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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (Mar 5)
Thank you to Book Journey for hosting! Click the button to join on in! I missed this post last week, due to craziness that I just don’t feel at all like talking about. Luckily it was the end of the month and so my monthly wrap up made up for it :). March has started though! It’s going to be a great reading week! This Week’s Reviews: Up Cat by Hazel Hutchins (4/5) Review – A cute board book with vibrant pictures and sight words. Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks (4/5) Graphic Novel Review – Great story with awesome…
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Book Review: Fire Baptized
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fire Baptized (Habitat #1) Author: Kenya Wright Publisher: Dragonfairy Press Pages: Paperback; 276 Release Date: January 28, 2012 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love gritty, dark stories with a romantic twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Since the 1970s humans have forced supernaturals to live in caged cities. Silver brands embedded in their foreheads identify them by species: a full moon for Vampires, a crescent moon for Shifters, a pair of wings for…
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And…Discuss!
And…Discuss! is a random feature here on Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile. There is no schedule for when it goes up, I mostly just post it when I have something I want to get opinions on! I pick a topic, post my opinion, and ask for yours. Easy and fun! ********* December 12, 2013 – Choosing Favorites April 30, 2013 – Mount TBR and Scheduled Reading January 11, 2013 – Writing Reviews: Short and Sweet? Or More in Depth? November 7, 2012 – Series or Standalone? What’s your poison? April 23, 2012 – To Finish, Or Not to Finish? April 1, 2012 –…
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Interviewing Luke from A Touch Morbid
If you haven’t already heard of Leah Clifford and her amazing books, welcome to your wake up call. A Touch Morbid is the second book in the series, and I am so excited for more of Eden and her adventures! Eden won the battle-she saved her true love from the darkest evil. But the war has only just begun. With secrets swirling around her, powerful allies unraveling, and life-and death-as she knows it eroding, Eden and those she loves tread dangerous ground. Can she trust anyone? Will her unearthly powers be her salvation or her downfall? A sweeping, dark, and sexy…
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Graphic Novel Review: Friends With Boys
Title: Friends With Boys Author: Faith Erin Hicks Illustrator: Faith Erin Hicks Publisher: First Second Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: February 28, 2012 Source: NetGalley A coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist! Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it’s time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own. But that means facing high school first. And it also means solving the mystery of the melancholy ghost who has silently followed Maggie throughout her entire life. Maybe it even means…
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February Wrap Up
Once again, the month just flew past. February is gone as of today (Happy Leap Day!) and now it’s on to March and everything that it brings along with it. Spring is almost here! Without further ado, here is what my reading looked like this month. (* = counted last month) Books reviewed in February: Illumine by Alivia Anders – Review (3/5) * Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley – Review (5/5) * Draykon by Charlotte E. English – Review (4/5) Phantom Universe (Summer Chronicles #1) by Laura Kreitzer – Review (3/5) Forsaken Harbor (Summer Chronicles #2) by Laura Kreizter – Review (4/5) Slipping Reality by…
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Children’s Book Review: Up Cat
Title: Up Cat Author: Hazel Hutchins Illustrator: Fanny Publisher: Annick Press Pages: Board Book; 26 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Recommended to: Parents looking for read that promotes new vocabulary and easy repetition of those new words. Difficulty Level: Easy, with a few more advanced words thrown in (i.e., snarled). Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N You’d be surprised at what a cat gets up to all day! A cat can get tangled up in all kinds of fun and mischief between wake-up time and nap time. Follow along with the playful text as Cat laps up milk,…
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This or That? with Julie from Pieces of Us
Visiting the blog today is Margie Gelbwaser, author of Pieces of Us. She is here to promote her new book and to share with her readers a look into the character Julie. If you haven’t already read Pieces of Us, I can tell you that the characters are very complex. It’s nice to get to see a little bit more into the mind of Julie! Two families. Four teens. A summer full of secrets. Every summer, hidden away in a lakeside community in upstate New York, four teens leave behind their old identities…and escape from their everyday lives. Yet back…
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Book Review: Partials
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Partials Author: Dan Wells Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 472 Release Date: February 28, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Violence ——————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for dystopian novel that is a little bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with partials–engineered organic beings identical to humans–has decimated the world’s population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction…
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Book Review: The Value of Rain
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Value of Rain Author: Brandon Shire Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 214 Release Date: November 30, 2011 Source: Author —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual Situations, Harsh Language —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with sexual situations and graphic language. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charles is 14, and after being discovered with his first love he is forced into a mental hospital to cure his sexuality. For the next ten years he endures mental and physical torture as part…