Bookish Rants or Raves: Let’s Talk About Clichés!

As a book lover and avid reader, I am quite proud to say that I have read a lot of books. I have never hid the fact that my favorite genres are Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance and that I am an absolute sucker for anything Supernatural.

However, as with addiction there is always a downside and the one that I have found after reading so many books and following over 100 book series (and adding to that daily), are the clichés.

How many times can you read about Sexy Vampires with magnetic eyes, werewolves with possessive behaviors, kick-ass heroine, the girl next door that gets caught up in the paranormal or the half-human / half-faerie (vamp, shifter, etc)?

Don’t get me wrong, I still love to read about all of the above and now and then, a book or series comes along …

Review: Stormwalker by Allyson James

Format Read: Kindle VersionNumber of Pages: 330Release Date: May 4th, 2010Publisher: BerkleyFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, AmazonBook Blurb:

Half-Navajo Janet Begay comes to Magellan to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the police chief’s daughter. But the people of Magellan sense that Janet is not what she seems, and they’re right. Janet possesses extraordinary power which is tied to the storms that waft across the desert. The only person who can control her when she’s caught in the storm’s evocative power is Mick, a dark-haired, blue-eyed biker Janet can’t seem to touch with her powers. He can weild fire and not get burned, and Janet’s never sure where he goes when they’re not together.

Together they investigate mysterious disappearances, which Janet fears are tied to her mother’s people, the mythical gods from below the earth. They …

All YA Love: Why I love the Vampire Academy Series

Now I will be honest with you, I never really pictured myself as a YA reader, sure, I read Twilight a couple of years ago and it was ok with its whole high school love thing, but it was a little too teenagery for my tastes.
I was put off not only by YA but by reading after that, not Twilight but The Host (which isn’t YA, I know), I hadn’t picked up a book in 10 months and I was going through a pretty rough patch life wise until one relatively normal day, I was on a holiday in north Queensland for a few weeks and I walked into their smaller of only two newsagencies. This newsagency was a reseller for Angus and Robertson (Australia’s version of Barnes and Noble) and there on the shelf was a set of three …

Review: The Naughty List by Suzanne Young

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 272Release Date: February 4. 2010Publisher: RazorbillFormats Available: eBook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Bookdepository.com, Bookdepository.co.uk

Book Blurb:

As if being a purrfect cheerleader isn’t enough responsibility!

Tessa Crimson’s the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad–turned–spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. Boyfriend-busting wouldn’t be so bad . . . except that so far, every suspect on the Naughty List has been proven 100% guilty!

When Tessa’s own boyfriend shows up on the List, she turns her sleuthing skills on him. Is Aiden just as naughty as all the rest, or will Tessa’s sneaky ways end in catastrophe?

The Naughty List. Is your boyfriend on it?  

My Thoughts:

What a FUN, unique book! I loved the unique plot and the characters, along with …

Review: Stray by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 618Release Date: 1st June 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,Book Blurb:

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I’d been warned about Strays – werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.
This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back… for my own protection. Yeah, right. But …

New Releases: Week of July 12 – 18, 2010

Blood Fever (Rebirth #2) by Sara Brookes

Genre: Paranormal RomanceEvande walked out on her lover, Quinn, fifty years ago without looking back because he wanted too much from her. Now, after she saves a dying human by turning him into a vampire, a wanted notice shows up demanding her death and she knows Quinn is the only one who can help her.

Standing on Quinn’s doorstep with Logan, she quickly finds herself fighting her attraction to both men. Thing is, both men don’t make a secret of the fact they want her. As if that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also learns she isn’t the only one the Elders are after.

Deception, secrets and corruption.

Evande’s survived worse – but this time it may just kill her.SilverLiquidBooks

Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus

Guest Post and Giveaway with author Suzanne McLeod

Today we’re very happy to welcome Suzanne McLeod on Book Lovers,Inc. The Cold Kiss of Death, Suzanne’s 2nd book in the Spellcrackers.com series is being released as a MassMarket paperback today. Let’s celebrate with Suzanne! Keep your eyes open for a giveaway at the end of the post. =)

Hi there Book Lovers Inc. Thanks for inviting me to be a guest. I’m delighted to be here and I hope you all enjoy my post (and please forgive my current parentheses affliction =) )

I LOVE books, and always have done. I was lucky enough to have a mother* who thought reading was the best thing she could teach me. Since then I have never been without a book on the go. I love all sorts of genres: romance, fantasy, crime, historical, thriller, action adventure, and of course my favourite …

Explore This! Yellowhead

For this week’s virtual travel, I get to show you a bit of my own country, Canada! I recently read Tay John by Howard O’Hagan, which is the legend of a man born in the late 1800′s and of his cursory attempts to meld into society, as the Western parts of Canada were being developed and the trains were being extended to our West Coast.

I’ve personally never visited these areas before, but as you can see from the pics, there’s still a lot of wilderness here; so much that remains untouched by man. What I have for you today are images of Yellowhead Lake, which according to O’Hagan’s novel was named after Tay John’s people (Tay John was a mispronunciation of “Tete Jaune”, as he was a yellow haired native.) I’ve also included the Athabaska river, which features prominently …

Review: Hell Fire by Ann Aguirre

Format Read: MMPBNumber of Pages: 315Release Date: April 6th, 2010Publisher: RocFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Bookdepository.co.uk, Bookdepository.com, Amazon.com

Book Blurb:
I’m still a redhead. Before we left Texas, I touched up the roots, and then I had some tawny apricot highlights put in. I guessed that meant I intended to keep this color for a while. Symbolic—I’d made a commitment, at least to my hair.
As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It’s too bad she can’t seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow—lending his particularly supernatural brand of luck—Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother’s death and the origins of her “gift.”
But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find …

And the winners are…

Hey everyone. It’s Sunday again- official Book Lovers Inc winner day. I feel like I’m melting but I won’t let you guys down so we will keep it quick today.

Here are our winners:

Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler:~*~*~drumroll~*~*~Stella (Ex Libris)

Insatiable by Lauren Dane:~*~*~drumroll~*~*~Hawkeyegirl

I’ll Be Slaying You by Cynthia Eden:~*~*~drumroll~*~*~Bells Congrats! I’m emailing you now!No need to fret for all the ones who didn’t win. We still have a few giveaways running. Just take a look at our sidebar. ->

Hope you all have a great weekend.

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