Advent Calendar Day 5: After Midnight by Sarah Grimm + Giveaway!

Welcome to the 5th 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 After Midnight, by Sarah Grimm, one of my favorite reads of 2011. After Midnight is an emotional, beautifully constructed contemporary romance about Isabeau Montgomery, a piano virtuoso who has had a tragic life and Noah Clark, a famous rock musician. I quickly became captivated by Ms. Grimm’s vivid descriptive prose and exemplary characterization. Noah is 41, has learned from his fame and has matured. His persistence while wooing Isabeau along with his compassion and tenderness toward her is extremely touching. I found reading about their journey toward eventual happiness to be unique and memorable. This book quickly found it’s way to my keeper shelf. 🙂

After Midnight …

Advent Calendar Day 4: Settling by Shelley Workinger

Welcome to the fourth 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 Settling. It’s a YA novel that totally rocked my world. This book will make you scream for more.

Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Goodreads

Book Blurb:

At the beginning of the summer, Clio Kaid was one of a hundred teens brought to a secret Army installation.
But it was no ordinary camp and they weren’t ordinary kids…

Soon after learning they were the products of a secret genetic experiment, the teens began developing super-abilities ranging from bounding lightness to blocking heaviness; blinding brilliance and the ability to vanish. These same gifts made them targets of a psychopath in officer’s clothing, and they found themselves fighting for their lives.

Picking …

Advent Calendar Day 3: Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep + Giveaway

Welcome to the third 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 Touch of Frost, this first novel in Jennifer’s Estep new Mythos Academy series.  Moe than one Book Lover nominated this book so you really should miss out on it. It gave me my interest in YA novels back- not an easy goal to achieve.

Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK), Author’s website

Book Blurb:

My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy — a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody’s head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be …

Review: “Devoured by Darkness” by Alexandra Ivy

Devoured by Darkness

Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Length: 352 Pages
Series: Guardians of Eternity Book 7
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Publisher: Zebra Paranormal Romance
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Book Depository, Chapters, Powells, Kindle, Nook, All Romance eBooks

Book Blurb:

Tane is a Charon, sworn to hunt and kill rogue vampires. His new assignment seems like a waste of his talents…until he catches up with the Jinn he’s been sent to capture. Half human, half demon, Laylah has a vulnerable streak that strikes right through to Tane’s cold heart. He should be furious when she uses her powers to bind them together, preventing him from dragging her before the Commission. Instead he welcomes any reason to stay close enough to touch, to taste, to seduce…

Laylah …

Interview: Alexandra Ivy + Giveaway

Alexandra Ivy

It’s our great pleasure to welcome New York Times Bestselling Author to BLI today! Alexandra is here to celebrate the release of her latest novel Bound by Darkness, which which is a Zebra Paranormal romance released on November 29, 2011. Bound by Darkness is the Eighth novel in Alexandra’s enormously popular Guardians of Eternity series of novels and we are going to chat about her series and her latest book!

Lea: Alexandra! It is such a thrill to be able to chat with you today, thank you so much for joining us!

Alexandra: I’m delighted to be here, and thanks so much for inviting me!!

Lea: Alexandra, to start off can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Alexandra: I actually came to writing from my love for theatre. I’ve always been a huge reader, but when I was younger I hoped to work on stage. After taking a playwriting class …

Advent Calendar Day 2: The Bitter Seed of Magic by Suzanne McLeod + Giveaway!

Welcome to the 2nd 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 book from Suzanne MacLeod‘s Spellcrackers.com series. This year I read and loved The Bitter Seed of Magic (Book #3)  and I decided to share the love with you! This series is a real ‘Coup de Coeur’ for me and I hope you’ll have the chance to enjoy it too. I always say this series has a little something more that other UF series don’t have. It’s hard to explain but when I read them I felt it was different. I’m now completely addicted and I think I can safely say next book is gonna ROCK (*evil laugh*)

Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Suzanne’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

On the surface, Genny’s …

ARC Review: Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch

Format read: ARC provided by author
Series: Book #4 Katherine “Kitty” Katt series
Release Date: 6th Dec 2011
Number of pages: 448 pages
Publisher: DAW
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)

Blurb:

Alien Super-Being Exterminator Kitty Katt is expecting her first baby. But the alien attacks are getting more dangerous, and now Kitty and her Alpha Centaurion husband, Jeff, have to find out who’s behind the conspiracy to kill Kitty’s secret agent mom and what caused Kitty’s transformation into a superhuman-and they’ve got to do it all before the baby shower…

My Thoughts:

Koch did it again- with Alien Proliferation she delivers another fast paced and enthralling novel in her Katherine Kitty Katt series. It’s hard to review this book without spoiling the previous ones so if you are behind on reading them I caution you to read on only if you don’t mind spoilers.

Kitty …

Author Interview with Marjorie M. Liu + Giveaway

Today it’s our great pleasure to welcome author Marjorie M. Liu to Book Lovers Inc. She’s very graciously answered all of our burning questions about everything from her writing habits and thoughts on reading to her book series and various writing projects. We really got the skinny on all things Marjorie M. Liu! Big thanks go to the awesome Sullivan McPig for helping create these great questions.

Please give Ms. Liu a warm, BLI welcome (and stay tuned at the end of the post…you’ll find a lovely little surprise ^_^).

BLI: Marjorie can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Marjorie: There’s little that would be of interest, I suspect. I live a very quiet life. I used to be a lawyer and now I’m a novelist and comic book writer. I love poodles. I have cats. There’s nothing better to me than a good book on a rainy day. Also, …

Advent Calendar Day 1: Running Blind by Nicki J. Markus + Giveaway

Welcome to the first day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Starting today 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 story by Nicki J. Markus. Now, I absolutely adored this story. It’s only ten pages long but what was packed into those ten pages had me in a book hangover for nearly two days!

Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

It seems like any ordinary day as Nick waits for the train, but then a chance encounter with a young woman turns his world upside down. What is it that she is running from and will helping her jeopardise his own secret, making him a target too?

The Review:
Running Blind is one of the best short stories I have read in a long time.
Nick is …

Review: “Hot Text” by Cari Quinn

Hot Text by Cari Quinn

Format Read:e-book provided courtesy of the author
Length: 94 Pages
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Erotic Romance
Formats Available: Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, All Romance eBooks

Book Blurb:

Sometimes what you think you want and what you need are two very different things.

As a technical editor, Jeffrey Maddox deals with plenty of words, leaving him few to spare on people, except his baby sister. To keep Daisy from wrecking her newly rehabbed life by shacking up with her older, married lover Lonny, he impulsively texts Lonny’s wife, Karyn. And then meets her at a coffee shop on a snowy night, ostensibly to convince her to stay with her philandering husband.

But soon texting turns to sexting. After spending the night getting to know Karyn, Jeff wants something much more personal—Lonny’s wife. For himself.

Despite …