First winners of 2011!

(c) kc (again) / Angele

Happy New Year Everyone! 🙂

I hope you all had a great bash celebrating the end of 2010 and are looking forward to all the great adventures 2011 will bring!

So in our very first winner post of 2011, we would like say congrats to

Aurora

who won the Jill Myles giveaway

and

Cecile Smutty Hussywho won the Erin Nicholas giveaway

Congratulations Ladies, you have been e-mailed, you have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw new winners.

Hope you all had a great weekend and were able to rest and sleep enough after all the celebrations 🙂

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Bookish Eye Candy: Gale – Mockingjay

I hope you all enjoyed my choice last week of who should play Katniss in the movie version of Catching Fire. This week we bring Gale to the table in Mockingjay!!!

Mocking JayBook 3By: Suzanne Collins

The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

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Have you Read Mockingjay yet?

Who would your first and second choices be to
portray Gale in the movie version of Mockingjay ?

Don’t forget to come back next week to see who
YOU guys picked and my choice.
You never know who it may be!

Copyright 2010-11 Book Lovers Inc.

We Love Your Comments Giveaway: Winner & new Start

This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for December is……

draconismoi 

who commented on our post “Join me on the Dark Side- The fabulous world of Science Fiction“:

Do I love SF? HAH! The only reason I even started reading fantasy was because the library shelved it with the SF. I am a SF junkie.

I (typically) started with Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series back in elementary school. But now my tastes have matured (which basically means the covers of the books I am reading now involve fewer chicks straddling the back of a dragon).

Doris Egan’s Gate of Ivory trilogy is spectacular. As is all of Sheri Tepper’s earlier works (not too crazy about her current novel).

I’ve just recently discovered Adam Troy Castro – a lawyer in space. What’s not to love?
If you go more for the lyrical writing styles, and are …

Guest Post by Author Zoe Archer + Giveaway

Today we have the pleasure to welcome an author we don’t have to present anymore…(but let’s anyway *wink*). Thank you Zoe Archer for visiting Book Lovers Inc once again *g*. Zoe’s new book, Stranger, was released this week. It is the 4th book in The Blades of the Rose series and the hero is my favorite character in the series, Catullus! Let’s give a warm welcome to Zoe, who will tell us more about a new kind of hero, the Pi. Stay tuned and you could win a copy of Stranger!
Nerd. Brainiac. Poindexter. Geek. We’ve all heard these names. Heck, many of us readers have been called those names.
I never understood why being smart is supposed to be bad, or embarrassing. Intelligence is good—it keeps us alive and aware. When it comes to brains versus beauty, I’d rather have brains (though I don’t always feel that way when …

All YA Love: Why is the Vampire Academy so amazing?

If you ask anyone who has read the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead  if they liked it, I would bet that you will end up with quite an impassioned and enthusiastic presentation on how much they LOVED it, what a fantastic series it is, how exciting and thrilling the story is and that they cannot wait to get the next book finally in their hands.
If you haven’t read this series you might wonder what all the fuss is about. It’s just another YA series about vampires and high school romance, right? Well no. The Vampire Academy series is so much more than that. And you want to know what sets it apart from the other YA vampire books and makes it so outstanding and exceptional? Well read on, I’m about to tell you.

1) For me it is the emotional depth and intensity that makes this series truly …

Review: Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Format read: ebook
Number of pages: 489 pages
Formats available: paperback, hardback, ebook
Release Date: 18 May 2010
Publisher: Razorbill Publishing
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Razorbill Publishing, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Kindle Store

Blurb: 

Salvation has its price.

The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. “You’re lying. What you’re describing is impossible. There’s no way to save a Strigoi. When they’re gone, they’re gone. They’re dead. Undead. Forever.”


Robert’s next words weren’t directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. “That which is dead doesn’t always stay dead….”

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It’s graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside of the Academy’s cold iron gates …

Review: Just Right by Erin Nicholas

Format read: ebook
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Release Date: 30 March 2010
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle Store

Blurb:

To save one good man, she’ll have to let her inner bad girl out to play…

ER nurse Jessica Bradford is a good girl. Okay, a reformed bad girl, but she’s done her late father proud. Now she’s one step away from landing Dr. Perfect, aka handsome, sexy, heroic Ben Torres—the hot fudge and cherry on top of her hard work scooping out a respectable life.

Ben learned the art of sacrifice from his missionary parents, but when a drunk driver he saved kills three people, he quits. To be precise, the fist he plants in the man’s face gets him suspended. And …

New Releases – December 6-12, 2010

Alien Tango by Gini Koch

It’s been five months since marketing manager Katherine “Kitty” Katt started working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri, and she and Jeff Martini are getting closer. But when an experimental spacecraft is mysteriously returned to the Kennedy Space Center, Kitty and the rest of her team are called in to investigate. Now the team must survive murderous attacks, remove a space entity from a group of astronauts, and avoid an unhinged woman with a serious crush on Kitty’s high school boyfriend. And that’s all before evil masterminds decide Kitty’s extermination is vital.

by Nancy A. Collins Right-Hand Magic
Outrageously Yours by Allison Chase
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead 

Special Holiday Giveaway : The Princess in His Bed by Lila DiPasqua

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY: THE PRINCESS IN HIS BED with Cinderella’s Slipper Ornament

5 WINNERS!  
Each winner will get a copy of The Princess in His Bed and a Cinderella slipper

(Books courtesy of Penguin/Berkley,
Ornament autographed by author, Lila DiPasqua)

Just leave a comment on this post telling us why you would like to win! 

Please leave us a way to contact you
(email in blogger profile or twitter name is okay- no way to contact you – no entry)

Giveaway open to US and Canada *only* 
(No P.O Boxes)

It will end on Dec. 11th, 2010 at midnight

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THE PRINCESS IN HIS BED
{#2 in the Fiery Tales series}
A Fiery Tales Collection
By Lila DiPasqua

Historical Romance
Berkley (Sensation) Trade
ISBN: 978-0425237007
OUT NOW!

Inspired by “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Ugly Duckling”, and “The Princess and the Pea,” Lila DiPasqua spins …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week we have a special topic to talk about. Covers that are just plain wrong, literally. We decided to make this post after seeing a tweet from Nicole Peeler about her new German cover. She pointed out the wrongness of it and we couldn’t resist. We noticed this in the past and thought we will show you our top 3 of just stupidly wrong covers.

Susi: Okay this cover is wrong in so many ways. I don’t know why German publishers does this so often but it’s rather common here to show something totally wrong and deceiving on the cover. So here we have a book about Selkies showing a mermaid. O_O And not even pretty one for that. I don’t really like blueish covers and this …