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Book Review: Iron Hearted Violet
Media Type: Print Book Title: Iron Hearted Violet Author: Kelly Barnhill Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: October 9, 2012 Source: Library ———————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of MG who enjoy a vivid fairy tale story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The end of their world begins with a story. This one. In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn’t most fairy tales. Princess Violet…
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Book Review: The Six Gun Tarot
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Six Gun Tarot Author: R.S. Blecher Publisher: Tor Books Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: January 22, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy gritty, dark stories with a wide cast of characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears…
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Book Review: The Ripple in Space-Time
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Ripple in Space-Time Author: S.F. Chapman Publisher: Striped Cat Press Pages: Paperback; 260 Release Date: February 1, 2013 Source: J.K. Communications —————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy Science Fiction with a pretty heavy emphasis on the science aspect. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When the huge lunar Ultra Energy Laboratory is destroyed by a mysterious blast, Inspector Ryo Trop of the Free City Inquisitor’s Office is called in to sort out who is responsible for the disaster. Early reports…
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Book Review: Shadows of the Hidden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Shadows of the Hidden Author: Anne Riley Publisher: Compass Press Pages: Paperback; 340 Release Date: December 1, 2012 Source: Author ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good fantasy story with vivid characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Natalie Watson doesn’t believe her parents are dead, even though they disappeared five years ago. Discovering the truth about their fate is one of the only things that gets her out of bed in the…
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Audio Book Review: On The Edge
Media Type: Audio Book Title: On The Edge * Series: The Edge #1 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 12 hours and 8 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like a strong female character and lots of magic to get lost in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the…
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Book Review: Provex City
Media Type: Ebook Title: Provex City Author: Michael Pierce Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 324 Release Date: April 14, 2012 Source: Blog Tour ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like a mix of magic, growing up, and mystery in their reading. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Fifteen-year-old Oliver Grain begins his school year fighting off bullies, learning about the boy who committed suicide in his room, and trying to understand why his history teacher, Mr. Gordon, has taken such a…
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Book Review: Breathe
Media Type: Print Book Title: Breathe * Series: Breathe #1 Author: Sarah Crossan Publisher: Greenwillow Pages: Hardcover; 373 Release Date: October 2, 2012 Source: Library ————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of dystopian fiction. Readers who are okay with a little violence in their reading. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Slays
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Slays * Series: Kate Daniels #5 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 13 hours and 7 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job. Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal…
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Book Review: What We Saw At Night
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: What We Saw At Night Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Publisher: Soho Teen Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: January 8, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an outside the box read, with original characters. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling…
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Audio Book Review: Look At Me
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Look At Me Author: Jennifer Egan Narrator: Rachel Warren Publisher: AudioGO Format: MP3 CDs Duration: 20 hours and 6 minutes Source: Audiobook Jukebox ———————————————- Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are drawn in by sarcastic humor and character introspection. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still…