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Book Review: Bloodspell
Tweet Title: Bloodspell Author: Amalie Howard Publisher: Langdon Street Press Pages: Paperback; 369 Release Date: June 1, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart The spell was simple… Cruentus Protectum (Defend the Blood) But what do you do if your blood is your enemy? Victoria Warrick has always known she was different. An outcast at school, she is no stranger to adversity. But when she receives an old journal for her seventeenth birthday, nothing prepares her for the dark secrets it holds — much less one that reveals…
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Book Review: Possession
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Possession Author: Elana Johnson Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: Hardcover; 416 Release Date: June 7, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Vi knows the Rule: Girls don’t walk with boys, and they never even thinkabout kissing them. But no one makes Vi want to break the Rules more than Zenn…and since the Thinkers have chosen him as Vi’s future match, how much trouble can one kiss cause? The Thinkers may have brainwashed the rest of the population, but Vi is determined…
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My Favorite Things.
Tweet In order to recharge my batteries, and fight off this pervading blah that is following me around, I’ve decided to look at the bright side. Below are 10 of my favorite things. After all, what better way to feel happy than to remember what makes you happy? If you feel like sharing yours too, link them up in the comments and I’ll come visit. 1. Books. Obviously. No matter how many I read, no matter how many I have, I’m always in love with these little paper gems. Whenever I’m stressed out, I take a bookcation. 2. Mashed Potatoes…
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Book Review: Nerd Camp
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Nerd Camp Author: Elissa Brent Weissman Publisher: Antheneum Books Pages: Hardcover; 160 Release Date: May 24, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ==================== Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. That means he’ll be spending six weeks at sleep-away camp writing poetry and perfecting logic proofs. S.C.G.E. has been a summer home to some legendary middle-school smarty-pants (and future Jeopardy! contestants), but it has a reputation for being, well, a Nerd Camp. S.C.G.E = Smart…
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An Interview with (swoon!) Harlin from A Need So Beautiful
Tweet In case you don’t already know, this lovely woman right here is Suzanne Young! One of the nicest, and most talented, writers I’ve had the pleasure to meet via the Internet! She’s here to share with you a little bit of Harlin (YUM!) and give you some more insight into the upcoming A Need So Beautiful. I promise you, if you haven’t put this on your TBR yet it belongs there. My review is coming soon, but this book is absolutely gorgeous. There is no other way to describe it. 1) Hi Harlin, welcome to my blog! Quick, describe…
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Audio Book Review: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing! HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling Author: Mayrose Wood Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Publisher: Books on Tape Format: Audio CD Duration: 5:27 Source: Library Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite; and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels.…
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The Fourth and Fifth Paths revealed!
Tweet Those of you playing along at home may have wondered where my clues have been! Apologies for my lack of blogging about them, but here is a quick rundown of everything that has gone on! As always, if you need some help let me know. If you see anything intriguing, share it out! Oh, and only 8 more days left until the show debut! AHHHH! The Fourth Path began with….a bib. Yes you heard me right. A bib! We were told to look for a clue on there. So I looked and yup. A symbol was hiding on the…
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Interviewing Aleah from Stupid Fast, and a giveaway!
Tweet Please welcome the fantastic Geoff Herbach to the blog my friends! He is here to promote his book, Stupid Fast, which I absolutely loved and will gush about incessantly if you get me started. It’s true. Geoff has brought Aleah, his MC’s love interest, to the blog! He has also brought a giveaway…you lucky readers you. So spoiled ;). Be sure to thank him in the comments! 1. Hi Aleah and welcome! First, a challenge. If you had to describe yourself using only a color, which would you choose and why? Hi Jessica, thank you for asking. It’s really…
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Book Review: The Lens and the Looker
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Lens and the Looker Author: Lory Kaufman Publisher: The Fiction Studio Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: March 16, 2011 Source: Pump Up Your Book ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language, Mild violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart It’s the 24th century and humans, with the help of artificial intelligences (A.I.s) have finally created the perfect post-dystopian society. To make equally perfect citizens for this world, the elders have created History Camps, full sized recreations of cities from Earth’s distant pasts. Here teens live the way their ancestors did,…
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Book Review: A Golden Web
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: A Golden Web Author: Barbara Quick Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 266 Release Date: April 6, 2010 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Alessandra is desperate to escape. Desperate to escape her stepmother, who’s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There’s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her…