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Book Review: Beware the Night by Jessika Fleck
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Beware The Night Author: Jessika Fleck Publisher: Swoon Reads Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: March 12, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a Fantasy with a brave heroine facing unspeakable odds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice…even if it costs her the boy she loves. On the island of Bellona, life is…
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Book Review: Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Sheerger
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Operation Frog Effect Author: Sarah Sheerger Publisher: Random House BYR Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: February 26, 2019 Source: Publisher —————————————– Age Group: 3rd – 6th Grade HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a fun, poignant read from the POV of some amazing 5th graders! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N If one small act can create a ripple across the universe . . . what happens when a whole group of kids join together and act? Told in eight perspectives–including one in graphic…
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Book Review: To Best The Boys by Mary Weber
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: To Best The Boys Author: Mary Weber Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: March 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast paced, female centered and powerful reads! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. Every year, the poorer residents look to see…
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Book Spotlight: The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King
Good morning lovely bookworms, and happy Friday to boot! If you’re even 1/16 as happy as I am that this week has finally come to end, I’m sending you a giant mental hug. Whew. This week was rough. On the bright side, I get to end it with a stellar spotlight, of a book that I’m wholly intrigued over. Want to join me? The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King Adult fiction, Historical Fiction Atria/Simon & Schuster 352 pages Release date: Feb 12, 2019 Rated R (for a couple of explicit, but loving, sex scenes (no abuse or rape) and minor…
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Graphic Novel Review: Bone Parish, Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bone Parish, Volume 1 * Series: Bone Parish Author: Cullen Bunn Publisher: BOOM! Studios Pages: Paperback; 112 Release Date: May 7, 2019 Source: NetGalley ————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Graphic novel readers who are looking for something with dark, science fiction elements. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A necromantic horror series about an upstart crime family trafficking in a new designer drug that’s just hit the market made from the ashes of the dead. A new drug is sweeping through the streets of…
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Stuck in a rut.
See that beautiful number of books read? That’s because I powered through 23 books in the first 45 days of the year. I was in this reading mania, where every book I finished just lead to me picking up the next one, and most of my reading was great! Alas, I think I may have read myself right into a rut though. Despite the fact that I have great reads I’m going through right now, and the fact that I’ve actually had a lot of time to read, I’ve found myself slowing down a lot. I’ve been opting instead to…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (2/17/19)
Sorry for the radio silence last week, y’all! I was sick on Monday, and then the work week ended up being a lot busier than I expected. It’s crazy how my anxiety can go from being 100% manageable, to exhausting, in no time flat. This last week was quite the balancing act, but I did! And I’m proud of myself. Which is why my reading stalled out a bit, but picked up again yesterday. Here’s what it looks like now! For Romance Bingo I decided to re-read The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, and it was a great…
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Book Review: You Asked For Perfect by Laura Silverman
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: You Asked For Perfect Author: Laura Silverman Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: March 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours ——————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love contemporary stories that really hit home, and books about realistic people. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Senior Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant: first chair violin, dedicated community volunteer, and expected valedictorian. He works hard – really hard – to make his life look effortless. A failed Calculus quiz is…
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Book Review: Dark of the West (Glass Alliance #1) by Joanna Hathaway
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Dark of the West * Series: Glass Alliance #1 Author: Joanna Hathaway Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Hardcover; 480 Release Date: February 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love sweeping military epics with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N He was raised in revolution. She was raised in a palace. Can their love stop a war? Code Name Verity meets The Winner’s Cursein Joanna Hathaway’s Dark of the West, a breathtaking YA fantasy debut. Aurelia…
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Book Review: Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Song For A Whale Author: Lynne Kelly Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: February 5, 2019 Source: Publisher —————————————– Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love stories with heart, and a little bit of science to boot! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl’s connection to a whale whose song can’t be heard by his species, and the journey she takes…