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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Destroyer Rising by Eric R. Asher
Are you ready for another bookish spotlight? Urban Fantasy is one of my favorite genres out there, and I love a good cover. Eric R. Asher’s Destroyer Rising definitely fits that bill. Destroyer Rising Eric Asher ((Vesik #5) ) Publication date: December 29th 2015 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy It’s been three years since we failed Vicky, the child once known as Elizabeth Gray. Three years she’s lived as something not quite alive, but far from dead. Her path grows darker, even as she spreads light and hope through a tortured world. The Destroyer has come to claim her, and I can’t…
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Book Review: A Spark of Justice by J.D. Hawkins
Media Type: Ebook Title: A Spark of Justice Publisher: Self-published Author: J.D. Hawkins Pages: Kindle; 196 Release Date: August 21, 2015 Source: Author —————————————– Genre: Mystery/Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories with vivid and interesting settings. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A fatal accident at the circus sparks an insurance investigation that leads John Nieves, a former New York cop, to a list of murder suspects. It seems that The Great Rollo, beloved of millions, had enemies… both at the circus and among his own family. All that is…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: A Spark of Justice by J.D. Hawkins
It’s time for another book spotlight, and this one in particular caught my attention instantly. Why, you ask? Well, interestingly enough, J.D. Hawkins actually has experience living with the circus! I can’t think of better field work for a book than that. A fatal accident at the circus sparks an insurance investigation that leads John Nieves, a former New York cop, to a list of murder suspects. It seems that The Great Rollo, beloved of millions, had enemies… both at the circus and among his own family. All that is surreal and magical about the circus brings out Nieves’ deepest…
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Book Review: Meditations in Wonderland by Anna Patrick
Media Type: Ebook Title: Meditations in Wonderland Author: Anna Patrick Publisher: River Grove Books Pages: Ebook; 225 Release Date: October 6, 2015 Source: Author ———————————————– Genre: Contemporary / Retelling HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a darker look at Wonderland, and the parallels to our own minds. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Follow Elizabeth down the rabbit hole—and meet a whole new Alice. Elizabeth, a twenty-four-year-old interior designer living in Brooklyn, New York, encounters a little more than mental static when she sits down for her morning meditation, feeling disconnected from…
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Book Spotlight: Meditations in Wonderland by Anna Patrick
I hope you’re ready for another book spotlight! I know I fell off the face of the map for a bit. Sorry friends. About once every 5 or 6 years I get really really sick. You know how most people get the flu and are out cold for a week? I pretty much never get sick longer than 3 days. EXCEPT… once every 5 or 6 years. This year, was that year. I got knocked on my behind by a virus very similar to strep throat, and I’m only just better. Let’s just say that blogging was the last thing…
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Book Review: Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Shadow of Night *Series: All Souls Trilogy #2 Author: Deborah Harkness Publisher: Penguin Books Run Time: 24 hours and 30 minutes Release Date: July 10, 2012 Source: Audible ————————————————– Genre: Paranormal / Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy plenty of history in their historical fiction. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical All Souls Trilogy and an international publishing phenomenon. The novel introduced Diana Bishop,…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: The Felix Chronicles: Freshmen by R.T. Lowe
Apologies for the radio silence, awesome followers. Sometimes life just gets so crazy that blogging has to take a back seat. We always come back though! It’s an obsession. I’m happy to pop back in with a new book for you to put on your reading list. Please give a warm welcome to Randall T. Lowe and his dark urban fantasy, The Felix Chronicles: Freshmen. Reeling from a terrible accident that claimed the lives of his parents, Felix arrives at Portland College hoping only to survive the experience. In time, however, his reality star roommate shows him there is more…
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Book Review: Fat Ballet by T.R. Whittier
Media Type: Ebook Title: Fat Ballet Author: T.R. Whittier Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 230 Release Date: June 25, 2015 Source: Author —————————————— Genre: Contemporary / Humor HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that are sweet, light-hearted, and still deal with real world characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes It’s not easy being Olga Dolovich. Orphaned at a time when she had only just begun to appreciate her parents, tormented by her beautiful-but-bitchy sex goddess of a sister, and doomed to clean the world’s dirtiest bathroom, Olga doesn’t exactly lead a…
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Book Review: Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
Media Type: Print Book Title: Station Eleven: A Novel Author: Emily St. John Mandel Publisher: Knopf Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: September 4, 2014 Source: Library ——————————————- Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a new take on a post-apocalyptic world. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything…
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Book Review: Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Love Is Red Author: Sophie Jaff Publisher: Harper Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: May 12, 2015 Source: TLC Book Tours / Publisher ———————————————— Genre: Suspense / Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like books that keep you guessing, and aren’t afraid of some violence. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Redefining the thriller’s tale of the hunter and the hunted, This electrifying, hypnotically beautiful debut spins dark suspense and literary fantasy into a mesmerizing story of survival. Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries…