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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…
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Book Review + Giveaway: Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates
Media Type: Ebook Title: Part Time Cowboy Author: Maisey Yates Publisher: HQN books Pages: 400 Release Date: March 31, 2015 Source: Author/Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence, sexual situations HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy feisty characters with lots of chemistry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A one-time bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates… Sadie Miller isn’t expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straight-laced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her like…
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Book Review: Grift (A Neon Noir) by Jason Mosberg
Media Type: Ebook Title: Grift (A Neon Noir) Author: Jason Mosberg Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 234 Release Date: March 4, 2015 Source: Author —————————————————- Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like fast paced, well-written stories with plenty of action. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Why would a 17-year-old girl pretend to be a high class escort? Piper is a con artist whose canvas is the city of Las Vegas. She rolls with a crew of young grifters including a card-counting genius, a tourist-hustling pool shark, and a…
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Book Review: Flunked: Fairy Tale Reform School by Jen Calonita
Media Type: Ebook (ARC)Title: Flunked: Fairy Tale Reform School *Series: Fairy Tale Reform School #1Author: Jen CalonitaPublisher: Sourcebooks JabberwockyPages: Hardcover; 256Release Date: March 3, 2015Source: NetGalley——————————————————Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love a good fairy tale and are looking for something different and fun. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Would you send a villain to do a hero’s job? An exciting new twisted fairy tale series from award-winning author Jen Calonita. Full of regret, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, Flora, has founded the Fairy Tale Reform School with…
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Book Review: As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka
Media Type: Ebook Title: As Red As Blood * Series: The Snow White Trilogy #1 Author: Salla Simukka | Owen Witesman (Translator) Publisher: Skyscape – Reprint Edition Pages: Ebook; 274 Release Date: August 1, 2014 Source: Amazon (Purchased) ========================================= Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a more action based story with roots in fairy tales. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school’s dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored…