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Book Review: Side Effects May Vary
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Side Effects May Vary Author: Julie Murphy Publisher: Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 18, 2014 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club/Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a different take on a character who is dealing with cancer. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is…
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Book Review: Shattered Veil (The Diatous Wars #1)
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shattered Veil * Series: The Diatous Wars #1 Author: Tracy E. Banghart Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: February 28, 2014 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy new worlds, with fascinating characters and situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? ~ For Aris, a talented wingjet pilot, war means sacrificing everything: her home, her name, her face—and the one promise she swore she’d never break. In the…
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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.…