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    Book Review: Stim

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Stim Author: Kevin Berry Publisher: Waspie Publishing Pages: Kindle; 176 Release Date: October 16, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ——————————————- Genre: Contemporary Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for an honest glimpse into the inner workings of a person with Asperger’s Syndrome. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Robert is different. He has Asperger’s Syndrome. He experiences the world differently to 99% of the population. Follow his entertaining and highly empathetic story as he struggles to realise and accept who he really is, try to understand other…

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    Book Review: Cruelty (Episode: One)

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Cruelty (Episode: One)    *Series: Cruelty (Serial Novel) Author: Edward Lorn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; N/A Release Date: October 5, 2013 Source: Purchased ————————————————- Genre: Horror HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to be scared, and have a strong stomach. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRUELTY is a serial novel in ten parts. Episode One. On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he’s not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone, or something, with her car. The figure…

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    Book Review: Side Effects May Vary

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Side Effects May Vary Author: Julie Murphy Publisher: Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 18, 2014 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club/Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a different take on a character who is dealing with cancer. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is…

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    Book Review: Shattered Veil (The Diatous Wars #1)

    Media Type: Ebook  Title: Shattered Veil    * Series: The Diatous Wars #1 Author: Tracy E. Banghart Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: February 28, 2014 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy new worlds, with fascinating characters and situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? ~ For Aris, a talented wingjet pilot, war means sacrificing everything: her home, her name, her face—and the one promise she swore she’d never break. In the…

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    Book Review: Bittersweet Darkness (The Order #3)

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bittersweet Darkness    *Series: The Order #3 Author: Nina Croft Publisher: Entangled: Edge Pages: Kindle; 251 Release Date: February 24, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast-paced reads with excellently written characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There are no monsters, only good guys and bad guys. That’s the creed by which Detective Inspector Faith Connolly has always lived. When Faith discovers that she has a time bomb counting down in her head, she has one goal; to solve…

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    Book Review: The Waking Dark

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Waking Dark Author: Robin Wasserman Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: September 10, 2013 Release Date: Hardcover; 464 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with dark, disturbing reads. This features plenty of violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by…

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    Book Review: The Rule of Three

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Rule of Three Author: Eric Walters Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 405 Release Date: January 21, 2014 Source: Library —————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic fiction, and well-written characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and…

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    Book Review: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Author: Peter Swanson Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: February 4, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Genre: Thriller / Noir HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mysteries with a slow burn, and noir style writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college…

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    Book Review: The Polaris Uprising

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Polaris Uprising    *Series: Polaris #1 Author: Jennifer Ibarra Publisher: Tiwala Books Pages: Paperback; 328 Release Date: October 30, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoying strong female characters, and hidden secrets. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon In less than seven years, eighteen-year-old Ryla Jensen will succeed her father as the president of Neress, a nation where all citizens are cared for from the moment they’re born. Fed, sheltered, even educated—every need of theirs is met. The only price…

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    Book Review: Northwood

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Northwood Illustrator: Donovan Bixley Author: Brian  Falkner Publisher: Capstone Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 282 Release Date: January 1, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love unpredictable adventure and fun characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The dark forest of Northwood has never seen the likes of Cecilia Undergarment before … Cecilia Undergarment likes a challenge. So when she discovers a sad and neglected dog, she is determined to rescue him. No matter what. But her…