We are thrilled to bring you the Blog Tour for Heather Lyons’ THE COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY!! THE COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY is an Adult Romantic Fairy Tale, full of adventure and fantasy. This is Alice as you have never seen her before…
THE COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY Synopsis:
From the author of the Fate series and The Deep End of the Sea comes a fantastical romantic adventure that has Alice tumbling down the strangest rabbit hole yet.
After years in Wonderland, Alice has returned to England as an adult, desperate to reclaim sanity and control over her life. An enigmatic gentleman with an intriguing job offer too tempting to resist changes her plans for a calm existence, though. Soon, she’s whisked to New York and initiated into the Collectors’ Society, a secret organization whose members confirm that famous stories are anything but straightforward and that what she knows about the world is only a fraction of the truth.
It’s there she discovers villains are afoot—ones who want to shelve the lives of countless beings. Assigned to work with the mysterious and alluring Finn, Alice and the rest of the Collectors’ Society race against a doomsday clock in order to prevent further destruction . . . but will they make it before all their endings are erased?
EXCERPT:
“You’re sloppy, you’re loud, and you talk too much.”
Sometimes, I wondered why I willingly came back time and time again for such abuse.
The Caterpillar dragged his hookah over to the pillows we were lounging on. The sun was hot that day, the air heavy and acrid with each smoke ring he blew. I was never offered a puff on these visits—not that I ever would have taken one, but sometimes I wondered what it would take for just such a gesture.
“What’s wrong with talking?”
His beady eyes narrowed as he grunted. I had to wait nearly a full minute before he answered. “It’s hard to hear others when your own words overwhelm your thoughts.”
“How am I to get answers to my questions, if I do not ask?”
A perfect smoke-shaped jabberwocky floated away from us, its jaws snapping. “The most truthful answers are found through observation. Words allow lies.” One of his little silk slippers dangled from a foot as he huffed in irritation. “For example, I can say that I am the White King.”
I’d laughed. “Don’t be silly. You don’t look a thing like him. For one, you’re a caterpillar. Secondly, you’re much older than he is. And thirdly—”
More forcefully, “I am the White King, Alice.”
I was annoyed, but more so weary of the constant riddles. “Of course you aren’t.”
He blew a perfect representation of the White King’s face. “I’ve said I am, so I must be.”
“Fine. Two can play this game. I’m the Caterpillar,” I announced.
“You are a child,” was his retort, “who will never achieve her goals if she doesn’t grow up.”
“I’m eighteen!”
He merely puffed away on his hookah.
“Even in Wonderland, those who are eighteen are adults.”
He continued to smoke in silence; his beady eyes, once narrowed, glazed over before eventually closing.
“I don’t have to listen to you, you know.”
He blew a smoke Alice in a little dress, running in circles.
But I continued to sit with him for the rest of the afternoon, even though no more words were said by either of us. I was continuously a failure in his eyes, the worst of his pupils who just couldn’t seem to learn her lessons.
Heather Lyons’ THE COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY Blog Tour
October 20th
BFF Book Blog – Review
NWA Gossip Girl – Review
Movies, Shows & Books – Excerpt
Gaga Over Books – Review
One Guy’s Guide to Good Reads – Guest Post
October 21st
Lost in a Book Blog – Dream Cast
What the Cat Read – Review
Three Little Birds Book Blog – Review
Book Vigilante Reviews – Review
The Golden Mantle – Review
October 22nd
The Hopeless Reader – Review
Bitchy Richey’s Booktastic Reviews – Review
Coffee Books & Art – Excerpt
RhiReading – Guest Post
Romance Schmomance – Review
October 23rd
Romance Addict Book Blog – Review
Book Reader Chronicles – Review
Bibliophile Mystery – Excerpt
Book Beasties – Author Interview
Triquetra Reviews – Character Interview
October 24th
LuLo Fangirl – Character Interview
Ramblings on Readings – Review
Library of a Book Witch – Review
Book Angel Booktopia – Review
Escape Inside the Pages – Review
October 25th
The Reading Cow – Review
Books and Ashes – Review
the NA Book Blog – Excerpt
Resch Reads and Reviews – Review
Pretty Little Pages – Review
October 26th
lovely reads – Review
Read more-sleep less – Review
Tara! Let’s Be Happy – Review
The Passionate Bookworms – Guest Post
deal sharing aunt – Author Interview
October 27th
The Paisley Reader – Review
Don’t Fold the Page – Excerpt
The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club – Guest Post
Book Labyrinth – Review
Love Affair With Fiction – Author Interview
October 28th
Paperbook Princess – Playlist
Book it – Review
Roxy’s Reviews – Review
A Thousand Lives Lived – Review
Book Infatuation – Review
October 29th
Cocktails and Books – Review
Wonderful Monster – Review
Jessica E. Subject ~ Mark of the Stars – Excerpt
Reads All the Books – Review
Written to our hearts – Excerpt
Andrea Heltsley books – Review
October 30th
Feed Your Fiction Addiction – Review
ceresbooksworld – Review
The BookWhisperer – Review
Grownupfangirl – Excerpt
The Phantom Paragrapher – Review
My fictional escape – Review
October 31st
Penny For My Thoughts – Review
The Book Hookup – Review
Hope To Read – Review
Tangled Up In Books – Review
El Rincón de Becks – Review
Behind Closed Covers – Excerpt
Lita’s Book Blog – Review
About Heather Lyons:
Heather Lyons has always had a thing for words—She’s been writing stories since she was a kid. In addition to writing, she’s also been an archaeologist and a teacher. Heather is a rabid music fan, as evidenced by her (mostly) music-centric blog, and she’s married to an even larger music snob. They’re happily raising three kids who are mini music fiends who love to read and be read to.
