All YA Love: The Draw to YA

As I sit on the train everyday going to and from work, I have a unique opportunity…I witness a diverse crowd of people reading a wide range of books. Last year, it was fun to see the guys reading a book from the Twilight series (guess what, we can tell even with the dust jackets off LOL) and years ago it was the Harry Potter series…the “true adult book lovers”, to me, stuck with the original covers, not the fancy schmancy grown up ones!

So what is it about YA that captures an audience that is YA and, well, older? Off the top of my head, here’s my list of things:

Character Development ~ So much growth takes places over the teen years. At high school, you meet so many new friends & are exposed to new things, both good & bad (though I missed …

Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 336Release Date: October 1, 2006Publisher: HarperTeenFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Maureen Johnson, Goodreads, BookDepository

Book Blurb: When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn’t know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.

My Thoughts:I had heard about this novel, and seen it around several times before, while at the book store it sparked my attention enough to buy. The cover, as well as the synopsis, really intrigued me, it sounds and looks like a …

We have a Book Lover Intern

Today it is our pleasure to introduce you to a new Book Lover. Jenn joins us today and we hope you like her as much as we do.

We found her through our We Want you As a Book Lover search and we are really happy about that.

She will be here as an “Intern” for a month to see if it works out for her and us but I’m positive that we found a new member for our group in Jenn.

Please Give her a warm welcome!

Hi everyone, I am Jenn, the YA Book Lover – I am so pleased and happy to be here! I am a single, mother of 2 kids, Aubrey my reader is 11, and Zachary my non-reader is 6 (working on that). I am also a photographer, I own and run Fingers To Toes …

New Releases – June 8, 2010

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

Genre: YAScarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris– the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.

Rosie March once felt her bond with her sister was unbreakable. Owing Scarlett her life, Rosie hunts fiercely alongside her. Now Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves and finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax– but loving him means betraying her sister and has the potential to destroy all they’ve worked for.Twenty-five-year-old Jackson Pearce delivers a …

Interview: Author Jackie Kessler + Giveaway

We are really proud today to have Jackie Kessler here. She’s one of the authors of The Icarus Series and book 2, Shades of Gray  will be released on June, 22nd. You can read my review here. Jackie also offers a wonderful Giveaway so stay tuned and please give her a warm welcome.

Jackie Kessler: Hi, Susi! Thanks so much for interviewing me.

The Geeky Lover: Jackie, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jackie Kessler: I write about demons, angels, the hapless humans caught between them, superheroes, the supervillains who pound those heroes into pudding, witches, ghosts, vampires, and the occasional Horseman of the Apocalypse. On a more personal note, I’m five feet tall (on a tall day) and a Sagittarius with a weakness for chocolate. I’m married with two young kids, one very old cat, and a …

Review: Crazy In Love by Ashley Ladd

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 33Release Date:  March , 2010Publisher: Total E-BoundFormats Available:eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Total E-Bound

Book received by the author for review.

Book Blurb:The ghost of Kacey’s crazy great-grandfather threatens her life but just might save her marriage.

When the ghost of Kacey’s crazy great-grandfather mistakes her for her great-grandmother, he threatens to kill her for cheating on him. Meanwhile her husband, Heath, finds out she believes he’s fallen out of love with her and he sets out to show her just how much he loves her. However, he fears she’s crazy as she claims to see homicidal ghosts.

Although Kacey longs to save her marriage, she doesn’t know if she can stay with a man who doesn’t believe her and thinks she’s insane.

My Thoughts:I don’t really know where to begin. I started reading and I thought this book …

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

After working together for quiet some time now we discovered more than once that we share an abnormal love for covers. For us as Europeans we always have the choice which cover we prefer, the US or the UK edition. But we often discover that we love another foreign edition even more. This post is all about that strange obsession of finding the best cover of a book. We also want to find out what you think about the covers and hopefully we will discover that we aren’t the only shallow book lovers in the blogoverse. We will post the results of our survey in the next post.

For the first week we choose the Psy-Changeling Series by Nalini Singh. We drooled over these covers for a long time and in our opinion there are some foreign editions worth mentioning, more …

Review: Shades of Gray by Caitlin Kittredge & Jackie Kessler

Format Read: ARC Trade PaperbackNumber of Pages: 432Release Date:  June 22nd, 2010Publisher: SpectraFormats Available: Trade Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Series Website, Bookdepository

Book Blurb:

AFTER THE FALL OF NIGHT

Jet and Iridium—best friends turned bitter enemies—teamed up to foil the evil plans of the rogue superhero known as Night, but in defeating him they inadvertently destroyed the secret Corp-Co transmitter whose frequency kept the metapowered heroes of the Squadron in line. Now these heroes have turned against New Chicago, ransacking the city they once protected. Even worse, the powerful antisuperhero group known as Everyman has taken advantage of the chaos to fan the flames of prejudice against all superpowered men and women. Just when New Chicago needs them most, Jet and the small band of heroes who have remained on the right side of the law find themselves …

And the winners are…

We have 2 winners again to make your start into the new week a bit better. 😉

First we have the winner of our Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews Giveaway:

~*~*~drumroll~*~*~angie

And we also have the lucky winner of a signed Signs of the Zodiac Series by Vicky Pettersson:

~*~*~drumroll~*~*~Julie

Congrats ladies! I will Email you now to get your shipping info.

Our other Giveaways are still open:

– You can still enter to win all 3 books in the Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta here. Giveaway ends June 24th.– There is also still time to enter our Sam Hillard Giveaway here. …

Bookish Eye Candy: Butch: Lover Revealed

Continuing on with the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series, This week on Bookish Eye candy we bring you  Butch from Lover Revealed. Now this one was probably the hardest one for me to get through. but it is still and Black Dagger Brotherhood Book so it totally ROCKS!!!

Lover Revealed
By: J. R. Ward

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York,

there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their
slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers
like no other – six vampire warriors, defenders of their
race. Now, an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages.

Butch O’Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living, ex-homicide cop, he’s the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants …