Avalanche of Winners!

Hey Everyone! 🙂

As you all must know by now (don’t tell me you haven’t seen the big festive party banners announcing the big event these past weeks on the blog!) the very 1st blogoversary authorpalooza of Book Lovers Inc. is fast approaching and …

It starts tomorrow, it starts tomorrow!

I know Caro, I’m just as excited as you trust me, but no need to cut me mid-speech, shush.

So where was I? *looks around, trying to overlook a silently bouncing Caroline in her seat* Oh yes, I was just about to tell you that since our mostest favourite authors will take over the reins and usurp the blog, winner announcement time comes early this week! Yippee! 😀

And since we had a lot of giveaways, I have tons of winners to announce!

Sooo congratulations to… drumroll please…. *Susi grabs two plastic …

Winner Time!

Hey Everyone! 🙂

Today is my last free day before starting work again, and as it is usually, my to do list would keep me busy for at least 4 days: I would like to take a nap (yep, very important to get some rest after weeks of going to bed around 2am because of watching movies and reading), read my book, watch series, bake and that are only the fun stuff, I left off cleaning my room and organizing my shelves and putting away all the Christmas presents. *sighs*

So I won’t keep you longer, I’ll just announce this week’s winners. So sit back with your cocoa (or Irish coffees for some ;-p lol) and read on to find out whether you were favoured by random.org this time*

Sooo congratulations are in order for… drumroll please….

The 5 winners …

First winners of 2011!

(c) kc (again) / Angele

Happy New Year Everyone! 🙂

I hope you all had a great bash celebrating the end of 2010 and are looking forward to all the great adventures 2011 will bring!

So in our very first winner post of 2011, we would like say congrats to

Aurora

who won the Jill Myles giveaway

and

Cecile Smutty Hussywho won the Erin Nicholas giveaway

Congratulations Ladies, you have been e-mailed, you have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw new winners.

Hope you all had a great weekend and were able to rest and sleep enough after all the celebrations 🙂

Copyright 2010-11 Book Lovers Inc.

All YA Love: Why is the Vampire Academy so amazing?

If you ask anyone who has read the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead  if they liked it, I would bet that you will end up with quite an impassioned and enthusiastic presentation on how much they LOVED it, what a fantastic series it is, how exciting and thrilling the story is and that they cannot wait to get the next book finally in their hands.
If you haven’t read this series you might wonder what all the fuss is about. It’s just another YA series about vampires and high school romance, right? Well no. The Vampire Academy series is so much more than that. And you want to know what sets it apart from the other YA vampire books and makes it so outstanding and exceptional? Well read on, I’m about to tell you.

1) For me it is the emotional depth and intensity that makes this series truly …

Review: Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Format read: ebook
Number of pages: 489 pages
Formats available: paperback, hardback, ebook
Release Date: 18 May 2010
Publisher: Razorbill Publishing
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Razorbill Publishing, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Kindle Store

Blurb: 

Salvation has its price.

The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. “You’re lying. What you’re describing is impossible. There’s no way to save a Strigoi. When they’re gone, they’re gone. They’re dead. Undead. Forever.”


Robert’s next words weren’t directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. “That which is dead doesn’t always stay dead….”

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It’s graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside of the Academy’s cold iron gates …

Review: Just Right by Erin Nicholas

Format read: ebook
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Release Date: 30 March 2010
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle Store

Blurb:

To save one good man, she’ll have to let her inner bad girl out to play…

ER nurse Jessica Bradford is a good girl. Okay, a reformed bad girl, but she’s done her late father proud. Now she’s one step away from landing Dr. Perfect, aka handsome, sexy, heroic Ben Torres—the hot fudge and cherry on top of her hard work scooping out a respectable life.

Ben learned the art of sacrifice from his missionary parents, but when a drunk driver he saved kills three people, he quits. To be precise, the fist he plants in the man’s face gets him suspended. And …

Winners announced just in time for Santa to stop by…

Dear BLI readers and followers!I would like to draw your attention to quite a frequent and serious misregard of the rules of the giveaways:

usually to be entered in a giveaway you are required to

1) leave a meaningful comment/question

AND

2) leave a way to contact you (either e-mail, Twitter name, etc.)

However, many fail to do part 2) and without a way to reach you, you become ineligible to win! For today’s 3 giveaways, I had to draw 8 names, because the first 3-4 lucky people didn’t leave any way for me to reach them! And that is really a shame since their comments were great and genuine. 🙁

So pretty please leave us a way to get in touch with you, or else how could we get a hold of you to tell you you are the lucky winner and ask for shipping …

Review: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead

Format read: ebook
Number of Pages: 503 pages
Release Date: 25 August 2009
Formats available: paperback, hardback, ebook
Publisher: Razorbill Publishing
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Razorbill Publishing, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Kindle Store

Blurb:

After the massacre at Vampire Academy, Rose Hathaway faces the most task of her life and she knows that she must do it alone. With Mason departed for the other world, Rose must hunt down and kill Dimitri Belikov, the man she most loves.

The fourth nail-biting episode of Richelle Mead’s popular vampire series dramatically shows the fatal power of a promise.

My Thoughts: I found Book #3 (Shadow Kiss) completely mindblowing and didn’t think the next book Blood Promise could make me feel as many emotions (angst, frustration, joy, heartache) just as vividly, but I was wrong. Blood Promise …

Quick Winners Announcement!

Welcome back everyone to another sleep Sunday! Or maybe it’s sleepy just in my corner of the world? It’s grey/white and about to snow and I feel like curling up on the sofa and sleeping. I’m even too tired to keep my eyes open to read, so sorry but today no rambling post for you, just a short announcement of winners (as if you would miss my long rambling, yeah.. ;-p lol)

So congrats to

Noelle Pierce
who won the Lila DiPasqua giveaway

and to

Julie
who won the Suzanne McLeod giveaway

Congratulations Ladies, you will be e-mailed shortly, you have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw new winners.

Don’t worry if you haven’t won this time, there are still a bunch of giveaways going strong, just check our sidebar!
Ok off to a little nap, have a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon! …

Review: Holiday Bound by Beth Kery

Format read: ebook
Number of pages: 110 pages
Release date: 1 December 2009
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Source: my personal library
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing info: Goodreads,
Amazon Kindle Store,

For more information visit Beth Kery’s offical website

Book blurb:

The Oedipal Complex has never been so sexy…

Alex Carradine can’t believe his father wants to come and visit his ski resort. Could it be that after so many stormy years, “slick Mitch” Carridine wants to offer an olive branch? Maybe the old man is mellowing, settling down with the new lover he’s bringing along.

Then Alex realizes the acid truth. This is no warm family visit. His father’s latest conquest is none other than the woman of Alex’s sexual fantasies, meant only to dangle tauntingly in front of his face. At least an unexpected blizzard has frozen his father out of the picture …