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 …

Guest Post by Darynda Jones + Giveaway

Today we’re very happy to welcome Darynda Jones on Book Lovers Inc. Darynda is the author of a very original and funny UF series (well in my opinion!). The 2nd book in her Charley Davidson series is coming out tomorrow! I’m impatiently awaiting to get my own audiobook copy of it! Please let’s give a warm welcome to Darynda!
Thank you so much for having me!!! On Tuesday the second in the Charley Davidson series releases, and I’ve been so excited. It’s called SECOND GRAVE ON THE LEFT and is about a female PI who was born the grim reaper. With her special set of skills, she solves mysteries for both the living and the dead, and of course, she gets into all kinds of trouble.

One of the things …

Review: Wild & Steamy by Meljean Brook, Jill Myles, Carolyn Crane

Format Read: ebook submitted by Author for ReviewLength: 123 PagesGenre: Urban Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Paranormal RomanceSeries: The Iron Seas #0.4, The Disillusionists Trilogy #2.5Release Date: August 3, 2011Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, NookPurchasing Info: Meljean Brook, Jill Myles, Carolyn Crane, Smashwords, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook – An Iron Seas novella of 15,000 words: The search for a killer puts Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth’s life in danger and her assistant, Constable Newberry, in the line of fire. But Newberry faces a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay?

Vixen by Jill Myles – A shifter novella of 15,000 words: Miko’s denied her were-fox nature for far too long and turned her back on her vixen heritage. But when she meets two very sexy cat-shifters, she …

Review: "Darkness Descending", by Devyn Quinn

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Author for review
Series: A Novel of the Vampire Armageddon Book I
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: 384 pages
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Publisher: Signet
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Nook, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Book Depository, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, IndieBound, Chapters, Nook, Kindle.

Book Blurb:

The first seal has been broken, signaling the end of days. Fallen angels in the form of vampires are infecting humans one by one, creating an army fit for Armageddon. Of the few who survive the infection, one stands alone above all others…

For one year, Jesse Burke has been suppressing the beast within, driven by vengeance to destroy the vampiric fallen angels terrorizing New Orleans. But a war of biblical proportions is too much for one girl to handle, and she must turn to …

Guestpost: A Gargoyle’s Guide to Important Characters in Black Night by Christina Henry + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome Christina Henry back at Book Lovers Inc. Black Night, book two in her Madeline Black series releases today. She brought along a little Guide about her characters composed by the more than awesome Beezle. Believe me, he’s a riot. Stay tuned till the end for your chance to win. 

Hi! My name is Beezle, and I will be your incredibly handsome guide for today’s tour of important characters in BLACK NIGHT, the sequel to BLACK WINGS.

The first and most important character in the book, obviously, is me. Whenever I am in a scene I add much-needed intelligence. Maddy is no dummy, but she’s way too emotional and without me she’d end up doing even more dangerous things than she already does. Plus, without me there would never be doughnuts in the house. Maddy doesn’t …

Review: Black Night by Christina Henry

Format Read: paperback submitted by author for reviewLength: 304 pagesGenre: Urban FantasySeries: Madeline Black #2Release Date: July 26th, 2011Formats Available: Kindle, e-Book, paperbackPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK)Book Blurb:

Madeline Black is an Agent of death, meaning she escorts the souls of people who have died to the afterlife. Of course, not everyone is happy to see her…

If obstinate dead people were all that Maddy had to worry about, life would be much easier. But the best-laid plans of Agents and fallen angels often go awry. Deaths are occurring contrary to the natural order, Maddy’s being stalked by foes inside and outside of her family, and her two loves-her bodyguard, Gabriel, and her doughnut-loving gargoyle, Beezle-have disappeared. But because Maddy is Lucifer’s granddaughter, things are expected of her, things …

Interview with Author Dianne Sylvan + Giveaway

Today we have the intriguing Dianne Sylvan joining us on BLI. Dianne is the author of The Shadow World Series as well as two non-fiction Wiccan based books The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition and The Body Sacred. Her latest release is Shadowflame the second book in The Shadow World series. At the end of Dianne’s interview you could win a copy of Shadowflame for yourself! Take it away Dianne!

BLI: Hi Dianne, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Dianne: I’m a writer, a baker, a vegetarian, a Scorpio, and a relentless Twitterer. I was born and raised in Texas and I’ve lived in Austin for 14 years. Austin is the only place in the state I could stand to live – I’m far too much of a liberal hippie for most of …

Review: Black Wings by Christina Henry

Format Read: paperback submitted by author for reviewLength: 304 pagesGenre: Urban FantasySeries: Madeline Black #1Release Date: November 30, 2010Formats Available: Kindle, e-Book, paperbackPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

As an Agent of Death, Madeline Black is responsible for escorting the souls of the dearly departed to the afterlife. It’s a 24/7 job with a lousy benefits package.

Maddy’s position may come with magical powers and an impressive wingspan, but it doesn’t pay the bills. And then there are her infuriating boss, tenant woes, and a cranky, popcorn-loving gargoyle to contend with.

Things start looking up, though, when tall, dark, and handsome Gabriel Angeloscuro agrees to rent the empty apartment in Maddy’s building. It’s probably just a coincidence that as soon as he moves in demons appear on the front lawn. But when …

Review: Seduction & Scandal by Charlotte Featherstone

Format read: eARC provided by publisher through NetGalleySeries: Book #1 in The Brethren Guardians seriesNumber of pages: 384 pages Publisher: HQN BooksFormats available: paperback, ebookRelease Date: 1 July 2011 Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Book Depository

Blurb:

With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage—even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black…whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.

Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black.

Yet as he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have a pretty jam-packed issue! The mystery of Pottermore has been unveiled (most guesses were correct!), book news and another YA kerfuffle.

Well, most people suspected that J.K Rowling’s new mysterious site, was an online game/interactive site and is described to be ‘an online reading experience’. The interactive service will follow along the plot of the first Harry Potter book, with the 2nd book adventure sometime in the new year. The site will also host a store that will also sell audiobooks and ebooks that will be DRM free, from the Harry Potter series. There is also promise that it will also offer new content. Pottermore will go live on the 31st of July. [source:Publisher’s Weekly]

Publisher’s Weekly have reported that Mass Market Paperbacks took a huge dive in …