New Releases: March 5 – 11, 2012

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night… The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she’d rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance.

Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren’t for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family’s old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, …

Explore This! Toronto, Ontario (Canada)

The ferry heading from the city to Toronto Island.

Today, we’re hitting up Toronto as our destination. Not only is Toronto (and its outskirts) home to authors like Margaret Atwood, Guy Gavriel Kay, Lesley Livingston, and Lila DiPasqua, but it is also the site where many Hollywood movies are filmed, especially ones that are set in New York. (Though there’s a running joke about how clean Toronto streets are in comparison and they need to be dirtied up for filming.) If you are a fan of the TV show Lost Girl, you’ve probably seen the CN Tower in one or two shots because that show is also filmed in the T-Dot. How do I have the inside scoop on Toronto? Because it is the city where I was born and grew up in…and The Danger Lover is also from these parts 🙂

Have I convinced you yet of Toronto’s …

ARC Review: Hunter’s Prey by Moira Rogers

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #2 in the Bloodhound series
Genre: Paranormal/Steampunk/ Post-Apocalyptic Romance (I’m not good at this LOL)
Release Date: 6th March 2012
Number of pages: 174 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Samhain Publishing

Book Blurb:

“He can’t fight his inner beast, but she can tame it. ”

“Bloodhounds, Book 2”

Ophelia retired from life as a prostitute, but her new position is even more complicated. Managing the bloodhound manor in Iron Creek is difficult and time-consuming, a job she enjoys less with each passing day. Then there’s her inconvenient attraction to Hunter. The newly turned hound seems eager to enjoy her company, but wary of anything more intimate.

Having survived the violence of his first full moon out of a cage, Hunter isn’t looking forward to his first new moon. Ophelia offers to be the woman who sates his …

Interview with Moira Rogers (Aka Bree and Donna) + Giveaway

Today we’re thrilled to welcome our favorite duo of authors, better known under the name Moira Rogers on Book Lovers Inc. They’re here with us today to celebrate the release of Hunter’s Prey which is coming out tomorrow. (I cannot wait to read it!) Our Geeky Lover’s review will be up in a few hours so stay tuned.  Please let’s give a warm welcome to our guests. And don’t forget you can win a copy of Hunter’s Prey at the end of the post.

BLI: For those who don’t know you yet could you tell us a bit about who’s behind Moira Rogers ?

Bree: Moira Rogers is the penname I share with my best friend, Donna. We’ve been writing together for almost five years now.

Donna: I’m Brad Pitt, and she’s Edward Norton. But we usually don’t punch each other. (Are Fight Club jokes getting dated now? I can’t tell.)

Bree: …

You are winners!

Hello everyone!  I’m taking over this week while our own Latin Lover is happily touring Mexico (oh the lucky one!).  Anyway hope you’re all having a great Sunday. As for myself I’ve been knitting all day and that’s what I would call a great way to spend the day 😉

Now let’s make a few people happy! The Winners of the Carla Swafford giveaway are….

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– Stephanie K
– Na
– meninaiscrazy

Congratulations! You won a copy of Circle of Desire ! You have been notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.

If you haven’t won this time don’t forget we still have quite a few giveaways going on. Just look on the sidebar 😉

Have a great week everyone!

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers 🙂 Another week has come to an end and I really hope that each and everyone of you have a wonderful weekend! Publishers continue to tease us with the incredible amount of books that are scheduled to hit the shelves this week as well and from all indication, March will be a really busy month bookwise. Honestly, I just can’t keep up with all the amazing books that are out every day.  So, here is what caught our eye from next weeks scheduled releases 🙂

Lea: Dire Needs by Stephanie Tyler

The full moon is their mistress. They are predators of pleasure and pain. Feared by humans, envied by werewolves, the Dire Wolves are immortal shifters, obeying no laws but their own bestial natures. Once they were many, but now only six remain, a dangerous wolfpack forever on the hunt…

Rifter leads the pack, …

The International Giveaways Café (34)

Welcome back to the café! I hope everyone has had a great week and will be able to find some well needed reading time over the weekend. Although we’re into March, it seems we haven’t been able to shake off Winter just yet (those of us in the Northern Hemisphere anyway.) Hopefully soon the weather will perk up and we can start seriously thinking about reading out of doors again. Bring on Spring, I say 🙂

There are lots of giveaways listed that go on through to mid-March, but there’s always room for more! And 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!
Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway …

Around the Bookish News: Week-in-Review

 Welcome to this week’s news post! It hjas been a bit of a quiet week but we  have more Harry Potter news,  upcoming news on books and some fun tidbits!

The digital transition of Harry Potter continues with the recent announcement that Overdrive who has partnered with Rowling and Pottermore will be offering the series in ebooks and audiobooks to schools and libraries.  Overdrive will be delivering worldwide rights including ebooks in French, German and Italian and will be available via most ereading devices. There is no concrete date where the books will be available for lending but it is rumoured via this article that April the 30th is the date.

Looks like the popularity of the Fifty Shades trilogy is never-ending. A whole slew of mainstream press articles have been reporting on the phenomena of Fifty Shades which book clubs around the US have picked up and raving about the …

Review: Nightfall by Ellen Connor

Format Read:e-book purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:327 pages
Release Date:June 6th 2011
Publisher:Berkley Trade
Series: Dark Age Dawning Book 1
Formats Available: Paperback, e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

First in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy.

Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true. Or that he would have a plan in place to save her-one that includes the strong, stoic man who kidnaps and takes her to a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest.

The mysterious ex-Marine named Mason owes a life-debt to Jenna’s father. Skilled and steadfast, he’s ready for the prophesied Change, but Jenna proves tough to convince. Until the power grid collapses and mutant dogs attack-vicious things that reek of nature gone …