{"id":12951,"date":"2021-06-21T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=12951"},"modified":"2021-06-21T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:05:21","slug":"blog-tour-a-chorus-rises-by-bethany-c-morrow-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-a-chorus-rises-by-bethany-c-morrow-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanbooknerd.com\/2021\/06\/a-chorus-rises-by-bethany-c-morrow.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a-chorus-rises-banner.jpeg\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A CHORUS RISES by Bethany C. Morrow! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I&#8217;m so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/a-chorus-rises-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>A Chorus Rises<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/bethany-c-morrow\/\">Bethany C. Morrow<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/a-song-below-water\/\">A Song Below Water #2<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  June 1, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/tor-teen\/\">Tor Teen<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/magical-realism\/\">Magical Realism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/mythology\/\">Mythology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 272 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/55077693-a-chorus-rises\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethanycmorrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCMorrow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BethanyCMorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14685233.Bethany_C_Morrow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bcmorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, privileged, has \u201cthe good hair\u201d\u2014 and she\u2019s an Eloko, a person who\u2019s gifted with a song that woos anyone who hears it. Everyone loves her \u2014 well, until she's cast as the awful person who exposed Tavia\u2019s secret siren powers.<br \/>\nNow, she's being dragged by the media. No one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, nor her Eloko community. But Naema knows the truth and is determined to build herself back up \u2014 no matter what.<br \/>\nWhen a new, flourishing segment of Naema\u2019s online supporters start targeting black girls, however, Naema must discover the true purpose of her magical voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-06-21T10:00:08+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A CHORUS RISES by Bethany C. Morrow! I'm so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! 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I\u2019m standing across from a siren and there\u2019s a call in her voice. Whatever she says next will have power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><b>Stone her.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no time after that. Not to think, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">she wouldn\u2019t dare do this to me,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and not to dare her. To tell her that I am through playing nice, that you don\u2019t threaten Eloko, and that she and her snake sister had better start thinking of what comes after Portland because they are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">never <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">going to live this night down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no time to run, when what was a wobbling pillar of scales and haunted hair stiffens\u2014and then I do too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It hits me in my core. Deep inside my body, something goes hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I gasp, but the air doesn\u2019t get in. Not really. It comes into my throat but then stops. I can\u2019t get it into my chest. That\u2019s where my panic starts. Am I going to suffocate? Is being Stoned by a siren and her snake sister actually dying? No one knows. No one\u2019s ever come back from the stone. Which means the sisters don\u2019t know either, and they\u2019re doing it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know how long it takes from the outside. They\u2019re watching me turn gray like the other prom-goers in this courtyard, and the man in the cemetery, and the kids in Triton Park\u2014but I don\u2019t know if it seems fast or slow. I just know I\u2019m terrified that my lungs will start burning any moment from the air I can\u2019t force into them, that the legs I can\u2019t feel anymore aren\u2019t there, that the stone has broken somehow even though I\u2019ve never seen it happen. What else am I supposed to think when thinking is all I can do? I can\u2019t feel anything, once the hardening starts. It feels like nothing, except that it\u2019s spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to look down, to see my body, that it\u2019s still there. I want to look away so that the last thing I see isn\u2019t Tavia Philips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there\u2019s no time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Bethany C. Morrow<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Bethany C. Morrow<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Bethany-C.-Morrow-1-235x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Bethany C Morrow is an Indie Bestselling author who writes for adult and young adult audiences, in genres ranging from speculative literary to contemporary fantasy to historical. She is author of the novels MEM and A SONG BELOW WATER, which is an Audie, Ignyte and Locus finalist. She is editor\/contributor to the young adult anthology TAKE THE MIC, the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award winner. Her work has been chosen as Indies Introduce and Indie Next picks, and featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA TODAY's list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethanycmorrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCMorrow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BethanyCMorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14685233.Bethany_C_Morrow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bcmorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanbooknerd.com\/2021\/06\/a-chorus-rises-by-bethany-c-morrow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Follow-the-Tour-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2021-1-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e849f7752135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter here for a chance to win a print copy of <em>A Chorus Rises<\/em> by Bethany C. Morrow!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(International)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Questions-and-Answers-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>A Chorus Rises<\/em>? Have you added it to your tbr yet? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-Summer-2021-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"880\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A CHORUS RISES by Bethany C. Morrow! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! 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