From the monthly archives: September 2008

Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Seduce me at Sunrise

By On September 23, 2008 · 35 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Lisa Kleypas week

Title: Seduce me at Sunrise

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand Alone/ Series: The second in The Hathaways series

Summary: Win has been an invalid ever since she suffered a near-fatal case of scarlet fever. Merripen is a Romany Gypsy who was taken in by the Hathaway family when he [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Blue-Eyed Devil

By On September 23, 2008 · 18 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Lisa Kleypas week

Title: Blue-Eyed Devil

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Romance (contemporary), Fiction

Stand alone or series: Second book in the Travis’ series by Kleypas

Summary: “Blue-Eyed Devil” is the story of the charming, volatile and ambitious Hardy Cates, who is determined to carry out his private revenge against the Travis family. Haven is [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Guest Dare: Sugar Daddy

By On September 22, 2008 · 26 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week, The Dare

Another month, another dare! Every month we dare a guest (usually another blogger) to read a book that is outside their comfort zone, chosen by us. When we asked CJ from the amazing The Thrillionth Page blog, which genres she is not used to read and she said “Contemporary” novels, our first thought went [...]

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Exclusive Book Smugglers Sneak Peek: Smooth Talking Stranger

By On September 22, 2008 · 17 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week

We sneaky Smugglers have just received from Lisa Kleypas the new American cover for her upcoming contemporary romance: Smooth Talking Stranger!

Here’s the UK version, posted earlier this week:

As you can see, there are some noted differences between the two covers. [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Dreaming of You

By On September 21, 2008 · 23 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Dreaming of You

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand Alone or Series: Can be read as a stand alone, although is a sequel of Then Came You, following different main characters

Why did I read this book: After reading and really enjoying the first book, [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week!

By On September 21, 2008 · 14 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week

We will start this post by saying: Lisa Kleypas is one of the best romance novels writers out there and one of our favourites. Her stories are well-written and well-researched but above all, her stories have heart. It is hard to find a romance reader who does not include at least one Lisa Kleypas’ book [...]

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Giveaway Winners!

By On September 21, 2008 · 12 Comments · In Uncategorized

We had a record number of entries for these contests and some very nice comments about our blog: a HUGE THANK YOU to everybody that left a comment.

Now, without further ago, the winners have been randomly picked by our Sorting Hat (AKA Ramdon.org) :

The 5 winners of King of Sword and Sky [...]

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BBAW – Fantasy Draft Style

By On September 19, 2008 · 15 Comments · In Uncategorized

Inspired by Kmont’s wonderful post, we Book Smugglers decided to have our very own book blogger appreciation post, in honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week.

To keep things fun, we decided to do this Fantasy Draft style. Five picks alternating picks each, with a coin toss to determine who goes first.

Thea: Call it. [...]

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Book Review: King of Sword and Sky

By On September 19, 2008 · 12 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Bubbles and Blossum strike again! When the Amazing Katie introduced me to The Tairen Soul series earlier this year , I don’t think she predicted how much I would fall in love with this fantastic series. Lord of the Fading Lands and Lady of Light and Shadows were her top reads of 2007 and my [...]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume

By On September 17, 2008 · 68 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Mr Cavendish, I Presume

Author: Julia Quinn

Genre: Historical romance

Stand Alone/series: Book 2 of a two books series called The Two Dukes of Wyndham

Summary: Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six [...]

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