Review: Montana Rose by Mary Connealy

Format Read: EbookNumber of Pages: 320Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.Formats Available: Paperback and Kindle EditionsPurchasing Info: Amazon, Author Website, GoodReads Montana Marriages Series #1Inspirational, Historical & Western RomanceBook received from Netgalley for Review.

Book Blurb:

Fire up your love of romance with Montana Rose, where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher. But can this “china doll” bear exchanging smooth silk for coarse calico? Red was reluctant to be yoked to an unbeliever, but sometimes a man has no choice. Will Red change Cassie’s heart by changing her name? Wade Sawyer is obsessed with saving Cassie from a marriage of convenience. How far will he go make her his own?

My Thoughts:

Montana Rose starts off …

All YA Love: Interview with Bonnie Doerr

It is our pleasure to have had an opportunity to talk with Bonnie Doerr, author of Island Sting.

Tell us a bit about ISLAND STING.

Telling about a novel I wrote should be an easy thing for me to do, right? But the book has been described so many ways by readers that I often don’t know how to approach this request. And, honestly, it’s more about what the book is to readers than what it is to me. So first I’ll use the thoughts and words of others to talk about it.

To ground the story, ISLAND STING is a contemporary adventure/mystery novel set in the Florida Keys. Though it’s often included on lists of YA reads (these days YA seems to stretch up to college age), it’s more for younger teens and tweens.

I get a kick out of stringing …

Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Format Read: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 480 
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Formats Available: Hardcover, eBook, Audio
Purchasing Info: Author Website, GoodReads, BookDepository

Book Blurb:What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it’s her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she re-lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she had ever imagined.

My thoughts:One night Samantha Kingston was a typical teenager, out with friends. She was part of the ‘in’ crowd and everyone was headed to a house party. But on the …

Interview: Author, John Locke

We are happy to have John Locke, author of the Donovan Creed series, here today to answer our questions.

The Sexy Lover: Hello John. Thanks for letting me ‘grill’ you. I have read all three novels in your Donovan Creed series which I think are wonderful.
John Locke: Thank you. I’m honored to hear you say that.

The Sexy Lover: Of the three so far which has been your favorite?
John Locke: Probably Saving Rachel, since it moves so quickly. I really like the twists and turns, and feel it is more in line with the type of books I’ll be writing in the future.

The Sexy Lover: Which was the hardest to write or gave you the most trouble?
John Locke: Lethal Experiment was a very difficult write because I got too much input. By the time I finished, I’d used three …

Review: Lethal People by John Locke

Format Read: Paperback

Number of Pages: 256
Release Date: July 2009
Publisher: iUniverse Publishing
Formats Available: Amazon-Kindle, Print,
Purchasing Info: 

Author Website, GoodReads, BookDepository, Amazon-Kindle

Book provided by Author for review

Book Blurb:While pursuing a budding romance with the beautiful Kathleen Gray, Creed stumbles upon a plucky—but horribly burned—little girl named Addie Dawes. Creed’s suspicion about the fire that killed Addie’s family puts him on a collision course with crime boss Joe DeMeo, in what soon becomes an issue of kill or be killed.

DeMeo, a relentless killer who will stop at nothing to protect his empire—targets Creed and his loved ones for death. But Creed has plans of his own. Employing a bizarre cast of characters including a giant, a rival crime lord, an angry midget bent on world conquest—and a team of circus clowns—Creed goes on the attack, with hilarious results.

My Thoughts:Well…Let me tell you when I read Lethal …

New Releases: March 23, 2010

March, 23rd

The Devil’s Playground (Morgan Kingsley, #5) by Jenna Black

Genre: Urban Fantasy 

Morgan Kingsley, a kick-ass exorcist, can deal with Lugh, the super-sexy demon living inside her, but does he have to moan softly during her intimate moments with her mortal lover? Understandably, Brian is reluctant to share the pleasures of Morgan’s flesh with a gorgeous rogue from the Demon Realm.

But personal matters will have to wait when the opportunistic owner of The Seven Deadlies demon club in Philadelphia enlists Morgan’s help in heading off a crisis: It seems that demons have started showing up at the hot spot in alarming numbers and in the unwilling bodies of rough trade club-goers. Morgan is sure that Dougal, Lugh’s sworn enemy, is behind this, but why? To find out Morgan must summon every ounce of power at her command—or risk …

Geekdom of Books: Foreign Releases

This post is really just my opinion on what can go wrong when a book gets published in Germany.

And believe me that happens more than you think. And yes, I’m aware of this just being the minority but it makes me angry nonetheless.

It’s a totally subjective post and I can only speak for German releases.
No idea how it works in other countries.

1. Inventing a new English Title for the German edition

Okay I’m not thinking about anything as hilarious as “The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable-Girl“and other wonderful Harlequin Presents creations but the things we get here in Germany are sometimes rather mind boggling. I can understand when an English book gets a German title cuz that’s what we all would expect but why would they change a English title into another English …

Review: Addicted by Charlotte Featherstone

Format Read: Print Number of Pages: 443 pages Release Date: February 1st 2009 Publisher: Spice Formats Available: Paperback, E-book   Purchasing Info: Goodreads , Author’s Website , Book Depository

Book Blurb:Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harbored a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace.

But when a debauched Lindsay is seduced by a scheming socialite, a devastated Anais seeks refuge in another man’s bed while Lindsay retreats to the exotic East. There, he is seduced again—this time by the alluring red smoke and sinister beauty of opium.
Back home, Lindsay’s addiction is fed by the vogue for all things Oriental—especially its sensual pleasures—in fashionable London society. In his lucid …