WELCOME TO TOUR STOP #6
THERE IS AN EXTRA GIVEAWAY
BE SURE TO ENTER BOTH!
Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the
bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the
machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen
Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so
she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of.
That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs.
As prom and graduation creep closer, Alyssa juggles Morpheus’s unsettling presence in her real world with trying to tell Jeb the truth about a past he’s forgotten. Glimpses of Wonderland start to bleed through her art and into her world in very disturbing ways, and Morpheus warns that Queen Red won’t be far behind.
If Alyssa stays in the human realm, she could endanger Jeb, her parents, and everyone she loves. But if she steps through the rabbit hole again, she'll face a deadly battle that could cost more than just her head.
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About A.G. Howard
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.
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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Tour Schedule:
10/21/2013
Pages From My Thoughts
10/22/2013
Fiction Freak
10/23/2013
The White Unicorn
10/24/2013
Icey Books- Character Naming
Contest
10/25/2013
The Cover Contessa
10/26/2013
Book Hounds
Extra Giveaway
10/28/2013
Reading Teen
10/29/2013
Book Haven Extraordaire
Extra Giveaway
10/30/2013
The Lifelong Bookworm
10/31/2013
Two Chicks on Books
Extra Giveaway
11/1/2013
Fiktshun
11/2/2013
I am a Reader Extra
Giveaway
Giveaway Details:
12 ARC’s of UNHINGED Domestic Only
Welcome to stop #6…
Graveyards are creepy, anyway
you look at it. Here in the human realm, tombs can be anywhere from disturbingly
beautiful, to gruesome and eccentric:
Even strolling through a
typical cemetery can leave you unsettled…
Probably because there’s nothing typical about death. Which is an interesting paradox, since it’s in
fact universal, inevitable, and always nipping at our heels.
One would think, in an atypical, magical place like
Wonderland, you could escape death. But not so. The difference is, there’s no “resting
in peace” there, unless you happen to land in Sister One’s crystallized rose
garden. Just make sure you’re an agreeable
spirit, otherwise this is what you have to look forward to:
Stuffed inside a threadbare, worm-eaten toy for all
eternity, and tended by an ill-tempered eight-legged dictator named Sister Two.
Believe me you don’t want to know what’s under that glove on
her left hand … or her right one, for that matter. Then again, you’ll find out soon
enough, once you read Unhinged. If
you’re squeamish, be prepared to squirm.
(Picture
attributions: Sleep Eternal by roujo; Capuchin Tomb by Adam Comerford; Tombs by Guillen Perez; Arachne By Daniel Rocal; Creepy Dummy by Owen Lin; Doll by ryanophilly; Decayed teddy bear by Scorpions and
Centaurs)
In honor of Wonderland’s Garden of Souls and its haunted
toys, we’re giving away this morbidly lovely jack-in-the-box print:
Claustrophobia
by Tanya Mayers; Size: 8.3" x 11. 7"
For a chance to win, you can either leave a comment below
about what toy creeps you out the most, or send us some cool, decaying and eerie
toy pictures via pinterest using @SPLINTERED by A.G. Howard as the
recipient.
If you do both, you get extra entries. Use the rafflecopter below, and we’ll choose a winner randomly out of everyone.
If you do both, you get extra entries. Use the rafflecopter below, and we’ll choose a winner randomly out of everyone.
Good luck, and can’t wait to see what you come up with!
We’re taking Sunday off, but be sure to hang out with us on
Monday when we give you a sneak peek into the creepy “sounds” of Unhinged.
Also, if you haven’t yet, take time to enter the other rafflecopter
below for a chance to win one of 12 UNHINGED ARCs.
Have a great rest of the weekend!
I am so beyond excited!
ReplyDeleteThose toy pictures are super creepy! I adore Morpheous but I'm not sure I could be a netherling and risk ending up in one of those. ;)
ReplyDeleteI am very excited but have to watch the level due to heart problems...
ReplyDeleteThat doll with the whited-out eyes creeps me out.
ReplyDeleteI love this book already and those creepy toys are really cool♥
ReplyDeleteI am so excited! I love everything Alice in Wonderland!
ReplyDeleteDolls are so creepy to me. I never had them as a kid!
ReplyDeletePorcelain dolls really creep me out! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteJack-in-the-Boxes (Jacks-in-the-box? How do you make that plural? Haha.) have always creeped me out. Usually, though, because they have clowns or something popping out at you. NO. Not okay. This one is a different sort of creepy. Like, can we just sort of slip the knife away from that doll…. Hahah.
ReplyDeleteI'm crazy about Unhinged!!if there's creepiness, I'm in line :)
ReplyDeletePorcelain dolls creep me out.
ReplyDeletewoo :)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely dolls!
ReplyDeleteSo excited! But I love Jack in the boxes and porcelain dolls, so I'm not sure what would creep me out most. Haha, I love the strange and unusual!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really freaked out by dolls before, but three of the horror games I'm played involve dolls in some way, and then there's Splintered, so....yeah.
ReplyDeleteI love the covers of these books! Oh I don't like Jacks in the boxes they are my least favorite toys but those dolls are also creepy.
ReplyDeleteI LOOOOOVED Splintered and can NOT wait to read Unhinged. Woo hoo!!!!
ReplyDeleteOld china dolls are super creepy....
ReplyDeleteSo excited for Unhinged, Splintered was simply an amazing read. Definitely a favorite which I'm sure Unhinged will be also
ReplyDeleteI am really excited to read this book!! Love that cover!
ReplyDeleteJennelle J
I am beyond excited for this book!
ReplyDeletePorcelain dolls - especially the old fashioned kind - really creep me out! I CANNOT wait for Unhinged! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteI am very excited. I would love to read this series.
ReplyDeleteChucky creeps me or spiders.
ReplyDeleteI am really excited about Unhinged! The toys that creep me out the most is any kid of bat toy!
ReplyDeleteDolls definitely creep me out the most.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited I can't wait to read that book! The first was so amazing, I just know the second will be just as good or maybe even better!
ReplyDeleteThe porcelan dolls really creep me out.
ReplyDeleteI am ridiculously excited to read Unhinged!! I feel like I've been waiting forever!!
ReplyDeleteI really hate porcelain dolls. My grandma used to have a spare bedroom full of them and I had to sleep in there.
Cant really say anyone creeps me out...I have grown ups being subjected to freaky things because my older neighbors made me do creepy every year....so now as an adult I am pretty thick skinned!!! LOL thanks for the giveaway!! I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteI AM TOTALLY UNHINGED! :)
ReplyDeleteGods, the one toy that gives me the creeps is: PORCELAIN DOLLS! I have my own but after watching movies, I don't want it anymore. It looks like it's staring at me... Following me with her eyes... Then I broke her arm... Yeah, major fright fest!
I'm a little behind the curve as I haven't read splintered, but I'm intrigued, will that do?
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ReplyDeleteClowns creep me out and geese *shudders*
ReplyDeleteKrysta B.
Even though I haven't read the first book, I'm excited. I'm a huge Alice in wonderland fan, so I'm very, very excited! Why haven't I heard about his series. Seriously, where have I been? Haha. - Cindy C.
ReplyDeleteSuper excited! I LOVED the first book and I can't wait for this one! I can't wait for more Jeb! (And Morpheus!)
ReplyDeletei am looking forward to UNHINGED like you wouldn't believe! :)
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to placing this on my tbr pile, then being able to pick it up and read it, awesomeness.
ReplyDeletethe things that creep me out are the clown dolls that look just this side of chucky.
ReplyDeleteClowns or really creepy dolls.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win!
Happy Halloween!
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ReplyDeleteThat toy from Toy Story (the one with the baby doll head attached to the spider legs) always creeped me out.
ReplyDeleteI find some dolls to be incredibly scary. The eyes! :o
ReplyDeleteSo excited! And dolls definitely creep me out.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, certain jack in the box toys creep me out. Ever since seeing Poltergeist when I was young, I remember that scene where that Jack in the box jumps out of the box with a thud and pulled the boy under his bed to strangle him.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for Unhinged!!!!
ReplyDeleteI hate porcelain dolls the most!
ReplyDeleteSuper excited! ;)
ReplyDeletePorcelain dolls creep me out. >_<
ReplyDeletethe cover alone looks intriguing.
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