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Book Review: Untimed
Media Type: Print Book Title: Untimed Author: Andy Gavin Publisher: Mascherato Pages: Paperback; 325 Release Date: December 17, 2012 Source: Author ——————————————————- Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of deep historical fiction with elements of steampunk thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, even his own mother can’t remember his name. And girls? The invisible man gets more dates. As if that weren’t enough, when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him…
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Book Review: Notes From Ghost Town
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Notes From Ghost Town Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy delving into paranormal romances. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N They say first love never dies… From critically acclaimed author Kate Ellison comes a heartbreaking mystery of mental illness, unspoken love, and murder. When sixteen-year-old artist Olivia Tithe is visited by the ghost of her first love, Lucas Stern, it’s only through scattered…
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Book Review: Scent of Darkness
Media Type: Print Book Title: Scent of Darkness Author: Margot Berwin Publisher: Pantheon Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: January 29, 2013 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Paranormal Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy elegant prose and descriptive writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Evangeline is eighteen years old when her grandmother gives her the ultimate gift-a scent she has created just for her. From the moment Eva places a drop on her neck, her entire life changes. Previously unnoticed, she becomes the object of intense desire for everyone around…
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Book Review: The Daemon Whisperer
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Daemon Whisperer *Series: The Liminals Series Author: Candice Bundy Publisher: Lusios Publishing Pages: Ebook; 366 Release Date: October 1, 2012 Source: Author —————————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of strong female characters, UF and PNR. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Meriwether Storm discovered the grisly remains of her parents when she was only fourteen—the result of a failed daemon summoning. Meri immediately swore vengeance on the daemon who’d killed her parents, but there was only one problem: she had…
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Book Review: The Mirrored Shard
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Mirrored Shard *Series: Iron Codex #3 Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of the Iron Codex series. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Aoife Grayson must face death to win back Dean—the love who was ripped from the Iron Lands of the living when he was shot in the arctic north.…
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Book Review: Midnight City
Media Type: Print Book Title: Midnight City *Series: Conquered Earth #1 Author: J. Barton Mitchell Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: October 30, 2012 Source: Library —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy strong characters who are being forced to survive under insane circumstances! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell’s alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers…
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Book Review: Iron Hearted Violet
Media Type: Print Book Title: Iron Hearted Violet Author: Kelly Barnhill Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: October 9, 2012 Source: Library ———————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of MG who enjoy a vivid fairy tale story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The end of their world begins with a story. This one. In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn’t most fairy tales. Princess Violet…
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Book Review: The Six Gun Tarot
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Six Gun Tarot Author: R.S. Blecher Publisher: Tor Books Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: January 22, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy gritty, dark stories with a wide cast of characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears…
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Book Review: The Ripple in Space-Time
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Ripple in Space-Time Author: S.F. Chapman Publisher: Striped Cat Press Pages: Paperback; 260 Release Date: February 1, 2013 Source: J.K. Communications —————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy Science Fiction with a pretty heavy emphasis on the science aspect. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When the huge lunar Ultra Energy Laboratory is destroyed by a mysterious blast, Inspector Ryo Trop of the Free City Inquisitor’s Office is called in to sort out who is responsible for the disaster. Early reports…
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Book Review: Shadows of the Hidden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Shadows of the Hidden Author: Anne Riley Publisher: Compass Press Pages: Paperback; 340 Release Date: December 1, 2012 Source: Author ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good fantasy story with vivid characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Natalie Watson doesn’t believe her parents are dead, even though they disappeared five years ago. Discovering the truth about their fate is one of the only things that gets her out of bed in the…