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February 2010

Smugglers Stash Steampunk Week

Smugglers’ Stash & News

Another Sunday, another stash! After taking a week off of reviewing to read (OMG!), recuperate our sanity, and fortify ourselves for the weeks ahead, we are back, with a vengeance! First, a few tidbits of news. Giveaway Winners: We…

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Giveaways

Flash Giveaway: Dark Life by Kat Falls

Happy Saturday to you all!!! We have a very special giveaway today: courtesy of Simon and Schuster UK, we have three Advanced Reading Copies of Dark Life by Kat Falls. The book is not out until April but you…

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Cover Matters Guest Blogger

Cover Matters: On Whitewashing

Cover Matters is a new monthly feature in which we examine the medium that is first contact between a reader and a book: the cover. This feature will dedicate more separate space to a topic that has always intrigued,…

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Miscellaneous

EXCERPT: Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

Yesterday was the official release date of Black Magic Sanction, the eighth book in Kim Harrison’s ongoing Rachel Morgan/The Hollows series. In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch…

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Smugglers Stash

Smugglers’ Stash and News

Well, hello there! We hope everybody is having a great Sunday! At our end, we are still trying to understand the latest episode of Lost (theories abound, none of them seem to make much sense) but alas, there is…

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On the Radar

On The Smugglers’ Radar

“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’…

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8 Rated Books Book Reviews

Book Review: Unknown by Rachel Caine

Title: Unknown Author: Rachel Caine Genre: Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy Publisher: Roc Publication Date: February 2010 Paperback: 308 pages Stand alone or series: Book 2 in the Outcast Season series, a spinoff of Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden books My…

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Popgeekery

Our True Geek Confessions

Last year, it was the glorious What’s Your Scott and Jean event – in which several geeky bloggers got together to talk about their geek sacred cow. Now, the good folks at Alert Nerd are back with another Mega-Blog…

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7 Rated Books Book Reviews

Book Review: The Mark by Jen Nadol

Title: The Mark Author: Jen Nadol Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication Date: January 2010 Hardcover: 240 pages Stand alone or series: Book one in a planned series. Cassandra Renfield has always seen the mark—a glow around…

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Smugglers Stash

Smugglers’ Stash & News

Heidi-ho! It’s another Sunday, and another stash. We hope everyone’s having an awesome Valentine’s Day, whether you’re out doing romantic crap, enjoying your time with friends, or happily on your own! (We are loving these dorky Valentine’s Day Cards…

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