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    Book Review: The Butterfly Clues

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language; Mild violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a thrilling mystery, but can also put up with the character’s OCD tendencies. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she’s learned…

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    Book Review: Fracture

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Publisher: Walker & Company Pages: Hardcover; 264 Release Date: January 27, 2012 Source: NetGalley ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet…

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    Book Review: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: How to Make a Golem and Terrify People Author: Alette Willis Publisher: Floris Books Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: November 17, 2011 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Middle grade readers who love adventures, and older readers who love a good story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / Librarything “You think you’re a fairy godmother or something?” I asked.  “Or something,” Michael agreed.  Edda is tired of her nickname, ‘Mouse’, and wants to be braver.…

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    Book Review: Blood and Bullets

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Blood and Bullets Author: James R. Tuck Publisher: Kensington Pages: Paperback; 352 Release Date: February 7, 2012 Source: Author ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy ————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Urban Fantasy lovers, as well as those with the ability to accept copious amounts of good old fashioned violence and cussing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat.…

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    Book Review: The Way We Fall

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: January 24, 2011 Source: Big Honcho Media —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian reads, but are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you’ll be blabbing your secrets and chatting…

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    Book Review: Pure

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Pure (Pure #1) Author: Julianna Baggott Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: Hardcover; 448 Release Date: February 8, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Dystopian fiction Add it on : Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather,…

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    Book Review: Pretty Bones

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Pretty Bones Author: Aya Tsintziras Publisher: Lorimer Pages: Paperback; 160 Release Date: September 2, 2011 Source: Teen Book Scene —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with discussions of anorexia. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses…

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    Book Review: Saving June

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Saving June Author: Hannah Harrington Publisher: Harlequin Pages: Paperback; 322 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Sexual Situations —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Key to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good contemporary read. Readers okay with upper YA themes. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When her older sister commits suicide and her divorcing parents decide to divide the ashes, Harper Scott takes her sister’s urn to the one place June always wanted to go: California. On the…

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    Book Review: Heavenly

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Heavenly (Heavenly #1) Author: Jennifer Laurens Publisher: Grove Creek Pages: Paperback; 296 Release Date: August 15, 2009 Source: Won from author ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a well written angel story! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N I met someone who changed everything. Matthias. My autistic sister’s guardian angel. Honest. Inspiring. Funny. Hot. And immortal. That was the problem. What could I do? I did what any other…

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    Book Review: Cinder

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Fiewel & Friends Pages: Hardcover; 387 Release Date: January 3, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings, mashed with a bit of science fiction! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one…