Review: The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams

Format Read: Mass Market Paperback
Length: 320 Pages
Publisher: Ace Books
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Shadow Reader, #1
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million

Book Blurb:

Some humans can see the fae. McKenzie Lewis can track them, reading the shadows they leave behind. But some shadows lead to danger. Others lead to lies.

A Houston college student trying to finish her degree, McKenzie has been working for the fae king for years, tracking vicious rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn’t her only secret. For just as long, she’s been in love with Kyol, the king’s sword-master—and relationships between humans and fae are forbidden.

But any hope for a normal life is shattered when she’s captured by Aren, the fierce and uncompromising rebel leader. He teaches her the forbidden fae language and tells her dark truths about …

BDSM: A Conversation With Eden Bradley (a.k.a. Eve Berlin) + GC Giveaway!

Eden Bradley / Eve Berlin

Welcome to Part III of BLI’s Kink in Erotic Romance: Forbidden Fruit or Guilty Pleasure? series.

I’m very excited about the next two segments of the series because BLI is welcoming special guest author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin who was kind enough to share her valuable time for an extensive conversation about the BDSM Lifestyle and it’s incorporation into erotic romance.

Eden Bradley/Eve Berlin is a full-time author whose many books are published by Harlequin Spice and HQN, Berkley Heat, Bantam/Dell, and Samhain Publishing. She has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember but became serious about her writing in the summer of 2000. She wrote romance novels, since that was what she thought she could sell, but eventually returned to what she truly loved: writing erotica, and eventually blended erotica …

Early Review: Wrong Side of Hell by Juliana Stone + Giveaway

Wrong Side of Hell by Juliana Stone

Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 178 Pages
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: League of Guardians Prequel
Release Date Kindle: March 6, 2012
Release Date Paperback: March 27, 2012
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Goodreads, Nook, Kindle

Book Blurb:

With battle lines drawn and evil forces gathering in the shadows, the League of Guardians is all that stands between chaos and the human realm…

Logan Winters, an elite hellhound shifter, wants to forget his allegiance to the League and the pain he’s suffered because of it. But when he’s ordered to retrieve Kira Dove from purgatory and bring her back to life, he can’t refuse. Not only will her death affect the balance between the realms, she’s also linked to a past he …

Interview with Augusta Blythe + Giveaway

Today, we are really happy to welcome Augusta Blythe here at Book Lovers Inc. Augusta is here today to talk about her newest release Ravenstoke, the second book in her Unbound Universe series.  In Ravenstoke we follow Loie’s adventures after the shocking revelations that took place in the end of Winterborne and let me tell you this book is as good as the first one and then some! Augusta’s world is really fascinating and her stories just manage to grab your interest until the very end. But let’s just leave Augusta tell us all of that in her own, unique way 🙂 And don’t forget, that there is a giveaway at the end of the post!

Anna: Hello Augusta and welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Augusta: Hi, thanks so much for having me. I am a self-published author who is very excited …

Review: Past Tense by Nick Marsh

Format read: ebook provided by the author
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Number of Pages 238
Publisher Immanion Press
Formats Available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info:Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Immanion Press, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords

Book Blurb:

Alan Reece, an unassuming animal doctor from the West Country, was surprised to discover that he had become the link between reality and the strange world beyond. Unfortunately, ripples from his unwitting transformation have freed a dark and terrible creature from its improbable prison.

My Thoughts:
Past Tense reminded me of the old “Doublemint Gum” commercial. Because it was two, two, two books in one.
And you might think that’s a terrible joke, but it fits with the snarky tone of the first part of the book. Fully realizing that everyone’s taste in both humor and snark varies widely. And wildly.

The beginning of the book takes off about a year after Marsh’s first book, Soul …

Review: Mask of the Gladiator by Georgie Lee

Format Read: e-book provided by publisher
Release Date: Jan. 30, 2012
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats Available: ebook
Length: 17,000 words
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

Rome, 41 AD

Livia Duronius is driven to seek out a gladiator after watching him triumph in the Colosseum. His touch arouses a sense of hope she hasn’t felt since Rome fell under the tyrannical rule of Caligula—and her late husband betrayed her. Though in danger of losing more than her heart, she vows to see him again, even after she learns her uncle has arranged her marriage to a senator.

Senator Titus Marius cannot resist indulging in a passionate encounter with the veiled woman who waits for him after the games, though he faces execution if his true identity is discovered. Bound by honor to wed another, and embroiled in a plot to free Rome from madness, he never expects to see the …