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Book Review: Shattered Souls
Media Type: Print Book Title: Shattered Souls Author: Mary Lindsey Publisher: Philomel/Penguin Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: December 8, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence ———————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: EVERYONE! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N A thrilling debut story of death, love, destiny and danger Lenzi hears voices and has visions – gravestones, floods, a boy with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can’t help, and everything keeps getting louder and more intense. Then Lenzi meets Alden, the boy from…
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Book Review: Half-Blood
Media Type: Print Book Title: Half-Blood Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publisher: Spencer Hill Press Pages: Paperback; 281 Release Date: October 18, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Teen Drinking, Sexual Undertones, Mild Violence ———————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: People who adore butt-kicking heroines and are tired of love triangles! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have…
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Book Review: Eon’s Door
Media Type: Ebook Title: Eon’s Door Author: J.G. McKenney Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 316 Release Date: July 10, 2011 Source: Author ——————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Fantasy Violence ——————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommend for: Lovers of Fantasy Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Eon’s Door should not be open. Two thousand years after three clans flee the world of humans through Eon’s Door to find sanctuary in a realm called Erla, a prophecy left to them by the ancient race that created the tree portal is coming…
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Book Review: Wherever You Go
Media Type: Print Book Title: Wherever You Go Author: Joan Leegant Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pages: Paperback; 272 Release Date: July 25, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————– Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Fiction/Religious Fiction ——————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended for: Those who enjoy religious based stories full of trials, tribulations and redemption. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and mother of five who has dedicated herself to the radical West…
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Book Review: Vanish
Media Type: Print Book Title: Vanish Author: Sophie Jordan Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: September 6, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended for: Lovers of Firelight, Dragons and Paranormal Romance Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse,…
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Book Review: The Paradise Prophecy
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Paradise Prophecy Author: Robert Browne Publisher: Dutton Adult Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: July 21, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————– Genre: Psychological Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy psychological thrillers and are fans of mystery novels. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N A spectacular thriller inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost in which the final chapter of the War in Heaven is about to play out on Earth, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. The Myth When God cast the…
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Book Review: Fury
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fury Author: Elizabeth Miles Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: August 30, 2011 Source: Galley Grab ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Sometimes sorry isn’t enough…. It’s winter break in Ascension, Maine. The snow is falling and everything looks pristine and peaceful. But not all is as it seems… Between cozy traditions and parties with her friends, Emily loves the holidays. And this year’s even better–the guy she’s been into for months is finally noticing her. But Em knows if she starts things…
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Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Media Type: Print Book Title: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Author: Alexandra Fuller Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: August 18, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————————— Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good, heartfelt memoir. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In this sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy…
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Book Review: Shadow of a Dead Star
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shadow of a Dead Star Author: Michael Shean Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: June 23, 2011 Source: Author ==================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Cyberpunk, Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Seattle, 2078. The future hasn’t been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Cities of glass and exotic metals reach toward the poisoned sky, and every night sees a host of sins played out under glittering…
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Book Review: The Atomic Weight of Secrets
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Atomic Weight of Secrets Author: Eden Unger Bowditch Publisher: Bancroft Press Pages: Hardcover; 339 Release Date: March 15, 2011 Source: NetGalley =================== Intended Reading Group: Upper Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, went about their lives and their work as they always had. . But all that changed the day the men in black arrived. . An amazing story about the wonders of science and the still greater wonders of…