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Book Review: Cruelty (Episode: One)
Media Type: Ebook Title: Cruelty (Episode: One) *Series: Cruelty (Serial Novel) Author: Edward Lorn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; N/A Release Date: October 5, 2013 Source: Purchased ————————————————- Genre: Horror HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to be scared, and have a strong stomach. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRUELTY is a serial novel in ten parts. Episode One. On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he’s not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone, or something, with her car. The figure…
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Book Review: Side Effects May Vary
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Side Effects May Vary Author: Julie Murphy Publisher: Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 18, 2014 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club/Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a different take on a character who is dealing with cancer. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is…
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Author Spotlight: Edward Lorn
Today I have the pleasure of featuring one of my favorite people on the Internet right now, Edward Lorn! Call him Edward, call him E., whatever you call him he’s definitely one of the coolest authors I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. He’s funny, honest, and interacts with his readers constantly. If you’re looking for your next read, look no further. Edward Lorn’s writing is perfection, and that’s the truth. Please read on to find more about this fantastic author, and check out the interview he was kind enough to do! In my opinion, those answers alone make…
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Book Review: Shattered Veil (The Diatous Wars #1)
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shattered Veil * Series: The Diatous Wars #1 Author: Tracy E. Banghart Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: February 28, 2014 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy new worlds, with fascinating characters and situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? ~ For Aris, a talented wingjet pilot, war means sacrificing everything: her home, her name, her face—and the one promise she swore she’d never break. In the…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: Forest’s Heir by Ley Hayley
Another wonderful book spotlight for you today my friends! Best of all, it’s paired with a guest post from Ley Hayley herself. Are you a fan of Fantasy? You’ll want to check this one out. Seventeen year old Rosalind Rowan was born a princess, the apple of her father’s eye. She loves the thick forests and lush meadows of the Forested Land. She is sometimes selfish and reckless, but she is also kind and loves fearlessly. Rosalind–who is known to everyone but the Queen as Rose–is desperately in love with Gavin Ashford, the dashing and intriguing son of an important…
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Book Spotlight: LOCKED by Eva Morgan
Congratulations bookish friends, you’ve made it to the middle of the week! That in itself is a reason to celebrate, but how about a book spotlight to brighten your day even more? Check out Locked by Eva Morgan. Love Sherlock Holmes? This is your kind of book. When eighteen-year-old Irene Adler meets her new neighbor, the gorgeous, brilliant, and arrogant Sherlock Holmes, she never expects him to be the one to make her feel like life is worth living again. Ever since her sister’s death, she’s been addicted to risk-taking as a way to deal with her depression, and Sherlock quickly…
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February 2014 Wrap Up
February always throws me off. It’s a short month, and it just speeds by! A lot of good things happened this month though, not the least of which was that I read some great books. So here’s a list of what I devoured in February. ********** (C) = Children / (YA) = Young Adult / (NA) = New Adult (A) = Adult / (MG) = Middle Grade ** Books read in previous months Books read and reviewed in January: (MG) Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee – Review (3/5) (A) Etched on Me by Jenn Crowell – Review (4/5) (A)…
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Book Review: Bittersweet Darkness (The Order #3)
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bittersweet Darkness *Series: The Order #3 Author: Nina Croft Publisher: Entangled: Edge Pages: Kindle; 251 Release Date: February 24, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast-paced reads with excellently written characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There are no monsters, only good guys and bad guys. That’s the creed by which Detective Inspector Faith Connolly has always lived. When Faith discovers that she has a time bomb counting down in her head, she has one goal; to solve…
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Book Review: The Waking Dark
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Waking Dark Author: Robin Wasserman Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: September 10, 2013 Release Date: Hardcover; 464 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with dark, disturbing reads. This features plenty of violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by…
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Book Review: The Rule of Three
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Rule of Three Author: Eric Walters Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 405 Release Date: January 21, 2014 Source: Library —————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic fiction, and well-written characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and…