• Book Reviews

    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…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    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…

  • Ramblings

    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…

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    Book Review: Life After Juliet by Shannon Lee Alexander

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Life After Juliet Author: Shannon Lee Alexander Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: Publisher ———————————————– Content Screening: Dealing with grief. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy rich contemporaries that perfectly depict dealing with grief. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Becca Hanson was never able to make sense of the real world. When her best friend Charlotte died, she gave up on it altogether. Fortunately, Becca can count on her books to escape—to other times, other places, other people… Until she…