Review: Carson’s Night by Teal Ceagh

Format read: EbookNumber of Pages: 67 pagesRelease Date: April 2nd, 2010Publisher: Ellora’s CaveFormats Available: Hardcover, EbookPurchasing Info: Author Website, Ellora’s Cave

Book provided by author for this review

Book Blurb:It’s August 1977 in New York City and the weird sculptor Moss Alex Meinhardt lies dead at the foot of an ugly gargoyle he’s half completed. Natalia Grey’s demon-hunter father is also dead, and his new partner, the astonishingly sexy Carson Connors, can’t remember how it happened.Carson isn’t sure what role he has played in Natalia’s father’s death, but after one look at Natalia, he does know that guilty or not, he’s doomed.Natalia must take up her father’s sword and her heritage as a demon hunter and figure out what happened, for the gargoyles Meinhardt carved have life they shouldn’t have …

Bookish Rants or Raves: To Each Their Own – Say NO! to Plagiarism

I’ve seen a lot being said on regards to plagiarism on the blogverse and personally, I find the act of taking someone’s hard work and claiming it as your own, despicable.

We, the Book Lovers, had a recent email talk about the issue, because we all have our individual blogs besides BLI and cross posting does happen, so we were trying to come up with ways to make it clear that we are simply using our own texts a second time.

When I started thinking about what to write here, I realized something about myself. I actually don’t read reviews  of books I haven’t read or reviewed yet because I don’t want to be influenced by someone else’s opinion and writing style in any way, shape or form.

I work hard on my reviews and opinion posts and I know a lot of bloggers do that as …

Review: Calista’s Men by Jory Strong

Format Read: kindle e-bookNumber of Pages: 240pgs Release Date: December 30, 2005Publisher: Elloras Cave Formats Available: ebook, kindle edition, paperbackPurchasing Info: Amazon, Authors Website, GoodreadsBook Blurb: Book 3 in the Crime Tells series. “Have you ever wondered what it would be like with a woman we actually cared about? One who belonged just to us? One who wanted more from us than a good time… A woman we could have together or separately. One who saw us as individuals who came as a package deal? One who was waiting for us at the end of the day?” “No.” “No?” “I like them easy and I like to share them with you. End of story, Benito.” Getting involved with any woman, much less one who might ultimately drive a …

All YA Love: Giveaway & Guest Post by LM Preston

After reading so many books written by women with male main characters, I often wondered …how easy is it for a female author to write from a male’s perspective? Today, I am honored to have LM Preston stop by and provide some insight.

GIRL VS BOY: WHAT’s EASIER TO WRITE

Well, if you didn’t know it, I’m a female writer of young adult novels. My debut novel, Explorer X – Alpha’s main character was a male. A boy named Aadi that was fourteen years old is a stretch from a grown female writer that created him. For me though, writing a male was much more exciting than writing a female. My up coming book The Pack has a female, blind vigilante as the main character. Shamira was a lot harder for me to write than Aadi, simply because I take being female for granted.

Many authors I’ve met write …

Review: Heist Society by Ally Carter

Format read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 287 pagesRelease Date: February 9, 2010Publisher: HyperionFormats Available: HardcoverPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Amazon.com

Book Blurb:

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own–scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.

Soon, Kat’s friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only …

New Releases: April, 20th

20. AprilRadiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely, #4) by Melissa Marr

Genre: Young AdultHunger for nourishment.

Hunger for touch.

Hunger to belong.

Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers.Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries’ coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani’s death.

Ani isn’t one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin’s plans—and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear for one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat …

Review: Release by Nicole Hadaway

Format Read: e-bookNumber of Pages: 290Release Date: Feb. 16, 2010Publisher: Vamplit PublishingFormats Available: only e-bookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Smashwords

Book Blurb:Ben never imagined meeting vampires, let alone demons and werewolves, whilst in the Polish Resistance during World War II. Far from being horrified, Ben discovers that Miranda and her friends have very useful talents, especially when it comes to saving children from concentration camps. In desperate times the line between good and evil is clear, the one between heroes and monsters is very blurred.

My Thoughts:It took me a very long time to get into this book because it was hard for me to relate to the characters. I live in a time where things are completely different: its hard for me to grasp the fear, hatred, and love some of these characters felt and …

Interview with Ivy from Book Reader Times and a Giveaway

We are very happy to have Ivy here today. She is one of the founders of Book Reader Times and she agreed to answer some of our questions here today. You can find a wonderful giveaway at the end and all I’m saying about it is JM!The Geeky Lover: Hey Ivy, it so good to have you here today.
Ivy: I would first like to thank Book Lovers Inc for inviting me to their blog! Your blog rocks!

The Geeky Lover: First of all tell us a bit about yourself?
Ivy: Well…What can I tell you about me? I love to read! lol I am case manager for homeless families. I love to read anything with vampires, shifters and magic. Sometimes it’s really hard for me to find the time to read, but I manage. I really …

Review: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake By Sarah MacLean

Format Read: Mass Market PaperbackNumber of Pages: 432 Release Date: April 1st, 2010Publisher: Avon BooksFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author Website, Amazon

Book provided by publisher for this review.

Book Blurb:

Nine Rules tells the story of Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, a 28-year-old spinster who, in a fit of frustration, makes a scandalous list of the nine things that she would do if she did not have to face society…or the consequences.

*Kiss someone- passionately
*Smoke cheroot and drink scotch
*Ride Astride
*Fence
*Attend a duel
*Fire a pistol
*Gamble (at a gentlemen’s club)
*Dance every dance at a ball
*be considered beautiful.
Just once.

Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried—and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she’s vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she’s been missing. But to dance every dance, to steal a midnight …

Explore this: Prague

As bookish people, we seek out our favourite reading spot and allow ourselves to be swiftly taken to different times and places. My new feature here focuses on the “places”. Call me your armchComposeair reference guide to the (literal) world of books; the less expensive way to explore our world, right here at your fingertips.

 I reviewed Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler here yesterday. It starts off in anytown America…I don’t think it ever tells you where “Gothic State University” is, so that part is unimportant. We’re quickly whisked away to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. To quote the Wikipedia entry, “Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural and economic centre of the Czech state for more than 1100 years. For many decades during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, …