Title: Except the Queen Author: Jane Yolen & Midori Snyder Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Roc (Penguin) Publication Date: February 2010 Hardcover: 384 Pages From award winning authors Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder comes a tale of two…
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Title: An Abundance of Katherines Author: John Green Genre: YA/ Contemporary Publisher: Puffin Books Publishing Date: Reprint edition 16 Oct 2008 (First edition: 2006) Paperback: 272 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Why did I read the book:…
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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Thea reads Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In the Feats of Strength, we each dare each other to read a book that we know is so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as…
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Smugglivus Day 7 – Guest Author (And Giveaway): Julie James
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 7! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010.…
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It’s Alert Nerd Day at The Book Smugglers! Today we take a look at Alert Nerd Press – an independent digital publisher dedicated to making geek-centric fiction and nonfiction for the discriminating nerd, both online and in print. Title:…
It’s Alert Nerd Day at The Book Smugglers! Today we take a look at Alert Nerd Press – an independent digital publisher dedicated to making geek-centric fiction and nonfiction for the discriminating nerd, both online and in print. Title:…
Title: Little Black Lies Author: Tish Cohen Genre: YA – Contemporary Publisher: Egmont USA Publishing Date: October 13, 2009 Hardcover: 320 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Why did I read the book: The author offered a review…
It’s Austenmania! Today we do a little homage to the queen of Historical Romance herself, the indomitable Jane Austen. With a twist – both books we are reviewing take Jane Austen in the modern era, either in spirit (literally),…
It’s Austenmania! Today we do a little homage to the queen of Historical Romance herself, the indomitable Jane Austen. With a twist – both books we are reviewing take Jane Austen in the modern era, either in spirit (literally),…
Title: Prospero Lost Author: L. Jagi Lamplighter Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: August 2009 Hardcover: 352 pages Why did we read this book: We had seen glowing reviews for Ms. Lamplighter’s debut effort all over the blogosphere…
Howdy folks, and HAPPY LONG WEEKEND SATURDAY! To celebrate, we decided to throw together another of our Flash Giveaways – so named because you only have 24 hours to enter! Today’s offerings… BATCH 1: Contemporary Romance (Click to enlarge…
Title: Going too Far Author: Jennifer Echols Genre: YA – Romance Publisher: MTV Publishing Date: March 17, 2009 Paperback: 256 pages Stand Alone or series: Stand Alone Summary: All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from…
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Book Review: Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
Title: Everything Beautiful Author: Simmone Howell Genre: YA – Contemporary Publisher: Bloomsbury PLC Publishing Date: 5 January 2009 Paperback: 288 pages Stand Alone or series: Stand alone Summary: Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending…
Title: Suite Scarlett Author: Maureen Johnson Genre: YA (Contemporary) HC Paperback Publisher: Point Publishing Date: May 1, 2008 (HC)/May 1, 2009 (PB) Hardcover/Paperback: 368 pages Stand Alone/ Series: Can be read as stand alone but there is a sequel…
Title: Jasmyn Author: Alex Bell Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Fairy Tale Publisher: Gollancz Publication Date: June 2009 Paperback: 320 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Why did I read this book: The first thing that caught my eye…
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Guest Author and Giveaway:Julie James on Inspiration and Influences
Hello good morning and welcome to another addition to our new series “Inspirations and Influences” in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their …..well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are…
Welcome to the first official “Inspirations and Influences” post, a brand new feature in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their …..well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free…
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.…
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…
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: Talk Me Down Author: Victoria Dahl Genre: Romance – Contemporary Molly Jennings is back in town after ten years – small Tumble Creek, Colorado to get over a writer’s block and start anew after a few complicated months…
Title: The Girl Most Likely To…. Author: Susan Donovan Genre: Contemporary romance Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone Summary:Kat Cavanaugh was sixteen when she hitchhiked out of Persuasion, West Virginia, and vowed never to return. Who could blame her? In…
Bubbles and Blossom team up again after the last two (failed) attempts to read something that we both enjoy. (Buttercup is still MIA, last time we heard from her, she seemed to have ditched Batman in order to camp…
Title: Flat-Out Sexy Author: Erin McCarthy Genre: Contemporary Romance Stand Alone/ Series: It can be read as a stand-alone but I am thinking this is going to the first in a series given the sheer amount of single-hot-funny secondary…
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…