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Book Review: Escape Theory
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Escape Theory Author: Margaux Froley Publisher: Soho Teen Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: March 12, 2013 Source: Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Drug use, Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers that enjoy a good contemporary, shrouded in mystery, and are okay with a little grit in their reading. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as…
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Book Review: Edge of the Falls
Media Type: Ebook Title: Edge of the Falls * Series: After the Fall #1 Author: Nazarea Andrews Publisher: Andrews-Hale Pages: Ebook; 300 Release Date: March 12, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good paranormal romance with a dystopian twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sabah always knew where she belonged—with Berg—and what was expected of her—to care for the other children the Mistress took in. But when a ban-wolf saves her life, things begin to change. Arjun isn’t like…
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Book Review: Keeper of the Black Stones
Media Type: Print Book Title: Keeper of the Black Stones * Series: Stone Ends, Book 1 Author: P.T. McHugh Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Paperback; 369 Release Date: February 26, 2013 Source: Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone! Especially readers who genuinely enjoy a romp through history. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Awkward in his own skin, shy around girls and worried about anything and everything, Jason Evans is just like a million other teenage boys in high school, with one very large exception:…
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Book Review: Fallen
Media Type: Ebook Title: Fallen Author: Laury Falter Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 272 Release Date: April 1, 2009 Source: Author ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy paranormal romance with an angel focus Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Fallen – the first book in the Guardian Trilogy… Maggie is unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits her. It isn’t until she lands in New Orleans for a full year at a private high school and her unknown enemies find her does she realize that her…
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Book Review: Untimed
Media Type: Print Book Title: Untimed Author: Andy Gavin Publisher: Mascherato Pages: Paperback; 325 Release Date: December 17, 2012 Source: Author ——————————————————- Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of deep historical fiction with elements of steampunk thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, even his own mother can’t remember his name. And girls? The invisible man gets more dates. As if that weren’t enough, when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him…
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Book Review: Notes From Ghost Town
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Notes From Ghost Town Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy delving into paranormal romances. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N They say first love never dies… From critically acclaimed author Kate Ellison comes a heartbreaking mystery of mental illness, unspoken love, and murder. When sixteen-year-old artist Olivia Tithe is visited by the ghost of her first love, Lucas Stern, it’s only through scattered…
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Book Review: Scent of Darkness
Media Type: Print Book Title: Scent of Darkness Author: Margot Berwin Publisher: Pantheon Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: January 29, 2013 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Paranormal Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy elegant prose and descriptive writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Evangeline is eighteen years old when her grandmother gives her the ultimate gift-a scent she has created just for her. From the moment Eva places a drop on her neck, her entire life changes. Previously unnoticed, she becomes the object of intense desire for everyone around…
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Book Review: The Daemon Whisperer
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Daemon Whisperer *Series: The Liminals Series Author: Candice Bundy Publisher: Lusios Publishing Pages: Ebook; 366 Release Date: October 1, 2012 Source: Author —————————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of strong female characters, UF and PNR. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Meriwether Storm discovered the grisly remains of her parents when she was only fourteen—the result of a failed daemon summoning. Meri immediately swore vengeance on the daemon who’d killed her parents, but there was only one problem: she had…
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Book Review: The Mirrored Shard
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Mirrored Shard *Series: Iron Codex #3 Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of the Iron Codex series. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Aoife Grayson must face death to win back Dean—the love who was ripped from the Iron Lands of the living when he was shot in the arctic north.…
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Book Review: Midnight City
Media Type: Print Book Title: Midnight City *Series: Conquered Earth #1 Author: J. Barton Mitchell Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: October 30, 2012 Source: Library —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy strong characters who are being forced to survive under insane circumstances! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell’s alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers…