Review: Zerah’s Chosen by Isabelle Santiago

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 200Release Date: September 28th, 2009Publisher: Drollerie PressFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info:Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb: In Zerah, Guardians of Water, Air, Fire, Earth, Life and Death are chosen by The Beings to serve their people. Able to feel the emotions the Beings cannot, they help their world stay in balance.  Guardians live and die together, but when Kieran is born with the marks that prove he’s the Guardian of Death, his mother hides him instead of giving him up to the temple. She loves him too much to lose him. But then he starts seeing people die, and they’re begging him for help. Trying to remove the “curse”, he inadvertently kills a seer and is brought to the attention of the temple.

His mother is imprisoned and he’s turned over to the temple. The …

Interview: Author Jocelynn Drake + Giveaway!

Today we are very happy to welcome Jocelynn Drake, author of the Dark Days series on Book Lovers,Inc. Her new book Pray for Dawn will be released next week and Wait for Dusk only a month later! Let’s give Jocelynn a warm welcome!

The HEA Lover*: Jocelynn, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jocelynn: Is there more to life than writing? For me, the answer would have to be “not much.” A Cincinnati, Ohio native, I started writing stories at the age of twelve and have never looked back from those early days of retelling the tale of Robin Hood so that it included a kick-ass heroine that could keep up with the rest of the boys. Over the years, I have jumped from genre to genre, finding new ways …

Bookish Eye Candy: Vishous – Lover Unbound

Okay we still got a few Black Dagger books to go and this week is Vishous’ turn. I always like Vishous in a strange kind of way but I have to say I was not so happy with his book especially the end. But nevermind here is the book:

Lover Unbound
by 
J.R. Ward 

The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn’t choose takes him into a future that does not include her…

Have you read Lover Unbound? …

Review: Humor Me by Ian Frazier (editor)

Format Read: ARC

Number of Pages: 336

Release Date: May 11, 2010

Genre: Humor
Publisher: Ecco

Formats Available: Hardcover

Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Humor Me is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen—and funnywomen—of the page. Selected by the renowned humor-ist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris.

The pieces were published in the past thirty years in such popular magazines as The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and Outside. But the book also includes a handful of older comic masterpieces that nobody in need of a laugh …

Review: Broken Wing by Judith James

Format Read: Print Number of Pages: 350 pages Release Date: November 1st 2008 Publisher: Medallion Press Formats Available: Paperback, Ebook Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Amazon, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

Set during the chaotic beginnings of Napoleon’s rule, this saga tells the story of Gabriel St. Croix, a street survivor searching for a place to belong. Abandoned as a child and raised in a brothel, he has never known friendship or affection. Hiding physical and emotional scars behind an icy façade, his only relationship is with a young boy he has spent the last five years protecting from the brutal reality of their environment. But all that is about to change. The boy’s family has found him, and they are coming to take him home.
Sarah Munroe blames herself for her brother’s disappearance. When he’s located, safe and unharmed despite where …

Review: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 363 pagesRelease Date: January 21st 2010Publisher: Harlequin TeenFormats Available: eBook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Meghan Chase has never fit in at her small-town high school, and now, on the eve of her 16th birthday, she discovers why. When her half brother is kidnapped, Meghan is drawn into a fantastical world she never imagined–the world of Faery, where anything you see may try to eat you, and Meghan is the daughter of the summer faery king. Now she will journey into the depths of Faery to face an unknown enemy . . . and beg the help of a winter prince who might as soon kill her as let her touch his icy heart. The Iron King is the first book in the Iron Fey series.

My Thoughts:Even though I love getting …

Review: The Bloodgate Guardian by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 271 pagesRelease Date: June 14th 2010Publisher: Carina PressFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website,Carina Press

Book Blurb:Worlds within worlds await through the Maya Bloodgate…

Dr. Jaid Merritt doesn’t do digs. The last time she ventured into the jungle, someone died. Now she’s content to decipher Maya glyphs from pictures sent to her by her famous archaeologist father. But when he goes missing while trying to perform a ritual based on her translations of an ancient codex, Jaid must put aside her fears and travel to Guatemala to find him.

After misusing the Bloodgates to bring his twin brother back from the afterlife, the Maya priest known as Ruin was cursed by the gods to stand as the guardian for all time. He was unable to stop Dr. Charles Merritt from opening the gates, and …