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Review: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
Format Read: ebook
Number of Pages: 358
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Formats Available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author, Publisher, Goodreads, BookDepository, Powells, Amazon
Book Blurb:
Miriam Black knows when you will die.
Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be gruesomely murdered while he calls her name.
Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But Louis will die because he met her. No matter what she does she can’t save him, not even if she tries.
My Thoughts:
This book will attack your brain directly through your eyeballs. You won’t realize it until it is …
Explore This!: San Diego, California
Welcome to today’ special edition of Explore This! While The Geeky Lover and The HEA Lover are out of town, I snagged their time slot…though we do miss them when they’re gone 🙂
And it’s thanks to a recommendation from The Rocket Lover that I’m whisking you off to San Diego, California; it’s the setting for the book Night Walker by Lisa Kessler. From what I hear the Mission de Alcala plays a large role in the story, but we’ll take a tour all around the city. Okay, I’ll admit, I focused a bit more on the water and the beach. I’m feeling a bit beach bummy 😉
Ah, how I would love to be on one of those boats!
The Coronado Bridge
The Gaslamp Quarters.
Balboa Park.
A lovely shoreline vista.
Mission de Alcala.
Inside …
Early Review: About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of Publisher for Review
Length: 216 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Publisher: Random House / Loveswept
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, iBooks
Book Blurb:
Sure, opposites attract, but in this sexy, smart eBook original romance from Ruthie Knox, they positively combust! When a buttoned-up banker falls for a bad girl, “about last night” is just the beginning.
Cath Talarico knows a mistake when she makes it, and God knows she’s made her share. So many, in fact, that this Chicago girl knows London is her last, best shot at starting over. But bad habits are hard to break, and soon Cath finds herself back where she has vowed never to go . . . in the bed of a man who is all kinds …
Interview with Cynthia Cooke + Giveaway
Happy Monday morning, Book Lovers! And on this Monday, we welcome romantic suspense author Cynthia Cooke to Book Lovers Inc. Her latest book, Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies, starred as the Mothers’ Day opening title for Entangled Press’ new Dead Sexy imprint. We had the opportunity to sip some virtual iced tea (you’ll understand later) with Cynthia and ask her a few questions about her chilling new book. Join us now, and you’ll have a chance to win a copy of Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies of your very own!
About Cynthia:
Cynthia Cooke is an award-winning, multi-published author who has published 11 books and short stories for Harlequin/Silhouette and Steeple Hill. Her latest book, Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies will be one of the launch books for Nina Bruhn’s Dead Sexy Romantic Suspense line at Entangled Publishing. Cynthia lives in North Carolina with her husband and three teenage …
Sunday Cravings
Happy Sunday Book Lovers all around the world! I hope you have a most beautiful and relaxing weekend 🙂 We’re here for yet another week, ready to show you all those titles that are scheduled to hit the shelves this week. And believe me,the first week of June comes with a bang, especially in the YA genre, where some of the most anticipated titles are releasing this week.
So, let’s start with our Sunday Cravings for the first week of summer 🙂
Marlene: Hex Appeal by P.N. Elrod (Editor), Jim Butcher, Carrie Vaughn
Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal… In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss—or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross …
The Love Letter Convention Winner Post
Hi Everyone!
So while some of us have been slaving away at work and living our dull and ordinary lives some Book Lovers were lucky enough to attend the Love Letter Convention held this weekend in Berlin, sadly not I, but our very own Geeky and HEA Lovers are there meeting Nalini Singh, Alexandry Ivy and Maya Banks amongst others! I’m sure Susi and Caro are having a terrific time and I can’t wait to hear all about their adventures and the bloggers and authors they got to meet! So I hope to see some photos soon 😉
But until the girls get back home let’s see who won this week, shall we?
This week congratulations are in order to
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Chairman of the Whored by Lucy V. Morgan is:
Lexi
the lucky winner of an ebook copy …
2 Jun 2012 
Comments Off on The International Giveaways Café (45) The International Giveaways Café (45)
Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! The time seems ti be flying by so quickly right now. I hope you are all able to set aside some well deserved reading time this weekenf 🙂
Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post, and we have more news on the DOJ and publishers over agency pricing, Stephen King’s new book and more wtfery about authors behaving badly again.
The remaining two publishers, Penguin and Macmillan are facing a lawsuit with the Department of Justice in the US over alleged collusion about Agency pricing, have submitted more information about their defence. Both Penguin and Macmillan have stated that their meetings with other publishers were part of social gatherings and had nothing to do with collusion. Apple will also be facing a lawsuit with the DOJ – Random House is the only publisher who isn’t facing an investigation and a lawsuit since they never initially joined the other Big 5 publishers when they adopted Agency pricing.
Because of the ruling that this was deemed unlawful, it looks like remaining 3 publishers who did settle with the DOJ, Simon and Schuster, Hachette …
Review: The Cinderella Blues by Obren Bokich
Format Read: ebook from author
Number of Pages: 294 p.
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Formats Available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: : Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
The Cinderella Blues (Thuh Sin’-dur-rel’-uh Bluze)
n.
1.
The phenomena whereby otherwise intelligent, capable, successful professional women are convinced they need rescuing by a prince.
My Thoughts:
The Cinderella Blues starts out in the middle of some of the cheesiest, I swear, the most cliché-ridden, bodice-ripping drivel ever written.
And I could have sworn this was supposed to be a contemporary romance. It said so right there on the label. A couple of pages later the heroine dropped out of her daydream and into an auto body shop. She was daydreaming this stuff.
That made way more sense. Haven’t you done that? I’ve done that. Drifted off in my head to fanfic-land. My fantasies aren’t half that cliché-full. At least, I hope not.
Kat, …
We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start
The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for May is … Sullivan McPig who commented on our The Good, The Bad & Are You Kidding Me post:
Sullivan McPig May 22, 2012 at 5:28 pm Mine also says Angels’ Flight. I must confess I never thought of it as a typo, but thought it meant there were more than one angel in flight.
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