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Book Review: Life Eternal
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Life Eternal *Series: Dead Beautiful (Book 2) Author: Yvonne Wood Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 392 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. ————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who read and loved Dead Beautiful. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died…
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Book Review: Trafficked
Media Type: Print Book Title: Trafficked Author: Kim Purcell Publisher: Viking Children’s Books Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: February 16, 2012 Source: Publicity Company ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual situations; Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who aren’t afraid of a realistic and gritty read. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Hannah believes she’s being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs force Hannah to work sixteen-hour days,…
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Book Review: The Nightmare Garden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Nightmare Garden * Series: Iron Codex (Book 2) Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence/Language ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who devoured the first book and were eagerly awaiting the next! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn’t going to succumb to madness because…
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Book Review: Slipping Reality
Media Type: Ebook Title: Slipping Reality Author: Emily Beaver Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: Paperback; 272 Release Date: July 11, 2011 Source: JKSCommunications ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good story about dealing with grief and loss. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a time of hardship and heartbreak, sometimes, reality just isn’t enough. Slipping Reality is the story of fourteen-year-old Katelyn Emerson, who, when faced with the glaring reality of her brother’s illness, rebels against the truth…
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Book Review: Forsaken Harbor
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Forsaken Harbor Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Publishing Inc. Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 15, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Mild Language ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoyed the first in the series, and also readers who crave a good action-packed read! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / B&N The Secret Clock Society has infiltrated every aspect of the government. You can’t hide from them, you can’t out run them—the only choice is to surrender or die fighting. Well,…
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Book Review: Phantom Universe
Media Type: Ebook Title: Phantom Universe Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Press Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 3, 2011 Source: Purchased at B&N ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with the concepts of slavery and torture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she’s lived on most of her life is destroyed,…
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Book Review: Draykon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Draykon (Draykon #1) Author: Charlotte E. English Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: August 31, 2011 Source: Author ———————————— Genre: Mystery/Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy well written fantasy, coupled with a quick moving mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When shy and retiring Llandry Sanfaer discovers a mesmerising new gemstone, she suddenly becomes the most famous jeweller across the Seven Realms. Demand for the coveted stone escalates fast; when people begin dying for it, Llandry finds that she herself has become a target.…
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Book Review: Graffiti Moon
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Graffiti Moon Author: Cath Crowley Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ——————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who swoon worthy moments and wonderfully rendered characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds…
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Book Review: Illumine
Media Type: Ebook Title: Illumine Author: Alivia Anders Publisher: Self-published Release Date: January 7, 2012 Source: Purchased via Kindle ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of paranormal fiction, and those who can stomach a little violence while setting off on an epic adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can…
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Book Review: Everneath
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Everneath (Everneath #1) Author: Brodi Ashton Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 370 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: Teen Book Scene / Publisher ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Really. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she’s returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before…