Review: Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 250Release Date: May 11, 2004Publisher: PuffinFormats Available: Paperback and eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, BookDepository(US), BookDepository(UK)

Book Blurb:Strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, had seemed to Caitlin to be an open door. With him she could be anybody, not just the second-rate shadow of her older sister, Cass. But now she is drowning in the vacuum Cass left behind when she turned her back on her family’s expectations by running off with a boyfriend. Caitlin wanders in a dream land of drugs and a nightmare of Rogerson’s sudden fists, lost in her search for herself.

Why do so many girls allow themselves to get into abusive relationships–and what keeps them there? In this riveting novel, Sarah Dessen searches for understanding and answers. Caught in a …

Interview: Author Kelly Meding + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Kelly Meding here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her new novel, As Lie the Dead, book 2 in the Dreg City Series will be released on Tuesday 27th and she’s here to celebrate her upcoming release. Be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post. Willkommen Kelly! The Geeky Lover: Kelly, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Kelly: I am a moderately shy homebody, born and raised in southern Delaware near the beaches, and now live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. As a child, I entertained myself by creating elaborate stories for my She-Ra figures and Barbie dolls to enact, and now I tell stories for a living. Chocolate and coffee are my oxygen, and I am mother to the world’s most resilient kitty …

Review: The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 368Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, The Book Depository.com, Good Reads, Allen and Unwin

Book Blurb:

Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.

Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town’ s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah.

It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Have you ever wondered what Curran was thinking in important key scenes in the Kate Daniels Series? Well Ilona Andrews is giving away the free Curran point of views that been posted at their blog and has been compiled in a wonderful short omnibus. It is available for download at Smashwords – link here. Good news is that there will be more key scenes in the future!

Janet Evanovich has left St Martin Press due to the collapse of discussions about the renewing of her contract for which she received around 10 million dollars for each book. But due to several reports her son who is also her agent is negotiating for 50 million dollars for the next four books. Whether another publisher will pick her up with these new terms is up in the air especially when most publishers …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Let’s Talk About Clichés!

As a book lover and avid reader, I am quite proud to say that I have read a lot of books. I have never hid the fact that my favorite genres are Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance and that I am an absolute sucker for anything Supernatural.

However, as with addiction there is always a downside and the one that I have found after reading so many books and following over 100 book series (and adding to that daily), are the clichés.

How many times can you read about Sexy Vampires with magnetic eyes, werewolves with possessive behaviors, kick-ass heroine, the girl next door that gets caught up in the paranormal or the half-human / half-faerie (vamp, shifter, etc)?

Don’t get me wrong, I still love to read about all of the above and now and then, a book or series comes along …

Review: Stormwalker by Allyson James

Format Read: Kindle VersionNumber of Pages: 330Release Date: May 4th, 2010Publisher: BerkleyFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, AmazonBook Blurb:

Half-Navajo Janet Begay comes to Magellan to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the police chief’s daughter. But the people of Magellan sense that Janet is not what she seems, and they’re right. Janet possesses extraordinary power which is tied to the storms that waft across the desert. The only person who can control her when she’s caught in the storm’s evocative power is Mick, a dark-haired, blue-eyed biker Janet can’t seem to touch with her powers. He can weild fire and not get burned, and Janet’s never sure where he goes when they’re not together.

Together they investigate mysterious disappearances, which Janet fears are tied to her mother’s people, the mythical gods from below the earth. They …

Review: The Naughty List by Suzanne Young

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 272Release Date: February 4. 2010Publisher: RazorbillFormats Available: eBook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Bookdepository.com, Bookdepository.co.uk

Book Blurb:

As if being a purrfect cheerleader isn’t enough responsibility!

Tessa Crimson’s the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad–turned–spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. Boyfriend-busting wouldn’t be so bad . . . except that so far, every suspect on the Naughty List has been proven 100% guilty!

When Tessa’s own boyfriend shows up on the List, she turns her sleuthing skills on him. Is Aiden just as naughty as all the rest, or will Tessa’s sneaky ways end in catastrophe?

The Naughty List. Is your boyfriend on it?  

My Thoughts:

What a FUN, unique book! I loved the unique plot and the characters, along with …

Review: Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 405 pagesRelease Date: November 24th, 2009Publisher: DellFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon.com

Book Blurb:

They’ll never see her coming. . . .

When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue—in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there—her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city’s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor—and she can’t even remember what it was.

Now she’s a …

Review: Winter’s Passage (Iron Fey, #1.5) by Julie Kagawa

Format Read: EbookNumber of Pages: 51Release Date: June 1, 2010Publisher: HarlequinFormats Available: EbookPurchasing Info: Download free, until July 31, 2010

Book Blurb:Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl…until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan has one request: that they visit Puck–Meghan’s best friend and servant of her father, King Oberon–who was gravely injured defending Meghan from the Iron Fey. Yet Meghan and Ash’s detour does not go unnoticed. They have caught the attention of an ancient, powerful hunter–a foe that even Ash may not be able to defeat….

My Thoughts:First, I have to disclaim that I have already read The Iron Daughter (Iron …

Interview with Author Julie Kagawa

We are really happy and excited to have Julie Kagawa here with us today, author of the Iron Fey series, which includes The Iron King, Winter’s Passage (read my review of it later today), and the upcoming The Iron Daughter. I was lucky enough to have already read The Iron Daughter which is going to be released July 27th, so most of the questions center around that…

The YA Lover: In The Iron Daughter, Meghan grows from what I can only call a meek, timid, shy girl willing to “go with the flow” to a strong ray of light, blinding and ever present in her resolve, love and determination; did you mirror her after anyone in your life or is she perhaps a melting pot of amazing qualities those around you possess? JK: Meghan was actually the hardest character …