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Review: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan + Giveaway
Format Read: eARC from Netgalley (also, Hardcover).
Series: Memoirs of Lady Trent #1.
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction.
Release Date: February 5, 2013.
Publisher: Tor.
Number of Pages: 336.
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook.
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, BookDepository.
Book Blurb:
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon’s presence, even for the briefest of moments—even at the risk of one’s life—is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten. . . .
All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world’s preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became …
Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman + Giveaway
Format read: paperback
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: 2 July 2012
Length: 359
Publisher: Random House
Formats available: Hardcover, audio book paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.
Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen’s Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints …
ARC Review: What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
Format Read:e-arc provided from Edelweiss for review
Number of Pages:416 pages
Release Date:June 18th 2013
Publisher:Pocket Books
Series: The Duke’s Men, #1
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Author’s web site | GoodReads | Amazon | Book Depository (US) | Book Depository (UK) | B&N
Book Blurb:
Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke’s brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan’s sister. Soon he and Lisette are traveling to Paris posing as husband and wife, in search of Tristan, who has disappeared. And the longer he spends with Lisette, the easier it is for Max to see that the line between dukedom and …
New Releases: June 10-16, 2013
Title: Throne of Oak
Author: Dana Marie Bell
Series: Maggie’s Grove, #2
Genre: paranormal romance
Release date: June 11, 2013 by Carina Press
Description:
Vampire Dragos Ibanescu, Mayor of Maggie’s Grove, is about to lose his mind. His mate, the dryad queen Mina Chainey, refuses to have anything to do with him after her ordeal at the hands of an evil witch. If he doesn’t mate with her soon, he may lose control of the beast within him—a force far more dangerous than anyone in town knows…
Mina’s nightmares of her time with the witch haunt her. The Queen of the Forest can’t muster the strength needed to fight her terror. Unable to leave the Throne, she vows she will not accept Dragos until she can stand at his side as an equal. But the nightmares are only growing in strength, and soon she realizes that there’s more to her pain than simple fear.
Dark forces are converging …
Book Lovers Book Club: July 2013 Selections
Good afternoon everyone!
Here are the July selections for the Book Club. As voted by you guys the theme this month is Werewolves!
Need by Carrie Jones (Goodreads Link)
Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark and I know what’s about to happen.
Zara White suspects there’s a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She’s also obsessed with phobias. And it’s true, she hasn’t exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane…but Zara’s pretty sure her mom just can’t deal with her right now.
She couldn’t be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara’s overactive imagination. In fact, he’s still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There’s something not right – not human – …
Review: SEAL of Honor by Tonya Burrows
Format read: ebook provided by the publisher
Series: HORNET, #1
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Military Romance
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Number of pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Entangled Select
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s website | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Goodreads
It’s a good thing Gabe Bristow lives and breathes the Navy SEAL credo, “the only easy day was yesterday,” because today, his life is unrecognizable. When his prestigious career comes to a crashing halt, he’s left with a bum leg and few prospects for employment that don’t include a desk.
That is, until he’s offered the chance to command a private hostage rescue team and free a wealthy American businessman from Colombian paramilitary rebels. It seems like a good deal—until he meets his new team: a drunk Cajun linguist, a boy-genius CIA threat analyst, an …
Guest Post with Addison Fox + Giveaway
Today we are very excited to welcome back author Addison Fox here at Book Lovers Inc in celebration of her newest release with Entangled Publishing, Merger to Marriage. Merger to Marriage is the second book in the Boardrooms and Billionaire’s series featuring a brand new and hot couple who share a hot night together with unexpected consequences. I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love unexpected things in my stories 🙂 So, let’s welcome Addison and don’t forget to check at the end of the post for our giveaway details 🙂
The Joy of Writing Tropes
I’m so excited to spend the day with the Book Lovers crew!
One of the fun things about writing for Entangled is their focus on classic romantic “tropes” in their books – those tried and true plot lines that are fun and juicy and exciting. For my Boardrooms to Billionaires series, I’ve got three …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you this weekend? Anything exciting to share with us? Next week is a little less busy than the previous one but again, there are some very interesting titles scheduled for release. So let’s see which will be our Sunday Cravings for this week 🙂
Marlene and Stella: Flirting with Disaster by Ruthie Knox
In the latest eBook original novel in Ruthie Knox’s scorching-hot Camelot series, a no-strings fling looks an awful lot like falling in love—or flirting with disaster.
Fresh out of a fiasco of a marriage, Katie Clark has retreated to her hometown to start over. The new Katie is sophisticated, cavalier, and hell-bent on kicking butt at her job in her brother’s security firm. But on her first assignment—digging up the truth about the stalker threatening a world-famous singer-songwriter—Katie must endure the silent treatment from a stern but …
8 Jun 2013 
Comments Off on The International Giveaways Café (95) The International Giveaways Café (95)
Good morning all and welcome back to the best place on the web for access to bookish giveaways worldwide. The idea is to share your own giveaway as well as checking out what others have to offer. The list has gone from insanely long to incredibly short. Do you think this has to do with the warmer weather coming in? Or is there a general sense of being overwhelmed with al the book info out there now? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! As book lovers, we’re happy to spread the word…and the 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! I apologise for the lack of a post last week, but I was battling issues with my computer and a bad cold. But no fear! In this this week’s edition which is full of spats between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble which seems to be getting worse, Sexism in the SFWA and more news!
First up, it looks like the disagreement between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble is not going to end anytime soon, and in fact looks like its becoming worse. I saw via Twitter and a few blog posts this week that authors have complained that their books are not listed on the B&N site or shelved at their stores as well. This is harming both companies as S&S has basically lost the support one of the largest booksellers in the country and vice versa for …
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