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Romance and Me: Healing the Mad Hero
Hi Everyone!
In the past week I have come across and read two historical romances featuring “mad” heroes which made me consider this, in my opinion, not too frequently explored trope.
In classic literature having a crazy wife/madwoman as a secondary character is quite common (like in Jane Eyre), but to have your hero or heroine suffering from a mental illness is quite difficult and challenging to pull off and not have them come off as unstable, crazy or plain scary.
But it seems that nowadays more and more historical romances explore the possibility of the hero producing some symptoms and episodes making him fear he is suffering from a mental illness, which is incapacitating him; and the heroine not giving up and trying to find a cure and heal him. I wasn’t aware that this was a recurring theme until I’ve read
Q&A with Robyn Carr + Giveaway
Please join us in giving a warm BLI welcome to #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Robyn Carr! Robyn is known for her wildly popular Virgin River Series. Today she is here to tell us more about the first book in her new Thunder Point Series– The Wanderer.
Robyn is taking time out of her busy schedule to share a Q & A with us today & there’s also a chance to win something at the end of the post.
Q: Does the title of “#1 Bestselling Author” put extra pressure on you when you’re writing new novels? Or do you have a writing groove you get into where you can just shut the rest of the world out and immerse yourself in the book you’re working on?
A: It probably puts extra pressure on my editor, but for me, my happy place is the same—making up the stories! Developing …
2 Apr 2013 
Comments Off on Review: Princess Avenger by Bernadette Rowley Review: Princess Avenger by Bernadette Rowley
Format Read:ARC provided from NetGalley for review
Release Date:October 15th 2012
Publisher:Destiny Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Amazon | Publisher | Kobo | B&N
Book Blurb:
Passionate and headstrong, Alecia is no ordinary princess. Angered by the cold-blooded murder of her first love, she sets out to avenge his death.
Army Captain Vard Anton, the epitome of masculine strength and grace, is dealing with some dark secrets of his own. When he is appointed Alecia’s body-guard, both find it hard to ignore the chemistry between them.
With assassination attempts and the threat of an arranged marriage looming over her, Alecia realises her time is running out. But Alecia’s biggest battle is the one within as she tries to suppress the raging desire she feels for the powerfully attractive Vard. Can Alecia resist Vard while trying to exact revenge and avoiding the lecherous attentions of her husband-to-be? Will …
New Releases: April 1-7, 2013
Title: Rising Darkness
Author: Thea Harrison
Series: Game of Shadows, #1
Genre: paranormal romance
Release date: April 2, 2013
Description:
In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She’s feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she’s had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He’s handsome, enigmatic and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself…
Thousands of years ago, there were eight of them. The one called the Deceiver came to destroy the world, and the other seven followed to stop him. Reincarnated over and over, they carry on—and Mary finds herself drawn into the battle once again. And the more she learns, the more she realizes that Michael will go to any lengths to destroy the Deceiver.
Then …
Guest post by Victoria James + Giveaway
We are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. Victoria James, whose debut novel The Billionaire’s Christmas Baby became a favourite read of 2012. Victoria is on a blog tour celebrating the release of her latest novel A Risk Worth Taking, the first book in her new Red River series, and let me tell you it was just as delightful as her first book! (Take a look at my review to see.) Victoria stops by to tell us a bit more about the story and the inspiration behind it. Join us and enter the giveaway for a chance to win some great prizes! 😉
Thank you so much for having me today!
In my current release, A RISK WORTH TAKING, my heroine Holly has to return to her childhood home and renovate it. The home is vacant, except for the stirring memories from …
1 Apr 2013 Comments Off on We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start
The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for Marchis … KellyM who commented on our post: Sunday Cravings:
I’m loving Winterblaze so far.
Really looking forward to Along Came Trouble by Ruthie Knox. I love her books!
We will now start counting for April. 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 we love to start a good discussion with you. This blog is all about spreading the love for books and without you that mission would be lost.
We pondered how to give some of the love, you give to us with your comments, back.
So our “We Love Your Comments Giveaway” was born.
But what can you win?
We will buy you a book ($10 limit) …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers all around the world! How are you this weekend? This Sunday Cravings post will be quite exciting and a little bit long just like I promised you last week! Well, we can’t help it! There are like a ton of great books scheduled for release this week, so it’s only natural that we have a long list of books we die to get our hands on 🙂 So, let’s start right away!
Stella: A Noble Groom by Jody Hedlund
A New Historical Romance from Fan-Favorite Jody Hedlund
Recently widowed Annalisa Werner has the feeling her husband was murdered but can’t prove it. Alone with her young daughter in 1881 Michigan, she has six months left to finish raising the money needed to pay back the land contract her husband purchased, and the land is difficult to toil by herself. She needs a husband. With unmarried men …
The Rainy Easter Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
After 3 days of non-stop snow (yep, had it up to our knees, spent hours shovelling it grr) it is finally thawing, but now it’s raining cats and dogs and it’s grey, really as if it was still November 🙁 I’m not happy. I want sunshine and warmer weather *grumbles* Seems this year winter is so stubborn it just won’t leave, grr. Usually we have our Easter egg hunts in the sunny garden, but can’t this year as it’s all wet, muddy and cold. brr. So before I bore you with more grumbling here are this week’s winners:
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of No Turning Back by HelenKay Dimon is:
Maria D
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Playing the Maestro by Aubrie Dionne is:
kp
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Tin Cat by Misa Buckley is:
juliana
Congratulations winners, you have all been …
The International Giveaways Café (87)
Welcome to the Easter weekend edition of our bookish giveaway hotspot. For those of you that celebrate, I hope the Easter Bunny is good to you all. For those of you that don’t, I hope you still have some time over the weekend to indulge in a little reading…and maybe some chocolate 😉
Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the …
Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this edition of our news post and for a quiet week, it has definitely ended with a huge bang with the announcement that Amazon has purchased Goodreads. We also have our usual book and author news as well books to watch out for!
My twitter stream last night was ablazed with the news of Amazon purchasing the social reading site Goodreads. I am not really surprised by the move of Amazon buying Goodreads. It makes a lot of sense, because it is the popular reading social site compared to the other sites like Library Thing and Shelfari (which Amazon owns). Although Goodreads in an interview stated there wont be any huge changes, I do suspect there will be more integration with Amazon’s online store and their buy buttons will be prominently displayed. And Library Thing’s, Tim Spalding states the same thing and is asking members of …
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