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Book Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Suspicion Author: Alexandra Monir Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: December 9, 2014 Source: NetGalley —————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy gothic mysteries set against lavish backdrops. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes “There’s something hidden in the Maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said to her seven years ago, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens of her family’s English country manor. Haunted by her parents’ deaths, Imogen…
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Audio Book Review: Rebel by Amy Tintera
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Rebel * Series: Reboot #2 Author: Amy Tintera Narrator: Khristine Hvam, Mike Chamberlain Publisher: Harper Teen Format: MP3 Download Length: 7 hours and 59 minutes Source: Audible ——————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the first book in the series! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The sequel to the action-packed Reboot is a can’t-miss thrill ride, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Veronica Roth, and Marie Lu.After coming back from death as Reboots and being trained by HARC as soldiers, Wren and Callum have…
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Book Review: Tainted Energy by Lynn Vroman
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Tainted Energy Author: Lynn Vroman Publisher: Untold Press Pages: Kindle; 304 Release Date: November 4, 2014 Source: Author ——————————————————————– Content Screening: Domestic Violence, Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy strong characters, beautiful world building and fantasy. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes For seventeen-year-old Lena, living in the trailer park with the rest of town’s throwaways isn’t exactly paradise. Dealing with a drunken father who can’t keep his fists to himself doesn’t help matters either. The only good thing in her life, other than track, is the mysterious man who visits her dreams, promising to find her. When a chair burns…
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Book Spotlight + Author Interview: The Girl In Between by Laekan Zea Kemp
It’s time for another author spotlight! I can’t express enough how much I love hosting these! Getting the chance to get to know an author is a ton of fun for me. It never gets old! This time the spotlight is on Laekan Zea Kemp, and her book The Girl In Between. Amazon | BookLikes | Goodreads Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Silence of Six by E.C. Myers
Today’s spotlight is on a book that I’ve been eagerly anticipating since I first heard that it was on its way. Not only is it written by E.C. Meyers, who is a wonderful author, but it’s a techno thriller will all the markings of a book that I’ll love. Want to see if it’s for you as well? Here’s the synopsis! Check it out! “What is the Silence of Six, and what are you going to do about it?” These are the last words uttered by 17-year old Max Stein’s genius best friend Evan just moments before he kills himself…
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Book Review: The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Bodies We Wear Author: Jeyn Roberts Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: September 23, 2014 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy darker reads with twists and turns. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A streetwise girl trains to take on a gang of drug dealers and avenge her best friend’s death in this thriller for fans of Scott Westerfeld and Robin Wasserman. People say when you take Heam, your body momentarily dies and you catch a…
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Giveaway: The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts
I hope your weekend was fabulous, all you bookish people! I know things have been a little spotty over here. I’m currently on vacation and, as I’m currently residing with my blogger partner in crime, we’ve been more lax on keeping up with this :). Sometimes vacation just needs to be filled with slacking off and enjoying yourselves. I do, however, have a giveaway for you! The review for The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts will be up tomorrow, but in the meantime here’s a giveaway of that same book for you to win! …
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Day Zero by Summer Lane
Listen up bookish people! It’s time for another book spotlight, complete with excerpt and giveaway! Are you a fan of dystopia fiction? Love your YA with a little drama? Well here’s a book that you might just want to add to your reading list. Goodreads | Amazon Elle is a survivor. Since the collapse of modern society, she’s been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life. And then everything changes. After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely…
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Author Interview + Giveaway: IMPOSSIBLE by C.A. Gray
Welcome to another lovely Friday morning, my bookish friends! I’m pleased to share an interview with author C.A. Gray today. An author who writes the genre of books I absolutely adore: YA Fantasy. There’s something about being swept up in a new world that never gets old! That’s why I couldn’t wait to add C.A. Gray’s Piercing The Veil Series to my reading list. It’s a great time to start too! Book three, Impossible, releases on October 15th. Clicking on the photos below will take you to their matching Goodreads pages! For more links, check the bottom of this post.…
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Cover Reveal: GEARS OF BRASS (A Steampunk Anthology)
Gear up for GEARS OF BRASS! A world like ours, but filled with gears of brass, where the beating heart is fueled by steam and the simplest creation is a complex clockwork device. Within this tome, you’ll find steampunk fairy tale re-tellings, as well as original stories that will send your gears turning. Welcome to the steampunk realm, with eleven authors guiding your path. *** GEARS OF BRASS is a steampunk anthology published through Curiosity Quills. It will be available for purchase on November 10, 2014. Within the pages, you’ll come across clockwork inventions and steampunk-ified fairy tale retellings. Eleven…