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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.…
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Book Review: The Way We Fall
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: January 24, 2011 Source: Big Honcho Media —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian reads, but are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you’ll be blabbing your secrets and chatting…
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Book Review: Pure
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Pure (Pure #1) Author: Julianna Baggott Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: Hardcover; 448 Release Date: February 8, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Dystopian fiction Add it on : Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather,…
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Book Review: Pretty Bones
Media Type: Print Book Title: Pretty Bones Author: Aya Tsintziras Publisher: Lorimer Pages: Paperback; 160 Release Date: September 2, 2011 Source: Teen Book Scene —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with discussions of anorexia. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses…
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Book Review: Saving June
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Saving June Author: Hannah Harrington Publisher: Harlequin Pages: Paperback; 322 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Sexual Situations —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Key to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good contemporary read. Readers okay with upper YA themes. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When her older sister commits suicide and her divorcing parents decide to divide the ashes, Harper Scott takes her sister’s urn to the one place June always wanted to go: California. On the…
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Book Review: Heavenly
Media Type: Print Book Title: Heavenly (Heavenly #1) Author: Jennifer Laurens Publisher: Grove Creek Pages: Paperback; 296 Release Date: August 15, 2009 Source: Won from author ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a well written angel story! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N I met someone who changed everything. Matthias. My autistic sister’s guardian angel. Honest. Inspiring. Funny. Hot. And immortal. That was the problem. What could I do? I did what any other…
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Book Review: Cinder
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Fiewel & Friends Pages: Hardcover; 387 Release Date: January 3, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings, mashed with a bit of science fiction! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one…
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Book Review: The Next Shakespeare
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Next Shakespeare Author: Wanda Ernstberger Publisher: Etopia Press Pages: Ebook; 20 Source: Author ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy short stories, or those looking to take a great respite from long books. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Who thought a poem would trigger World War Three? Tristan Gunner—skateboard fanatic, junk food junkie, award-winning poet. But you’d think he just got detention instead of the school’s grand prize for poetry. And even though…
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Book Review: Feyland
Media Type: Ebook Title: Feyland Author: Anthea Sharp Publisher: Self Pages: Kindle; 159 Release Date: December 4, 2011 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Fantasy Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N WHEN A GAME… Feyland is the most immersive computer game ever designed, and Jennet Carter is the first to play the prototype. But she doesn’t suspect the virtual world is close enough to touch — or that she’ll be battling for her life against the Dark…