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Book Review: Calling for Angels
Media Type: Book Title: Calling for Angels Author: Alex Smith Publisher: Red Telephone Books Pages: Paperback; 149 Release Date: November 15, 2010 Source: Publisher ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing out of the ordinary. This is a clean read! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Em never believed in angels. That was until she met Zak and Kai… Em – shy, sensitive, with her head in the clouds – and Caitlyn – gorgeous, popular and talented – have been best friends forever, in a sleepy, nondescript town called Philiton. But when new boy Zak moves into town, Philiton suddenly becomes a…
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Book Review: Separate Kingdoms
Media Type: Book Title: Separate Kingdoms Author: Valerie Laken Publisher: Harper Perennial Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: February 1, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ======================= Intended Reading Group: Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative stories—tales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections…
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Book Review: Fourth Grade Fairy
Media Type: Book Title: Fourth Grade Fairy Author: Eileen Cook Publisher: Aladdin Pages: Paperback; 176 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: Galley Grab ======================= Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Clean as a whistle. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart All Willow Doyle wants is to be normal, to fit in at her new school, and to have a best friend. But there’s no way Willow will ever be normal. There isn’t anything normal about her or the Doyle family. Willow comes from a long line of fairy godmothers and she’s expected to be one too when the time comes. (At the moment…
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Book Review: The Night Fairy
What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy no taller than an acorn and still becoming accustomed to her wings — wings as beautiful as those of a luna moth — is about to find out. What she discovers is that the world is very big and very dangerous. But Flory is fierce and willing to do whatever it takes to survive. If that means telling others what to do — like Skuggle, a squirrel ruled by his stomach — so be it. Not every creature, however,…
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Book Review: Through Her Eyes
Media Type: Print Book Title: Through Her Eyes Author: Jennifer Archer Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: April 5, 2011 Source: Received for promotional book tour. ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Just Kissing! ———————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good ghost story mixed with some sweet romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sixteen-year-old Tansy Piper moves with her grandfather and her mother, a horror writer, to the setting of her mother’s next book–a secluded house outside of a tiny, desolate West Texas town. Lonely and upset over the move,…
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Book Review: Love Ya Like A Sister
If you want something done right, then do it yourself. At least, that’s what people say. But does that include having three girlfriends at the same time–and stealing a car? Life is simple for Randy: 1) he loves his girlfriend and 2) he likes his motorcycle. And even if he really likes his motorcycle and only thinks he’s pretty sure he loves his girlfriend, it’s still the same difference. Easy to know, easy to think about. Then Randy’s life gets complicated. In one week he makes friends with a senior girl and her five-year-old sister, his girlfriend dumps him, and…
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Book Review: Chasing Alliecat
Each comment on this review raises $1 for charity, courtesy of Rebecca Fjelland Davis. For further information, and to enter the giveaway, see this post. Sadie Lester has been dumped with relatives for the summer. Boredom seems inevitable in her small Minnesota town until she meets Allie—a spiky-haired off-road biker with incredible grace and speed. Training for the upcoming bike race, Allie leads Sadie and cute fellow cyclist Joe up and down Mount Kato—an exhilarating rush that pushes their limits. The fun ends abruptly when they stray off the trail and find a priest, badly beaten and near death. After…
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Book Review: When Colors Bleed
WHEN COLORS BLEED is a collection of short stories by the author of ARSON. This collection features three unique stories with universal themes of love, loss, and regret. Watch the colors bleed. –See more at Goodreads Intended Reading Group: Upper YA/Adult Content Screening: Adult themes like death, love and loss. However there is no inappropriate language or anything that is outrightly graphic. *** Cover Inspection: Totally dark and brooding. I thought it matched the title perfectly. First Thoughts: I didn’t glance long enough to see this wasn’t YA so when the character in the first story was 23 I did…
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Book Review: Kat, Incorrigible
Twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson may be the despair of her social-climbing Step-Mama, but she was born to be a magical Guardian and protector of Society–if she can ever find true acceptance in the secret Order that expelled her own mother. She’s ready to turn the hidebound Order of the Guardians inside-out, whether the older members like it or not. And in a society where magic is the greatest scandal of all, Kat is determined to use all her powers to help her three older siblings–saintly Elissa, practicing-witch Angeline, and hopelessly foolish Charles–find their own true loves, even if she has to…
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Book Review: Nickel Plated
Nickel is a survivor. He has to be. For as long as he can remember, his life has hinged on the flip of a coin. Or, rather, the scribble of a social worker’s pen. He’s been through the system, even had a good dad for a few years, until he was gone, too. But Nickel remembers everything he taught him, and since the day he escaped from foster-care hell, he’s put that knowledge to good use. Just twelve years old, he makes a steady living by selling marijuana to high schoolers, blackmailing pedophiles he ferrets out online, and working as…