BLOG TOUR: The Summer of No Regrets by Katherine Grace Bond

Welcome to the Official Blog Tour for author Katherine Grace Bond's The Summer of No Regrets. Today, on our tour stop, we have an exclusive excerpt and a tour-wide giveaway to share, as we celebrate its 10th anniversary! So... Be sure to check it out and grab your copy now! Follow the tour, HERE!

Genre:

Young Adult

Contemporary Romance

Publish Date:

May 1, 2012

Publisher:

Sourcebooks Fire

Synopsis:

The summer Luke came into my life, I decided to keep him a secret. Even from my celebrity-obsessed best friend. Maybe he *was* a dead-ringer for notorious Hollywood bad boy Trent Yves. And it was possible that everything he told me was a lie. And yes, I was probably asking for trouble. But all I saw was Luke--sweet, funny, caring--someone who would let me be the real me.

But which was the real him?

      

     

*Excerpt*

 After Brigitta feels moved by a Jewish service by some guests at her parents’ interfaith retreat center.

Upstairs I wrapped myself in my Nonni coat. Nonni had called it my “coat of many colors,” like Joseph's in the Bible story, she said. I stroked a frayed corduroy patch. Being mad was ridiculous, but I was—furious: at Dad for talking to spirits when he'd always said religion was unreasonable, at Mallory for making everything mysterious into a psychological problem, and at Mom and Dad for making us choose. 

 Why couldn't we be Baptist like Tarah's family? Or Jewish like Natalie's? We’d be together in a religion, not at this pot luck Mom and Dad called “spirituality,” where everyone floated around in an individual bubble. 

At Cherrywood Nonni and Opa would pull me into a group hug and pray with their heads bowed and touching. I’d felt linked to them. Now I couldn’t mention their names OR their prayers in front of Dad. He had his own, far superior world.   

 Eileh chamda libi. What was my heart's desire? And why did God love to hide?

Praise for The Summer of No Regrets

"Brigitta...was incredibly unique" Blogger Ambur, Burning Impossibly Bright " —Burning Impossibly Bright

"This is an utterly sweet, captivating book that will charm you, make you think, and maybe even make you shed a tear." —Cupcake's Book Cupboard

"an interesting look at all that can change in the summer of a young woman's life." —YA Bibliophile

"The story line immediately captured my heart " —Charming Chelsey's

"...a novel of identity, true love, and the meaning of death; all told in the voice of a bright, thoughful, and passionately self-contradictory teenage girl." —Book Talk

"...fun summer read with a little bit of a serious twist...You'll laugh, you'll tear up, and you'll be on the hunt for a celebrity lookalike crush in no time" —Fiction Folio

"...the sort of book that should top your "to reads" list." —Letters Inside Out

"...a delightful tale of self-discovery and of burgeoning romance." —Allison Can Read

"The meaningful relationship that is created only makes you want more" —Books With Bite

"Readers can expect romance, drama, and incredible emotion" —A Cupcake and A Latte

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**About the Author**

Katherine Grace Bond wants to heal the rifts in our culture and in ourselves. She writes on writing, race, family, and relationships on Medium, and is at work on a time-travel fantasy, for which she spent a couple of months in France trying to chase down Manet. Her books include The Summer of No Regrets, about finding the meaning of life and death when the boy next door may be a movie star in hiding, and The Legend of the Valentine, illustrated by the awesome Don Tate. Her poetry collections include Considering Flight, about the uneasy dance between father and daughter on the razor’s edge of mental illness. When she’s not writing, she plays fiddle in an Irish band called The Scuppermonkeys.

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