Book Lovers Book Club: September 2013 Voting Results

Good moaning everyone!

And yes I am definitely moaning today because I currently cannot walk…thanks to the back stairs at my house. If anyone would like to purchase my sprained ankle off me it is going at a very attractive rate…free.

But I digress.

The voting results are in and Septembers reads will be:

The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook

First in an all-new series where seductive danger and steampunk adventure abound in the gritty world of the Iron Seas.

After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession.

But when Mina uncovers the victim’s identity, she stumbles upon a …

Book Lovers Book Club: Series Read-Along Selections

It’s Monday again! And the only good thing about my Mondays is True Blood season 3 and Book Club.

Although as you are reading this I will be in the middle of watching the final episode of the season (gasp! that came around quickly 🙁 )

Here are the choices for our series read-along – the secondary book club feature we do each month. As we have just finished reading the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb (well I’m halfway through – check out some discussion points on the entire trilogy next week.)

Vote in the comments below!

The Liveship Trader Series by Robin Hobb (chronologically the next series after The Farseer Trilogy)

Demonstrating world-building finesse, Robin Hobb begins the climactic story of a seafaring clan and its tangled destiny. Though expected to inherit her family’s newly quickened liveship, Althea Vestrit loses the honor to her scheming brother-in-law, who plans to use it as a slave …

Book Lovers Book Club: September 2013 Selections

Good morning,

I hope you have had a good monday so far.

Below is the list of September titles for voting. This month’s theme is Romance:

The Spymaster’s Lady by Joanna Bourne (Goodreads Link)

SHE’S NEVER MET A MAN SHE COULDN’T DECEIVE …

She’s braved battlefields. She’s stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She’s played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can’t outwit …

UNTIL NOW.

British spymaster Robert Grey must enter France and bring back the brilliant, beautiful — and dangerous — Fox Cub. His duty is to capture her and her secrets for England. When the two natural enemies are thrown into prison, they forge an uneasy alliance to break free. But their pact is temporary and betrayal seems inevitable. They flee, pursued …

Book Lovers Book Club: August 2013 Voting Results

Good morning everybody!

It is now time to reveal the how the July votes went!

August’s book will be:

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen’s Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her …

Book Lovers Book Club: Reminder – Voting and Link up your reviews

Good morning everyone!

This is just a quick reminder about the book club.

1. Voting! – the August theme is Dragons!

2. Link up’s – Don’t forget to link up your reviews for the July books for your chance to win a $10 Book Depository voucher

That’s actually pretty much all from me.

In other news I’m growing an herb garden in my kitchen.

^ That’s not it but I’ll post a pic in a few weeks if it manages to survive my enthusiastic over-watering.

What did the green grape say to the purple grape?

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“Breathe Idiot!”

Thank you thank you…

Happy Monday everyone

Book Lovers Book Club: Discussion Questions – Soulless by Gail Carriger

Morning everyone,

Today I’ve decided to discuss Soulless by Gail Carriger with a few questions to kick start your brains this Monday morning.

You can see my review of Soulless here.

Given the opportunity to become a clavinger or drone, would you do it? Why/Why not?

Alexia doesn’t mind destroying the vampire at the beginning of Soulless, was it because of the badly tied cravat or his destruction of her precious treacle tart? What dessert is worth killing over?

The comedic tone of the novel was ever present even when the novel was at it’s darkest plot-threads. Do you think this added to the depth of the novel and characters or did it trivialize the plot?

Comedy is sprinkled all throughout Soulless, even during the darkest times. Does this deepen the story or just downplay the seriousness of the situation?

Will you be reading Changeless?

Don’t forget to vote for next months book here.

And also to …

Book Lovers Book Club: Link Up Your Reviews for July 2013 + Giveaway

Today’s the day!

Today you can link up your Soulless & Royal Assassin reviews and enter to win a $10USD voucher for Book Depository!

There is two books this month so two potential entries for each person.

To enter you must:

Read the book/s
Review the book/s – review/s must be at least 300 words – books must be reviewed seperately
Post the review somewhere – your own blog, Goodreads, Amazon etc
Somewhere in the review you must have the words “Book Lovers Book Club” with a link back to this page you may even use our Book Lovers Book Club badge on your review
Post the link to the linky below

All reviews must be in English (I know we are an international blog but I am only fluent in the Queen’s English, Australian and Sarcasm)

All reviews must be your own original work.
All reviews must be posted and added to the linky page before 11:59PM on 31st of July
Winners …

Book Lovers Book Club: August 2013 Selections

Hello all!

It is now time to reveal the August titles for you to vote on. In honour of Cass’s Dragon day feature August’s theme will be…

DRAGONS!!

(I got you there didn’t I…you thought I was going to say Glitter Pixies, didn’t you)

Daggerspell by Katherine Kevy  (Goodreads Link)

Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years-and many lifetimes-ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he’d rightened that wrong-and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her  father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled  berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and  powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness. . . and a quest to fulfill …

Book Lovers Book Club: July 2013 Voting Results

Good morning everybody!

It is now time to reveal the how the July votes went!

July’s book will be:

Soulless by Gail Carriger

First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire – and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

This month we will also be continuing the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb with the …

Book Lovers Book Club: Link up your reviews for June 2013!

Morning everyone,

Well, June is almost at an end, and so is the first ever Book Lovers Book Club read-along!

And now is your chance to link up your review so we can all get some cross promotion going 😀

So if you read Once Burned and/or Assassin’s Apprentice and have reviewed them and posted your review, link them up today!

As you may have seen my Once Burned review went up last week, and the review for Assassin’s Apprentice will be going up this week. Both of my reviews were 5 stars! What did you think of Once Burned and Assassin’s Apprentice?

Also…Don’t forget to vote for next months books! Only a week to go!

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