Review: Turned by Morgan Rice

Format read: ebook
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: 24 January 2011
Length: 129 pages
Publisher: Morgan Rice Publishing
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Eighteen year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again. The one ray of light in her new surroundings is Jonah, a new classmate who takes an instant liking to her.

But before their romance can blossom, Caitlin suddenly finds herself changing. She is overcome by a superhuman strength, a sensitivity to light, a desire to feed–by feelings she does not understand. She seeks answers to what’s happening to her, and her cravings lead her to the wrong place at the wrong time. Her eyes are opened to …

Guest Post: Writing Mean by Lexi George + Giveaway

Today we are really happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc Lexi George to celebrate her newest release, Demon Hunting in the Deep South, the second installment in her successful Demon Hunting series. And Lexi stops by here today to talk about a really interesting topic: Writing Mean. Don’t want to spoil things for you, read on and be prepared to laugh 🙂 And don’t forget to check at the end of the post for your chance to win a copy of her book.

One of biggest surprises to me in writing the demon hunter series is how much I enjoyed writing the character Meredith Starr Peterson. Why? Because Meredith is not the heroine or the witty and loyal best friend.

Meredith is a mean girl.

I based Meredith on a real life meanie, my oldest daughter’s high school nemesis. Aha! I thought. Payback for making my darling daughter miserable, you evil …

Review: The Officer Says “I Do” by Jeanette Murray

Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #1 in the Semper Fi series
Release Date: 1 July 2012
Number of pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

He’s a Marine…she grew up on a commune.

He always puts duty first…she’s a free spirit with an unshakable belief in Fate.

He loves routine and order…she brings chaos and creativity wherever she goes.

They’re going to balance each other perfectly–or drive each other completely, utterly insane…

On a wild pre-deployment celebration in Las Vegas, Captain Timothy O’Shay encounters free-spirited beauty Skye McDermott, and for once lets down his guard. Now his life is about to take off in directions he never could have imagined…

My Thoughts: I love Vegas wedding romances. And when I say love …

Romance and Me: The Wedding Romance

Hey Everyone!

With one of this week’s guest author (Christi Barth) and her novel Planning For Love I realized we never discussed wedding romances, and summer being the season for weddings,  now is the perfect time!

What are wedding romances you ask? Well romance stories which are focused around weddings! Either the heroine or the hero (or both of them) has a wedding related job, like wedding planner, photographer, florist, baker, etc.

Long before I realized these kinds of books existed I was already a fan of this type of movies: My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Wedding Planner, etc. Even if the movie wasn’t of great quality I very much enjoyed getting a glimpse of the behind the scenes of how a wonderful lavish wedding is put together. And when this is combined with a group of close friends, so that besides the wedding preparations we …

Interview with Jeanette Murray + Giveaway

Hey hey Book Lovers! I am extremely happy to introduce you to an author I just recently discovered but who shot straight to my list of Must Buy Authors/Series, please give a warm welcome to Jeanette Murray, author of the fantastic Semper Fi series, and you could even win the first book in the series, The Officer Says “I Do”, which I loved (as you will be able to see in ym review, to be posted later today)!

Stella: Hi Jeanette, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jeanette: Thanks for having me! I’m Jeanette, and I’m a Sagittarius. I wear a lot of hats throughout the day. Wife, mommy, Goldendoodle owner, writer and, currently, hotel-dweller. (We’re moving, and so I’m dealing with living in a hotel until our house is ready!)

Stella: In the bio on your website I’ve seen you write under two pennames, why …

Dual Review:Try Me by Olivia Cunning

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the One Night with Sole Regret series
Release Date: June 26th 2012
Number of pages: 85 pages
Publisher: Self-published
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon

Blurb:
For the five sexy rock gods of Sole Regret, finding love is easy, keeping it is hard.

Melanie has no desire to meet the members of the rock band, Sole Regret, but her groupie of a best friend gets them both backstage and then rushes off with the band’s lead singer. Left alone at an after party with a bunch of scary tattooed and pierced metal-heads, sheltered Melanie is relieved when the only normal-looking guy in the room insists on keeping her company.

By the time Melanie discovers that Gabe is the band’s drummer and not as normal as she assumed, she has already made a complete fool of herself. …

Review: Planning for Love by Christi Barth

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the Aisle Bound series
Release Date: 1 August 2012
Number of pages: 226 pages
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Carina Press, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

~ Hopeless romantic Ivy Rhodes and anti-Cupid Bennett Westcott request the pleasure of your company for their disaster of a courtship ~

Wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is the best in the business, and she’s not about to let a personal problem stop her from getting ahead. So when she’s asked to star in the reality TV show Planning for Love, it doesn’t matter that the show’s videographer happens to be a recent—and heartbreaking—one-night stand.

Bennett Westcott admits he didn’t handle his encounter with Ivy very well. But looking at her beautiful smile—and great body—through a camera lens every day? He can’t be faulted for suggesting they have some …

Interview with Christi Barth + Giveaway

Happy Monday, Book Lovers! I am happy to welcome back to BLI Christi Barth who is celebrating the release of her latest book, Planning for Love, the first novel in her Aisle Bound trilogy, a delicious and frothy wedding themed contemporary romance series! Please give Christi a warm welcome and join us while I chat with Christi and interview her about this new book and series of hers, about the joys (and not) of wedding planning!

Stella: Hi Christi, we are happy to have you back at Book Lovers Inc! Can you tell us a bit about what has happened since you were here last time in November 2011 when you were promoting the release of Cruising Toward Love? What have you been up to since, any big news?

Christi: I’ve been writing like CRAZY! On January 17 (my wedding anniversary, so we had a built-in celebration evening ready to go!) I …