Today is the first day of my Jane Austen week and I’m very excited. I have read a lot of great books in preparation for this weeks reviews. Plus, I have lots of fun giveaways planned.
There will be something you can win everyday, but today’s the day for the Grand Prize listing.
All contests will be open until midnight on Saturday 9/25.
Comments from all posts will be gathered for the grand prize. Extra ways to earn entries are to post a facebook or blog post about the book girl’s Austen week, or tweet about the contest. (Please put link to post or tweet in separate comment)
Make sure to come back everyday for the Jane Austen and Austen inspired reviews and giveaways!!
Here is the GRAND PRIZE:
Jane Austen Action Figure
Pride & Prejudice DVD/Book
Assorted Jane Austen buttons and stickers
I Love Mr. Darcy coffee mug
Other things I find before it the prize is sent, lol….
Please email me asap (carrie@thebookgirl.net) with your address and I’ll get the book in the mail this week.
There will be lots of giveaways this week, starting on Monday the 21st. Make sure to check back every day for a chance to win.
Oh - and to the people who have won recently and are still waiting on their books. I’m mailing everything tomorrow morning, I’ve been sick and it will be my first day out of the house in over a week.
This week I’m giving away the first two stories in the Vampire Diaries series (book #1 and #2 in one book). I love these books and am really enjoying the new TV show!
To enter: leave a comment about the series (if you watch) or anything else you want to comment about (if you don’t)
Contest will run until 5pm CST on Sunday, and the winner will be announced on Sunday night at some point. U.S. addresses only please!
Macy Tucker was five years old when her beloved grandfather dropped dead in his spaghetti. At twelve, her father left his family in the dust. At twenty-five, her husband gave his secretary a pre-Christmas bonus in bed, and Macy gave him the boot. To put things lightly, men have been undependable.
That’s why dating is off the menu. Macy is focused on putting herself through law school - which means being the delivery girl for Papa’s Pizza. But cheesier than her job is her pie-eyed brother, who just recently escaped from prison to protect his new girlfriend. And hotter than Texas toast is the investigating detective. Proud, sexy…inflexible, he’s a man who would kiss her just to shut her up. But Jake Baldwin’s a protector as much as a dish. And when he gets him man - or his woman - Macy known it’s for life.
This was a really fun book. I hadn’t read anything by the author before and loved the humor in her writing. Macy and her crazy family are really fun characters and Jake is just HOT! His protective streak and the way he wouldn’t give up on Macy were very sexy. The “mystery” to the story isn’t the main plot, it is much more about Macy and Jake then her brother’s escape from prison or the murderer after Macy. I loved reading how Macy came to terms with Jake and their relationship. I immediately ordered more books by this author.
Next week, starting Monday the 21st,the book girl will be having a JANE AUSTEN WEEK.
All of the posts will be about Jane Austen inspired books and movies.
There will be several contests during the week, including the chance to win one of three ARCS of According to Jane by Marilyn Brant, Jane Austen books, and a special prize pack with lots of different Austen movies, books, and goodies!
Brooding Hawk St. Claire, Duke of Stourbridge, believes Jane Smith to be a mere servant girl - albeit a remarkable attractive one! So when genteel Miss Jane is wrongly turned out of her home for inappropriate behavior following their encounter, the duke takes her in as his ward.
Although Hawk is the first man to make Jane’s pulse race, she knows she cannot risk falling for his devastating charm. A marriage between them would be forbidden - especially if he were to discover the shameful truth about her…
This the first book in a new mini-series through Harlequin Historical. I really enjoyed it. The plot is simple and from the beginning I knew exactly how it was going to end, but getting there was an enjoyable read. Hawk is your typical alpha male Duke, who doesn’t want to be bothered with love even though he knows that he needs to marry in order to have an heir. Jane is a young woman who has been treated like a servant by her guardian’s family and sees a means of escape when Hawk is leaving the estate of her guardian. Neither one wants to fall in love with the other, not do they want to feel the way they do about each other. I liked this book enough to want to know what happens with the other family members, but probably would borrow from the library rather than buy them.
Maya Jackson doesn’t sleep with strangers. Until the night grief sent her to the nearest bar and into the arms of the most explosive lover she’s ever had. Six months later, the dedicated arson investigator is coming face-to-face with him again. Gorgeous, grinning Logan Cain. Her biggest mistake. Now her number one suspect in a string of deadly wildfires.
Risking his life on a daily basis is what gets Logan up in the morning. As the leader of the elite Tahoe Pines Hotshot Crew, he won’t back down from a blaze - or from beautiful, lethal Maya Jackson. She may have seduced him with her tears and her passion, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before Logan lets down his guard again. But when Maya’s life is threatened, his natural-born-hero instincts kick in, and Logan vows to protect the woman sworn to bring him down. And as desire reignites, nothing - not the killer fire nor the killer hot on their trail - can douse the flames…
I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I wanted to. Having read others by the author I expected more romance. The main characters are trust into a situation (arson) and in the middle of this they find love with each other. It just wasn’t realistic or believable to me. I wanted there to be more of a basis for Maya and Logan’s relationship than just the stress they were under and trying to solve the mystery of who was lighting the fires.
Irrepressible tomboy Dory Richards can change a tire faster than any man, yet when it comes to her love life she’s a lost cause. But sexy cowboy Clint Manning has a plan to uncover the woman she really is - and maybe a while lot more.
Wild at Heart
Ever since she accidentally walked in on rodeo star Ben Anderson in the buff Jessica Mead can’t get the memory of him out of her mind. But is topflight fashion editor Jessica another buckle bunny? Not a chance! Well, maybe just for this weekend…
Wildfire
Big-city reporter Lisa Stevens may have been rejected by hunky rancher Joe Manning five years ago, but she’s not about to give up the chase. She’s got a point to prove, even if she has to lasso the sexy stubborn cowboy to the bed to make it happen!
This is the first book in the Encounters mini-series that I’ve read. I hadn’t read the previous ones, because I like there to be more to the story than can be put in 70 or so pages. However, I really enjoyed this book. The three women are tied to a fourth (who will get her own story next year) who invites them all to her family’s ranch for the 4th of July. The three stories are short and get right to the heart of the couple. There isn’t necessarily a HEA at the end of each story, but the reader is led to believe that one will happen somewhere down that fictional road. Each couple is definitely HFN!
The winner for HER LAST LINE OF DEFENSE is….. Karen H in NC
The winner for FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME is…. Morning Glow
Please email me at carrie@thebookgirl.net with your address and I’ll get the books in the mail! Next week my giveaway will be the first Vampire Diaries omnibus!
Today is the first day of my Jane Austen week and I’m very excited. I have read a lot of great books in preparation for this weeks reviews. Plus, I have lots of fun giveaways planned.
This week I’m giving away the first two stories in the Vampire Diaries series (book #1 and #2 in one book). I love these books and am really enjoying the new TV show!
From the back of the book:
Next week, starting Monday the 21st,the book girl will be having a JANE AUSTEN WEEK.
From the back of the book:
From the back of the book:
From the back of the book:
