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Book Review: Phantom Universe
Media Type: Ebook Title: Phantom Universe Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Press Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 3, 2011 Source: Purchased at B&N ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with the concepts of slavery and torture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she’s lived on most of her life is destroyed,…
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Book Review: Draykon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Draykon (Draykon #1) Author: Charlotte E. English Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: August 31, 2011 Source: Author ———————————— Genre: Mystery/Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy well written fantasy, coupled with a quick moving mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When shy and retiring Llandry Sanfaer discovers a mesmerising new gemstone, she suddenly becomes the most famous jeweller across the Seven Realms. Demand for the coveted stone escalates fast; when people begin dying for it, Llandry finds that she herself has become a target.…
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Book Review: Graffiti Moon
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Graffiti Moon Author: Cath Crowley Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ——————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who swoon worthy moments and wonderfully rendered characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds…
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Book Review: Illumine
Media Type: Ebook Title: Illumine Author: Alivia Anders Publisher: Self-published Release Date: January 7, 2012 Source: Purchased via Kindle ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of paranormal fiction, and those who can stomach a little violence while setting off on an epic adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can…
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Book Review: Death Drop
Media Type: Ebook Title: Death Drop (The D-Evolution #1) Author: Sean Allen Publisher: Vintage Six Media Pages: Paperback; 560 Release Date: October 1, 2011 Source: Publisher ————————————- Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of epic Sci Fi adventures! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a time when a live Human specimen would fetch a king’s ransom on the black market, being a smuggler seemed like the perfect front to search for her people. But the cost of Dezmara Strykar’s operation has forced her to win each smuggling run…
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Book Review: Everneath
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Everneath (Everneath #1) Author: Brodi Ashton Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 370 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: Teen Book Scene / Publisher ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Really. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she’s returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before…
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Book Review: The Butterfly Clues
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language; Mild violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a thrilling mystery, but can also put up with the character’s OCD tendencies. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she’s learned…
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Book Review: Fracture
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Publisher: Walker & Company Pages: Hardcover; 264 Release Date: January 27, 2012 Source: NetGalley ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet…
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Book Review: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People Author: Alette Willis Publisher: Floris Books Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: November 17, 2011 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Middle grade readers who love adventures, and older readers who love a good story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / Librarything “You think you’re a fairy godmother or something?” I asked. “Or something,” Michael agreed. Edda is tired of her nickname, ‘Mouse’, and wants to be braver.…
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Book Review: Blood and Bullets
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Blood and Bullets Author: James R. Tuck Publisher: Kensington Pages: Paperback; 352 Release Date: February 7, 2012 Source: Author ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy ————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Urban Fantasy lovers, as well as those with the ability to accept copious amounts of good old fashioned violence and cussing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat.…