{"id":21521,"date":"2023-01-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=21521"},"modified":"2023-01-20T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:14:39","slug":"blog-tour-the-wicked-ones-by-robin-benway-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-wicked-ones-by-robin-benway-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway (Excerpt + 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\/2023\/01\/the-wicked-ones-tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE WICKED ONES by Robin Benway! 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\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-wicked-ones-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Wicked Ones<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/robin-benway\/\">Robin Benway<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/dark-ascension\/\">Dark Ascension #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  January 10, 2023 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/disney-press\/\">Disney Press<\/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\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 320 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60882209-the-wicked-ones\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinbenway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinbenway\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/753097.Robin_Benway\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robinbenway\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b><i>\"Blood is blood...and one way or another, we all bleed.\" <\/i><\/b>Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family\u2019s fortune and their mother\u2019s dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves\u2014and each other\u2014that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold.<br \/>\nBut both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine\u2019s tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. On the cusp of the royal debut party\u2014their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother\u2019s expectations\u2014the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine\u2019s intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. But you should never underestimate the power a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2023-01-21T11:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE WICKED ONES by Robin Benway! I'm so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! 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After all, he would hate to wake her up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s waited until the house is sleeping around him, until his small children are finally settled in their beds, their tiny giggles dying down into sighs before giving over to steady, shallow breaths. His wife is sleeping on her side, facing away from him but with her hands outstretched toward the bed where he should be, reaching for a man who will never be in that space again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small gold band comes off so easily. He\u2019s never had the heart to tell her it isn\u2019t real gold. He wonders if she\u2019s never had the heart to tell him that she knows and still loves him anyway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting thing, being loved, he thinks as he tiptoes to the other side of the bed and reaches under the duck-feathered mattress for his bag, the one that holds the few valuable possessions his family has, the ones that only he will now possess. He thought he knew love when he met his wife, or when his children were born, the two girls just pink wriggling things that reminded him in the moment of newborn puppies, eyes screwed shut, mouths open wide in a scream.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be loved is to have a responsibility, he thinks as he checks the bag to make sure it\u2019s all there: the jewelry his wife\u2019s mother left her; a few francs he squirreled away over the past several months; an opal-backed hairbrush that belongs to one of his daughters, he isn\u2019t sure which. The people who love him have come to rely on him, and unfortunately, he is not a reliable man. He is not responsible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is just a man, he tells himself as he looks back at his wife. Who could ever expect him to be more than that? His wife is still young, face only starting to show the barest cracks of age. The tiniest lines have begun to gather around her eyes, but it\u2019s easy to say that they\u2019re from smiling too much, even though her smiles have appeared less as the debts have grown. She is beautiful in her sleep, less austere, her brown hair fanned out across her pillow. He\u2019s always loved her hair; it was the thing that first drew him to her when they saw each other on the street all those years ago, back when he still imagined himself to be capable of reliability and responsibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would be lying if he said he didn\u2019t think about cutting it off and selling it on some nights, of taking the shears and holding the thick strands in his palm. Four or five snips and it would be done. She would be angry, of course. She would probably even sob, but he could have said that it was for their family, for them. Didn\u2019t their daughters need to eat? Weren\u2019t they tired of avoiding the bill collectors who posted notices on their front door? It was just hair, after all. It would grow back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he never did it. The man is many things: a liar and a cheat. A thief, a gambler, a drunk. But, he thinks, he has never been cruel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tells himself this as he watches his wife now, as her hands twitch in her sleep, her legs giving a slight kick. She has never slept well; she awakes in the middle of the night and gets up to look out the window, searching for something that they both know isn\u2019t there. He knows there is unhappiness, because she never talks about it. When the man once asked about her childhood, her body went so stiff and straight that he began to suspect that the memories were not in her brain, but her bones, buried deep in the marrow. To get at them would mean breaking her open, and again, he is many things, but he is not cruel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He watches his wife now, waits for her to move again, but she never does, not even when he kisses his palm and ghosts it over her glorious hair.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a fortune he could have made from it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He takes his bag and leaves the bedroom, then eases himself down the hall so that the floorboards don\u2019t creak too much. During the day they\u2019re rarely noticeable, but in the silence of the countryside night, they sound as if a cannon has been fired. Even under their daughters\u2019 small feet, the floors are rickety and splintered. The man and his wife can hear the girls coming into their room at night even when they\u2019re still ten meters away, even before they quietly complain about an ache or pain or dream and he lifts them up into their bed. He\u2019ll miss their small warm bodies pressed between them, but it\u2019s better this way. His daughters\u2019 memories will only be good. He will never have caused them pain. When they think of their father, they\u2019ll remember a man who held and loved them, who tossed them high into the sky but always made sure to catch them on their way down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re certainly better than the memories that his father left him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls\u2019 bedroom door glides open without a single squeak even as the floorboards gently protest. They still share a bedroom despite their now very advanced ages of six and seven, even though they squawk and fight and have tearful episodes several times a week over who did this and who took those and who said that. He lets his wife handle those moments, lets her separate them into corners and fix their ripped dresses and wipe their eyes. From the moment they were born, he\u2019s always been in awe of his daughters, of how strong and tough they are. They remind him of everything he is not, of everything he can never be for them, and it shames and angers him in equal measure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would say he never resents them for it, but that would be a lie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, though, tucked into their beds, he feels only fondness, a warm, syrupy emotion that all parents have when they see their sleeping children. His older daughter, Drizella, is in her bed by the window, sleeping facing the moon and stars that peek in from the dusty curtains. She is the daughter who looks up at the night sky, pointing without asking or demanding an answer, and he laughs and names the constellations over and over again, making up the ones he doesn\u2019t know by heart. He is the one who always grew tired of their game first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They named her Drizella after his wife\u2019s mother, who arrived a week after the baby was born only to look at the child, sniff twice, and announce that any girl born with that much black hair was doomed to trouble. \u201cShe looks like she came from a coven\u201d were her exact words, which made the news of Drizella\u2019s name that much harder to deliver. The man saw the light go out of his wife\u2019s eyes that night. It took weeks before it began to flicker back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drizella\u2019s hair is still black, now twisted up in rags so that she\u2019ll have perfect ringlets in the morning. His wife twists tight and fast so that tears spring to the girls\u2019 eyes, but they know better than to cry, know that crying will only make her pull tighter, tug harder. The man sometimes wishes he could intervene, but she is their mother, and he is only a man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Girls, he thinks, always need their mother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He leans down, setting one hand on the straw mattress for balance, and gently kisses the top of Drizella\u2019s small head. He tries to impart as much love as he can, enough devotion and adoration to carry her through the rest of her life, but there is only so much that a small body can hold. One day, Drizella will grow up and the love that her father presses into her hair tonight will only become smaller, will occupy less and less space until it becomes a tight knot behind her ribs, a quiet stabbing reminder of what has been and what is no longer there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man will never know this. He thinks he\u2019s done the right thing. After all, she hasn\u2019t even woken up. He would hate to disturb her sleep. She\u2019s only a child; she needs her rest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He goes across the room to Anastasia. She still sleeps with her thumb in her mouth. Sleep is the only time she can do so safely without having it yanked out, having it soaked in vine gar so that it\u2019s sour and puckered. \u201cIf you keep doing that,\u201d his wife tells her, \u201cyour teeth will grow ugly,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t faze Anastasia. She\u2019s his redheaded stubborn one, his lucky copper coin. The day she was born, he won big at a local chicken fight and burst into their bedroom waving fistfuls of francs while the midwives fanned his exhausted, sweating wife. He didn\u2019t even hear the baby\u2019s cries at first, not until she realized she was being ignored in her cradle and decided to raise the volume by a few decibels. He cheered with her, then went out to celebrate, the money and the alcohol both gone by midnight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He leaves her thumb in her mouth, hating to deny her a small comfort, and gently smooths the blankets over her. They\u2019re cotton when they should be wool, threadbare where they should be thick, scratchy where they should be soft. Children don\u2019t need too much, though, he tells himself. They have wonder and imagination on their side. Didn\u2019t he eat garbage scraps as a child and tell himself that it was as good as a holiday feast? A thin cotton blanket seems like nothing compared to that. He doesn\u2019t think of the upcoming autumn, how the cracks in the walls and windows will let cold air in all night long. He doesn\u2019t think of his two daughters sleeping in one bed for warmth, desperate not to be alone, aching for the kind of comfort that he won\u2019t be there to provide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will miss his girls so, so much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thinks that\u2019s the same as loving them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He fixes their blankets one last time and slips out of the room. The old rugs that line the stairs are starting to show signs of wear, sunspots dappling the rich colors with bleached spaces, but he doesn\u2019t notice. He is a man who knows how to make decisions, who knows how to follow through, who can leave without looking back, not even once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he shuts the front door behind him for the very last time, no one, not even the mice nestled in the house\u2019s walls, notices that he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/About-the-Author-Winter-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/About-the-Author-Winter-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/About-the-Author-Winter-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/About-the-Author-Winter-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Robin Benway<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robin-Benway-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Robin Benway is a National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of eight novels for young adults, including Far From the Tree, Audrey, Wait!, the AKA series, and Emmy &amp; Oliver. Her books have received numerous awards and recognition, including the PEN America Literary Award, the Blue Ribbon Award from the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books, ALA\u2019s Best Books for Young Adults, and ALA\u2019s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. In addition, her novels have received starred reviews from Bookpage, Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, and have been published in more than 25 countries. Her sixth novel, Far From the Tree, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the PEN America Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, PBS, Entertainment Weekly, and the Boston Globe. In addition to her fictional work, her non-fiction work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Bustle, Elle, and more. Her latest book, A Year To the Day, was published on June 21, 2022, and her next book, The Wicked Ones, the origin story of Cinderella\u2019s wicked stepsisters, will be released by Disney Books on January 10, 2023.<br \/>\nRobin grew up in Orange County, California, attended NYU, where she was a recipient of the Seth Barkas Prize for Creative Writing, and is a graduate of UCLA. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Hudson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinbenway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinbenway\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/753097.Robin_Benway\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robinbenway\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png 850w, 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\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Week One<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1\/2\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ohyouread\/\">Ohyouread<\/a><\/td><td>IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>1\/3\/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>1\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yabookscentral.com\/ya-books-blog\/\">YA Books Central<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/5\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/oddandbookish.wordpress.com\/\">OddandBookish<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/6\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdophiles.com\/\">Nerdophiles<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG 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rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enter here for a chance to win a print copy of <em>The Wicked Ones<\/em> by Robin Benway!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/December-2022-Dividers-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" 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