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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
14 Dec 2011 
Romance and Me: Holiday Romances
Hey Everyone!
Only 2 more weeks and it is Christmas!! *wait a few moments while I jump up and down and calm down my excitement* Ok I’m back. So with the holidays fast approaching I think the topic of today’s discussion is quite obvious: it’s time we talked about holiday romances!
Starting from the end of October holiday themed books start to flood bookshelves, and after mid-November everywhere you look you see Christmassy covers and holiday-related titles.
Until last year somehow I haven’t noticed this trend (maybe because I wasn’t blogging yet), but I participated in my very first holiday reading challenge last year and thanks to it I discovered the sub-category of holiday romances and became a fan! Maybe it’s because I love Christmas, and everything related to the holidays, or that I’ve always enjoyed holiday films as well, but I know that the combination …
Review: More Than Meets the Ink by Elle Aycart
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 28 June 2011
Number of pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Lose Id.
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Wickedly sexy James Bowen is a bad boy of the highest order — tattoos and attitude included — which unfortunately ranks way up on Tate’s not-a-chance-in-hell list, right there along with skydiving naked over Teheran and juggling Ebola vials just for kicks. But what the heck, she’s on holiday, the guy is absolutely irresistible, and she needs to unplug from her life. With her dad and brother gone, Tate is left to deal with the family restaurant, which is fast going down the drain. Her employees are acting out, her boyfriend has bailed out, and her very own private stalker is emailing her to death with lovely threats of doom, fire, and dismemberment. So yeah, maybe a little holiday fling is in order. Strictly sex though, and …
Interview with Elle Aycart + Giveaway
We are very happy to welcome to BLI international author and certified globetrotter Elle Aycart, who is here today to tell you about her smashing debut novel More Than Meets the Ink, which let me tell you is a seriously scorching hot and sexy read! *fans herself* (You can read my interview here.)
Stella: Hi Elle, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Elle: Hi Stella, and thanks for having me.
What to tell you about me? I’ll give you the basics; I’m a 37 year old mother of two – a 9 and a 5 y. o. girls – who spends her days running after them and trying to take care of a small sushi take-out business.
I was born in Barcelona Spain but at age 18 I went to study abroad, first …
Advent Calendar Day 14: The Egyptian by Layton Green + Giveaway
Welcome to the fourteenth day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win a copy of The Egyptian. This particular story is the second book in the Dominic Grey series, where Dominic Grey and Viktor are hired by a CEO at a biomedical lab to find stolen research. Things aren’t always as they seem, and Grey and Viktor uncover alot more than they had bargained for!
A great read for those of you that like an author that does their research, travels in their stories and keeps you hooked in the storyline.
Purchasing Info: Layton Green, Good Reads, Amazon
Book Blurb:
At a mausoleum in Cairo’s most notorious cemetery, a mercenary receives a package containing a silver test tube suspended in hydraulic stasis.
An investigative reporter tracking rogue biomedical companies is terrified …
New Releases: Dec. 12-18, 2011
True Colors by Thea Harrison
Meeting your soulmate? Great. Preventing your possible murder? Even better.
Alice Clark, a Wyr and schoolteacher, has had two friends murdered in as many days, and she’s just found the body of a third. She arrives at the scene only minutes before Gideon Riehl, a wolf Wyr and current detective in the Wyr Division of Violent Crime—and, as Alice oh-so-inconveniently recognizes at first sight, her mate.
But the sudden connection Riehl and Alice feel is complicated when the murders are linked to a serial killer who last struck seven years ago, killing seven people in seven days. They have just one night before the killer strikes again. And every sign points to Alice as the next victim.
Lesserblood Lies by Ainsley Davidson
Pulled Long by Christine d’Abo
Artemis by Philip Palmer
Advent Calendar Day 13: Addicted To You by Bethany Kane + Giveaway
Welcome to the 13th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win one of my absolute favorite books of the year, the hot erotic romance about the handsome “addictive” Irish screenplay writer and director, Rill Pierce and the feisty Katie Hughes, Addicted To You by Bethany Kane (Beth Kery). I’ve long been a devout fan of Beth’s work and Addicted To You offers everything I’ve come to love about her stories. Complex characters, a riveting storyline, emotion, and PASSION. Katie, formerly a Beverly Hills tax attorney, quits her job, packs up her Maserati and heads to Vultures Canyon a very small Illinois town where Rill, wallowing in a well of self loathing has shunned his former illustrious career and is drinking himself to …
Explore This! Malta
I seem to be in a vicious cycle of revisiting past locations in any of the books I’ve been reading lately, so I thought I would take a different route today. I’m currently reading I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley. The book takes place somewhere in the English country side, but I thought it would be much more interesting to see where the author lives.
In fact, Mr. Bradley grew up in a town not 20 minutes from where I live now, but he has since moved to the lovely island of Malta. I have to be honest here, I had no idea where Malta was and (forgive me, anyone who resides there) at times mistake it for Madagascar (it might be time for me to bone up on my geography lessons :p ).
Anyway, I hope you’ve packed your bathing suit, as I whisk you away to …
ARC Review: The Last Slayer by Nadia Lee
The Last Slayer
Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of the Author
Length: 428 Pages
Release Date: December 26, 2011
Publisher: Carina Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy with Romantic Elements
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Deisel, Nook, Kindle
Book Blurb:
Ashera del Cid is a talented demon hunter, but when she kills a demigod’s pet dragon, the hunter becomes the hunted. Her only potential ally is Ramiel, a sexy-as-hell demon. Now the two must work together to battle dragons and demigods…and the chemistry crackling between them.
Ramiel has his own reasons for offering Ashera his protection. He knows her true identity and the real reason the demigods want her dead. What he can’t predict is how she’ll react when she discovers he knew who she was all along…
Ashera is shocked to discover that she is the only daughter of the last slayer. To …
Interview: Nadia Lee + Giveaway
Nadia Lee
BLI is thrilled to welcome Nadia Lee back to BLI today! Nadia is her to celebrate and talk about her new publication The Last Slayer an urban fantasy with romantic elements, that will be available from Carina Press on December 26, 2011! The Last Slayer is an Urban Fantasy novel with romantic elements and is Nadia’s first Carina Press publication! Nadia’s February 2011 contemporary romance Carnal Secrets is a BLI favorite!
Lea: Nadia! Welcome back to BLI it’s such a pleasure to be able to chat with you today! Since we discussed about your writing process when you visited earlier this year I’m going to cut right to the chase and ask you some questions about The Last Slayer. 🙂
What can we expect of The Last Slayer?
Nadia: Thanks for having me, BLI! :) The Last Slayer is about a young demon hunter who …
Advent Calendar Day 12: A Lot Like Love by Julie James + Giveaway
Welcome to the 12th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win a copy of one of my favorite contemporary reads for this year that is none other than A Lot Like Love by Julie James. Needless to say, that as soon as I got in my hands my first book by Julie James, she immediately became one of my favorite contemporary romance authors! She’s plainly that amazing an author! And especially her FBI series is drool worthy! The way Julie combines the romantic element with the suspense in her stories make them even more appealing and the fact that we are talking about FBI agents that are staring in her series, that in my book makes her stories a must read! What can …
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