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Book Review: Bittersweet Darkness (The Order #3)
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bittersweet Darkness *Series: The Order #3 Author: Nina Croft Publisher: Entangled: Edge Pages: Kindle; 251 Release Date: February 24, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast-paced reads with excellently written characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There are no monsters, only good guys and bad guys. That’s the creed by which Detective Inspector Faith Connolly has always lived. When Faith discovers that she has a time bomb counting down in her head, she has one goal; to solve…
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Book Review: The Waking Dark
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Waking Dark Author: Robin Wasserman Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: September 10, 2013 Release Date: Hardcover; 464 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with dark, disturbing reads. This features plenty of violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by…
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Book Review: The Rule of Three
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Rule of Three Author: Eric Walters Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 405 Release Date: January 21, 2014 Source: Library —————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic fiction, and well-written characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and…
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Book Review: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Author: Peter Swanson Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: February 4, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Genre: Thriller / Noir HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mysteries with a slow burn, and noir style writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college…
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Book Review: The Polaris Uprising
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Polaris Uprising *Series: Polaris #1 Author: Jennifer Ibarra Publisher: Tiwala Books Pages: Paperback; 328 Release Date: October 30, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoying strong female characters, and hidden secrets. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon In less than seven years, eighteen-year-old Ryla Jensen will succeed her father as the president of Neress, a nation where all citizens are cared for from the moment they’re born. Fed, sheltered, even educated—every need of theirs is met. The only price…
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Book Review: Northwood
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Northwood Illustrator: Donovan Bixley Author: Brian Falkner Publisher: Capstone Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 282 Release Date: January 1, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love unpredictable adventure and fun characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The dark forest of Northwood has never seen the likes of Cecilia Undergarment before … Cecilia Undergarment likes a challenge. So when she discovers a sad and neglected dog, she is determined to rescue him. No matter what. But her…
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Book Review: High-Heeled Wonder
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: High-Heeled Wonder Author: Avery Flynn Publisher: Entangled: Ignite Pages: Ebook; 250 Release Date: January 24, 2014 Source: Publisher ———————————————————— Genre: Romance / Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love sizzling male leads and strong female leads! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Sylvie Bissette may be one of Harbor City’s youngest glitterati, but only her best friends know her most closely guarded secret. She’s the woman behind The High-Heeled Wonder, a must-read blog for fashionistas everywhere. Gossip, fashion advice, exposés. Too bad some people can’t take a…
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Book Review: Etched on Me
Media Type: Ebook Title: Etched on Me Author: Jenn Crowell Publisher: Washington Square Press Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: February 4, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Genre: Contemporary Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books with vivid characters dealing with tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes On the surface, sixteen-year-old Lesley Holloway is just another bright new student at Hawthorn Hill, a posh all-girls’; prep school north of London. Little do her classmates know that she recently ran away from home, where her father had spent years sexually abusing her.…
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Book Review: Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy Author: Karen Foxlee Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: January 28, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who enjoy quirky, brave main characters and adventure Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes A modern-day fairy tale set in a mysterious museum that is perfect for readers of Roald Dahl and Blue Balliett. Unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn’t believe in anything that can’t be proven by science. She and her…
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ARC Review: Burn (Pure #3)
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Burn * Series: Pure #3 Author: Julianna Baggott Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: Kindle; 432 Release Date: February 4, 2014 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of gritty, dystopian fiction with vivid characters and situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Inside the Dome, Patridge has taken his father’s place as leader of the Pures. His struggle has led him here, intent upon bringing down the Dome from the inside, with the help of a secret resistance force. But things…