SCHEDULE & GIVEAWAY: Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud

Genre: young adult, science fiction

Diversity tags: own-voices, authors of color (moroccan author), poc representation (moroccan-inspired world, moroccan characters, biracial lead), lgbtqiap+ representation (lesbian lead)

Publication date: 06 August 2020

Publisher: Flatiron Books

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Synopsis:

Two identical girls, one a princess, the other a rebel. Who will rule the empire?

After being swept up into the brutal Vathek court, Amani, the ordinary girl forced to serve as the half-Vathek princess’s body double, has been forced into complete isolation. The cruel but complex princess, Maram, with whom Amani had cultivated a tenuous friendship, discovered Amani’s connection to the rebellion and has forced her into silence, and if Amani crosses Maram once more, her identity – and her betrayal – will be revealed to everyone in the court.

Amani is desperate to continue helping the rebellion, to fight for her people’s freedom. But she must make a devastating decision: will she step aside, and watch her people suffer, or continue to aid them, and put herself and her family in mortal danger? And whatever she chooses, can she bear to remain separated, forever, from Maram’s fiancé, Idris?

About the Author

Somaiya Daud is the author of Mirage and holds a PhD from the University of Washington in English literature. A former bookseller in the children’s department at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., now she writes and teaches full time.

Schedule

August 3
☕ Amaysn Reads
☕ Quintessentially Bookish
☕ Reading On A Star

August 4
☕ Flipping Through the Pages
☕ Readingatlast
☕ Word Wonders

August 5
☕ A Bookworm’s Chapter
☕ Sereadipity
☕ Sunshine N’ Books
☕ The Inked In Book Blog

August 6
☕ Blissful Reveries
☕ Endless Pages
☕ Latinx Magic
☕ Novels and Nebulas

August 7
☕ Open Pages
☕ The Perks of Being Noura
☕ To Kindle and Illuminate
☕ READING (AS)(I)AN (AM)ERICA

Giveaway

For this tour, we are giving away five (5) paperback copies of Mirage and five (5) hardcover copies of Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud!

This giveaway is open to US-based readers or individuals with a US address. It will be accepting entries until 12 August 2020 (12:00 AM, Philippine time).

Try your luck!