I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SERWA BOATENG’S GUIDE TO VAMPIRE HUNTING by Roseanne A. Brown Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: SERWA BOATENG’S GUIDE TO VAMPIRE HUNTING (Serwa Boateng #1)
Author: Roseanne A. Brown
Pub. Date: September 6, 2022
Publisher: Rick Riordan Presents
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 400
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown’s middle grade debut about a pre-teen vampire slayer with a strong helping of Ghanaian folklore.
For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it’s a matter of life and death.
That’s because Serwa knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana. Adze prey on the blood of innocents, possessing their minds and turning them into hulking monsters, and for generations, slayers like Serwa and her parents have protected an unknowing public from their threats.
Serwa is the best adze slayer her age, and she knew how to use a crossbow before she could even ride a bike. But when an obayifo (witch) destroys her childhood home while searching for a drum, do Serwa’s parents take her with them on their quest to defeat her? No. Instead, they dump Serwa with her hippie aunt and cryptic-obsessed cousin in the middle of Nowheresville, Maryland “for her own safety.” Now, instead of crossbows and battle armor, she’s dealing with mean girls and algebra, and for the first time in her life she doesn’t have to carry a staff everywhere she goes, which is . . . kind of nice, actually.
Just as Serwa starts to get the hang of this whole normal girl who doesn’t punch vampires every day thing, an adze infiltrates her school. It’s up to her to whip some of her classmates into monster-fighting shape before all of them become firefly food. And when she uncovers a secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her family’s role in the slayer vs. adze war, Serwa will have to decide which side of herself–normal girl or slayer–is the right one.
After all, seventh grade is hard enough without adding vampires to the mix.
My Review
This was a wonderful book! I really enjoyed the writing and the characters! It was interesting to read about Ghanaian mythology. This book has plenty of adventure, fun and will leave you wanting to sink your teeth into more!
About Roseanne A. Brown:
Roseanne “Rosie” A. Brown was born in Kumasi, Ghana and immigrated to the wild jungles of central Maryland as a child. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s in Journalism and was also a teaching assistant for the school’s Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House program. Her debut novel A Song of Wraiths and Ruin was an instant New York Times Bestseller, an Indie Bestseller, and received six starred reviews. She has worked with Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney among other publishers.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a finished copy of SERWA BOATENG’S GUIDE TO VAMPIRE HUNTING, US Only.
Ends October 7th, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
| 9/1/2022 | booksaremagictoo | Review/IG Post |
| 9/2/2022 | More Books Please blog | Review/IG Post |
| 9/3/2022 | xbookwormcafe | Review/IG Post |
Week Two:
| 9/4/2022 | BookHounds YA | Excerpt/IG Post |
| 9/5/2022 | wiltedpages | Review/IG Post |
| 9/6/2022 | The Real World According to Sam | Review/IG Post |
| 9/7/2022 | GryffindorBookishNerd | IG Review |
| 9/8/2022 | Eye-Rolling Demigod’s Book Blog | Review/IG Post |
| 9/9/2022 | Feed Your Fiction Addiction | Review/IG Post |
| 9/10/2022 | hodophile_z | IG Review |
Week Three:
| 9/11/2022 | Wanderingwitchreads | TikTok Review/IG Post |
| 9/12/2022 | Log Cabin Library | Review |
| 9/13/2022 | Lifestyle of Me | Review |
| 9/14/2022 | @lexijava | Review/IG Post |
| 9/15/2022 | A Backwards Story | Review/IG Post |
| 9/16/2022 | Confessions of a YA Reader | Review |
| 9/17/2022 | @meetcuteromancebooks | IG Review |
Week Four:
| 9/18/2022 | Nerdophiles | Review |
| 9/19/2022 | The Bookwyrm’s Den | Review |
| 9/20/2022 | hauntedbybooks | Review/IG Post |
| 9/21/2022 | onemused | IG Spotlight |
| 9/22/2022 | Ya Books Central | Excerpt/IG Post |
| 9/23/2022 | @thebookishfoxwitch | IG Review |
| 9/24/2022 | @jacleomik33 | IG Review |
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| 9/25/2022 | The Momma Spot | Review/IG Post |
| 9/26/2022 | PopTheButterfly Reads | Review/IG Post |
| 9/27/2022 | Two Points of Interest | Review |
| 9/28/2022 | @ReadsReaders | YouTube Review/IG Post |
| 9/29/2022 | @drew_ambitious_reading | IG Review/TikTok Post |
| 9/30/2022 | The Clever Reader | Review/IG Post |
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