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Q: Which book genre do you avoid
at all costs and why?

Easy peasy: memoirs. I'm sorry but I just can't read memoirs of people I don't know or I don't admire A LOT. Maybe a biography of someone like Steve Jobs (that's what you get to like when your husband is a geek xD) or a writer like Anne Rice.
The only memoir I would read for sure would be my mom's, but that's because she is just plain awesome ^^

Until a few months ago I would have said horror books but I'm getting there, you know, sometimes, if the book is not just plain gross I can read it and then feel proud of myself. But one step at a time, no rush here xD

What about you, guys? What genre you can even touch?

Book Review: My Soul to Lose

My Soul to Lose

by Rachel Vincent

Series: Soul Screamers #0.5
Release date: 1st July, 2009
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 87 (Ebook bought by me)

Summary from Goodreads:

It was supposed to be a fun day, shopping at the mall with her best friend. Then the panic attack started and Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself screaming, unable to stop. Her secret fears are exposed and it's the worst day of her life.

Until she wakes up in the psychiatric unit.

She tries to convince everyone she's fine--despite the shadows she sees forming around another patient and the urge to scream which comes burbling up again and again. Everyone thinks she's crazy. Everyone except Lydia, that is. Another patient with some special abilities...

Cover Reveal: Playing to Win

The cover of the 4th Play by Play series is here and I HAVE to share it... I mean, we are all friends, right? And friends make other friends smile, right? :D

This is me being nice and friendly - you can thank me later ;)

Playing to Win
by Jaci Burton
Official Blurb:

Cole Riley’s a hot headed football player who has put his career on the line with his off field behavior. Consultant Savannah Brooks comes on board to save his image—and to get his game on the right track. When two opposing forces collide, there’s bound to be sparks.

Now, ladies, please tell me, what do you think of the model? Because let me tell you that I'm almost hyperventilating. And I need my asthma spray right now.

Seriously... where did she get so yummy models?! I want one too! And I want him to live with me ;)
I love the way she writes but the covers are one of the main reasons I buy this books xD

So, opinions, please!

Contest alert!

Lovely people, I have WONDERFUL news... I'm so excited!!! xD
And believe, I'm sure I'm overreacting but... I mean, come on! There's a contest about a series that I seriously LOVE and I have to participate and share so here goes:

This is the new animated trailer for So Silver Bright (Théâtre Illuminate #3) and it's amazing!



And where is the contest you wonder, right? Well, click HERE to be redirected to Lisa Mantchev's blog and read it yourself. Basically you have to share the love and send her an e-mail so... what are you waiting for?! The prize, if you have read the series, is so cool!!!

In case you haven't read the books here are the links to me reviews:

- Eyes Like Stars
- Perchance to Dream
- So Silver Bright

And in each review you can buy the books by clicking on the Amazon or BookDepository links ;)

Enjoy!

Book Review: So Silver Bright by Lisa Mantchev

So Silver Bright

by Lisa Mantchev
Series: Théâtre Illuminata #3
Release date: 13th, September, 2011
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 354 (Hardcover bought by me)

Summary from Goodreads:

All Beatrice Shakespeare Smith has ever wanted is a true family of her own. And she’s close to reuniting her parents when her father disappears. Now Bertie must deal with a vengeful sea goddess and a mysterious queen as she tries to keep her family – and the Theatre Illuminata – from crumbling. To complicate it all, Bertie is torn between her two loves, Ariel and Nate.

Book Review: The Demon Lover

The Demon Lover

by Juliet Dark
Series: Fairwick Chronicles #1
Release date: 27th December, 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 416 (ARC thanks to NetGalley in exchange for an honest review)
Next Book: Untitled

Summary from Goodreads:

Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of writing her bestselling book, The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. After all, Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she finds herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name.

But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: He’s not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this demon lover from her heart.