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:
Author: M.G. Harris
Pub. Date: April 4, 2024
Publisher: Darkwater Books
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 298
Find it: Goodreads, https://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.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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10/14/2024 |
Guest Post |
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10/14/2024 |
Interview |
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10/15/2024 |
Guest Post/IG Post |
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10/15/2024 |
IG Post |
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10/16/2024 |
Interview/IG Post |
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10/16/2024 |
Guest Post/IG Post |
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10/17/2024 |
Guest Post |
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10/17/2024 |
Excerpt/IG Post |
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10/18/2024 |
IG Post |
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10/18/2024 |
IG Review/TikTok Post |
Week Two:
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10/21/2024 |
IG Review |
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10/21/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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10/22/2024 |
IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post |
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10/22/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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10/23/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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10/23/2024 |
IG Review |
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10/24/2024 |
IG Review |
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10/24/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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10/25/2024 |
IG Review |
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10/25/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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