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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…
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Book Review and Tour: Our Dried Voices by Greg Hickey
Media Type: ebook Title: Our Dried Voices Author: Greg Hickey Publisher: Scribe Publishing Company Pages: Paperback; 234 Release Date: November 4, 2014 Source: Author/PUYB ———————————————————————— Genre: Science Fiction/Dystopian HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about a dire future for humanity with a hopeful twist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In 2153, cancer was cured. In 2189, AIDS. And in 2235, the last members of the human race traveled to a far distant planet called Pearl to begin the next chapter of humanity. Several hundred years after their arrival, the remainder of humanity lives in a utopian colony in which every want is satisfied automatically,…
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Book Review: Believers- Truth in Deception by Tamara D. Taylor
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: Believers: Truth in Deception *Series: Believers Book 1 Author: Tamara D. Taylor Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback; 330 Release Date: January 15, 2015 Source: Author/PUYB ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about a dire future and who enjoy some religious aspects to their books. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Mary lives in a world of the future where an anti aging drug has torn society apart, creating an insurmountable divide between the wealthy and the poor. Her life is thrown sideways after she receives an unsolicited promotion at work, which leaves her as assistant to one of…
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Book Review: Seed by Lisa Heathfield
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Seed Author: Lisa Heathfield Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 10, 2015 Source: Publisher ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence, Some Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories based around cults, and are okay with reading about tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her…
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Book Review: Seabound by Jordan Rivet
Media Type: Ebook Title: Seabound Series: The Seabound Chronicles #1 Author: Jordan Rivet Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 409 Release Date: October 30, 2014 Source: Author ——————————————— Genre: Post-apocalyptic adventure HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic adventures with interesting characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes When an apocalyptic catastrophe decimates the land, a lucky few escape to sea. 1,003 survivors make their home on a souped-up cruise ship called the Catalina. After sixteen years, the strain begins to show in a floating world of distrust and shifting allegiances. Esther is a young mechanic who wants to prove herself, and she’s willing to take risks in…
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Book Review: The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel, reviewed by Jessica
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Life Intended Author: Kristin Harmel Publisher: Gallery Books Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: December 30, 2014 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Genre: Contemporary / Women’s Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of “sliding doors” books, as well as any reader who loves a good cathartic cry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our…
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Book Review: The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Question of Miracles Author: Elana K. Arnold Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: February 3, 2015 Source: NetGalley ——————————————————— Content Screening: Tough Issues – Death HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of all ages, especially those who love moving and realistic fiction. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Following the death of her best friend, Iris and her family move to Oregon for a fresh start in this middle-grade story of miracles, magic, rain, hope, and a hairless cat named Charles. Sixth-grader Iris…