His Irish Bride.

Yup, this is the other book direct from Abby Green. Of course it's autographed:



And again of course, I read her story first. And just finished it! Yeah! And now I have no book by her in my TBR! OMG!

Her story is titled The Brazilian Billionaire's Bride.

Favourite part? *Spoiler* When Caleb got back Maggie's old Mini. And those tin cans tied to the bumper on strings. And that huge sign. Awwww. *End Spoiler*

My usual Rant: I love the story, every page is so emotionally charged, the ending never fails to make me cry, and I'm totally satisfied when I reached the end. I don't need to read more of the story. It's VERY satisfying. I just need more, like in the form of another story. Oh I love it when Caleb said "I love you" (when don't I?) *re-reads that part*. Wow. I love reading romance so much.

You know, I'm getting really interested in Dublin. Where's that place again?

Just read Ruthless Bedded, Forcibly Wedded.

Gawd I love Abby Green's ending speeches. Or grovelling speeches, making-up speeches whatever you call them. They're so looong, never draggy, and just so damn satisfying. The stories just ties up very, very well at the end. For me. It didn't make me frustrated that I needed more from the characters, the stories.

Eh, I do need more, another book like this please. ☺

Oh see above photo? Envy me.

* Some sort of spoilers *

You know when it comes to reading romance, I never really liked it when the heroes think to love is to let go. I'm like, oh com'on go chase after the girl already, stop trying to be a saint or what, the girl loves it if you chase her. But in Abby Green's books, like this Ruthless Bedded, Forcibly Wedded, which I just finished, it just feels so right to let the heroine go and have her come back to him. The little short scene when Cara finds Vincenzo in his room? Wow. Bloodshot eyes? I wish all heroes have that.

* End some sort of spoilers *

Gawd I love everything about this book, every moment is so emotional. Right from page one. That's why when I start I couldn't put it down, and even after I finish, it will be stuck in my mind.

Love it.



I have another autographed book by Abby Green, and I'll only reveal it the next time I read it heheh.

In my Mail.. Valentine's Day Wishes!

From Susanna Carr. ☺ It's a postcard:



Hmm, I was confused by that white strip at the bottom. I think it's some thing used by the post office. Anyway, it's easily removed, leaves no sticky residue, so here:



^ Valentine's Day Wishes from Susanna Carr. ♥ ♥



^ The back.



^ For anyone who wants to read it.



^ Stamps!

Stolen the below cover from Susanna Carr's website:

Absolutely gorgeous! I've always wanted to have sexy knee-high boots, but everytime I think of the hot weather in my country, I have second thoughts buying it. I still crave them sometimes though. Should I get them?

The Year of Living Shamelessly is an October 2009 release. Maybe that should be my deadline to buy myself a pair of sexy knee-high boots. Maybe.

Pre-order the book at Amazon here.

Being single, I'm not big on Valentine's Day. But still I think it's no harm wishing couples out there a happy Valentine's Day. Wish you all happy-ever-afters!

In my Mail.. from Sasha White!

I love books. Argh I so love them. Especially when they have gorgeous (and sexy) covers. Love them.



This post is overdue for about.. a month ago. Sorry! I won the above two books at a giveaway at Sasha White's blog. Thank you Ms White!

More photos:


^ The envelope.


^ My Prerogative.

Yes, I did state that I already own the eBook version already before entering the giveaway. But holding the fabulous book in your hands is such a wondrous feeling. Go away eBook.

My road to My Prerogative:
Before this book is released, I've seen the cover around, and of course I really liked it and would love to own a copy, all because of the cover. Big cover junkie I am.

Then time passed, blah blah blah, and then one day, I was surfing the net and was hit by a serious-sudden-urge-to-buy-a-new-book-to-read. Like, asap. NOW. So I was clicking around blogs, saw that My Prerogative has been released, and after briefly scanning through 4 excerpts (they were everywhere) of the book, I immediately went to purchase it at Books on Board (here's the Fictionwise link if anyone prefers it there). And viola, got a new eBook downloaded to my pc in about 5 minutes after I got hit by the serious-sudden-urge-to-buy-a-new-book-to-read.

eBook is a very dangerous technology.

A few seconds later, I transfered the eBook to my mobile phone and cuddled up on the bed to read it. And then OMFG what a story. It became my favourite book of 2008. And my best impluse buy ever. Ever. EVAH!


^ The back. I like the book spine really. Red, bold text. Wow.


^ Autographed. Wow.

It's really an awesome feeling owning the book. It's not just a great story, it's something seriously way better than great, and.. it's great! Pardon my limited vocab, even with the amount of reading I do.

I loved the way the story was told. The heroine is written in first person, and we get to know a good damn lot of how she feels. The hero is written from a third person view, it makes him.. puzzling? Mysterious? (Insert-suitable-word-of-your-choice)? It's like there're so much more to him that we don't know, won't know, reading it from a third person. This is the first time I read a book like this and it works darn well for me. I won't have it written any other way! I highly doubt I'll get the same feeling. Sundays at Tiffany's (by James Patterson) is written like that too. It so works! Love both books. I cried hard at both of them. It's the romance dude. Romance! ♥

Moar photos:


^ Sexy Devil. Yes I got this in the mail too.


^ Don'cha wana see more of that hunk? Primal Male is the sequel to this book.


^ Yup. Envy Me.

And of course there's more to envy about me:


^ Mini bookmarks.


^ From top-left: Sexy Devil, Lush, Gypsy Heart, Bound
From bottom-left: Trouble, Wicked, My Prerogative.


^ Blurbs at the back.

My first Sasha White read (and my only read before I got My Prerogative) is 'The Crib' in the anthology Pure Sex. The ending is like a major cliff hanger to me. I was pleasantly (wrong word) surprised to discover that they're going to star in another novella as main characters. YYAHHOOO! YIPPEEE! AAHHHHHH! Really? I wish for a happily-ever-after, but I'd settle for a happy-for-now ending. I wanted them to stay together. Unless there's a promise of a future story about them. Here's the hot cover for that book (an anthology):

It's out May 26th. And today is 13th Feburary. Damn.



A BIG thanks to Sasha White for making this post possible, and also for making me extremely happy!



☺

In my Mail.. OMG!

This post is overdue. All my fault.





I won The Wrong Bride over at Susanna Carr's blog. That was a really hard to find book. None at used-book stores, and it's out of print at Amazon. It had been horrible! But thanks to the contest, now I own it I got it oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah.

It's delivered by Leena Hyat of Author Sound Relations. Thank you!





I think I spent about 15 mins carefully opening the very well-sealed envelope.

There's also a brochure for Jenesi Ash (A pen name for Susanna Carr). It features Swap (which I have in eBook format) and Chain Reaction (which I don't have).

Front:


Back:


And this, THIS is the best part: ♥






OMG RED-HOT AND ROYAL. What's it doing in that mail? (Okay, I believe I did mention in the email to Susanna Carr that I do not own The Wrong Bride and Red-Hot and Royal yet..) Thank you thank you thank you! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

And now I have ALL Susanna Carr's books. I have proof:



In the photo from top to bottom:
- Valentine's Day is Killing Me (Anthology with MaryJanice Davidson & Leslie Esdaile)
- The Wrong Bride (Yay!)
- Red-Hot and Royal (OMG)
- Bad Girl Bridesmaids
- Pink Ice
- Ex, Why, and Me (My fav ♥)
- Lip Lock
- Confessions of a "Wicked" Woman
- How to be a "Wicked" Woman (Anthology with MaryJanice Davidson & Jamie Denton)
- "Wicked" Women 101
- Merry Christmas Baby (Anthology with Donna Kauffman, Nancy Warren, Erin McCarthy, MaryJanice Davidson, & Lucy Monroe)
- Beach Blanket Bad Boys (Anthology with Linda Lael Miller, Alison Kent, Lucy Monroe, Jill Shalvis, & Morgan Leigh)

Thanks again to Susanna Carr and Leena Hyat. ♥ ♥

In my Mail.. from Karen Kelley!

Update: Edited broken links.

This post is long overdue. ☺





^ That's the mass paperback of I'm Your Santa, an anthology by Lori Foster, Dianne Castell and Karen Kelley. I won this book over at a contest by Karen Kelley at the Brava Authors blog. Lucky me. There's glitter on the santa image, the hearts and the title. Didn't expect that. Here's a close-up:



The glitter makes the cover pretty, but it's still no match for the hunk on the trade paperback version:



Of course there're bookmarks included in the mail:


There's two of the same kind. Am I suppose to give one away? Can I don't? I wana keep all. I'm selfish like that.



^ The back of the bookmarks lists the books by Karen Kelley.

And a letter:


With a description of her up-coming book My Favorite Phantom, out Dec 30, 2008. *Notes in calendar.

I'm scared. Can I sleep in your bed?

When Professor Peyton Cache bought a big, gloomy, romantic Victorian house, he should have expected a ghost. He certainly got one, the kind that likes to float his undies around and drop slime in the stairwell for fun. But the professor can't let the rest of the faculty know he's lost his mind, so he hires a ghost hunter on the down-low. But somehow, when he booked a ghost hunter, he didn't think that he was getting a live-in leggy blonde with an attitude like a Jersey gangster and a body like a pinup poster...

Kaci Melton needs to hide out for a while, and where better to disappear than a haunted house on one of her dad's ghost-hunting jobs? All she'll have to do is deal with a crabby old professor for a couple of days and kick out one measly ghost. Two problems: the professor is a tasty young guy with piercing blue eyes, six-pack abs, and a penchant for talking dirty. And the ghost scares the panties off her...actually given the professor, maybe that's not a problem. But if she can't tell him the truth - and she can't - how is she going to get him to keep up all that wonderful sex? Especially when she's starting to kinda like him...

Don't you wana read it? Go pre-order @ Amazon.

Check out her Nerak series, Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind (book one), Cosmic Sex (book two), and The Bad Boys Guide To The Galaxy (book three). They're freaking hilarious and hot. One other book by her I've read is Temperature's Rising. I still remember how much I enjoy the moment when the hero found out that the heroine is not a hooker after all. ☺

Oh, the best part:


Thank you Ms Kelley! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

In my mail.. from Meljean Brooks!

I won a book over at Meljean Brook's blog, and it's just so awesome. Meljean Brook is awesome ♥.

The envelope that had me screaming and dancing around my living room:


The book inside: First Blood by Susan Sizemore, Erin McCarthy, Chris Marie Green, and ♥ Meljean Brook!


The extra goodies from Meljean Brook:


The back of the bookmarks:


And the best part:


Thank you so much Ms Brook! ☺

Magical Mail from Lucinda Betts.

The past tuesday evening, I received a snail mail from the lovely Lucinda Betts (yes, the wonderful Aphrodisia author) and it costed her a freaking US$6.

She is really, really, really, really nice enough to send me a copy of Moon Shadow:

And autographed it too:

That's my real name, starting with the "S".

I've also shamelessly requested for a separate little piece of paper to be autographed so that I can stick it on my own copy of Pure Sex. And I got a cute heart-shaped post-it:

That's all I've expected out of the mail. Really. But I forgot I'm dealing with a very generous author here:

To my surprise, included in the mail too are four bookmarks featuring Lucinda Betts' works! All autographed too!

There's also the the cover art for Lucinda Betts' up-coming release The Supplicant. I like the purple. And yes, also autographed!

The inside of the cover of The Supplicant :

And lastly, a printed excerpt of The Supplicant is also included!:

If not for the fact that I'm still young and very *cough *cough* healthy, I would have gotten a heart attack when I got all these.

Anyway, thanks again Ms Lucinda Betts , you are really a wonderful lady! You made my day!