Category: Book

Blogoversary Giveaway: Speak Easy & Speak Low by Melanie Harlow

In honor of our first BLOGOVERSARY, All month long I will be giving away copies of books that I have reviewed in our first year of blogging. 🙂 The first prize up this month is AUTOGRAPHED paperbacks of Speak Easy and Speak Low by Melanie Harlow with matching autographed book marks. 🙂 Review Revisited: Speak Easy by Melanie Harlow Series: Speak Easy #1 Released: July 22nd, 2013 Genres: Crime, Historical, New Adult, Romance, Suspense Format: eBook Source: Author Add to your Goodreads shelf.Buy the Book • Buy the Book The 1920s are roaring, and twenty-year-old Tiny O’Mara wants to be a part of it.By day she works for her father’ s smalltime bootlegging operation, by night she craves the sexy roll-your-stockings-down lifestyle of a flapper—until her father is kidnapped by a mobster in Detroit’s exploding organized crime scene, and it’ s Tiny who has to come up with the ten-thousand-dollar ransom…in one week.Suddenly she’ s thrust into an intoxicating underworld of greed, lust, lies, and betrayal.Enzo DiFiore is the son of the mobster holding her father hostage, but his sexy screen idol looks and dangerous charm leave her breathless. When the forbidden spark between them refuses to burn out, she tries to use their powerful chemistry to buy more time. And irritatingly handsome childhood pal Joey Lupo has the street smarts Tiny needs to make a quick ten grand, but he’ s got his own agenda where gang rivalries are concerned.Deciding whom to trust isn’ t easy in a world where everyone wants something—be it booze, money, power, or sex—and no one cares what it takes to get it.Temptation is everywhere. […]

Book Boyfriend Battles #9 through #12! VOTE NOW!!

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Book Boyfriend Battles #5 through #8! VOTE NOW!!

Jericho Barrons vs Augustus Waters | Zsadist vs Ethan Blackstone Dean Holder vs Roth | Max Stella vs Mason Kade If you guys if you have a moment… If you could please fill out this form and tell me what you love about your favorite book boyfriends that haven’t gone up for the battle yet… that would be AMAZING and so very helpful! Thank you!. 😉 Woohoo! Now with that said… You may VOTE! 😀 Match #5: Jericho Barrons vs Augustus Waters What fans have to say about Jericho Barrons… “That no matter what, Barron gets the job done.” – Clare “Got to love a compassionate dominant man who’s a beast in bed and in reality, intelligent and has style” – Alicia “Now here’s a man that just the mere mention of his name, has you weak at the knees, sighing heavily and scratching “I HEART Barrons” into every available surface. He’s the source of heated fantasies, lustful longings and women everywhere would give anything to hear him utter their names. He is deliciously, wickedly, sensually, undeniably mouthwatering with an arrogance and darkness that makes him an EPIC character. Power drips off him by the bucket load with a confidence that totally backs up that swagger of his. Problem is .. that’s pretty much all we know about this sexy mystery and what he is. Facts about Barrons are very slim throughout the books… Oh loads of people know WHAT he is but they’re not saying because he has them […]

Book Boyfriend Battles #1 through #4! VOTE NOW!!

Welcome to the first round of voting in the Book Boyfriend Battle Royale!! Below are the first FOUR battles in the BBBR! But first, I need a bit of help from you guys if you have a moment… If you could please fill out this form and tell me what you love about your favorite book boyfriends that haven’t gone up for the battle yet… that would be AMAZING and so very helpful! Thank you!. 😉 Woohoo! Now with that said… You may VOTE! 😀 Jamie Fraser vs. Travis Walker | Gabriel Emerson vs. Tack Allen Gideon Cross vs. Reyes Farrow | Travis Maddox vs. Liam James Match #1: Jamie Fraser Vs. Travis Walker What fans are saying about Jamie Fraser: “Jamie is the King of Men. He is caring, handsome, sexy, loving, romantic, faithful, beautiful, amazing, honest, a warrior…I mean what ELSE could ANY woman want from a man? Long live James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser!” – Marybeth “Ja mes Alexander Malcom MacKenzie Fraser is probably the most considerate and sensitive boyfriend/husband ever created.” -Marianne “Jamie Fraser is a rare man, one that other men follow and look up to. He is kind and gentle. I started reading Outlander twenty years ago, I enjoy all of the books about Jamie and Claire and I’m looking forward to the TV series starting this summer.” – Sandi “Jamie Fraser is a leader, respected by his clan and all those he meets. He’s a dedicated husband. He has a sense of […]

Mini Review: Kaleidoscope by Kristen Ashley

I think it’s time to put the Colorado Mountain series to bed, because Jagged and Kaleidoscope aren’t anywhere near as good as the first four books in this series. They’re seriously lacking the suspense and the “OMGWTF is happening?” moments of the previous 4 books in this series. While I did like Kaleidoscope better than Jagged, it still pales in comparison to the rest of the series. I’m wondering if Kristen thought since Emme already went through some traumatic events as a child, that maybe Kristen decided not to put her through something again in her adult years. If that’s the case, this book seriously didn’t belong in this series. You know what’s sad about this? I know that she went through something as a child, but as I’m finally writing my review for this book I can’t remember for the life of me what it was. That’s how much this book did not do it for me. I can barely remember the details of the story. I can tell you what every other Kristen Ashley book is about..but this one..No. My mother and sister-in-law always read Kristen Ashley’s newest book with me whenever she releases one..and even they found this one to be lacking. Kristen Ashley books tend to be ones that you can read over and over again… Jagged and Kaleidoscope will probably never be rereads for me. I hope this is just a phase and you’ll find your mojo again, Kristen!

Book Boyfriend Battle Royale BRACKET CHALLENGE!

Hey Everyone! This coming May will be our FIRST BLOGOVERSARY! In celebration of our first year in the book blog world we are going to host a BOOK BOYFRIEND BATTLE ROYALE! There’ s nothing like watching a bunch of HOT & SWOONY BOYS duke it out. We’re also going to be holding a BRACKET CHALLENGE (details below) for the readers as well! Up until a few days ago we had over 300 book boyfriends! With the help of other book boyfriend fans, we were able to narrow down the list of Book Boyfriends to just 64 through a Preliminary Round (see results here.) Now that we have our 64 Boys, it’s time for the fun stuff! Has anyone here even been a part of a NCAA College Basketball March Madness Bracket Challenge? You know, where you fill out a bracket, pick & choose College Basketball Teams hoping that you’ll choose correctly to win the pot at the end of the challenge? Yes? No? You are essentially predicting the outcome of the tournament when filling out a bracket. The Tournament (or Book Boyfriend Battle Royale in this case) does not start until MAY 1ST, 2014. You have up until 11:59pm on 4/30/14 to make your predictions as to who is going to win each poll in the BBBR. That’s what we are doing here. For each correct guess you will receive points. I believe the first round will be 1 point for each correct guess, the second round you get 5 points for each correct guess. […]

FINAL COUNT for the Preliminary Round of the Book Boyfriend Battle Royale!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Preliminary Round of our BOOK BOYFRIEND BATTLE ROYAL! The TOP 64 BOOK BOYFRIENDS who will move on to the next round are listed towards the bottom of this page. 😉 Details for the next round in the BOOK BOYFRIEND BATTLE ROYALE will be released either tonight or tomorrow morning. If you’d like to get an email notification when they become available, please subscribe to our blog. Or you can follow us on Facebook / Twitter / Bloglovin’ / Tumblr to get updates as well. 🙂 Some details that I can give to you right now is that this Book Boyfriend Battle will not only be a contest between book boyfriends, it will also be a contest between you, the readers, as well. 😉 With that said, we are looking for Authors/Book Bloggers who are able to donate some swag, gift cards, books, ebooks or anything fun you can think of to a prize pack that will be given away to the winner at the end of the BBBR. Anyone who can donate a prize to the prize pack will be given a shoutout (with links!) through out the rest of the battle! We’ve gotten a few things together so far but we’d like to make the prize pack super awesome! If you are interested in sponsoring a prize, please contact us! 😉 Top 64 Book Boyfriends Jamie Fraser (The Outlander series Diana Gabaldon) Gabriel Emerson (Gabriel’s Inferno Series by Sylvain Reynard) Gideon […]

ARC Review: Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

WARNING: Do not attempt to start this book at night before you go to bed. If you do, YOU WILL BE UP ALL NIGHT LONG. This book will not allow you to put it down once you start reading. This book is about a girl who finds herself wandering down a road covered in blood. She doesn’t have any clue as to where she’s at, why she’s there and who she even is. She finds out her name is Sam and she’s been missing for FOUR DAYS. She disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, whom still hasn’t been found. Unfortunately Sam’s memories of that night or any night before that are missing as well. Once I started reading this book, I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I lost track of time.. what only seemed like minutes instead were hours. I realized it was 2am and not 11pm and I had to be to work at 7am. I unfortunately had to put the book down for the night…. The next day I forgo my lunchtime cat nap because I HAD TO FINISH THE BOOK. WOW. This book is incredible. I loved Sam, we got to discover her as a person as she discovered herself. What she was finding out about herself she did not like and she decided she didn’t WANT to be the way she used to be. It even seems that maybe though she was a certain way before the whole disappearance thing, in reality she really didn’t want […]

New Release: The Accidental Socialite by Stephanie Wahlstrom

The Accidental Socialite by Stephanie Wahlstrom Release Date: April 15th, 2014 Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Buy Now: Amazon | iTunes Quirky and clumsy twenty-two-year-old Paige Crawford arrives in London on a cold Saturday in January. Just when Paige starts to think that moving thousands of miles away from home with no real plan was a bad idea, Jason Frost appears. Confident and classy, Jason is the complete opposite of Paige and just what she needs in her life, or so she thinks. But before their romance has time to blossom, Paige trips and falls into the arms of a mysterious man on a drunken night out. She’ s snapped by paparazzi, and newspaper headlines the next day suggest that she’ s having an affair with a married footballer. Paige finds herself instantly elevated to tabloid celebrity status which isn’ t exactly a picnic, particularly when trying to juggle her new job at Fashionista magazine, a catalog of dating disasters and a nagging doubt that she maybe she can’ t conquer London after all. When a trip back to Canada for Christmas reminds Paige why she left her old life behind, she returns to London with renewed vigor realizing that while jobs, flats and men may come and go, friends in London are forever. Excerpt It was 3 A.M. and all I wanted was a cheeseburger. “Miss, we only sell Big Macs after midnight,” said the McDonalds employee. My stomach grumbled. My diet since I got off the plane had consisted mostly of Champagne, Vodka, […]