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Book Review: The Point by John Dixon
Media Type: ebook Title: The Point Author: John Dixon Publisher: Del Rey Pages: paperback, 320 Release Date: August 7, 2018 Source: Netgalley ——————————————— Genre: Sci-fi Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy science fiction stories similar to X-Men. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she’s a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker–she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn’t yet understand. Now she’s been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through…
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Book Blogger Hop: Halloween Edition!
Book Blogger Hop: Halloween Edition! Happy Friday friends! It’s been a really long time since I’ve participated in one of these hops, mainly because we were posting infrequently for a while. I missed them! Getting to answer fun questions, visiting other people on their blogs, it’s a great way to network! I actually miss being up on what other book bloggers are doing, and so it’s one of my goals for the rest of this year and all of next year to start getting connected again. Let’s start things out with this book blog hop, shall we? ———————————————————————————– This week’s…
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Book Review: Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Begone the Raggedy Witches Author: Celine Kiernan Publisher: Candlewick Press Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: September 11, 2018 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of all ages who love a good story about family, filled to the brim with magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When witches kidnap her dad, Mup is swept up in a wild tide of magic that carries her to another world. Can she reunite her family and find her way back? On the night…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Cursed Rebel by H.G. Lynch
Happy Monday readers! What an exciting start to the week with this fabulous new Faery tale. That cover is breathtaking and I’m sure the story will be too. Cursed Rebel H.G. Lynch Publication date: October 5th 2018Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult My grandma always warned me never to trust a Faery. I never believed they were real…until I was kidnapped by one. Finn is an obnoxious, mercurial Fae whose job it is to bring me to the King. He’s gorgeous, but in this world, the prettiest things are the deadliest. But if I want to survive the Fae realm and…
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Small Business Spotlight: Spooky Finds
It’s time for another small business spotlight post, and this time around we’re celebrating all things spooky! Or, at least, spooky cute? Heck, it’s just stuff that I would totally want to buy and now I’m sharing it with you. Let’s get started! ** note that all photos are the property of the store owners ** ========================================================= Double, Double, Toil & Trouble Pin by TheGrumpyUnicornCo Every witch needs her very own boiling cauldron to cackle over. If it’s pin sized, and ready to put on your lapel, I call that a win! Plus we have a Shakespeare reference here. So,…
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Book Review: Inconvenient Wife by Natasha Boyd
Media Type: ebook Title: Inconvenient Wife Author: Natasha Boyd Publisher: Self Pages: paperback, 260 Release Date: June 28, 2018 Source: Purchased ——————————————— Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy friends to lovers stories with a lot of build. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N All Beau Montgomery, one of Charleston’s most eligible bachelors, wants to do is build boats. He has no interest in marriage whatsoever … until it means he might not get his inheritance and he can kiss his boat building dreams goodbye. But the hungry hordes of Charleston debutantes looking to score a Montgomery scare him sh*tless. Gwen has loved Beau Montgomery…
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Birthdays and Anniversaries, Oh my!
Greetings my bookish friends! It has been a bit since I’ve done a personal update and today happens to be my birthday so instead of working on the several reviews I need to do, I decided a fun post was in order. I actually made that cake in the picture for my little ones 3rd birthday a few weeks ago. Yes, she’s 3 now. CRAZY right? When we asked Peanut what kind of party she wanted she said “a rainbow monster cake to scare my friends cause that would be funny”. I enjoy baking as a hobby so I figured…
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Book Review: Yeled Tov by Daniel M. Jaffe
Media Type: Print Book Title: Yeled Tov Author: Daniel M. Jaffe Publisher: Lethe Press Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: May 12, 2018 Source: TLC Book Tours / Author ——————————————— Content Screening: Brief Sexual Acts, Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a well-written glimpse into the life of a 1970’s LGBTQ young man. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon 1974 and Jake Stein wants to be a good Jewish boy, but he finds himself struggling to reconcile his traditional beliefs and his strong faith in God with his growing attraction to other…
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Book Review: Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1) by Peter Bunzl
Media Type: Ebook Title: Cogheart *Series: The Cogheart Adventures #1 Author: Peter Bunzl Publisher: Usborne Pages: Paperback; 366 Release Date: September 1, 2016 Source: NetGalley ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who enjoy quick moving reads with plenty of twists and turns. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends—Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox—Lily is plunged into a murky and…
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On October 1st…
This blog is going to get spooky. Guys I LOVE this time of year. I love cool weather and I love Halloween! You know that I’ve been playing Halloween bingo, and so I now have a backlog of spooky and horrific books that I’ve read that are just itching for reviews. So expect October to be full of those, as well as a bunch of posts of my favorite horror movies. We’re doing this time of year right.