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New Releases: May 7 – 13, 2012
City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) by Cassandra Clare
(Non-spoilery book description ^_^)
The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.
Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.
New Releases:
Beauty (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #20.5) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Broken Illusions (Midnight Dragonfly, #2) by Ellie James (YA)
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis (YA)
Endure (Need, #4) by Carrie Jones (YA)
Hard Tail by J.L. Merrow
Hemlock (Hemlock, #1) by Kathleen Peacock (YA)
High Stakes by Chad Strong (5/11)
Hunting …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 
8 May 2012
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Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers! How was this week for you? Hope it was perfect!
This week we finally get a reprieve for all those mass book releases, but for any YA fans out there, this is yet another heavy week I’m afraid. Some of the most highly anticipated YA titles hit the shelves on May 8th among them the newest installment in The Mortal Instrument series by Cassandra Clare.
Let’s start!
Amanda: Beauty by Laurell K. Hamilton
The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead.
You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.
With a vampire like Jean Claude around, it’s far too easy for Anita Blake to doubt her own …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 6 May 2012
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The International Giveaways Café (41)
Good morning all and welcome back to the best place in the web for accessing international book giveaways! I woke up this morning to a slightly cool breeze but a whole lotta sun. As long as it stays like this, my weekend will include as much time spent outside…with a good book, of course 😉 What does your weekend have in store?
Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the …
The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 5 May 2012
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Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! After last week’s epic post – this week has been much quieter. This week we have news on Microsoft is joining forces with B&N, Pottermore selling millions of ebooks and more publishers following Tor and Forge’s footsteps in going DRM free.
We also have to apologise if anyone had problems in logging into the site earlier because our host was down for maintenance. Hopefully the gremlins have stopped playing mischief and the site should have no problems!
This week started off with the news that Microsoft is teaming up with Barnes and Noble over ebooks. It looks like that Barnes and Noble is going to spinn-off the Nook into a separate business with support from Microsoft in this new venture focusing on the college and text books stores. This will also allow support for a new Nook App for the new Windows 8 platform which …
News,The Smutty Lover 4 May 2012
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Interview with Lila DiPasqua + Giveaway
Today I am very happy to welcome back to the blog the wonderful Lila DiPasqua‘s whose steamy fairy tale inspired historical romances are hot enough to set the pages on fire and romantic enough to make you sigh with pleasure. The 4th book in Lila’s Fiery Tales series Undone was just released and if the gorgeous cover is not enough to tempt you I can tell you the story is extraordinary as well! (Don’t believe me? Read my review.) So it is with great pleasure that I interviewed her (poor Lila had to go through dozens of questions and she did them all with grace and a smile), this time we discover which fairy tale is her personal favourite and how she choreographs her steamy love scenes. So read on to discover more about Lila DiPasqua and her wonderful novels! (and of course there is …
Bookish Rants and Raves: Musing on Series and Longevity
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Series. Love em or hate em, they take a single book and turn in into a network of interconnected stories and characters. For my part, I absolutely prefer series reading. Since I’m prone to getting very attached to characters, unwilling to let them go after one book, the ability to follow their growth and development is absolutely wonderful. And that’s not even to speak of the ability to observe detailed and complex world building, epic story arcs, and narrative style that constantly evolves.
But is there a limit to that? Is it possible to have too much world building, too many character development, or–gasp-a de-evolution in narrative style? Is ennui an eventuality that any given series will be up against at some point? One might imagine that there’s a whole constellation of factors that could influence how to answer those questions. So don’t expect answers …
Bookish Rant or Raves,featured,The Needy Lover 3 May 2012
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Guestpost by Author Zoë Archer + giveaway
It’s always with pleasure that we welcome Zoë Archer on Book Lovers Inc! Demon’s Bride, the second book in Zoë’s Hellraisers series came out earlier this week. This book is a mix of genres and the result is explosive! You can read my review later today. Let’s give a warm welcome to Zoë! And don’t forget, you can enter to win a copy of Demon’s Bride!
One of the reasons why I love writing paranormal historical romance is that I get to do research. That might seem like a funny reason to enjoy something, but, in my case, it’s true. I love digging up interesting facts or learning unusual things about the past, then combining them with the paranormal.
When I researched DEMON’S BRIDE, the second book in my Hellraisers series, I knew that the hero of the book would be a man who actually worked for his …
Giveaways,Guest Post,The HEA Lover,Zoe Archer 3 May 2012
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Romance and Me: For the Love of a Gladiator
Hey Everyone!
Being the Latin Lover, as ‘Nomen est Omen’ (the name obliges), you might have guessed that I’m a fan of Latin: both the language and the rich historical culture.
So it came as quite a shock when I realized that despite my love for historical romances and interest in Ancient Rome, somehow until very recently I have neither read nor researched HRs set in Ancient Rome. I wasn’t even aware there was such a category (I know, unbelievable!) so I had no idea what I was missing out on.
But then in February I stumbled upon Georgie Lee’s Mask of the Gladiator which I LOVED! Not only was it a terrific story, but it opened a whole new horizon and made me aware of a new subgenre of historical romance. Since then I keep seeing other HRs set in Ancient Rome emerge: My …
featured,Romance and Me,The Latin Lover 2 May 2012
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New Releases: April 30 – May 6, 2012
Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12) by Charlaine Harris
With Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), in town, it’s the worst possible time for a body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.
Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
A Gentleman Says “I Do” by Amelia Grey
Barely Breathing (The Breathing Series, #2) by Rebecca Donovan
Beguiling the Beauty (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #1) by Sherry …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 1 May 2012
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We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & new Start
This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for April is …
Cathy
who commented on our New Releases: April 16 – 22, 2012 post:
I like the look of The Last Echo’s cover. And I’ve been so into the J.D. Robb, it’s been a while since I’ve read her Nora Roberts books. Witness looks good. 🙂
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We will now start counting for May. Here again the rules:
We thought long and hard about how we should show you, the readers of Book Lovers Inc how much we appreciate your input and interaction. We are happy and grateful for every comment cuz we know how it is to be a “blog-hopper”. We enjoy reading your thoughts and we love to …
Giveaways,The Geeky Lover,We Love Your Comments 1 May 2012
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