If you’ve been hanging around my blog much you’ve probably noticed that some of the tour stops I host come from Storytellers on Tour. They’re a great small tour company that got started last year, and in preparation for 2021 they introduced a new perk for hosts: The Ultimate Tour Experience. If you’re a bookish blogger and you think this sounds like fun, consider joining in by hosting SoT tours and hanging out with all of us on their Discord server!
How it works is Storytellers have come up with 3 “bingo cards” full of fun bookish categories. Every time we tour hosts read and review a book on one of the blitzes or longer tours they host we can assign that title to up to 2 of those category tiles. A couple of times a year they ask us to report our title assignments in exchange for entries in a draw for an Amazon gift card, and at the end of the year each card we fill entirely is also extra draw entries.
Wish me luck on the August draw! Here are the ticket squares I’m claiming this round, linked to the posts where I reviewed the books!
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Sairō’s Claw
Gensokai Kaigai Book One
by Virginia McClain
Published 7 May 2021
Genre: Fantasy Action-Adventure, LGBTQIA+
Page Count: 471
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4 Star Review here from July 2021
Tickets Claimed
- (Card 1) An Unforgettable Sidekick
- (Card 2) That Ship Has Sailed
Goodbye to the Sun
Wind Tide Book One
by Jonathan Nevair
Publishing 18 May 2021
Shadow Spark Publishing
Cover Art: Zishan Liu
Quote image artist: Zishan Liu
Concept art (Kol 2): Stephen Wood
Genre: Science Fiction, LGBTQIA
Page Count: 249
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4.5 Star Review here.
Tickets Claimed:
- (Card 1) Lost in Space
- (Card 3) I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying!
The Other Times of Caroline Tangent
by Ivan D. Wainewright
Published 17 May 2021
Grimsdyke Press
Genre: Time Travel
Page Count: 366
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4 Star Review here
Tickets Claimed:
- (Card 1) Let’s Get the Party Started
- (Card 2) The Wings of Change
Flames of Rebellion
The Broken Gods Book One
by Aaron S. Jones
Published 28 August 2020
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Page Count: 356
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
5 Star review here
Tickets Claimed:
- (Card 1) Man’s Best Friend
- (Card 2) A Villain You Love to Hate
The Shadow Watch
The Shadow Watch Bok One
by S.A. Klopfenstein
Print/eBook
Published 15 May 2018
Page Count: 400
Audiobook
Published 22 January 2020
Narrator: Stacey Krejci
Length: 12 hours and 25 minutes
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4 Star Review here
Tickets Claimed:
- (Card 2) The More the Merrier
- (Card 3) Bring on the Magic
Wyrd Gods
Timelessness Book One
by Susana Imaginário
Print/eBook
Published 22 August 2019
Page Count: 394
Audiobook
Published 30 April 2020
Narrator: Sarah Kempton
Length: 11 hours and 36 minutes
Genre: Mythic Dark Fantasy
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4 Star Review here
Tickets Claimed:
- (Card 2) Snark It Up
White as Frost
Darkwood Trilogy Book One
by Anthea Sharp
Publishing 4 May 2021
Fiddlehead Press
Cover Art: Mulan Jiang
Genre: YA Fantasy
Page Count: 384
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
4 Star Review here
Tickets Claimed:
- suitable tickets full
Current Cards Status
Card One (Bingo!)
1a. Let’s Get the Party Started: The Other Times of Caroline Tangent
1b. An Unforgettable Sidekick: Sairō’s Claw
1c. Represent: Songs of Insurrection
2a. Man’s Best Friend: Flames of Rebellion
2b. FREE
2c. Elves and Dwarves and Orcs, Oh My! Songs of Insurrection
3a. Lost in Space: Goodbye to the Sun
3b. Under the Sea: A Sea of Pearls and Leaves
3c. It’s All About the Journey: Ten Years of Darkness
+4 = 8 of 8 claimed (plus free makes 9 of 9 for card completion)
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Card 2
1a. That Ship Has Sailed: Sairō’s Claw
1b. Snark it Up: Wyrd Gods
1c. Love Actually: The End of Dreams
2a. The More the Merrier: The Shadow Watch
2b. FREE
2c. The Pack is Back in Town: empty
3a. Blood Suckers: empty
3b. A Villain You Love to Hate: Flames of Rebellio
3c. The Wings of Change: The Other Times of Caroline Tangent
+5 = 6 of 8 claimed (plus free makes 7 of 9 for card competition)
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Card 3
1a. Another One Bites the Pixie Dust: empty
1b. Here Be Dragons: The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True
1c. I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying: Goodbye to the Sun
2a. Storyteller in the House: The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True
2b. FREE
2c. Valhalla Awaits: The End of Dreams
3a. Bring On the Magic: The Shadow Watch
3b. Simply Mythical: A Sea of Pearls and Leaves
3c. A Gate to Another World: Ten Years of Darkness
+ 2 = 7 of 8 claimed (plus free makes 8 of 9 for card completion)
11 tickets claimed this round, 1 card completed so far.