Welcome to stop #12 on Kristin Cashore’s “Getting to know the characters of Fire” Blog Tour!
If you haven’t heard of young adult sensation author Kristin Cashore, you must have been living under a rock for the past year. Her debut novel, Graceling took the fantasy world by storm (both adult and young adult alike), shortlisted and winner of many prestigious awards. We loved Graceling and its prequel/companion novel Fire was one of our most highly anticipated books of 2009.
About the Book:
She is the last of her kind…
It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.
Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised Graceling has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don’t need to have read Graceling to love Fire. But if you haven’t, you’ll be dying to read it next.
Not only did Fire manage to live up to the hype surrounding its release – it managed to surpass it, earning five starred reviews, as well as a 9/10 rating here on The Book Smugglers.
When we were invited to host a day of the Fire book tour, naturally we were ecstatic. Today, we are proud to introduce you to THREE fantastic new characters (some of our favorites from the book, in fact):
Musa, Mila, and Neel are just three of Fire’s extensive guard; they spend their days stopping people from killing her. Musa, calm and reliable, is in charge of the others. Mila is… well, she’s reliable, too, but perhaps a bit distracted these days… and Neel is a steady, comforting presence who can always be called upon to produce handkerchiefs in an emergency.
You’re intrigued, aren’t you? Well, it gets better. You can check out a full, 40 page excerpt from Fire below.
The Excerpt:
The Countdown Widget:
And, of course…
THE GIVEAWAY:
We are offering ONE autographed copy of Fire to a lucky winner! The contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only. In order to enter, simply leave a comment here telling us who your favorite young adult novel heroine is.
Also, we’ll be awarding EXTRA ENTRIES for the following:
+1 for twittering a link to this contest and including the hashtag #firetour (please tell us you did so in an extra comment for it to count)
+1 for embedding the FIRE eBook sampler on your blog with a link to this contest (please tell us you did so in an extra comment for it to count)
+1 for embedding the countdown widget on your blog with a link to this contest (please tell us you did so in an extra comment for it to count)
FOR EXAMPLE: If you have entered the contest, twittered the topic, embedded the eBook sampler and the countdown widget on your blog (including links to this post), you should have left us FOUR COMMENTS here (one per action). Voila, you have been entered four times into the contest.
Other multiple entries that do not follow the rules specified above will be disqualified. If you have done all the embedding and linking and tweeting, but have only left us with one comment, you will only be entered one time into the giveaway – so don’t shortchange yourself!
The contest will run until October 3rd at 11:59 PM. We will randomly select and announce our winner on October 4th. Good Luck!
Hi
I’ve been looking forward to reading FIRE for a while now.
Thanks for the great excerpt!
My favorite heroine from YA is Scarlett Martin from Maureen Johnson’s SUITE SCARLETT.
All the best,
RKCharron
xoxo
PS – Email’s in my Blogger Profile.
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I’d love to be entered. A favorite YA heroine of mine is Robin McKinley’s Harry, from The Blue Sword. That girl is seriously awesome. I’m looking forward to reading Fire – thanks for the chance to win it!
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Crap. Forgot my email address. It’s celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com.
Sorry!
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I’m going to go with Helen from Laura Whitcomb’s A Certain Slant of Light. Mostly because we have similar bibliophile tendencies! Second would probably Gemma Doyle, from Libba Bray’s series. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
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I tweeted the contest @KimBea. Thanks!
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http://twitter.com/kohsamui14/status/4469851481
tweeted @kohsamui14
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My favorite YA heroine is Taylor Markham from Melina Marchetta’s Jellicoe Road. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Great to read the little taster above.. now I just have to find out what happens next!
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Enter my name in the draw please. My favourite YA heroine is Sabriel from Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy. A teenaged necromancer sending all the nasties back to death.
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I really like Zoey Redbird from the PC/Kristen Cast series House of Night.
I RT you (twitter name is Raycee3)
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My favourite is Bella in the Twilight series!
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Whoops. I left my comment in the review post…not this one. Thank you for the contest. Please enter me! Oh! And how can there be a better heroine than Katsa?!
Devin
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Hrm…favorite heroine from a YA novel….hard to answer because they have almost all been wimpy and or lacking in some way. I’m going to have to go with Chloe Saunders in The Darkest Powers series by Kelley Armstrong.
I would totally embed said sampler and widget if I had any clue how to do it. AND I would twitter and leave a link if twitter didn’t scare the beejeezus out of me!
I’m crossing my fingers for this one!!!
jennifermorrill(at)att(dot)net
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Please enter me in the giveaway.
My favorite YA heroine is Rose Hathaway in the VA series by Richelle Mead
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What a fabulous contest – I’ve been enjoying this book tour! My favorite heroine is Harry from The Blue Sword.
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Katniss from The Hunger Games! I would really love to win this book- I’ve been dying to read it for a while!
valerienear@gmail.com
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Am I the only one not seeing the countdown widget? I feel le stewpid.
Anyway – my favorite young adult heroine is a toughy. I’ve not read a whole lot of YA lately…let’s see, I’ll say…uuummm…well cripes…oh duh! Rose from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series.
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I don’t know if it’s just because I recently read Catching Fire but I’m going to have to second Valrie’s choice of Katniss!
biblioharlot at gmail dot com
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+1 tweeted ( buckilibrarian )
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My favorite has to be Alana from Tamora Pierce’s series.
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I’d love to read this one -as I loved Graceling!!
My favorite YA heroine of late has to be Chloe from the Awakening – she is too cool.
Thanks!
mmillet at gmail dot com
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I’ve been dying to read this for ages!
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Could you ask a harder question? Hm. Alanna…Aerin…Alanna…Aerin. Or wait! Meg Powers…Rebecca Phillips…Meg…Rebecca. *head explodes*
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I would have to say my favorite heroine is Hermione from Harry Potter. I really identify with a bookish girl. Enter me, please!
Thanks!
Morning Glow
ohmorningglow AT aol DOT com
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I just finished her first book about two weeks ago and LOVED it! I cannot wait for this one. ^^
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OMG I can’t wait to read Fire! Great giveaway and I love the blog tour. I’ve followed all of it and now I’m even more anxious to read the book.
My favourite YA heroine…hmm…thats a really hard one. I love Rose from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series and Katniss from the Hunger Games. I also loved Katsa in Graceling, which was one of my favourite reads this year.
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daine sarrasri from tamora pierce’s wild magic.
i love tamora pierce.
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I would love to be entering in this contest.
It’s really hard to find one young adult heroine that’s my favorite. I would have to say hermione from the harry potter books because I grew up with her for so many years although there are many many close seconds!
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hello my name is lindsay and my favorite heroin is katniss from the hunger games
lindsay.tallman@gmail.com
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Well, aside from the obvious Katsa and Fire, I would definately have to say Frankie Landau-Banks from The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. Frankie is my hero!!
megandm2(at)gmail(dot)com
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Please enter me.
thebookvixen [at] gmail [dot] com
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I tweeted
http://twitter.com/thebookvixen/status/4489010328
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Got the countdown widget on my sidebar
http://thebookvixen.blogspot.com
left sidebar
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I would like to enter to win!
My favorite YA heroine is Rosie from Robin McKinley’s Spindle’s End.
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My current favorite YA heroine is Katniss of The Hunger Games trilogy.
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tweet! http://twitter.com/muse2323/statuses/4489928356
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I would love to enter! I’m currently enamored of Katniss from Catching Fire.
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I also tweeted: http://twitter.com/bookloveaffair/status/4490416493
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I would have to pick Rose from the Vampire Academy series. It’s my favorite series right now. dasuzuki at yahoo dot com
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I also tweeted (debworldofbooks) with the #firetour hash tag. Sorry I don’t know how to link to a specific tweet.
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Hi Thea! Just wanted to thank you for hosting me and for running the giveaway. And today I’d have to say my favorite heroine is Anne of Green Gables :o). Hi to everyone writing in!
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I’d have to say Anne Shirley, from Anne of Green Gables.
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I also tweeted at https://twitter.com/jpetroroy/status/4497974023
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Loved Graceling and Fire looks AMAZING! I’m already on the hold list for it at my library.
My favorite YA heroine…hmm…I love Anne from Anne of Green Gables and Hermione from HP. I guess I prefer the bookish girls.
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My favourite YA novel heroine is Kim from Patricia C. Wrede’s Mairelon The Magician and The Magician’s Ward.
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I would have to say Hermoine from the Harry Potter series.
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I recently read the first two books of the Vampire Academy series and am really liking Rose
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My favorite heroine is Katniss from Hunger Games.
findjessyhere at gmail dot com
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My favorite Heroine would have to be Katniss Everdeen from THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins. She is smart, tough, and can survive in a world where the government wants her dead.
-Beverly Hernandez
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Katniss from Hunger Games and Catching Fire
mittens0831 at aol dot com
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y favorite heroine from YA is katsa from Graceling….!!!!
kisses and thanks for this contest.
franglineguido at hotmail dot com
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Thanks for this contest!
Please enter me=)
My favorite YA heroine is probably Katsa from Graceling and I think I am very much going to like Fire.
Cassie
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Here is where I posted the ebook.
http://gbubookreviews.blogspot.com/
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Here is where I posted the widget
http://gbubookreviews.blogspot.com/
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love the archery theme.
fave YA character? easily; Alice MacLeod, written by Susan Juby
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My favorite YA heroine is probably Beauty from McKinley’s Beauty. But I’m trying to expand my reading horizons (I’m not widely read in YA) so that could change.
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Favorite heroine: I have two!! Katsa & Katniss!! The best! (Graceling & Hunger Games)
Thanks for the contest!
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Like many others here, Katniss Everdeen!
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Rose Hathaway from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series.
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My favorites is Chloe Saunders in The Darkest Powers series by Kelley Armstrong.
bacchus76 at myself dot com
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Posted the widget on the sidebar here: http://donnasbloghome.blogspot.com/
bacchus76 at myself dot com
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My favourite YA heroine is Maerad from Alison Croggon’s fantasy series. I don’t know why I like her so much, but I do.
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Here’s my tweeted entry:
http://twitter.com/KMont/status/4524712748
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Books! I loved Graceling, so the fact that you loved this book makes me very happy.
I think my favorite YA character is Ella from Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. Possibly tied with Kel from Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small quartet.
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My favorite young adult heroine is Katniss from THE HUNGER GAMES and CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins.
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See my tweet
@librarylady23
Thanks!
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I’m very much looking forward to reading Fire.
One of my favourite heroines is Beka Cooper in Tamora Pierce’s Terrier and Bloodhound. I just adore her writing and her characters.
Thanks.
Tina
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My favorite YA heroine at the moment is Katniss from The Hunger Games.
Thanks!
seventyfour{a.t}gmail{d.o.t}com
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I feel like I should just say ditto–but my favorite is Katniss from the Hunger Games. Today anyway!
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I really love Alanna from Tamora Pierce’s series – the first of which is simply titled Alanna. She’s a very strong but still feminine character. A lot of spunk and a lot of love in her.
bittahsweetharmony@yahoo.com
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Embedded the widget onto my blog:
http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/
It’s on one of the sidebars.
bittahsweetharmony@yahoo.com
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Tweeted about the contest! http://twitter.com/bookgoil/status/4569188181
bittahsweetharmony@yahoo.com
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Fave hero? Definitely Suze Simon from the Mediator Series (by Meg Cabot). Suze kicks butt.
yabookqueen@yahoo.com
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embedded the widget on my blog(on sidebar)
http://yabookqueen.blogspot.com
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+1 widget on sidebar
http://yabookqueen.blogspot.com
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Mine would be Hermione from the Harry Potter series.
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My favorite is Ella from Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted
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tweet
http://twitter.com/iamcherdon/status/4582001579
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I’m going to answer as my YA self and choose Menolly from Anne McCaffrey’s “Harper Hall” trilogy.
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My favorite YA Heroine has to be Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables.
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+1 Widget on my sidebar:
http://robyn-mindlessramblings.blogspot.com/
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+1 embedded the ebook sampler on my blog here:
http://robyn-mindlessramblings.blogspot.com/2009/10/fire-by-kristen-cashore.html
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