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The International Giveaways Café (44)
Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! Have you seen our new logo? Isn’t it all kinds of cool? The café button has been updated to match, so if you have our old one, we’d love it if you switched up too 🙂
Also, 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 format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog …
featured,The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 
26 May 2012
2 comments
Review: The Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 24 April 2012
Number of pages: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon
Series: Book #1 in the Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel series
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Source: review copy provided by publisher through Edelweiss
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, B&N, Indiebound, Books-a-Million, Walmart
Blurb:
Captain Brody has been badly burned by his ex-wife. When he orders Ryan, his star fireman, to participate in a bachelor auction, little does he know he’s the one who will lose his heart.
Melissa McGuire is a brainy local news producer trying to get her career back on track. She can’t believe she’s being set up by her grandmother, who bid on a date with a fireman at the auction. She prefers the artsy type, not the tough, commanding , though clearly attractive, fire chief.
And yet, they can’t resist each other, …
3 1/2 Stars,featured,Jennifer Bernard,Review,The Latin Lover 25 May 2012
3 comments
Interview with Alice Wade + Giveaway Awesomeness!
Happy Thursday, book lovers! (Did you make it through Wednesday all right?) Today we’re very pleased to welcome author Alice Wade to BLI. In addition to discussing the characters and stories found in her latest releases, she answers some of our questions about her writing style and the origins of her love for the fantasy genre. At the end of the interview, you’ll find a special giveaway from Alice herself!
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Q: Hi Alice, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Greetings! Thank you so much for having me and taking the time to interview me.
I graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Psychology. I am a Marketing Professional by day, writer by night and have devoted myself to using the written word to motivate emotional responses. With my writing, I’ve proven that anything is possible if you just …
Alice Wade,featured,Giveaways,Interview,The Needy Lover 24 May 2012
6 comments
Review: Bare Naked Lola by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
Bare Naked Lola by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
Format Read: ebook provided by publisher for review
Length: 300 Pages
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: Mystery with Romantic Elements
Formats Available: Paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, The Book Depository, Powell’s
Book Blurb:
Going undercover is second nature for Private Investigator Lola Cruz, but she’s out of her league when the case of a murdered Royals Courtside Dancer leads her to a local nudist resort. Parading around the sidelines of Sacramento’s professional basketball scene in a barely-there cheerleading outfit is one thing—but parading around in nothing but smile? If she has any chance of hiding this from her traditional family and on-again/off-again boyfriend Jack, she’s going to have a lot more than her duct tape bra and killer dance moves to keep under wraps….
My Thoughts:
Delores “Lola” …
4 Stars,featured,Melissa Bourbon,Review,The Danger Lover 23 May 2012
4 comments
Bare Naked Lola Blog Tour: Interview Melissa Bourbon Ramirez + Giveaway!
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
It’s our great pleasure to welcome Melissa Bourbon Ramirez to BLI today! Melissa is here for the latest stop in her whirlwind Entangled Publishing Blog Tour to celebrate the release of her latest novel Bare-Naked Lola, which hit the stands on May 15, 2012. Bare-Naked Lola is a mystery with romantic elements and is the third book of her highly acclaimed Lola Cruz Mystery series.
About Melissa:
Melissa Bourbon, who sometimes answers to her Latina-by-marriage name Misa Ramirez, gave up teaching middle and high school kids in Northern California to write full-time amidst horses and Longhorns in North Texas. She fantasizes about spending summers writing in quaint, cozy locales, has a love/hate relationship with yoga and chocolate, is devoted to her family, and can’t believe she’s lucky enough to be living the life of her dreams.
She is the marketing director at Entangled Publishing, is the author …
featured,Giveaways,Interview,Melissa Bourbon,The Danger Lover 23 May 2012
11 comments
New Releases: May 21 – 27, 2012
Nightshifted (Nightshifted Trilogy, #1) by Cassie Alexander
Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond…
Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed. But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this…
featured,New Releases,The Needy Lover 22 May 2012
9 comments
Review: Kiss of the Goblin Prince by Shona Husk
Format Read:egalley from NetGalley
Number of Pages:352 p.
Release Date:May 1, 2012
Publisher:Sourcebooks Casablanca
Series: Shadowlands #2
Genre: paranormal romance
Formats Available: Mass Market paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon , Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Trapped for centuries in the bleak Shadowlands, Dai clings to his humanity with a thirst for knowledge. But now he’s free of the goblin curse, and some would say he knows too much—he can make nature bend to his will, influence the minds of others, and command magic. Yet love eludes him. Then he meets Amanda, a single mother with a sick daughter whom he feels compelled to protect. But could she possibly place her trust in the kiss of a goblin prince?
My Thoughts:
Kiss of the Goblin Prince is even better than The Goblin King, and The Goblin King was awfully, awfully good.
Okay, now that I’ve got that out of the way, …
5 Stars,featured,Shona Husk,The Rocket Lover 22 May 2012
6 comments
Guest Post: Why I admire Stormy by Gabi Stevens + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome Gabi Stevens to Book Lovers Inc! Gabi is celebrating the release of the third and last novel in her Time of Transition series a light contemporary/paranormal romance series about three young women becoming the next fairy godmothers (and of course finding love along the road 😉 ) Read on, share with us which fictional characters you admire and why and you could win one of Gabi’s books!
Why I admire Stormy
Stormy Jones-Smythe is the heroine of my latest novel, Wishful Thinking. She came to me as a complete character, but she wasn’t easy to write because so many of her personality traits are not mine. She embodies many of the qualities I hope I possess or will someday. So while she was difficult to write, I also learned a lot from her.
Stormy has a lust for life that I want. She follows …
featured,Gabi Stevens,Giveaways,Guest Post,The Latin Lover 22 May 2012
45 comments
Dual Review: A Hint of Frost by Hailey Edwards
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 17 April 2012
Publisher: Samhain
Series: Book #1 in the Araneae Nation series
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Hope dangles by a silken thread.
When the head of the Araneidae clan is found poisoned in her nest, her eldest daughter, Lourdes, becomes their clan’s new maven. If her clan is to survive, she has but one choice: she must marry before her nest is seized. All she needs is a warrior fierce enough to protect her city and safeguard her clansmen. Such a male is Rhys the Cold.
Born the youngest son of an impoverished maven, the only things Rhys has to his name are his sword and his mercenary reputation. His clan is starving, but their fondness for the flesh of fellow Araneaeans makes them unwelcome dinner guests. Torn between loyalty to his clan and fascination …
Interview with Hailey Edwards + Giveaway
Today we are excited to welcome Hailey Edwards to Book Lovers Inc! Hailey is the author of fantasy and paranormal romance series, including her most recent release, A Hint of Frost. We had a whole host of questions for Hailey, and she very graciously answers them all (including a tidbit about a secret foot-writing skill!). Check out what she has to say about her writing and reading habits, her characters, and her future writing plans. Then be sure to check out the end of the post, where Hailey has a few questions for you!
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Stella: Hi Hailey, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Hailey: Hi! Thanks for having me. There isn’t too much to know about me. I’m married, a mom, I love to bake and I always have some sort of home improvement project …
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