{"id":14630,"date":"2021-10-04T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2021-10-03T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T01:38:13","slug":"blog-tour-briarheart-by-mercedes-lackey-guest-post-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-briarheart-by-mercedes-lackey-guest-post-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Briarheart by Mercedes Lackey (Guest Post + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstarbooktours.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BRIARHEART.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Briarheart by Mercedes Lackey (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for BRIARHEART! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have a guest post by Mercedes Lackey 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-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/briarheart-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Briarheart by Mercedes Lackey (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Briarheart by Mercedes Lackey (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Briarheart<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/mercedes-lackey\/\">Mercedes Lackey<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  October 5, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/little-brown-books-for-young-readers\/\">Little Brown Books for Young Readers<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/retellings\/\">Retellings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 368 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/57007765-briarheart\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercedeslackey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mercedeslackey\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MercedesLackey\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8685.Mercedes_Lackey\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ivC6vj\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Miriam may be the daughter of Queen Alethia of Tirendell, but she's not a princess. She's the child of Alethia and her previous husband, the King's Champion, who died fighting for the king, and she has no ambitions to rule. When her new baby sister Aurora, heir to the throne, is born, she's ecstatic. She adores the baby, who seems perfect in every way. But on the day of Aurora's christening, an uninvited Dark Fae arrives, prepared to curse her, and Miriam discovers she possesses impossible power.<br \/>\nSoon, Miriam is charged with being trained in both magic and combat to act as chief protector to her sister. But shadowy threats are moving closer and closer to their kingdom, and Miriam's dark power may not be enough to save everyone she loves, let alone herself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-10-04T09:00:52+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for BRIARHEART! 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So do lots of other writers, as far as that goes; there are probably more versions of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beauty and the Beast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than anyone could ever get around to reading and watching in a lifetime, for instance, and they run the gamut from experimental science fiction to outright pornography, and anything in between. I\u2019ve written a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0of retold fairy tales, and some multiple versions of the same story for that matter, and I think there are several reasons why I keep coming back to that particular well of inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for me, the most important reason is that fairy tales are very much what Dorothy L. Sayers termed\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moral fiction.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> By this, she didn\u2019t mean \u201cfiction with a moral,\u201d although fairy tales have morals more often than not. She meant that stories she referred to as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moral fiction<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0were stories in which the good were sometimes rewarded, but the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were always found out, their villainy exposed, and they were delivered to their punishment, which is certainly not the case in the real world. There may not be an unmitigated happy ending\u2014if you\u2019ve read\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fairy tales and not the watered-down and prettified versions, you know the \u201chappy ending\u201d of marriage and happily-ever-after isn\u2019t guaranteed. The Little Mermaid dies and is turned into sea-foam (while her beloved prince cavorts at his wedding with his chosen human bride). Tom Thumb gets into a fight with a poisonous spider and dies of the bite. One of the Twa Sisters drowns the other to get her betrothed, and the victim\u2019s body parts are made into a harp. But the villains of the piece always get what they deserve, and oftentimes receive retribution in a form that the Supreme Court would surely judge as \u201ccruel and unusual punishment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sayers said at the time that mysteries were the only \u201cmoral fiction\u201d left; had it been pointed out to her, I think she\u2019d agree that fairy tales came under that heading as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Sayers, I prefer writing \u201cmoral fiction.\u201d Not because moral fiction is escapist or unrealistic, but because even when the real world is full of injustice and unfairness, moral fiction gives the reader something to aspire to. As G.K. Chesterton once said, \u201cFairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.\u201d In a harsh and unfair world, moral fiction, like fairy tales, reminds us that just because things are bad now, it doesn\u2019t follow that you should give up and stop fighting for them to become better. The dragons can be killed. There can be a happy ending. It might not be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> happy ending, but it will be a happy ending for someone. And that is the unselfish choice, all the more noble because it\u2019s made in the full knowledge that though you kill the dragon, you aren\u2019t going to be the one who wins the princess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was that unselfish choice that led me to create the heroine of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Briarheart. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miri, though the daughter of a queen, is not a princess. She\u2019s learned the lesson of the unselfish choice herself very early, since her father was killed trying to save someone else. She <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in fairy-tale fashion, endowed with a plethora of gifts both tangible and intangible\u2014a lifestyle at the top of the pyramid, a stepfather who wants her to be both happy\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fulfilled, and not one but two kinds of magic. But she\u2019s not the princess, and she\u2019s as burdened with duties as she is endowed with gifts. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if Sleeping Beauty had a sister?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I asked myself, since one of the most fun things about retelling fairy tales is changing the narrative and seeing what comes of it.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if she had a sister who was protective and brave and was not going to stand there and watch some evil fairy queen destroy her darling baby sister?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, that sister\u2014Miriam\u2014was obviously going to need a posse. And she was going to need mentors as well. She was also going to need a distraction from her real purpose, since every good hero needs temptations to putter off in the direction of something shiny and forget the real quest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had a choice at that point when I was outlining the book. I could let the story play out\u2014 start it when Aurora was almost sixteen, and put Miriam in the place of Prince Charming to find some means of waking her sister once the curse had taken effect. Or I could twist the trope, and eliminate the Evil Fairy Queen right at the start, at the moment when she tries to cast the curse. I chose the second, because I wanted the spotlight to be unambiguously on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not-a-princess<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0as the heroine of this tale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, that doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t do the first at some point, either. I still have a long way to go before I catch up with the number of books Isaac Asimov wrote in his lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/About-the-Author-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Mercedes Lackey<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mercedes-lackey-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>MERCEDES LACKEY is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her \"spare\" time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercedeslackey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mercedeslackey\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MercedesLackey\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8685.Mercedes_Lackey\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ivC6vj\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Follow-the-Tour-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Week One<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>10\/4\/2021<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071887000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGunUWQpvSCkMPRtAJRnNwkYEnwbA\">Kait Plus Books<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Guest Post<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/5\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookhoundsya.net\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.bookhoundsya.net\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFkuJrVddSzp__UuPtvrkRfCOQqPg\">BookHounds YA<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Excerpt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/6\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"https:\/\/rajivsreviews.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/rajivsreviews.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXrQORQUCAkcO2PEGRi5cimuTdbw\">Rajiv&#8217;s Reviews<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/7\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"https:\/\/devouringbooks2017.wordpress.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/devouringbooks2017.wordpress.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHJwzcsbYILObWEvS5Hjheqi2iLxg\">Devouring Books<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/8\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbriefs.net\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/bookbriefs.net\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHD_q9XAmoW-2DMeZDTYKr-E5K0RA\">BookBriefs<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Week Two<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/11\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"http:\/\/thepagesinbetween.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/thepagesinbetween.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_SkSYz8th4YFENyhOOgroiR1Kyw\">Thepagesinbetween<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/12\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"https:\/\/themommaspot.home.blog\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/themommaspot.home.blog\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGMlgK0mLgkd8DwNheXbz5C35mz3g\">The Momma Spot<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/13\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"http:\/\/historywomenperspective.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/historywomenperspective.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyIVKFhK8YiXNQgFv88nqLpX3fXg\">History from a Woman\u2019s Perspective<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/14\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"https:\/\/hollymbryan.tumblr.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/hollymbryan.tumblr.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHey6H7h3WV2YO83DPdopjeHFcbJA\">Book-Keeping<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/15\/2021<\/td>\n<td><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/momfluenster\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/momfluenster\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633213071888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtnti18IrfIpSIX-MtTToC49Dsww\">@momfluenster<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n<td>Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter here for a chance to win a print copy of <em>Briarheart<\/em> by Mercedes Lackey!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Questions-and-Answers-Fall-2021-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>Briarheart<\/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-13969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"881\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for BRIARHEART! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have a guest post by Mercedes Lackey to share with you! 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