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Book Review: Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1) by Peter Bunzl
Media Type: Ebook Title: Cogheart *Series: The Cogheart Adventures #1 Author: Peter Bunzl Publisher: Usborne Pages: Paperback; 366 Release Date: September 1, 2016 Source: NetGalley ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who enjoy quick moving reads with plenty of twists and turns. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends—Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox—Lily is plunged into a murky and…
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Book Review: Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Lumiere Author: Jacqueline Garlick Series: The Illumination Paradox #1 Publisher: Skyscape Pages: Kindle; 402 Release Date: August 11, 2015 Source: NetGalley ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy steampunk adventures and mystery stories. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can’t stay in the dark forever. Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth has only one hope left: finding her late father’s most prized invention, the Illuminator. It’s been missing since the day of the mysterious flash—a day that saw…
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Book Review: Untimed
Media Type: Print Book Title: Untimed Author: Andy Gavin Publisher: Mascherato Pages: Paperback; 325 Release Date: December 17, 2012 Source: Author ——————————————————- Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of deep historical fiction with elements of steampunk thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, even his own mother can’t remember his name. And girls? The invisible man gets more dates. As if that weren’t enough, when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him…
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Book Review: The Mirrored Shard
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Mirrored Shard *Series: Iron Codex #3 Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are fans of the Iron Codex series. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Aoife Grayson must face death to win back Dean—the love who was ripped from the Iron Lands of the living when he was shot in the arctic north.…
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Book Review: The Peculiars
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Peculiars Author: Maureen Doyle McQuerry Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pages: Hardcover; 354 Release Date: May 1, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of Note —————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a mix of steampunk and historical themed fiction. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N / Book Depository This dark and thrilling adventure, with an unforgettable heroine, will captivate fans of steampunk, fantasy, and romance. On her 18th birthday, Lena Mattacascar decides to search for her father, who disappeared into…
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Book Review: The Nightmare Garden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Nightmare Garden * Series: Iron Codex (Book 2) Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence/Language ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who devoured the first book and were eagerly awaiting the next! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn’t going to succumb to madness because…
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Book Review: Cinder
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Fiewel & Friends Pages: Hardcover; 387 Release Date: January 3, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings, mashed with a bit of science fiction! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one…
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Book Review: The Iron Thorn
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Iron Thorn *Series: The Iron Codex (Book 1) Author: Cailtlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Pages: Hardcover; 512 Release Date: February 22, 2011 Source: Library —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy immersion in a fabulous fantasy world. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft’s epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam…