Speaking here. This is my own personal copy but I'm willing to send it on a tour as I want to share The Crescent love. I've just beta read the sequel Half Moon and it is just as good so look out for that in the future too. I want to add a note here that the editors did a very poor job and so there are spelling and grammatical errors. You need to look past that but for me, the story still shone through like a beacon of light. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

FAITHFUL Tour

Next up is Faithful by Janet Fox. I have to admit that I have wanted to read this for a while but I didn't have a copy. Well, thanks to Kate at I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read a copy is on its way! If you're not familiar with the book, check out the GoodReads description here. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

BEFORE I FALL Tour

If you haven't read Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver then you are seriously missing out! So here is your chance to rectify that. If you're not familiar with the book, you can check out the GoodReads description here or read my review on Narratively Speaking here. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR IS NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

Monday 26 July 2010

MATCHED Tour

I'm so excited to be able to share Matched by Ally Condie with you courtesy of Sya over at Mountains of Instead , a fellow UK book blogger signed up to this site! Thanks so much for sharing Sya. I can tell you that this is one of the best YA books I've ever read and I rate it HIGHLY. You can read my review here if you want to. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

I've added add a new feature so you can link your reviews to the site. When you've read and reviewed the book, please remember to come back and link your review. Thanks :)

IMMORTALIS CARPE NOCTEM Tour

I was lucky enough to win a copy of Immortalis Carpe Noctem by Katie Salidas quite some time ago now and I'm ashamed to say I still haven't read but I'm going to make an extra special effort since it's going in a tour. If you're not familiar with the book, please check out the GoodReads description here. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

HOURGLASS Tour

If you haven't read any of Claudia Gray's books then OMG where have you been?! Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm a HUGE fan of Claudia's and Hourglass is the third book in the Evernight series. I was extremely lucky to get an ARC of this a few months before it's official release (thanks to Claudia) and it was an amazing read. You can check out my review here but I recommend you read the other two books - Evernight and Stargazer before you sign up for this tour. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR IS NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

SOME GIRLS BITE Tour

Some Girls Bite is the first in the Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill and this is the UK version. Thank you to Orion/Gollancz for sending me a copy and I also bought a copy which I'm putting in a tour. If you're not familiar with the book, check out the GoodReads description here. I've yet to read this but I love Chloe's Dark Elite series (Firespell) so I'm sure this will be just as good. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB Tour

I've heard GREAT things about The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg and so this had to go in a tour. Thank you to my lovely new friend Kate at I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read for donating the book. If you're not familiar with the book, check out the GoodReads description here. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER Tour

Next up we have The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer. I was lucky enough to win a copy of this from Little Brown but I'd already bought my own copy so I thought I would put it in a book tour. I haven't read it yet but soon my precious, soon and it looks like a quick read. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR IS NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

RESTORING HARMONY by Joelle Anthony

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony is a debut dystopian novel. Thank you to my lovely new friend Kate at I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read for donating the ARC to use in a book tour. If you're not familiar with the book, check out the GoodReads description here. I have to admit that I haven't read this yet but I definitely plan to as I'm now a lover of YA dystopian fiction (thanks to Matched by Allyson Condie -I hope to have that on a tour soon). As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

SISTERS RED Tour

Next up is Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, a badass werewolf novel that packs a punch! You can check out GoodReads for a description or read my review here if you want. Thank you to Hodder Children's Books for providing me with an ARC. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

BY MIDNIGHT Tour

This is an excellent debut novel by British writer Mia James and a big thank you goes out to Gollancz for sending me this one. If you've not heard of it then check out the GoodReads description here. I've just read this and I really enjoyed it. I will be posting the review on my blog Narratively Speaking very soon. As always, just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

FALLEN Tour

For the people who want to sign up for the TORMENT tour but haven't read FALLEN yet, then here is your chance. I'm putting up my own paperback copy of Fallen for the tour. Just leave me a comment with your name and e mail address if you want to sign up for this. Also, don't forget to read the rules before participating.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

TORMENT Tour

OK, so for the first tour I'm going to start with an ARC of Torment by Lauren Kate. As most of you know, this is the sequel to Fallen and is not released until 30th September, 2010. I must say a huge thank you to the lovely ladies at Random House for providing the book and and giving permission for it to go on a tour. Having just read this myself, I can tell you that if you loved Fallen, then you are going to love this too. At least I hope so! I must stress that if you have not yet read Fallen, then DO NOT sign up for this tour. Also, if you want to sign up then please have a look at The Rules first. To sign up for this, please leave a comment below with your name and e mail address.

TOUR NOW CLOSED FOR SIGNUPS.

Wednesday 7 July 2010

So tell me what you want, what you really, really want...

Ok everyone, I'd like you to post what you most want to read as you never know, someone within the group may already have the book.


For example, I'm DYING to get my hands on the following books (in no particular order):

Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Lemniscate by Jennifer Murgia
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Sleepless by Cyn Balog
Intertwined by Gina Showalter
Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Angel by L.A. Weatherly

And these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head! What are your most wanted books?

Tuesday 6 July 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to UK Book Tours! As a book blogger, I know how difficult it is to keep up with bloggers and their book collections. I also see the harsh reality that UK bloggers are disadvantaged when it comes to getting ARC's from the USA, especially if the UK rights have not yet been sold. It doesn't mean we can't still get hold of the book on release date though thanks to online sellers. I set up this site so that UK book bloggers could share their books with fellow UK book bloggers and to encourage the donation of ARC's/books to the UK crowd.

Please sign up by following the blog and e mail me at lynseynewton@gmail.com to let me know what books and/or ARC's you'd be willing to donate or lend to the site. I must stress that there are a few rules however...

1. You must have been a book blogger for at least 3 months and blog regularly.

2. You must agree to the fund the postage costs yourself in order to send the book on to the next person.

3. You have a maximum of 2 weeks to keep the book, read it and pass it on.

4. Treat the ARC's/books with the utmost respect.

And that's it. This is the first and only UK only book tours site that I know of and I'm hoping that you'll join me in making it a success. Thank you all :)