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Review: Matchbox Girls by Chrysoula Tzavelas
Review: Matchbox Girls by Chrysoula Tzavelas.
Format Read: eARC from Netgalley.
Number of Pages: 326.
Release Date: February 21, 2012.
Publisher: Candelmark & Gleam.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook.
Purchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository, Author.
Book Blurb:
Marley Claviger is just trying to get her life together. Stumbling into an ancient conflict between celestial forces is going to make that a whole lot harder…
When Marley wakes up to a phone call from a pair of terrified children, she doesn’t expect to be pulled into a secret war. She rescues them from an empty house and promises to find their missing uncle. She even manages to feed them dinner. But she barely feels competent to manage her own life, let alone care for small children with strange, ominous powers…
And when a mysterious angelic figure shows up and tries to claim the girls, it all falls apart…
Plagued by visions of disaster, Marley has …
New Releases: March 18-24, 2013
Title: Clockwork Princess
Author: Cassandra Clare
Genre: steampunk (YA)
Release date: March 19, 2013
Description:
If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it?
The clock is ticking.
Everyone must choose.
Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment.
Danger closes in around the Shadowhunters in the third and final instalment of the bestselling “Infernal Devices” trilogy.
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17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma (YA)
Cards & Caravans (Gaslight Chronicles, #5) by Cindy Spencer Pape
Dark Destiny (Principatus, #1) by Lexxie Couper
Everafter (Kissed by an Angel, #6) by Elizabeth Chandler (YA)
Exposed (Just One Night, #2) by Kyra Davis
Fox Forever (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #3) by Mary E. Pearson (YA)
Grave Secret (Secret McQueen, #5) by Sierra Dean
Heart Like Mine by Amy Hatvany
Highlander Most Wanted (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #2) by Maya Banks
Guest Post by Misa Buckley + Giveaway
The Book Lovers are very happy to welcome today’s guest, Misa Buckley, to BLI! Misa is here to talk abuot the joy of favorite places and happy places, and just how she works those themes into her science fiction romances. Her latest science fiction romance is the absolutely fantastic Tin Cat. (This was marvelous SFR, check out last week’s review of Tin Cat for the details).
Halfway Up The Stairs
Is there any young child that doesn’t have a favourite place? Mine was what we called a tree house, though in reality it was little more than a few planks wedged across the branches, where I would escape the nonsense created by my younger brother and his mates. I’d read. Books taken from my parents’ bookshelves, from the school library, or ones I’d saved up my pocket money to buy.
There are several films that I fell in love with, that I …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you? Are you having a great weekend? Mine is craaazy busy but I’m super excited for everything I do even though that leaves me little to no time to read anything among the great books that have recently released.
This week, isn’t nearly as busy as next week will be, but still there are many interesting books scheduled for release. Have you pre-ordered anything new? Let’s explore our Sunday Cravings for this week!
Stella: Grave Secret by Sierra Dean
Sometimes a secret goes to the grave. Sometimes Secret puts you there.
It’s been a hell of a year for Secret McQueen, and the last thing in the world she wants is to get caught up in werewolf drama. But when her former fiancé Lucas Rain shows up asking for her help, she knows there’s no easy way out.
After making it known …
The Lonely Winner
Hello everyone! I’m taking over to announce our only winner of the week! Spring is on its way but looking out the window I’m having a hard time believing it. Well I won’t complain since it’s leaving me more time to knit all comfy under a blanket *g* At least the snow is gone…for now!
Alright so let’s get down to business.
The winner of our Lorelie Brown giveaway is:
Filia Oktarina
Congratulations! You won a digital copy of one of her books (your choice)
You have been notified of your win by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
16 Mar 2013 
Comments Off on The International Giveaways Café (85) The International Giveaways Café (85)
Welcome back to another great bunch of bookish giveaways! Not only is there a fantastic list below but it’s also the last official Saturday of winter here in the northern hemisphere. Who wants to celebrate with me?! (I know. Someone forgot to pass the message along to the weather gods but what can you do?) Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your weekend and read lots 😉
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. …
Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! For this edition we have some tidbits and news from Patricia Briggs’ upcoming Mercyverse anthology, Amazon’s new imprint and Google’s new time suck writing demo which allows you to collaborate with Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe .
First up! Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere has been adapted by BBC radio with an all star cast starring, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and Natalie Dormer. The first episode of the 6 part series will air this Saturday at 2.30pm GMT at BBC Radio 4. And this will be widely available worldwide via Radio iplayer which wont be restricted to geo restrictions for those who missed the live broadcast!
Amazon announced today it will be launching a literary imprint called Little A which will focus on publishing memoirs and short stories from the likes of James Franco and Jenny Davidson. It will also focus on a digital only spin-off imprint connected to Little A which will be called Day One – …
Review: Tin Cat by Misa Buckley
Format Read: ebook provided by the author
Number of Pages: 108 pages
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Publisher: Champagne Books
Genre: Science Fiction Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Author’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads
Book Blurb:
A year after the accident that put her in a wheelchair, Amber Gerald has more or less gotten used to living with her impairment. It doesn’t make a difference to running a comic book store anyway, and the customers have been the best support group she could have wished for.
When she rescues an abandoned cat, Amber has no idea that she’s interfering in the mad scheme of a time travelling bank robber. Or that the man that walks into her store dressed like Blade is about to become her bodyguard.
Between being an unwitting …
Interview with Elle James + Giveaway
It’s seductive, it’s dangerous…it’s voodoo! Today we’re pleased to welcome multipublished, award-winning author Elle James, who visits for a chat about her latest release, Voodoo on the Bayou (from Entangled Publishing). She also shares some of her thoughts on reading and writing–including some of her upcoming titles from Entangled! Please show her a warm BLI welcome.
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Stella: Hi Elle, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Elle James spent twenty years in South Central Texas, ranching horses, cattle, goats, ostriches and emus. A former IT professional, retired Army and Air Force Reservist, she’s proud to be writing full-time, penning intrigues and paranormal adventures that keep her readers on the edge of their seats or laughing out loud. Now, living in northwest Arkansas, she’s given up wrangling cattle and exotic birds to wrangle her muses, a malti-poo and a yorkie. When …
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Format Read: ebook and paperback.
Number of Pages: 368.
Release Date: March 5, 2013.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Series: InCryptids #2.
Publisher: DAW.
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook, audio.
Purchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Goodreads, Author.
Book Blurb:
Cryptid, noun:
1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.
2. That thing that’s getting ready to eat your head.
3. See also: “monster.”
The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity–and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she’d rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and when her work with the cryptid community took her to Manhattan, she thought she would finally be free to pursue competition-level dance in earnest. It didn’t quite work out that way…
But now, with the snake cult that was killing virgins all over Manhattan …
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