Blog Tour: Cracked - K.M. Walton - Word Association

K.M. Walton is here today with a Word Association post courtesy of the Teen Book Scene blog tour for her book, Cracked. Thank you for being here today, K.M.! You can follow along with the tour here, or by clicking through the banner. Enjoy!

Thank you for having me here today, Corrine. This word association was actually quite fun to fill out!!

Red – Christmas, my favorite holiday. Giving gifts makes me happy.

Glee – talent

Milk – leads to ice cream

Words – matter

Horses – beautiful creatures

Country – side, as in the Irish countryside. My favorite place on Earth.

Chris Hemsworth - Thorlicsous

Tour – Radiohead, and I want them to go on one.

Fearless – Anderson Cooper. I love everything he stands for.

Kitchen – family, that’s where my family always congregates.

Suspense – LOST, I don’t think any television show will ever be able to top the brilliant suspense in that series.

Buffy – I know she’s a vampire slayer and all but, I never watched this series. So “Buffy” makes me think of a 1984 Valley Girl with teased bangs and neon earrings, saying, “Ew, gag me with a spoon.”

Maple – syrup, which should always be real because real is just better.

Apple – pie, I make a mean one from scratch.

Thank you for being here today K.M.! 

K.M. Walton can be found on her website, her blog, and on twitter. 

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Sometimes there's no easy way out.

Victor hates his life. He has no friends, gets beaten up at school, and his parents are always criticizing him. Tired of feeling miserable, Victor takes a bottle of his mother's sleeping pills—only to wake up in the hospital.

Bull is angry, and takes all of his rage out on Victor. That makes him feel better, at least a little. But it doesn't stop Bull's grandfather from getting drunk and hitting him. So Bull tries to defend himself with a loaded gun.

When Victor and Bull end up as roommates in the same psych ward, there's no way to escape each other or their problems. Which means things are going to get worse—much worse—before they get better….

Synopsis taken from goodreads.

Blog Tour: Cracked - K.M. Walton - Character Tens List

K.M. Walton is here today with a character tens list courtesy of the Teen Book Scene blog tour for her soon to be released novel, Cracked. Thank you for being here today, K.M.! You can follow along with the tour here, or by clicking through the banner. Enjoy!

Victor Konig

1. Loves his dog Jazzer. Loves her more than he loves his parents.

2. Some days the only words he speaks out loud are to his dog.

3. He feels invisible mostly. Invisible and alone.

4. He has been bullied by Bull Mastrick for years.

5. Victor never fights back and weakness is devouring him from the inside.

6. His parents won’t settle for anything less than perfect from their one-and-only son.

7. Speaking of his parents, he thinks they’d make perfect robots.

8. Victor is an insanely talented mathematician.

9. His hero is Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematics.

10. Going to the edge and back could be the only thing that will save Victor.

Thank you for giving us some insight into Victor, and thank you for being here today, K.M.!

K.M. Walton can be found on her website, her blog, and on twitter. 

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Victor hates his life. He’s relentlessly bullied at school and his parents ridicule him for not being perfect. He’s tired of being weak, so he takes a bottle of his mother’s sleeping pills—only to wake up in the hospital.

Bull is angry, and takes all of his rage out on Victor. He’s the opposite of weak. And he’s tired of his grandfather’s drunken beatings, so he tries to defend himself with a loaded gun.

When Victor and Bull end up as roommates in the same psych ward, things go from bad to worse. Until they discover they might just have something in common: a reason to live.

Synopsis taken from goodreads.