{"id":18058,"date":"2022-04-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=18058"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:19:13","slug":"blog-tour-kiara-fights-back-by-marilyn-kaye-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-kiara-fights-back-by-marilyn-kaye-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Kiara Fights Back by Marilyn Kaye (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarbooktours.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kiara-fights-back-tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Kiara Fights Back by Marilyn Kaye (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Wednesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for KIARA FIGHTS BACK by Marilyn Kaye! I\u2019m so excited to share an excerpt of the book with you today, AND more information about the author and tour, PLUS you can enter the giveaway to win a print copy!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-tiger-honor-by-yoon-ha-lee-excerpt-giveaway\/#more-16142\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/spring-2022-divider.png?resize=823%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kiara-fights-back-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Kiara Fights Back by Marilyn Kaye (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Kiara Fights Back by Marilyn Kaye (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Kiara Fights Back<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/marilyn-kaye\/\">Marilyn Kaye<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/the-spyglass-sisterhood\/\">The Spyglass Sisterhood #3<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  April 5, 2022 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/holiday-house\/\">Holiday House<\/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\/middle-grade\/\">Middle Grade<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 208 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/56750515-kiara-fights-back\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/82453.Marilyn_Kaye\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marilynkayeparis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Kiara, traditionally a loner, doesn't hesitate to say exactly what's on her mind. But she's found good friends among the Spyglass Sisterhood members who appreciate her keen observations and incredible smarts.<br \/>\nWhen a fellow classmate starts to get bullied online, Kiara is determined not only to find the perpetrator(s), but also to bring them to justice. To do that, she'll need help from her friends and from the Sisterhood's magical spyglass to gather evidence and put the pieces together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2022-04-06T09:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Wednesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for KIARA FIGHTS BACK by Marilyn Kaye! 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My name is Kiara Douglas, and I will begin by saying to you all, \u201cGreetings and salutations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six years ago, when I was in the first grade, my father read <em>Charlotte\u2019s Web <\/em>to me. If you don\u2019t know this book, it\u2019s by E. B. White, and it\u2019s about the friendship between a spider, Charlotte, and a pig named Wilbur. When Charlotte first meets Wilbur, she says \u201cSalutations!\u201d Wilbur doesn\u2019t know what that means, and she tells him it\u2019s a fancy way of saying \u201cGreetings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really liked that word, <em>salutations<\/em>. I added <em>greetings<\/em> in case the people I spoke to were like Wilbur and didn\u2019t know what <em>salutations<\/em> meant. So I began saying \u201cGreetings and salutations\u201d to the other kids in my classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They laughed at me. The teacher told them to stop, so they did, but I saw some of them cover their mouths, and I\u2019m sure they were giggling. It annoyed me that they couldn\u2019t appreciate my vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn\u2019t have any friends in the first grade. Or in the second, third, fourth, or fifth. Then we moved to Lakeside and I began to attend East Lakeside Middle School. I didn\u2019t have any friends in the sixth grade there either. But now, in the seventh grade, I have friends\u2014three of them. I\u2019ll tell you more about them later. But first I have to finish telling you about myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve just turned thirteen years old. I\u2019m Black, and my skin is brown. I wear my hair in cornrows, which are tight braids. I like this style because it\u2019s very neat and my hair doesn\u2019t get in my face. And also because my aunt braids it for me and I like to visit her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live with my father in a big apartment in a very nice building. It has three bedrooms even though there are only two of us. My father uses the third bedroom as a study. His name is Edward James Douglas, PhD, and he\u2019s a professor of history at Bascomb College here in Lakeside. I don\u2019t have a mother. Well, I <em>did<\/em> have a mother, of course, who gave birth to me. Her name was Caroline Douglas, but she died in an accident when I was only two years old so I don\u2019t remember her. I\u2019ve seen pictures of her, and she was pretty. My aunt Molly says I look like her, but I don\u2019t think so. Aunt Molly is my father\u2019s sister. She lives in Lakeside too, she\u2019s a hairdresser, and as I just told you, she\u2019s the one who designed my braids. I go to her regularly for upkeep, as she calls it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father works a lot. He teaches classes at the college, and when he\u2019s not teaching, he\u2019s at the library or in his study doing research for a book he\u2019s writing. He even works sometimes on weekends. But we always have breakfast together, and usually dinner too. There\u2019s a nice lady, Ms. Cavendish, who comes in every weekday to do housework and prepare dinners for us. Every Wednesday, at nine o\u2019clock in the evening, my father and I watch our favorite TV show together. It\u2019s called <em>Courthouse Chronicles<\/em>, and each week there\u2019s a different story about a crime and a trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes we take sides, prosecution or defense, and we discuss it afterward. And sometimes, when we\u2019re just talking together, we find excuses to use phrases they use a lot on the show, like when the accused person says \u201cI wasn\u2019t even there\u201d or the prosecuting attorney says \u201cWe gotta nail this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else can I say about myself? I\u2019m a good student, especially in math and science, and I\u2019ve already mentioned my vocabulary, which is bigger than what most kids my age have. I don\u2019t belong to any clubs at school and I don\u2019t play on any teams. I prefer to do things by myself, so I never really minded about not having friends. Sometimes I wondered if that was normal. There have always been other kids in my classes who didn\u2019t have many friends, but most of them <em>wanted<\/em> to have friends. I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father told me it was okay not to have friends. He said <em>he<\/em> didn\u2019t have friends and he was just fine. When I pointed out the people he knew at the college, he said they were his \u201ccolleagues,\u201d and perfectly nice, but not what he\u2019d call friends. And he likes Aunt Molly, of course, but she\u2019s family, so I guess she doesn\u2019t count as a friend. But like I said, I have friends now\u2014Ellie, Alyssa, and Rachel. My father knows about them, and he met them once. We usually spend our time together at Ellie\u2019s, because she has the spyglass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s how we got to know each other, because of the spyglass. It\u2019s in this little room called a turret at the top of Ellie\u2019s house, and it has some very unusual qualities. I\u2019ve never believed in magic before, but I think I have to say that this spyglass is magical. When you look through it, sometimes you just see Lakeside. But other times, you see things that aren\u2019t really there. But they always <em>mean<\/em> something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day, just two and a half months ago, Ellie looked through the spyglass and saw Alyssa flying over the town on a broomstick. When she got to know Alyssa, she found out that some people call Alyssa a witch because of the way she dresses. Alyssa\u2019s half Asian, with long, straight black hair, and she always wears black clothes, black nail polish, and black stuff around her eyes. Also, dangling earrings that look like miniature skulls. Her mother comes from India, so her skin is brown, but lighter than mine. She\u2019s tall and slender, and she doesn\u2019t smile much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alyssa sometimes says she actually wishes she could be a fairy-tale witch so she could put curses on people she doesn\u2019t like. Which are most people, frequently including her own family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellie and Alyssa became friends, and then, one day, they looked in the spyglass and saw Rachel. She was walking with one of her mothers. Suddenly, as Ellie and Alyssa were watching her, Rachel turned into a small child, like about five years old, and she was holding her mother\u2019s hand. Ellie and Alyssa got to know her and found out that Rachel\u2019s parents are very protective. They never leave her alone and they don\u2019t like her to go places without them. Rachel said they treat her as if she was a little kid and so sometimes she feels like one. That\u2019s when they figured it out- what the spyglass was showing them. They were seeing things that people felt, maybe what they were afraid of, or maybe what they wished for. When they saw me, I was playing in the park with make-\u00adbelieve animals. It took them a while to figure out why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we moved here to Lakeside, my father gave me my very own laptop computer, and I started playing games on it. My favorite was <em>The Amazing Maze<\/em>, a game where you become an animal and compete with other animals to get through a maze. I was playing with people who I didn\u2019t know, who I never saw, and who could have lived anywhere in the world as long as they had internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that some parents don\u2019t like their kids to play online games, but my father is okay with it as long as the games aren\u2019t violent. He even said that maybe online friends were better for me than real-\u00adlife friends. Now that I actually have real-\u00adlife friends, I think he\u2019s a little nervous. He doesn\u2019t know them very well, so he can\u2019t know how nice they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nobody\u2019s perfect, right? Not me, not my friends. I guess I should tell you what they look like and act like so you can imagine them in your mind. First of all, I\u2019d better warn you\u2014Aunt Molly says I can be brutally honest, and that\u2019s not always a good thing, she says. But I\u2019m going to try to be accurate, so here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellie is taller than me, but not as tall as Alyssa. I guess she\u2019d be called average. She\u2019s not skinny like me, but she\u2019s not fat either. She is white and has brown hair, brown eyes, and a medium complexion with some freckles. She always says she\u2019s ordinary-looking, but I think she\u2019s kind of pretty. She\u2019s friendly, but she can be a little bossy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve already told you what Alyssa looks like. As for her personality, she isn\u2019t very friendly and she rolls her eyes a lot. Sometimes she makes jokes that I don\u2019t get. Ellie says she\u2019s just being sarcastic and that I shouldn\u2019t take everything so literally. But what other way is there? Personally, I think people should just say what they mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel is shorter than the rest of us and she thinks she\u2019s fat but she\u2019s not, she\u2019s just sort of round and personally, I think she\u2019s the prettiest of us. She\u2019s has long curly blond hair that gets frizzy sometimes. Her skin is seriously white, and when she\u2019s embarrassed she turns pink, or even red. She\u2019s usually shy, and sometimes she can act kind of wimpy and nervous, but she\u2019s improving\u2014she finally convinced her parents she doesn\u2019t have to be walked to and from school and she can do more on her own. And just last month, she won a seventh-\u00adgrade election to be the class representative, so I guess she\u2019s not so shy anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know a little about their histories, like why Ellie\u2019s family moved here to Lakeside. Back in her hometown, Brookdale, her parents were trying to raise money for a homeless shelter, and a lot of people didn\u2019t want that. Those people ostracized the whole Marks family, and they didn\u2019t want to live there anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alyssa has a mother who\u2019s a famous surgeon, a stepfather who\u2019s a major architect, a stepbrother who\u2019s a big deal in high school, a stepsister who\u2019s training to be an Olympic figure skater, and a little brother who\u2019s an actor. So to stand out in this important family, she rebelled, went gloomy and hostile, and started dressing goth style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Rachel was born, she had a sister who was killed by a car while crossing a street alone when she was ten. This was why her two mothers became so overprotective of her and were afraid of letting her out of their sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They don\u2019t know much about <em>my<\/em> history. And I\u2019d like to keep it that way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re different, but we have one big thing in common\u2014none of us fit into any of the cliques at East Lakeside Middle School. We\u2019re not on any sports teams like the athletes. We\u2019re all smart, but not all-\u00adthe-\u00adtime straight\u2010A types like the brains. We\u2019re not very artsy like the drama kids and chorus members. And we are most definitely not eligible to belong to the popular crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are the ones we particularly don\u2019t like. Ellie says she was a member of the popular crowd back at her old school, and I can believe that. She looks like them, she dresses like them, and she has a lot of confidence. But those friends turned on her and treated her very badly, so after her family moved to Lakeside, she didn\u2019t want to have anything to do with the popular crowd here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We never do what those kids do. We don\u2019t join school clubs or try out for cheerleading or volunteer for committees. And we don\u2019t do social media. No Instagram, no Snapchat, no YouTube, no TikTok or whatever new app happens to be available. Of course, since you have to be thirteen to use social media and a lot of seventh graders are only twelve, they\u2019re not supposed to be on these things, but they just lie about their ages and join anyway. I\u2019m actually thirteen now, but I\u2019m still not interested in social media. Those popular kids, they\u2019re <em>addicted<\/em> to that stuff. You see them in the halls between classes, practically glued to their phone screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are not like them, and we don\u2019t want to have anything to do with them. We call them <em>the others<\/em>. Though Ellie <em>does<\/em> make an exception for a popular boy named Mike, because he doesn\u2019t act superior like the others and he isn\u2019t mean. Personally, I think Ellie wants him to be her boyfriend. Maybe he already is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We <em>do<\/em> send each other text messages. Ellie finally got her first smartphone last month, so now we can all have a text group instead of sending separate texts to each one of us. We call ourselves the Spyglass Sisterhood, and that\u2019s the name of our text messaging group. I don\u2019t really feel like Ellie, Alyssa, and Rachel are my sisters. But since I\u2019ve never had a sister, I\u2019m not sure what that would feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess that\u2019s enough about me and them for now, and I can start telling a story about us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/spring-2022-divider.png?resize=823%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Marilyn Kaye<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/marilyn-kaye-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Marilyn Kaye is the author of over 100 books for young readers, including the Gifted and Replica series. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a master's degree in library science at Emory University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. Kaye also taught children's literature at St. John's University for over twenty years. She lives in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/82453.Marilyn_Kaye\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marilynkayeparis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/spring-2022-divider.png?resize=823%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Spring-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Spring-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Spring-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Spring-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Week One<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>4\/4\/2022<\/strong><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books\"><strong>Kait Plus Books<\/strong><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookhoundsya.net\/\">BookHounds YA&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/5\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/bookreviewvirginialee.com\/\">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/5\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/kellyatx.blogspot.com\/\">Lady Hawkeye<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/6\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermaryg.com\/\">For the Love of KidLit<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/6\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabookscentral.com\/\">YABooksCentral<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/7\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twochicksonbooks.com\/\">Two Chicks on Books<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/7\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jaimerockstarbooktours\/\">@jaimerockstarbooktours<\/a><\/td><td>IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/8\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzybookreviews.com\/\">Jazzy Book Reviews<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/8\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/wottaread.com\/\">Wottaread<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Week Two<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>4\/11\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morebookspleaseblog.wordpress.com\/\">More Books Please blog<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/11\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemoreexclamation.com\/\">One More Exclamation&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/12\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/rajivsreviews.com\/\">Rajiv&#8217;s Reviews<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/12\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/am2cents.blogspot.com\/\">Two Points of Interest<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/13\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/coffeesipsandreads\/\">@coffeesipsandreads<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/13\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesandpaws.com\/\">Pages &amp; Paws<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/14\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/ravenzreviewz.blogspot.com\/\">Ravenz Reviewz<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/14\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdophiles.com\/\">Nerdophiles<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/15\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/themommaspot.home.blog\/\">The Momma Spot<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/15\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/fireandicereads.com\/\">Fire and Ice<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/spring-2022-divider.png?resize=823%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enter here to win a print copy of&nbsp;<em>Kiara Fights Back<\/em> by Marilyn Kaye!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/spring-2022-divider.png?resize=823%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Questions-for-You-Spring-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Questions-for-You-Spring-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Questions-for-You-Spring-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Questions-for-You-Spring-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think about <em>Kiara Fights Back<\/em>? Have you added it&nbsp;to your tbr yet?&nbsp;Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Spring-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Spring-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Spring-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Spring-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Spring-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for KIARA FIGHTS BACK by Marilyn Kaye! 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