Advent Calendar Day 6: Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn + Giveaway!

Welcome to the sixth day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today you will have the chance to win a copy of Open Minds. Open Minds is the first book in the Mind Jack Trilogy where sixteen year old Kira who has believed she was a zero, learns of her frightening new ability to mind jack. Thrown into a world of secrets and manipulation she has to learn to deal with this ability and lay low under the radar before someone finds out what she can do.

A captivating read that will leave you wanting to find out what happens next.

Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t …

Review: Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn

Format Read:  E-bookNumber of Pages:  241 pages  Release Date:  1st November 2011Publisher:  CreateSpaceFormats Available:  E-book, Paperback.  Purchasing Info: Susan Kaye Quinn, Good Reads, Amazon,  

Book Blurb:
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

My Thoughts:

After reading the …

Guest Post: Writing For An Audience by Susan Kaye Quinn + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Susan Kaye Quinn here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her new novel, Open Minds was released this month and she is here today to celebrate her release! She has been kind enough to include an ebook copy of Open Minds to one lucky commenter! Please give Susan a warm welcome.

When I first started writing fiction, three years ago, it was like an addiction. It gripped me, and I wrote day and night, stealing time from everywhere for this torrid love affair I was having with the written word. The mania subsided (a little), but I’ve never had a problem with motivation for writing. Motivation to do the laundry? Lacking. Motivation to clean the house? Well, I’ve never had that. But writing moved me, pulled me to my chair at the computer like …

Review: The Egyptian by Layton Green

Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages:  325 pagesRelease Date:  27th August 2011Publisher:  First WardFormats Available:  e-book,Purchasing Info: Layton Green, Good Reads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

At a mausoleum in Cairo’s most notorious cemetery, a mercenary receives a package containing a silver test tube suspended in hydraulic stasis.

An investigative reporter tracking rogue biomedical companies is terrified by the appearance of a mummified man outside her Manhattan apartment. A Bulgarian scientist who dabbles in the occult makes a startling discovery in his underground laboratory. These seemingly separate events collide when Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, private investigators of cults, are hired by the CEO of an Egyptian biomedical firm to locate stolen research integral to the company’s new life extension product. However, after witnessing the slaughter of a team of scientists by the remnants of a dangerous cult thought long abandoned, Grey and Viktor …

Review: The Summoner by Layton Green

Format Read:  eBook (epub)Number of Pages:  301Release Date:  8th December 2010Publisher:  GryphonWorks    Series: Dominic Grey – Book 1Formats Available: eBook (Kindle, Epub, mobi), paperbackPurchasing Info: Layton Green, Good Reads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

A United States diplomat disappears in front of hundreds of onlookers while attending a religious ceremony in the bushveld of Zimbabwe.

Dominic Grey, Diplomatic Security special agent, product of a violent childhood and a worn passport, is assigned to investigate. Aiding the investigation is Professor Viktor Radek, religious phenomenologist and expert on cults, and Nya Mashumba, the local government liaison.

What Grey uncovers is a terrifying cult older than Western civilization, the harsh underbelly of a country in despair, a demagogic priest seemingly able to perform impossibilities, and the identity of the newest target.

Himself.

My Thoughts:The Summoner is the first book in the Dominic Grey series and one that …

Review: The Byron Journals by Daniel Ducrou

Format Read: Paperback Number of Pages:  360 pagesRelease Date:  28th June 2010Publisher:  The Text Publishing CompanyFormats Available: Paperback, e-bookPurchasing Info: Daniel Ducrou, Good Reads, Booktopia

Book Blurb:

Andrew and his mate Benny have finished school and are heading for the holiday of their lives in Byron Bay. They are not sure what they’re looking forward to most: the surf, the girls, the music, the partying or just being away from Adelaide. Things don’t go to plan, and Andrew loses his mates. But he finds Heidi. Heidi is not like anyone he’s ever met before, and she takes him into her world, which feels a million miles away from his past. But is Andrew really prepared for the ride he’s about to take? The Byron Journals is an exciting debut novel by a fresh new voice in Australian …

Review: Pandora’s Succession by Russell Brooks

Format Read: e-book from the author

Number of Pages:  267 pagesRelease Date:  20th October 2010Publisher:  Amazon Digital ServicesFormats Available:  e-bookPurchasing Info:  Russell Brooks, Good Reads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Where would you hide if you learned the CDC and a major pharmaceutical company unleashed a hyperdeadly microbe on the human race?

CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancé’s killers — a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured and left for dead. When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up—possibly another government agent. Fox barely escapes after learning that Ares has acquired a hyperdeadly microbe—called Pandora—that is believed to have wiped out ancient civilizations. The trail leads Fox to Tokyo where he …

Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Format Read:  PaperbackNumber of Pages:  240 PagesRelease Date:  29th March 2009Publisher:  The Penguin GroupFormats Available:  Hardback, Paperback, CD-Audio, Audio CassettePurchasing Info: Laurie Halse Anderson, Good Reads, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

After Melinda goes through a traumatic and violent incident at a summer party, she calls the cops and becomes a social outcast. Her freshman year is a disaster. As time passes, she stops talking–except through her paintings in art class. Her healing process has just begun when her perpetrator attacks again. Only this time, she doesn’t keep silent.

My Thoughts:It was through various blog posts for Banned Book Week that Speak came to my attention.  I’d never even heard of it until then.  The controversy over subject matter in this was the main issue and in some school libraries it was actually banned.  This was the clincher …

Review: Tweet Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick

Format Read:  PaperbackNumber of Pages:  264 pagesRelease Date:  22 June 2010Publisher:  Hyperion TeensFormats Available:  Paperback.Purchasing Info: Book Depository, Elizabeth Rudnick, Good ReadsBook Blurb:

Claire is a #hopelessromantic. Lottie is determined to set up her BFF with Mr. Perfect. Will wants his #secretcrush to finally notice him. Bennett is a man with a plan.

Claire can’t believe it when her dream guy starts following her on Twitter. She never thought he noticed her, and suddenly he seems to understand her better than almost anyone.

But the Twitterverse can be a confusing place, especially when friends act differently online than they do in person. Things get even more complicated when Claire realizes she’s falling for someone else, the last person she ever would have expected….

Told in an innovative format combining tweets, emails, and blogs, Tweet …