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Book Review and Giveaway: She’s a Spitfire by Chloe Liese
Title: She’s a Spitfire Author: Chloe Liese Series: (Tough Love #2) Publication date: June 24th 2019 Pages: Paperback; 263 Release Date: June 24, 2019 Source: Xpresso Tours / Author ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence, Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy reading about passionate relationships with a side of mysterious trouble. Add It: Goodreads / Amazon One fiery-haired, sexy scientist finds her perfect complement in a dark and handsome soccer star. Opposites attract, and they’ve got chemistry that’s explosive—literally. Physics calls it entropy. Philosophy calls it Murphy’s Law: If something can go wrong, eventually it will. Professionally and personally speaking,…
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Book Review: Stronger Than A Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Stronger Than A Bronze Dragon Author: Mary Fan Publisher: Page Street Kids Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: June 11, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy steampunk fantasy with mythological roots. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei’s village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection—if…
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Book Review: What We Do for Love by Anne Pfeffer
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: What We Do for Love Author: Anne Pfeffer Publisher: Bold Print Press Pages: Paperback; 238 Release Date: May 21, 2019 Source: Xpresso Book Tours/Author ————————————————– Genre: Adult Contemporary HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy real life complications and heartfelt characters Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Thirty-eight-year-old Nicole thinks finding love is like eating carbs. Both are bad for your system. The single mother prefers to focus on a few things that she cherishes–her sixteen-year-old son Justin, her friends, and her art. When she convinces a major museum to show a piece of her work, and she thinks her career has…
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Book Review: Realm by Alexandrea Weis
Media Type: Print Book Title: Realm Author: Alexandrea Weis Publisher: Vesuvian Books Pages: Paperback; 397 Release Date: May 14, 2019 Source: TLC Book Tours / Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy history told from a different perspective. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Based on a true story. When her homeland is conquered by the mighty Alexander the Great, Roxana—the daughter of a mere chieftain—is torn from her simple life and thrown into a world of war and intrigue. Terrified, the sixteen-year-old girl of renowned beauty is…
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Book Review: The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Wise and the Wicked Author: Rebecca Podos Publisher: Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: May 28, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow burn stories filled with magic, and a bit of mayhem. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were…
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Book Review: Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
Media Type: Print Book Title: Pieces of Her Author: Karin Slaughter Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 496 Release Date: May 21, 2019 Source: TLC Book Tours / Publisher ————————————————– Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow burn thrillers with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of the New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter—a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she’s written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns…
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Book Review: I Spy the Boy Next Door by Samantha Armstrong
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: I Spy the Boy Next Door Author: Samantha Armstrong Publisher: Self published Pages: 346 paperback Publication date: May 25th 2019 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Source: Xpresso Book Tours/Author —————————————— Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language/Topics HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a coming of age story with a surprise ending. Add it: Goodreads / Amazon Four p.m. spy sessions are the highlight of Mallory Taylor’s day. Observing the boy next door—one with a body and an attitude to match—has her perched beside her window so often it can’t be healthy. When she finally convinces her…
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Book Review: The Bone Charmer by Breeana Shields
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Bone Charmer Author: Breeana Shields Publisher: Page Street Kids Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: May 21, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy “sliding doors” stories with vivid characters and settings. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In Saskia’s world, bones are the source of all power. They tell the future, reveal the past, and expose secrets in the present. Each village has a designated seer who performs readings for the townsfolk, and in Midwood, the…
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Book Review: The Pumpkin War by Cathleen Young
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Pumpkin War Author: Cathleen Young Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: May 21, 2019 Source: Publisher —————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a sweet story about real family and friend relationships. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Former best friends compete to see who can grow the biggest pumpkin and win the annual giant pumpkin race on the lake. A great pick for fans of Half a Chance and Gertie’s Leap to Greatness. At the end…
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Book Review: As Silver is to the Moon by R. A. Watt
Media Type: ebook ARC Title: As Silver Is to the Moon Author: R. A. Watt Publisher: TER Publishing Pages: 313 Publication date: April 28th 2019 Source: Xpresso Book Tours/Author Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult —————————————————– Content Screening: Some violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an interesting coming of age paranormal story. Add it: Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble New school. First love. A psychotic werewolf that wanted me dead. And it was only week one in Santa Isadora. For fifteen-year-old Teavan Laurent and his older sister Suzanne, Santa Isadora seemed like a sleepy and idyllic California town to finish…