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Book Review: After I’ve Gone by Linda Green

Title: After I’ve Gone Author: Linda Green Release Date: July 27, 2017 Publisher: Quercus Source: Amazon Vine On a wet Monday in January, Jess Mount receives the devastating news that she hasn’t got long left to live. She doesn’t hear it from a doctor, though. She discovers it when her Facebook timeline skips forward eighteen months and friends and family start posting tributes to her, following her death in a terrible and mysterious accident. At …

Book Review: Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer

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Title: Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer Release Date: January 8, 2018 Publisher: Publisher’s Lunch Source: netGalley Our biannual Buzz Books captures all the excitement of the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute and takes it much further. Start off a year of new reading discoveries with substantial excerpts from 40 talked about Buzz Books due to be published in the months ahead. (Goodreads) My Review: Buzz Books are one of my favorite ways to discover new books! …

Book Review: Hawkweed Legacy by Irena Brignull

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Title: Hawkweed Legacy Author: Irena BrignullRelease Date: August 15, 2017Publisher: Weinstein BooksSource: review copy provided by Wunderkind PR Poppy is discovering a purpose for her powers in Africa, but she is haunted by a vision of her own death. Taken in by a boy and his great-grandmother, a healer, they vow to keep her safe-even if that ultimately means holding her captive. But Poppy never stops longing for Leo and, when she feels his magic …

Book Review: They Both Die At The End

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Title: They Both Die At The End Author: Adam SilveraRelease Date: September 5, 2017Publisher: HarperTeenSource: Edelweiss On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last …

Book Review Buzz Books 2017 Spring/Summer

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Title: Buzz Books 2017 Spring/Summer Release Date: January 13, 2017Publisher: Publishers LunchSource: netGalley The tenth edition of Buzz Books captures the excitement of Winter Institute and takes it much further: start off a year of new reading discoveries excerpts from 40 talked about Buzz Books due to be published in the months ahead. (Goodreads) Buzz Books are one of my favorite ways to discover new-to-me authors that I might not have been exposed to any …

Book Review: A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell

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Title: A Simple Favor Author: Darcey Bell Release Date: March 21, 2017 Publisher: HarperCollins Source: Edelweiss She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother’s life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. (Goodreads) Review: Stephanie and Emily are best friends, so Stephanie doesn’t think anything of it …

Book Review: The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

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Title: The Bone Witch Author: Rin Chupeco Release Date: March 7, 2017 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Source: NetGalley When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and …

Book Review Buzz Books 2017 YA Spring/Summer

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Title: Buzz Books 2017 YA Spring/Summer Release Date: January 13, 2017 Publisher: Publishers Lunch Source: netGalley Our sixth edition of Buzz Books: Young Adult provides the special excitement of Winter Institute and takes it even further with samples of the best in forthcoming young adult novels months ahead of their actual publication. (Goodreads) My Review: Buzz Books are one of my favorite ways to discover new authors, so I’m incredibly happy that this edition knocks …

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris book review

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Title: Behind Closed Doors Author: B.A. ParisRelease Date: August 9, 2016Publisher: St. Martin’s PressSource: ARC provided by Wunderkind PR Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace: he has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Picture this: a dinner party at their perfect home, the conversation and …

Book Review: Buzz Books 2016 Fall/Winter

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Title: Buzz Books 2016 Fall/Winter Release Date: May 2, 2016Publisher: Publishers LunchSource: NetGalley The ninth Buzz Books edition evokes all the excitement of BEA with substantial excerpts from 40 of the most highly-touted books to be published this fall/winter. Our “digital convention” features such major authors as Amor Towles, Christina Baker Kline, T.C. Boyle, Ann Patchett, Maria Semple, Marisa Silver, and Andrew Gross. We showcase sparkling debuts from soon-to-become literary stars such as Emily Fridlund, …

Blog Tour: Little is Left to Tell by Steven Hendricks

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Title: Little is Left to Tell Author: Steven HendricksRelease Date: October 7, 2014Publisher: Starcherone Books Source: Review copy received from TLC Book Tours Readers enter a narrative rabbit hole through bedtime stories that Mr. Fin, a man with dementia, conjures for his long-lost son. Virginia the Wolf writes her last novel to lure her daughter home. A rabbit named Hart Crane must eat words to speak, while passing zeppelins drop bombs. Mr. Fin tries to …

Blog Tour: The Well Path by Jamé Heskett

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Title: The Well Path: Lose 20 Pounds, Reverse the Aging Process, Change Your Life Author: Jame HeskettRelease Date: March 8, 2016Publisher: Harper WaveSource: Review copy provided by TLC Book Tours Lose twenty pounds and reverse the aging process in just sixty days with this clinically proven, holistic lifestyle plan from an anti-aging expert whose clients include some of New York City’s most successful women. Most diets don’t work because they restrict food intake and put …