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Book Review: The Scythian Trials by Elizabeth Isaacs
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Scythian Trials Author: Elizabeth Isaacs Publisher: Vesuvian Books Pages: Paperback; 372 Release Date: October 23, 2018 Source: TLC Book Tours / Author —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast paced stories with plenty of twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Descendants of the Amazons, the Scythians work alongside prominent governments but answer to no one. Warriors living on the fringe of civilization, they live by one credo: Strength through Equality. Power through Knowledge. Nya Thalestris is the brightest Scythian of…
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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 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 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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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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Book Review: Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
Media Type: Physical Book Title: Cross Her Heart Author: Sarah Pinborough Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 341 Release Date: September 4, 2018 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours ——————————————— Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow burn thrillers with excellently executed twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job, and her best friend Marilyn, but when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe she can…
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Book Review: Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Louisiana’s Way Home Author: Kate DiCamillo Publisher: Candlewick Press Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: October 2, 2018 Source: NetGalley/Publisher ————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy real characters who face real life issues, with a touch of magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that…
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Children’s Book Review: There’s A Dragon In Your Book by Tom Fletcher
Media Type: F&G Copy Title: There’s a Dragon in Your Book Author: Tom Fletcher Illustrator: Greg Abbott Publisher: Random House BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 32 Release Date: September 4, 2018 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Recommended to: Young readers who love funny and interactive stories! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N First, there’s an egg in your book. Then the cutest baby dragon you’ve ever seen hatches from it. But don’t tickle its nose, and whatever you do, don’t let it sneeze! ACHOO! OH MY! Tom Fletcher’s infectious read-aloud invites kids to use their powers of imagination–along with some stamping, blowing, and flapping–to save their book from an adorable little dragon’s flammable sneezes! Children…
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Book Review: Foundryside (Founders #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Foundryside * Series: Founders #1 Author: Robert Jackson Bennett Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pages: Hardcover; 505 Release Date: August 21, 2018 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a gorgeous new Fantasy series to get lost in. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself–the first in a dazzling new fantasy series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. Sancia Grado…