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Book Review: Lovestruck by Kate Watson
Title: Lovestruck Author: Kate Watson Publisher: Flux Pages: Paperback; 300 Release Date: April 2, 2019 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy lighter reads with great messages. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Sixteen-year-old cupid-in-training Kali is in an Olympus-sized mountain of trouble. Rule number one in arrow-toting matchmaking: don’t stick yourself. But accidents happen, and Kali instantly falls hard for her indie rock, bass-playing target, Benicio. The God of Love is going to kill her. Even if he is her dad. Being…
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Graphic Novel Review: Operatic by Kyo Maclear
Title: Operatic Author: Kyo Maclear Illustrator: Byron Eggenschwiler Publisher: Groundwood Books Pages: Hardcover; 160 Recommended Age Group: Upper MG/YA Release Date: April 2, 2019 Source: NetGalley / Publisher It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. The class learns about a different style of music each day, from hip-hop to metal to disco, but it’s hard for Charlie to concentrate when she can’t stop noticing her classmate Emile, or wondering about Luka, who hasn’t been to school in weeks. On top of everything, she has been talked into…
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Book Review: We Rule the Night by Clarie Eliza Bartlett
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: We Rule The Night Author: Claire Eliza Bartlett Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: April 2, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours ————————————————————- Content Screening: Violence, Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love stories with realistic characters, facing impossible odds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight–for their country and for themselves–in this riveting debut that’s part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity. Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war…
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Book Review: Semiosis (Semiosis Duology #1) by Sue Burke
Media Type: Print Book Title: Semiosis * Series: Semiosis Duology #1 Author: Sue Burke Publisher: Tor Books Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 6, 2018 Source: Publisher —————————————- Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy science fiction rife with survival, and with deep roots to nature. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance. Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet’s sentient species and prove that mammals are…
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Book Review: Hitched by Britni Hill
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Hitched Series: Western Palm series Author: Britni Hill Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback; 99 Release Date: March 18, 2019 Source: Author ————————————————— Genre: New Adult Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy happily ever afters. Grab it: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Western Palm University brought them together, making them a family. Tess and Blake stuck together and headed straight toward their happily ever after. They have everything they need and can’t imagine wanting more. Does that mean they’ve reached the end of their story? Jason stood up to his father. He made all the right choices for…
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Book Review: Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Sky Without Stars Series: System Divine Book 1 Authors: Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Hardcover; 592 Release Date: March 26, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy retellings with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A thief. An officer. A guardian. Three strangers, one shared destiny . . . When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants.…
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Book Review: Off Planet by Aileen Erin
Title: Off Planet Author: Aileen Erin Publisher: Ink Monster LLC Pages: 350, paperback Publication date: March 19, 2019 Source: Author/Xpresso Book Tours —————————————— Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a strong heroine and are interested in finishing a series. From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin Maite Martinez has always yearned for more than waitressing in a greasy diner on the polluted ruins of planet Earth. Hiding her special abilities is a full-time job on its own, even with the government distracted by the mysterious alien race – the Aunare. When a SpaceTech officer gets handsy with her,…
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Book Review: Beware the Night by Jessika Fleck
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Beware The Night Author: Jessika Fleck Publisher: Swoon Reads Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: March 12, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a Fantasy with a brave heroine facing unspeakable odds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice…even if it costs her the boy she loves. On the island of Bellona, life is…
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Book Review: The Sweetest Match by Abby Tyler
Title: The Sweetest Match Author: Abby Tyler Publisher: Self Pages: 202, paperback Publication date: March 7th 2019 Source: Author/Xpresso Book Tours —————————————— Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sickly sweet romance. She hid secret messages in frosting, thinking no one would notice. Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies — and its matchmaking — very seriously. Sandy Miller became an outcast at fifteen years old. Pregnant, confused, and blackmailed into silence, she spent eighteen years raising her son away from the…
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Book Review: Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Sheerger
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Operation Frog Effect Author: Sarah Sheerger Publisher: Random House BYR Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: February 26, 2019 Source: Publisher —————————————– Age Group: 3rd – 6th Grade HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a fun, poignant read from the POV of some amazing 5th graders! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N If one small act can create a ripple across the universe . . . what happens when a whole group of kids join together and act? Told in eight perspectives–including one in graphic…