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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
28 Dec 2011 
Romance and Me: What’s your story?
Hey Everyone!
We have been discussing romance novel related topics for some months now, and even though you have told me about your firsts, I still haven’t heard your story. The story of how you discovered and fell in love with the romance genre.
Was it love at first read? Or did it take several books? What kind of romance novel is your favourite?
I started out by falling for historical romances, I’ve always loved period dramas, so reading historical romance stories felt natural to me. But somehow I wasn’t eager to read contemporary romances, the only exception were Nora Roberts books. (I discovered the whole romance genre thanks to my high school best friend lending me one of NR’s stories, and she became my “Nora Roberts dealer”.) HR was my first and only love for a very long time. I only got to like …
Post-Christmas Winner Post
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Christmas is almost over (except at our place where due to the extended family we are Christmassing until Dec 29 or so usually :-)).
Sadly my sisters’ exams start early this year so they are leaving today. Our house will be so quiet 🙁 And I’ll have to start studying for my second bar exam as well, so I’m not happy at all that Christmas has gone so quickly. *sighs* At least I’ll have our beautiful tree up until the end of January, as it’s usually my task to take it down and put away all the ornaments and decorations. And you know what is my special traditions? I organize a Christmas un-decorating party! I invite a bunch of friends over, we listen to Christmas songs, drink eggnog, we relish the festive atmosphere in late January/early February and take down all the Christmas decorations together. I …
Christmas Winner Post!
Hey Everyone!
Christmas has arrived yay!! 😀 So as I have to spend the day feasting on all the delicious festive meals and spend time with my family today I will only announce the winner of Nadia Lee’s giveaway.
The winners of all the other giveaways will be announced later on Tuesday December 27th, so the lucky winners don’t miss out on our notification e-mails due to the holiday festivities 🙂
So the winner of our special Christmas winner post edition, i.e. the winner of an ebook copy of The Last Slayer by Nadia Lee is: Sara-Beth Cole
Congratulations Sara-Beth, you have been notified by e-mail of your win. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.
Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy the holidays and the delicious treats! 😀
Advent Calendar Day 24: Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep + Giveaway
Welcome to the 24th and final day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day throughout December you had the chance to win one of our favourite reads of 2011.
Today you have the chance to win Karma Girl, first book in Jennifer Estep’s Bigtime series. You might know Jennifer’s other two series: the Elemental Assassin (adult urban fantasy) and the Mythos Academy (YA urban fantasy) series, but if you haven’t yet checked out her Bigtime series, you have been missing out on a fantastic series! The Bigtime series is colourful, fresh and laugh out loud funny. If you want to have fun and escape to an incredible universe, you’ll just have to follow Carmen Cole alias Karma Girl, ordinary human reporter girl as she uncovers the secrets of superheroes and ubervillains.
The Bigtime series is a wonderful series you definitely should discover!
Guest Post: A Very Secret Christmas by Sierra Dean + Giveaway
I am ecstatic to welcome to Book Lovers Inc today one of my favourite urban fantasy authors, whose series I discovered this past year and I loved every single one of the books to pieces. Please give the warmest welcome to Sierra Dean, fantabulous author behind the Secret McQueen UF series! 🙂 (If you don’t know this series, trust me it is great time for you to finally discover it! It has everything: unique worldbuilding, laugh out loud humour, strong and well developed characters, steamy smex (but if you want to see for yourself check out my reviews of Book #0.5, Book #1 and Book #2.5). Read on to discover how Secret and co. celebrate Christmas and if you share one of your own holiday traditions you could win a copy of Secret Santa, the perfct holiday UF story! 🙂
A Very Secret Christmas by …
The Pre-Christmas Winner Post
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I had another, even more hellish week, but with Christmas fast approaching I try to hold out and keep hope that work will be over soon. Today I plan on going to a Christmas fair with my friends to look for presents, drink some spiced mulled wine and soak up the festive feeling a bit 🙂 Then in the evening my sisters will arrive home and the house will be once again packed and loud, can’t wait! 😀
We’ll start decorating the house and as I will have to work next week as well, the task of baking Christmas cookies will fall to my sisters, so that when I come home from work at the end of the day the house will smell like cinnamon, miam 😀
What are your plans for the weekend? Have you already put up the tree and decorations? Are you …
Guest Post: Romance and the Series: What’s the Appeal? by Tracy Sumner + Giveaway
I am very happy to welcome to BLI today historical romance author Tracy Sumner, who is busy celebrating the release of her latest story, a Christmas novella: To Desire a Scoundrel, which was released this week! Woohoo, congratulations Tracy! *throws confetti* So read on to discover why Tracy as an author loves series and for a chance to win a copy of her book!
Romance and the Series: What’s the Appeal? by Tracy Sumner
So excited to be a part of Book Lovers, Inc.! Thanks for having me.
First off, I should say that not only am I romance writer, I’m a huge romance reader. And I love series. Love them. What is that captures our attention about connected novels? As readers, we get an update on beloved characters in the next book, sure. The birth of a child, further affirmation that our devoted couple from …
Advent Calendar Day 15: Deadly Descent by Kaylea Cross + Giveaway
Welcome to the 15th 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 Deadly Descent by Kaylea Cross, Book #1 in the Bagram Special Ops series by romantic suspense and military romance author Kalyea Cross. I’ll start by a revelation/confession: not only was Deadly Descent a favourite read of mine in 2011, but it was also THE novel which made me discover a whole new genre: the world of military romance! (And if you think military romance equals romantic suspense you are mistaken and it is great time you discovered MR!)
I can only recommend Deadly Descent to anyone who loves thrilling action and sizzling romance, it was a fantastic read and I’m looking forward to reading the next books …
Romance and Me: Holiday Romances
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Only 2 more weeks and it is Christmas!! *wait a few moments while I jump up and down and calm down my excitement* Ok I’m back. So with the holidays fast approaching I think the topic of today’s discussion is quite obvious: it’s time we talked about holiday romances!
Starting from the end of October holiday themed books start to flood bookshelves, and after mid-November everywhere you look you see Christmassy covers and holiday-related titles.
Until last year somehow I haven’t noticed this trend (maybe because I wasn’t blogging yet), but I participated in my very first holiday reading challenge last year and thanks to it I discovered the sub-category of holiday romances and became a fan! Maybe it’s because I love Christmas, and everything related to the holidays, or that I’ve always enjoyed holiday films as well, but I know that the combination …
Review: More Than Meets the Ink by Elle Aycart
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 28 June 2011
Number of pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Lose Id.
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Wickedly sexy James Bowen is a bad boy of the highest order — tattoos and attitude included — which unfortunately ranks way up on Tate’s not-a-chance-in-hell list, right there along with skydiving naked over Teheran and juggling Ebola vials just for kicks. But what the heck, she’s on holiday, the guy is absolutely irresistible, and she needs to unplug from her life. With her dad and brother gone, Tate is left to deal with the family restaurant, which is fast going down the drain. Her employees are acting out, her boyfriend has bailed out, and her very own private stalker is emailing her to death with lovely threats of doom, fire, and dismemberment. So yeah, maybe a little holiday fling is in order. Strictly sex though, and …
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