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Saturday, October 2, 2010
One Book Pimp To Rule Them All....Book Pimps - Who They Are and Why We Love Them - Day Five
So now, I'm going to have my Pimps introduce my last and final Book Pimp:
She feeds my book addiction and hand to god I spend at least an extra $20-$50 a month on books because of her reviews.~ KC from Smokin' Hot Books
My number one, una suprema, book pimp is Smexybooks! from Bells ~ Hangin With Bells
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Book Pimp of ALL Book Pimps, The One Pimp to Rule them All..... is Mandi from Smexy Books Romance Reviews. I, like most of Mandi's followers, stalk her tweets -- follow her reviews and pretty much just read whatever she says. Why- because she's that good. Between her reviews, contests and interviewsTell us a little about yourself:
Hi! I’m Mandi and write the blog, Smexy Books. My review partner Tori and I read and review anything in the romance and urban fantasy genres. When I discover a good book, a really, really good book - the kind that gives yous jitters after reading it - I love to force suggest others should read it as well. And although I find myself throwing books at readers often, I have been on the receiving end, and found some amazing books through others pimping skills.
Who are your top 3 Book Pimps and what do they pimp to you? :
1. The Book Smugglers: I still to this day remember reading their review of Revealed by Kate Noble and thinking, wow, that book sounds like the perfect book for me. So when I finally got around to reading it and fell in love with Marcus, my beloved beta hero, I really had to them credit. They not only pimped that one to me, but many others as well. My review can be found here.
2. My friend and neighbor Bridget - So, Bridget does not have a blog, but I have to give her all the credit for pimping out The Gardella Vampire Chronicle series by Colleen Gleason to me. I started the first book (of the five book series) The Rest Falls Away long ago, and couldn’t get into it. Fast forward a year or two, and Bridget calls me up and said I must read the aforementioned book - she is in love with it. After a big sigh I said, sure sure. But didn’t do it. But she didn’t give up - A true sign of a fabulous book pimp!! She force fed me wine until I agreed to read it. So I did - and by the end thought wow, this was a pretty good book. Together we read the remaining four books and we literally cried together when we finished book five. Not only is it an amazing series and one of my favorites, but it was so much fun reading them together. Is it good to have a book pimp as a next door neighbor - yes it is.
3. For my final pimpster extraordinaire - I must talk about the Downside series by Stacia Kane. To get me to read this three book series was a group effort - let me explain. Tori and Sophia read the first in the series, Unholy Ghosts and the pimping started. Then they read Unholy Magic and I was blinded by their pimping. Five star ratings started popping up everywhere and they started YELLING AT ME WITH CAPITAL LETTERS on Twitter to read the first two books. OKAY, OKAY!! I said. So I loaded up my Kindle and went to the beach. Of course they were right - and I read Unholy Magic with my mouth hanging open (wipes drool) and was literally stunned at the journey my emotions went on.
Book three, City of Ghosts finally came out but I had some things pop up in real life (darn real life) and couldn’t get to the book when it first came out. Then I became behind on my blog, so City of Ghosts got pushed even further down the pile. It wasn’t until I recently announced on Twitter I had yet to read it that the actual full frontal assault started. Bells was hitting me from all sides - Twitter, Goodreads, emails. I was pretty sure Julie would hunt me down from Canada. I was nervous SpazP (aka Pamela) would live up to her name and give me a spaz attack! I was nervous y’all!! A massive pimp mob was forming and they were out to get me. So I read it - and damn it - my pimpers were right of course. City of Ghosts, along with the other two books in the series are my favorite books of 2010. My girls gave me that extra push I needed and I love them for it.
It is the best thing in the world, when you read a book and you know you cannot rest until everyone you know has read it as well. I love to dish it out, but I love to be on the receiving end of it as well. So put on your pimping gear, polish up that book bling, and go make someone read a book.
Now that's the sign of a true Book Pimp. Not only does she serve her customers up with smexy books -- but she has her *own* suppliers. What?? Oh and to prove just how fantabulous Mandi truly is -- Smexy Books just won the Best Romance Book Blogger Award for Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010! BOOM!! If Mandi says read it? Guess what.....you better get your read on!!
Mandi - in honor of Book Pimp Appreciation Week, I'm pleased to award you with your own official Pimp Cup:
Queen Book Pimp
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Book Series Sunday - Cassandra Palmer Series by Karen Chance
Cassandra Palmer Series by Karen Chance
Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire—and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay.
Summary from back cover
First, let me say don't judge a series by the first book! When I first picked up this series - I started with the second book, Claimed by Shadow and I really, really liked it. I didn't do it on purpose - I was just so enthralled by the summary I had to read it. However after seeing the reviews for the first book I was confused. How could the second book be so much better than the first? After reading Touch the Dark, it gave me important answers that I was missing and I could understand some of the other reader's comments. BUT - I still liked the first book. Either way, the good news is - after the first book, the series gets much better.
Chance is a great writer and even though this is a series, each book has a true ending -- so you're not left hanging on pins and needles waiting for the next book. Sometimes, that's refreshing in a series.
So take a chance on the Cassandra Palmer series (sorry I couldn't resist) - you won't regret it.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Book Series Sunday - The Riley Jensen Guardian Series by Keri Arthur
Book Series Sunday will be my weekly posting highlighting some of the amazing book series that I've come across over the last few years. I know there are hundreds out there, but these are my uber-ultra favorite.
Riley Jenson Guardian Series - by Keri Arthur
From Hardcover Edition
In this exciting debut, author Keri Arthur explodes onto the supernatural scene with a sexy, sensuous tale of intrigue and suspense set in a world where legends walk and the shady paths of the underworld are far more sinister than anyone envisioned.
A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races–and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, a.k.a. assassin, Riley is merely an office worker–until her brother goes missing on one of his missions. The timing couldn’t be worse. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat, the weeklong period before the full moon, when her need to mate becomes all-consuming.…
Luckily Riley has two willing partners to satisfy her every need. But she will have to control her urges if she’s going to find her brother….Easier said than done as the city pulses with frenzied desire, and Riley is confronted with a very powerful–and delectably naked–vamp who raises her temperature like never before.
In matters carnal, Riley has met her match. But in matters criminal, she must follow her instincts not only to find her brother but to stop an unholy harvest. For someone is doing some shifty cloning in an attempt to produce the ultimate warrior–by tapping into the genome of nonhumans like Rhoan. Now Riley knows just how dangerous the world is for her kind–and just how much it needs her.
Moon Sworn (9) Release date May 25, 2010
In this series, Riley battles vampires, werewolves and all things that go bump in the night. But this isn't your typical paranormal romance-spy series. Arthur laces surprises with suduction with each book to keep readers hooked and asking for more.
The good/bad news is Moon Sworn is the last book in the series. Good, because I can't wait to see how things turn out for Riley -- she's been through so much. Bad because, I don't really want her story to end. But word has it, Arthur is working on a spin-off series for one of the characters in this series. No spoiler's here - you'll have to read the series to find out "who" but ---I know it will be just as exciting!
So if you haven't picked up a Riley Jenson book yet, do it now. You won't be disappointed!
Get your read on!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Book Series Sunday - May 9th
Book Series Sunday will be my weekly posting highlighting some of the amazing book series that I've come across over the last few years. I know there are hundreds out there, but these are my uber-ultra favorite.
Check back often and the list continues to grow!
Night Huntress Series - Jeaniene Frost
Flirting with the grave...
Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father--the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership.
Destined for an Early Grave (#4)
Jaz Parks Series - Jennifer Rardin
I'm Jaz Parks. My boss is Vayl, born in Romania in 1744. Died there too, at the hand of his vampire wife, Liliana. But that's ancient history. For the moment Vayl works for the C.I.A. doing what he does best--assassination. And I help. You could say I'm an Assistant Assassin. But then I'd have to kick your ass.Our current assignment seemed easy. Get close to a Miami plastic surgeon named Assan, a charmer with ties to terrorism that run deeper than a buried body. Find out what he's meeting with that can help him and his comrades bring America to her knees. And then close his beady little eyes forever. Why is it that nothing's ever as easy as it seems?
Another One Bites the Dust (2) ~ Biting the Bullet (3) itten to Death (4)
One More Bite (5) ~ Bite Marks (6)
Bitten in Two (7) - Release Date: Nov 8th 2010
MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman.
Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.
When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….
Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….
Bloodfever (2) ~ Faefever (3) ~ Dreamfever (4)
Shadowfever (5) Release Date: Dec 7, 2010Crimson Moon Series - L.A. Banks
Sasha Trudeau knows all about working beneath the shadows, back-alley deals, and things that go bump in the night. She also knows that the world is unaware of the existence of the paranormal—and that the government would like to keep it that way.
As a highly trained Special Ops soldier, Sasha and her team are an elite group of individuals who are survivors of werewolf attacks, now trained to be loyal to only to each other and their government. But when she returns from a solo mission, she finds that her team has mysteriously gone missing. Shocking government conspiracies, double-dealing vampires, and a host of stunning revelations about who—and what—she really is are only just the beginning…
Bite the Bullet (2) ~ Undead on Arrival (3)
Cursed to Death (4) ~ Never Cry Werewolf (5)Left for Undead (6) Release date Sept 28, 2010
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