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Book Review and Tour: Our Dried Voices by Greg Hickey
Media Type: ebook Title: Our Dried Voices Author: Greg Hickey Publisher: Scribe Publishing Company Pages: Paperback; 234 Release Date: November 4, 2014 Source: Author/PUYB ———————————————————————— Genre: Science Fiction/Dystopian HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about a dire future for humanity with a hopeful twist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In 2153, cancer was cured. In 2189, AIDS. And in 2235, the last members of the human race traveled to a far distant planet called Pearl to begin the next chapter of humanity. Several hundred years after their arrival, the remainder of humanity lives in a utopian colony in which every want is satisfied automatically,…
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Book Review: Believers- Truth in Deception by Tamara D. Taylor
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: Believers: Truth in Deception *Series: Believers Book 1 Author: Tamara D. Taylor Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback; 330 Release Date: January 15, 2015 Source: Author/PUYB ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about a dire future and who enjoy some religious aspects to their books. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Mary lives in a world of the future where an anti aging drug has torn society apart, creating an insurmountable divide between the wealthy and the poor. Her life is thrown sideways after she receives an unsolicited promotion at work, which leaves her as assistant to one of…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
Happy Sunday friends! It seems like a good time for a guest post, specifically a guest post all about the love of books. If you haven’t already heard of Paige McKenzie and her YouTube channel, you’re in for a treat! I’m pleased as punch to give our blog over to her, and her creative soul, for today. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and…
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Sunday Funday!
Happy Sunday to all of you lovely bookworms out there! I hope your weekend has been full of fun and excitement or at least some relaxation and a good book. The problem with weekends is that there are finite. By the time Sunday afternoon rolls around you’ve already started thinking about your to-do list at work on Monday and it ruins the fun. So today, dear readers, I give you permission to pretend it’s still Saturday. Forget that you have to set an alarm tomorrow and be a functioning adult. Stay up late, go out with friends/family or simply enjoy…
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Book Review: Seed by Lisa Heathfield
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Seed Author: Lisa Heathfield Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 10, 2015 Source: Publisher ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence, Some Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories based around cults, and are okay with reading about tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her…
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A Guest Post from Lisa Heathfield, author of Seed!
It’s Tuesday, which means you’re probably partially glad that it’s no longer Monday, but mainly upset that Friday is still so far away. It’s okay, I know exactly how you feel. And, while I can’t fast forward the week, I can give you a guest post from an awesome author to ease the pain! So, here you go. All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her family and everything that means…
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February 2015 Wrap Up
Goodbye February, and hello March! It was a quiet month here on the blog, and for that we apologize. Blogging is a labor of love, and sometimes life just gets in the way. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a bad month of reading! Let’s take a look. ************ Books read and reviewed in February:Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen – Review (4/5)Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson – Review (4/5)The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold – Review (5/5)The Rules According to Gracie by Stefanie London – Review (4/5)Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson #1) by Molly Harper – Review…
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Waiting on Wednesday
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. It’s hosted by Breaking the Spine. *** This week I thought I’d share a mystery/thriller that I can’t wait to get my hands on! Everything about this book sounds like things I love in a good thriller. Vigilante justice is clearly not approved by law, but at what lengths will the Scotland Yard go to find the culprit? Is there more to this criminal than meets the eye? I can’t wait to find out! While Acton and Doyle, two of Scotland Yard’s finest, pursue…
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Book Review: Seabound by Jordan Rivet
Media Type: Ebook Title: Seabound Series: The Seabound Chronicles #1 Author: Jordan Rivet Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 409 Release Date: October 30, 2014 Source: Author ——————————————— Genre: Post-apocalyptic adventure HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic adventures with interesting characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes When an apocalyptic catastrophe decimates the land, a lucky few escape to sea. 1,003 survivors make their home on a souped-up cruise ship called the Catalina. After sixteen years, the strain begins to show in a floating world of distrust and shifting allegiances. Esther is a young mechanic who wants to prove herself, and she’s willing to take risks in…
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The resurrection of “And… Discuss!” – let’s talk spoilers in reviews!
Hi everyone! So as you’ve probably noticed, it’s been rather quiet this month. To fill some of that silence with good old fashioned debate, I thought I’d resurrect one of the posts that I used to do a lot when I first started this blog! In fact, I’m going to revisit all the topics that have already been done, since there’s a much larger and more diverse set of you now. Sound good? Do you have your discussion caps on? Okay, let’s do this. ================================================================= Today’s topic is: SPOILERS IN REVIEWS From a reader’s standpoint, how do you feel about…