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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: Partials
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Partials Author: Dan Wells Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 472 Release Date: February 28, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Violence ——————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for dystopian novel that is a little bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with partials–engineered organic beings identical to humans–has decimated the world’s population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction…
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Book Review: The Way We Fall
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: January 24, 2011 Source: Big Honcho Media —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian reads, but are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you’ll be blabbing your secrets and chatting…
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Book Review: Pure
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Pure (Pure #1) Author: Julianna Baggott Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: Hardcover; 448 Release Date: February 8, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Dystopian fiction Add it on : Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather,…
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Book Review: Shatter Me
Media Type: Print Book Title: Shatter Me Author: Tahereh Mafi Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: November 15, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language ———————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of an intensely good story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to…
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Laid back summers with Lauren Hammond, and a giveaway!
Give a warm standing ovation for Lauren Hammond! *claps* She is the author of the very popular Love Sucks and now of a FABULOUS book called Famished. Which, you lucky people you, she brought a copy of along to give away! Lucky….so lucky. Anyway I asked Lauren to share with us a little bit about her summertime traditions, and this is what she sent me. Enjoy, and don’t forget to enter the giveaway below! To me, the summertime is a calm laid back time of year where I get to do my favorite things, relax and spend time with my…
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Book Review: Shadow of a Dead Star
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shadow of a Dead Star Author: Michael Shean Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: June 23, 2011 Source: Author ==================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Cyberpunk, Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Seattle, 2078. The future hasn’t been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Cities of glass and exotic metals reach toward the poisoned sky, and every night sees a host of sins played out under glittering…
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Book Review: Dark Parties
Media Type: Print Book Title: Dark Parties Author: Sara Grant Publisher: Little, Brown BYR Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: August 3, 2011 Source: NetGalley =================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence; sexual situations HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Sixteen-year-old Neva has been trapped since birth. She was born and raised under the Protectosphere, in an isolated nation ruled by fear, lies, and xenophobia. A shield “protects” them from the outside world, but also locks the citizens inside. But there’s nothing left on the outside, ever since the world collapsed from violent warfare. Or so the…
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Book Review: Ashes, Ashes
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Ashes, Ashes Author: Jo Treggiari Publisher: Scholastic Pages: Hardcover; 343 Release Date: June 1, 2011 Source: Publisher ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl’s unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares. Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park.…
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Interviewing Zenn from Possession
Tweet Elana Johnson, author of Possession, is here today! She brought along her character Zenn, who is one of the love interests of Vi, our main character. Trust me when I say that Zenn is quite….well to put it in his own words complicated. He’s one of the reasons that the book is so deep and full of twists. Here’s your chance to see a little bit into his head before you really dive into the book. 1) Hi Zenn, thanks for coming by! First things first, if you had to describe yourself in just one word, what would it…