BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ The Legend of Hobart by Heather Mullaly

This is my post during the blog tour for The Legend of Hobart by Heather Mullaly. Tired of being teased about his name and his stutter, twelve-year-old Hobart sets out to do a few heroic deeds and earn a place in Knight School. But nothing goes to plan in this humorous fantasy book.

This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours and the tour runs from 26 July till 8 August. You can see the tour schedule here.

The Legend of Hobart
By Heather Mullaly
Genre: Fantasy
Age category: Middle Grade
Release Date: 26 July 2021

Blurb:
Tired of being teased about his name and his stutter, twelve-year-old Hobart sets out to do a few heroic deeds and earn a place in Knight School. But the local damsels he hopes to save assure him that the last thing they need is rescuing. The runaway bull he tries to catch wears him like a hat. And don't even ask about the ogre.

Finally, in desperation, Hobart sets out on the most daring quest he can think of--he will slay a dragon. Or that's his plan anyway.

The Legend of Hobart is a hilarious, heart-felt adventure, for the would-be hero in all of us.

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By the time I finished my stew, I was sure. If I still wanted to make it into knight school after this latest debacle, there was only one possibility left. I was going to have to slay a dragon. 

It was risky, I know. But I saw no other choice. I was desperate. (When minstrels tell their tales, they always seem to dwell on heroes’ sense of duty. They completely overlook the equally powerful driving force called desperation.)

I took my bath and went to bed. When my brothers came into the loft, I pretended to be asleep, but I was actually thinking and planning. At least as much as you can really plan an epic adventure. 

The very next morning, I set out. I had no horse, no sword or shield. The only things I carried were my eating knife and a small sack of food that Maude had packed for me. 

“Safe journey, child,” she said as she handed me the satchel.

My parents stood in the doorway watching us. 

“Have fun playing dragon slayer,” my mother called after me. 

She and Father smiled knowingly as I left. I’m sure they thought that I would be home by dark. They were wrong.

About the Author:
Heather Mullaly is a passionate believer in the power of story. When she isn’t writing them, reading them, or listening to them, she can usually be found baking something that involves chocolate, thinking up new story ideas before she’s finished the two she’s currently writing, or hanging out with her family, who happen to be even more fantastic than the characters in her head. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their three teenagers.

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BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ Life and Other Complications by Heather Mullaly

This is my post during the blog tour for Life and Other Complications by Heather Mullaly.

Life and Other Complications is a new young adult contemporary book by Heather Mullaly in which a 17 year old girl can't bring herself to tell her friends the truth about how she contracted HIV so she writes to the one person who might understand, a girl she's never met.

This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours and runs from 5 till 18 July. See the tour schedule here.

Life and Other Complications
By Heather Mullaly
Genre: Contemporary
Age category: Young Adult
Release Date: 5 July, 2021

Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Aly Bennett has been in love with her friend Luke for years. She hasn't told him how she feels for two reasons. 1) She's the girl with HIV. 2) She lied about how she got it.
Aly never meant to lie. The words just slipped out on her first day of a support group for kids living with life-threatening conditions. It was the day she met Luke and Caroline, who would become her best friends and the closest thing she has to a family. After so many years, Aly doesn’t know how to tell her friends the truth. So she paints and she runs and she tries not to think about the future she can’t have.

But when a Boston prosecutor asks Aly to testify in a trial—and her relationship with Luke intensifies—things become complicated. If she testifies, Luke and Caroline will learn the truth—that Aly has been lying to them for most of a decade. If she doesn’t, a monster could go free, again.

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I love Luke’s smile. It’s warm and steady and reaches all the way up to his eyes. I love that he has no idea how gorgeous he is when he smiles. I love how much time he spends making other people smile. 

My life would be considerably simpler if I loved fewer things about him. Because falling in love with your best friend, who looks at you like you’re his sister, is a terrible idea. In my defense, I didn’t plan it. It just happened.

“So what’s wrong?” he said.

“I didn’t sleep much last night.” 

“Meds or Mrs. Miller’s cooking?” 

“Both.” It wasn’t a lie. My drug protocol can cause insomnia and dinner was awful, the way it always is when Mrs. Miller is in a bad mood.

“Someday, they’re going to come up with an HIV med that doesn’t have side effects,” Luke said.

“And Mrs. Miller’s cooking?”

“I don’t think science can fix that one.”

I smiled at him. 

Luke stood up and offered me a hand. “Come on. I’ll walk you home.”

I let him pull me up to my feet. But I didn’t want to go home and stand in the shower and think. 

“We’re running.” 

“Aly, you’re exhausted.”

He was right. But I started running anyway. It took him two driveways to catch up.

We’ve run together for so long that falling into step is almost second nature. I’m typically faster than he is. But today, he was rested, and I wasn’t. I had to work to keep up with him. Which was good. I needed the distraction.

When we made it back to the Millers’ house, Luke walked up the porch steps with me, the way he always does. But today, he didn’t just tell me goodbye and walk away. He stood there, studying me. Usually, I do a pretty good job of covering my emotions. But this morning, I was exhausted, and he knows my face too well. 

“You know you can talk to me about anything,” Luke said.

And I nodded, wishing so hard that it was true.

About the Author:
Heather Mullaly is a passionate believer in the power of story. When she isn’t writing them, reading them, or listening to them, she can usually be found baking something that involves chocolate, thinking up new story ideas before she’s finished the two she’s currently writing, or hanging out with her family, who happen to be even more fantastic than the characters in her head. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their three teenagers.

Author links:
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- Bookbub
- Amazon

Giveaway
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