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Book Review: The Voyage to Magical North by Claire Fayers
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Voyage to Magical North Author: Claire Fayers Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Magical mischief HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy magical romps, filled with pirates and mischief! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past–if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she’s spent…
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Book Review: The Killer In Me by Margot Harrison
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Killer In Me Author: Margot Harrison Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: July 12, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good, tense read with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She’s intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims’ bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a…
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Book Review: Smash & Grab by Amy Christine Parker
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Smash & Grab Author: Amy Christine Parker Publisher: Random House BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: July 19, 2016 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence; Intense Action HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love action packed stories with the perfect amount of chemistry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes LEXI is a rich girl who loves a good rush. Whether it’s motorcycle racing or BASE jumping off a building in downtown Los Angeles, the only times she feels alive are when she and her…
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Book Review: Tea Cups and Carnage by Lynn Cahoon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Tea Cups and Carnage Series: A Tourist Trap Mystery #7 Author: Lynn Cahoon Publisher: Lyrical Underground Pages: 194 Release Date: June 7, 2016 Source: Netgalley ———————————————– Genre: Mystery/Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy the series Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The kettle’s about to boil over . . . The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there’s nothing cozy about murder . . .Shop owner Kathi Corbin says she came to South Cove…
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Book Review: Rising Tides by
Media Type: Ebook Title: Rising Tides Author: Katy Haye Publisher: Plumshine Books Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: June 24, 2016 Source: YA Bound Book Tours ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian novels that have plenty of tension and intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The truth won’t stay submerged forever. City is the last civilised place left on a drowned Earth, a floating town built from metal and plastic from the Time Before. It’s the only home doctor’s daughter Libby Marchmont has ever known or…
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Book Blitz: Bottled by Carol Riggs
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! If you’ve dragged yourself out of bed this Monday morning, and are being productive, I applaud you. As a reward, it’s time to share with you another bookish spotlight! This one is quite lovely, if I do say so myself. Bottled by Carol Riggs has a cover that is just too luscious for words. Enjoy! Bottled by Carol Riggs Genre: YA Fantasy Release Date: July 7th 2016 Clean Reads At seventeen, Adeelah Naji is transformed into a genie and imprisoned in a bottle. For a thousand years, she fulfills the wishes of greedy masters—building their palaces,…
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Book Review: DEBBI by George Ebey
Media Type: Ebook Title: DEBBI *Series: Helen of Mars 0.5 Author: George Ebey Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a Sci Fi book with a lot of heart, and a lot of awesome robot battles. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes A game to end all games. On the line: her family’s future. Will Helen’s creation be enough to win the day? Or will she lose, and take her family down with her?…
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Book Review: Let Me Fly Free by Mary Fan
Media Type: Ebook Title: Let Me Fly Free * Series: Fated Stars #2 Author: Mary Fan Publisher: Glass House Press Pages: Ebook; 60 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy novella length Fantasy stories, with wonderfully vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | BookLikes Fire fears nothing. And Elaia is about to show her world that she doesn’t, either. Like the rest of her kind, fire nymph Elaia is bound to her homeland, a forest whose borders were closed centuries earlier in a peace…
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Book Review: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
Media Type: Print Book Title: After Alice Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Hardcover; 273 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Retellings / Re-Imaginings HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have a fondness for Alice and all things Wonderland related. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found…
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On Bookshelves.
Ah, bookshelves. A bookworm’s pride, joy, and also ultimate nemesis. When we moved to our new house, one of the happiest moments for me was realizing that I actually had enough space for two large bookshelves. As a person who has lived in many an apartment, I’d gotten used to having a small amount of special books, getting rid of books often, and sometimes just making stacks. Hey, a bookworm can only part with so much of their horde. Book stacks are… furniture? Art? Necessary. Anyway, my husband dutifully put up my new shelves for me and I spent so…