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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Closed: Giveaway: Audiobook The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker

Thank you to everyone that entered. There were 10 different entrants and a total of 20 entries!

Here are the three winners:
1) karenk
2) DCMetroreader
3) Jane

Emails are being sent to the winners. Thank you again for entering and congratulations to the winners. I hope you enjoy them.

All winners were chosen using Random.org

-Jennifer

Thanks to Anna at Hachette I can giveaway 3 copies of this one.

About the Book

FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.

It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.

In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside.

As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target.

The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?

For more information about this book please visit Hachette's website.

Giveaway Info

The giveaway will end 6/16/10 at 11:59pm (EST)

Rules:
1) Only winners from the US and Canada
2) No PO boxes

To enter:
1) Leave a comment with your email address (so I can contact you if you win!)
2) Get an extra entry for following my blog (let me know if you're a new follower or have been following for a while!)
3) Get a third entry for mentioning this giveaway: On your blog, facebook, twitter... anywhere (Make sure to leave me a link or your SN so I can verify!)
4) Get an extra for referring friends who become followers of my blog. Have them mention your name in their comments. (along with all their info!!)

!!!REMEMBER!!!! If you do not leave your e-mail in your comment you will not be entered into the giveaway!!!

The winners will be randomly drawn and notified by email.

Good Luck and thank you for reading my blog!

Closed: Giveaway: Babushka's Beauty Secrets by Raya Ruder & Susan Campos

Thank you to everyone that entered. There were 18 different entrants and a total of 31 entries!

Here are the three winners:
1) monapete
2) Benita
3) Misusedinnocence

Emails are being sent to the winners. Thank you again for entering and congratulations to the winners. I hope you enjoy them.

All winners were chosen using Random.org

-Jennifer

Thanks to Anna at Hachette I can giveaway 3 copies of this one.

About the Book

DON'T SPEND A FORTUNE TO LOOK FLAWLESS Esthetician to the stars Raisa Ruder learned her time-tested beauty techniques from her Ukrainian grandmother (or babushka, as they say in the old country). Now everyone can discover the all-natural, better-than-botox secrets the Hollywood stars use to shine on the red carpet! Ruder reveals her sought-after beauty recipes that can fight wrinkles, plump lips, and eliminate crow's feet and acne, using inexpensive, everyday grocery items like eggs, honey, vegetable oil and strawberries (and a splash of vodka for freshness!).

For more information about this book please visit Hachette's website.

Giveaway Info

The giveaway will end 6/16/10 at 11:59pm (EST)

Rules:
1) Only winners from the US and Canada
2) No PO boxes

To enter:
1) Leave a comment with your email address (so I can contact you if you win!)
2) Get an extra entry for following my blog (let me know if you're a new follower or have been following for a while!)
3) Get a third entry for mentioning this giveaway: On your blog, facebook, twitter... anywhere (Make sure to leave me a link or your SN so I can verify!)
4) Get an extra for referring friends who become followers of my blog. Have them mention your name in their comments. (along with all their info!!)

!!!REMEMBER!!!! If you do not leave your e-mail in your comment you will not be entered into the giveaway!!!

The winners will be randomly drawn and notified by email.

Good Luck and thank you for reading my blog!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Closed: Giveaway: Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn

The winners have been choosen:

1) Cindy W
2) grannyvon
3) LAMusing
4) Simply Stacie
5) karenk

Emails have been sent. I used Random.Org to choose the winners.

Thank you for entering. Please don't forget about my other giveaways.

Thanks to Anna at Hachette I can giveaway 5 copies of this one.

Review: Blog Tour: Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn

Thank you to Anna at Hachette for letting me participate in this blog tour!

About the Book

FORBIDDEN LOVE

Davina Montgomery is no ordinary English lady. For her own protection, she's been locked away from society, her true identity the Crown's most closely guarded secret. Until a shocking betrayal--and a bold rescue--land her in the arms of a fierce Highlander, a powerful warrior whose searing gaze and tantalizing touch awaken her body and soul.

UNDENIABLE DESIRE

As the firstborn son of a powerful Scottish laird, Robert MacGregor has no loyalty to the English throne, but he's not the kind of man to leave a woman in distress, even if she is English. He vows to deliver Davina to safety, unharmed and untouched. Yet one stolen kiss leaves them both smoldering with desire...and desperate for more. With Davina's secret threatening to destroy his clan, Rob must choose between everything he holds dear and the one woman he can't live without.

My Review

This book was so full of anticipation, and yet there was so much that was a surprise. There was so much that I was waiting to have happen, and then there was so much that I didn't expect to happen while waiting for the other stuff to happen.

I really liked this one. Davina was so naive and yet so smart and cunning. I don't really know what to think about her. She was a good character, but it seemed just as you got used to her one way there was an added dimension that I didn't expect her to have.

I also liked Rob, and in my head he looks like Sean Connery via James Bond. Not all Scottish men look like him, I know, but that was all that I could picture while reading this one....

The story itself was very good. Like I said there were some things that I was expecting to happen, and the anticipation of waiting for those things to happen was almost too much to take. But while waiting for those things (Like Davina's secret being revealed) there was a bit that went on that I didn't expect (like the huge betrayal...). But the anticipation was rewarded with a great story.

It took me a little bit to get used to the dialect, as it's written how it would sound if said with a Scottish accent (which I think is why I pictured Sean Connery as it was his voice I heard saying everything). But once I figured that out, cause I was a little slow on that front..., I didn't have any other issues.

The story had a good pace, there were a few slow scenes but after some of the things that happened I kind of needed the break.... In the end I would have to say it was a great story and I can't wait for the next in the series.

Ravished by a Highlander

Guest Blog Post: Author Caroline Shearer

This week's guest blog is from author Caroline Shearer. She's the author of Adventures of a Lightworker: Dead End Date the first in the Adventures of a Lightworker series. Caroline is sharing a little bit about her book, to whet your appetite. Next week she'll be answering questions from my readers.

Hello, Readers! It is a pleasure to be a guest blogger here! Thank you for welcoming me! :)
What I’d like to do this week is introduce you to my book and to the spiritual ideas that weave the background for the series. Then, YOU can write in questions, and I’ll choose a few to answer next week! Sounds FUN!

First of all, “Adventures of a Lightworker: Dead End Date” is a mystery, as will be each of the books in the Adventures of a Lightworker series. In “Dead End Date,” Faith's blind date is found dead, and Faith feels drawn to solve the crime, using her spiritual and earthly gifts to uncover the way. Faith also discovers she hasn’t been fulfilling her purpose as a lightworker and is given one year to impact the world - or be pulled from Earth! So – we have these two elements to play with for questions! :)

In many ways, Faith is an everyday woman. She has too much going on in her head, she often has a negative outlook, she’s a mess when it comes to romantic love, she relies on her girlfriends, she’s discontented with her job, she’s smart, she’s funny, she’s frisky, she’s open to a better way of being. But, she also has another dimension: she talks to angels, spirit guides, and spirits. She's an empath. She's a healer. She receives messages in her dreams. She is intuitive. She raises her vibrations through meditation, chakra cleaning, and yoga. She struggles with how much of her “real self” she should show the world.

Many people would describe her abilities as “paranormal.” I describe them as “normal.” When asked, “Are you Faith?” my short answer is, “No, I haven’t had a blind date end up dead. Yet.” ;)

Ok – that’s enough of a teaser! Now, y’all get to do some work! What do you want to know about spirituality? About connecting with your higher self or your angels? Curious about how to raise your vibrations? Or about writing mystery novels? And how do I know all this stuff, anyway? YOU ask the questions, and I will pick a few to answer in next week’s post. Many blessings to you all! ~ Caroline A. Shearer

This sounds like a interesting series. I think I would be able to connect with it, as Faith sounds a little like me.... It also sounds like a very thought provoking series.

So now we ask you to participate. Please send questions for Caroline to answer so that we have something to read next week :-) You can either post your questions in the comment box below, or if you want your question to be a surprise for the other readers feel free to email me your questions at justjenniferreading@gmail.com.

Thank you again for reading! I look forward to seeing what questions you have.

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