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Book Review: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Hating Game Author: Sally Thorne Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Paperback; 384 Release Date: August 9, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————- Genre: Romantic Comedy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sizzling rom coms with believable characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2) A person’s undoing 3) Joshua Templeman Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being…
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Puppy Love
So it’s apparently been quite a bit since I’ve actually had time to sit and write something here that wasn’t a review! You’d think, technically, that writing a review is harder than writing a rambling post. I’m here to say that’s not really the case. It cracks me up, but it’s the truth. You might be asking yourself, “Well where have you been Jessica?” and I wouldn’t blame you. The answer to that question is that little puppy right over there to the left. We have a new addition to the HDB family, and her name is Luna. To say…
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Book Review: Floor 21 by Jason Luthor
Media Type: Ebook Title: Floor 21 Author: Jason Luthor Publisher: Scout Press Pages: Kindle; 355 Release Date: June 2, 2015 Source: Author/PUYB —————————————————————————— Genre: Sci-fi/Dystopian HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love inquisitive narrators and books with open endings. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The last of humanity is trapped at the top of an isolated apartment tower with no memory of how they got there or why. All travel beneath Floor 21 is forbidden, and nobody can ever recall seeing the ground floor. Beneath Floor 21, a sickness known as the Creep infests that halls of the Tower. A biological mass that grows stronger in reaction…
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Book Review: Wake The Hollow by Gaby Triana
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Wake The Hollow Author: Gaby Triana Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: Paperback; 304 Release Date: August 2, 2016 Source: Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love Sleepy Hollow lore, and adore a good mystery! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Forget the ghosts, Mica. It’s real, live people you should fear. Tragedy has brought Micaela Burgos back to her hometown of Sleepy Hollow. It’s been six years since she chose to live with her father in Miami instead of her eccentric mother. And…
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Book Review: And Darkness Waits: When Fear Descends Into Madness by C.K. Post
Media Type: Ebook Title: And Darkness Waits: When Fear Descends Into Madness Author: C.K. Post Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 190 Release Date: August 1, 2016 Source: Author —————————————————————————— Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love unreliable narrators and books with plenty of twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A successful horror author, Jeffrey Newman has everything money can buy. The world doesn’t know about his bouts with depression, his frequent nightmares, the darkness that weaves through him or the crushing burden of guilt he has carried for most of his…
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Book Review: Kings or Pawns (The Kings #1) by J.J. Sherwood
Media Type: Ebook Title: Kings or Pawns *Series: The Kings Book 1 Author: J.J. Sherwood Publisher: Silver Helm Pages: Paperback; 383 Release Date: October 1, 2015 Source: Author ——————————————————- Genre: Epic Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy their Fantasy with a good dose of political intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The first book in JJ Sherwood’s Steps of Power epic fantasy series. The Kings, Book I: Kings or Pawns is a political intrigue that spirals into an action and adventure series as the final events unfold. 8,994 P.E.—The…
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Book Review: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold by Iain Reading
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold Series: Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series Author: Iain Reading Publisher: Self Pages: ebook; 326 Release Date: November 30, 2012 Source: Author ————————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a fun adventure book with a bit of education. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes This first book of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series introduces Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue. A cross between Amelia Earhart, Nancy Drew and Pippi Longstocking, Kitty is a…
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Book Review: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales by Susan Berliner
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales Author: Susan Berliner Publisher: SRB Books Pages: Kindle; 160 Release Date: April 3, 2016 Source: Author ———————————————————– Genre: Short Stories HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy suspenseful tales with a very paranormal twist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Welcome to Susan Berliner’s world. It’s a place where strange things—both good and bad—happen. Meet some of the inhabitants: * Doreen. It’s time for her wedding—but where is everyone? (Doreen’s Wedding) * Neal. The face he sees in the mirror is no longer…
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Book Review: Dark Dreams and Dead Things (Dead Things #2) by Martina McAtee
Media Type: Ebook Title: Dark Dreams and Dead Things *Series: Dead Things #2 Author: Martina McAtee Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 540 Release Date: June 21, 2016 Source: YA Bound Book Tours / Author —————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy richly written paranormal series. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes 17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Lavender in Bloom by Lily Velez
Good morning, darling bookish people! Are you on the hunt for a swoon-worthy, historical romance? Look no further, Lily Velez has you covered with Lavender in Bloom. Lavender in Bloom Lily Velez Publication date: July 25th 2016 Genres: Historical, Romance, Young Adult It’s the year 1802 in Avignon, France… Noah Capet has spent most of his young life living simple and unvaried days in the hushed countryside of southern France. Quiet, reserved, and diffident, his preference for existing is to do so in solitude, keeping to himself both in town and on his family’s farm—a predilection that’s altogether disrupted when…