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Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman + Giveaway
Format read: paperback
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: 2 July 2012
Length: 359
Publisher: Random House
Formats available: Hardcover, audio book paperback, ebook
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Book Blurb:
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.
Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen’s Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints …
5 Stars,featured,Giveaways,Rachel Hartman,Review,The Winged Lover 
12 Jun 2013
31 comments
ARC Review: What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
Format Read:e-arc provided from Edelweiss for review
Number of Pages:416 pages
Release Date:June 18th 2013
Publisher:Pocket Books
Series: The Duke’s Men, #1
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, e-book, Kindle Edition
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Book Blurb:
Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke’s brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan’s sister. Soon he and Lisette are traveling to Paris posing as husband and wife, in search of Tristan, who has disappeared. And the longer he spends with Lisette, the easier it is for Max to see that the line between dukedom and …
3 Stars,featured,Review,Sabrina Jeffries,The Coffee Lover 11 Jun 2013
1 comment
Review: SEAL of Honor by Tonya Burrows
Format read: ebook provided by the publisher
Series: HORNET, #1
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Military Romance
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Number of pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Entangled Select
Formats available: ebook, paperback
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It’s a good thing Gabe Bristow lives and breathes the Navy SEAL credo, “the only easy day was yesterday,” because today, his life is unrecognizable. When his prestigious career comes to a crashing halt, he’s left with a bum leg and few prospects for employment that don’t include a desk.
That is, until he’s offered the chance to command a private hostage rescue team and free a wealthy American businessman from Colombian paramilitary rebels. It seems like a good deal—until he meets his new team: a drunk Cajun linguist, a boy-genius CIA threat analyst, an …
3 1/2 Stars,featured,Review,The Rocket Lover,Tonya Burrows 10 Jun 2013
1 comment
Review: To Catch an Heiress by Julia Quinn
Format Read:Paperback copy purchased by the reviewer
Number of Pages:384 pages
Release Date: September 4th 2008 (first published July 1st 1998)
Publisher:Piatkus
Series: Agents of the Crown, #1
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, ebook, Hardcover
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Book Blurb:
When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn’t even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she’s been running from unwanted marriage proposals. Yes, Blake believes she’s a notorious spy named Carlotta De Leon, but for six weeks until her twenty-first birthday, when she’ll gain control of her fortune, hiding out in the titillating company of a mysterious captor is awfully convenient – and maybe just a little romantic, too.
Blake Ravenscroft’s mission …
5 Stars,featured,Julia Quinn,Review,The Coffee Lover 7 Jun 2013
5 comments
Review: A Riveting Affair by Candace Havens, Lily Lang, Patricia Eimer
Format Read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Number of Pages: 339 pages
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Ever After
Genre: Steampunk Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Candace Havens’ Website | Lily Lang’s Website | Patricia Eimer’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads
Book Blurb:
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast
Rose Verney wants to fulfill her father’s dying request: to complete construction of the teleportation device he designed. Knowing just who can help her succeed, she seeks out Sebastian Cavendish, her father’s brilliant former student.Sebastian hasn’t left his home since he returned from the Civil War. He’s a broken man, his prosthetics a reminder of the terrible destruction his inventions brought to the battlefield. He …
2 1/2 Stars,3 Stars,4 1/2 Stars,Candace Havens,featured,Lily Lang,Patricia Eimer,Review,The Rocket Lover 6 Jun 2013
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Review: How Beauty Loved the Beast by Jax Garren
Format Read:e-arc provided from NetGalley for review
Number of Pages: 141 pages
Release Date:May 13th 2013
Publisher: Carina Press
Series: Tales of the Underlight, #3
Formats Available: Kindle Edition, e-book
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Book Blurb:
It’s all been leading to this.
Jolie Benoit has become a skilled agent of the Underlight, relying on her savvy to complete assignments while Sergeant Wesley Haukon was out of commission. But an unexpected clue to the Order of Ananke’s diabolical scheme rattles Jolie, and she turns to Hauk for comfort.
It’s been years since Hauk took comfort from the touch of another person, though his love for Jolie is deep and powerful. Uncomfortable in his skin, scarred by a terrible fire, he is unable to give in to the pleasures that Jolie so desperately wants to grant him.
Meanwhile, the Order is lurking in the shadows—and …
4 1/2 Stars,featured,Jax Garren,Review,The Coffee Lover 5 Jun 2013
5 comments
ARC Review: PODs by Michelle Pickett
Format Read:Paperback copy provided from the publisher for review
Number of Pages:312 pages
Release Date:June 4th 2013
Publisher:Spencer Hill Press
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, e-book
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Book Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Eva is a chosen one. Chosen to live, while others meet a swift and painful death from an incurable virus so lethal, a person is dead within days of symptoms emerging. In the POD system, a series of underground habitats built by the government, she waits with the other chosen for the deadly virus to claim those above. Separated from family and friends, it’s in the PODs she meets David. And while true love might not conquer all, it’s a balm for the broken soul.
After a year, scientists believe the population has died, and …
Review: South of Surrender by Laura Kaye
Format read: ebook provided by the publisher
Series: Hearts of the Anemoi, #3
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Number of pages: 400 pages
Publisher: Entanged Select
Formats available: ebook, paperback
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Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, is on a mission: save Eurus from his death sentence and prove his troubled brother can be redeemed. But Eurus fights back, triggering vicious summer storms that threaten the mortal realm, dangerously drain Chrys, and earn the ire of the Olympic gods who ordered Eurus dead.
Laney Summerlyn refuses to give up her grandfather’s horse farm, despite her deteriorating vision. More than ever, she needs the organized routine of her life at Summerlyn Stables, until a ferocious storm brings …
4 Stars,featured,Laura Kaye,Review,The Rocket Lover 3 Jun 2013
1 comment
Review: Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James
Format read: ebook copy provided by publisher for review
Series: Book #5 in the Happily Ever After aka Fairy Tales series
Release Date: 28 May 2013
Publisher: Avon
Number of pages: 384 pages
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK
Blurb:
Once upon a time…
A duke fell in love
Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage.
With a lady
Edie—whose passionate temperament is the opposite of serene—had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn’t notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer… she panics.
And when their marriage night isn’t all it could be, she pretends.
In a tower.
But Edie’s inability to hide her …
4 1/2 Stars,Eloisa James,featured,Review,The Latin Lover 30 May 2013
2 comments
Review: Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys
Format read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Series: Jack Absolute, #1
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: May 7, 2013 (U.S. edition)
Number of pages: 276 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Formats available: ebook, paperback
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The year is 1777. As the war for American independence rages across the sea, London is swept off its feet by Jack Absolute, the dashing rogue in Richard Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals. That is, until the real Jack Absolute, former captain of the 16th Light Dragoons, returns after years abroad to discover this slander of his reputation.
Before he can even protest, he is embroiled in a duel over an alluring actress of questionable repute, and his only escape is the one he most dreads: to be pressed again into the King’s service—this time, as a spy for …
5 Stars,C.C. Humphreys,featured,Review,The Rocket Lover 29 May 2013
4 comments
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