From the monthly archives: June 2008

Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

By On June 14, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

A Couple of Announcements:

Stay tuned for our event A Long Weekend with Loretta Chase. It starts this Thursday 19th (my birthday tee hee) with a review of Your Scandalous Ways. Then on Friday we will have a most amazing collaborative post : I asked other awesome reviewers/bloggers which is their favourite Loretta Chase [...]

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Nonsensical Weekend Poll

By On June 14, 2008 · 16 Comments · In Weekend Poll

For this week’s ponderings:

Which badass dude is your favorite?


Fight Club, Tyler Durden – “The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club.”


Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle – “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? [...]

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Book Review: An Accidental Goddess

By On June 12, 2008 · 13 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: An Accidental Goddess

Author: Linnea Sinclair

Review number: 60

Genre: Romance Sci-fi

Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone

Summary: Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. The last thing she remembers is [...]

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Book Review: Demon Angel

By On June 11, 2008 · 24 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Demon Angel

Author: Meljean Brook

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand Alone or Series: Book 2 of The Guardians series (although each book can be read as a stand alone volume)

Summary: (from meljeanbrook.com)
For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance upon the evil and the damned, gathering souls for her father’s [...]

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Guest Dare: Summer of Night

By On June 10, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

A few weeks back, Ana and I decided to share our love for pushing the reading comfort zone, and we Dared the wonderful Kmont from Lurv à la Mode to guest review a book here!

We asked Kmont what genres she would normally never read, and from there gave her [...]

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*ARC* Book Review: My Lord and Spymaster

By On June 9, 2008 · 10 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: My Lord and Spymaster

Author: Joanna Bourne

Review number: 59

Genre: Historical romance

Stand Alone/ Series: It is a stand alone novel but with secondary characters that first appeared in The Spymaster’s Lady.

Summary: After her father is wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, lovely Jess Whitby infiltrates the [...]

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Book Review: Succubus Blues

By On June 9, 2008 · 9 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Succubus Blues

Author: Richelle Mead

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance-ish

Stand Alone or Series: First book in the Georgina Kincaid series

Summary: (from amazon.com)
Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men. Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.

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Book Review: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

By On June 8, 2008 · 14 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

Author: Julia Quinn

Review number: 58

Genre: Historical romance

Stand Alone/series: Book 1 of a two books series called The Two Dukes of Wyndham

Summary: Jack Audley has been a highwayman. A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he [...]

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Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

By On June 7, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Book News:

Kushiel’s Mercy, the final book of the Imriel trilogy, comes out next Thursday (June 12)!

Fantasy Book Critic is giving away THREE SETS of the Imriel books, giveaway to end Thursday, June 12, 2008 – 11:59AM PST(unfortunately the giveaway is only for North America residents). Here. [...]

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Nonsensical Weekend Poll

By On June 7, 2008 · 12 Comments · In Weekend Poll

For this week’s ponderings:

Who is the best sidekick?

Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings – What didn’t he do for Frodo? Robin, Batman and Robin – Sometimes a girl, sometimes a dude, but always there for the Batman Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, [...]

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