Book Tour:

I’m happy to be a part of TBR Beyond Tours book tour for the new YA Fantasy At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki that came out on Sept. 24, 2024.

I just started reading this book and I’m already hooked. I love the two main characters and can relate to their feelings of guilt and shame. The book is beautifully written and I can’t wait to see what happens. I’ll write a full review once I’ve finished the book.

Synopsis:

Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman―and if he fails he dies.

In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money.

But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die.

The boys borrow time hiding in the memories of the dead while the Ferryman hunts them, and Zan must decide if he’s willing to give up his chance at life to save Bastian―and Bastian must decide if he’s willing to keep living if it means losing Zan.

Content Warning: accidental death, grief, survivor’s guilt

Book Links:

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195862008

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CDY292S3/

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/at-the-end-of-the-river-styx-michelle-kulwicki/1143881745

IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/at-the-end-of-the-river-styx-michelle-kulwicki/20521173

About the Author:

Michelle Kulwicki grew up in the Pacific Northwest overturning every rock and stick in an unending quest to find portals to worlds far more exciting than her own. After moving to the mountainless Midwest, she earned her bachelors and master’s degrees in music performance, and spent years in the symphony and musical theater pit circuit. She’s now a mom by day, musician by night, and writer in all the spaces in between—a life that is somewhat lacking in portals, but is still full of magic.

Her short fiction has been both Locus Recommended and Hugo nominated, and her first full length novel, At the End of the River Styx, will be debuting in Spring of 2024 from Page Street Kids.

Author Links:

Website: https://www.michellekulwicki.com/

Twitter: https://x.com/kulwickiwrites

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kulwickiwrites

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21993452

Tour Schedule:

https://tbrandbeyondtours.com/2024/08/18/tour-schedule-at-the-end-of-the-river-styx-by-michelle-kulwicki/