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Book Review: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold by Iain Reading
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold Series: Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series Author: Iain Reading Publisher: Self Pages: ebook; 326 Release Date: November 30, 2012 Source: Author ————————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a fun adventure book with a bit of education. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes This first book of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series introduces Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue. A cross between Amelia Earhart, Nancy Drew and Pippi Longstocking, Kitty is a…
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Book Review: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales by Susan Berliner
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales Author: Susan Berliner Publisher: SRB Books Pages: Kindle; 160 Release Date: April 3, 2016 Source: Author ———————————————————– Genre: Short Stories HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy suspenseful tales with a very paranormal twist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Welcome to Susan Berliner’s world. It’s a place where strange things—both good and bad—happen. Meet some of the inhabitants: * Doreen. It’s time for her wedding—but where is everyone? (Doreen’s Wedding) * Neal. The face he sees in the mirror is no longer…
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Book Review: Dark Dreams and Dead Things (Dead Things #2) by Martina McAtee
Media Type: Ebook Title: Dark Dreams and Dead Things *Series: Dead Things #2 Author: Martina McAtee Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 540 Release Date: June 21, 2016 Source: YA Bound Book Tours / Author —————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy richly written paranormal series. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes 17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a…
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Book Review: The Voyage to Magical North by Claire Fayers
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Voyage to Magical North Author: Claire Fayers Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Magical mischief HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy magical romps, filled with pirates and mischief! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past–if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she’s spent…
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Book Review: The Killer In Me by Margot Harrison
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Killer In Me Author: Margot Harrison Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: July 12, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good, tense read with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She’s intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims’ bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a…
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Book Review: Smash & Grab by Amy Christine Parker
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Smash & Grab Author: Amy Christine Parker Publisher: Random House BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: July 19, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence; Intense Action HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love action packed stories with the perfect amount of chemistry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes LEXI is a rich girl who loves a good rush. Whether it’s motorcycle racing or BASE jumping off a building in downtown Los Angeles, the only times she feels alive are when she and her…
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Book Review: Tea Cups and Carnage by Lynn Cahoon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Tea Cups and Carnage Series: A Tourist Trap Mystery #7 Author: Lynn Cahoon Publisher: Lyrical Underground Pages: 194 Release Date: June 7, 2016 Source: Netgalley ———————————————– Genre: Mystery/Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy the series Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The kettle’s about to boil over . . . The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there’s nothing cozy about murder . . .Shop owner Kathi Corbin says she came to South Cove…
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Book Review: Rising Tides by
Media Type: Ebook Title: Rising Tides Author: Katy Haye Publisher: Plumshine Books Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: June 24, 2016 Source: YA Bound Book Tours ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian novels that have plenty of tension and intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The truth won’t stay submerged forever. City is the last civilised place left on a drowned Earth, a floating town built from metal and plastic from the Time Before. It’s the only home doctor’s daughter Libby Marchmont has ever known or…
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Book Review: DEBBI by George Ebey
Media Type: Ebook Title: DEBBI *Series: Helen of Mars 0.5 Author: George Ebey Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a Sci Fi book with a lot of heart, and a lot of awesome robot battles. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes A game to end all games. On the line: her family’s future. Will Helen’s creation be enough to win the day? Or will she lose, and take her family down with her?…
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Book Review: Let Me Fly Free by Mary Fan
Media Type: Ebook Title: Let Me Fly Free * Series: Fated Stars #2 Author: Mary Fan Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy novella length Fantasy stories, with wonderfully vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes Fire fears nothing. And Elaia is about to show her world that she doesn’t, either. Like the rest of her kind, fire nymph Elaia is bound to her homeland, a forest whose borders were closed centuries earlier in a peace…