Bookish Rants and Raves: MG & YA Book-to-Film Adaptation

So, a person would have to be living under a rock these days not to have heard about the impending release of the film version of smash hit The Hunger Games. Though the film is not out until March 23 in most markets worldwide, there’s already a slew of raving reviews and talk of the movie being projected to top $140 million in its U.S. opening weekend. Wow.

The Hunger Games films are just the latest in what seems to be a rampant streak of middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) film adaptations. Sure, it’s not a completely new development, but it sure does feel like the percentage of young-adult targeted movies based on blockbuster books is at an all-time high. Framed differently, it also seems like almost every well-loved YA series gets optioned for film adaptation…sometimes immediately following its release. Not all are successful (critically or monetarily), but …

Review: Still Hot For You by Diane Escalera

Format read: ebook provided for review by the author
Release Date: 19 March 2012
Number of pages:  78 pages
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Lyrical Press

Blurb:

Want to get your man talking? Give him booty!

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Shay LaCosta is pretty desperate. She’s wrecked her blissful marriage of five years by demanding she and her husband Dylan have a baby. What the hell was she thinking? She knows she was wrong and she’s ready to set things right, if only Dylan will let her. Bet he can’t shun her Booty Camp offer: delicious, white-hot sex in exchange for what’s going on inside his brain.

Dylan may be macho and stubborn, but he really does miss his wife. A little of Shay’s pushing gets him past their estrangement and into her web of seduction. She seems …

Guest post: How to Solve a Love Triangle by Erin Nicholas + Giveaway

I am extremely happy to welcome back to BLI one of my alltime favourite contemporary romance authors, the wonderful Erin Nicholas, who is celebrating the release of her latest novel Everything You’ve Got! As I’ve told you countless times Erin’s books are outstanding not only due to her fantastic characterizations and the sexy love stories, but due to her making her secondary characters, family and friend relationships such a pivotal part of the romance, and of course the extraordinary humour she infuses her stories with! So here is your chance to read about a behind the scenes secret and win yourself a copy of her latest book Everything You’ve Got! Please give Erin the warmest welcome! 🙂

How to Solve a Love Triangle

I hate love triangles in books and movies. Well, that’s not completely true. Two guys being in love with the same girl definitely sets …

Dual Review: The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst

Format Read: e-book
Length: 216 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: category contemporary romance
Series: Marriage to a Billionare, #1
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Formats Available: e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entangled Publishing, Author’s Website

Blurb:

A marriage in name only…

To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner, Alexa Maria McKenzie, casts a love spell. But she never planned on conjuring up her best friend’s older brother—the powerful man who once shattered her heart.

Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn’t believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father’s corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister’s childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he’s offers Alexa a bold proposition.

A marriage in name only with certain rules: Avoid entanglement. Keep things all business. Do not fall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules shouldn’t be that hard to follow, right?

Except …

New Releases: March 19 – 25, 2012

Born to Darkness (Fighting Destiny, #1) by Suzanne Brockmann

Dishonorably discharged, former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin is down to his last ten bucks when he finally finds work as a test subject at the Obermeyer Institute, a little-known and believed-to-be-fringe scientific research facility. When he enters the OI compound, he is plunged into a strange world where seemingly mild-mannered scientists—including women half his size—can kick his highly skilled ass.

Shane soon discovers that there are certain individuals who possess the unique ability to access untapped regions of the brain with extraordinary results—including telekinesis, super strength, and reversal of the aging process. Known as “Greater-Thans,” this rare breed is recruited by OI, where they are rigorously trained using ancient techniques to cultivate their powers and wield them responsibly.

But in the depths of America’s second Great Depression, where the divide between the haves and the have-nots has grown even wider, those who …

Guestpost Just Where do Those Pesky Ideas Come From? by Jill Limber +Giveaway

We are happy to welcome author Jill Limber here at Book Lovers Inc. today. She writes romance stories with heart and her story Montana Morning is one of those. Today she is here to tell us how she comes up with the ideas for her stories. Be sure to leave a comment at the end of the post for your chance to win your copy of Montana Morning. 

I just had a friend ask me where I got my idea for Montana Morning. For me, it always starts with musing over a ‘What if?’ What if a woman needed a husband but didn’t really want to be married? Where would she get a guy she could marry, but would be practically guaranteed that he would leave, sooner rather than later?

This question about ideas seems to come up a lot, so I thought  it might be a good …

Review: Rules of Negotiation by Inara Scott

Format Read:e-book provided courtesy of the publisher
Release Date:February 14th 2012
Publisher:Entangled Publishing
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

He let her make the rules…

NYC’s most eligible bachelor, Brit Bencher, is also known as The Slayer for his reputation in the boardroom…and the bedroom. And he’ll do anything to take care of his family, even seduce high-powered corporate attorney Tori Anderson in the hopes of getting her to reveal confidential information about one of her clients. But for the first time in his life, he finds he’s falling for a woman.

…and then he started to break them.

After juggling the demands of her career and the stress of caring for her ailing mother, Tori Anderson doesn’t have time for relationships—but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to feel like a woman. When Brit offers a no-strings attached fling, it sounds …