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At Flame Rock Middle School, you show off your big biceps, post your dimples on InstaWitch, grow a cheetah tail, or use your fairy wings to fly down the hall. Welcome to one of the July 13th stops on the blog tour for Freckles: The Dark Wizard by Jerry Harwood with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be…
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Take the road less time traveled. I’m genuinely not sure anymore how T is for Time Travel by Stanlei Bellan came to be in my Kindle library. I have a feeling it was offered through Voracious Readers at some point leading up to or around publication time because I wasn’t swamped with blog tour reviews…
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The hero of legend doesn’t quite live up to his reputation. I was granted complimentary eARC access to A Cat’s Guide to Questing for Treasure by Chris Behrsin by the author via his ARC team email list. Thanks as always for the access! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest. Please note…
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A star-crossed YA rom-com that has the charm of Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes and the magic of Now You See Me I was granted complimentary eARC access to Lia and Beckett’s Abracadabra by Amy Noelle Parks by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for the opportunity! My…
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Theodosia “Teddy” Ballard knows nothing about community theater, but when the stage manager for “Little Shop of Horrors” takes a tragic header down the costume-loft stairs, she agrees to fill in for the sake of her actor friend, Will. Welcome to the July 2nd stop on the blog tour for Ghost Light by Jane Tesh…
Julian Finch, widower and fisherman, awakes to learn that the bodies of two colleagues have washed up on the beach of Drake Cove. Welcome to one of the June 29th stops on the blog tour for From the Deep by Kateri Stanley with Rachel’s Random Resources (schedule linked.) Be sure to follow the rest of…
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Hello everyone! If you’re like me and get your eBooks from sources other than Amazon all the time but prefer to read on a Kindle device or using the Kindle app, then you’re probably familiar with the Send to Kindle service where you email the book file to your Amazon address. Well, today I did…
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Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. I was sent an ARC of Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia from HarperCollins Canada after participating in the #FrenzyPresent summer preview 2022 event offered to HCC Influencers and…
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Hey there! If you’re reading this you’re probably involved in book blogging in some way and you probably already know what this blog is all about. Just in case you aren’t, my name is Jenna and I started book blogging in May 2020. I’m an avid reader in my 30s and I’ve been adding my…
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Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. I was granted complimentary eARC access to Out of the Blue by Jason June after participating in a #FrenzyPresents preview event with the HarperCollins Canada Influencer team. Thank you for the NetGalley download! My thoughts are…
Hi, I’m Alice, personal protection specialist. Welcome to the May 25th stop on the blog tour for Big Shot by Kirsten Weiss with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post. Please note that this post…
Special Forces Soldier Alex Kellan has three problems. He’s on forced medical leave, he’s alone on Christmas, and two men are actively stalking his every step. Welcome to one of the May 17th stops on the blog tour for The Nexus Games by Shami Stovall with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest…
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Saeli has always been different: she is autistic, in a world that doesn’t have a word for people like her. I was granted a complimentary eARC copy of Hands Like Secrets by Mariah Norris in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Mariah for reaching out! My thoughts are my own and my review…
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Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue… I was granted complimentary access to Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! My…
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Farris has the misfortune of being an elemental: born human but host to barely contained primal energies. Let me open by saying that I purchased my copy of Dreams of Fire by Nathaniel Wayne because I am a fan of the author’s other work, particularly her YouTube content on the channels Council of Geeks, Breakroom…
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Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. I was granted complimentary eARC access to the 2022 edition of The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for the access approval! My thoughts…
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Tuesday and Zed Furst are perfectly normal children with perfectly strange parents. Welcome to one of the April 26th stops on the blog tour for Relatively Normal Secrets by C. W. Allen with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, more reviews, and a giveaway! More on that…
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Blood. Betrayal. Chaos. I reviewed the first book in this series with Storytellers on Tour a year ago, really enjoyed it, and then somehow missed the fact that books two and three had been published. Time to fix that! I have chosen to read and review Paths of Chaos by Aaron S. Jones entirely on…
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A teen girl who sees visions of the past must use her gift to save a kidnapped classmate in Shani Michelle’s high-stakes YA thriller You Should Have Seen This Coming! Welcome to one of the April 11th stops on the blog tour for You Should Have Seen This Coming by Shani Michelle with XPresso Book…
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I really, truly did not set out to be a children’s book reviewer when I launched this blog, but children’s books found me, and no less than 20% of the reviews on this blog are of picture books and early middle-grade readers and chapter books. I’m a mother and the daughter & sister of elementary…
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