What a way to kick off 2019!! I’m so excited to be part of the SLAY On Tour blog tour. The excitement when this book came in the post a couple of days before Christmas felt like Christmas had came early for me. This was my first book of 2019 and what a way to start it.
SLAY on Tour (SLAY #2)
by Kim Curran
Publisher – Usborne Publishing
Release Date – OUT NOW!
Buy – Amazon | Book DepositorySLAY are BACK…and this time they’re headed to Tokyo to track down another hell-raising demon. When they’re invited on tour with a super-cool band of holographic girls, SLAY find themselves whisked off around Japan – until strange things start happening on their tour train. Suddenly it seems it’s not just SLAY’s fans following their every move…
*This is a spoiler free review, but before you read this, why don’t you check out my review of Book 1 and how Milly and SLAY came together.*
You know what it’s like to go back to work in the new year and you don’t want something really hard to read or big for that matter. SLAY book 2 was the perfect book to pick up. I also have a little guest post of sorts, just after my review. It’s so much fun.
When SLAY attends a TV show they meet an upcoming new band called Ikiryo, they are quite taken back, a new band of nine girls as holograms, singing heavenly, that honestly isn’t strange at all and Slay are most definitely intrigued especially Tom with their creator, Hideyoshi. So when they take the opportunity to not only go on tour with them but also kick some demon ass. There is something darkly fascinating and my spidey sense is most definitely tingling. But life and hunting in Japan has certainly opened up a whole new level, a girl in all black sucking out the demon out of the host, this arouse some questions and whether Slay have been doing the wrong thing all these years. Complication, questions and the return of an old friend await for Slay.
I really was that excited to see the SLAY boys back in action, singing and demon slaying. But it’s not boys anymore, you’ll that Slay has become one, JD, Tom, Niv, Zek, Connor and now Milly. it’s was as if they were made to be this family together. Tom very much is the narrator of this book, without going into too much detail from Book 1, he finds himself in a constant inner battle with himself. Milly/Mills has grown from being this lost girl who doesn’t fit in to being this amazing pianist and the most bad assed of the group. She is the Buffy of the Slaying gang. Ahhhhh. (I’m smiling right now when I was writing that.) It makes me feel incredibly proud. It’s was as if they were made to be this family together.
The first pages into the book and Gail says… “Play time is over boys. It’s Slay time.” I got the goose pimples and I had the hugest smile on my face. It was like when Busted announced when they were getting back together, I was that giddy with excitement and reading the familiar writing Kim Curran, sent such warmth throughout me, I loved it. Now SLAY has travelled the furthest they been, to Tokyo and I think this really brought this book into the light. The world building was full of folklore, mythology and modern day technology, it makes you escape reality and is honestly mesmerising.
I needed fun and just plain awesomeness and I got that and MORE. Slay On Tour for me is the best book in the series so far, we saw a whole new side to SLAY, its demon-ass kicking and a new level of creepy demons mixing with holographic girls – Kim Curran has certainly upped the stakes. SLAY on Tour is a book you just fall in love with. It’s Slaynonmenal!
Rating – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you so much to Usborne for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest and slaying review.
So for a little something extra… When I read it I was like, what band would you want Slay to be? I got Kim and the team at Usborne to share their SLAY Bands.
Mine would be… Busted. This has been my childhood band and I was heartbroken when they spilt, finding other music then and that was hard. So when they got back together this was a couple of years back it was like having my childhood back and I loved it. I think I would like to be Busted’s Milly as well. Hehe.
Kim has shared her answer…
1D
I have a confession. I wasn’t a One Direction fan when I started writing Slay. In my head, their music is much more akin to 5OS. And yet, having listened to 1D over and over when writing Slay and Slay On Tour, the boys are very much in my hearts.
Becky Walker, editor of SLAY: On Tour:
My choice would be The National, both because they’re an extraordinary band, and because one of their songs is called ‘Demons’. One of the things I love about Slay is its balance between the literal kick-ass demon-slaying, and the friendships within the band – where they help each other out with their person demons.
Stevie Hopwood, Marketing:
Bastille! Not quite a boyband, and yet… totally who I picture when reading the SLAY books. The Other People’s Heartache remix EPs are my favourite, and they feel very Slay: On Tour!
Don’t forget to follow the rest of this SLAY-tastic tour.
