The Book Cove

It's technically 11:13pm, July 31st as I write this. So even though I'm behind for my weekly update on upcoming events - I'm at least getting this in before the first ;-) 1.) First order of business - The Book Cove has had the wonderful opportunity to have Wayne Hicks of  eBookOnFire provide guest reviews for our site. Now, his company is attempting to take indie and self-publishing authors to a place they've never been before. A place where authors keep a majority of their profit shares and get paid weekly! With his network of manuscript proofers, copy editors, and design specialists, he's able to provide a top-notch publishing service to those authors who wish to have more control over their book-publishing needs and wants. On top of general publishing services, eBookOnFire provides promotional and social networking opportunities. And if that isn't awesome enough - coming soon is an On Demand printing service . That's right - overnight printing and shi...

The Book Cove is part of a Blog Hop that was organized by the wonderful Parajunkee and Alison Can Read . So please, check out their sites and follow them :-) What is a Blog Hop? It is a great way for bloggers to connect! Bloggers can enter their site information to a Blog Hop form where they are then added to a list. Then each blogger goes through the list and follows whomever they want! How can you get involved? The deadline for the current one is coming to a close - but there are always more going on! Joining Linky is a great way to discover other Hops. What do you need to do? The key to a hop is to follow each other and allow our blogs to reach a broader community. So in common blogger-courtesy, please follow-back those that follow you. My Blog Lovin' and Networked Blogs follow links, specifically, are icons 2 and 3 at the top of the page (hover over for descriptions of each) Linky is in side bar - Choose your poison ;-) Blog Hop blog question: What do you do with b...

Over the last month Book Cove Reviews has undergone some major renovations. I'm sure our frequent visitors have found a lot of day-to-day changes, and while it may have been frustrating, I'm excited to announce that we are finally about where we would like to be! Here's a sneak peak of our hot-off-the-press newsletter: (Because I'm having trouble providing an online copy without loosing the embedded links, you must sign up to receive it via email. Any suggestions on how to archive "working" files online is appreciated)

The Love Deception by Jennifer St-George (Good Reads): When Felicity Carter wakes up naked in a strange bed, she has no idea how she got there. And no recollection of meeting the gorgeous man calmly offering her breakfast. Shocked and embarrassed, Felicity flees – hoping that their paths never cross again. The last thing she expects is to discover that her mystery man is Damon Fullbright, partner at the law firm where Felicity has just started work – and her new boss! Damon is appalled to find the young woman he rescued has been hired to work on his team. Apart from anything else, he doesn't need the distraction. Despite their early misconceptions, their appreciation for each other – both personally and professionally – begins to grow. But when Damon discovers what Felicity's been hiding, how will he ever trust her again? A gripping romance that combines courtroom intrigue with a dash of Barbados, The Love Deception is the latest book from Jennifer St George. R...

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Apple recently lost a lawsuit that claimed they were teaming up with certain publishers to push the $9.99 eBook limit that is set on Amazon and sell the books instead for $12+. Apple's reasoning being that eBooks are the same as bound books and should ultimately be valued the same. I buy eBooks for 2 reasons: they're cheap and they're at my fingertips. Bound books will always be my true love. I'm one of those that enjoys the feeling and smell of a good book. To me, eBooks lack value when compared with bound books for the following reasons: 1.) You're never quite sure of the quality until you buy it (publishing, editing, formatting etc.). Granted, you can return it - but it's considered bad practice and Amazon will not allow you to return any more books after you hit a certain mark. (Rumor is 30ish - and if you read a lot , you can hit that mark pretty easily) 2.) You can't loan them as easily to anyone. Granted, some eBooks have the loan feature, bu...

Friday Night Alibi by Cassie Mae Expected release date: July 29th, 2013 Random House Publishing Group - Flirt I received this book as an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review. (Author) A practical soon-to-be college freshman who seems to have everything—until a special guy shows her what she’s been missing. In the wealthy town of Sundale, Kelli Pinkins has hatched the perfect plan to capitalize on her sweet reputation. For a generous fee, she will be every trust-fund baby’s dream: a Friday-night alibi, the “girlfriend” or “BFF” that parents dream about. With college approaching in the fall, Kelli’s services are in demand more than ever, which means that her social life is nonexistent. But Kelli is A-okay with that. She’s raking in cash for school. Besides, relationships are tricky, and sometimes very messy. She’d rather be at home on Xbox LIVE, anyway. Then the unexpected happens: She meets college stud Chase Maroney. Chase isn’t like the pre...

Loosing It by Cora Carmack Published October 5th, 2012 (Good Reads): Virginity. Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible-- a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new theatre professor. She'd left him naked in her bed about 8 hours earlier. Review:     So once again I am starting a review by saying - I was expecting so much more from Loosing It than what I got! The other reviews were raving about this deep connection and the wonderful play-out of the book. I had a hard time finding that "co...

Wild Blood (Vampire in the City, #2) Published February 6th 2012   Wild Blood is book 2 of the Vampire in the City series. Start with New Blood (Book 1) before reading this review. There will be some spoilers from New Blood . (Good Reads) Recently-turned vampire Emma Hammond is not only getting used to her undead lifestyle, but also to living with her new and unlikely roommates--her human best friend Tammy, and David, a werewolf. While the girls speculate as to possible drawbacks to having such a fuzzy tenant (shedding and marking of territory, to name a few), nothing will prepare them for the dispute that is to come between the NYC clan of vampires and an upwardly-mobile werewolf pack from the suburbs. Will Emma be able to get out of it with both her undead life, and her blossoming friendship with David, intact? And, perhaps more importantly, will she be able to choose between Alex Thompson, her sire and sometimes lover, and James, a slightly-unhinged vam...

Shattered Promises (#1) by Jessica Sorensen Published February 26th, 2013 (Good Reads): For twenty-one year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. She knows nothing about her past and has been haunted by the same monsters in her nightmares for the last few months. Unemotional and numb to life, she feels disconnected from everyone. Until the very first day she cries. After that, nothing in her life is the same. Her emotions slowly surface and she starts experiencing love, happiness, and anger, feelings she never knew existed. But they leave her confused and she doesn’t know whether to embrace them or run away from them. Her life only gets more complicated when she meets Alex. Sexy, arrogant, and secretive, Alex can get under Gemma’s skin like no one can. Yet she’s drawn to him by an invisible connection she has no control over. She’s also seen him before. In her nightmares. Every part of Gemma’s mind is screaming at her to stay away from Alex, but every other part of ...

The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines Published October 12th, 2011 (Good Reads) Ashton is getting tired of being good, of impressing her parents and playing ideal girlfriend to Sawyer Vincent. Sawyer is perfect, a regular Prince Charming, but when he leaves town for the summer, it’s his cousin Beau who catches Ashton’s eye. Beau is the sexiest guy she’s ever seen, and even though he’s dangerous, Ashton is drawn to him. Beau loves his cousin like a brother, so the last thing he wants to do is make a move on Sawyer’s girl. Ashton is off-limits, absolutely. That’s why he does his best to keep his distance, even though he’s been in love with her forever. When Ashton wants to rekindle their childhood friendship in Sawyer’s absence, Beau knows he should say no. Ashton and Beau don’t want to hurt Sawyer. But the more they try to stay away from each other, the more intense their urges become. It’s getting way too hard to resist.... Review: Abbi, oh Abbi. How I love your image...

Heir in Exile (Royals Book 3) by Danielle Bourdon Published March 4th, 2013 by Wildbloom Press Heir in Exile is the 3rd installment to Danielle Bourdon's Latvala Royals series. Before reading on, you should check out Heir Untamed and King and Kingdom . These are not standalone books. (Amazon): Chey's return to Latvala is fraught with deception. She enters the country illegally upon Prince Sander's request, and, realizing they cannot hide their relationship much longer, prepare to announce their status to the King and Queen. Neither could have imagined the lengths the ruling Monarchs would go to keep the two apart. Chey must go on the run to save her own life while Sander is forced into exile. Their journey takes a harrowing turn when a dark secret emerges, one the King and Queen will do anything to protect. Will Chey and Sander find their way back together again? Or will King Aksel's menace drive them apart for good? Review: Okay, so in  Heir ...

Head Over Heels by Cindy Procter-King (Good Reads): Magee Sinclair has had it up to her sassy short hairdo with the financial difficulties a recent rash of blunders has caused her family's advertising agency. How will she prove she deserves the promotion her father has in mind for her when she keeps making silly mistakes? New client Justin Kane's goal to expand his bike stores hinges on a distributorship deal with a bike manufacturer he needs to impress during a couples mountain-biking weekend. He's supposed to bring his steady girl. But Justin's girlfriend dumps him, and he needs a woman to replace her. To masquerade as her. By tomorrow. Magee, an expert mountain biker, is the perfect choice... Or so he thinks. Major trouble for Magee, who isn't the expert she's claimed in this comedy of errors abound with fake identities, ex-lovers popping up out of nowhere, and a whole lot of door-slamming in the middle of the night Review: Head Over Hee...

Elite (Eagle Elite) By Rachel Van Dyken (Good Reads) When I won the annual Eagle Elite College Scholarship lottery, I was thrilled. After all, my grandma had just died and I wanted to take care of my aging grandpa -- he couldn't be a farmer in Wyoming forever. And graduating from Eagle Elite meant opportunity. But I wasn't counting on meeting Nixon. Nor was I counting on the rules of the Elect. 1. Do not touch The Elect. 2. Do not look at The Elect. 3. Do not speak to The Elect. And worst of all? Don't discover the secret they hide, because in the end, you may just realize... it's about you.   Review: One word: AMAZING! Rachel really nailed it with this one. Having read a few of hers now, I've grown to appreciate her as an author. Elite (Eagle Elite) is the first installment of the Elite series and I am definitely continuing on when the next book is out. Where do I even start with this?? It's a story about giving up a life you were comfort...

Love Me in Shadows (Behind the Mask, #1) by Tess Harper (Good Reads): It seemed so innocent at first. I don't know, maybe I should have told someone, but they were just letters. I got so I looked forward to them. I started to depend on them. Until, when he finally asked to meet me, I felt as if I already knew him. But I didn't. I wanted him. It didn't matter that I didn't know his name. It didn't matter that he always hid his face from me. He had his secrets, but then again, I had my own. But some secrets are more dangerous than others, and soon I found myself sinking into a dark world I knew nothing about. I thought I understood the consequences. I thought I could face anything with him by my side. Review: Tess Harper is a new author. I happened to stumble across this first book of hers on my eReader and it was cheap so I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, Love Me in Shadows screams amateur. The book at the time of purchase (June 11t...