Books
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Announcement: $0.99 on Amazon Kindle: Lip Service by M.J. Rose
Are you looking for a sexy, sizzling romance to read over the last long weekend of summer? For today only on Amazon Kindle, you can pick up M.J. Rose’s erotic novel, Lip Service for only $0.99! As many of you guessed, I am a fan of M.J. Rose’s The Reincarnationist series! I recently read Seduction which was a wonderfully intriguing historic fiction novel full of suspense and the occult! I loved both the book and Rose’s storytelling style. I know she also writes a more modern erotic novel series known as the Butterfield Institute series which Lip Service is also part of! If you are interested in erotic lit and are a fan…
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Review: The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields
As the Victorian era transition into the ‘modern’ era, women were finally discovering that sex and sexuality could be for their enjoyment, not just a wifely duty performed for the pleasure of their husbands. We see evidence of this shift with the rise of female authorship. Many women started writing real books for women about women and things women cared about or longed for. One of the best known authors of this time was Edith Wharton. Wharton wrote popular and influential novels such a The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocents that addressed issues of class (notably the upper class), manners, and of course love and sexual desire. Like…
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Announcement: Winner The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
And the winner of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker is….. Lisamarie (tweeted about the giveaway @Lisamarie5825) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Viking/Penguin for making this giveaway possible!
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Guest Post: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
If you haven’t already had a chance to check out my review of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker, then you are missing out on a great and magic read! Before she moved into the fantasy genre, Barker worked as a journalist for over twenty years. Barker graciously agreed to talk about what that transition was like for her in this weeks guest post! So without further ado please welcome Emily Croy Barker to The Lit Bitch!
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Review: The Age of Ice by J.M. Sidorova
In an ice palace in eighteenth century Russia, two twin princes are born—Prince Alexander and Prince Andrei. Prince Andrei is the more ambitious, bold, and daring of the two brothers, while Alexander is more reserved and shy. The boys grow up in an idealistic life, residing in the families country home with many animals and servants. Andrei is seemingly always unhappy while Alexander seems more well adjusted and happy. As the two boys reach adulthood the both enlist in the military and through an unexpected situation Alexander makes a startling discovery–he is immune to the cold. This revelation brings about many different questions for Alexander. Why is Andrei not cursed…
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Giveaway: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Witches, wizards, and fairies….oh my! If you are looking for a new magical novel to enchant you then don’t miss your chance to win a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker! If you enjoyed the All Soul’s Trilogy then this novel is right up your alley! Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 8/16/13 to 8/23/13 Winners will be announced 8/24/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email…
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Review: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Nora Fischer wants a new life. Any will do really. She just wants things to be different and she doesn’t really care how…just different. Well you know what they say….be careful what you wish for because you just may get it. Nora is crashing and burning on her English thesis and post graduate work, her serious boyfriend just broke it off with her to marry someone else and suddenly this plain Jane finds herself at her friends wedding forced into an awkward social situation with her ex. She just needs to take a little breather before the wedding. She wakes up one morning to go for a brisk walk in…
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Review: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
In Russia, the Cold War has never really come to an end. The young Dominika Egorava has been training as a ballerina since she was a little girl but when an accident leaves her unable to continue dancing, she must look other places for a way to support herself. Her father is dead and her mother lives in an apartment which is maintained by her uncle, Vanya, who is the head of Russian Intelligence. When Vanya sees Dominika at her father’s funeral, he sees her beauty and sees it as a way to manipulate a source he has been after. Vanya approaches her and asks if she would be interested in helping him gain…
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Special Feature: STARZ Debuts The White Queen
Red and White roses unite! Tonight is the big night! STARZ debuts their original series, The White Queen based on Philippa Gregory’s bestselling series, The Cousins’ War. Be sure to tune in, Saturday, August 10th at 9pm ET/PT to catch the first episode! The show stars Max Irons, Janet McTeer, James Frain to name a few. If you are a fan of the Cousins’ War series, the next book, The White Princess, released on July 23 and is a thrilling novel to read as a stand alone or as part of the series. Here is what the press is saying about The White Queen original drama and novel:
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Review: Marilyn’s Red Diary by E.Z. Friedel
Everyone knows that Marilyn Monroe is American’s sex icon. The blonde bombshells life is well known to many: the drugs, the sex, the insecurities, the tragic death, the conspiracy, the scandals. So what makes this novel different the every other Marilyn story out there you ask? It’s her diary. I won’t spend too much time with the background of this novel since Marilyn Monroe is such a well known figure. We meet the troubled woman while she is undergoing treatment from her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson.
