Blog Tour: The Secret Sisterhood of Heart Breakers

 

"When her boyfriend breaks up with her on the first day of sophomore year, Lucy has no idea how she’s going to make it through homeroom, let alone the rest of her life. Enter three stunning girls with a magical offer Lucy can’t refuse. All she has to do is get a guy to fall in love with her in the next seven days, and then…break his heart and collect one of his brokenhearted tears. As the girls teach Lucy how to hook a guy (with the help of a little magic), she quickly discovers how far she is willing to go—and who she is willing to cross—to get what she wants.

Fans of Lauren Myracle, Jodi Lynn Anderson, and Meg Cabot will love this tale of breakups, friendship, new crushes, and magic. Told with wit and charm, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers is sure to be one of this winter’s most irresistible reads!"

About the author:

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Where you can get the book:

Amazon | B&N

  Which of your books was the easiest/hardest to write?   I’m currently working on the sequel to the Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, and so far that’s probably been both the easiest and the hardest. It’s the easiest because I did a lot of the work of creating the world in the first SSH book. It’s the hardest because I made up rules for this world and now I have to follow them!

    What inspired you to write your first book?

 My first book is about a girl who goes on a road trip to look for her missing sister. It was partially inspired by the time during high school when two of my friends ran away from home.

Which of your characters is your favorite?

Ellie from Wherever Nina Lies because she’s willing to do absolutely anything to find her sister, and Tristan from SSH because he just seems like fun.

    Have you ever written anything that you thought would be controversial and found it wasn't?

Not yet.

    Do you read reviews of your books? If so, do you pay any attention to them, or let them influence your writing?

I obsessively read all early reviews (which may or may not be a healthy thing to do, but I do it!) and then at a certain point I say, “okay, enough now,” and then I pretty much stop entirely. Reaching that point feels like a relief. Even good reviews are stressful to read!

Right now I’m absolutely letting certain reviews influence my writing. I’m working on the sequel to The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, which just came out less than a month ago. A bunch of readers have had similar comments, both positive and negative, and so I’m definitely writing with these in mind. I’m really grateful to the bloggers and other book reviewers who took the time to write such thoughtful reviews and I feel very lucky that I have a chance to take some of their comments into account!

  Can you tell us what you are currently working one now?

The sequel to SSH and ideas for something new.   Stop by the other tour sites:

1/24 Luxury Reading

http://luxuryreading.com/

1/25 For Those About to Read

http://www.abouttoread.com/

1/26 Starry Sky Books

http://www.starryskybooks.com/

1/27 Sash & Em

http://sashandem.com/

  Thank you for stopping buy today! Happy Reading!  

    

Review: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers

Title: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers
Series: No
Genre: Young Adult- Fantasy
Author: Lynn Weingarten
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Book: ARC sent by publisher

"When her boyfriend breaks up with her on the first day of sophomore year, Lucy has no idea how she’s going to make it through homeroom, let alone the rest of her life. Enter three stunning girls with a magical offer Lucy can’t refuse. All she has to do is get a guy to fall in love with her in the next seven days, and then…break his heart and collect one of his brokenhearted tears. As the girls teach Lucy how to hook a guy (with the help of a little magic), she quickly discovers how far she is willing to go—and who she is willing to cross—to get what she wants.

Fans of Lauren Myracle, Jodi Lynn Anderson, and Meg Cabot will love this tale of breakups, friendship, new crushes, and magic. Told with wit and charm, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers is sure to be one of this winter’s most irresistible reads!"

This book definitely took my by surprise. I did not expect what I've read and was totally thrown off. I admit, that I was skeptical and felt it a bit cheesy. As I continued to read on, the plot unfolded to magic that intrigued me. I sat up straighter, diving in the book faster than I thought I would. And in the end, I smiled.

So, what got me off about this book? Well for starters, the synopsis is not what I thought. And now that I think about it, I liked that. I like that as the reader, I was thrown off. When I got deeper in the plot line, it all come to sense. The plot definitely kept the reader on their toes with every new chapters. Heart breaks, rules and magic really gave the reader something new to see.

The characters of this book had some major changing to do with the magic. At first you play be rules, then your conscious gave way. It was like they were testing you or Lucy was testing herself. I liked that Lucy is really seeing who she is. She is so insecure of who she is that she needs this adjustment. It gave her strength to do things she never do but also gave the reader hope that Lucy will make it.

Magic. I loved it. So when it came into the book, into the characters I read on. The magic factor is not witchy but not low either. The magic is used differently in a way I didn't think. Not only was the magic taught, but it was learned. In order to gain magic, you must really know it.

Overall, this book really swept me off my feet. I hadn't expected to understand it all, but indeed I did. I loved the way Ms.Weingarten surprised her readers with elements we did not see. She gave her readers a new sight to love that they never seen. 

I give it 4 BITES!

Happy Reading!