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The Heatwave Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
The past week it has been so HOT here (and most places in Europe) it feels as if we are living in Hell, or at least the middle of the desert (with the temperature around 38 C or even above)! So even with fans and AC it is sweaty and tiring and near impossible to sleep, you can imagine how happy everyone is.
I only have one winner to announce, the lucky winner, who won an ebook copy of Merger to Marriage by Addison Fox, who is… *drumroll please*
Ora
Congratulations Ora, you have been sent an e-mail notifying you of your win. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.
Hope you are having a less torturous weekend than I am…
featured,The Latin Lover,Winners 
23 Jun 2013
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Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s edition of Bookish news! This week has been chock-full of author and new books updates from Lisa Kleypas’ new Travis book to book covers being unveiled from JR Ward and Anne Bishop!
First up this week started off with the news that one of the books written by author Lorelei James was plagiarized by fanfic writer called Alison Gilmore. Although she has changed her name online and pretended it is another who shares the same name who was the culprit. Blogger Limecello details the crazy saga which happened last weekend in her fantastic post here.
Penguin has launched a new scheme where readers called First To Read which allows early access to arc and excerpts to review or to highlight in social media and in return people can gain points. For more information and join in the scheme click here.
Fifty Shades of Grey movie has a director! …
News,The Smutty Lover 21 Jun 2013
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Review: Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck
Format read: paperback
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Release Date: 11 January 2011
Length: 498
Publisher: Hodder
Formats available: audio book paperback, ebook, Hardcover
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
Passion. Fate. Loyalty.
Would you risk it all to change your destiny?
The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.
Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.
My Thoughts:
Although the adventure intrigued me, the main character and the …
2 Stars,Colleen Houck,Review,The Winged Lover 21 Jun 2013
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Review: Secrets of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Format read: ebook purchased by reviewer
Series: Kara Gillian, #3
Release Date: 4 January 2011
Publisher: DAW
Number of pages: 310 pages
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo
Blurb:
Homicide detective Kara Gillian has a special talent: she can sense the “arcane” in our world, and there’s quite a bit of it, even in Beaulac, Louisiana. She’s also a summoner of demons, and works on a task force that deals with supernatural crimes. Her partners are attractive and smart FBI agents, but they’re not summoners, and they’re not telling Kara why they are on this special force with her.
TO make things worse, Kara has pledged herself to one of the most powerful of demons-a Demon Lord-who helped save her partner’s life, but now expects things in return. Meanwhile, she’s trying to solve a string of murders that are somehow tied together by money, sex, rock music and…mud. But how can she concentrate …
4 Stars,Diana Rowland,Review,The Needy Lover 20 Jun 2013
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Review: The Armies of Heaven by Jane Kindred
Format read: ebook provided by the publisher
Series: The House of Arkhangel’sk, #3
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Number of pages: 400 pages
Publisher: Entangled Select
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website | Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Full-scale war has broken out in Heaven, and Anazakia must embrace her destiny, leading an army of Virtues into battle against a Host of enemies to restore the House of Arkhangel’sk. Furious with her for putting her trust in the angel who has done them all irreparable harm, Vasily tries to ignore his growing resentment, while Belphagor returns to the world of Man with a cadre of beautiful androgynous Virtues to restore the sundered alliance between the Fallen and the gypsy underground. Without their help in enlisting the terrestrial forces of …
4 1/2 Stars,featured,Jane Kindred,Review,The Rocket Lover 20 Jun 2013
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Romance and Me: The Arranged Marriage/Fake Engagement Trope
Hi Everyone!
I have already told you about some of my favourite tropes, like the friends to lovers or enemies to lovers ones, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention another one of my all-time top favourite tropes: the arranged marriage/marriage of convenience/faked engagement one. Yep. It may sound like a mouthful, but they are SO delicious 😉
Arranged marriage tropes are usually found in historical romances. I was introduced to them through some Pride and Prejudice fanfiction where Lizzie had married Mr. Darcy while still hostile towards him, but usually he was unaware of her feelings and when he realized that his wife hated him after he got over his heartbreak they tried to make their marriage work by getting to know and respect each other. And the more similar stories I read, the more I craved. And …
featured,Romance and Me,The Latin Lover 19 Jun 2013
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New Releases: June 17-23, 2013
Title: The Heist
Author: Janet Evanovich
Series: O’Hare and Fox, #1
Genre: mystery
Release date: June 18, 2013 by Bantam
Description:
FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world’s most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she’s cared about is Nicolas Fox—an international crook she wants in more ways than one.
Audacious, handsome, and dangerously charming, Nicolas Fox is a natural con man, notorious for running elaborate scams on very high-profile people. At first he did it for the money. Now he does it for the thrill. He knows that the FBI has been hot on his trail—particularly Kate O’Hare, who has been watching his …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 18 Jun 2013
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Interview with Lori Austin + Giveaway
Please give a warm welcome to Lori Austin, who stops by Book Lovers Inc. to celebrate the release of An Outlaw in Wonderland, the second book in her Once Upon a Time in the West historical romance series! Please give a warm welcome to Lori and read on to learn more about this new story and its characters, and you could even win yourself a copy of An Outlaw in Wonderland!
Stella: Hi Lori, having LOVED Beauty and the Bounty Hunter (folks, it was one of my favourite reads of 2012!), it is a great pleasure welcoming you to Book Lovers Inc and sitting down to grill you with all my noisy questions! 😉 Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Lori: Thanks, Stella. BEAUTY is one of my favorite novels in a career (so far) of over 50 books. I’m very excited that Romance …
featured,Giveaways,Interview,Lori Austin,The Latin Lover 18 Jun 2013
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Book Lovers Book Club: Discussion Questions – Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost
Good afternoon everyone,
As you may have seen my Once Burned review went up this morning, so I thought that with that review going up I’d pose some discussion questions for anyone who has already read/is reading Once Burned and would like to discuss it:
Do you think that Leila’s “innocence” was handled appropriately? It wasn’t really the first time cliche we’re used to in romance.
Are you a classic Dracula fan? Do you like how Frost portrayed the character?
What did you think of the explanation for Leila’s powers? Was it adequate enough for you?
Naturally if you have any discussion questions feel free to post them in the comments for everyone to have a go at answering and lets see if we can get a big discussion going.
Also make sure to vote for next months Book in the poll on the sidebar.
Happy Reading!
Book Lovers Book Club,The Winged Lover 17 Jun 2013
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Review: Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost
Format read: paperback
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: 26 July 2012
Length: 346
Publisher: Avon
Formats available: audio book paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
SHE’S A MORTAL WITH DARK POWERS…
After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude…until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world’s most infamous vampire…
HE’S THE PRINCE OF NIGHT…
Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all—but whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires …
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