Review: Coming Clean by Inez Kelley

Format Read: E-ARC from Netgalley
Number of Pages: 92 pages
Release Date: July 21st, 2010
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats Available: Ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Carina Press

Book Blurb:
Coming clean never felt so good…Grant and Vivi Michaelson share everything in their marriage: love, commitment—and their wildest sexual desires. But their relationship is tested when Vivi admits she wants a threesome with Grant’s old friend Cade, proposing their annual trip to the lake as the perfect opportunity to fulfill her fantasy.All three of them are aroused by the idea. Vivi and Cade have long felt a smoldering attraction to each other…and Grant and Cade have hidden an illicit desire for decades. Going through with the ménage will test their boundaries, reveal old secrets…and maybe tear them apart. After all, there might be room for Cade in bed, but is there room for a …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Random House has annouced it has a reached an agreement with the Wylie Agency after they had stated they was going to offer their client’s books directly to Amazon. Random House will instead be distributing the books under their own name – whether this agreement has a higher royalty rate remains to be seen but it looks like it is very likely and this might lead to similar deals with other authors and publishers.

Laurell K Hamilton has recently blogged about writing and what it means to her but has commented that…

“Some very successful writers don’t seem to feel that emotional connection to their work, or at least not to the degree I do. I used to envy them until I realized the price of that cool distance. They write like they feel with less depth, …

Interview: Author Cathy M. Buchanan + Giveaway

Today I’m very happy to welcome Cathy Buchanan on Book Lovers Inc. Cathy’s debut novel The Day The Falls Stood Still is now available in paperback. Please give Cathy a warm welcome and don’t miss our contest at the end  to win one of the 2 copies of her book.

The HEA Lover: Cathy can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Cathy: The Day the Falls Stood Still is my first novel. Having completed a BSc in biochemistry and an MBA, and then working in the corporate world for many years, I came fairly late to the writing life. Born and bred in Niagara Falls, I now live in Toronto with my husband and three sons and am at work on a second work of historical fiction.

The HEA Lover: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or …

Bookish Rants or Raves: My Love/Hate Relationship with Blurbs!

I have this sort of ritual whenever I’m going to start reading a new book. I find the book on GoodReads and LibraryThing, read it’s blurb, mark as Currently Reading, add the image to my Blog Sidebar and start reading.

I have this obsession with book blurbs that cannot be healthy. Even during the book reading I tend to check back to the book’s Goodreads page and read and re-read it’s blurb. 

The thing is, one of my biggest pet peeves are book blurbs that don’t match the book or have outright lies in them. I cannot stand that, it irritates me to no end and I can’t understand how publishers allow that to happen.

Sometimes it is pretty clear that whoever wrote the blurb did not read the book, and I find that a bit hard to swallow =/

On …

Review: Rakes & Radishes by Susanna Ives

Format Read: E-ARC from NetgalleyNumber of Pages: 257 pagesRelease Date: September 13th 2010Publisher: Carina PressFormats Available: EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Carina Press

Book Blurb:

When Henrietta Watson learns that the man she loves plans to marry London’s most beautiful and fashionable debutante, she plots to win him back. She’ll give him some competition by transforming her boring bumpkin neighbor, the Earl of Kesseley, into a rakish gothic hero worthy of this Season’s Diamond.
After years of unrequited love for Henrietta, Kesseley is resigned to go along with her plan and woo himself a willing bride. But once in London, everything changes. Kesseley-long more concerned with his land than his title-discovers that he’s interested in sowing wild oats as well as radishes. And Henrietta realizes that gothic heroes don’t make ideal husbands. Despite an explosive kiss that opens …

Interview Author Jeanne Stein + Giveaway

We are very happy to have Author Jeanne Stein here today. She write the Anna Strong Chronicles and the newest installment Chosen will be released on August 31st. She’s here today to talk about strange dogs, her series and her new book. Be sure to read till the end, Jeanne offers a great giveaway. Please give her a warm welcome. 

BLI: Jeanne can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jeanne Stein: Let’s see—this question makes me wish I had a really exciting hobby like jumping out of airplanes or racing cars but truth be told, I lead a very uneventful life. I had a lot of different jobs before landing the one of my dreams—writing full time—and they ranged from being a telephone company service rep to working in the accounting department of a beer importer. I live with my husband in Colorado, but California …

All YA Love: My Favourite Series

Hey everyone! It’s YA time again. This week I will tell you my Top 3 favorite  YA series of all time… toughy, but also easy in a way. I will count this one down so that we can save the best for last ;P. 

3rd Place: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

Whoever has read the entire series of unfortunate events (against the author’s repeated warnings) either ended up very sad, very content, or very confused. Based around the adventures of Violet, Klaus and Sunny in their constant struggle to defeat Count Olaf an evil man after their fortune. When I was a kid I actually looked up to see if the Baudelairs were real…that’s how much I loved them. But I never figured out what the question mark on the radar was …

Review: Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 302Release Date: 27 March 2007Publisher: AtomFormats Available: Paperback, Ebook, HardbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website,  Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Book Blurb:

THEY’RE YOUNG, FABULOUS AND FANGED…

And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Allen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school – she’s more of a vintage than a Versace girl – but that’s all about to change…

Because Schuyler has just found out she’s a Blue Blood. The Blue Bloods are the city’s glamorous and secret vampire elite. They’re young, beautiful and powerful. But now they’re being murdered. And Schuyler must find out who – or what – is …

Review: Kiss of the Rose by Kate Pearce

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 296
Release Date: August 3rd, 2010
Publisher: Signet
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Book Blurb:
First in a sexy new series that takes a bite out of the court of King Henry VIII
Desperate to defeat King Richard III and gain the crown, Henry Tudor made a pact with the Druids binding him and his heirs to the Druids’ struggle against vampires. Ever since, the Llewellyns, a vampire- slaying family, have been in the king’s employ. Now Henry VIII reigns, and his father’s bargain has been almost forgotten-until bloodless corpses turn up in the king’s bedchamber. To save the king, Vampire hunter Rosalind Llewellyn must form an uneasy alliance with Druid slayer Sir Christopher Ellis. But soon, Rosalind must face an unthinkable truth: that her …

New Releases: Week of August 23 – 29

Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins

Genre: Young AdultAgainst all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Demon from the Dark (Immortals After Dark #10) by Kresley Cole