Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams [Blog Tour: Spotlight & Giveaway]

 
Halito! Welcome to the next stop on the Mirror Girls blog tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Thanks for stopping by today, and don't forget to check out the giveaway at the bottom! For the full tour schedule, please visit the Rockstar Book Tours website.

    About The Book:
    Title:
    MIRROR GIRLS
    Author: Kelly McWilliams
    Pub. Date: February 8, 2022
    Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
    Pages: 320
    Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

    A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half

    As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia.

    Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation.

    The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.


    Reviews:

    "Steeped in atmosphere, equal parts ghost and sororal love story, McWilliams has written a pitch-perfect southern gothic thriller about race, family, and what it means to call a place home."―Christina Hammonds Reed, award-winning author of The Black Kids

    "A moving story about sisterhood and perseverance in the face of a society that tells Black girls they are worthless."―Booklist

    “MIRROR GIRLS is a spine-tingling, empowering look at justice and civil action that urges readers to be aware, to be true to themselves and to take action. As Magnolia observes, ‘As twin sisters, white and Black, we are a symbol of coming victory. A promise of change.’”―BookPage, starred review

    "A spooky Southern gothic ghost story. "―BCCB

    About Kelly McWilliams:

    Kelly McWilliams is a mixed-race writer. She is the author of Doormat and Agnes at the End of the World. She lives in Seattle with her family.

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    Giveaway Details:
    3 winners will receive a finished copy of MIRROR GIRLS, US Only.

    6 comments:

    1. The cover is stunning and it sounds really good!

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      1. I've had a chance to read it now and it's . . . not great. Loved the concept, hated the execution.

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    2. All of their stories sound intriguing.

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      1. It was an interesting premise, but the story and characters were poorly written.

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    3. I love how you made the cover animated like that.

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      1. I can't take credit for it! It was part of the promotional materials they sent over for the tour.

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