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    Audio Book Review: On The Edge

    Media Type: Audio Book Title: On The Edge    * Series: The Edge #1 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 12 hours and 8 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like a strong female character and lots of magic to get lost in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the…

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    Book Review: Breathe

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Breathe    * Series: Breathe #1 Author: Sarah Crossan Publisher: Greenwillow Pages: Hardcover; 373 Release Date: October 2, 2012 Source: Library ————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of dystopian fiction. Readers who are okay with a little violence in their reading. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich…

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    Audio Book Review: Magic Slays

    Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Slays    * Series: Kate Daniels #5 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 13 hours and 7 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job. Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal…

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    Book Review: What We Saw At Night

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: What We Saw At Night Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Publisher: Soho Teen Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: January 8, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an outside the box read, with original characters. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling…

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    Audio Book Review: Look At Me

    Media Type: Audio Book Title: Look At Me Author: Jennifer Egan Narrator: Rachel Warren Publisher: AudioGO Format: MP3 CDs Duration: 20 hours and 6 minutes Source: Audiobook Jukebox ———————————————- Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are drawn in by sarcastic humor and character introspection. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still…

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    Book Review: Crossroads

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Crossroads   *Series: Crossroads Academy #1 Author: J.J. Bonds Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 310 Release Date: November 2011 Source: Author —————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of the Vampire Academy series. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When Katia enrolled at Crossroads Academy she knew things weren’t exactly going to be easy. The sole heir to the worlds’ most powerful vampire, her presence was bound to cause a stir. But nothing could have prepared her…

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    Book Review: The Namesake

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Namesake Author: Steven Parlato Publisher: Merit Press Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: January 18, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Abuse, Mild Violence —————————————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with real, harsh issues in their writing. Add it to: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Gifted artist? Standout student? All his teachers are sure certain that Evan Galloway can be the graduate who brings glory to small, ordinary St. Sebastian’s School. As for Evan, however, he can’t be bothered anymore.…

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    Book Review: Zephyr The West Wind

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Zephry: The West Wind    * Series: Chaos Chronicles #1 Author: R.J. Tolson Publisher: Universal Kingdom Print Pages: Paperback; 492 Release Date: August 1, 2012 Source: JKS Communications —————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of the Fantasy genre Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Seventeen years ago, in the island village of Dentro, lived a large and powerful demon. With just a howl, mountains were obliterated. With the help of an outsider, the chief of…