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Book Review: Craven Place
Media Type: Ebook Title: Craven Place Author: Richard Wright Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 240 Release Date: June 22, 2013 Source: Author ———————————————- Genre: Horror / Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books with plenty of twists and turns to keep them guessing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The author. The psychic. The vagrant. The hack. An invitation to a crumbling cottage in the lonely wilds. The legend of the witch who haunts it still. A disappearance from a locked room and the rising, ancient power that may be…
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Book Review: All Our Yesterdays
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: All Our Yesterdays * Series: Cassandra Chronicles #1 Author: Cristin Terrill Publisher: Disney Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: September 3, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Absolutely everyone! Especially those who love time travel. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N “You have to kill him.” Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain.…
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Book Review: Dreamscape
Media Type: Ebook Title: Dreamscape *Series: Netherworld Book 1 Author: Christie Rich Publisher: Tarser Publishing Pages: Ebook; 300 Release Date: July 9, 2013 Source: CBB Book Promotions ———————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a different read, one with a paranormal twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Every night before Amelia falls asleep she makes a wish to dream of him – the man who calls her to their beautiful private oasis, her sanctuary where she is free of her…
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Book Review: The Ghost Bride
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Ghost Bride Author: Yangsze Choo Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: August 6, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy historical fiction, especially centering around Chinese culture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N “One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride…” Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li…
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Book Review: Welcome to the Darkness
Media Type: Print Book Title: Welcome to the Darkness * Series: Darkness Trilogy #1 Author: L.M. Justus Publisher: Taurpio Publishing Pages: Paperback; 349 Release Date: August 5, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy reads with vampire lore, and lots of action. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A typical teenager, seventeen-year-old Reed Hennessy doesn’t realize how lucky he is to lead a normal life until he loses everything, including his humanity. The attacker who slaughters his family and…
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Book Review: Wilde Nights in Paradise
Media Type: Ebook Title: Wilde Nights in Paradise Author: Tonya Burrows Publisher: Entangled: Brazen Pages: Ebook; 250 Release Date: June 10, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love sweet and spicy romances with awesome characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N He’ll guard her body all night long. Former Marine Jude Wilde’s motto has always been “burn bridges and never look back,” so nobody is more surprised when Wilde Security is hired to protect assistant district attorney Libby Pruitt, the woman he loved and left.…
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Book Review: Mystery Girl
Media Type: Ebook Title: Mystery Girl Author: David Gordon Publisher: New Harvest Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: July 16, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Mystery / Noir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books with a noir flair, and don’t mind a bit of flowery language. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic…
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Book Review: Infinityglass (Hourglass #3)
Media Type: Print Book Title: Infinityglass *Series: Hourglass #3 Author: Myra McEntire Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: August 6, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have loved this series and are waiting to see what happens! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The stakes have risen even higher in this third book in the Hourglass series. The Hourglass is a secret organization focused on the study of manipulating time, and its members — many of them teenagers -have uncanny abilities…
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Book Review: Ashes on the Waves
Media Type: Print Book Title: Ashes on the Waves Author: Mary Lindsey Publisher: Philomel/Penguin Pages: Hardcover; 373 Release Date: June 27, 2013 Source: Library ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark books, with romance. Also, Edgar Allen Poe references! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on…
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Book Review: The Family That Stays Together
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Family That Stays Together *Series: Sister Nun Mystery #2 Author: Deborah Plummer Bussey Publisher: Half Dozen Publications Pages: Paperback; 278 Release Date: July 5, 2013 Source: JKS Communications —————————————————- Genre: Cozy Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow moving, cozy mysteries. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon When a television celebrity becomes suspect in the murder of her ex-fiancé, sister sleuths Kathy and Tina rally to support their family friend. Soon they end up in trouble. Will family ties be strong enough to protect…