Review: Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 198Release Date: 24 October 2006Publisher: Simon PulseFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,

Book Blurb:

In a quiet fishing village, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea seventeen years ago. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long about where she came from — or notice her silver hair, usually pale skin, and wide, dark blue eyes.

Pearl grows from a mysterious child into an unusual young woman, not always welcomed in the village. As all the other girls her age find husbands, …

13 to Life by Shannon Delany

Format Read: Bought bookNumber of Pages: 308 pagesRelease Date: June 22nd 2010Publisher: St Martins GriffinFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:
Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…

When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’ve finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper or they’re hosting yet another intervention for her about her mom. Although far from expecting it, she’s relieved to discover Guidance just wants her to show a new student around—but he comes with issues of his own including a police escort.
The newest member of Junction High, Pietr Rusakova has secrets to hide–secrets that will bring big trouble to the small town of Junction—secrets …

Interview Author Kerry Greenwood

We are very happy to have author Kerry Greenwood here today. She write a mystery series about her extraordinary heroine Phryne Fischer and the next addition to this series will be out this October.  Please give her a warm welcome.

The Lit Lover: Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Kerry: I was born in Footscray in Australia in winter so long ago that word processors were called typewriters. I was the story teller of my family and have been telling stories ever since. I started writing novels for fun, to beguile the boredom of studying law at Melbourne University. There I met the love of my life, David Greagg, a wandering mathematician and wizard. He stayed and I kept writing novels through a carrer which included a lot of strange jobs and finally employment by the Legal Aid Commission. I …

Review: Warrior by Zoe Archer

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 370 pagesRelease Date: September 1st 2010Publisher: ZebraFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Amazon

Book Blurb:

To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it’s become quite real and quite dangerous…
IN HOT PURSUIT…
The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond—where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn’t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress—just what he needs.
IN HOTTER WATER…
Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have …

Bookish Eye Candy: Eidolon – Pleasure Unbound

So last week I brought to the table the Delish Eidolon from Larissa Iones Demonica series. And let me just say, for those of you who haven’t read this series yet *eyes bug out* OMG what are you waiting for?!?! Books # 5 comes out towards the end of this month!!! But in the mean time i’m gonna share some hotties with you!!!!

Pleasure Unbound
By: Larissa Ione

In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life…

She’s a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure—but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.

Two lovers will dare …

Review: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 400Release Date: August 1st, 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

I received this book as a review copy from the publisher through netgalley.Book Blurb:

Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal
desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.
Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won’t be swayed. And while
his dark seduction appalls the pure and impoverished Elinor Harriman, she finds herself intrigued…and secretly drawn to the man behind the desire.

My Thoughts:
I am a huge fan …

Interview Author Devyn Quinn + Giveaway

We are really happy to have author Devyn Quinn here today. Siren’s Call, the first book in her Dark Tides Series cam out this week and she is here today to talk about her new series and to celebrate her new release. Please give Devyn a warm welcome.

The Geeky Lover: Devyn, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Devyn: I live in the scenic Southwest, though I have called several other states home. I am a huge fan of dark gothic music & shoot-’em-up action movies. But reading is my first love and I spend too much time with history books, as well as feeding my addiction for celebrity biographies. I especially enjoy reading books on Hollywood before the 1960′s and I’m crazy about Marilyn Monroe, her legend and her myth.

The Geeky Lover: Describe a typical day of …

French Fried by Chris Dolley

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 229Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Book View Cafe Formats Available: Ebook (Kindle, epub,PDF, RTF, LRF)Purchasing Info: Amazon, Smashwords, Book View Cafe, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Animals behaving badly, other people’s misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. French Fried is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley’s first eight months in France and has been described as ‘A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.’

Moving house with three cats, two horses and an enormous puppy is fraught at the best of times. But during a storm? Within ten minutes of Chris and Shelagh landing in France a gust of wind rips the roof off their horse transporter and they and their animals are left on a cliff top while a replacement horsebox is sent …

Interview and Giveaway with Caragh M. O’Brien

Today, I am thrilled to offer you a glimpse into Ms. Caragh M. O’Brien‘s life as well as her upcoming work; author of Birthmarked, my favorite dystopian novel ever! She’s currently working on book 2, which I can’t tell you how excited I am to read it!

The YA Lover: I am sure you have been asked this before, but where did you get the ideas for the world you created in Birthmarked? Not so much the story itself but the dynamic world?

Caragh: Let me say first, Jenn, that I’m delighted you invited me by and that you enjoyed Gaia’s story so much. The original ideas for the wasteland and societies in BIRTHMARKED came while I was driving across the country during the drought of 2008. In the southern states, every lake we drove over was …

Review: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 418Release Date: 27 MayPublisher: DefinitionsFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,Book Blurb: 

“You’ve always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I’ve fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

She is pretty and talented – sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen, gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love. But…
They are brother and sister.

My Thoughts:

Warning: This book is NOT suitable for younger teens.

That was possibly the most horrifyingly moving book I have ever read.

The Whitely kids don’t have it easy. …