Blog Tour: Hollywood Witch Hunter | Author Valerie Tejeda Vlog

We are excited to be a part of Hollywood Witch Hunter Vlog Tour hosted by the author Valerie Tejeda.

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Hollywood Witch Hunter

Author: Valerie Tejeda

Release Date: July 20th 2015

Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark

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Just from now until the end of the tour it's on sale for $2.99!

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Please watch this video that author Valerie Tejeda shared with us where she talks about her novel and answers questions about Hollywood Witch Hunter. Enjoy!



Week One
July 19th: Read Write Love 28 – Video
July 20th:
1. Vilma’s Book Blog – Exclusive Excerpt
2. Live Hollywood Witch Hunter virtual launch on the YouTube channel abookutopia
3. Exclusive Hollywood Witch Hunter trailer on the YouTube channel Benjaminoftomes
July 22nd: – That Artsy Reader Girl – Video
July 23rd: Two Chicks on Books – Video
July 24th: Once Upon a Twilight – Video (that's us)

Week Two
July 26th: What A Nerd Girl Says – Exclusive Excerpt
July 27th: Latina Book Club – Review
July 28th: I Love Books Girl – Video Review and Q&A
July 29th: Page Turners Blog – Video

Book Review: Hollywood Witch Hunter by Valerie Tejeda

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Hollywood Witch Hunter
Author: Valerie Tejeda
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genres: Paranormal | Fantasy
Release Date: July 20th 2015
Review Source: Author

Hunters are not made. They are born.

From the moment she first learned the truth about witches … she knew she was born to fight them.

Now, at sixteen, Iris is the lone girl on the Witch Hunters Special Ops Team.

But when Iris meets a boy named Arlo, he might just be the key to preventing an evil uprising in Southern California.

Together they're ready to protect the human race at all costs. Because that's what witch hunters do.

Welcome to Hollywood.

Entertainment journalist and author Valerie Tejeda spends her days reporting on books, television and all things pertaining to pop culture and spends her nights writing novels for teens. Her stories have appeared on a variety of different publications, including: Vanity Fair, MTV, The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Latina, Yahoo! Shine, Cosmopolitan, and more.

Valerie holds a bachelor of arts in psychology and is currently based in California with her husband, journalist Brent McCluskey, where she reads loads of books, binge-watches Netflix and drinks tons of coffee. Hollywood Witch Hunter is her YA debut.

Beginning at the prologue, I had felt as if I had stepped into a bad, early 90s, original Disney Channel movie that had been released during Halloween. The prologue gives you the conflict upfront by saying that there is a witch named Belinda in Hollywood who is bitter and selfish, so she takes the lives of young, stuck-up girls to keep herself beautiful. Then she placed a curse on all witches in Hollywood so they would do the same. Because of this, there are people called Hunters that are only called so because they carry the gene.

See, typically, only men carry this gene, but Iris is now the only female known to carry it as well. So, throughout the story, you see Iris's struggle to prove herself among a world run by men.

Eventually there is a love interest, two actually, and some big secrets revealed about Iris's father, who happens to be in a high position of authority, and both said love interests.

The story progresses nicely, and there isn't anything too out of plot. There wasn't too much vocabulary to learn, either - 'cause when it comes to supernaturally themed books, there tends to be a whole new language that comes with it. It was easy to pick up and read through quickly.

I would probably recommend this book to a mature 12 year old. Mature only because there is little use of explicit language and situations. For me, though, as a 16 year old, this book seemed a bit elementary. It was a nice story to jump into, though.

Book Highlight: Hollywood Witch Hunter by Valerie Tejeda + Excerpt

Hollywood Witch Hunter
Author: Valerie Tejeda
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: July 20th 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark

From the moment she first learned the truth about witches…she knew she was born to fight them.

Now, at sixteen, Iris is the lone girl on the Witch Hunters Special Ops Team.

But when Iris meets a boy named Arlo, he might just be the key to preventing an evil uprising in Southern California.

Together they're ready to protect the human race at all costs. Because that's what witch hunters do.

Welcome to Hollywood

USA Today EXCERPT (PROLOGUE) 

Witch Hunting Book of Stories

Once upon a time, in a land not too far away, a beautiful witch named Belinda arrived in Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Although Belinda was considered royalty among her kind, this witch longed for greater renown. She wanted to be an actress on the silver screen. But on one gloomy night at a glamorous after-party full of stars and starlets, Belinda lost her dream role to a younger woman. Humiliated and hurt, Belinda's once-tender heart turned to icy stone.

Consumed by bitterness and rage, she cast a curse upon her species, requiring each and every witch to steal the youth and beauty of mortal women through ritual sacrifice. She remained in Tinseltown to become the ruler of the Hollywood Coven, recruiting ever more witches from the far corners of the world to join her sinister plan. But these witches didn't fly on broomsticks or wear pointed hats. No, these witches used their powerful spells to control minds, time, and even the weather. And although the mortals continued their day-to-day lives, Belinda's incessant demand for sacrifice had placed the entire town in danger.

But one day, everything changed. An army of men who called themselves "hunters" came to The City of Angels determined to protect mankind from the witches' wrath. And with that, the rivalry between the witches and the hunters began — a secret war that would cost many innocents their lives and continue for decades.

Through the years, Belinda's struggle for youth, power, and beauty has been repeatedly foiled by the ever-persistent Witch Hunters. But the evil witch remains as clever as she is beautiful.

While some things change, one truth will endure: Never trust a witch…especially in Hollywood.