{"id":5150,"date":"2020-01-02T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:26:26","slug":"blog-tour-scavenge-the-stars-by-tara-sim-interview-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-scavenge-the-stars-by-tara-sim-interview-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (Spotlight + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/tour-schedule-scavenge-stars-scavenge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (Spotlight + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the <em>Scavenge the Stars<\/em> blog tour!! Today I have a spotlight to shine on this wonderful book (and hopefully soon I&#8217;ll have an interview to share with you!), plus links to follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of <em>Scavenge the Stars<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Shining-the-Spotlight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Shining-the-Spotlight.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Shining-the-Spotlight-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Shining-the-Spotlight-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scavenge-the-stars-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (Spotlight + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (Spotlight + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Scavenge the Stars<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/tara-sim\/\">Tara Sim<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/scavenge-the-stars\/\">Scavenge the Stars #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  January 7, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/disney-hyperion\/\">Disney Hyperion<\/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>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 336 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42248816-scavenge-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>When Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, she fears her rash actions have earned her a longer sentence on the debtor ship where she\u2019s been held captive for years. Instead, the man she saved offers her unimaginable riches and a new identity, setting Amaya on a perilous course through the coastal city-state of Moray, where old-world opulence and desperate gamblers collide.<br \/>\nAmaya wants one thing: revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had. But the more entangled she becomes in this game of deception\u2014and as her path intertwines with the son of the man she\u2019s plotting to bring down\u2014the more she uncovers about the truth of her past. And the more she realizes she must trust no one\u2026<br \/>\nPacked with high-stakes adventure, romance, and dueling identities, this gender-swapped retelling of <i>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/i> is the first novel in an epic YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Sabaa Tahir, and Leigh Bardugo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2020-01-02T11:00:26+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the Scavenge the Stars blog tour!! 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She can often be found in the wilds of the Bay Area, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When she\u2019s not writing about mischievous boys in clock towers, Tara spends her time drinking tea, wrangling cats, and occasionally singing opera. Despite her bio-luminescent skin, she is half-Indian and eats way too many samosas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tara is represented by Victoria Marini at Irene Goodman Literary Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Name pronunciation: \u201ctar-ah\u201d (not \u201cterr-ah\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarasim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14118411.Tara_Sim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TaraSimAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tarasimauthor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eachstaraworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tarasimauthor.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tumblr<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/tssim53\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/tour-schedule-scavenge-stars-scavenge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5452 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win a print copy of <em>Scavenge the Stars<\/em> by Tara Sim!<\/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-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Are you as excited as I am to read this book?!? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the Scavenge the Stars blog tour!! Today I have a spotlight to shine on this wonderful book (and hopefully soon I&#8217;ll have an interview to share with you!), plus links to follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of Scavenge the Stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[484,27,734],"tags":[537,489,488,540,737,1402,462,1431,1430],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-giveaways","category-interviews","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-tour","tag-ffbc","tag-giveaway","tag-interview","tag-january-2020","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-scavenge-the-stars","tag-tara-sim","book-author-tara-sim","book-series-scavenge-the-stars","book-publisher-disney-hyperion","book-genre-fantasy","book-genre-queer","book-genre-retellings","book-genre-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scavenge-the-Stars-Featured-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}