Monday, June 1, 2020

Blog Tour and Giveaway: My Summer of Love and Misfortunate by Lindsay Wong



I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the MY SUMMER OF LOVE AND MISFORTUNE Lindsay Wong Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:
Title: MY SUMMER OF LOVE AND MISFORTUNE
Author: Lindsay Wong
Pub. Date: June 2, 2020
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

A novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.

Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris’s parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris will “reconnect with her culture” and “find herself.” Iris resents her parents’ high-handedness, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button.

Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some of her family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. What she doesn’t expect is to meet a handsome Mandarin-language tutor named Frank and to be swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing’s wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.

My Review: 

At the first few pages, I was not sure if I was going to like My Summer of Love and Misfortunate. I found Iris to be quite spoiled and needed to grow up. About a quarter of the way through, I was hooked and wanted to see what she will do living in Beijing. There were quite a few laugh out loud moments and some heart warming ones, as well. I enjoy taking this journey with her. I was sad to say goodbye to her in the end.

I am giving My Summer of Love and Misfortunate four stars. I would love to read a sequel to this one to see where else Iris’s life goes.

I received this book from the publisher. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.


About Lindsay:

Lindsay Wong's fearless writing and askew sense of humour chronicle adventures and disasters with copious amounts of playfulness and generosity.

She is the author of the #1 bestselling debut memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which won the 2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Newsweek, CBC Books, the Globe and Mail, and the Quill and Quire. It was also a finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and Canada Reads 2019.

In between Walmart parking lot holidays, Lindsay spends her time as a muscle for hire teaching writing workshops and editing manuscripts as a freelance editor.

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Giveaway Details:
3 winners will win a finished copy of MY SUMMER OF LOVE AND MISFORTUNE, US Only.



Tour Schedule:
Week One:
5/25/2020
Review
5/25/2020
Review
5/26/2020
Excerpt
5/26/2020
Excerpt
5/27/2020
Excerpt
5/27/2020
Review
5/28/2020
Review
5/28/2020
Review
5/29/2020
Review
5/29/2020
Review

Week Two:
6/1/2020
The Bookish Libra
Review
6/1/2020
Locks, Hooks and Books
Review
6/2/2020
Eli to the nth
Review
6/2/2020
Books A-Brewin'
Excerpt
6/3/2020
Popthebutterfly Reads
Review
6/3/2020
Bookwyrming Thoughts
Review
6/4/2020
lifeofafemalebibliophile
Review
6/4/2020
Yna the Mood Reader
Review
6/5/2020
@_ebl_inc_
Review
6/5/2020
The Phantom Paragrapher
Review

1 comment:

  1. Nice cover. I liked the blurb. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.

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