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Read an Excerpt of Lili Peloquin’s “The Innocents”

Last night I dreamt I went to Serenity again... Looking for a deliciously soapy page-turner about the corrupt lives of the rich and powerful? Check out this excerpt of Lili Peloquin’s new YA novel The Innocents. Alice and Charlie are extremely close sisters whose lives are torn apart when their parents divorce — and their mother immediately remarries a somewhat creepy guy, Richard Flood, who’s still haunted by the deaths of his first wife and daughter. When the girls are forced to move to his summer estate in wealthy Serenity Point, they know they’ll never fit in… but they can’t [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:07-07:00October 24th, 2012|

Seraphina Revisited

A while back, we reviewed the book trailer for the dragon-filled fantasy novel Seraphina. On first viewing, we gave the trailer a solid B+ (points awarded for originality of dragon-human-politics premise, deducted for cheesy low-budget costumes). The early buzz was so positive that we were excited to get our claws on it! Now that we’ve read the book, check out our Seraphina review for the full story — and why we’re actually hoping for a sequel.

2016-12-31T17:59:07-07:00October 20th, 2012|

Book Trailer: Sorry Please Thank You

In my previous book trailer review, I opined that the purpose of a trailer was to give you a preview of a book. But I may have been wrong about that. The purpose of a book trailer is really to get you interested in a book by piquing your curiosity, and sometimes the best way to accomplish that is via a clever, quirky gag that sets a certain tone. The trailer for Sorry Please Thank You, a collection of short stories, seemingly has little to do with the actual book. It’s supposedly a commercial for a service that allows you [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:07-07:00October 19th, 2012|
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