Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for Beauty and the Besharam by Lillie Vale.
May 9th
Writing Rose Reads – Promotional Post
May 10th
Sophie Reads YA – Review
May 11th
Stuck in Fiction – Promotional Post
Daydreaming Book Lover – Top 5 Reasons to Read Beauty and the Besharam
May 12th
Rampant Reading Reviews – Promotional Post
May 13th
paperbacktomes – Review & Mood Board
Dragon Wings and Bookish Things – Review & Mood Board
May 14th
Kait Plus Books – Promotional Post
May 15th
Whispering Stories – Review
May 9th
emmreadsbooks – Review
writingrosereads – Blogger’s Choice
May 10th
fangirlpixiebooks – Promotional Post
May 11th
cozybooktraveller – Review
May 12th
rampant_reading – Blogger’s Choice
katreadstoomanybooks – Review
May 13th
paperbacktomes – Blogger’s Choice
bookish.by.trade – Promotional Post
May 14th
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
katiereads23 – Review
May 15th
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance
Publishing date: May 10th, 2022
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Rep: Indian American, Korean American, Mexican, Black, Senegalese, Lebanese, Anxiety, Lesbian, Bisexual, Demiromantic, Sapphic, Transgender, and Gay
Synopsis:
Heated competition leads to even hotter romance in this YA summer rom-com for fans of Sandhya Menon, Emma Lord, and Wibbroka.
Seventeen-year-old, high-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she’s a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam.
So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya’s very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year, she decides to lay low and spend the summer doing what she loves best–working part time playing princess roles for childrens’ birthday parties. But her plan is shot when she’s cast as Ariel instead of her beloved Belle, and learns that Ian will be her Prince Eric for the summer. [Cue the combative banter.]
Exhausted by Kavya and Ian’s years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their rivalry by convincing them to participate in a series of challenges throughout the summer. Kavya is only too eager to finally be declared the winner. But as the competition heats up, so too does the romantic tension, until it escalates from a simmer to a full-on burn.
Content Warning: Please be aware that through the course of the novel, Ian processes grief of a younger sibling’s death (takes place during his childhood, off-page) and Kavya experiences infidelity (not with love interest Ian. Early in the book, she catches her then-boyfriend cheating – this relationship is ended swiftly.)
Lillie Vale is the author of books for both teens and adults, including The Decoy Girlfriend, Beauty and the Besharam, The Shaadi Set-Up and Small Town Hearts, an American Library Association’s 2020 Rainbow Books List selection. She writes about secrets and yearning, complicated and ambitious girls who know what they want, the places we call home and people we find our way back to, and the magic we make. Born in Mumbai, she grew up in Mississippi, Texas, and North Dakota, and now lives in an Indiana college town.
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