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Romance and Me: The Halloween Romance Edition
Hey Everyone!
Happy Halloween! To get in the festive mood what kind of creepy story are you reading?
As you can see in our dual review this year Marlene and I, we read the Entangled anthology which features 11 paranormal novellas from plenty of fantastic authors and all proceeds of the sales go to breast cancer research, so if you haven’t read it yet, take a look, we enjoyed it a lot!
And while most paranormal romances/urban fantasy novels suit the genre and mood of Halloween, here are a few of our own selected favourites:
The Shifter series by Rachel Vincent, and if I already mentioned one of her series I should also recommend the other one as well: her Soul Screamers series. The first is an action packed adult urban fantasy series with a strong romantic …
4 1/2 Stars, 4 Stars, 5 Stars, Cynthia Eden, Dual Review, Edie Ramer, featured, Jennifer Estep, Lori Brighton, Michelle Miles, Review, The Latin Lover, The Rocket Lover 
31 Oct 2012 Dual Review: Entangled – a spooky and healthy anthology
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 7 September 2011
Number of pages: 434 pages
Publisher: Authors4theCure
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Only $2.99 at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance eBooks, Smashwords, Read an excerpt
Blurb:
Ghosts, vampires, demons, and more! Entangled includes ten suspense-filled paranormal short stories from authors Cynthia Eden, Jennifer Estep, Edie Ramer, Lori Brighton, Michelle Diener, Misty Evans, Nancy Haddock, Liz Kreger, Dale Mayer, and Michelle Miles, plus a Seven Deadly Sins novella by Allison Brennan.
Stacia Kane contributed the foreword. Formatting and cover art were also donated to the project by Lori Devoti and Laura Morrigan.
All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Stories include:
HALLOWEEN FROST by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Estep (author of the Mythos Academy, Elemental Assassin, and Bigtime series) — It’s Halloween at Mythos Academy, but Gwen Frost and her friends are in for more tricks than treats when they run into a mythological monster …
31 Oct 2012 Guest post by Paige Cuccaro + Giveaway
Today we welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Paige Cuccaro, who is celebrating the big splashy re-release of her Hellsbane series with the introductory prequel novella Commencement, showing heroine Emma Jane Hellsbane (great name for an urban fantasy heroine!) graduating college. Commencement will be followed by the paperback re-release of the first book in this kick-butt urban fantasy series, named after its heroine. Of course, that first book is titled Hellsbane. If you want a chance to get in at the start of this urban fantasy series, there’s a giveaway at the end of this post. Today being Halloween (I hope you all have some spooky and fun events planned!), Paige shares with us one of the most scary events of her life. Take a seat and continue reading, but do keep the lights on! Just saying…
I have my own creepy ghost story I’d love to share.
Okay, so it …
New Releases: Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2012
Iced (Dani O’Malley Trilogy, #1)
by Karen Marie Moning
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: October 30, 2012 by Delacorte Press
Description:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning comes the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy, set in the world of her blockbuster Fever series.
The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike. I’m Dani O’Malley, the chaos-filled streets of Dublin are my home, and there’s no place I’d rather be.
Dani “Mega” O’Malley plays by her own set of rules—and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she’s one of the rare humans …
ARC Review: Exposed to You by Beth Kery
Format Read: e-book provided by courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 320 Pages
Genre: Erotic Contemporary Romance
Series: One Night of Passion Book II
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Publisher: Berkley Heat
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook, Trade Paperback
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, The Book Depository, Chapters, Powell’s, IndieBound, Kindle, Nook, iBooks
Book Blurb:
Losing control is just the beginning…
“What would you do if the sexiest man in the world was bent on bringing you unbearable pleasure again and again? Joy Hightower wasn’t sure she could survive the experience…or live without it.”
It’s not often you’re hired to paint a body tattoo—and what a body—on a total stranger at a Hollywood film set. A reserved and careful art teacher, Joy would never forget it. In a rare fit of raw desire she gave herself completely, knowing she’d …
Interview: Beth Kery + Giveaway!
We are thrilled to welcome New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Beth Kery to back BLI today to celebrate the release of her latest novel Exposed to You, which I read and thoroughly enjoyed (my review will be posted later today). Exposed to You, will be released from Berkley Heat on November 6, 2012.
About Exposed to You:
Length: 320 Pages
Genre: Erotic Contemporary Romance
Series: One Night of Passion Book II
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Publisher: Berkley Heat
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook, Trade Paperback
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, The Book Depository, Chapters, Powell’s, IndieBound, Kindle, Nook, iBooks
Book Blurb:
Losing control is just the beginning…
“What would you do if the sexiest man in the world was bent on bringing you unbearable pleasure again and again? Joy Hightower wasn’t sure …
The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? Halloween Book Cover Quiz + Giveaway
Welcome back to the almighty cover quiz here at Book Lovers Inc. To get you all into the proper Halloween mood we thought it would be fun to leave some halloween-ish cover snippets here for you and all you have to do is to tell which book it is. Easy peasy! We have some old, some new one or two popular covers and some not so well know beauties all ready. Here’s a hint for you: all of the covers can be found on Book Lovers inc so if you don’t know them all ASAP just browse a bit and you will find what you are looking for. *Jedi voice*
Now the fine print:
There will be 2 winners:
One winner of a book (10$ top) from Book Depository chosen at random between all the entries with at least 5 correct answers.
One winner of 20 US$ shopping …
ARC-Review: A Notorious Countess Confesses by Julie Anne Long
Format Read: ebook provided by Publisher on Edelweiss
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Release Date: October 30th 2012
Publisher: Avon
Series: Pennyroyal Green #7
Genre: Historical Romance
Purchase Links: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK), Author’s website, Goodreads
Blurb:
She rose to spectacular heights…From Covent Garden to courtesan to countess, beautiful, fearless, shamelessly ambitious Evie Duggan has riveted London in every role she plays. But the ton never could forgive her scandalous—if shockingly short—marriage, and when her star plummets amid gleefully vicious gossip, the countess escapes to the only legacy left to her: a manor house in Pennyroyal Green.
He never expected to fall so hard…
He has the face of a fallen angel and a smolder the devil would envy, but Vicar Adam Sylvaine walks a …
Sunday Cravings
Happy Sunday Book Lovers all around the world! How was your weekend? Ready for the new week?
October seems to be leaving us with a bang, and publishers kind of make up to us for not releasing anything really interesting throughout the whole month. Well, this week, there are all kinds of interesting books being published and among them some titles we all have been waiting for a really long time.
So, let’s start 🙂
Marlene: Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter by Jessica Sims
Following the page-turning debut, Beauty Dates the Beast, this is the second novel in the fresh and funny new series about a paranormal dating service.
Sarah Ward, the werewolf sister of Bathsheba from Beauty Dates the Beast, and co-owner of their paranormal online dating agency, Midnight Liaisons, is voluntarily traded to a wolf clan in exchange for a kidnapped female were-cougar. Fearful of what might happen to her while …
The Working Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
You might remember that I was giddy and happy last week to announce that I had a 4 day long holiday weekend, well the disadvantage of that is that we had to work this Saturday 🙁 Yep, bummer. So my weekend is only 1 teeny tiny short day long 🙁
But anyway, we have lots of winners to announce today so let’s start, shall we?
This week congratulations are in order to
the lucky winners of a copy of From Notting Hill with Love… Actually by Ali McNamara are:
Barb K
Chelsea B
Di
the lucky winners of a paperback copy of Run the Risk by Lori Foster are:
Maria D
Phyllis Marshall
the lucky winners of a paperback copy of Savage Hunger by Terry Spear are:
Katrina Whittaker
rubyswan
the lucky winner of a shiny swag pack put together by Carrie Ann Ryan is:
margie subia
the lucky winner of an …
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