The winner of the Jennifer Crusie Battle of the Heroes is:
This battle was the closest we ever got, because Cal won by just one vote which was pretty hot damn cool! Thanks to everyone who participated and stay tuned for more Author Spotlight fun to come in June…=)
Congrats to all of you Cal fans out there, you guys helped bring your hero over the top! =)
Hugs,
Rowena and the gals at Book Binge.
Thanks to everyone who entered our Pimp Nightkeepers Contest. I really can’t wait for all of you to read the book and let me know what you think.
With the help of random.org, we selected two winners. I’ll need you both to email me your mailing information to thebookbinge at gmail dot com (no spaces) as soon as possible.
Congrats ladies! Your prizes will be mailed out on Tuesday.
We have a lot more coming up next week, so be sure to check back!
Happy Reading,
Holly, Rowena and Casee
Nightkeepers (Novels of the Final Prophecy, Book 1) by Jessica Andersen will be available June 3, 2008. Check out Holly’s review here and our interview with the author here.
The cover for the new Stephenie Meyer’s book Breaking Dawn was revealed today! Woohoo (yes, it’s true, I do get excited about the little things in life!) Release date: August 2.
Dear Anon Author,
A word of advice from your friendly local book reviewer:
When you submit a book for review to this review site, you have to understand that it’s going to be reviewed, whether it was a fabulous book or an awful book. In case you aren’t aware, in the “About Us” section, we have a disclaimer that states authors and/or publishers are free to submit books for review, but just because you submitted it does not guarantee a good review. If it sucks big donkey balls, we’re going to tell the world.
Unfortunately, your book sucked big donkey balls. I felt the need to tell the world. Leaving comments to the effect of “You’re mean” and “It’s unethical to tell people to steer clear of my book” isn’t going to change the fact that your book sucked big donkey balls. I’d also like to point out that leaving comments saying things like “I meant to write them as idiot characters” and “It was supposed to be written with grammatical and typographical errors” (not that you actually used those words..I think they might be too big for you) “because that’s my writing ‘voice'” does nothing but make you look like a fucktard.
Yes, a big fucktard.
As long as we’re discussing you being a fucktard, I’d like to go one step further here and say it’s probably not advisable to Google the title of your book and then leave tell your friends so they can leave “annoymous” comments on posts saying things like, “There’s a difference between honesty and nastiness”. Because you’re right, there is a difference.
I’d say I’m being honest when I say your book was one of the worst books I read in 2007. I’d say I’m being nasty when I say if you aren’t one of the stupidest people on the face of the Earth, I don’t know who is.
I’d also say I’m being nasty when I state the following:
“Adra Steia is a fucktard. She writes shitty books and then cries when she gets bad reviews for said shitty books. Then she leaves anonymous comments on said reviews and/or other posts further cementing her fucktard status. In my not very humble opinion, no one – and I mean absolutely no one – should read A Year Of You. Ever. Unless they want their eyes to bleed and/or their head to explode. Trust me, that’s time you can never get back. Don’t waste it.”
See, that was nasty. Uh, and honest. Jeez, I guess there isn’t really a difference between honesty and nastiness after all.
Just Sayin’.
Holly
P.S. The sad part is, had you not said a word about it, I would have gladly bought more of your books, because I really liked the first one I read. Maybe next time you’ll think about that and control the impulse to comment..anonymously or otherwise.
*Turns out I was wrong, and Adra Steia herself didn’t leave a comment on our Worst Reads of 2007 post. One of her “friends” did. Since Ms. Steia has changed her story some, I’m not sure exactly HOW said friend came to leave a comment there, but according to our Stat Counter website, AS did a Google search for her book, found our Worst Reads post and emailed it to her friends so they could “laugh” about it.
Melissa‘s review of Narcissus in Chains, book ten in Laurell K. Hamilton‘s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.
“The last thing on God’s green earth that I needed was another man in my life…
I didn’t have a clue what to do with the two I had already. The fact that they were, respectively, a Master Vampire and an Ulfric, werewolf king, was only part of the problem…They both had my libido, but I was trying to decide who had my heart…
Obsidian Butterfly is still my favorite LKH book. I had very high expectations for Narcissus in Chains.
It starts off well enough. Even though it wasn’t within my comfort level. Anita is up against a couple of different monsters. She has been spending the last 6 months separating herself from the 2 men in her life, trying to move forward with out them. But, it is weakening her, and them (yes, we learned this from the last book).
So, here we are. The time has come for Anita to call on her men, she needs their help. To save one of her leopards, they marry the marks that bind the 3 of them together, which allows them to share and grow their powers, then the fight begins. Anita almost dies.
Now the some monsters are revealed. She doesn’t die, but they think she may have been infected by a shapeshifter AND Anita gets Jean-Claude’s ardeur. These are just some of the changes Anita is going through, internal monsters she has to fight. Plus there is a new man in the picture, a leopard, and we can’t forget about the real bad guy that is out there. The one that is hurting people.
I liked this book, just not as much as I liked the others. I feel like the vibe is changing. Anita used to kick ass and take names. She is still kicking butts, just checking out all the butts she didn’t kick, too. She is not sleeping with all of them, yet. A big part of it is the ardeur, but you just sense that pretty soon she is going to change.
I am going to take that change hard, she had such high standards in the beginning. Her morals are slipping and with them my respect of Anita.
My favorite Line:
“Well, that just fries my bacon,”
Grade: 3.75