Blog Tour: Two Dark Reigns

Hello everyone and welcome to my stop on the Two Dark Reigns blog tour! I'm a proud member of the poisoner court and so for today's post Kendare Blake is sharing her very own song choice for each court and I'll be adding my own addition for us poisoners. Plus! I'm going to be giving away a copy of Two Dark Reigns over on Twitter so make sure you don't miss that.

Kendare's Playlist 

Poisoners: Billie Eilish, "See Me in a Crown" I've heard from several readers that this song makes them think of Katharine, and the dramatic, slightly offbeat melody feels very Arron to me. 

Elementals: Florence and the Machine, "Shake it Out" Elementals love big soaring voices, and songs with a lot of movement. Florence and the Machine always sounds like a dance to me, and I can see all of Rolanth dancing right along with her.

Naturalists: AWOLNATION, "Bad Wolf" This one is for Arsinoe, although the beat and the antithetical vibe does feel very naturalist. Mostly though, there's a line that goes, "Mother*ucker I'll be back from the dead soon" and I can totally hear Arsinoe saying that. If Arsinoe swore.

And for my addition for us poisoners I'm going with Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift, especially the music video which is fantastic and perfectly captures the poisoner energy and aesthetic. Basically it's a big mood.

Have you read this series? I'd love to know which court you belong to and what song you associate with it!

I Was Born For This Blog Tour

Hello everyone and welcome to day two of the musical I Was Born For This blog tour! The way this works is each host is hosting a song chosen by Alice Oseman herself from the I Was Born For This playlist with a little bit of info on how it connects to the book. We're then adding our own song to create one epic giant YA playlist that celebrates fandom so make sure you stop by each day to get the full playlist!

Alice's Choice: Starz In Their Eyes – Just Jack 

This song could have been written for I Was Born for This. The lyrics explore the fleeting and sometimes traumatising nature of fame and being put in the spotlight. That’s definitely something IWBFT’s boyband narrator, Jimmy, is struggling to deal with throughout the book! “Since you became a V.I. person / it’s like your problems have all worsened” could be I Was Born for This’ tagline…

   

My Choice: Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran 

Hands down my favourite artist is Ed Sheeran. I've followed him since his days of posting on MySpace so it's amazing to see how far he's come in the industry. Last year I finally got to see him perform live on his Divide tour and the first song he played was Castle On The Hill which is my personal favourite from the album. I'm going to see him at Wembley next month and I can't wait! 

Make sure you follow the rest of the blog tour 

to hear all of the songs from the playlist!