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Book Review: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Hating Game Author: Sally Thorne Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Paperback; 384 Release Date: August 9, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————- Genre: Romantic Comedy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sizzling rom coms with believable characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2) A person’s undoing 3) Joshua Templeman Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being…
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Book Review: And Darkness Waits: When Fear Descends Into Madness by C.K. Post
Media Type: Ebook Title: And Darkness Waits: When Fear Descends Into Madness Author: C.K. Post Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 190 Release Date: August 1, 2016 Source: Author —————————————————————————— Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love unreliable narrators and books with plenty of twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A successful horror author, Jeffrey Newman has everything money can buy. The world doesn’t know about his bouts with depression, his frequent nightmares, the darkness that weaves through him or the crushing burden of guilt he has carried for most of his…
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Book Review: Kings or Pawns (The Kings #1) by J.J. Sherwood
Media Type: Ebook Title: Kings or Pawns *Series: The Kings Book 1 Author: J.J. Sherwood Publisher: Silver Helm Pages: Paperback; 383 Release Date: October 1, 2015 Source: Author ——————————————————- Genre: Epic Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy their Fantasy with a good dose of political intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The first book in JJ Sherwood’s Steps of Power epic fantasy series. The Kings, Book I: Kings or Pawns is a political intrigue that spirals into an action and adventure series as the final events unfold. 8,994 P.E.—The…
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Book Review: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales by Susan Berliner
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Sea Crystal and Other Weird Tales Author: Susan Berliner Publisher: SRB Books Pages: Kindle; 160 Release Date: April 3, 2016 Source: Author ———————————————————– Genre: Short Stories HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy suspenseful tales with a very paranormal twist. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Welcome to Susan Berliner’s world. It’s a place where strange things—both good and bad—happen. Meet some of the inhabitants: * Doreen. It’s time for her wedding—but where is everyone? (Doreen’s Wedding) * Neal. The face he sees in the mirror is no longer…
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Book Review: Tea Cups and Carnage by Lynn Cahoon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Tea Cups and Carnage Series: A Tourist Trap Mystery #7 Author: Lynn Cahoon Publisher: Lyrical Underground Pages: 194 Release Date: June 7, 2016 Source: Netgalley ———————————————– Genre: Mystery/Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy the series Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The kettle’s about to boil over . . . The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there’s nothing cozy about murder . . .Shop owner Kathi Corbin says she came to South Cove…
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Book Review: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
Media Type: Print Book Title: After Alice Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Hardcover; 273 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Retellings / Re-Imaginings HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have a fondness for Alice and all things Wonderland related. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found…
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Book Review and Giveaway: Cable Car Mystery by Greg Messel
Media Type: Paperback Title: Cable Car Mystery Series: Sam Slater Mystery Book 6 Author: Greg Messell Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 180 Release Date: June 14, 2016 Source: PUYB/Author ———————————————– Genre: Mystery/Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good mystery set in 1950’s San Francisco. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes On the hottest day of the year in San Francisco in 1959, Private Detectives Sam and Amelia Slater are contemplating fleeing the city for their Stinson Beach house. However, when Sam decides to take a cable car ride to run some errands on the lazy summer day, he’s suddenly thrust into the spotlight when he…
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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Lazlo’s Revenge by Glen Hierlmeier
Do you love stories about history and finding out about your past? Do you love a little romance with your war stories? Well then I have just the book for you! Lazlo’s Revenge follows Maxine “Max” Fischer, a writer and Swiss war correspondent, whose parents (Hank and Roberta Fischer, the main characters from Hierlmeier’s previous book, Honor and Innocence) lived through the tragedies of the Great World Wars. In Lazlo’s Revenge, Max sets out on an adventure throughout Europe to uncover her parents’ pasts and see the very places where they survived on their odyssey to escape danger and death.…
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Novella Review: The Planets All Shone by Nora Fleischer
Media Type: Ebook (Novella) Title: The Planets All Shone Author: Nora Fleischer Publisher: Jennifer Lee Goloboy Pages: Kindle; 44 Release Date: May 25, 2016 Source: Author ———————————————– Genre: Science Fiction, Humor HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a quick jaunt into a funny and lighthearted Science Fiction read. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Dana Elson never should have drunk that soda. Now she’s sharing her body with the clone of a dead man– and she and the clone’s gun-happy boyfriend are on the run from the sinister Mahler Corporation. Can Dana…
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Original Bespoke Poetry by Dane Cobain
Good evening my darling bookworms! I’ve quite the treat for you today, as bookish things go. Dane Cobain, author of the amazing books you’ll see below, has graced us with a piece of original poetry! What’s even cooler, is that he allowed me to give him 5 words, and then wove those into said poetry. I played with a random word generator and came up with: justice passion joy cement breakfast If that’s not an impressive set of words to weave into a bespoke poem, I don’t know what would be. Please enjoy a look at…