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Book Review: Creature Feature by Steven Paul Leiva
THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN PLACIDVILLE! It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, a serious actress who took her training at the Actors Studio in New York, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman on Vivacia’s House of Horrors for a local Chicago TV station. Finally fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, she quits and heads to New York and the fame and footlights of Broadway. She stops off to visit her parents and old friends in Placidville, the all-Ameican, middle-class, blissfully normal Midwest small town she grew up in. But she finds things are strange in…
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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.
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Book Review: Lanny by Max Porter
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and…
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Book Review: Monster Hunter International (MHI #1) by Larry Correia
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Monster Hunter International * Series: MHI #1 Author: Larry Correia Publisher: Audible Audio Narrator: Oliver Wyman Run Length: 24 hours Release Date: March 15, 2011 Source: Purchased ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love action packed, rollicking adventures! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Monsters are real. And some people kill them for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business, and Owen Zastava Pitt — CPA, average guy, and survivor of a brutal supernatural attack —…
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Book Review: The Memory Trees by Kali Wallace
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Memory Trees Author: Kali Wallace Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books Run Time: 12 hours 51 minutes Release Date: October 10, 2017 Source: Library ——————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Content Screening: Mild Violence; Adult Language Recommended to: Readers who like ethereal reads that have one foot in reality and the other in magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N The Memory Trees is a dark magical realism novel about a mysterious family legacy, a centuries-old feud, and a tragic loss that resurfaces when sixteen-year-old Sorrow returns to her mother’s family orchard for…
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Audio Book Review: Rebel by Amy Tintera
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Rebel * Series: Reboot #2 Author: Amy Tintera Narrator: Khristine Hvam, Mike Chamberlain Publisher: Harper Teen Format: MP3 Download Length: 7 hours and 59 minutes Source: Audible ——————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the first book in the series! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The sequel to the action-packed Reboot is a can’t-miss thrill ride, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Veronica Roth, and Marie Lu.After coming back from death as Reboots and being trained by HARC as soldiers, Wren and Callum have…
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Audio Book Review: Landry Park by Bethany Hagen
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Landry Park Author: Bethany Hagen Narrator: Leslie Bellair Publisher: Penguin Audio Format: MP3 CD Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Source: Library ——————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of dystopian fiction, science fiction and historical romance! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Downton Abbey meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayal In a fragmented future United States ruled by the lavish gentry, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry dreams of going to the university. Unfortunately, gentry decorum and her domineering father won’t allow that.…
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Book Review: The Eyes of the Dragon
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Eyes of the Dragon Author: Stephen King Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Format: MP3 Download Duration: 10 hours and 18 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————– Genre: Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: All readers who love sweeping Fantasy with amazing characters written in! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Once upon a time – there was terror and dragons and princes… evil wizards and dark dungeons… and an enchanted castle and a terrible secret. With this enthralling masterpiece of magical evil and daring adventure, Stephen King…
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Audio Book Review: Fuse (Pure #2)
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Fuse *Series: Pure #2′ Author: Julianna Baggott Narrators: Khristine Hvam, Casey Holloway, Kevin T. Collins, Pierce Cravens Publisher: Hachette Audio Format: MP3 Download Duration: 16 hours and 44 minutes Source: Library Download ——————————————————————– Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time. To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations…
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Audio Book Review: Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard * Series: Zoe & Zak Adventures #1 Author: Lars Guignard Narrator: Bailey S. Carson Publisher: Fantastic Press Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 7 hours and 20 minutes Source: CBB Book Promotions ———————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love action and adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Introducing book 1 of the new kids’ adventure books from best-selling author Lars Guignard: Zoe and Zak are lost in exotic India, where gods and magic still exist. Before they can find their way home, they just…
