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Graphic Novel Review: The Beauty (Volume 1)
Title: The Beauty: Volume 1 Author(s): Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley Illustrator: Jeremy Haun Publisher: Image Pages: Trade Paperback; 164 Recommended Age Group: 18+ (Nudity, Violence) Release Date: March 16, 2016 Source: Netgalley / Publisher Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of the population has taken advantage of it, but Detectives Vaughn and Foster will soon discover…
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Book Review: End Time (Vol. 1) by Daniel Greene
Media Type: Ebook Title: End Time *Series: End Time Vol. 1 Author: Daniel Greene Publisher: Rune Publishing LLC Pages: Kindle; 416 Release Date: March 10, 2016 Source: Author ————————————————- Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love fast-paced, zombie filled stories with excellent protagonists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The fall of mankind is nigh. And it all began in the dark primal jungles of the Congo River basin. Easily ignored with just a click. When protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa, only the foreign policy…
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Book Review: The Beltane Escape by Ariella Moon
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Beltane Escape *Series: The Two Realms Trilogy #1 Author: Ariella Moon Publisher: Star Tribe Publishing Pages: Kindle; 225 Release Date: February 2016 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fantasy stories, featuring fairy folk and strong female characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Lady Fenella, ever surrounded by guards, knows only responsibility and duty. She believes Merlin and the Lady of the Lake are myths, Gran’s warnings about Fairy are superstition, and Fairy was invented to make…
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Book Review: Blackheath by Gabriella Lepore
Media Type: Ebook Title: Blackheath Author: Gabriella Lepore Publisher: Of Tomes Publishing Pages: Paperback; 284 Release Date: December 20, 2015 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ——————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy short and sweet stories featuring male witches. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes | Amazon Seventeen-year-old Maggie Ellmes is dogged by a case of chronic bad luck. She figures that’s just her lot in life—that is, until the psychic at Blackheath’s annual carnival reveals that Maggie’s problems are caused by more than just ordinary misfortune; she’s actually been…
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Book Review: Journey to Death by Leigh Russell
Media Type: Ebook Title: Journey to Death: A Lucy Hall Mystery Author: Leigh Russell Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Pages: Paperback; 304 Release Date: February 9, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Genre: Mystery / Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mysteries that are set in vividly drawn locales. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Lucy Hall arrives in the Seychelles determined to leave her worries behind. The tropical paradise looks sun-soaked and picture-perfect—but as Lucy soon discovers, appearances can be very deceptive. A deadly secret lurks in the island’s history, buried deep but…
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Book Review: Charmed (FTRS #2) by Jen Calonita
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Charmed *Series: Fairy Tale Reform School #2 Author: Jen Calonita Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: March 1, 2016 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ————————————————— Content Screening: Magic and Mischief HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love fairy tales, strong characters and even stronger friendships. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Charmed is the exciting sequel to the wildly popular Flunked — second in the brand new Fairy Tale Reform School series where the teachers are (former) villains. “Charming fairy-tale fun.” -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the…
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Book Review: The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Mapmaker’s Children Author: Sarah McCoy Publisher: Broadway Books Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: February 9, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours ———————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy lushly written historical fiction with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and…
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Book Review: Low Town (Low Town #1) by Daniel Polansky
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Low Town * Series: Low Town #1 Author: Daniel Polansky Publisher: Random House Pages: Paperback; 354 Release Date: August 16, 2001 (Reprint) Source: Library —————————————————– Genre: Dark Fantasy / Noir Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Any reader who loves a dark fantasy story with a well fleshed out main character. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place,…
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Book Review: Of Light and Darkness by Shayne Leighton
Media Type: Ebook Title: Of Light And Darkness * Series: Of Light And Darkness #1 Author: Shayne Leighton Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle (2nd Ed.); 400 Source: Author ————————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy discovering worlds situated on the fringe of our own. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Shayne Leighton’s stunning New Adult debut is a fiercely imaginative, multilayered dark fantasy where Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus meets Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles in a story about a girl caught between two societies .…
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FFBC Book Review: Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey
Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey Publisher: Clarion Books Release Date: February 16th 2016 Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia Rate: 3 Keys to My Heart Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Lyla lives in a bleak, controlling society where only the brightest and most favored students succeed. When she is caught buying cheats in an underground shadow market, she is tattooed—marked—as a criminal. Then she is offered redemption and she jumps at the chance . . . but it comes at a cost. Doing what is right means betraying the boy she has come to love, and, perhaps, losing even more than she thought possible. Graphic novel–style…