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Review: The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Format read: e-book
Series: Brothers Sinister, #1
Release Date: 8 December 2012
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Length: 270 pages
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s Site, Kobo, Smashwords
Book Description:
Sometimes love is an accident.
This time, it’s a strategy.
Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly–so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention.
But that is precisely what she gets.
Because Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, is not fooled. When Minnie figures out what he’s up to, he realizes there is more to than her spectacles and her quiet ways. And he’s determined to lay her every secret bare before …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers! I’m filling in for Anna while she’s buried in wedding preparations. After burning through many must reads last week, I’m bound-and-determined to get a little sleep. But publishers just keep on releasing more books! Time to add to our never-ending TBR piles. Up this week….
Stella: What the Bride Wore by Jade Lee.
Grant Benton, Earl of Crowle, finally has the funds he always pretended to have, and what he wants now is a woman. That woman is Lady Irene Knopp, who spends her days helping debutantes plan their weddings. A recent widow, Irene longs for love again, but she’s afraid to risk her heart, especially to the notorious Grant Benton.
I just read my very first Jade Lee story, Winning a Bride, the #2.5 novella in her Bridal Favors series. It was lovely. I loved the fesity, unorthodox heroine and the wonderfully tortured hero, so I’m excited and can’t …
Christy English,Draconismoi,featured,Sunday Cravings 
4 Aug 2013
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Review: The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
Format read: ebook
Series: Brothers Sinister, #0.5
Release Date: 21 April 2012
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Length: novella (approx. 33k words)
Formats available: paperback, ebook, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s Site, Kobo, Smashwords
Blurb:
She will not give up…
Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. Unable to find new work, she’s demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. But it’s not the duke she fears. It’s his merciless man of business—the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke’s dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn’t stand a chance. But she can’t stop trying—not with her entire future at stake.
He cannot give in…
Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambition—a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner’s son to the right hand man of a …
5 Stars,Courtney Milan,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 26 Jul 2013
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Guest Post by Christi Barth+Giveaway
Today we are very excited to welcome to Book Lovers author Christi Barth in celebration of her newest release with Carina Press, Love at High Tide! Christi Barth is an author well known for her sweet and heart warming romantic stories and Love at High Tide is no exception to that rule! Today Christi stops by to share with us something special about her newest release, so let’s welcome her! And don’t forget to check at the end of the post for the giveaway details 🙂
A Behind-the-Story Peek at How I Came Up With My Plot
Authors love talking about their books. Except for one, specific instance. We hate when people ask how we came up with the idea. Because usually there simply isn’t an answer. Just the other day, my mother (of all people who should have some faith in my creative abilities!) asked if one …
Christi Barth,featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,The Coffee Lover 15 Jul 2013
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Review: Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck
Format read: paperback
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Release Date: 11 January 2011
Length: 498
Publisher: Hodder
Formats available: audio book paperback, ebook, Hardcover
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
Passion. Fate. Loyalty.
Would you risk it all to change your destiny?
The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.
Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.
My Thoughts:
Although the adventure intrigued me, the main character and the …
2 Stars,Colleen Houck,Review,The Winged Lover 21 Jun 2013
2 comments
Review: Secrets of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Format read: ebook purchased by reviewer
Series: Kara Gillian, #3
Release Date: 4 January 2011
Publisher: DAW
Number of pages: 310 pages
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo
Blurb:
Homicide detective Kara Gillian has a special talent: she can sense the “arcane” in our world, and there’s quite a bit of it, even in Beaulac, Louisiana. She’s also a summoner of demons, and works on a task force that deals with supernatural crimes. Her partners are attractive and smart FBI agents, but they’re not summoners, and they’re not telling Kara why they are on this special force with her.
TO make things worse, Kara has pledged herself to one of the most powerful of demons-a Demon Lord-who helped save her partner’s life, but now expects things in return. Meanwhile, she’s trying to solve a string of murders that are somehow tied together by money, sex, rock music and…mud. But how can she concentrate …
4 Stars,Diana Rowland,Review,The Needy Lover 20 Jun 2013
2 comments
Interview with Carmen Falcone + Giveaway
Please give a warm welcome to the lovely Carmen Falcone, who stops by Book Lovers Inc. to celebrate the release of Heating Up Hawaii, her brand new romantic suspense novel! You might remember how much I loved Carmen’s debut novel, so you can bet I have Heating Up Hawaii on my TBR list! 😉 So join us as I interviewed Carmen about this new novel of hers, how she realized her dream of becoming a published author and what she originally wanted to be when she grew up! 😉 And she comes bearing gifts, so don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win a $15 USD Amazon gift card! 😀
Stella: Hi Carmen. Both Marlene and I loved your Entangled release, A Vengeful Affair, so it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Book Lovers Inc.! 😀 Could you please tell us a …
Carmen Falcone,featured,Giveaways,Interview,The Latin Lover 14 Jun 2013
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Review: A Riveting Affair by Candace Havens, Lily Lang, Patricia Eimer
Format Read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Number of Pages: 339 pages
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Ever After
Genre: Steampunk Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Candace Havens’ Website | Lily Lang’s Website | Patricia Eimer’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads
Book Blurb:
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast
Rose Verney wants to fulfill her father’s dying request: to complete construction of the teleportation device he designed. Knowing just who can help her succeed, she seeks out Sebastian Cavendish, her father’s brilliant former student.Sebastian hasn’t left his home since he returned from the Civil War. He’s a broken man, his prosthetics a reminder of the terrible destruction his inventions brought to the battlefield. He …
2 1/2 Stars,3 Stars,4 1/2 Stars,Candace Havens,featured,Lily Lang,Patricia Eimer,Review,The Rocket Lover 6 Jun 2013
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Review: Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys
Format read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Series: Jack Absolute, #1
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: May 7, 2013 (U.S. edition)
Number of pages: 276 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s website | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
The year is 1777. As the war for American independence rages across the sea, London is swept off its feet by Jack Absolute, the dashing rogue in Richard Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals. That is, until the real Jack Absolute, former captain of the 16th Light Dragoons, returns after years abroad to discover this slander of his reputation.
Before he can even protest, he is embroiled in a duel over an alluring actress of questionable repute, and his only escape is the one he most dreads: to be pressed again into the King’s service—this time, as a spy for …
5 Stars,C.C. Humphreys,featured,Review,The Rocket Lover 29 May 2013
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Review: Hold Me Down Hard by Cathryn Fox
Format read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Number of pages: 48 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website | Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Publisher’s Website
When Eden Carver, Iowa farm girl turned NY actress, decides to seduce the sexy cop next door, she begins to wonder if she’s bitten off more than she can chew.
The last thing Officer Jay Bennett wants is to cross a line with the sweet and innocent country girl—no matter how much he’d like to help himself to a nibble. Not only are they in the friendship zone, a naïve girl like Eden doesn’t belong in his dangerous world.
But when she asks him to help her rehearse lines, and things go from simmer to boil, he finds himself doing the one thing he swore he’d never do. He …
3 1/2 Stars,Cathryn Fox,featured,Review,The Rocket Lover 22 May 2013
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