I am absolutely stoked to be hosting a spot
on the KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE: SHIMMER by Ridley Pearson Blog Tour hosted
by Rockstar
Book Tours. I've obsessed over this series for years and getting to take part in a tour was everything I didn't know I wanted when I was younger. Make sure to check out my review and enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Ridley Pearson
Pub. Date: February 21, 2023
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 320
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/KINGDOM-KEEPERS-INHERITANCE-SHIMMER
In the near
future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney’s imagination, sixty thousand people live
in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park.
Five unique families are among the residents―and some of the parents were once
known as the Kingdom Keepers. Their identities are carefully guarded in order
to raise their children without special treatment, most of the Kingdom Keepers
work for the Walt Disney Company, and have settled into “ordinary” and
rewarding lives.When a messenger carrying a secret communication coincides with
both a solar eclipse and Eli Whitman’s thirteenth birthday―a few “ordinary”
kids are thrust into a battle to save Epcot and find their friend who has
mysteriously disappeared. With their friend missing and their parents acting
strangely, the Kingdom Kids discover they are in possession of unusual powers
as they forge a bond to rescue their friend and uncover the truth about how
real magic has entered their lives.
I enjoyed this but not as much as I thought I was going to. Don't get me wrong, it was a fine book. But I remember absolutely loving the previous books so I found this one to be a bit of a let down compared to those. (Note: those books might be tinted by rose-colored glasses.)
I do wish I had had time to reread the series in order to make sure I remembered everything that had happened, but I'm happy that that didn't seem to be necessary in these books. I was able to understand what was going on, as well as what had happened in the past, without much trouble.
I found the setup and action to be quite interesting. It didn't enthrall me like the previous books did, but I think that had more to do with me aging between books. For a young adult book it was pretty solid.
There were problems with these books, but I'm not going to mention them here. Part of it was just the pacing of the book and that it didn't exactly keep my attention. In a future review I will get more into detail about these issues.
About Ridley Pearson:
Ridley Pearson (www.ridleypearson.com), the first American to
be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at
Wadham College, Oxford University, is the bestselling author of over 50 novels
including, Peter And the Starcatchers (co-written with Dave Barry), The Kingdom
Keepers series, and two dozen crime novels including: Probable Cause, Beyond
Recognition, Killer Weekend, The Risk Agent, and The Red Room. His novel The
Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer, a prequel to a Stephen King miniseries, was a New York
Times #1 bestseller, and a ABC TV movie (2009).
Peter and the Starcatcher, a stage play adaptation written by
Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) won 5 Tonys for its Broadway run and is currently
touring the US.
Ridley is a founding member of, and plays bass guitar in, the
all-author rock band, The Rockbottom Remainders (www.rockbottomremainders.com),
with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., James
McBride, Amy Tan and Greg Iles. The band has raised over 2.5 million dollars
for charities.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner
will receive a finished copy of KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE: SHIMMER, US Only.
Ends February 28th, midnight EST.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
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2/13/2023 |
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2/13/2023 |
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2/14/2023 |
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2/14/2023 |
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2/15/2023 |
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2/16/2023 |
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2/16/2023 |
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2/17/2023 |
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2/17/2023 |
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2/20/2023 |
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2/20/2023 |
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2/21/2023 |
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2/21/2023 |
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2/22/2023 |
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2/22/2023 |
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2/23/2023 |
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2/23/2023 |
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2/24/2023 |
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2/24/2023 |
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