Follow My Book Blog Friday (09/30 to 10/07)

This week’s featured blog is The Bookaholic. Remember to head over there and follow!

Today's question is:

Q. What book that hasn’t been turned into a movie (yet) would you most like to see make it to the big screen, and who would you like cast as your favorite character?

Oh no! I hate when they turn books into movies, they almost always screw it up and I don’t like it. Besides, I don’t want to associate a character with any actor because I have a somewhat clear mental image and then I would lose it, that’s why I also hate it when a character’s description says something like he looks like X actor. So my answer is Hell No! I’m not telling you about my fav book because I don’t want you getting any ideas about turning it into a movie.


Have a great weekend everyone!

Review: The Dragon and the Pearl by Jeannie Lin

Source: we received an e-ARC of the book through NetGalley for review purposes.

I’ve been meaning to read this author ever since hearing great things about her previous book, Butterfly Swords, so when I saw this book on Netgalley I jumped to the opportunity to read it. I wasn’t aware that The Dragon and the Pearl was a sequel to Butterfly Swords but I was able to enjoy the book and I think it stands alone quite well.

Lady Ling Suyin is in deep trouble. As the late Emperor’s consort she finds herself kidnaped from her home by Governor Li Tao. Without the protection of the new Emperor and with the country in a political upheaval and on the verge of a civil war, she doesn’t know what to make of this latest development so she ends up going with him as his prisoner.

Looking Good!

As you can probably tell (and if you can’t, your attention to details is really bad) we had a bit of a makeover. The old look was fine, albeit too pink for our taste, but given that we had no clue what we were doing when we first started the blog (we still don’t but we’re better at faking it…) we were never completely happy with the final look.

Now that the blog is a bit more established we decided that it was time to give it a new look. After doing a lot of research -and I mean a lot, I've been looking at blog designers for over three months now- we found the perfect place at Smitten by Blog Designs. They have great prices and a beautiful portfolio, so we couldn’t be happier with our choice. 

The reason for this post is to let you know that yes, it’s still us, we are only changing the look but the blog will remain the same, and to say thank you to Jacquelinne Altom, the best blog designer ever, for being so patient, listening to our feedback (and there was a lot of that), and for coming up with this beautiful and unique design.

We hope you like it as much as we do, and that you continue to show us the support that gave us the confidence we needed to take this new step into improving the quality of the blog. We just hit the 250 followers mark so the changes couldn’t have come at a better time. Thank you guys! 

Review: Only His by Susan Mallery

Source: we received an e-ARC of the book through NetGalley for review purposes. 

This is the third and last book in this new trilogy set in the fictional town of Fool’s Gold. If you are new to the series you should know that each book features one of the Hendrix’s triplets. Only His is Nevada’s book and her turn to find her happily ever after. 

Ten years ago Nevada was away from home about to start college and feeling like a fish out of water. It was the first time in her life that she wasn’t living at home and worse, it was her first attempt at being apart from her sisters. Her brother Ethan tells her to look up his old friend Tucker Janack who lives in town so she can at least have one familiar face while she settles into her new life. The first time she meets with him is love at first sight, but only for her. Tucker is infatuated to the point of obsession with a famous artist and only sees Nevada as the little girl he used to know. When Nevada finds that the artist left Tucker, she goes to console him and what she finds is a very drunk and heartbroken Tucker who ends up taking her virginity. And just when Nevada thinks he finally loves her, Tucker calls the artist’s name in the worst possible moment. Talk about humiliation… 

WINNERS!

This week we had several giveaways going so I've got a little list of winners to announce. I’ve already emailed the winners so if you didn't get an email from me please check your spam folder just in case. If you didn't get it let me know through a comment here or send me an email. 

Thanks to everyone who participated! 

Here are the winners: 

Meljean Brook’s Guardian Series: wanderinghues 

Cate Lord’s Lucky Girl: Maria 

Karen Rose Smith’s Reunion Brides Series: Marina M. 

Congratulations guys! I hope you enjoy the books as much as I enjoyed doing the giveaways.

Guest Post and Giveaway: Author Karen Rose Smith

Today we have a special guest and we couldn’t be happier about it! Bestselling author Karen Rose Smith is here to celebrate her newest release, Once Upon a Groom, and to share with us where she gets her inspiration from. 

I find this a very interesting topic, mostly because I always wonder how authors manage to come up with so many great ideas, and how do they channel all that and make it into a book. So who better person to tell us more about that than an author right? 

Help us give her a warm welcome! 

Guest Post & Giveaway: Author Cate Lord

We are very excited to welcome author Cate Lord to our little corner of the blogosphere. This is particularly special to us because it is our blog’s first guest post. 

If you are a fan of historical romance you might know Cate as Katherine Kean. Now under the pen name Cate Lord she is embarking on a whole new adventure writing contemporary romance. 

 Her first book, Lucky Girl, came out on September 6th and she is here today to share it with us and to talk about how it was for her to change genres and the difference between writing historical and contemporary romances. 

Without further ado we leave you with Cate Lord: