Genres 101: Today’s Lesson "Horror"

I want to thank everyone for the awesome feedback on these posts! It’s fun learning and sharing the info with you!

For the next little while, I’ve decided to stick within the Speculative Fiction category because there just so many levels, that I feel it needs special attention. Today, I want to focus on Horror. The first thing that comes to mind, for me, under this title is Stephen King. For me he embodies the dark, scary stories that are synonymous with horror. What I was surprised to learn through my research is that a) horror , though created long ago, was a genre revived in the eighteenth century, largely with a female audience in mind and written by women and b) one of my fave types of literature, the Gothic novel, also falls within the realm of horror.

Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Format Read: E-ARC provided by NetgalleyNumber of Pages: 435Release Date:  January 4th  2011Publisher: Harper TeenFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn’t easy.Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there’s another …

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River Marked by Patricia Briggs

Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She’s never known any others of her kind. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River—one that her father’s people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will need their help…

Falconer and the Death of Kings by Ian Morson
Captured by a Highlander by Julianne MacLean
Scones & Bones by Laura Childs

We Love Your Comments Giveaway: Winner & new Start

This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for February is……

Sharon S.

who commented on our post  “Review: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton“:

What I love about the first 5 books is the kick-ass story lines. The books are 80% story and 20% sex. After that the percentages flip . I’ve kept with it though, and she is now getting back to the main story arc.

Congrats hon! Please email us through the Contact us at the in the next 72 hours to claim your price. 

We will now start counting for March. Here again the rules:

We thought long and hard about how we should show you, the readers of Book Lovers Inc how much we appreciate your input and interaction. We are happy and grateful for every comment cuz we know how it is to be a “blog-hopper”. We enjoy reading your thoughts and …

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

We didn’t do one of these Books-we-can’t-wait-for posts in a while so we thought it is time to remedy that.

So many great books on our to-buy lists for 2011 and some of them are rather pretty, too. But make your own decision.

Let us know what you think about our pretties and we’d love to hear what your cover candies of 2011 are so far. 

Caroline’s Selection:

Caroline: I fell in love with the new Moira Rogers covers. Bree and Donna posted the covers of Sabine and Kisri a few days ago and I couldn’t take my eyes of the cover of Kisri. I find it fascinating and so pretty. The model is gorgeous and she …

Review: Tempest’s Legacy by Nicole Peeler

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 341
Release Date: 1 January 2011
Publisher: Orbit
Formats Available: Paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

After a peaceful hiatus at home in Rockabill, Jane True thinks that her worst problem is that she still throws like a girl – at least while throwing fire-balls. Her peace of mind ends, however, when Anyan arrives one night with terrible news…news that will rock Jane’s world to its very core.

After demanding to help investigate a series of gruesome attacks on females – supernatural, Halfling, and human – Jane quickly finds herself forced to confront her darkest nightmares as well as her deepest …

Interview Author Lori Handeland + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Lori Handeland here at Book Lovers Inc today. When I found out that Lori started writing Nightcreature novels again I was more than thrilled. And even more so when she agreed to being interviewed about them So here we are today talking Nightcreatures in celebration for her new release Moon Cursed, which will be out in stores tomorrow. Be sure to ask her a question and you might win an awesome prizepack!The Geeky Lover: Lori can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Lori: I live in Wisconsin (which is still painted green and gold due to the Packers winning the Superbowl-wooh, hoo!) with my contractor husband. Both our boys are in college.
I’ve been writing since 1991 and have sold over 50 novels to seven different publishers in multiple genres. I am …

It’s winner time again!

Hey Everyone!

It’s Sunday again so you know what that means? Yep, time for me to announce some winners!! 🙂

Congratulations are in order for…

The lucky winner of a copy of Invitation to Sin by Vanessa Kelly is:

Reading mind

The lucky winner of a copy of either Captive or Forbidden by Christina Phillips is:

Marybelle

And finally the winner of a signed copy of This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost is….

@Miss_Dhampir91  

Congratulations Ladies, you will all be shortly e-mailed or DMed, you have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw new winners.

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

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Review: Breathe by Sloan Parker

Format Read: Ebook provided by the AuthorNumber of Pages: 254Release Date: November 16th 2010Publisher: Loose IDFormats Available: EBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Loose ID

Book Blurb:

Lincoln McCaw lost everything — his home, his job, his partner — after he caused a fatal accident. A year later, he’s drowning the guilt and despair in whiskey, but he needs to move on. His sister and her kids are counting on him. Then he meets a man who ignites a passion Lincoln thought he’d never find. Too bad one night is all they can have together. Now he needs to figure out how to turn away from the only person who makes him feel alive…before whoever is sending him threats decides Lincoln needs to suffer more than he already has.

Jay Miller is surrounded by grief …

Review: Lady Doctor Wyre by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: e-Book ARC provided by Author for reviewLength: 107 pagesSeries: A Jane Austen Space Opera #1Release Date: March 29th 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: e-Book, KindlePurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads,Amazon

Book Blurb:

A dangerous technology could conquer the universe. Love could set it free.

Charlotte, Duchess of Wyre, once held the Queen’s highest confidence—and the technological secret that keeps the royal heart beating. Fearful of what atrocities that Britannia might commit with her research, Charlotte turned to the galaxy’s most infamous assassin, Lord Sigmund Regret, to stage her own death.

Even without the simplest of luxuries, seven years hiding in the Americus colony is preferable to one day in the Tower of Londinium. Until a bounty hunter’s bullet forces her to revive her research. Now the same nanobots that keep the Queen alive also run rampant in Lord Regret’s …