Review: Lush by Lauren Dane

Format Read: Print Galley provided by the author
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: April 2nd 2013
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Series: Delicious #3
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Author Website | Goodreads

Book Blurb:

USA Today bestselling author Lauren Dane delivers a second serving of sexy in her new Delicious novel, in which taste and temptation make up a sweet recipe…

Mary Whaley has her hands full running a successful catering company and overseeing her supper club. She has everything she ever wanted—or so she thought. When she meets ridiculously hot and very dirty rock star Damien Hurley at her friend’s engagement party, the attraction she feels is overpowering—and she isn’t about to deny herself.

Damien is used to a hard and fast life. He …

ARC Review: Tart by Lauren Dane

Format Read: Print Galley provided by the author
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: November 6th 2012
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Series: Delicious #2
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)| Goodreads | Author Website

Book Blurb:

USA Today bestselling author Lauren Dane serves up a sweet, sensual, and hot-to-the-touch novel in which one woman’s most intimate desires are stirred by two very special ingredients…

Juliet Lamprey is having the time of her life running her successful bakery, TART, when Gideon Carter comes back into her life. Returning home to help his grandfather run the family farm, Gideon is back for good. When they meet again, the spark between them is immediate, and it isn’t long before the former childhood friends play catch up—in bed.

That’s not good …

ARC review: Sway (Cherished Duology) by Lauren Dane

Format read: ebook of Sway (won on twitter)
Genre: Contemporary erotic Romance
Release Date: August 7th 2012
Number of pages: 368 pages (for the 2 stories)
Publisher: Berkley
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:
Sway by Lauren Dane. Book 1 of the Delicious series

Taken from Ms Dane’s website – SWAY will be in the CHERISHED Duology with me and Maya Banks – both our books will have a contemporary BDSM theme. It’s also the start to my DELICIOUS series, the spin off from The Brown Siblings books.

Levi Warner is an established, older man—wealthy, powerful, and above all, respectable. Then Levi meets Daisy, an uninhibited 24-year-old dance instructor and artist, not exactly the kind of woman Levi is accustomed to. But the young, free spirit, brings out something in him …

Advent Calendar Day 8: Three to Tango Anthology + Giveaway

Welcome to the 8th 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 a copy of Three to Tango- one of the best anthologies I ever read. It has 2 of my all time favorites authors-Megan Hart and Lauren Dane. I actually devoured their stories. And through this anthology I discovered Emma Holly and I really fell fast for her writing. You like you romance hot? This is the book for you.

Purchasing Info: Lauren Dane, Megan Hart, Emma Holly, Bethany Kane, Publisher, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.ca, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, Borders, Chapters, IndieBound, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb: …

ARC Review: Never Enough by Lauren Dane

Format Read: ARC provided by the authorNumber of pages: 304 pagesRelease Date: September 1st 2011Formats available: Paperback, eBookPublisher: Berkley HeatPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Gillian Forrester spent her life running…until Miles came along. The moment she held her older sister’s unwanted newborn, Gillian stopped running and began building a life for her adopted son. Now, thirteen years later, Gillian’s sister reveals the father’s identity on her deathbed-a revelation that shakes Gillian to her core.

Adrian Brown is the epitome of the successful rock star. It takes a lot to shock him-but the bombshell that he has a son rocks his world. And Adrian is even more surprised when the buttoned-up elegant woman who’s raising him ignites his erotic and romantic attention-and engages his heart.

My Thoughts:

I should start this review by …

Review: Goddess with a Blade by Lauren Dane

Format Read: eARC from the authorLength: 73,000 wordsGenre: Urban FantasayRelease Date: June 6, 2011Publisher: Carina PressFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info: Amazon, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Carina Press

Book Blurb:

Armed with a blessed blade and blood from a goddess, Rowan Summerwaite’s got a divine mission. Embodying a Vampire’s worst nightmare is a big job, but someone’s got to do it.Freshly returned from a political firestorm that erupted after she’d executed the last Scion, Rowan hopes for a period of peace and quiet with the new replacement.But before long, human women are being found in and around Las Vegas and it’s clear to her the killer is a Vampire. Clive Stewart rules his Vampires with an iron fist in the wake of a spectacular failure on the part of his predecessor. He doesn’t make the mistake of underestimating …

Interview Author Lauren Dane + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome national bestselling author Lauren Dane here at Book Lovers Inc again. Her next novel, Goddess with a Blade will be released next week and today she is here to talk about her new book, her first urban fantasy, and what makes it so special to her. Please give Lauren a warm welcome and don’t miss you chance to win your own copy at the end of the interview.BLI: Welcome Lauren, it’s so great to have you here at Book Lovers Inc again. For all the new readers, could you please introduce yourself?

Lauren: Thanks for having me! Let’s see – I’m Lauren Dane and I contracted my first book in 2004. I realized just this last book that I’ve written 45 books with another five or six already contracted. I write contemporary romance both erotic …

Dual Review: "Three to Tango" Anthology

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Authors for reviewAuthors: Lauren Dane, Megan Hart, Emma Holly, Bethany KanePublisher: Berkley HeatLength: 368 PagesGenre: Erotic Romance AnthologyRelease Date: May 3, 2011Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle, NookPurchasing Info: Publisher, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.ca, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, Borders, Chapters, IndieBound, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Four of erotic fiction’s most talented authors carry readers away with all-new tales of ecstasy that prove that the most delectable things in life come in threes…

In Emma Holly’s FLIPPING FOR CHELSEA, Shay and Liam shared an unforgettable night with their lifelong friend, Chelsea, awakening a rush of forbidden feelings–feelings they have to reckon with when the three reunite, and the unrequited lust between them is too much to bear.

Though Ava left her hard-knock Georgia childhood behind, she …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week in the blogosphear we have Goodreads questionable policy and trashtalking galore for Dabwaha which has commenced this week in style. (Note this year has been brutal and if anyone follows Dabwaha on twitter – I apologize with the penis pics and the altered tweets which has led to cries of foul cheating!) But good luck to everyone who has entered Dabwaha!

Lauren Dane has highlighted another issue with Goodreads. She noticed that more and more star ratings are given to books that have hardly been written, and contacted Goodreads about this issue because it wasn’t realistically reflective of a book’s ranking. Goodreads replied with the following:

“Thanks for writing in with your feedback. While I can understand your frustration, it is not a requirement that …

Review: Inside Out by Lauren Dane

Format Read: Trade PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 pagesPublisher: Berkley Trade Release Date: November 2nd, 2010Formats Available: Trade Paperback, eBookPurchase information: Goodreads, Author Website, Amazon, The Book Depository US, The Book Depository UK

Book Blurb:

WORTH THE WAIT

Ella Tipton is a survivor. In the wake of an attack that left her nearly dead, she’s spent each day putting her life back together. Once vibrant and outgoing, she’s needed to reclaim the best parts of who she was while retaining the hard won lessons. There hasn’t been room for any romantic entanglements, even if she were ready. Still, it didn’t mean she had to stop sneaking looks at Mister Tall, Dark and Tattooed himself.

Security professional Andrew Copeland isn’t quite sure when his jones for the lovely and decidedly skittish Ella developed. He’s known her for years, has …