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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: The Sweetest Match by Abby Tyler

    Title: The Sweetest Match Author: Abby Tyler  Publisher: Self Pages: 202, paperback Publication date: March 7th 2019 Source: Author/Xpresso Book Tours —————————————— Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sickly sweet romance. She hid secret messages in frosting, thinking no one would notice. Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies — and its matchmaking — very seriously. Sandy Miller became an outcast at fifteen years old. Pregnant, confused, and blackmailed into silence, she spent eighteen years raising her son away from the…

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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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    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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    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…

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    Book Review: That’s Not What I Heard by Stephanie Kate Strohm

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: That’s Not What I Heard Author: Stephanie Kate Strohm Publisher: Scholastic Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: January 29, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy high school drama at it’s adorable best! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N What did you hear? Kimberly Landis-Lilley and Teddy Lin are over. Yes, the Kim and Teddy broke up. At least that’s what Phil Spooner thinks he overheard and then told Jess Howard, Kim’s best friend. Something about Teddy…

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    Book Review: Renegade Heart (Renegades #1) by Lissa Lynn Thomas

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Renegade Heart *Series: Renegades Book 1 Author: Lissa Lynn Thomas Publisher: Self-Published Pages: Ebook; 147 Release Date: February 5, 2018 Source: Author ——————————————– Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic romance, with tough characters and sweet romance. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Raif Montgomery, lead singer of Renegades, the area’s most popular band, isn’t like other guys. When he gets left at the altar by a woman most men would kill to have, he finds himself more relieved than heartbroken. Things take another twisted…