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Book Review: Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Sky Without Stars Series: System Divine Book 1 Authors: Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Hardcover; 592 Release Date: March 26, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy retellings with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A thief. An officer. A guardian. Three strangers, one shared destiny . . . When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants.…
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Book Review: Off Planet by Aileen Erin
Title: Off Planet Author: Aileen Erin Publisher: Ink Monster LLC Pages: 350, paperback Publication date: March 19, 2019 Source: Author/Xpresso Book Tours —————————————— Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a strong heroine and are interested in finishing a series. From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin Maite Martinez has always yearned for more than waitressing in a greasy diner on the polluted ruins of planet Earth. Hiding her special abilities is a full-time job on its own, even with the government distracted by the mysterious alien race – the Aunare. When a SpaceTech officer gets handsy with her,…
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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…