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Book Review: Warm Bodies
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Warm Bodies Author: Isaac Marion Publisher: Vintage Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: April 26, 2011 ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild zombie gore; mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.…
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Book Review: Girl Wonder
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Girl Wonder Author: Alexa Martin Publisher: Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: May 3, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual situations, Cussing, Drug Use HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart As if transferring senior year weren’t hard enough, Charlotte Locke has been bumped to lower level classes at her new school. With no friends, a terrible math SAT score, and looming college application deadlines, the future is starting to seem like an oncoming train for which she has no ticket. Then Amanda enters her orbit like a hot-pink…
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Hungry For You – EPIC BLOG TOUR
When I was approached by A.M. Harte to be a part of the Blog Tour de Force extravaganza I was so excited! See, first off I think this is a fantastic idea. Pitting author against author…who doesn’t love that? Second of all it gives YOU my dear readers, a chance to win a KINDLE! Am I jealous? You bet. Below please enjoy my review of A.M. Harte’s Hungry For You and read on to see how to get in on all the goodies that are being given away. You lucky ducks you. Book Title: Hungry For You Author: A.M. Harte “There is…
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Book Review: Unsavory Delicacies
Media Type: Book Title: Unsavory Delicacies Author: Russell Brooks Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 22 Release Date: April 21, 2011 Source: Author ——————————————- Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a book of short stories with some thrill attached! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon A three-course story collection with a side-order of revenge. For fans of Barry Eisler, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler. Three short stories of suspense with unsavory results. Crème Brulé—Rogue operative, Monique Beauvais, cons a software genius into selling her a coveted technology that would allow its…
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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
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Book Review: Hickey of the Beast
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hickey of the Beast Author: Isabel Kunkle Publisher: Candlewick Gleam Pages: Serial Novel Release Date: March 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Connie thought freshman year might suck. She never thought it’d be literal. Bad dreams? No big deal. After all, Connie Perez is starting her first year in the prep school her mom runs. Anyone would be a little stressed, right? When she starts dreaming about strange creatures and places that don’t make sense, she doesn’t think much about…
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Book Review: Future Imperfect
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Future Imperfect Author: K. Ryer Breese Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: April 26, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, language and sexual content HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Ade Patience can see the future and it’s destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade’s the best of Denver’s “divination” underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the…
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Book Review: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter Author: Frank L. Cole Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Pages: Hardcover; 288 Source: NetGalley ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violent situations and mild death scenes. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Amber never dreamed her archaeology class would turn into a top secret mission that would take her across the globe, but when her teacher goes missing, Amber realizes it’s up to her to protect the Hidden Scepter or risk unleashing an ancient power too terrifying to imagine. This guaranteed page-turner from the bestselling author of the Hashbrown…
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Book Review: Invincible Summer
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Invincible Summer Author: Hannah Moskowitz Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Cussing and sexual situations HDB Rating: 5 (Super Shiny) Keys to My Heart Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house,…
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Graphic Novel Review: I Love Him To Pieces
Media Type: Graphic Novel Title: I Love Him to Pieces * Series: My Boyfriend Is A Monster Author: Evonne Tsang Illustrator: Janina Gorrissen Publisher: Graphic Universe Pages: Paperback; 128 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: NetGalley Can love survive the zombie apocalypse? Maybe Dicey’s first chance at a real relationship was dead from the start. She’s the star of her high school baseball team, and Jack’s the star of the science program. Her idea of a study session includes sleeping in the sun, and his idea of a good game involves dungeons and dice. But opposites start attracting when they’re…