Blog Tour: Tempest Blog Tour - Holly's Journal Entry: 12/5/2009

Today we kick-off the blog tour for Julie Cross's Tempest book. Cindy at Books Complete Me and myself are so happy to be hosting the tour. The tour will from December 5th - December 16th then resumes again January 2nd - January 6th. Make sure to visit all the stops to read special posts and fun giveaways. Follow the full tour by clicking HERE.

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Today we begin the blog tour with a journal entry from Holly. Enjoy!! You can read an excerpt on Macmillan website to get familiar with some of the characters and how the time travel works HERE.

Diary Entry #2
March 15th, 2009

I work on Mars or maybe Jupiter. Seriously. It’s that weird. I’ve been to Manhattan plenty of times, but mostly tourist places where normal, middle-class people like myself gather to look at something. Or whatever.

But people actually live on the Upper East Side. That’s just nuts. Oh and I made a great first impression. Remind me not to walk and read at the same time because accidental collision with very cute boy (I almost don’t want to write “boy”, but “man” sounds creepy and “young man” sounds dorky) may occur. And if you’re really stupid and decide to read, walk, and carry big strawberry smoothie at the same time, you may ruin the cute boy’s shoes.

I was like, OMG!! But I’ll admit, he took it well. Actually, he laughed then saved my book from the smoothie, which was awesome because I would have had nothing to read on the way home.

For the rest of this month, it’s just training two nights a week, so no real work yet. However, I did something really cool today when Mr. Wellborn, our camp director mentioned that his computer lab instructor for the camp took another job and he was looking for someone with extensive computer knowledge. I got brave and raised my hand and was like, “One of my good friends is going to MIT and just won the National Science fair. He’s awesome with kids and is looking for a job.”

Mr. Wellborn was really impressed and took Adam’s info. Adam will flip when he finds out the pay and I know he’d like to get out of Jersey just as much as me. We’ve always had that in common.

When I was leaving, the same guy I had ran into earlier and ruined his shoes, walked out the door, right in front of me. I watched him get into this long black car, waiting for him out front. The driver (wearing a black suit and some kind of ear piece) even ran around and opened the door for him. Seriously.

I rolled my eyes and I think he saw me because he smiled. Obviously he’s an Upper East Side product, but why the hell does he need a job? Maybe court appointed community service? Wouldn’t really make sense given the pay rate for the job and all the applicants. He should have been assigned to some camp for disadvantaged children in Harlem or something. That’s all for now.

Now here comes the bonus part of the tour. You have a chance to win 1 of 5 signed copies of Tempest. Readers can enter a total of 15 entries and must leave a comment to enter. You must comment on at least one tour stop to be entered in this giveaway. For each tour stop you comment on, you will be entered once, for a total of up to 15 entries. You must fill out the form for EACH blog and confirm that you have commented. Giveaway ends at midnight on January 6th.

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Tempest

Tempest #1

Author: Julie Cross

Reading Level: YA

Release Date: January 17th 2012

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Available: Amazon

Summary: (from goodreads) The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun. 

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.