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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
Guestpost by author Leigh LaValle + Giveaway
Today we’re very happy to welcome Leigh LaValle on Book Lovers Inc. Leigh’s Debut novel The Runaway Countess was release a few weeks ago. We’ve had the pleasure of reading it and we can’t recommend it enough! Keep your eyes open for our Dual review later today. Let’s give a fantastic welcome to Leigh Lavalle and enter the contest to win our ow copy of the Runaway Countess!
Making Merry on Midsummer’s Eve
Spring is in the air! As the sun shines brighter and the temperatures rise, I feel my blood stirring. Summertime, with her vibrant, sweaty nights, is coming soon. I love every season, but I find summer by far the sexiest. Indeed, I set my debut novel, the RUNAWAY COUNTESS, during the hot, sultry summer of 1821.
Summer brings long days spent out-of-doors, succulent berries fresh from the garden, and boisterous open air festivals. The most …
featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,Leigh LaValle,The HEA Lover 
17 Apr 2012
21 comments
Explore This! Mendocino, California
I’ve been reading The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, and in it, her version of the werewolf travels through San Francisco and further on north through California. I thought it would be neat to check out Mendocino, California, being it’s one of the names in her book.
The Wolf Gift takes place (at times) in a remote area on the Pacific Ocean and surrounded by redwood trees that have a particular meaning for some of the characters. The images Rice offers are ones of lush nature but with a certain wild, savage, untouchable feel. I think in searching out some of these images, I would agree, but this area is certainly one filled with raw beauty also. Let’s check it out:
Living alongside the ocean tends to wear homes down that much quicker.
If you've read Rice's book, you can easily imagine Reuben in these …
Explore This,featured,The Quirky Lover 16 Apr 2012
5 comments
Review: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
Format read: ebook from library
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Walker Papers, #1
Release Date: June 1, 2009 (reprint edition; original edition published June 1, 2005)
Number of pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Luna
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.
No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.
And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.
It’s been a bitch of a week.
And it isn’t over yet.
My Thoughts:
I’d been looking forward to trying this UF series for quite some time. As far as urban fantasy institutions …
2 Stars,C.E. Murphy,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 16 Apr 2012
10 comments
Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers how are you today? Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it today like me 🙂 How was your week?The upcoming week is yet again not crowded at all with book releases. There are a couple of noticeable releases like The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting and The Witness, the newest release by Nora Roberts, but we miss a loud BANG yet again. But beware, next week, there are so many scheduled releases to fulfill everyone’s wishes!
So, let’s start with this week’s Sunday Cravings!
Jackie: The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting
In the end, all that’s left is an echo…
Violet kept her morbid ability to sense dead bodies a secret from everyone except her family and her childhood-best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Jay Heaton. That is until forensic psychologist Sara Priest discovered Violet’s talent and invited her to use her gift to track down murderers. Now, …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 15 Apr 2012
5 comments
Interview with Justine Elyot + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome to BLI erotic romance author Justine Elyot, who has written several dozens of erotic stories and released in January at Carina Press a unique blend of erotic sci-fi, thriller and romance story: Under His Influence. I thought it was about time we got to know Justine a bit better, so please give her a warm welcome and read on, you could even win one of her books! 😉
Stella: Hi Justine, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Justine: Well, whenever I do the internet personality-quiz memes, I come out as INTJ, the moon, or Professor Snape. So that’s me, basically – although I don’t think Professor Snape would ever do a personality-quiz meme, so…
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
Justine: I …
featured,Giveaways,Interview,Justine Elyot,The Latin Lover 13 Apr 2012
10 comments
Review: Blushing Violet by Ann Mayburn
Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 18 November 2011
Number of pages: 110 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Shy and quirky Violet Bishop has finally found the perfect way to meet a man who could fulfill her hidden submissive desires, something that she has never dared to ask her conservative and uptight ex-boyfriends to do. She joins an on-line matchmaking site that puts couples together based on the books that they love, in this case the BDSM erotica that lines her bookshelves.
Two Dominant best friends and business partners, Carlos Romano and Morgan Kane, are matched with Violet. They both want to date her and rather than fight about it they decide to keep the fact that they know each other away from her and let her pick who she wants to be with. A good idea in theory but something that …
4 1/2 Stars,Ann Mayburn,featured,Review,The Latin Lover 12 Apr 2012
6 comments
Review: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: DAW
Series: InCryptid, #1
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository, Barnes & Noble
Book Blurb:
Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose exsistence has not yet been proven by science. See also “monster.”
Cryptozoologist, noun: Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also “idiot.”
Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night… The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she’d rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance.
Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren’t for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos …
4 1/2 Stars,featured,Review,Seanan McGuire,The Needy Lover 11 Apr 2012
18 comments
Interview with Tamara Morgan + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome to BLI contemporary romance author Tamara Morgan, whose debut novel Love is a Battlefieldd is a romance full of fun, men in kilts and one of the most determined and entertaining battle of the sexes (check out my review here)! Please give Tamara a warm welcome and read on to learn more about her, the novel and the Highland Games! 😉
Stella: Hi Tamara, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Tamara: Thanks for having me! I’m a freelance copywriter by day and a romance writer by night—both of which mean I spend quite a bit of time on my computer. Sadly, this makes my life a lot less interesting for an interview than one would hope.
But I will say that I am a total re-enactment junkie. I love to attend Renaissance fairs, Highland …
featured,Giveaways,Interview,Tamara Morgan,The Latin Lover 11 Apr 2012
11 comments
Review: Green – Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells
Format Read:Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:376 pages
Release Date:March 1st 2011
Publisher:Orbit
Series: Sabina Kane Book 3
Formats Available: Paperback,e-book, Kindle Edition, Audio CD
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Things to do:
1. Rescue sister.
2. Murder grandmother.
3. Don’t upset the voodoo priestess.The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scenes.
Working on information provided by an unlikely ally, Sabina and her trusty sidekicks–a sexy mage named Adam Lazarus and Giguhl, a Mischief demon–head to New Orleans to begin the hunt for her sister. Once there, they must contend with belligerent werewolves, magic-wielding vampires and–perhaps most frightening of all–humans.
But as much as Sabina is focused on surviving the present, the past won’t be ignored. Before she …
4 Stars,featured,Jaye Wells,Review,The Coffee Lover 10 Apr 2012
2 comments
Review: Haevyn: Humanotica, Book 2 by Darcy Abriel
Format read: ebook provided by the author
Release Date: 20 March 2012
Number of Pages: 285
Publisher: Samhain
Genre: science fiction romance, cyberpunk, erotica, BDSM
Series: Humanotica, Book 2
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain Publishing, Barnes & Noble
Blurb:
Duty and honor demand the ultimate sacrifice.
Humanotica, Book 2
Everyone has their poison. For Haevyn Briena, it’s her inability to resist a dare. This time it’s a challenge from her friend and lover, Grisha, to sneak into the popular, illegal cage fights that always end in all-male orgies. Eagerly she snaps up the gauntlet, unaware that she will end the night forever changed.
When expatriate humanotic warrior Entreus locks eyes with Haevyn at the sex-fueled event, he is instantly captivated. Despite a duty that binds him to an exiled malevolent sorcerer, he seeks her out in a shattering, illuminating encounter.
3 1/2 Stars,Darcy Abriel,featured,Guest Bloggers,guest review,Marlene,Review 9 Apr 2012
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