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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Blog tour- THE MIND GAME by @MGHarrisBooks With A Guest Post & A #Giveaway!

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE MIND GAME by M.G. Harris Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE MIND GAME

Author: M.G. Harris

Pub. Date: April 4, 2024

Publisher: Darkwater Books

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Pages: 298

Find it: Goodreadshttps://books2read.com/THE-MIND-GAME

Read for FREE with a Kindle Unlimited membership. 

Years have passed since her childhood friend disappeared, but Roni remains consumed by the mystery. Can she uncover what happened to Maxim Santiago?

Podcast fame thrusts 17-year-old Roni into a perilous quest to find her missing friend, who disappeared from Dulles Airport, Washington D.C. She teams up with tech-savvy Kenzie to crack cryptic messages and unearth a dark secret about trafficked kids. Dodging shadowy agents of the ruthless Russian dictator waging a global ‘Mind Game’ on his enemies, they end up in a sweltering Mexican town, a nexus for refugees.

They shared childhood memories, but Maxim has changed. He’s older, wiser, perhaps even dangerous. Now he seeks their help to rescue enslaved children guarding a world-shaking secret, but time’s running out. Roni and Kenzie dive into Maxim’s risky mission, testing their friendship amid a struggle for control of a key project that could win the ‘Mind Game.’

It's a journey that brings Roni an astonishing self-discovery. Can she trust in herself to help the rescue succeed?

From “sci-fi author M.G. Harris, creator of the best-selling Joshua Files” (Radio Times Magazine, 5th September 2013) comes an espionage mystery thriller for teens and young adults, set in a world of geopolitical conflicts that sits rather closely to our own post-pandemic world.


Praise for M. G. Harris:

  • "MG Harris proves she has a deft touch and a real skill for writing heart-stopping adventure" Vanessa Curtis, 16 February 2008, The Glasgow Herald
  • “M.G. Harris is a very skilled storyteller” Ed Fortune, Starburst Magazine, 2014
  • “Harris keeps the tension high throughout the action sequences” Paul Simpson, Sci-Fi Bulletin, 2015
  • “Harris’s prose is nice and breezy” Michael Cook, Geek Vibes Nation, 2023

 

Book Trailer:


Top 5 favorite movies.

Vertigo

I’d thought of this as a psychological thriller with a cool, Hitchcockian twist. Until I took my son to see this British film institute when he was 12 years old and when we left he commented “Why would you take me to see such a disturbing movie?”

Only then did I realize just how dark it was. Maybe it’s something about seeing it on the big screen? The psychodrama, the psychological, knife-twisting horror of what is done first to Jimmy Stewart’s character, and then what he does to Kim Novak’s, oof.

I’m such a fan of this movie, the one time I visited North California, we turned our trip into a Vertigo homage tour, visiting the locations of key scenes. Still remember how irked my husband got when I badly underestimated how far we’d have to drive!

Saturday Night Fever

A character-based, art house movie masquerading as a blockbuster. Without the Bee Gees soundtrack this is a gritty tale of a working-class Italian in New York and his gradual awakening to the existence of a world of culture outside of him, a world he maybe wants to access but doesn’t know how. Add in some Bee Gees tunes and dance moves that look cheesy now but were to die for in the 70s, my gosh what a film.

To Have And Have Not

This is a kind of anti Casablanca, a similar film that I also adore and with a similar plot, yet (spoiler alert), it ends happily. Instead of Humphrey Bogart playing cynical Rick, we get Humphrey Bogart as the slightly less cynical Steve, instead of beautiful, morally tormented Ingrid Bergman we have sultry, confident Lauren Bacall. The chemistry between Bacall and Bogart is so electric that no one in the world could have been surprised when they got married. We basically get to witness a famous Hollywood love affair spark into life. Bacall’s performance of ‘Maybe It Happens This Way’ totally swings and Hoagy Carmichael as the wise, crooning pianist is the cherry on top. Did I mention I love jazz?

Groundhog Day

Andie McDowell is my favorite actor from that whole 80s young adult movie phase. She is so terrific in romance movies, always so nuanced. Green Card, Four Weddings And A Funeral, she makes them. She makes Groundhog Day, too. Because she is so perfect at portraying the perfect yet unattainable woman, you can believe that Bill Murray’s character would endure death over and over and survive only because of the possibility of becoming worthy of her. She is my generation’s Ingrid Bergman.

Spirited Away

Read about this upcoming Japanese animation movie, and took my daughter to see it when she was 10 years old. On the walk home I could see it would have a lifelong impact on her. My daughter, son and I recently saw the stage adaptation in London’s West End, when I saw an audience full of people in their 20s and 30s, tears in their eyes to see part of their childhood brought to life. Studio Ghibli movies have been a huge part of our family’s life.

 

 

About M.G. Harris:

M.G. Harris was born in Mexico City and raised in Manchester, England. She studied Biochemistry at St Catherine's College Oxford and stuck around for even more at St Cross College.

To this day she lives in Oxford. It's not an easy place to leave.

The first job M.G. Harris was ever aware of wanting to do, aged six, was to write children’s books. Then, aged eight and inspired by Doctor Who, she tried to make Wirrn slime with a friend’s Chemistry Set 4, discovered chemistry, and writing went out of the window.

But in 2004, a skiing accident changed everything...

You can find out more about how MG became an author at her website.

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Giveaway Details:

5 winners will receive a finished copy of the second edition paperback of THE MIND GAME, US Only.

Ends October 29th, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/14/2024

Daily Waffle

Guest Post

10/14/2024

Sudeshna Loves Reading

Interview

10/15/2024

Fire and Ice Reads

Guest Post/IG Post

10/15/2024

Brandi Danielle Davis

IG Post

10/16/2024

YA Books Central

Interview/IG Post

10/16/2024

TX Girl Reads

Guest Post/IG Post

10/17/2024

The Momma Spot

Guest Post

10/17/2024

Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Excerpt/IG Post

10/18/2024

@callistoscalling

IG Post

10/18/2024

@alexandriavwilliams_

IG Review/TikTok Post

Week Two:

10/21/2024

Readingonthebrink

IG Review

10/21/2024

The Real World According to Sam

Review/IG Post

10/22/2024

A Blue Box Full of Books

IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

10/22/2024

Deal sharing aunt

Review/IG Post

10/23/2024

Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's

Review/IG Post

10/23/2024

@thepagelady

IG Review

10/24/2024

@evergirl200

IG Review

10/24/2024

Bookgirlbrown_reviews

Review/IG Post

10/25/2024

@pagesforpaige

IG Review

10/25/2024

Country Mamas With Kids

Review/IG Post


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