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    Book Review: The Exemeus

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Exemeus    *Series: The Exemeus Author: Folami and Abeni Morris Publisher: Royal Colours Ink Pages: Paperback; 337 Release Date: January 3, 2013 Source: CBB Book Promotions —————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that are out of the ordinary, and looking for adventure. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Hyalee Smith is dead, she just doesn’t know it yet. Her short life was devoted to love and to hate. Love of the man who stole her heart, hate for the man who…

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    Guest Post + Giveaway: Catherine Stine, author of Ruby’s Fire!

    Another great author is on the blog today! Catherine Stine, author of Fireseed One and now Ruby’s Fire, is on tour! I’ve read Fireseed One and can honestly say it’s amazing. I can’t wait to dive into Ruby’s Fire as well. Check out the synopsis! If everything about you changes, what remains? Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the Fireseed desert cult, escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn. Arriving at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running. Or can she? The…

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    Book Review: Shudder (Stitch Trilogy #2)

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Shudder    *Series: Stitch Trilogy #2 Author: Samantha Durante Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 348 Release Date: June 15, 2013 Source: Author —————————————————— Content Screening: Adult Language; Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who fell in love with the first in the series, Stitch. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It’s only been three days, and already everything is different. Paragon is behind her, but somehow Alessa’s life may actually have gotten worse. In a wrenching twist of fate, she traded the safety and companionship of her…

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    Book Review: Land of the Awoken

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Land of the Awoken Author: Ben Fielder Publisher: Mirador Publishing Pages: Paperback; 262 Release Date: December 2, 2011 Source: Author ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fantasy books with sweeping worlds and beautiful writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N How would you handle it when your faithful dog started to speak to you after a nasty blow to the head? You’d probably not want to take the event too seriously…However, when that dog is joined by countless others, from…

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    Book Review: The Northern Frights

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Northern Frights    *Series: Scary School #3 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Ebook; 272 Release Date: July 1, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers, both young and old, who enjoy a silly and adventure driven story with amazing characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In The Northern Frights, the third book in the spooky Scary School series, Charles “New Kid” Nukid and his friends, including Lattie, a girl ninja, must fight an epic battle…

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    Book Review: Monsters on the March (Scary School #2)

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Monsters on the March    * Series: Scary School #2 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: June 26, 2012 Source: Author ————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to reads that are a bit creepy and a whole lot of fun! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N As winners of last year’s Ghoul Games, the students of Scary School are off to Monster Forest. School may be scary, but the forest has a few frights of its own,…

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    Book Review: The Battle for Princess Madeline

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Battle for Princess Madeline Author: Kirstin Pulioff Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 156 Release Date: May 2013 Source: Prism Book Tours ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sweet and short Fantasy reads Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The Kingdom of Soron bustled with activity as preparations for the Fall Festival began. Lively merchants, hardworking farmers, and musicians eagerly awaited this event of harvest and joy. This year’s festival was even more important, as they celebrated Princess Madeline’s betrothal to her…

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    Book Review: The Trickster’s Totem

    Media Type: Ebook Title: The Trickster’s Totem    * Series: Relics of Mysticus Author: H.B. Bolton Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 226 Release Date: April 15, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good adventure story with young protagonists Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Life has returned to normal for fourteen-year-old Evan and his older sister, Claire. That is until Dunkle, a clever but stinky little imp, pays an unexpected visit to their school. He has come to take the siblings…

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    Book Review: Deadweather and Sunrise

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Deadweather and Sunrise    * Series: The Chronicles of Egg #1 Author: Geoff Rodkey Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: May 29, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories with characters who are put into impossible situations! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A stunning middle-grade debut–full of heart, humor, and nonstop action. It’s tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody’s trying to kill you. Not that Egg’s life was ever easy, growing up on…

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    Book Review: 24 Bones

    Media Type: Ebook Title: 24 Bones Author: Michael F. Stewart Publisher: Non Sequitur Press Pages: Ebook; 325 Release Date: February 15, 2013 Source: Tribute Books ——————————————————- Genre: Fantasy / Mystery HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a mixing of myths and legends, and discussion of dark vs. light. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Every five hundred years the phoenix dies. Samiya, born-into-shadow, is soon to battle her born-into-light brother. Abandoned by their parents, neither wishes to play the preordained role of beast and hero. When their loved ones are…