We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start

The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for June is … Laura who commented on our Dual Review: Tempting the Best Man by J. Lynn post:

Laura June 27, 2012 at 11:45 am Thank you so much for posting this great review! I LOVE Jennifer L. Armentrout’s YA work, and had no idea she was using a different name for adult stuff. Cannot wait to read this one! Thanks!

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We will now start counting for August. 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 …

Review: Bind Me by Stacey Kennedy

Format read: ebook provided by author
Series: Book#1 in the Seduction Pact series
Release Date: 11 October 2011
Number of pages: 63 pages
Publisher: Loose Id
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance Ebooks

Blurb:

Four best friends embrace their fantasies and make a pact of seduction to live out their deepest and darkest desires. The women place their lives in the hands of fate and one short straw declares Marley will be the first to awaken her secret wishes.

Reed, a Dom at sex club Castle Dolce Vita, has lived the BDSM lifestyle for awhile, but has yet to find a submissive that suits him. That is until he meets Marley, a woman seeking to indulge her fantasies.

As Reed guides her through a night of pleasure, Marley brings more to him than a perfect submissive–she stirs emotions in him long ago lost. …

Interview with J. Lynn + Giveaway!

Today I’m super excited to welcome author J. Lynn a.k.a. Jennifer Armentrout to Book Lovers! It’s no big secret that I’m a huge fan of Jennifer’s and she’s one of those authors whose work I just know I will enjoy no matter what! Today, Jennifer stops by to celebrate her first adult release under the pen name J. Lynn, Tempting the Best Man, a story about first love that just blew me away. What can I say, I have a soft spot for sexy stories that feature even sexier male heroes 🙂

So, let’s welcome Jennifer and don’t forget to check at the end of the post for a chance to win a copy of Tempting the Best Man.

Anna: Hi Jennifer, welcome to Book Lovers Inc. We are more than happy to have you here today celebrating the release of your first adult story, Tempting The Best Man!

Jennifer: Thanks for having …

Review: The Promise Part 1 by Gene Luen Yang

Format read: Paperback

Release Date: 25 January 2012

Number of pages: 76

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Formats available: Paperback

Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository

Blurb:

The war is over…but the adventure has just begun!

Picking up exactly where Avatar: The Last Airbender left off, The Promise takes Aang to a Fire Nation colony in the heart of the Earth Kingdom, where tensions between neighbours threaten to shatter the world’s newfound peace – putting the Avatar on a collision course with one of his closest friends, Fire Lord Zuko!

Written by Eisner Award winner Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) in close collaboration with Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, this is the story Avatar fans have been waiting for!

My Thoughts:

The Promise Part 1 was just what I needed to slake my thirst for more Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The world is at peace thanks to Aang defeating the Fire Lord. Now, …

Review: Big Sky Country by Linda Lael Miller

Format Read: ARC paperback provided by publisher
Length: 384 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Parable, Montana #1
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Publisher: HQN Books
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBook, audio book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository, Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

The “First Lady of the West,” #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller is back with a new series about Parable, Montana-where love awaits.

The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father…until now. Suddenly, Slade has inherited half of Whisper Creek Ranch, one of the most prosperous in Parable, Montana. That doesn’t sit well with his half brother, Hutch, who grew up with all the rights of a Carmody—including the affections of Joslyn Kirk, homecoming queen, rodeo queen, beauty …

Interview with Stacey Kennedy + Giveaway

 Today we are happy to welcome back to BLI author Stacey Kennedy, who is celebrating a double release now: both the next instalment in her Frostbite paranormal/Uf series as well as in her Seduction Pack erotica series released recently! So of course I took the opportunity to grill Stacey about her series, her writing and how she gets in he smexy mood 😉 Please give her a warm welcome and you could even win one of her books!

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

Stacey: Hi Stella! Thanks for having me! Hmm…a little about me. Well, I’m a stay-at-home mom, but do get the chance to write in the afternoons while my kids are at school. I’ve been writing since 2009 and was first epublished in 2010. It’s been a whirlwind since and last year I had a …

Romance and Me: The “My Best Friend’s Little Sister” Romances

There is a favourite trope of mine we haven’t discussed yet and that is the brother’s best friend falling for the brother’s little sister or vice versa. And lately it seems that most of the romances I have read featured this trope.

So why do I like this setting you might ask? Well it’s quite obvious: I LOVE protective and thoughtful men and usually these heroes have grown up with the heroines, saw them when they were little, vulnerable and as friends of their brothers they still feel a bit responsible for the sister’s wellbeing. I just love those scenes when these alpha male heroes get all Neanderthal when an other man behaves irrespectfully with the girl and they step in *Stella fans herself so as not to swoon* And those scenes where the big brother’s best friend hero is trying hard not to think about …

Dual Review: Tempting the Best Man by J. Lynn

Format read: ebook provided by publisher 
Release Date: 23 April 2012
Series: Book #1 in the Gamble brothers series
Number of pages: 172 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Madison Daniels has worshipped her brother’s best friend since they were kids. Everyone thinks she and Chase Gamble would make the perfect couple, but there are two major flaws in their logic. 1) Chase has sworn off relationships of any kind, and 2) after blurring the line between friends and lovers for one night four years ago, they can’t stop bickering.

Forced together for her brother’s wedding getaway, Chase and Madison decide to call a truce for the happy couple. Except all bets are off when they’re forced to shack up in a tacky 70’s honeymoon suite and survive a multitude of “accidents” as the family tries …

Interview with Laura Kaye + Giveaway

Today, we are really excited to welcome back to Book Lovers one of the friendliest authors ever: Laura Kaye, who stops by BLI today in celebration of her latest novel Her Forbidden Hero. In her latest book, Laura tells the story of Alyssa and Marco, childhood friends turned lovers, and let me tell you one thing: you’re in for a big treat with Marco! At least both Stella and myself fell head over hills with him 😉 (Stella chimes in: Oh yes, we most definitely did! *nods enthusiastically*)

But I think we should let Laura do the talking and tell us everything about Her Forbidden Hero! Don’t forget to check at the end of the post for the details of our giveaway 🙂

Stella: Hi Laura, we are happy to have you back at Book Lovers Inc! Can you tell us a bit about what has …

Dual Review: Her Forbidden Hero by Laura Kaye

Format read: ebook provided by publisher 
Release Date: 15 May 2012
Number of pages: 240 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

She’s always been off-limits…

Former Army Special Forces Sgt. Marco Vieri has never thought of Alyssa Scott as more than his best friend’s little sister, but her return home changes that…and challenges him to keep his war-borne demons at bay. Marco’s not the same person he was back when he protected Alyssa from her abusive father, and he’s not about to let her see the mess he’s become.

…but now she’s all grown up.

When Alyssa takes a job at the bar where Marco works, her carefree smiles wreak havoc on his resolve to bury his feelings. How can he protect her when he can’t stop thinking about her in his …