All YA Love: Interview with Bryan Davis + a Winner

I have an eclectic taste in books. In the blogging world, I’ve decided to focus on YA so to get the variety I crave, I read all over the map in terms of genre. I recently had the pleasure of reading Bryan’s fantasy novel, Starlight.

The Monster Lover: Can you tell us about the book?

Bryan Davis: Starlighter is a fantasy-world adventure. One hundred years before this story begins, a dragon from the dragon planet Starlight passed through a portal to the human world (called Major 4 by humans and Darksphere by dragons). He captured several human couples and took them back to Starlight where he enslaved them, forcing them to dig for pheterone, a gas the dragons needed to survive. After the humans procreated sufficiently, he killed those he kidnapped in order to erase the memory of a home world for the humans. One human escaped and returned to Major …

Review: It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 288 pagesRelease Date: April 27, 2010Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s PublishingFormats Available: Hardcover, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, BookdepositoryBook Blurb:Last year, all of Belly’s dreams came true and the thought of missing a summer in Cousins Beach was inconceivable. But like the rise and fall of the ocean tide, things can change–just like that. Suddenly the time she’s always looked forward to most is something she dreads. And when Jeremiah calls to say Conrad has disappeared, Belly must decide how she will spend this summer: chasing after the boy she loves, or finally letting him go.

My Thoughts:

The sequel to The Summer I Turned Pretty, is one not to miss. It’s summer again and normally that meant heading out with her mom to Cousins Beach. But this year would be different…her …

New Releases, April 27th

April 26 – May 2

The Wish List ( Time of Transition Trilogy, book 1) by Gabi Stevens

Genre: When Kristin Montgomery discovers her three aunts are fairy godmothers and she’s next in line for the job, her uncomplicated life as a CPA disappears like magic. No, not like magic; it is magic – and she had no idea magic existed until her aunts handed her a wand and took off on a cruise around the world! Left to her own devices, Kristin not only has to deal with burgeoning magical powers, but also a reluctant arbiter, a selfish sprite, and a suave French sorcerer. When one of them turns out to be the bad guy, Kristin must learn to trust her heart and her instincts to keep herself and the ones she loves out of danger.

Passion Model by Megan Hart

Genre: Erotic Sci-FiWhen Recreational Intercourse Operative GMMA 03271971 …

Review: A Good Confession by Bridget Whelan

Format Read: Ebook Number of Pages: 240 pages Release Date: February 1st 2009 Publisher: Severn House Publishers Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:

A captivating novel about forbidden love – Cathleen Brogan is a young widow, struggling to bring up her family in 1960s north London. Times are tough for the Irish immigrants who live there, their hardships comforted by local Catholic priest, Father Jerry Brogan. Over time it becomes clear that Cathleen feels more for Father Jerry than perhaps she should. She hopes confession will ease her troubled mind, not realizing that she is confessing to the man she loves..

My Thoughts: I had no idea how I was going to review and rate this book. A good Confession was some kind of challenge for me because it’s out of …

Geekdom of Books: Romance Novels and the Condoms Dilemma

I know, I know this is such an old rant but I hate it when you read a contemporary romance and oops the couple of interest forgets the protection for 3 days. Seriously?

But I don’t want  to rant about this topic today. I want to show how funny the topic of condoms can be and so I started to google around and I found a few interesting *insert blush here* variations.

And OMG researching this was an experience I tell ya.

1. Vibrating condoms
I found these in a guest post one Leontine’s Book Realm a while ago and I was like OMG that really exists? Yes it does and I found them online here. Beside the fast that I find it an hilarious idea I had to read the customer reviews and OMG you have to read those. So funny! I know it is immature but I just couldn’t stop laughing. Lovely idea …

Review: Death With Interruptions by José Saramago

Format Read: Trade Paperback

Number of Pages: 238 pages
Release Date: October 6th 2008
Publisher: Harcourt
Formats Available: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, eBook

Purchasing Info: GoodReads, wikipedia entry about the Author, Amazon

Book Blurb: On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life.

Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.

Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? …

Review: Beauty Tempts the Beast by Leslie Dicken

Format read: eBookNumber of Pages: 196 pagesRelease Date: May 4th, 2010Publisher: SamhainFormats Available: eBook (paperback on May 4th)Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Amazon.comBook Blurb:

“Is the enemy of her enemy a friend-or a beast?
Lord Ashworth is scarred by a night of terror years ago that left his face in ruins and his life in shreds. He hides in Silverstone Manor, using rumors that paint him as a horrible, murdering monster to keep visitors at bay. Yet he can-t shake the feeling that the rumors might be true. He tells himself it-s better this way. If his memories ever resurface, at least he …

The lucky winner of Lover Mine

Happy Sunday everyone.

I just had my weekly meeting with Mr. Random.org and he told me who the lucky winner of a copy of Lover Mine by J.R. Ward is. But first I want to thank Ivy from Book Reader Times again for making this giveaway possible. Thanks so much hon.
The winner is….

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mariska

Congrats hon!
I will contact you ASAP.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

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