From the monthly archives: March 2009
Title: A Perfect Darkness
Author: Jaime Rush
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Avon
Publishing Date:January 27, 2009
Paperback: 384 pages
Stand Alone or Series: Book 1 in the Offspring series
Summary:
They live ordinary lives, but they are extraordinary. They are the Offspring, children of a mysterious experiment gone awry—and [...]
A couple of days ago we came across an intriguing question posed online — “What’s your Scott and Jean?”
As part of a Mega-Blog Crossover Event, the crew over at Alert Nerd posed the above question to Geeks around the blogosphere. Here’s the basic rundown:
The Background: Such an awesome theme could only [...]
Hello and a good Sunday to everybody!
Let’s see what we have on the menu for this week, shall we?
This week on The Book Smugglers:
Monday – we kick start the week by taking part in a very cool Blogging Event organised by Alert Nerd and invite you all to take part [...]
This week in our Lost recap: Season 5 Episode 9 – Namaste
The episode opens and our people are in the plane. I am guessing we are going to find out what happened to the non-O6ers? Frank is piloting and the co-pilot is all can you believe that guy? The one with the curly [...]
Title: Smooth Talking Stranger
Author:Lisa Kleypas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publishing Date: March 31st, 2009
Hardcover: 384 pages
Stand Alone or Series: 3rd book in Travis’ family series but can be read as a stand alone.
Summary: Ella Varner has it all–a successful career as an advice [...]
Our regular readers may have noticed two trends over the past few weeks: firstly, that I am ridiculously, shamefully behind on responding to comments and catching up on posts around the blogosphere; and secondly, that I’ve been on something of a Young Adult kick lately (just take a look-see at all these YA reviews [...]
(Well, we’re actually jumping the gun a bit)
The 2009 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists have just been announced! AND, we Smugglers are very proud that two of our favorite authors have been nominated for these prestigious awards.
We offer a whole-hearted cheer of congratulations to:
Nalini Singh for Mine to Possess as [...]
Title: A Taste of Magic
Author: Tracy Madison
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher:Love Spell
Publishing Date:February 24, 2009
Paperback:292 Pages
Stand Alone/ Series: Book 1 in a series but can be read as stand alone
Why did I read the Book: I was asked by the author if I would like to [...]
Title: Princess of the Midnight Ball
Author: Jessica Day George
Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Young Adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication Date: January 2009
Hardcover: 288 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel, based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale.
Title: Revealed
Author: Kate Noble
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Berkley
Publishing Date: March 3, 2009
Paperback: 400 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone (but there is a sequel in the works with one of the secondary characters.
Why did I read the book: I received a review copy from [...]
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