Review: Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
Release Date: December 31st 2012
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Number of pages: 103 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Riptide Publishing, Amazon

Blurb:

For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for.

Lust quickly proves to be the least of his problems, however. The deadly combination of typhus, rioting convicts, and a monstrous storm destroys his prospects . . . and shipwrecks him and Garnet on their own private island. After months of solitary paradise, the journey back to civilization—surviving mutineers, exposure, and desertion—is the ultimate test of their feelings for each other.

These two very different men each record their story for an unfathomable …

ARC Review: Ever After by Kim Harrison

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss
Release Date: January 22nd 2013
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Number of pages: 512 pages
Formats available: ebook, Hardcover
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) , Author’s website

Blurb:

The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It’s up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing… for the worse.

While saving the world is important, it isn’t Rachel’s only motivation. There’s also the small fact that she caused the ley line to rip in the first place, setting off a chain reaction of unfortunate events. That little mistake has made her life forfeit unless she can fix it. It’s also made her more …

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

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first 2013 edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? Now that 2012 is behind us it’s time to take a look at what 2013 has in store for us. We’ve decided to begin with the PNR/Fantasy/UF genre and what a spread we have for you! 

So grab a drink, step in the Delorean get ready for our journey through 2013!

Susi: I’m currently on the first Night Prince novel and I really can’t wait to get my fingers on this one. i do like how he looks even though it is a bit tacky. His stubble is awesome. *g* Love the man boobs.

Caro: I haven’t read this series yet but it’s on my TBR pile. I admit this is absolutely not how I pictured Vlad but oh well. This cover is more ‘ kitsch’ than the first one. I could have done …

Review: Quid Pro Quo by Aleksandr Voinov & L.A. Witt

Format Read: ebook provided by the publisher through NetGalley
Number of Pages: 35 pages
Series: Meat Garden #1
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Genre: M/M Contemporary Erotica
Formats Available: ebook – Print
Purchasing Info: Amazon |  Aleksandr Voinov’s Website | L.A. Witt’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads

Book Blurb:

For the past six months, Jared’s been selling sex at Market Garden, a London club that caters to the better-off. But business is slow in the run-up to Christmas, when businessmen and bankers are too busy bickering over bonuses to rent themselves a little high-class action.

Though Jared’s wallet finds the downtime unnerving, the rest of him rather enjoys the opportunity it gives him to admire Tristan, an old hand in the club whose reputation usually sees him well-booked. Jared has been crushing on Tristan for months—he’s no more immune to Tristan’s cockiness and confidence than the …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start

The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for December is … fishgirl182  who commented on our Review of Moonglow by Kristen Callahan :

fishgirl182 @ nite lite December 18, 2012 at 3:30 pm
ahhh i loved moonglow! i didn’t think it could be better than firelight but i actually think it was, just a bit. can’t wait for book 3!

Congratulations! An email will been sent to you. Please email us back in the in the next 72 hours to claim your price.

We will now start counting for January. Here again the rules:

We thought long and hard about how we should show you, the readers of Book Lovers Inc how much we appreciate your input and interaction. We are happy and grateful for every comment cuz we know how it is to be a “blog-hopper”. We enjoy reading your thoughts and we love to …

Guestpost: Author Delilah Marvelle + Giveaway

Welcome everyone to our special stop on the Blog Tour for  All I Want For Christmas is a Duke ! Today we welcome author Delilah Marvelle, one of the 2 authors on this Holiday anthology.  She will tell us the Story behind the Story 😉 Stay tuned and you can win an Amazon Gift Card. Let’s give a warm welcome to Delilah!

I’ve always wanted to write a Christmas themed historical romance. Always. I just didn’t have the right story to go with it. I waited and I waited for something special to inspire me and oddly, that inspiration came when I least expected it.

I was re-watching ‘The Graduate’ with my husband when my characters both whizzed into focus. I simply *had* to a write a story about an older woman and a younger man set in Dickens’s era during Christmas. Don’t ask me how I made …

The Nutella Winner Post

Welcome everyone! Our Latin Lover is on vacation, and  as we say in France, ‘Quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent’ (grossly translated into, ‘When the cat isn’t there, the mice dance’). lol *dancing around*

For some reason when Christmas time arrives, it also means that I buy and EAT more Nutella.  I thought this cute lolcat  could very well be me. 😉

But no more talk, you’re all here to know who  the winners are!

Won a paperback copy of A Wedding in Apple Grove by C.H. Admirand :

– Michele H
– Maureen

Won a digital copy of BREATH ON EMBERS by Anne Calhoun:

– Maria D.

Won an ebook copy of Ashwyn: Cinderella Retold with an Erotic Twist by Nadia Lee:

– Victoria Zumbrum

Won a paperback copy of The Bridegroom Wore Plaid by Grace Burrowes:

– Lily B
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Reading and Knitting: When the two meet!

Hello! My name is Caroline and I’m a knitting Addict. Well, I’m also a book addict but that was a given *wink*. At first I thought these two passions would be  two different things, I was either reading OR knitting.  Oh but I know better now *g*. I won’t even talk about this great invention that is the Audiobook. Nope today I’m here to talk about books!

When I’m looking for pretty patterns to knit I often find patterns inspired by  books I’ve read. And THAT, makes my geeky self happy. It started with the Jane Austen Knitting magazines. I’m fascinated with anything Jane Austen. I love that these magazines give you Austenian patterns with a modern touch.

 (You can see the Table of Content when you click on the pics) 

Sometimes whole Pattern Books are just about celebrating your favorite classics. Literary Knits is the new shiny …

Happy Birthday to our HEA Lover!!!

Today is pattepoilue day here at Book Lovers Inc. HOOOORAY!!! Did you ever wonder why Caro has such a cute and maybe a bit weird french nickname? Well it’s because she is a huge French popstar and the paparazzi caught her in more than one “épicé” situation. Well we love her nonetheless and today we wanted to show you her first really popular song which recently got covered rather blatantly. Enjoy.

Happy Birthday!!!

Stella: Dearest Caro, wishing you a very happy birthday with lots of wonderful romances, delicious chocolate cake and bubbly champagne and everyone you love around you! Hope this year will be even better than the last was and you know: We are young, so let’s set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun! And now let’s get this party started! 😀

Anna: Happy Birthday sweet Caro!!! Hope you all the best in the world, …

O Come All Ye Kinky virtual book tour: Guestpost by L.A. Witt + Giveaway

It is with pleasure that we welcome L.A. Witt on Book Lovers Inc to promote the O Come All Ye Kinky anthology! She will tell us how she got the idea for her story.  Since this is part of a fantastic Riptide Virtual Book Tour for the release of O Come All Ye Kinky (I never get tired of this title), don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered in a very kinky giveaway 😉  Let’s give  a warm welcome to L.A. Witt!

Thank you for joining us on the O Come All Ye Kinky virtual book tour! For two weeks, anthology editor Sarah Frantz and her merry band of authors will be stopping by some of your favorite blogs to spread kinky holiday cheer! How, you ask? Well, if you don’t know what candy caning is yet, pick up your copy of O Come All Ye Kinky from …