Around the Bookish News: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and oh what a week it has been – I think this issue is going to have some major comments and discussion over the news and updates I will post such as the fact that 50 Shades trilogy has been picked up by a major publisher, authors behaving badly again and again, and Paypal has decided to backdown from its stance on explicit books.

The first big news is the fact that E.L James’, Fifty Shades trilogy has been picked up by a major publisher in a seven figure deal.  Vintage books will be releasing new editions of the books in ebook formats and paperback (in a few more weeks). The Commonwealth rights have also been sold and there is now more talk of the movie deal, which seems to hint that it might be very close to coming to fruitition.  It is …

Review: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the Fifty Shades series
Genre: Erotic, Romance, BDSM
Release Date: 26 May 2011
Number of pages: 356 pages
Publisher: The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:

When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind – until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.

The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her – but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana …

Review: Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Format Read: Mass Market Paperback
Length: 372 Pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Genre: historical paranormal romance
Series: Darkest London, #1
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Books

Book Blurb:

London, 1881
Once the flames are ignited . . .

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.

They will burn for eternity . . .
Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can’t help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn’t felt in …

BDSM: A Conversation with Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin Pt II + GC Giveaway

Eden Bradley / Eve Berlin

Welcome back to the final post in our series, Kink In Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit?

Erotic romance and BDSM themes in particular have been discussed extensively in the media of late leaving some say good, and others say not so good impressions with the community at large. We at BLI sincerely hope that those of you who have followed our Kink series have found it positive and maybe piqued your interest in the genre. On the other hand, if erotic romance isn’t your cup-of-tea we hope you have found the series informative. 🙂

We are once again delighted to have special guest author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin here to complete our conversation about the BDSM Lifestyle and BDSM themes in erotic romance. *Please refer to the March 1st post published here for the first part of …

Romance and Me: The HR Pet Peeves Edition

Hey Everyone!

Welcome back to the 4th Romance and Me post devoted to discussing Historical Romance. We have already discussed whether HR is a genre you enjoy reading, what attracts us to these stories and what is our favourite time period, so it’s time to share what we dislike about HRs, let’s talk pet peeves!

If I have to name one thing I don’t like about HRs what first comes to mind is TSTL (too-stupid-to-live) simpering whiny heroines! They irritate me so much, nothing like them to turn me off instantly of a perfectly good story. I like strong, intelligent and independent (at least in having them have their own ideas and thoughts) heroines and I don’t believe that only because it is a historical romance the women should all be weak simpering inane characters without any independent thought or backbone. …

Review: Initiate by Tara Maya

Format Read: Ebook
Length: 169 Pages
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: 22 December 2010
Publisher: Misque Press
Formats Available: eBook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Blurb:

The initiation ceremony is the gateway to ultimate power…or death.

A DETERMINED GIRL Dindi can’t do anything right, maybe because she spends more time dancing with pixies than doing her chores. Her clan hopes to marry her off and settle her down, but she dreams of becoming a Tavaedi, one of the powerful warrior-dancers whose secret magics are revealed only to those who pass a mysterious Test during the Initiation ceremony. The problem? No-one in Dindi’s clan has ever passed the Test. Her grandmother died trying. But Dindi has a plan…

AN EXILED WARRIOR Kavio is the most powerful warrior-dancer in Faearth, but when he is exiled from the tribehold for a crime he didn’t commit, he decides to shed his old life. If roving cannibals and …

New Releases: March 12 – 18, 2012

Infamous (Chronicles of Nick #3) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume…

Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.

He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive such a difficulty? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.

And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known.

Or he’ll be the …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

Welcome to our new edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? Here at Book Lovers Inc we’re known to be picky cover-wise. Yes this is a nice way to say we often bitch about every tiny details of covers. But sometimes we see new covers and we are left speechless…in a good way. I remember us dedicating a whole post ranting about a Kate Daniels cover and here we are today having a raving post about the new Ilona Andrews cover! We’re curious to see what you think of these covers.

Caro: *squeeeee* I fell in love at first sight with this cover! Wow I mean everything works for me. I LOVE the model they chose, her face screams BADASS, she looks so fierce. I love that. I also love the background with Atlanta smoking. The colors are perfect (yes I love orange). And last detail, the …

Early Review: Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-book provided by Novel Sidekick courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 297 Pages
Series: Six Pack Ranch, Book 3
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Nothing comes easy. You’ve gotta work for it.

Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he’d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he’ll take—and give—with gusto, but nothing more.

Hope Meridan is working long hours to hold on to her new quilt shop, going it alone since her sister/business partner ran off. Sex? Right, like she’s got the time. Not that she doesn’t have the occasional dirty fantasy about Matt. …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers and welcome to another week’s Sunday Cravings! I hope you all had an amazing weekend and you filled your batteries for a brand new week. How are you managing with all those amazing titles? I know I can barely keep up with everything 🙂

Thankfully, next week, although once more full with amazing titles, is a bit less crammed. This week, we have more YA titles hitting the shelves and among the highlights are Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins and The Savage Grace by Bree Despain. Told you, this week has mostly YA titles 🙂

So, let’s see which titles are among our Sunday Cravings!

Lea: Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he’d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else …