Welcome to Smugglivus 2012! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2012, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2013. Who: Janice, of the SF blog Janicu’s Book Blog. Janice is a fellow booknerd, writing reviews as a speculative fiction romantic and a sophomore Smugglivus guest. Please give it up for the lovely Janice, everyone! Thanks to the Book Smugglers for inviting me to the Smugglivus celebrations for a second year! 2012 was a tough year for me in regards to reading (busy times at work messing with my brain’s ability to concentrate), but I did get some good reads in. And I discovered 5 books that knocked me off my socks and automatically got added to my “Best of 2012” list. Here they are, in the order that I found them: A Girl Like You by Gemma Burgess A Girl Like You is a contemporary romance that has one of those bad boy player types who gets redeemed. And it has a friends to lovers theme. It also opens in such a way that suggests that the bad boy player type is a […]