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3 Aug 2013 
Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post – albeit it a bit late due to server issues which we have been experiencing the past day or so. Hopefully things will settle down and we apologise for any inconvenience! In this week’s edition, we have more news on J.K Rowling and the lawyer who leaked her penname, while the DOJ is still looking at Apple but this time at their practices to ensure the ebook collusion doesn’t happen again and much more!
J.K Rowling has won a sizeable donation for charity from the lawfirm that leaked the confidential information that she was Robert Gabrailth and the book she wrote under his penname, THE CUCKOO’S CALLING. She sued Chris Gossage who is a partner at the firm,told his wife who then passed on the information to a friend who leaked it on twitter won damages. All the parties involved have apologised to Rowling …
The Book Lovers Pick of the Litter for July
Otherwise known as the “squee on me, people” post. Read carefully, I did NOT say “pee on me”. This is the “picks” post and not the “pans” post. If we ever decide to do a snarky “pans” post, Cass is going to have to write it.
I thought we’d try a “which books we squeed over the most this month” post. This is it. The books The Book Lovers loved in July. What we read in July, not necessarily what was published, or what we reviewed.
Fangirling was permitted and even encouraged. Oohing and aahing begins here.
Anna: Less than a Gentleman by Kerrelyn Sparks: I may not have yet read Sparks’ very famous pnr series but I’m definitely in love with her Historical Romance one! I read last year the first book in the Historical series and I immediately fell in love with Sparks’ writing style and her ability to …
Review: Generation V by M.L. Brennan
Format read: mass market paperback (review copy)
Series: American Vampire, #1
Release Date: 7 May 2013
Publisher: Roc
Length: 320 pages
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s Site, Barnes & Noble, BookDepository
Book Description:
Reality Bites….
Fortitude Scott’s life is a mess. A degree in film theory has left him with zero marketable skills, his job revolves around pouring coffee, his roommate hasn’t paid rent in four months, and he’s also a vampire. Well, sort of. He’s still mostly human.
But when a new vampire comes into his family’s territory and young girls start going missing, Fort can’t ignore his heritage anymore. His mother and his older, stronger siblings think he’s crazy for wanting to get involved. So it’s up to Fort to take action, with the assistance of Suzume Hollis, a dangerous and sexy shape-shifter. Fort is determined to find a way to outsmart the deadly vamp, even if he isn’t quite sure how.
But without having matured …
Review: To the Fifth Power by Shirin Dubbin
Format read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Series: Powers, #1
Genre: Superhero Romance
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Number of pages: 87 pages
Publisher: Entangled: Ever After
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website | Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Publisher’s Website
Three years ago, Zola Noite’s nemesis killed her sidekick and forced her to watch. The guilt drove her to hang up her cape. Zola knows one thing for certain. She will never be a superhero again.
Psychologist Dr. Arturo “Fort” Forte specializes in super-powered mental health. He’s the only reason Zola can once again call herself sane—although, truth be told, the heat between them is slowly driving her back to mad.
When three mega-villains escape the prison Fort oversees, all Zola’s best laid plans go up in flames. Fort asks her for help, and she can’t turn down the man she’s secretly come to love. As …
ARC Review: Midnight Frost by Jennifer Estep
Format Read:e-ARC copy provided from the publisher for review
Number of Pages:400 pages
Release Date:July 30th 2013
Publisher:K-Teen
Series: Mythos Academy, #5
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition,ebook,AudioBook
Purchasing Info: GoodReads | Amazon | Book Depository (US) | Book Depository (UK) | Barnes & Noble | Kobo
Book Blurb:
Here we go again …
Just when it seems life at Mythos Academy can’t get any more dangerous, the Reapers of Chaos manage to prove me wrong. It was just a typical night at the Library of Antiquities — until a Reaper tried to poison me. The good news is I’m still alive and kicking. The bad news is the Reaper poisoned someone else instead.
As Nike’s Champion, everyone expects me to lead the charge against the Reapers, even though I’m still hurting over what happened with Spartan warrior Logan Quinn. I’ve got to get my hands on the antidote fast — otherwise, an …
New Releases: Jul. 29 – Aug. 4, 2013
Title: Magic Rises
Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels, #5
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: July 30, 2013 by Ace
Description:
Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them—no matter the cost.
Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many of the Pack’s shapeshifting children fail to survive to adulthood. While there is a medicine that can help, the secret to its making is closely guarded by the European packs, and there’s little available in Atlanta.
Kate can’t bear to watch innocents suffer, but the solution she and Curran have found threatens to be even more painful. The European shapeshifters who once outmaneuvered the Beast Lord have asked him to arbitrate a dispute—and they’ll pay him in medicine. With the young people’s survival and the Pack’s future at stake, Kate and Curran know they must accept …
Guest post by Kimberly Kincaid + Giveaway
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a huge fan of culinary romances, so it is with great pleasure that we welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. culinary romance author Kimberly Kincaid, who stops by to tell you a behind the scenes secret about her brand new release Outside the Line! So please give her a warm welcome and if you answer the question at the end, you could even win a copy of her book! 😀
The Story That Almost Wasn’t
by Kimberly Kincaid
Each book has a story, a wonderful tale of evolution about how it went from the glimmer of an idea to a swirling of thoughts to a cohesive map of characters and events and arcs. The process never fails to astound me, since the simplest things can serve to inspire entire books (case in point: my first novella, Love On The Line, …
Book Lovers Book Club: Reminder – Voting and Link up your reviews
Good morning everyone!
This is just a quick reminder about the book club.
1. Voting! – the August theme is Dragons!
2. Link up’s – Don’t forget to link up your reviews for the July books for your chance to win a $10 Book Depository voucher
That’s actually pretty much all from me.
In other news I’m growing an herb garden in my kitchen.
^ That’s not it but I’ll post a pic in a few weeks if it manages to survive my enthusiastic over-watering.
What did the green grape say to the purple grape?
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“Breathe Idiot!”
Thank you thank you…
Happy Monday everyone
Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How is your weekend? The heat currently in Greece is insufferable so probably when this post will go live I will be reading a cool story while sunbathing at a beach trying to forget how hot this whole week was 😛
The last week of July is here and there’s a huge variety of books being released. And that’s a good thing because July was a pretty slow month bookwise. So, let’s see which are our Sunday Cravings for this week 🙂
Stella: Hero’s Redemption by Georgie Lee
London, 1817
Devon, the Earl of Malton, is a hero for his deeds at the Battle of Waterloo. But he suffers terrible nightmares, and drinks himself to sleep most nights. A habit he vows to break when he awakes one morning to find a woman sharing his bed, no memory of how she got there, …
The Heatwave Winner post
Hey Everyone!
I don’t know how the weather is in your corner of the world, but for the past weeks we had unperturbed sunshine and hot summer days with the usual 30-33 C degrees, but this weekend Mother Nature turned up the heat and grilled us with 38-40 C! And not living in a tropic or Mediterranean climate let me tell you this is very unusual and too hot. So I spent the weekend home chilling, doing laundry and making ice creams. 😉 Sounds like a great time, doesn’t it? Well it was except for my neighbours who decided to start vacuuming at 7am on Saturday! Seriously, who does that?? Anyway this week’s winner is… *drumroll please*
Congrats to
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Love at High Tide by Christi Barth is
Ada
Congratulations Ada, you have been sent an e-mail notifying you of your win by tonight. You have 72 …
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