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October 14th
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post

October 15th
The Ink Slinger – Review, Favorite Quotes

October 16th
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Review

October 17th
Wishful Endings – Review

October 18th
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Promotional Post

October 20th
therearenobadbooks – Review, Journal Spread

October 14th
get.outside.and.read – Promotional Post
thecleverreader – Content Creator’s Choice

October 15th
meghenslittlelibrary – Promotional Post, Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop
acourtofspinesnpages – Promotional Post

October 16th
edithslittlefreelibrary – Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop, TikTok
laurensbookvibes – Promotional Post

October 17th
blackgirlbujos – Journal Spread, Favorite Quotes
wishfulendings – Content Creator’s Choice

October 18th
callistoscalling – Review, Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop
gsreadingspree – Review

October 19th
ablueboxfullofbooks – Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop, TikTok
onemused – Promotional Post

October 20th
bookdemonio – Promotional Post
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
therearenobadbooks – Content Creator’s Choice

 Synopsis:

Inspired by stories about the real-world Great Dismal Swamp, this dual POV Young Adult fantasy by Randi Pink explores alternate history, a family’s supernatural connections to the swamp, and the strength that comes in knowing your roots. “Four-thousand-six-hundred-forty-two steps in,” Grannylou interrupted. “You remember that now, Baby. Four-thousand-six-hundred-forty-two steps to paradise.”On a damp night in 1722, Babylou Mac and her three siblings witness the murder of their mother at the hands of the preacher’s son—so Babylou kills him in retaliation. With plantation dogs now on their heels, the four siblings breach the treacherous confines of the Great Dismal Swamp. Deeper and deeper into Dismal they delve, amid the biting moccasins and pitch-black waters, eventually creating a refuge within the swamp’s natural—and supernatural—protection.Centuries later, college student Atlas comes home for the annual Bornday cookout and hog a celebration of the fact that she and her three cousins were all born on the same day almost nineteen years ago and share a birthday with their Grannylou. But this Bornday, Grannylou’s usual riddles and folktales about a marvelous paradise deep in the Great Dismal Swamp start to take on a tangible quality. Change coming.When Dismal calls, sucking Grannylou in, it’s up to Atlas and her cousins to uncover the history that the black waters hold. Centuries of family tension, with roots all over Virginia and North Carolina, are about to be dug up. Because Babylou and Grannylou are one and the same, and the power she helped cultivate—steeped in Black resistance, familial love, and the otherworldly mysteries of the Great Dismal Swamp—is bubbling back up. But so is a bitterness that runs deep as the swamp’s waters. And some are ready to take what they feel they’re owed.

Content Warning: murder of a parent, death, racism, slavery