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Book Review: Perfect Ruin
Media Type: Print Book Title: Perfect Ruin * Series: The Internment Chronicles #1 Author: Lauren DeStefano Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 356 Release Date: October 1, 2013 Source: Library ——————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy gorgeous writing and seriously wonderful characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N On Internment, the floating island in the clouds where 16-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives, getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Even though Morgan’s older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Hidden by Megg Jensen
It’s time for another blitz, and therefore another chance to win an awesome book! This time I’m spotlighting Hidden by Megg Jensen. A story filled with mystery and dragons. Need I say more? The mystery enshrouding Hutton’s Bridge is as impenetrable as the fog that descended at its borders eighty years ago. Each year, three villagers enter the mist searching for answers. No one ever returns. Then a dragon falls from the sky to the town square, dead—the first glimpse of an outside world that has become nothing more than a fairy tale to Hutton’s Bridge. Except to Tressa. Tressa grew…
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Author Interview + Giveaway: Scion of the Sun by Nicola Marsh
Happy Thankful Thursday my friends! Whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving today, or not, I hope you have an utterly fabulous day! To aid in that, I’m happy to be featuring Nicola Marsh and Scion of the Sun today! Looking for your next read? Love Fantasy reads? Well then, you may have just found your new favorite read. When she least expects it, sixteen-year old Holly Burton’s unremarkable life is shaken to the core. A vision of the mother Holly never knew leaves her questioning everything she believes. Eager for answers, Holly enrolls at a boarding school for highly gifted students in Wolfebane,…
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Book Review: Ink
Media Type: Ebook Title: Ink *Series: Paper Gods #1 Author: Amanda Sun Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: Paperback; 326 Release Date: June 25, 2013 Source: NetGalley ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who quick moving stories and a Japanese setting! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / BookLikes On the heels of a family tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold…
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Book Review: Gated
Media Type: Print Book Title: Gated Author: Amy Christine Parker Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover, 352 pages Release Date: August 6th 2013 Source: Library ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books on cult communities and their inner workings. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A fast-paced, nerve-fraying contemporary thriller that questions loyalties and twists truths. Appearances can be deceiving. In the Community, life seems perfect. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Pioneer invited Lyla’s family to join his group and escape the…
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Book Review: Six Months Later
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Six Months Later Author: Natalie D. Richards Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: Paperback; 326 Release Date: October 1, 2013 Source: NetGalley —————————————————– Genre: Contemporary / Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy quick moving plots with just enough twists to keep you guessing! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / BookLikes Chloe didn’t think about it much when she nodded off in study hall on that sleepy summer day. But when she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can’t remember the last six months of…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: The Unseen by J.L. Bryan
Good evening awesome bookworms! I bring you today one of the books that currently tops my to-read list, and one I hope that you’ll totally love! If you’re looking for a creepy read to finish out October, look no further than The Unseen. Cassidy is a young tattoo artist living in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta. She’s always suffered terrible nightmares, and sometimes the hideous creatures seem to follow her out of her dreams and into her waking life, though she’s the only one who can see them. Drugs and alcohol can blot them out, but never entirely…
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Author Interview: Dianne K. Salerni
Click the tour banner for more stops! Good morning friends, and welcome to a spotlight for an awesome book! Looking for something to read in the month of October? Something to celebrate Halloween? Very Supertitious might just be your next book! The stories are based on urban legends, myths, tribal tales and superstitions from around the world. A charity anthology to benefit SPCA International with stories by Shannon Delany, Jackie Morse Kessler, Stephanie Kuehnert, Jennifer Knight, Marianne Mancusi, Michelle E. Reed, Dianne Salerni and Pab Sungenis. Anthologies are my favorite, and this one has some of the authors I love most!…
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Excerpt from Endless by Amanda Grey + Giveaway
Click the banner for more stops! Good morning fellow bibliophiles, and happy Saturday! I have a wonderful book to spotlight for you today! One that, in my opinion, has the most swoon-worthy cover I’ve seen in a long time. Amanda Gray is here today with her new book, Endless. IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, HOW DO YOU KEEP THOSE YOU LOVE SAFE? Jenny Kramer knows she isn’t normal. After all, not everybody can see the past lives of people around them. When she befriends Ben Daulton, resident new boy, the pair stumbles on an old music box with instructions for…
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Book Review: Pendomus
Media Type: Ebook Title: Pendomus *Series: Pendomus Chronicles #1 Author: Carissa Andrews Publisher: Self-published Release Date: October 10, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories filled with action and adventure. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Humanity has colonized on the tidally locked planet Pendomus. Residing between extreme heat and frigid cold is the complex known as the Helix. Within lies a highly sophisticated society functioning solely on humans fulfilling their life’s purpose as determined by their natural aptitudes and daily brain…