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Book Review: The Queen’s Lover
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Queen’s Lover Author: Francine Du Plessix Gray Publisher: Penguin Pages: Hardcover; 300 Release Date: June 14, 2012 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours ————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of this genre, but also fans of this time period as well. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Historical fiction of the highest order, The Queen’s Lover reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel Von Fersen and Marie Antoinette The Queen’s Lover begins at a masquerade ball in Paris…
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Book Review: White Horse
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: White Horse Author: Alex Adams Publisher: Atria / Emily Bestler Books Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: April 17, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————— Genre: Science Fiction / Dystopian HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a dark story, with plenty of humanity and hope thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are…
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Book Review: Blue Asylum
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Blue Asylum Author: Kathy Hepinstall Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: April 10, 2012 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours —————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy light historical fiction with a great storyline. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only reasonable explanation the court can see for her willful behavior, so she is sent…
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Book Review: Inhale
Media Type: Ebook Title: Inhale Author: Kendall Grey Publisher: Howling Mad Press Pages: Paperback; 453 Release Date: May 1, 2012 Source: Author ——————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a steamy read with wonderful characters and a unique plot. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Strangers in reality, inseparable in dreams… After years of suffocating under her boss’s scrutiny, whale biologist Zoe Morgan finally lands a job as director of a tagging project in Hervey Bay, Australia. Success Down Under all but guarantees her…
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Utukku has invaded and brought your chance to read God’s Eye!
If you’ll recall… yesterday I reviewed God’s Eye by A.J. Scudiere! Somehow that must have opened up a rift in the veil, because OH MY GOSH Utukku has invaded my city! I caught some pictures of him hanging out in downtown. He must like the noise and the food selection. Isn’t he just so CUTE? Yes, I think a demon is cute! I mean the cover doesn’t do him justice at all. I’d snuggle that adorable little Utukku doll for days. He’d better fly off soon, because I am so not kidding. Anyway, back to the point. While it wasn’t my…
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Book Review: God’s Eye
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: God’s Eye Author: A.J. Scudiere Publisher: Griffyn Ink Publishing Pages: Paperback; 419 Release Date: October 1, 2011 Source: JKS Communications ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Paranormal Romance ————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love PR and are looking for a strong story line. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Katharine Geryon is living the life her family name has dictated, and why not? After all, it has given her a good job in the family company and a fine life with all the things…
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Book Review: Fire Baptized
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fire Baptized (Habitat #1) Author: Kenya Wright Publisher: Dragonfairy Press Pages: Paperback; 276 Release Date: January 28, 2012 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love gritty, dark stories with a romantic twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Since the 1970s humans have forced supernaturals to live in caged cities. Silver brands embedded in their foreheads identify them by species: a full moon for Vampires, a crescent moon for Shifters, a pair of wings for…
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World-Building: Guest Post and Giveaway with Charlotte E. English
Special thanks to Charlotte for providing the guest post below, as well as the giveaway! On Fantasy World-Building I’ve been a lifelong fan of fantasy fiction. Perhaps that isn’t saying much given that I’ve yet to reach my thirtieth year, but nonetheless I’ve read an awful lot of it. I still love it and read it very regularly, but there are some things about the genre that I stopped loving some time ago. The biggest of those is traditional fantasy world-building. “Traditional” fantasy books are usually inspired by Tolkien, to a greater or a lesser extent, and tend to feature…
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Book Review: Draykon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Draykon (Draykon #1) Author: Charlotte E. English Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: August 31, 2011 Source: Author ———————————— Genre: Mystery/Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy well written fantasy, coupled with a quick moving mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When shy and retiring Llandry Sanfaer discovers a mesmerising new gemstone, she suddenly becomes the most famous jeweller across the Seven Realms. Demand for the coveted stone escalates fast; when people begin dying for it, Llandry finds that she herself has become a target.…
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Book Review: Death Drop
Media Type: Ebook Title: Death Drop (The D-Evolution #1) Author: Sean Allen Publisher: Vintage Six Media Pages: Paperback; 560 Release Date: October 1, 2011 Source: Publisher ————————————- Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of epic Sci Fi adventures! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a time when a live Human specimen would fetch a king’s ransom on the black market, being a smuggler seemed like the perfect front to search for her people. But the cost of Dezmara Strykar’s operation has forced her to win each smuggling run…