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Book Review: As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka
Media Type: Ebook Title: As Red As Blood * Series: The Snow White Trilogy #1 Author: Salla Simukka | Owen Witesman (Translator) Publisher: Skyscape – Reprint Edition Pages: Ebook; 274 Release Date: August 1, 2014 Source: Amazon (Purchased) ========================================= Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a more action based story with roots in fairy tales. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school’s dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
Happy Sunday friends! It seems like a good time for a guest post, specifically a guest post all about the love of books. If you haven’t already heard of Paige McKenzie and her YouTube channel, you’re in for a treat! I’m pleased as punch to give our blog over to her, and her creative soul, for today. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and…
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Book Review: Seed by Lisa Heathfield
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Seed Author: Lisa Heathfield Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 10, 2015 Source: Publisher ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence, Some Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories based around cults, and are okay with reading about tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her…
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February 2015 Wrap Up
Goodbye February, and hello March! It was a quiet month here on the blog, and for that we apologize. Blogging is a labor of love, and sometimes life just gets in the way. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a bad month of reading! Let’s take a look. ************ Books read and reviewed in February:Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen – Review (4/5)Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson – Review (4/5)The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold – Review (5/5)The Rules According to Gracie by Stefanie London – Review (4/5)Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson #1) by Molly Harper – Review…
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The resurrection of “And… Discuss!” – let’s talk spoilers in reviews!
Hi everyone! So as you’ve probably noticed, it’s been rather quiet this month. To fill some of that silence with good old fashioned debate, I thought I’d resurrect one of the posts that I used to do a lot when I first started this blog! In fact, I’m going to revisit all the topics that have already been done, since there’s a much larger and more diverse set of you now. Sound good? Do you have your discussion caps on? Okay, let’s do this. ================================================================= Today’s topic is: SPOILERS IN REVIEWS From a reader’s standpoint, how do you feel about…
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Book Review: The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel, reviewed by Jessica
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Life Intended Author: Kristin Harmel Publisher: Gallery Books Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: December 30, 2014 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Genre: Contemporary / Women’s Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of “sliding doors” books, as well as any reader who loves a good cathartic cry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Of Sea and Stone by Kate Avery Ellison
Spotlight time! I never tire of these, especially when Kate Avery Ellison is the author in question! Let me tell you, if you haven’t read The Frost Chronicles, you need to. Ellison is an amazing writer. This time around she’s here to promote her new book, Of Sea and Stone, which I’m sure will be just as fantastic! Here’s the synopsis: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N All her life, clever Aemi has been a slave in the Village of the Rocks, a place where the sea and sky meet. She’s heard the stories about the fabled People of the Sea,…
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Book Review: The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Question of Miracles Author: Elana K. Arnold Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: February 3, 2015 Source: NetGalley ——————————————————— Content Screening: Tough Issues – Death HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of all ages, especially those who love moving and realistic fiction. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Following the death of her best friend, Iris and her family move to Oregon for a fresh start in this middle-grade story of miracles, magic, rain, hope, and a hairless cat named Charles. Sixth-grader Iris…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Bricks by John Davidson
*Lights – Camera – Action!* Today’s blog spotlight centers right on a new book presented to me by Anaiah Press. Bricks, by John Davidson, is billed as a contemporary novel and one that looks pretty tempting to this bookworm. Interested? Let’s take a look at the synopsis. Amazon | B&N Sixteen-year old Cori Reigns learns that not all tornadoes take you to magical places. Some take your house, your school, and life as you knew it. Struggling to put the pieces of her life back together, Cori learns to rebuild what the storm destroyed by trusting a family she didn’t…
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We’re Still Here!
Hello awesome followers! And happy February! Isn’t it crazy that a whole month of 2015 has already come and gone? If I think about it too long, I start to feel anxious. So I’m going to just enjoy February while it lasts :). This is just a quick note to let you know that we’re still here! Tina is very busy at work, and at home, while I’m currently transitioning into a new job. So, you might not see us post as much for the next few weeks. Life, unfortunately (someone hurry up and hire me to read!), takes precedence…