Current location: Cambridge, UK The Windflower and King’s College The Windflower is one of those mythical romance novels that many speak of, that more often than not appears in top 100 listings and it has been granted DIK (Desert…
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2008
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TV Review: Fringe
Title: Fringe Created by J.J. Abrams, Directed by Alex Graves, Starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, and Lance Reddick Yesterday evening, this eagerly anticipated new J.J. show had its ninety-five minute debut on FOX. Billed as “paranormal science…
Title: Doppelganger (re-released in 2008 as Warrior) Author: Marie Brennan Genre: Fantasy Stand Alone or Series: First book in the Doppelganger duology Summary: (from amazon.com)When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her…
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Sookie Special: True Blood Review
Title: True Blood Based on the Southern Vampire Mystery books by Charlaine Harris TV Series created by Alan Ball; Starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwaten, and Rutina Wesley. This Sunday, after the official return of football…
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Sookie Special: Joint Review of Dead as a Doornail
Title: Dead as a Doornail Author: Charlaine Harris Genre: Paranormal mystery, Urban Fantasy Stand Alone / series: Book 5 of Southern Vampires Mysteries, or Sookie Stackhouse books. Summary: (from barnes&noble.com)When Sookie’s brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows…
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Introducing Red Room
After recently reviewing Huntress: Year One (link HERE), Ivory Madison, author and Red Room CEO invited us to share our blog and write content for Red Room, a wonderful new site promoting authors and bloggers alike in the literary…
Taking a break from reading in this lovely, cold, rainy, British Winter, whoops, excuse me, I meant Summer, to bring some news:Around the web: The voting for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Award 2008 is under way. You can…
As the grand finale of our mini-week special on Dark Fairy Tales, we contacted Melissa Marr for a brief chat–and she was kind enough to take some time out of her hectic schedule (it was right after Wicked Lovely…
Title: Ink Exchange Author: Melissa Marr Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy Stand Alone or Series: Second book in the series. Summary: (from HarperCollins.com)Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries…
Title: Wicked Lovely Author: Melissa Marr Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy Stand Alone or Series: First book in the series. Summary: (from HarperCollins.com)Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk…
Title: Fables: Legends in Exile Vol. 1 Author: Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton Genre: Graphic Novel Stand alone or series: First volume in the Fables comics; collects issues 1-5. Summary: (from Vertigo)Who Killed Rose Red?In Fabletown,…
First, down to business. As our Nalini Singh weekend comes to an end, we’d like to thank everyone for participating, and for Nalini coming over and chatting with us! The winner of the Hostage to Pleasure giveaway is… Pam…
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Smuggler Get Together: Pictures!
As promised, and after about 2 hours struggling with the uploads, here are the pictures of our first ever Smuggler get-together! Warning: crazy dorkiness ensues. Continue at your own peril! Of course, for our first ever in-person meeting, we…
Hello, my name is Ana and I am a nalinisinghholic. My addiction started a bit late and only after I read Book 2, Visions of Heat. But from that moment on I was intrigued by the world-building, by the…
Title: Hostage to Pleasure Author: Nalini Singh Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/ Series: Book 5 of Psy-Changeling series. Summary: Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically…
Title: Mine to Possess Author: Nalini Singh Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone / Series: 4th Full length novel of the Psy-Changeling series Summary:Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human…
Title: Caressed by Ice Author: Nalini Singh Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/ Series: Book 3 of the Psy/Changeling series.Book 1 – Slave to Sensation Book 2 – Visions of Heat Summary: As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the…
The Smugglers’ Sorting Hat hath spoken and the two winners of The King’s Favorite are: KateAymless Please ladies, email us your address to thebooksmugglersAThotmailDOTcom. Congratulations, hope you enjoy the book as much as we did!…
Title: Razor Girl Author: Marianne Mancusi Genre: Shomi – Sci fi Romance Stand Alone / Series: Stand Alone Summary: Molly Anderson is not your average twenty-one-year-old. It’s been six years since she and her family escaped into a bunker,…
After our Long Weekend with Loretta Chase, Susan approached us with a chance to read and review her historical fiction novel The King’s Favorite. Having come highly recommended by Loretta, we eagerly agreed–and fell in love with her book.…
Title: The King’s Favorite Author: Susan Holloway Scott Genre: Historical Fiction Why did we read this book: During our recent Chat With an Author, Loretta Chase mentioned Susan Holloway Scott’s The Royal Harlot as one of her inspirations for…
First it was Kmont with Summer of Night. Then, Kate with The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes. Now, it’s The Happily Ever After’s Christine turn to…read a straight Dark Fantasy novel. We dared her to read….. Title: Across the Nightingale…
Avast ye, mateys! A couple of announcements and some cool happenings around blogsphere…. This week: Friday we kick off another weekend with an author: this time it’s Susan Holloway Scott. We will be reviewing her new book, The King’s…
For this episode’s unearthings: the wonderful works of Christopher Pike! Any other Christopher Pike fans in the house? Anyone that grew up in the 80s and 90s is familiar with a few key authors that wrote young adult series’.…
Title: Hunter Kiss Author: Marjorie Liu Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand alone or series: Prequel to the Hunter Kiss series Summary: “My mother used to say that the tale of the world is drawn in blood, blood in flesh, veins…