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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…
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Covet Release Day BLAST!
Covets have all the sexiness, emotion, and happily ever after that readers have come to expect and love from Entangled. They are firmly grounded in the contemporary world, but each novel brings in supernatural twists, breaking the contemporary and paranormal rules, alike. To find out more about their titles, chat with authors, participate in special events, and to find out what books you’ll be coveting next, visit the Entangled website, follow them on Twitter, Like their Facebook page, and join the Book Club. Today I’m happy to be featuring Covet’s February releases! Check them out, then scroll down to enter…
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Book Review: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Author: Peter Swanson Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: February 4, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Genre: Thriller / Noir HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mysteries with a slow burn, and noir style writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college…
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Book Recommendations from author Perrin Pring!
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: PERRIN PRING Good morning awesome bookworms, and welcome to another guest post! I love having authors on my blog. I especially love when they’re willing to share a little bit about themselves with both myself, and all of you. Today’s spotlight is on Perrin Pring, author of Appointment At The Edge of Forever. Filion felt safe in his role as a Dream Searcher. He was paid to venture into other’s dreams and exert influence over individuals whom he would never meet in the flesh. But that was until he received The Summoning. Filion has been called to track…
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Book Review: The Polaris Uprising
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Polaris Uprising *Series: Polaris #1 Author: Jennifer Ibarra Publisher: Tiwala Books Pages: Paperback; 328 Release Date: October 30, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoying strong female characters, and hidden secrets. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon In less than seven years, eighteen-year-old Ryla Jensen will succeed her father as the president of Neress, a nation where all citizens are cared for from the moment they’re born. Fed, sheltered, even educated—every need of theirs is met. The only price…