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Cover Reveal: Magic of the Gargoyles by Rebecca Chastain
For most of you, it’s extremely close to Friday. The weekend is almost here! Let me ease that transition a bit with a lovely cover reveal, shall I? I have to say, when I first saw this cover I had a serious case of cover love. Magic of the Gargoyles is right up my alley, and might be up yours too. I’ll be reviewing this in a few days as well, but here it is! Someone has kidnapped a nest of helpless baby gargoyles and is using them as pentagram focuses, devouring their magic—and their lives—for a horrific, illegal power boost. Swept…
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Book Review: Invisible Children’s Book Instruction Manual: For Owners, Readers and Caretakers of Invisible Children’s Books
Media Type: Ebook Title: Invisible Children’s Book Instruction Manual: For Owners, Readers, and Caretakers of Invisible Children’s Books Author: Nicholas Alan Tillemans Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 25 Release Date: October 5, 2014 Source: Author —————————————————– Genre: Instruction Manual- Humor HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Parents or Future Parents of young children Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes THE INVISIBLE BOOK ADVANTAGE. “It is a significant fact that nearly all invisible children’s book owners have little or no practical experience with invisible objects. Yet, by varying degrees, these parents/owners succeed in delighting their children with the ever-changing story contained within the book’s invisible pages.” “If you own a copy,…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Day Zero by Summer Lane
Listen up bookish people! It’s time for another book spotlight, complete with excerpt and giveaway! Are you a fan of dystopia fiction? Love your YA with a little drama? Well here’s a book that you might just want to add to your reading list. Goodreads | Amazon Elle is a survivor. Since the collapse of modern society, she’s been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life. And then everything changes. After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely…
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Sunday Funday
Terra Mystica Happy Sunday my lovely bookworms! I don’t know about you, but by the time Monday rolls around I almost always ♫ ♬ wish it were Sunday, ’cause that’s my Funday ♫ ♬ There are many reasons to love Sundays: the promise of a new week, the relaxation of a day off, or extra reading time. If you are like me, you enjoy several hobbies, Sunday can quickly become a board game filled, rum cake baking extravaganza Whenever I find myself waist-deep in a reading slump I tend to spend a day or two indulging myself with a host of other diversions…
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Author Interview + Giveaway: IMPOSSIBLE by C.A. Gray
Welcome to another lovely Friday morning, my bookish friends! I’m pleased to share an interview with author C.A. Gray today. An author who writes the genre of books I absolutely adore: YA Fantasy. There’s something about being swept up in a new world that never gets old! That’s why I couldn’t wait to add C.A. Gray’s Piercing The Veil Series to my reading list. It’s a great time to start too! Book three, Impossible, releases on October 15th. Clicking on the photos below will take you to their matching Goodreads pages! For more links, check the bottom of this post.…
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Book Review: Debt Collector Season 1 by Susan Kaye Quinn
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Debt Collector: Season 1 *Series: The Debt Collector Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 430 Release Date: December 31, 2013 Source: Purchased —————————————————– Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of Science Fiction with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes What’s your life worth on the open market? A debt collector can tell you precisely. Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He’s just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the…
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Book Review: The Demeter Code by Russell Brooks
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Demeter Code *Series: Ridley Fox/Nita Parris Spy Series #3 Author: Russell Brooks Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 422 Release Date: July 4, 2014 Source: Author —————————————————– Genre: Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of high stakes thrillers with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRACK THE CODE AND YOU’LL SAVE LIVES…BUT KNOWING IT EXISTS COULD GET YOU KILLED. When two American embassies in northern Africa are bombed, CIA operatives, Ridley Fox and Nita Parris, are assigned to track down the perpetrators. However, when their…
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Cover Reveal: GEARS OF BRASS (A Steampunk Anthology)
Gear up for GEARS OF BRASS! A world like ours, but filled with gears of brass, where the beating heart is fueled by steam and the simplest creation is a complex clockwork device. Within this tome, you’ll find steampunk fairy tale re-tellings, as well as original stories that will send your gears turning. Welcome to the steampunk realm, with eleven authors guiding your path. *** GEARS OF BRASS is a steampunk anthology published through Curiosity Quills. It will be available for purchase on November 10, 2014. Within the pages, you’ll come across clockwork inventions and steampunk-ified fairy tale retellings. Eleven…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (10/6/14)
Click above to join in the fun! Let the countdown begin! It’s the last week before I go on vacation and I couldn’t be happier! Well, except maybe if I won a million dollars. Here’s my week in reading. I was browsing the library shelves last week and one of the displays was books about unicorns! Okay, so I’m 30 and I still love unicorns. What’s wrong with that? I grabbed Into The Land of Unicorns on a whim. Final verdict? Young Jessica, the Jessica who this book was intended for, would have loved the heck out of this. I only…
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Book Review: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Author: Julie Berry Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Pages: Kindle; 368 Release Date: September 23, 2014 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ——————————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy witty banter, mixed with mystery and farce. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There’s a murderer on the loose—but that doesn’t stop the girls of St. Etheldreda’s from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. The students of St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls face a bothersome…