• Book Reviews

    Book Review: This is W.A.R.

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: This is W.A.R. Author: Lisa Roecker & Laura Roecker Publisher: Soho Teen Pages: Kindle; 288 Release Date: July 2, 2013 Source: Edelweiss —————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love thrillers with strong female characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N At Hawthorne Lake Country Club your trust fund can’t buy you happiness, but if it’s big enough, it almost always buys innocence. When Willa Ames-Rowan drowns in Hawthorne Lake everyone who’s anyone knows James Gregory is the one who…

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    Book Review: Game

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Game    *Series: Jasper Dent #2 Author: Barry Lyga Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 528 Release Date: April 16, 2013 Source: Library ———————————————————— Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers with a strong stomach who don’t mind darker reads. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.” I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove…

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    Book Review: The Rules for Disappearing

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Rules for Disappearing Author: Ashley Elston Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: May 14, 2013 Source: NetGalley ———————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of quick moving novels with vivid characters and true to life situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will…

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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…

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    Book Review: The Magic Circle

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Magic Circle Author: Jenny Davidson Publisher: New Harvest Pages: Paperback; 208 Release Date: March 26, 2013 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————————————— Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy intellectual pursuits mixed with mystery and intrigue. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Three smart young women—the scholarly Ruth, her poet roommate Lucy, and their exotic, provocative neighbor Anna—are obsessed with games of all kinds. They’ve devoted themselves to both the academic study of play and the design of games based on the…

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    Book Review: The Archived

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Archived    *Series: The Archived #1 Author: Victoria Schwab Publisher: Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 328 Release Date: January 22, 2013 Source: Library ——————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an amazing adventure with a strong and capable female protagonist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and…

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    Guest Post + Giveaway with Jenny E. Miller

    A treat for you today! Jenny E. Miller is visiting the blog with her debut book, Asylum.  Are you looking for a creepy read? One with mystery and twisted romance? Sounds like you’re looking for this book. June Foster’s summer is limping along. Her life on a 1950′s farm in eastern Washington is boring–full of milking cows, picking apricots and tending to the chicken coops. Her only friends are her record player and her books. But when gorgeous, turquoise-eyed Frank falls into her world, her life becomes anything but ordinary. June falls for Frank hard and fast–he’s beautiful, impossibly strong,…

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    Book Review: The Guilty One

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Guilty One Author: Lisa Ballantyne Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 480 Release Date: March 19, 2013 Source: Eidelweiss / Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Mystery / Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good crime thriller with an ending you won’t see coming. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N An eight-year-old boy is found dead in a playground . . . and his eleven-year-old neighbor is accused of the crime. Leading the defense is London solicitor Daniel Hunter, a champion of lost causes. A damaged…

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    Book Review: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls Author: Claire Legrand Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 343 Release Date: August 28, 2012 Source: Library —————————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love big adventures with a darker side to them. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster—lazy…

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    Book Review: Midnight: The Magpie

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Midnight: The Magpie Author: Sebastian Van Heel Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 50 pages Release Date: August 14, 2012 Source: Author —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Upper YA/Adult Genre: Mystery/Short Story —————————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good mystery and are okay with a little gore. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / Smashwords An amateur investigation company called Midnight has been created. Its methods are to concentrate on the paranormal, the obscure, and the downright strange. To undertake the supernatural cases that are laughed off and thrown…