Stories & Sweeties: ROSEBLOOD Blog Tour {Guest Post & Exclusive Giveaway!}

Monday, October 24, 2016

ROSEBLOOD Blog Tour {Guest Post & Exclusive Giveaway!}

I've got an exciting one for you today, everyone!! Today I'm helping to kick off the fantastic blog tour for Roseblood by A.G. Howard with a closer look at the six main characters and not one, but TWO amazing giveaways! Let get right to it:

•ABOUT THE BOOK•

RoseBlood by A.G. Howard

In this modern day spin on Leroux’s gothic tale of unrequited love turned to madness, seventeen-year-old Rune Germain has a mysterious affliction linked to her operatic talent, and a horrifying mistake she’s trying to hide. Hoping creative direction will help her, Rune’s mother sends her to a French arts conservatory for her senior year, located in an opera house rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera.

At RoseBlood, Rune secretly befriends the masked Thorn—an elusive violinist who not only guides her musical transformation through dreams that seem more real than reality itself, but somehow knows who she is behind her own masks. As the two discover an otherworldly connection and a soul-deep romance blossoms, Thorn’s dark agenda comes to light and he’s forced to make a deadly choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or face the wrath of the phantom who has haunted the opera house for a century, and is the only father he’s ever known.

Coming January 10, 2017 from Amulet Books

Available in Hardcover, Paperback, & Ebook

Preorder: Amulet • Amazon • Indiebound • BookDepository

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Thanks so much for joining us for the RoseBlood Virtual Tour, presented by Amulet Books, Pique Beyond, and RockStar Book Tours!

On each stop of the tour, there will be a rafflecopter for a domestic giveaway offering 5 RoseBlood hardback + collectible mask sets.

Collectible mask + signed arc set

And to make things fair for the foreign fans, each guest or reveal post will have its own unique INTL giveaway rafflecopter personalized to the post, spotlighting one or more of the following prizes:

So be sure to follow along each day to get a chance at all the prizes!

For today's guest post, let's meet the six main characters of RoseBlood (three of them might surprise you!) and see what makes each one tick.

The Phantom

picture attribution: Fanpop.com

HEART'S DESIRE: To reclaim something he once lost, by any means necessary.

HOBBIES: Ventriloquism, architecture, botany, zoology, magician, composer, vocalist, instrumentalist, experimenting, inventing, devising, manipulation,
terrorizing, stalking, killing...

FEARS: Death. Not his own, and not death in the literal sense. The end of hope. The death of that final chance for unconditional love.

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Thorn

Michael Gandolfi = Thorn

Photo by Salvador Sabater

HEART'S DESIRE: To repay the debt he's owed since his childhood.

HOBBIES: Violinist, tending to animals, spying, composing music to blot out sinister acts he wants to forget.

FEARS: Becoming too monstrous to walk in the light, to breathe fresh air, to find a companion to walk and breathe with. Being so warped by misdeeds, even a mask won't cover the disfigurement of his soul.

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Rune

Emily Rudd = Rune

HEART'S DESIRE: To know who she is, and to purge the guilt of her father's death.

HOBBIES: Sewing, knitting, designing, reading, gardening.

FEARS: That her musical illness is demonic, and somehow responsible for her father's death. That the unnatural talent will strike again and leave someone else a victim.

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Ange

HEART'S DESIRE: To beat Diable at every game.

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Diable

HEART'S DESIRE: To have a bowl of cream for each meal.

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Thorn's Stradivarius

HEART'S DESIRE: Do violins have hearts? Hmmm...

There you have the six main characters. I hope they intrigued you enough to want to read about them in RoseBlood!

•ABOUT THE AUTHOR•

A.G. Howard was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a child.

When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening, and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century graveyards or condemned schoolhouses to appease her overactive muse.

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*GIVEAWAYS*

Today's INTL giveaway pack consists of three items that represent three of the characters you met: Masquerade Pendant (the Phantom's tendency to hide), Eiffel Tower Key Chain (Thorn's desire to walk above ground and stop hiding), Emoticon Key Chains (something secret between Thorn and Rune that binds them together).