Review: The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean

Format read: eARC provided by authorRelease Date: 19 July 2011Publisher: SamhainSeries: Book #0.5 in the Secret McQueen seriesFormats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Are blind dates supposed to be this bloody?

A Secret McQueen Story

They say it’s impossible to find a man in New York City. Secret McQueen needs to find two in one night. Of course, it’ll mean pulling off the impossible—find and kill a displaced rogue vampire without disrupting the first promising date she’s had in ages. As a werewolf hybrid used to walking a fine line of survival in the vampire world, though, Secret eats impossible for breakfast.

Somewhere between hello and the first round of drinks, Secret makes her move. Her target, Hollywood’s biggest star, shouldn’t be hard to spot. Just look for swarms of fans. Except every time …

Interview with Sierra Dean + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. one of my new favourite urban fantasy authors, please welcome the wonderful Sierra Dean! Sierra pens the fantastic Secret McQueen urban fantasy series, the first novel of which Something Secret This Way Comes was released on 10 May 2011 (you can read my review here) and as the prequel novella The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters was released yesterday (again for a spoiler-free first taste of the story you can check out my review), it’s time to celebrate! Read on to get to know Sierra and Secret better and for your chance to win an ebook copy of The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters!
 
 

Stella: Sierra can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
 
Sierra: I’m a fun-loving, trouble-making, book-reading kinda girl. I …

Review: Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Format Read: AudiobookNumber of Pages: 322 pagesRelease Date: April 1, 2000Publisher: RocFormats Available: Hardcover, ebook, audiobook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Goodreads, Author’s websiteSource: Borrowed from library

Book Blurb:

The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. Storm Front is Jim Butcher’s first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire. 

For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry’s eyes light up with dollar signs. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage. Now, that black mage knows Harry’s name. And things are about to get very…interesting.

My Thoughts:

Last year, I got my first exposure to Harry Dresden and loved him! This came in the form of a …

New Releases: July 18-24, 2011

 Love Story by Jennifer Echols

She’s writing about him. he’s writing about her. And everybody is reading between the lines.. For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfill her ambitions–it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter . . . so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest writing assignment? Then, on the day …

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

This week will be a bit different. For one thing, it’ll probably be a bit messy because my other half (aka Susi) is not here to get everything organized. *wink* So I thought it was time to talk about pretty covers of books yet to be released. Let’s see what the future has in store for us!

I don’t want to read all those books (well ok I want to read 95% of them lol) , some are books I can’t wait to read, some are covers I just find gorgeous, some I really don’t know anything about. It’s all for the pleasure of the eyes 😉

You can look at it as my  ‘Shallow Wish-list of Most Wanted Covers’, based mostly on how pretty or original I find the covers. So here they come…

Review: "In The Air Tonight", by Stephanie Tyler

Format Read: eARC provided by Author for review
Length: 400 pages
Genre: Military Romantic Suspense
Series: Shadow Force Book III
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Publisher: Dell Books
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powells, Chapters, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

With danger closing in, all they have is each other…

Haunted by a mission he barely survived, Delta Force operative Mace Stevens still carries a soldier’s burden. Running a small bar in upstate New York, he remains a stone cold warrior who guards dangerous secrets and stays ready for anything. Anything except beautiful, vulnerable Paige Grayson, who shows up at his door, demanding answers about her heroic stepbrother’s death under his command.

Paige bears burdens, too. She’s plagued by demons unleashed by an older brother who committed mass murder …

Interview: Stephanie Tyler + Giveaway

It’s our great pleasure to welcome multi-published New York Times Bestselling Author Stephanie Tyler to BLI today. Stephanie wowed lovers of military romantic suspense with her Hard To Hold trilogy in late 2009 and early 2010. Then in October 2010, Lie With Me, the first book of her awesome Shadow Force series was published which was followed quickly by book II Promises In The Dark. Fans have had to wait a while but I’m delighted to say, In The Air Tonight, Mace Stevens and Paige Grayson’s story is to be released on July 26, 2011, and Stephanie keeps up the sexy, riveting, fast paced storytelling she established in the first two books of her series. Dell Books is the publisher for the Hard To Hold Trilogy and Shadow Force series. Stephanie has also co-written the …

Scary Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

Before I scare you all away I’ll explain that it was scary for me as there are so many winners I have to announce this week, I dreaded sitting down and going through all the giveaways and drwaing the lucky people today. But can you blame me? Outside it is warm and sunny, the garden calls me with its peaceful quiet and my book is taunting me from across the room. *resigned sighs*

Well anyway, so as today I have TONS of winners to announce, let’s get down to it, I bet you all have better things to do like enjoy the sun, take a nap, get back to that yummy book you are reading (like me!), go to the pool or just go to see why that poor cat has been for the past minutes and try to …

The International Giveaways Café (3)

Welcome back to our weekly meet up here at The International Giveaway Café! It’s been crazy hot around here this week, so I’m going to grab an Iced Coffee before sitting back and checking out all the international giveaway links we’ve been collecting here. After my weekly clean up, a lot of the links had expired, so now’s the time to get your link up! I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next and exciting.

If you’re looking for more information about our motivation for this post, check out the original post here. Otherwise, I’ll just go ahead and restate our guidelines, then we can get down to the business at hand: contest linking & entry. Oh! And coffee, there always has to be coffee or tea involved, right?…..Bottoms up!

Guidelines:

If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

I hope everyone had a great week! This week’s news has some interesting tidbits about new publishing deals and more on Amazon’s new tablet albeit its all rumour.

First up, it looks like the US arm of Borders which has entered into administration is looking like they will enter full liquidation. I don’t really think at this point, that Borders can survive. which is a huge shame.

In a surprising and a worrying move there was an announcement by Ellora’s Cave, that author, Laurann Dohner has signed a 75 book deal with e-publisher. Now this seems to be beyond crazy with that amount of books, especially since many of the established longterm authors such as Cheyenne McCray and Lora Leigh have left the publisher. and I doubt any respectable agent would advise their client for this amount of books. However …