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Book Review: As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka
Media Type: Ebook Title: As Red As Blood * Series: The Snow White Trilogy #1 Author: Salla Simukka | Owen Witesman (Translator) Publisher: Skyscape – Reprint Edition Pages: Ebook; 274 Release Date: August 1, 2014 Source: Amazon (Purchased) ========================================= Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a more action based story with roots in fairy tales. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school’s dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored…
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Book Review: Believers- Truth in Deception by Tamara D. Taylor
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: Believers: Truth in Deception *Series: Believers Book 1 Author: Tamara D. Taylor Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback; 330 Release Date: January 15, 2015 Source: Author/PUYB ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories about a dire future and who enjoy some religious aspects to their books. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Mary lives in a world of the future where an anti aging drug has torn society apart, creating an insurmountable divide between the wealthy and the poor. Her life is thrown sideways after she receives an unsolicited promotion at work, which leaves her as assistant to one of…
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Book Spotlight + Guest Post: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
Happy Sunday friends! It seems like a good time for a guest post, specifically a guest post all about the love of books. If you haven’t already heard of Paige McKenzie and her YouTube channel, you’re in for a treat! I’m pleased as punch to give our blog over to her, and her creative soul, for today. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and…
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Book Review: Seed by Lisa Heathfield
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Seed Author: Lisa Heathfield Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 10, 2015 Source: Publisher ———————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence, Some Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories based around cults, and are okay with reading about tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Of Sea and Stone by Kate Avery Ellison
Spotlight time! I never tire of these, especially when Kate Avery Ellison is the author in question! Let me tell you, if you haven’t read The Frost Chronicles, you need to. Ellison is an amazing writer. This time around she’s here to promote her new book, Of Sea and Stone, which I’m sure will be just as fantastic! Here’s the synopsis: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N All her life, clever Aemi has been a slave in the Village of the Rocks, a place where the sea and sky meet. She’s heard the stories about the fabled People of the Sea,…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Bricks by John Davidson
*Lights – Camera – Action!* Today’s blog spotlight centers right on a new book presented to me by Anaiah Press. Bricks, by John Davidson, is billed as a contemporary novel and one that looks pretty tempting to this bookworm. Interested? Let’s take a look at the synopsis. Amazon | B&N Sixteen-year old Cori Reigns learns that not all tornadoes take you to magical places. Some take your house, your school, and life as you knew it. Struggling to put the pieces of her life back together, Cori learns to rebuild what the storm destroyed by trusting a family she didn’t…
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Book Review: Wish by Grier Cooper
Media Type: Ebook Title: Wish *Series: Indigo Dreams #1 Author: Grier Cooper Publisher: Dancing Poodle Press Pages: Paperback; 274 Release Date: December 2, 2014 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ——————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy contemporary narratives, and especially those who have a passion for dance. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes For Indigo Stevens, ballet classes at Miss Roberta’s ballet studio offer the stability and structure that are missing from her crazy home life. At almost 16, she hopes this is the year she will be…
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Book Review: Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
Media Type: Ebook Title: Far Far Away Author: Tom McNeal Publisher: Knopf BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: June 11, 2013 Source: NetGalley ———————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of the Grimm version of fairy tales; those who enjoy darker stories. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes It says quite a lot about Jeremy Johnson Johnson that the strangest thing about him isn’t even the fact his mother and father both had the same last name. Jeremy once admitted he’s able to hear voices, and the townspeople of Never…
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Book Review: This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: This Shattered World *Series: Starbound #2 Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: December 23, 2014 Source: NetGalley ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who loved the first book, and are eager for more tragic love stories! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet’s rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Lebrus Stone by Miriam Khan
It’s time for another bookish spotlight! This time the lovely Giselle of Xpresso Book Tours is running a tour for The Lebrus Stone by Miriam Khan. I have to say, the reason that I chose to host this was that it sounds deliciously creepy. Nightmares and witchcraft? That’s my kind or read. Perhaps it’s yours too? Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When Eighteen-year-old orphan, Crystal Valdez, accepts an invitation to the small town of Blacksville, West Virginia, she hopes to have a summer to remember and a chance to learn more about her parents, to also get to know the family…