Saturday, June 26, 2010

giveaway: backseat saints [audiobook]

Thanks to Hachette, you can win the audiobook version of Joshilyn Jackson's Backseat Saints. There will be two winners.

I've reviewed the book, but this is what Publishers Weekly said:
"Readers willing to stick through a slow beginning will be rewarded in Jackson's eventually riveting fourth novel (after The Girl Who Stopped Swimming). When abused Rose Grandee isn't getting up the nerve to do something about her violent husband, Thom, she reminisces about high school sweetheart Jim Beverly, who once promised to kill Rose's alcoholic father. Rose is also consumed with memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was a little girl. During what seems like a chance meeting, Rose receives a tarot card reading and is told she'll have to choose between her husband's life and her own, though Rose later realizes, conveniently for the plot, that the card reader is her estranged mother. Egged on by the prophecy, Rose searches out Jim and plans on manipulating him into killing Thom, leading to a tense final section that crescendos with an ending appropriate for a woman with so much fight in her. Though Jackson does a good job conveying Rose's uncertainty and ambivalence, the initial sounding of these themes comes off as redundant and overly long; later, Jackson's writing becomes kinetic, reflecting her heroine's metamorphosis. "

The rules:
Enter by leaving a comment to this post with your email (if I can't contact you, you can't win). You can gain additional entries by leaving separate comments letting me know that you're a follower or have posted a link to the giveaway on your site. Gain yet another entry by following my blog's Twitter! The deadline to enter is 11:59pm Pacific on July 10. Winners will be selected at random. Since this is from Hachette the winners must have mailing addresses in the US or Canada; no PO Boxes.

22 comments:

  1. Thank you for entering my name in your giveaway!

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  2. I would love to win this as it is on my wish list. Thanks for the chance!

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  3. I am also a follower

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  4. I've been hearing alot about this book ~ I'd love to give it a listen

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  5. I'm a follower

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  6. This sounds great. Thanks for the chance.
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  7. I'd love to listen to backseat saints :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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  8. would enjoy listening to this novel..thanks for the chance :)

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  11. I'm new to audiobooks but I would love to listen to this one.
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  12. I would love to win the new Jackson, thanks for the chance!
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  13. I am a follower.
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  19. This sounds like a great book! Thanks for the chance.

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