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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
New Releases: September 3-9, 2012
Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)
by Meljean Brook
Genre: steampunk romance
Release date: September 4, 2012 by Berkley Trade
A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland’s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island has become enshrouded in legend. Fishermen tell tales of giant trolls guarding the land and of seductive witches who steal men’s hearts. But the truth behind the legends is mechanical, not magic—and the mystery of the island a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom.
Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister Källa took the blame and was exiled. Now Annika serves on the airship Phatéon, flying from port to port in search of her sister and longing to return home…but that home is threatened when expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard.
Determined to solve the mystery of his own origin, David will stop at nothing to expose Annika’s …
Interview with Amanda Ashley + Giveaway
Today, we are pleased to have Amanda Ashley stop by BLI and chat with us. Amanda has numerous books under her belt, writing under the name Amanda Ashley as well as Madeline Baker. Here she shares with us a little insight into her latest release, Desire the Night, and how it differs from other vampire novels. So, please help me give a warm welcome to this lovely author!
Stella: Hi Amanda, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Amanda: Well, I’m married. We have three grown sons, the greatest grandkids in the world, a dog, a wild house sparrow, and a tortoise. I love to read, go to movies and plays, and collect all things Star Wars, Phantom, and Beauty and the Beast. And I love to write, of course, but that’s a given.
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
Amanda: Definitely the seat of my pants. …
3 Sep 2012 The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?
Welcome back to our new edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? This week we decided to talk about look-alike covers. We’ve all at some point stumbled upon a cover that looks very very similar to another one. Sometimes it’s only 2 covers using the same Stock photo but doing 2 different thing with it…but sometimes it’s exactly the same cover. We’ve dig up a few example (mostly Historical romances because these are the ones I remembered the most) to show our point. It seems to happen a LOT with foreign (or UK) editions. It’s also often the case with YA covers but we didn’t go there today (it’s just too vast a field). So take a look and tell us what you think…
Libertine’s Kiss by Judith James Vs Ruthless by Anne Stuart (UK/Mills and Boon)
Susi: I like the Judith James version more. The whole setting …
ARC Review: Playing to Win by Jaci Burton
Format Read: e-ARC provided courtesy of author for Review
Length: 320 Pages
Genre: Erotic Romance
Series: Play-by-Play Book 4
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Publisher: Berkley Heat
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-A-Milliion, Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Book Depository, IndieBound, iBookstore, Kindle, Nook
Book Blurb:
Someone’s going to have to let down their guard…
Football star Cole Riley is notorious for doing as he pleases—on the field and off. He parties hard and fights harder, but if he doesn’t clean up his act, his career is over—so Cole reluctantly agrees to work with image makeover consultant Savannah Brooks. He’s not used to being told what to do, especially by some (admittedly hot) southern belle. As for Savannah, she’s not convinced she can transform this cocky (and aggressively sexy) force of nature. But she’s determined to give it …
Guest post by Jessica Scott + Giveaway
Today we are very happy to welcome back to BLI Jessica Scott whose debut novel Because of You stunned us by being such an incredibly emotional romance story that it became a favourite read of ours (you can check out my review here). So of course we are excited that the release date of the 2nd book Until There Was You is fast approaching (mark your calendars it’s October 7th!) and Jessica even has a fantastic giveaway for you to make the wait more bearable 😉
Thanks so much for having me on Book Lovers Inc! I’m here today to talk about vices and boy do I have several.
My biggest vice is coffee. My youngest daughter came into my bedroom a few weeks ago and said “Mommy, it’s time to get up. Do you want me to go make you some coffee?” She’s five. I couldn’t help but …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers and Happy Month! Summer is officially behind, and so does the insufferable heat (at least it seems so 🙂 ). For the first week of September there aren’t that many scheduled releases but there are still enough to make us want to spend our monthly budgets from the first days of September 😛
So, here are our Sunday Cravings for this week:
Marlene: The Lost Night by Jayne Castle
The New York Times bestselling author delivers an all-new novel set on the mysterious Rainshadow Island.
With the ability to detect the auras of dangerous psychic criminals, Rachel Bonner has found peace and quiet on Rainshadow Island with her dust bunny companion. Then Harry Sebastian, the descendant of a notorious pirate, arrives to investigate strange developments in the privately owned woods known as the Preserve. Rachel can sense the heart of darkness within him— and the stirrings of …
The I’m Being Sick Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
As the title said I’ve been sick this week. The kind when you have a fever, sleep away the day (and night) and are even too tired to hold a book and read 🙁 Yep I know, hard to believe and even sadder to experience it. I always hoped that if I were home sick I could lounge and read all day, but sadly this time I was too tired to 🙁 Thankfully I’m feeling better though I still cough and blow my nose, and since I had the house to myself this weekend, I could at the end indulge in my fantasy of lounging and reading all day. Finally. 😀
So this week the winners are *drumroll*
Congrats to
the lucky winner of their book of choice from Suzanne McLeod’s Spellcrackers series is:
J9
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Take it Like a Vamp by Candace Havens is:
Kandie
Congratulations …
1 Sep 2012 
Comments Off on The International Giveaways Café (57) The International Giveaways Café (57)
Welcome back to this week’s list of great bookish giveaways from around the world. Can you believe it’s September already?! Here’s hoping that the after this long, hot summer the nice weather will stick around for a while yet, right? Anyway, check out the great giveaways listed below and add in your own too! The more, the merrier 🙂
And, 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 …
We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start
The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for August is … Aliyah who commented on our Bookish Rants or Raves: Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Dragons post:
Aliyah on Aug 8, 2012 @ 4:07 Okay, I see your logic with most of these books, but, I have to say that as a child I loved the Harry Potter books (and I still do as a guilty pleasure). So I have to argue that although there is abuse of dragons in this one and in the seventh book, the storytelling is great (there is no rape unlike the other books) and I advise people to read this book.
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We will now start counting for September. Here again the rules:
We …
Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! We have a bunch of updates about Amazon’s upcoming new Kindles, Dorchester authors find a new home as well as our book news and covers to look out for!
The big news this week is some developments with Amazon who have just finalized their deal in buying the rights of Dorchester’s authors. Around 1000 contracts were acquired and the authors have been offered backdated royalties as well as new homes in Amazon’s own publishing imprints such as Montlake Romance and Science Fiction and Fantasy to 47 North. However some authors such as Brian Keene has reported that whilst his own rights have reverted back to him, he’s seeing that that a couple of his books along with others who found new homes being listed under the old Dorchester imprint, Leisure. Whether this is a mistake or not remains to be seen but hopefully this saga …
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