YA Bound Tour Book Review: My Crunchy Life by Mia Kerick

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Title: My Crunchy Life

Author: Mia Kerick

Genre: YA Contemporary – LGBTQ

Young Adult

Release Date: June 26th 2018

Publisher: Harmony Ink Press

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About the Book

John Lennon fought for world peace, but sixteen-year-old hippie hopeful Kale Oswald’s only made it as far as tie-dying his T-shirts with organic grape juice. Now he’s ready to cement his new hippie identity by joining a local human rights organization, but he doesn’t fit in as well as he’d hoped.

After landing himself in the hospital by washing down a Ziploc bag of pills with a bottle of Gatorade, Julian Mendez came clean to his mother: he is a girl stuck in a boy’s body. Puberty blockers have stopped the maturing of the body he feels has betrayed him. They’re also supposed to give him time to be sure he wants to make a more permanent decision, but he’s already Julia in his heart. What he’s not sure he’s ready to face is the post-transition name-calling and bathroom wars awaiting him at school.

When Kale and Julian come face-to-face at the human rights organization, attraction, teenage awkwardness, and reluctant empathy collide. They are forced to examine who they are and who they want to become. But until Kale can come to terms with his confusion about his own sexuality and Julian can be honest with Kale, they cannot move forward in friendship, or anything more.
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In Kerick_s (The Weekend Bucket List, 2018, etc.) YA novel, two teens navigate gender and other identities. Julian Mendez—or Julia as she hopes one day to be known at school and eve

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My Thoughts_1

Wow, what a book! I am absolutely in love with this LGBT+ novel! I felt like I connected to the characters and the story line in so many different ways and felt a wave a different emotions from this story. This novel is everything you want when you buy a book! It’s filled with humor, real life situations, fun, drama, depth and more! As a woman who is pansexual and polyamorous, I face a lot of judgement. Many people don’t understand the concept of me being capable of loving someone of the same gender or loving multiple people with no jealousy at the same time. I am also that hippie/gypsy girl who is a free-spirit and is all about free love and you can catch me in a corner with my oracle and tarot cards daily. I know what it is like to stand out and I know what it’s like to fight a cause that is so much bigger than yourself. I highly recommend this book and will be sharing it and the love of it with everyone I know. “My Crunchy Life” totally deserves a ‘hands down’ five stars!

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Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children—a daughter in law school, another in dance school, a third studying at Mia’s alma mater, Boston College, and her lone son still in high school. She writes LGBTQ romance when not editing National Honor Society essays, offering opinions on college and law school applications, helping to create dance bios, and reviewing English papers. Her husband of twenty-four years has been told by many that he has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about this, as it is a sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her stories on emotional growth in turbulent relationships. As she has a great affinity for the tortured hero, there is, at minimum, one in each book. As a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound notebooks with tales of said tortured heroes (most of whom happened to strongly resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to Dreamspinner Press and Harmony Ink Press for providing alternate places to stash her stories.

Her books have won a Best YA Lesbian Rainbow Award, a Reader Views’ Book by Book Publicity Literary Award, the Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama, an Indie Fab Award, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Cultural Diversity, among other awards.

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Mia is a Progressive, a little bit too obsessed by politics, and cheers for each and every victory in the name of human rights. Her only major regret: never having taken typing
or computer class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of Technology.

Contact Mia at miakerick@gmail.com. Visit www.miakerick.com for updates on what is going on in Mia’s world, rants, music, parties, and pictures, and maybe even a little bit of inspiration.

Mia’s Goodreads ☆ Mia’s Amazon ☆ Mia’s Twitter ☆ Mia’s Facebook ☆ Check Out Mia On WordPress ☆

Blog Tour Schedule –
June 26th
Mythical Books Teaser
Andi’s Young Adult Books Review
June 27th
A Page To Turn Reviews Review
Dani Reviews Things Promo Post
BeachBoundBooks Teasers
June 28th
The Readdicts Book Blog Review
Character Madness and Musings Guest Post – A Book About Human Rights
June 29th
Books Direct Teasers
YA/NA Book Divas Guest Post
Infinite Lives, Infinite Stories Review
Koops Konclusions https://koopskonclusions.blogspot.com Review*
July 2nd
Donnie Darko Girl Review
Lukten av trykksverte Review
Touch My Spine Book Reviews http://touchmyspinebookreviews.com Review
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Sorry for this late post, lovelies! Also I want to give a huge thank you to YA Bound Blog Tours and the author for this amazing opportunity! I am so sorry everyone for my lack of punctuality as of late, it seems WP still hates me! I have messaged them again today because my original scheduled review for today for this post was deleted!😱 Also I still am having a very difficult time accessing my comments or commenting on others’ blogs. It’s a real biatch!😒 They say they are working on it, my fingers and toes are crossed that it will be figured out soon! I miss you guys! Xoxo. You are the best!!!❤💙❤💙

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22 Comments on “YA Bound Tour Book Review: My Crunchy Life by Mia Kerick”

  1. This sounds like a real 21st century novel, Dani, and right on target for modern life in the LGBT community. I like the title too, as my own life has been a bit ‘crunchy’. 🙂
    Best wishes, Pete. xx

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  4. Hi Dani! YOU HAVE THE BEST BLOG EVER! It is so colorful and creative and you put so much into being a tour host–and the review! OMG! I appreciate it so much. I hope you will someday host one of my books again. You do it so well!
    THANK YOU!!
    Mia

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  5. Woohooo…she is baaaaackkk😊😊 (jumping up and down in excitement 😂😂). And as always your review is a joy to read! Always like it when you write a review that in someway relates to you, and this really sounds like a novel that was written for you. Great post, and also love your new profile picture 😘❤️ Glad to see you here again! 😀😀

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      • Aww…thanks so much. I missed you too😊😘😘 Really glad to see you here again…and being back myself, it’s cool to be talking more again. Looking forward to it…also…your birthday is nearing 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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