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    Book Review: To Best The Boys by Mary Weber

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: To Best The Boys Author: Mary Weber Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: March 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast paced, female centered and powerful reads! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. Every year, the poorer residents look to see…

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    Graphic Novel Review: Bone Parish, Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bone Parish, Volume 1    * Series: Bone Parish Author: Cullen Bunn Publisher: BOOM! Studios Pages: Paperback; 112 Release Date: May 7, 2019 Source: NetGalley ————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Graphic novel readers who are looking for something with dark, science fiction elements. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N A necromantic horror series about an upstart crime family trafficking in a new designer drug that’s just hit the market made from the ashes of the dead. A new drug is sweeping through the streets of…

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    Book Review: You Asked For Perfect by Laura Silverman

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: You Asked For Perfect Author: Laura Silverman Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: March 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours ——————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love contemporary stories that really hit home, and books about realistic people. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Senior Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant: first chair violin, dedicated community volunteer, and expected valedictorian. He works hard – really hard – to make his life look effortless. A failed Calculus quiz is…

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    Book Review: Dark of the West (Glass Alliance #1) by Joanna Hathaway

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Dark of the West    * Series: Glass Alliance #1 Author: Joanna Hathaway Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Hardcover; 480 Release Date: February 5, 2019 Source: Publisher / FFBC Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love sweeping military epics with vivid characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N He was raised in revolution. She was raised in a palace. Can their love stop a war? Code Name Verity meets The Winner’s Cursein Joanna Hathaway’s Dark of the West, a breathtaking YA fantasy debut. Aurelia…

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    Book Review: Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Song For A Whale Author: Lynne Kelly Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: February 5, 2019 Source: Publisher —————————————– Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love stories with heart, and a little bit of science to boot! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl’s connection to a whale whose song can’t be heard by his species, and the journey she takes…

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    Book Review: That’s Not What I Heard by Stephanie Kate Strohm

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: That’s Not What I Heard Author: Stephanie Kate Strohm Publisher: Scholastic Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: January 29, 2019 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy high school drama at it’s adorable best! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N What did you hear? Kimberly Landis-Lilley and Teddy Lin are over. Yes, the Kim and Teddy broke up. At least that’s what Phil Spooner thinks he overheard and then told Jess Howard, Kim’s best friend. Something about Teddy…

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    Book Review: Renegade Heart (Renegades #1) by Lissa Lynn Thomas

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Renegade Heart *Series: Renegades Book 1 Author: Lissa Lynn Thomas Publisher: Self-Published Pages: Ebook; 147 Release Date: February 5, 2018 Source: Author ——————————————– Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic romance, with tough characters and sweet romance. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Raif Montgomery, lead singer of Renegades, the area’s most popular band, isn’t like other guys. When he gets left at the altar by a woman most men would kill to have, he finds himself more relieved than heartbroken. Things take another twisted…

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    Book Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Throne of Glass   * Series: Throne of Glass #1 Author: Sarah J Maas Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: Paperback; 443 Release Date: August 7, 2012 Source: Purchased —————————————— Content Warning: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark themes and teenage angst. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a…

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    Book Review: A Slice of Magic by A.G. Mayes

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: A Slice of Magic Author: A.G. Mayes Publisher: HarperImpulse Pages: Print; 234 Release Date: January 25, 2019 Source: NetGalley / Publisher —————————————- Genre: Cozy Mystery / Magical Realism HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy quick, sweet reads with quirky characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Susanna Daniels has spent over twenty years wondering why her beloved Aunt Erma disappeared from her life. When Aunt Erma leaves a voicemail asking for help at her pie shop, Susanna thinks she’s finally going to get the answers she’s been…

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    Book Review: Nine While Nine by Stasia Morineaux

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Nine While Nine    *Series: Nine While Nine Legacy #1 Author: Stasia Morineaux Publisher: The Parliament House Pages: Print; 396 Release Date: June 2, 2018 Source: Purchased ————————————————— Genre: Paranormal Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a dip beyond the veil, and aren’t afraid of some serious smolder on the page! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Isabeau Finne’s perfect world utterly unravels when she meets Death’s right-hand man one fateful night, spiraling her life into a world of chaos and the impossible… Suddenly, she is no…