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Book Review: The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Daylight Marriage Author: Heidi Pitlor Publisher: Algonquin Books Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: May 5, 2015 Source: Publisher / Netgalley ———————————————- Genre: Mystery Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are interested in reading about a family’s struggle to cope after an unexpected event. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Hannah was the kind of woman who turned heads. Tall and graceful, naturally pretty, often impulsive, always spirited, the upper-class girl who picked, of all men, Lovell–the introverted climate scientist, the practical one who thought he could change the world if he could just get everyone to listen to reason. After a magical…
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Book Review: The Predictions by Bianca Zander
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Predictions Author: Bianca Zander Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: May 5, 2015 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours ———————————————- Genre: General Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are interested in the life of a young girl who grew up in a commune, and the life she goes on to lead as an adult. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the author of the acclaimed The Girl Below comes a stunning novel of one woman’s attempt to outrun the destiny that is…
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Book Review: Deep Blue Eternity by Natasha Boyd
Media Type: Ebook Title: Deep Blue Eternity Author: Natasha Boyd Publisher: Self Pages: Kindle; 356 Release Date: March 26, 2015 Source: Purchased —————————————————————– Content Screening: Adult Language; Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy redemption stories and dark topics Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Livvy is on the run. And she’s escaped to the one place nobody will ever find her. But the isolated cottage isn’t empty. Her refuge is home to a troubled stranger, Tom, there for reasons of his own. In the intimacy of the abandoned cottage, and the remote wilderness of Daufuskie Island, off the Carolina coast, the electrifying connection between them is…
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Book Review: Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Author: Kelly Jones Illustrator: Katie Kath Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 224 Release Date: May 12, 2015 Source: NetGalley ————————————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love vibrant young heroines, or any readers interested in chickens! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Fans of Polly Horvath or Roald Dahl will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens. Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water…
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Book Review: Cold Burn of Magic (Black Blade #1) by Jennifer Estep
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cold Burn of Magic * Series: Black Blade #1 Author: Jennifer Estep Publisher: Kensington Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: April 28, 2015 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club ———————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories with strong female characters and tons of magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes There Be Monsters Here. . . It’s not as great as you’d think, living in a tourist town that’s known as “the most magical place in America.” Same boring high school, just twice…
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Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: We Were Liars Author: E. Lockhart Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: Kindle; 227 Release Date: May 13, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————————————– Content Screening: Adult Language; Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy deep, poignant and original stories. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern,…
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Book Review: Watch the Shadows by Robin Winter
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Watch The Shadows Author: Robin Winter Publisher: White Whisker Books Pages: Print/Ebook, 176 Release Date: April 20, 2015 Source: Author/Book Publicity Tour —————————————————- Genre: Suspense/Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy darker suspense stories, with a slow burn. Add it on: Goodreads In the college town of Isla Vista, California, small, odd things start happening. Science-geek Nicole notes the crows are leaving. Meg Burdigal can’t find her tabby cat, Schrand. Brian the postman feels uneasy at the rustlings, the shadows he’s seen at the edge of his vision…
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Book Review: What a Lady Requires by Ashlyn Macnamara
Media Type: Ebook Title: What a Lady Requires *Series: Eton Boys Trilogy (Book 3) Author: Ashlyn Macnamara Publisher: Loveswept Pages: 231 Release Date: March 31, 2015 Source: Netgalley —————————————————- Content Screening: Sexual Content- Mature audiences 18+ HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a strong heroine in their historical romance Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Unlike every other proper young lady, Miss Emma Jennings views marrying well as little more than a means to an end. Such a merger would provide her industrious father with social credibility, and Emma with a chunk of her vast inheritance. Emma’s practical views are shattered, however, when her father ties her to the…
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Book Review: Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Nightbird Author: Alice Hoffman Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Pages: Hardcover; 208 Release Date: March 10, 2018 Source: NetGalley —————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy magical realism, and quirky protagonists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In her first novel for middle-grade readers , bestselling author Alice Hoffman tells a bewitching story of love and friendship that is truly magical. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster.…
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Book Review: Murder in Hindsight by Anne Cleeland
Media Type: Ebook Title: Murder in Hindsight *Series: A New Scotland Yard Mystery (Book 3) Author: Anne Cleeland Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Release Date: March 31, 2015 Source: Netgalley —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good cop story and are fans of the series Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes While Acton and Doyle, two of Scotland Yard’s finest, pursue a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner, Acton’s own questionable methods may prove their undoing…The victims are all criminals who eluded justice—until they ran afoul of an avenger whose modus operandi is a bullet to the back of the head. The…