Book Lovers Book Club: Series Read-Along Selections

Good moaning every one (see the Allo’ Allo’ reference I just did there),

Here are the choices for our series read-along – the secondary book club feature we will be doing every month. Poll is down the bottom and on the side bar!

There is also a poll for the June 2013 selections on the sidebar too.

Happy Voting!

Jane True Series by Nicole Peeler

In the tiny village of Rockabill, Maine, Jane True—26-year-old bookstore clerk and secret night swimmer—has no idea that her absent mother’s legacy is entry into a world populated by the origins of human myths and legends.  It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: vampires are not quite what we think; dogs sometimes surprise us; and whatever you do, never—ever—rub the genie’s lamp.   For Jane, everything kicks off when she comes across a murder victim during her nightly clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean.  This grisly discovery leads to …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you this weekend? Are you ready for the last week of May? I just can’t believe that summer is already here… And to be honest, I can’t wait for it to officially start 🙂

This week is a really busy one book wise. There are quite a lot of books scheduled for release the days to come so I seriously hope that you saved some money because chances are you’re gonna need them!

So, let’s start.

Marlene: Wounded Angel by Stacy Gail

A descendant of the Angel of Vengeance, Nate da Luca was gifted with an uncanny ability to find things. It made his job as a detective a breeze—until he learned the hard way that some things should remain hidden. After that, his powers vanished, along with his belief in himself. Which is going to make tracking down …

The Sole Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

I’m back – as you can see! 😀 I was away on a mini-vacation with the family, it was cold, and rainy and we had to wear coats and sweaters(!), but was nice to be away a bit. Although I can’t say I didn’t sigh happily when upon coming back the weather home was sunny and warm with 27 C 😀

This week we only have 1 lonely winner to announce, and that is

the lucky winner of a $10 USD Amazon gift card offered by Christine S. Feldman, who is:

Gaby

Congratulations Gaby, you will receive an e-mail notifying you of your win by tonight. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! In this week’s edition we have news of Amazon’s launch into licensing fanfiction with Alloy Entertainment,   and more author and book news!

With the recent successes of pulled to publish fanfiction like 50 Shades of Grey and Gabriel’s Inferno, has certainly helped paved the way. But Amazon has now joined forces with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager who is behind popular franchises like The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girls and Pretty Little Liars. Fanfic writers who have written stories based in these worlds belonging to Alloy Entertainment which is a subsidiary of Warner brothers, are invited to submit to sell their works via a license which Amazon and will be sold under an imprint called Kindle Worlds. Unlike the KDP programme which allows authors up to 70% of royalties, fanficcers can only get around 35% for each story sold. There is also restrictions …

Review: Kissing the Maid of Honor by Robin Bielman

Format read: ebook copy provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #1 in the Secret Wishes series
Release Date: 13 May 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing – Bliss imprint
Number of pages: 230 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, iBookstore

Blurb:

Kissing her best friend’s brother never felt so right…

Sela Sullivan is resolved to be the best maid of honor ever, even if it means tolerating the best man. Insufferable, too-handsome Luke Watters is not only the guy who humiliated her at a kissing booth in high school, but he also happens to be her best friend’s older brother. Positive he’s the same arrogant jock, Sela vows to focus on her duties and steer clear of the frustrating—and frustratingly tempting—Luke.

As a world-renowned extreme-sports photographer, Luke is used to undertaking life-risking adventures. But risking his heart for the beautiful Sela Sullivan, who clearly still hates him for …

Review: Hold Me Down Hard by Cathryn Fox

Format read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Number of pages: 48 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website | Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Publisher’s Website

When Eden Carver, Iowa farm girl turned NY actress, decides to seduce the sexy cop next door, she begins to wonder if she’s bitten off more than she can chew.

The last thing Officer Jay Bennett wants is to cross a line with the sweet and innocent country girl—no matter how much he’d like to help himself to a nibble. Not only are they in the friendship zone, a naïve girl like Eden doesn’t belong in his dangerous world.

But when she asks him to help her rehearse lines, and things go from simmer to boil, he finds himself doing the one thing he swore he’d never do. He …

Review: Toxic by Jus Accardo

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 16 October 2012
Length: 317 pages
Publisher: Entangled
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Blurb:

When a Six saved Kale’s life the night of Sumrun, she warned there would be consequences. A trade-off. Something taken for the life they gained. But Dez never imagined she’d lose the one thing she’d give anything to keep… And as if it’s not enough Dez finds her immunity to Kale fading, the Six brought in to help Kale learn to control his killer touch starts drooling on him the moment they meet. Worse than that? Jade can touch Kale. But bimbo Barbie is the least of Dez’s problems.

After Dez and Kale got away at Sumrun, her father lost not only his most powerful weapon but an important piece of the …

New Releases: May 20-26, 2013

Title: The Red Plague Affair
Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Series: Bannon & Clare, #2
Genre: steampunk
Release date: May 21, 2013 by Orbit

Description:

The service of Britannia is not for the faint of heart–or conscience…

Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. It will distract him from pursuing his nemesis, and besides, Clare is not as young as he used to be. A spot of Miss Bannon’s excellent hospitality and her diverting company may be just what he needs.

Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies. Now a single man has set Londinium ablaze, and Clare finds himself in the middle of distressing excitement, racing against time and theory to find a cure. …