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Book Review: This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: This Shattered World *Series: Starbound #2 Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: December 23, 2014 Source: NetGalley ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who loved the first book, and are eager for more tragic love stories! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet’s rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the…
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Book Review: Written on Her Heart by Paige Rion
Media Type: Ebook Title: Written on Her Heart Series: Callaway Cove Book 1 Author: Paige Rion Publisher: Self Pages: ebook, 263 Release Date: April 14, 2014 Source: Netgalley ——————————————- Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of romance Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Andi Callaway has dreamed of becoming a published author her entire life. Ford Delaney has always wanted nothing more than to escape his past. An opportunity of a lifetime. This is what Andi finds when she returns home to Callaway Cove on summer break. A chance to work for her literary idol Ford Delaney is up for grabs, and she’s willing to risk everything—her boyfriend,…
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Waiting on Wednesday (12/17/14)
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. It’s hosted by Breaking the Spine. One of my biggest surprises this year was falling in love with The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. I chose it for our book club, on a whim, and ended up absolutely adoring it as a read! Color me a happy bookworm when I found out that there is going to be more! The Rosie Effect is out soon, and I’m excited. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. If you were swept away by Graeme Simsion’s international smash hit…
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Book Review & GIveaway: One Song Away by Molli Moran
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: One Song Away Author: Molli Moran Publisher: Self Pages: ebook, 200 Release Date: December 1, 2014 Source: Author ——————————————- Content Screening: Intended for mature audiences 18+ Genre: Romance/New Adult HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of hometown love stories Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes She needs a fill-in boyfriend. He needs a favor. It’s the perfect, no-strings arrangement until they both realize it’s too real… Sophie-Claire Wright’s life is like a bad country song on repeat. She keeps running into her cheating ex, her songwriting career isn’t taking off, and her roommate just kicked her out of their apartment. With nothing to lose, she…
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Book Review: Facial by Jeff Strand
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Facial Author: Jeff Strand Publisher: DarkFuse Pages: ebook; 86 Release Date: December 16, 2014 Source: Netgalley —————————————– Content Screening: Violence and Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark humor and aren’t afraid of a little gore. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office. Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body. It’s kind of related to the lion corpse that he found in his basement. This is the normal part of the story. From Jeff Strand,…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Lebrus Stone by Miriam Khan
It’s time for another bookish spotlight! This time the lovely Giselle of Xpresso Book Tours is running a tour for The Lebrus Stone by Miriam Khan. I have to say, the reason that I chose to host this was that it sounds deliciously creepy. Nightmares and witchcraft? That’s my kind or read. Perhaps it’s yours too? Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When Eighteen-year-old orphan, Crystal Valdez, accepts an invitation to the small town of Blacksville, West Virginia, she hopes to have a summer to remember and a chance to learn more about her parents, to also get to know the family…
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Guest Post: There’s Something About Bim by Michael Jasper
Happy release day to the wonderful Michael Jasper! In celebration of his new release Finders, Inc., we get some insights into the world of Bim- one of the characters. Check it out! My latest novel, Finders, Inc., is the first book in what I hope will be a long series of mystery novels (with a hint of the paranormal) set in the small town of Boone, North Carolina tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The name of the series is “The Finder Team,” and the team is made up of an eclectic group of forty-somethings, all of whom bring…
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Book Review: Finders, Inc by Michael Jasper
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Finders, Inc. Series: The Finder Team Book 1 Author: Michael Jasper Publisher: UnWrecked Press Pages: ebook; 204 Release Date: December 9, 2014 Source: Author/Publisher —————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good characters with some unusual research tactics. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Sometimes those who can’t be found just might not be lost… Finders, Inc. co-founders Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer have spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and—almost miraculously, thanks to Bim’s special skills—finding missing people in and around the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina. Until now. Their most recent case deals with…
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Book Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Suspicion Author: Alexandra Monir Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: December 9, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy gothic mysteries set against lavish backdrops. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes “There’s something hidden in the Maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said to her seven years ago, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens of her family’s English country manor. Haunted by her parents’ deaths, Imogen…
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Book Review: The Luck Uglies by Paul Durham
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Luck Uglies Author: Paul Durham Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: April 29, 2014 Source: Library ——————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love adventure and intrigue in a Middle Grade package. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Rye O’Chanter has seen a lot of strange things happen in Village Drowning: children are chased through the streets. Families are fined for breaking laws that don’t even exist. Girls aren’t allowed to read anymore, and certain books—books that hold secrets about Drowning’s past—have…