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Book Review: Secrets of a Reluctant Princess by Casey Griffin
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Secrets of a Reluctant Princess Author: Casey Griffin Publisher: Entangled TEEN Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: March 7, 2017 Source: Publisher / Chapter by Chapter Blog Tours ————————————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love stories with tons of growth, and adorable romances! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N At Beverly Hills High, you have to be ruthless to survive… Adrianna Bottom always wanted to be liked. But this wasn’t exactly what she had in mind. Now, she’s in the spotlight…and out of her…
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Book Review: Chameleon by Zoe Kalo
Media Type: Ebook Title: Chameleon Author: Zoe Kalo Publisher: Createspace Pages: Paperback; 250 Release Date: February 2, 2017 Source: Author/Xpresso Tours ——————————————– Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a darker/psychological aspect to their stories Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N An isolated convent, a supernatural presence, a dark secret… 17-year-old Paloma only wanted to hold a séance to contact her dead father. She never thought she would be kicked out of school and end up in an isolated convent. Now, all she wants is to be left alone. But slowly, she develops a bond with a group of girls: kind-hearted Maria, insolent Silvy, pathological…
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Book Review: Merrow by Ananda Braxton-Smith
Media Type: Ebook Title: Merrow Author: Ananda Braxton-Smith Publisher: Candlewick Press Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: November 8, 2016 Source: NetGalley ——————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like stories with a folktale feel and a lot of internal storytelling. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In this breathless and beautifully crafted tale, twelve-year-old Neen Marrey must separate town gossip from town lore to learn the truth about her mother—and herself. The people of Carrick Island have been whispering behind Neen’s back ever since her father drowned and…
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Book Review: June Jenson and the Shield of Quell
Media Type: Ebook Title: June Jenson and the Shield of Quell *Series: June Jenson #1 Author: Emily Harper Publisher: Writers to Authors Pages: Paperback; 302 Release Date: April 16, 2015 Source: Author —————————————————– Genre: Adventure / Mystery HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy witty and strong female protagonists who get themselves into all kinds of adventures! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N June Jenson, an accomplished Oxford professor, has spent her life trying to get out from under the shadow of her infamous grandfather: a renowned archaeologist accused of stealing a…
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Book Review: Caraval (Caraval #1) by Stephanie Garber
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Caraval (Caraval #1) Author: Stephanie Garber Publisher: Flatiron Books Pages: Hardcover; 407 Release Date: January 31, 2017 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are willing to be swept away, but aren’t sticklers for intense world or character building. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or a performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find to magic in this world . . .Welcome, welcome to Caraval―Stephanie…
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Book Review: Lifers by M.A. Griffin
Media Type: Ebook Title: Lifers Author: M.A. Griffin Publisher: Chicken House (Scholastic) Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: January 31, 2017 Source: Rockstar Book Tours / Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy mysteries that challenge their view of the world. Add it on: Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Audible | Goodreads Fear haunts the streets of Manchester: a schoolgirl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. Deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine. Captured and condemned to a cavernous space…
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Book Review: The Ninth Birthday Wish by Bruce E. Arrington and Florence Jayne
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Ninth Birthday Wish Author: Bruce E. Arrington Illustrator: Florence Jayne Publisher: Pipe Dream Books Pages: Paperback; 52 Release Date: June 3, 2016 Recommended Grade Level: K-3 Source: Author Birthday wishes…for twins? Bril and Arisa, though twins they may be, Are so very unlike, as you will soon see. Their wishes are different as Sea is from Land, But watch what happens to what they had planned! Bruce Arrington and Florence Jayne team up to being you an unforgettable tale of twins, who each wanted their birthday wish–away from the other. But when their wishes get all mixed up, unintended consequences make for unplanned adventures.…
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Book Review: Love, Hate, and Other Lies We Told by Deirdre Riordan Hall
Media Type: Ebook Title: Love, Hate, and other Lies We Told Author: Deirdre Riordan Hall Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback; 300 Release Date: January 17, 2017 Source: Author ——————————————– Genre: Romantic comedy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good laugh and a story about moving on Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Let go from her job and feeling lost, Navy Carrington takes a position as coffee-girl at a publicity firm. Their newest client is Carrick Kennely, the former love of her life and her fiercest adversary. She thought she’d let go of the past by playing it safe with book boyfriends—and avoiding frustratingly sexy guys like…
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Book Review: Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Love and First Sight Author: Josh Sundquist Publisher: Little, Brown BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 281 Release Date: January 3, 2017 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ———————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a well-written book from the perspective of a blind protagonist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Love is more than meets the eye. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove…
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Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Bear and the Nightingale Author: Katherine Arden Publisher: Del Rey Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: January 10, 2017 Source: NetGalley / Publisher —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good fairy tale, complete with a strong heroine. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved…