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    Book Review: The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Last Harvest Author: Kim Liggett Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Paperback; 352 Release Date: July 24, 2018 Source: Publisher ————————————– Content Screening: Violence, Blood/Gore HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a YA horror story that keeps you guessing. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Kim Liggett’s The Last Harvest is a thrilling YA horror story that draws on her childhood during the Satanic Panic. “I plead the blood.” Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay Tate heard rattling from his dad’s throat when he discovered…

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    Book Review: Monster City: Murder, Music and Mayhem in Nashville’s Dark Age by Michael Artnfield

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Monster City: Murder, Music, and Mayhem in Nashville’s Dark Age Author: Michael Arntfield Publisher: Little A Pages: Paperback; 352 Release Date: September 4, 2018 Source: NetGalley / Publisher —————————————— Genre: Nonfiction / True Crime HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a real life look into the spree of serial murders in Nashville in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville’s music scene for decades—and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end…

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    Book Review: Miss Behave by Traci Highland

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Miss Behave Series: The Anderson Family Series Author: Traci Highland Publisher: Cheshire Lane Press Pages: 330 Release Date: June 24, 2018 Source: PUYB ——————————————- Genre: Romantic Comedy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good hearty laugh and a fun romcom. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon She’s great at giving advice, too bad she never takes it…Piper Anderson wants to be a serious journalist at a serious paper covering serious news. Instead, she’s stuck at the Pendleton Falls Herald, where her massive investigative skills are wasted penning the paper’s advice column, Miss Behave.Her shot at a meaty story comes when she’s assigned…

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    Book Review + Giveaway: How to Breathe Underwater by Vicky Skinner

    Format: ebook Title: How to Breathe Underwater Author: Vicky Skinner Published by: Swoon Reads Pages: 336  Publication date: August 14th 2018 Source: Xpresso Book Tours Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult HDB Rating: 5 keys to my heart Kate’s father has been pressuring her to be perfect for her whole life, pushing her to be the best swimmer she can be. But when Kate finds her dad cheating on her mom, Kate’s perfect world comes crashing down, and Kate is forced to leave home and the swim team she’s been a part of her whole life. Now in a new home, new…

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    Book Review + Giveaway: When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn

    Title: When Life Gives You Demons Author: Jennifer Honeybourn Published by: Swoon ReadsPublication date: July 17th 2018Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that explore serious topics from a comedic point of view. Some people have school spirit. Shelby Black has real ones. Shelby Black has spent the past six months training to be an exorcist. Her great-uncle Roy―a Catholic priest―has put her through exorcist boot camp hell, hoping to develop her talent, but ohmygod, he still doesn’t trust her to do an exorcism on her own. High school is hard enough…

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    Graphic Novel Review: The Dam Keeper – World Without Darkness

    Title: The Dam Keeper: World Without Darkness     * Volume 2Authors: Robert Kondo & Dice TsutsumiIllustrator: Robert Kondo & Dice TsutsumiPublisher: First SecondPages: Hardcover; 160Recommended Age Group: Middle Grade/YARelease Date: July 10, 2018Source: NetGalley Beyond the dam lies certain death—this is something every citizen of Sunrise Valley knows well. Yet, when a poisonous black tidal wave carries Pig, Fox, and Hippo over the dam and into the wastelands, they don’t find death. Instead they find bustling cities, each with their own dams. Pig can’t help but wonder, who is the mysterious dam keeper behind it all? But he doesn’t have time to unravel this…

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    Book Review + Giveaway: Watching You by Shannon Greenland

    Media Type: ebook Title: Watching You Author: Shannon Greenland Published by: Entangled Publishing Publication date: July 2nd 2018 —————————————— Genre: Thriller, Young Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that keep you guessing till the very end. Viola’s always been that girl from that family, so a scholarship to a prestigious private school in Florida was supposed to be her ticket out of poverty and into a brand-new life. But Viola’s secrets have followed her. Her relationship with the intelligent and gorgeous Riel should have been the salvation she needed—he understands her troubled past better than anyone.…

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    Book Review: The Beyond Now Device by Mark Hollock

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Beyond Now Device Author: Mark Hollock Publisher: Mark Hollock Pages: Ebook; 338 Release Date: January 15, 2018 Source: Author —————————————— Genre: Speculative Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that really explore our place in time and space. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon We are all fated to die and the earth will continue to circle the sun. Of this, we can be sure. Yet when four people sharing an apartment happen upon a device that transports them three weeks into the future, they care less about…

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    Book Review: The Truth Hunters by Emilia Zeeland

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Truth Hunters Series: STAR Academy book 2 Author: Emilia Zeeland Publisher: Self Pages: 328, ebook Publication date: May 26, 2018 Source: Author _____________________________________ Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction 5 Keys to My Heart: Recommended for readers who enjoy science fiction and young adult. For Yalena Russo, peace was never an option.Pushed out of the spotlight and into obedience, Yalena returns to a STAR Academy that has changed. In fact, the near worlds have changed, forcing her to walk the thin line between politics and mayhem.Determined to find out why the Fians claim to be connected to her, Yalena has to track down whoever gave…

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    Book Review: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

    Media Type: Audio Book Title: Sleeping Beauties Authors: Stephen King, Owen King Publisher: Scribner Pages: Hardcover; 702 Release Date: September 26, 2017 Source: Library Borrow ——————————————— Genre: Horror, Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a mildly dystopian story, set in a small town. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral…