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Mailbox Monday

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on April 15, 2013
Posted in Mail Box Mondays  | 8 Comments

Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcie at Mailbox Monday.  In April, it is being hosted by Mari @ Mari Reads.

Since I have slowed down on accepting ARCs I don’t always receive books every week.  Due to that and just being incredibly busy, I will not be doing Mailbox Monday on a weekly basis, at least for now.

I will no longer be making a distinction between print copy or ebook, they are all books to me.

Here’s What I received since my last Mailbox Monday:

I enjoyed Red Azalea, so when I heard Anchhe Min wrote a sequel, I had to get it.  Thanks to Bloomsbury Publishing!

 When Robert Perry asked me if I wanted to read his new historical, I couldn’t resist.
Thanks Robert!

Little Brown and Company is making it harder to turn down ebooks.  They pre-approved me to get 4 on Net Galley, without a request from myself.  I want to read all 4 but I chose this one because it is not on order at my library, yet anyway. 

 The tour starts in the morning and I’m kick it off with a review and giveaway.  Check it out!


I received this unsolicited, thanks to Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press








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April Reviews For the 2013 ARC Reading Challenge

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on April 15, 2013
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In April, we collectively read and reviewed 30 ARC’s for a total of 96 ARC’s, so far in 2013!  
Here are the standings so far:

Level Bronze (up to 12 Arcs):
Andrea 8
Christine 4Darlene 11
Krista 4
Rebecca 10
Retha 4
Stacey 4
Teddy 9

Working on Silver:
Yvonne 14

Silver (24 ARCS):
Nicola 24

Working on Gold:

Gold ( 30 ARCS):

Working on Platinum:

Platinum (35 ARCS):

If you don’t see yourself in the standings above, it is because you didn’t leave a comment telling me how many books you read so far. You need to do this at the end of each month.

Please post the books you read in April for the challenge in Mr. Linky, below:
If you forgot to post book in any previous months, please post them in Mr. Linky below as well.

Please enter your name and the name of the book in this format: Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author’s Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader).
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Tour & Giveaway: Amanda Scott, Historical Romance

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on April 12, 2013
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Thanks to Amy Bruno of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours and the author, Amanda Scott, I am giving away one winner’s choice of one of the following ebooks.  
DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS, BORDER BRIDE and HIGHLAND FLING.

Description for DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS:


The first book in Amanda Scott’s acclaimed Dangerous series journeys from the battlefields of Waterloo to the ballrooms and boudoirs of London, where a deadly deception unfolds . . .

Engaged by proxy to a man she’s never met, Lady Daintry Tarrant is dismayed when the war hero returns, introducing himself as her fiancé, Lord Penthorpe. She cherishes her independence and has turned away many suitors, but this one she must marry. Penthorpe is completely captivated by Lady Daintry—but he’s not who he claims to be.

Penthorpe and Lord Gideon Deverill fought together at the battle of Waterloo, and when Penthorpe fell, Gideon assumed his identity in order to see the beautiful Lady Daintry. Gideon knows there’s bad blood between Lady Daintry’s family and his own, but he’s smitten with Daintry and determined to reunite the bitterly feuding clans. When a ghost from Gideon’s past appears, he could lose everything—including Daintry’s love.


“Amanda Scott has an uncanny knack of picking up her readers and plunking them down right in the middle of her storyworld.” —Romance Reviews Today


Description of BORDER BRIDE:

Set in treacherous sixteenth-century Scotland, the first volume of Amanda Scott’s Border Trilogy tells the unforgettable story of a woman sworn to defy the knight she is forced to wed—only to discover a love she’ll do anything to claim

As Mary, Queen of Scots, languishes in the Tower of London as a prisoner of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, war tears Scotland apart. To save her beloved homeland, a proud Highland beauty named Mary Kate MacPherson must wage her own battle when she’s forced into wedlock with a knight, Sir Adam Douglas, from the barbaric borderland of Tornary.

Even as she succumbs to her seductive husband’s sensual demands, Mary Kate vows never to give him her heart. She will belong to no man. But Adam burns with something deeper than desire. Sworn to carry out a long-awaited revenge, he won’t rest until he has vanquished his enemies. Accused of treason, the last thing he expects is to lose his heart to the woman he’s determined to tame but never to love: his own wife. 


“Hours of reading fun.” —Catherine Coulter, author of the Bride series


Description of HIGHLAND FLING:


Forbidden passion has never been more dangerous—or more irresistible—in the first novel of bestselling author Amanda Scott’s spellbinding Highland series

Scotland, 1750. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, Maggie MacDrumin vows to keep fighting to liberate her people. But the intrepid Scotswoman is risking her life for a dangerous cause. When her latest mission lands her in a London courtroom on a trumped-up larceny charge, she has only one hope of survival. Enlisting the aid of Edward Carsley, the powerful fourth Earl of Rothwell, is a two-edged sword. The seductive aristocrat who awakens treacherous desire is her clan’s mortal enemy—a man she can never trust.

Edward will do whatever it takes to quell another bloody uprising. But how can he fight his passion for the rebellious Highland beauty in his safekeeping? As their lives come under siege, Maggie lays claim to the one thing Edward vowed never to surrender: his heart.


“[Scott is] a true master of the Scottish historical romance.” —Romance Reviews Today


About Amanda Scott:

A fourth-generation Californian of Scottish descent, Amanda Scott is the author of more than fifty romantic novels, many of which appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Her Scottish heritage and love of history (she received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Mills College and California State University, San Jose, respectively) inspired her to write historical fiction. Credited by Library Journal with starting the Scottish romance subgenre, Scott has also won acclaim for her sparkling Regency romances. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award (for Lord Abberley’s Nemesis, 1986) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. She lives in central California with her husband.      

For more information on Amanda Scott and her novels, please visit the official website


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