Romance and Me: The Cheater Files

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Today’s post was inspired by the novel I am currenty reading where the heroine has trust issues with the hero due to her father being a cronic cheater and growing up having to witness her father’s womanizing ways.

Cheating is not a theme often explored in romance novels (or maybe it’s just me who doesn’t stumble upon those stories), the most I have seen is the hero or heroine having a jealousy fit but usually unfounded and serving only to prove the depth of their affection for each other.
But instances where either the hero or the heroine cheats on the other or someone else (either by thought, kiss, making out or sex) are rare. I would guess because witnessing either the hero or the heroine being unfaithful, even if to a third (and only marginal) character would make us readers have negative feelings about them and that would undermine how much …

Guest Post: Some of my FAQs by Erin Nicholas + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. the wonderful Erin Nicholas, whose steamy and funny contemporary romances are better than adult candy – and they sure are gobbled up just as fast ;-p Erin is here to celebrate the release of Just My Type, the 3rd book in her Bradfords series in paperback! If you haven’t  discovered yet Erin Nicholas and her novels, now is the time, trust me you’ll love them (you can find my review here if you’d like a first glimpse), and she is giving away a copy of Just My Type to a lucky commenter! Erin, take it away. 🙂

Just My Type—the third book in the Bradfords series—is the latest book of mine to go into print (August 2). But it’s been out in e-formats since last September and since that time I’ve gotten some frequent …

Review: Chasing Tabby by Misty Burke

Format read: ebook provided by author
Release Date: 25 May 2011
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

The town of Crowder is werecat territory and the Katt family has lived on the Caterwaul Ranch for generations. But when a pack of werewolves start ravaging the land, Tabitha Katt is surprised to learn that her brother has sent a very human cowboy to protect her.

Jake Brown sure knows how to make her blood run hot, so when he gets bitten by one of the wolves they have to decide … can there be any love between a werecat and a werewolf?

My Thoughts: I love shifter stories and though I love werewolves, I find it a pity that feline shifter stories are so rare. There is something wildly irresistible and charming about the graceful strength of big cats, be they lions, tigers or panthers, so when I …

Review: Never Tempt Danger by Denise Robbins

Format read: paperback provided by authorNumber of pages: 280 pagesRelease Date: 12 September 2010Publisher: L&L DreamspellFormats available: paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store

Blurb:

Maureen thought her special gift was a curse. Maybe she’s right.

As the one man who accepted her “gift” slid the diamond ring onto her shaky finger, Maureen saw his death flash in her mind an instant before the bullet struck. With blood on her hands and a government research project in the balance, Maureen-Gilly-Gillman does the only smart thing she can. She disappears. If there was one thing Maureen had learned, it was Never Tempt Danger.

Special agent Lucas Danger knows Maureen Gillman better than any other man. Assigned to find Gilly and her military robot prototype, Lucas discovers that his past has caught up with him. When the woman he loves collides with his secretive past, Lucas has …

Winner Announcement – The Home Alone Edition

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You might know that I have two younger sisters so the house is always full and there is never one moment of peace. Which I love, the loud buzzing nonstop chatter is what I am used to, but sometimes a little calm would be great. So when by some kind of miracle I have the house to myself even for a couple of hours I want to make the most of it by soaking up the silence :-p And by some kind of cosmic stroke of luck both my two sisters and parents left for the whole weekend, so I was home alone for almost 2 days! (well almost, because I had some friends over on Saturday) *contented sigh* The small pleasures of life 😀

So when I am writing this post the sun just came up, and I’ll be soon on my way out to have breakfast by …

My Wishlist: the Absolutely-Must-Have-Now Edition

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I’m here today to share with you some books which literally make me itch and bounce with impatience. I want them. Now.

You know that kind of excitement which makes you jittery and snappy because you start acting like an impatient 5 year-old who doesn’t get his/her ice cream immediately.

So it’s a good thing I only have to survive a couple more weeks before I can get my paws on them.

So let me show you some of those new releases which have me in such a state 🙂

Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent (Book #1 in the Unbound series)

By blood, by word, by magic…

Most can’t touch the power. But Liv Warren is special – a paranormal tracker who follows the scent of blood.

Liv makes her own rules, and the most important one is trust no one.

But when her friend’s daughter goes …

Romance and Me: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Sex in a Romance Novel?

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When talking/thinking about romance novels the topic of sex is bound to come up. Everyone has their own preference: whether they like it sweet and PG, or sensual and steamy, and some even don’t mind it being graphic, but everyone has their stand on the issue.As you well know Susi and I, we both want our romance novels to have some sweet smex, but recently I read a novel which made me wonder whether there is such a thing as too much sex…

You see this novel was marketed and shelved as a contemporary romance novel and I jumped in expecting a sexy romantic read, but instead got something else.Once again let me say not only I don’t mind reading sex scenes in my romance novels, to the contrary I enjoy and cherish them, but when I was reading this novel, I noticed that after a steamy scene there was no out-of-the-bedroom scene …

Post-vacation Winners!

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I’m baaack! 🙂 Arrived home back from my week-long vacation late last night. It was heavenly! *dreamy sighs* Warm sunshine, beautiful beach and plenty of quiet time to read! 😀 But it’s good to be back, I missed the book news buzz, the happenings in the blogosphere and most of all chatting with all of you! (Twitter I’m back!)

So now rested with a tan and a big smile I’m here to announce quite a lot of winners and wow did they win some fantastic books this week (I just read the first two books this past week and can’t wait to read Christina Henry’s series as well), so I won’t keep you longer, let’s get down to it!

Today congratulations are in order for…

The lucky winner of a copy of Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep is: Mel  

The lucky winners …

Bookish Rants or Raves: The Difficulty of Choosing aka The Stress of Vacation Book-Packing

I’ll start with an apology. I apologize beforehand because I am so stressed out and jittery that my every breath is a rant right now so I’ll try to organize the ranting chaos in my head but I can guarantee nothing. *takes deep breaths… mumbles Zen mantras*

 
Ok, I’m back. 🙂
 
So what has me worked up? My vacation. Well to be exact my leaving for vacation. Or if you want me to be even more specific it is packing for my vacation.

First of all work has been crazy this week. Somehow we have 3 major projects (which we have been working on for the past 3-4 weeks!) all ending this week, which means that instead of me taking care of last minute details and cleaning my desk everyone is hysteric at work and we jump around like caffeinated bugs. *deep breaths*
 

Ok, I’m Zen 🙂 Besides work there is of course the small matter that …

Romance and Me: The Curse or the Blessing of the Romance Covers

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As BLI familiars you must know our own Susi and Caro’s feature: The Good, The Bad and The Are-You-Kidding-Me, where every second Monday they take a look at book covers and share their thoughts (*cough* rants and gushing rather *cough*) about the beautiful and the ugly, and mostly about the ridiculous.Today I would like to ask the age-old question regarding your thoughts on romance novel covers.

As a teenager I didn’t read romance novels partly because of my upbringing (I come from a bookishly snob family, we only read books which had “some literary value”, I know, I know *eyeroll*) but also because of the embarassing and ridiculous covers of these books, I never would have been caught dead reading these in public:

or even this:

(I can so picture the old ladies around 70-80 years old who upon sitting next to me/in front of me …