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The Boyfriend From Hell Book Tour stops by Reader Girls today. Author E. Van Lowe has provided us with an interview with Satan. Read on to learn more about this humorous YA novel. We'll begin with the blurb. Aww, Hell No! Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together. “But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course not…” The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again. She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago. Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships. But neither of the handsome guys is quite w...

Hardcover: 120 pages Publisher: Sea Lion Books (October 4, 2011) Story: Grant Alter Art: Dave Hamann  Original story: Richelle Mead Blurb: Eugenie Markham never asked for any of this. Until now, she's been content with her job as a freelance shaman, battling and banishing Otherworldly creatures. When a prophecy suddenly makes her the Otherworld's most popular bachelorette, Eugenie finds herself fighting off unwanted supernatural suitors, as well as the evils that begin emerging from her past... Our review: Richelle Mead's novels are always entertaining and it's great to see her stories come alive on the pages of graphic novels. I used to think graphic novels were a less respected format, usually categorized as just being 'comics'. Over time I've witnessed their change from merely being considered 'comic books' to becoming their own fully realized genre, one that is respected and admired. With the Dark Swan:   Storm Born Volume 1  g...

It has been ten years since that horrible day. There are usually a handful of days whose memories we retain throughout our lives--monumental occasions from weddings to births-- yet, not all of these dates are happy ones. So many of us, irregardless of age, can remember with clarity where they were when the news began trickling in. I was on my way to work, stuck in traffic on the Taconic Parkway, listening to a music station. Not knowing what was causing gridlock, I switched stations to news, and heard a reporter's harried breath, relating to the dj the unfurling events down in Manhattan. A plane had hit one of the World Trade Center buildings. I sat there shocked. Just weeks earlier I had accompanied my oldest daughter on a trip to see the musical,  Beauty and the Beast,  with her piano school. As the bus exited the Holland Tunnel, I excitedly pointed out the Twin Towers to her, still remembering  my own school trip there years before. Certain landmarks tou...

The Populazzi Blog Tour stops by Reader Girls today. We are participating by running our review. Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books; None edition (August 1, 2011) Blurb: Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi. Now, junior year could change everything. Cara’s moving to a new school, and her best friend urges her to seize the moment—with the help of the Ladder. Its rungs are relationships, and if Cara transforms into the perfect girlfriend for guys ever-higher on the tower, she’ll reach the ultimate goal: Supreme Populazzi. The Ladder seems like a lighthearted social experiment, a straight climb up, but it quickly becomes gnarled and twisted. And when everything goes wrong, only the most audacious act Cara can think of has a chance of setting things even a little bit right. Caitlin...

Blurb: No strings. No regrets. And no going back. I didn't think he wanted me. And I wasn't about to get involved with him, not after what I'd heard. Sure, Alex Kennedy was tall, dark and unbearably hot, but I've been burned before. When I solicited him to model for my erotic photography book, I didn't expect such a heated, passionate photo session. And now that we've crossed that line, our bodies aren't the only things that have been exposed. But I can't give my heart to a man who's so… unconventional. His last sexual relationship was with a married couple. It's enough that my ex-fiancé preferred men, I can't take that chance again no matter how much my body thrives on Alex's touch. I can't risk it, but I can't resist it, either. Alex can be very convincing when he wants something. And he wants me. My review: I'm a Megan Hart fan. I enjoy her stories, the multi-faceted characters, the complex layering of issues and confli...

Reader Girls is once again thrilled to be hosting author Alison Naomi Holt, first for Credo's Hope and now for The Door At The Top Of The Stairs Book Tour. We welcome Alison Naomi Holt. Here is Alison's Excerpt: The Door at the Top of the Stairs is a very difficult book to find an excerpt that makes sense because each part is very definitely connected to everything that has come before. Let me give you a brief outline of the book, then I’ll explain a little background for this excerpt.  In The Door at the Top of the Stairs undercover narcotics officer, Jesse Shaunessy, is kidnapped and tortured, then thrown away by her department as damaged goods. The mind is a powerful ally, and 26-year-old Jesse has no memory of the abduction or the subsequent torture. Inevitably, as Jesse drifts from one itinerant job to another, the protective walls carefully constructed by her subconscious are beginning to crumble. Fate lands her on a farm owned by Dr. Ryland Caldwell, a retired p...

We are thrilled to be hosting the Mine Until Dawn Book Tour today. E. B. Walters is quickly becoming a favored author here (both her adult and YA novels). After enjoying Slow Burn , Book One of The Fitzgerald Family , I have delved right into the second, Mine Until Dawn . E.B. Walters is sharing a gust post with us today. Read on and don't forget to enter our giveaway for one ebook copy and to check out the author's contest as well. Blurb: She's armed with a new attitude and a kick-ass wardrobe.... By age twenty-eight, art historian Jade Fitzgerald has had a marriage from hell and an equally nasty divorce, worked hard to control her weight and her arrhythmia. The last thing she needs is another man messing with her head or shooting her heartbeat off course. That is exactly what she gets when an aloof and mysterious stranger storms into her life. He's cynical and don’t take crap from anyone.... Former investigative reporter Vince Knight is on a quest to recover a pri...