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    Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Fledgling by Nicole Conway

    Click the banner for more tour stops! What better way to make a Monday more bearable than an awesome tour stop? Especially when that tour stop features dragons! Today’s spotlight is on Fledgling by Nichole Conway, a book that speaks to my Fantasy loving heart. Can one boy stand between two kingdoms at war? Jaevid Broadfeather has grown up as a wartime refugee, hiding from the world because of his mixed racial heritage. He feels his future is hopeless, until a chance encounter with a wild dragon lands him in Blybrig Academy—a place usually forbidden to anyone but the rich and…

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    Book Review: Prisoner of Night and Fog

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Prisoner of Night and Fog    * Series: Prisoner of Night and Fog #1 Author: Anne Blankman Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 416 Release Date: April 22, 2014 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club Tour ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of historical fiction, or who have an interest in this time period. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes In 1930s Munich, danger lurks behind dark corners, and secrets are buried deep within the city. But Gretchen Müller, who grew up in…

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    Book Review: Wish You Weren’t

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Wish You Weren’t Author: Sherrie Peterson Publisher: Intrepid Publications Pages: Paperback; 139 Release Date: March 17, 2014 Source: Publicity Blog Tour ———————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fun, quick reads with lots of heart. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Marten doesn’t believe in the power of wishes. None of his have ever come true. His parents ignore him, his little brother is a pain and his family is talking about moving to Texas. Not cool. So when he makes an…

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    Book Review: Rose and the Lost Princess

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Rose and the Lost Princess    *Series: Rose #2 Author: Holly Webb Publisher: Sourcebooks Pages: Paperback; 256 Release Date: April 1, 2014 Source: Publisher ——————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love witty young heroines and stories filled with plenty of magic! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Now an apprentice magician, Rose is asked to help find a very special missing person Turning the worn pages of her spell book, Rose can’t believe how much her life has changed. Once a poor…

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    Book Review: The Eyes of the Dragon

    Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Eyes of the Dragon Author: Stephen King Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Format: MP3 Download Duration: 10 hours and 18 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————– Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: All readers who love sweeping Fantasy with amazing characters written in! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Once upon a time – there was terror and dragons and princes… evil wizards and dark dungeons… and an enchanted castle and a terrible secret. With this enthralling masterpiece of magical evil and daring adventure, Stephen King…

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    Book Review: The Mark of the Dragonfly

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Mark of the Dragonfly Author: Jaleigh Johnson Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: March 25, 2014 Source: Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love big adventures with brave characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Fans of The City of Ember will love The Mark of the Dragonfly, an adventure story set in a magical world that is both exciting and dangerous. Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid…

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    Book Review: Before They Find Us

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Before They Find Us Author: Michelle A. Hansen Publisher: Priest Rapids Press Pages: Paperback; 334 Release Date: November 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mystery novels, mixed with a little bit of romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes I’m going to make you wish you were dead. Just a text. Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Hales tries not to worry. Probably a wrong number. Not really meant for her, and definitely not related to the crime she witnessed six…

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    Book Review: Breadcrumbs

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Breadcrumbs Author: Anne Ursu Publisher: Walden Pond Press Pages: Hardcover; 312 Release Date: September 27, 2011 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of fairy tales, both young and old. Anyone looking to get lost in a book. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they…

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    Book Review: The Secret Side of Empty

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Secret Side of Empty Author: Maria E. Andreu Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 11, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. This is a beautiful book and I recommend it to everyone! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to the contrary: her full name of Monserrat Thalia…

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    Book Review: The Cruelty

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Cruelty Author: S. Bergstrom Publisher: JKSCommunications Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: March 15, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy deeply written, fast paced thrillers with an amazing protagonist! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes When her diplomat father is kidnapped and the U.S. Government is unable to help, 17 year-old Gwendolyn Bloom sets off across the sordid underbelly of Europe to rescue him. Following the only lead she has—the name of a Palestinian informer living in France—she plunges…