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…
March 2009
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday I received a VIP for dinner. It was one of the Deadline Dames, our Good Friend, Official Honorary Book Smuggler, Pimp Extraordinnaire and as of yesterday, one of Ana’s Soul Mates, Karen Mahoney. I was super nervous, couldn’t…
The One Where Ana Talks About Stuff A.K.A The Stash
Ana here! Thea is still away (sniff!sniff!) but she found a way to formally reprimand me (by way of smoke signals no less, seriously is there anything that woman can not do?) for my huge boo-boo in last week’s…
Are you ready for this? Because, ladies and gentlemen, this week it is FINALLY Sawyer’s turn after I don’t know how many episodes, the Man, the Legend, my Favorite character out of Lost gets an episode. The paragraph above…
When word about Forest of Hands and Teeth started to spread over the net, Thea grew more and more impatient to get her greedy hands on it. She finally did and she loved it . And we have to…
Title: The Forest of Hands and Teeth Author: Carrie Ryan Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Apocalyptic Fiction, Zombies Publisher: Delacorte Books Publication Date: March 2009 Hardcover: 320 pages Stand alone or series: Can be read as a stand alone…
…. Because we are guests at Jessica’s Racy Romance Reviews answering The Inaugural Racy Romance Questionnaire Extraordinaire: we were forced to answer to 13 dastardly questions by this person: so anything we said was under coercion and are subject…
Guest Dare: Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
Every month we dare another book blogger to read a book that is outside their comfort zone and invite them to post their reviews or thoughts here. This month our guest is AnimeJune from the great blog Gossamer Obsessions.…
Mamma Mia! We got a Your Blog is Fabulous award from 4 awesome blogs: Books Lists Life, Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, Dark Wolf and Grasping from the Wind! Thea and Ana – 20 years from now. The new Edina…
Title: Into the Forest Author:Jean Hegland Genre: Literature, Fiction, Apocalyptic Publisher: Dial Press Publication Date: September 1998 Trade Paperback: 256 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Why did I read this book: I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic…
I am supposed to be writing a Stash post right now but you see, Thea is NOT here. What is it that they say again? “When the cat’s away the mice will play”? I really feel like rambling about…
Leaving Jack’s episode behind us (Thank GOD) , we move on to a Locke- episode. Yieppeeee. Season 5- Episode 7: The Life and Death Of Jeremy Bentham We start with a “I Told you so” – this is the…
Blossom and Bubbles reviewed Just the Sexiest Man Alive, the first book by Julie James and they both loved it. When Practice Makes Perfect came out it was a given that they would read and join forces to review…
Title: Drood Author: Dan Simmons Genre: Literature, Fiction, Mystery Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Group) Publication Date: February 2009 Hardcover: 784 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel, although draws from the works and lives of Charles…
Blue Diablo Virtual Tour: Guest Blog with Ann Aguirre and Big ARC Giveaway
One of our most anticipated reads of 2009 is Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre, so when we were contacted a few weeks ago and asked if we wanted to be part of her Blog Tour we immediately said yes.…
Title: Stone Masters: A Vampire’s Reckoning Author: VMK Fewings Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror Publisher: Lachesis Publishing Publication Date: July 2007 Paperback: 280 pages Stand alone or series: A stand alone novel, but with an upcoming prequel titled Orpheus: A…