From the monthly archives: August 2008

Smuggler Get Together: Pictures!

By On August 30, 2008 · 21 Comments · In Uncategorized

As promised, and after about 2 hours struggling with the uploads, here are the pictures of our first ever Smuggler get-together! Warning: crazy dorkiness ensues. Continue at your own peril!

Of course, for our first ever in-person meeting, we HAD to both wear our Wonder Woman tees (this is us in [...]

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Nalini Singh Extravaganza Day 4 – Interview and Giveaway

By On August 28, 2008 · 35 Comments · In Chat With an Author

Hello, my name is Ana and I am a nalinisinghholic. My addiction started a bit late and only after I read Book 2, Visions of Heat. But from that moment on I was intrigued by the world-building, by the Psy-Changeling dynamics and above all I was completely captivated by the love stories within each novel. [...]

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Nalini Singh Extravaganza Day 3 – Book Review: Hostage to Pleasure

By On August 27, 2008 · 10 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Hostage to Pleasure

Author: Nalini Singh

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand Alone/ Series: Book 5 of Psy-Changeling series.

Summary: Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy–cool, calm, emotionless…at least on [...]

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Nalini Singh Extravaganza Day 2 – Book Review: Mine to Possess

By On August 26, 2008 · 7 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Mine to Possess

Author: Nalini Singh

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand Alone / Series: 4th Full length novel of the Psy-Changeling series

Summary:Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds [...]

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Nalini Singh Extravaganza Day 1 – Book Review: Caressed by Ice

By On August 25, 2008 · 19 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Caressed by Ice

Author: Nalini Singh

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand Alone/ Series: Book 3 of the Psy/Changeling series.
Book 1 – Slave to Sensation
Book 2 – Visions of Heat

Summary: As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks, Judd Lauren was forced [...]

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The King’s Favorite giveaway winners!

By On August 25, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Book Reviews

The Smugglers’ Sorting Hat hath spoken and the two winners of The King’s Favorite are:

Kate
Aymless

Please ladies, email us your address to thebooksmugglersAThotmailDOTcom.

Congratulations, hope you enjoy the book as much as we did!

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Powerpuff Girls review: Razor Girl

By On August 24, 2008 · 6 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Razor Girl

Author: Marianne Mancusi

Genre: Shomi – Sci fi Romance

Stand Alone / Series: Stand Alone

Summary: Molly Anderson is not your average twenty-one-year-old. It’s been six years since she and her family escaped into a bunker, led by her conspiracy theorist father and his foreknowledge of a plot [...]

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A Chat With an Author: Susan Holloway Scott and Book Giveaway

By On August 22, 2008 · 18 Comments · In Chat With an Author

After our Long Weekend with Loretta Chase, Susan approached us with a chance to read and review her historical fiction novel The King’s Favorite. Having come highly recommended by Loretta, we eagerly agreed–and fell in love with her book. Susan, who is totally cool and a fellow sports nut (as Thea is), also graciously [...]

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Book of the Month: The King’s Favorite

By On August 22, 2008 · 5 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book of the Month, Book Reviews

Title: The King’s Favorite

Author: Susan Holloway Scott

Genre: Historical Fiction

Why did we read this book: During our recent Chat With an Author, Loretta Chase mentioned Susan Holloway Scott’s The Royal Harlot as one of her inspirations for her new series, beginning with Your Scandalous Ways. Susan contacted us [...]

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Guest Dare: Across the Nightingale Floor

By On August 21, 2008 · 5 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

First it was Kmont with Summer of Night. Then, Kate with The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes. Now, it’s The Happily Ever After’s Christine turn to…read a straight Dark Fantasy novel. We dared her to read…..

Title: Across the Nightingale Floor – The Tales of the Otori book 1 (out of 5)

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