Tina B.
Flawed human, okayest mom, depression fighter, and lover of coffee. Singing, reading, and baking keep me mostly sane.
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Book Spotlight and Giveaway: Decoherence by Liana Brooks
Today’s spotlight is one that caught my eye based on the cover art. Portals to other universes? Sign me up. These interesting book just released yesterday so now is your chance to grab it! Samantha Rose and Linsey MacKenzie have established an idyllic life of married bliss in Australia, away from the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, away from mysterious corpses, and—most of all—away from Dr. Emir’s multiverse machine. But Sam is a detective at heart, and even on the other side of the world, she can’t help wonder if a series of unsolved killings she reads about are related—not just…
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two by J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany
Media Type: Hardcover Book Title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two Series: Harry Potter #8 Authors: J.K Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne Publisher: Pottermore Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: July 31, 2016 Source: Purchased ———————————————- Genre: Young Adult Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy play manuscripts and the Harry Potter wizarding world. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be…
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Book Review: Deception Island by Brynn Kelly
Media Type: Ebook Title: Deception Island Author: Brynn Kelly Publisher: HQN Books Pages: Kindle; 336 Release Date: May 31, 2016 Source: Publisher/Netgalley —————————————————- Genre: Romance / Thriller Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy action packed stories that include some dark moments Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A stolen boy A haunted soldier A cornered con woman… Rafe Angelito thought he was done with the demons from his past—until his son is kidnapped. Blackmailed into abducting an American heiress, the legionnaire soon finds himself trapped in paradise with a fiery, daring beauty who’s nothing he expects…and everything he desires. But when he uncovers…
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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: 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: 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 and Giveaway: Cable Car Mystery by Greg Messel
Media Type: Paperback Title: Cable Car Mystery Series: Sam Slater Mystery Book 6 Author: Greg Messell Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 180 Release Date: June 14, 2016 Source: PUYB/Author ———————————————– Genre: Mystery/Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good mystery set in 1950’s San Francisco. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes On the hottest day of the year in San Francisco in 1959, Private Detectives Sam and Amelia Slater are contemplating fleeing the city for their Stinson Beach house. However, when Sam decides to take a cable car ride to run some errands on the lazy summer day, he’s suddenly thrust into the spotlight when he…
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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Lazlo’s Revenge by Glen Hierlmeier
Do you love stories about history and finding out about your past? Do you love a little romance with your war stories? Well then I have just the book for you! Lazlo’s Revenge follows Maxine “Max” Fischer, a writer and Swiss war correspondent, whose parents (Hank and Roberta Fischer, the main characters from Hierlmeier’s previous book, Honor and Innocence) lived through the tragedies of the Great World Wars. In Lazlo’s Revenge, Max sets out on an adventure throughout Europe to uncover her parents’ pasts and see the very places where they survived on their odyssey to escape danger and death.…
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Book Review: The Run Begins by J. Frank James
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Run Begins *Series: Lou Malloy Crime Series Author: J. Frank James Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: Kindle; 52 Release Date: August 26, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————- Genre: Crime / Fiction / Mystery / Thriller / Suspense / Action / Adventure HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good back story and want to read more in the series Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Lou Malloy is 18 years old and ready for the world. His brother Sam has left and his sister wants to move to Florida with the family. Malloy is having none of it and on a wild…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Gifted by J.A. George
What better way to start off your week than finding a great book to read? Gifted by J.A. George is an exciting tale of seven characters and their adventures, as told by Ava, the narrator. There is no chosen one in this story. Avery Gray was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and happened to make a decision that altered her future forever. It happens to all of us every day. Avery is a size twelve university student with a penchant for dry humour, and she’s as normal as they come. Up until now, the biggest choice she’s had…