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Book Review: Rising Tides by
Media Type: Ebook Title: Rising Tides Author: Katy Haye Publisher: Plumshine Books Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: June 24, 2016 Source: YA Bound Book Tours ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian novels that have plenty of tension and intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The truth won’t stay submerged forever. City is the last civilised place left on a drowned Earth, a floating town built from metal and plastic from the Time Before. It’s the only home doctor’s daughter Libby Marchmont has ever known or…
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Book Blitz: Bottled by Carol Riggs
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! If you’ve dragged yourself out of bed this Monday morning, and are being productive, I applaud you. As a reward, it’s time to share with you another bookish spotlight! This one is quite lovely, if I do say so myself. Bottled by Carol Riggs has a cover that is just too luscious for words. Enjoy! Bottled by Carol Riggs Genre: YA Fantasy Release Date: July 7th 2016 Clean Reads At seventeen, Adeelah Naji is transformed into a genie and imprisoned in a bottle. For a thousand years, she fulfills the wishes of greedy masters—building their palaces,…
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Book Review: DEBBI by George Ebey
Media Type: Ebook Title: DEBBI *Series: Helen of Mars 0.5 Author: George Ebey Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a Sci Fi book with a lot of heart, and a lot of awesome robot battles. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes A game to end all games. On the line: her family’s future. Will Helen’s creation be enough to win the day? Or will she lose, and take her family down with her?…
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Book Review: Let Me Fly Free by Mary Fan
Media Type: Ebook Title: Let Me Fly Free * Series: Fated Stars #2 Author: Mary Fan Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy novella length Fantasy stories, with wonderfully vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes Fire fears nothing. And Elaia is about to show her world that she doesn’t, either. Like the rest of her kind, fire nymph Elaia is bound to her homeland, a forest whose borders were closed centuries earlier in a peace…
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Book Review: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
Media Type: Print Book Title: After Alice Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Hardcover; 273 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Retellings / Re-Imaginings HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have a fondness for Alice and all things Wonderland related. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found…
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On Bookshelves.
Ah, bookshelves. A bookworm’s pride, joy, and also ultimate nemesis. When we moved to our new house, one of the happiest moments for me was realizing that I actually had enough space for two large bookshelves. As a person who has lived in many an apartment, I’d gotten used to having a small amount of special books, getting rid of books often, and sometimes just making stacks. Hey, a bookworm can only part with so much of their horde. Book stacks are… furniture? Art? Necessary. Anyway, my husband dutifully put up my new shelves for me and I spent so…
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Book Review: Life After Juliet by Shannon Lee Alexander
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Life After Juliet Author: Shannon Lee Alexander Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————– Content Screening: Dealing with grief. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy rich contemporaries that perfectly depict dealing with grief. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Becca Hanson was never able to make sense of the real world. When her best friend Charlotte died, she gave up on it altogether. Fortunately, Becca can count on her books to escape—to other times, other places, other people… Until she…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (7/4/16)
Click above to join in the fun! It’s been a really productive reading week, and I’m feeling great! The fact is, I only worked in the office two days last week. So what to do when you’re free with no other commitments? Why, read like crazy of course. I’ve been in the mood to devour books, and that’s what I’ve been doing. It’s been an interesting mix of reading for me lately. A little MG, a little YA, and a lot of Contemporary for the most part. I guess I’ve kind of needed that lately. Something real to sink my teeth…
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Book Review: Secrets, Lies and Scandals by Amanda K. Morgan
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Secrets, Lies and Scandals Author: Amanda K. Morgan Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: FFBC / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy murder mysteries blended with Contemporary issues Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Nothing ruins summer vacation like a secret…especially when it involves a dead teacher. Ivy used to be on top of the social ladder, until her ex made that all go away. She has a chance to be Queen Bee again, but…
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Book Review: Change Places With Me by Lois Metzger
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Change Places With Me Author: Lois Metzger Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 224 Release Date: June 14, 2016 Source: FFBC / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like YA that has a bit of Sci Fi twist to it. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was a little different. Her clothes…