BB&B (Bought, Borrowed and Bagged) is a weekly meme hosted by Talk Supe where we share the books that we have bought, borrowed or bagged (won) plus a recap of the previous week's reviews, upcoming reviews, on going events and any news we want to share with our followers.

Bought:

Flesh by Kylie Scott (on sale today for $0.99) & Hard Mated (Shifters Unbound #3.5) by Jennifer Ashley


Borrowed:

From the library:
The Siren (Original Sinners #1) by Tiffany Reisz


Bagged:

Jess received from Author:
The Mysterious Madame Morpho (Blud #1.5) by Delilah S. Dawson


Last Week on Book Liaison:


Upcoming Reviews:


Blog News:

 Were were featured this week for the Feature & Follow! I'm still following back, but I will get to everyone. I've had a house full of kids this weekend but hopefully I'll be able to finish everything up tonight. Thanks to everyone for stopping by!

 What's New With You This Week?

Warning: Full Speed Ahead

By Avery Flynn

If you came with a warning label, what would it say?

I snarfed coffee all over my laptop screen when I read this question. I just love the idea of a warning label on people.

Imagine if you walked into a crowded restaurant and your waitress wore a label that said: Picks nose before serving you drinks.

How about starting a new job and seeing your boss with a a label that said: Patronizing ass.

What if the guy on the subway with the label: Closet romantic hidden beneath an alpha shell?

So how about me? What would my label say? Full speed ahead. My life is one of constant motion and once we set a course you’d better come along or get out of the way.

This question really got me thinking about the characters from Passion Creek, book three in the Layton Family Series. What kind of warning labels would they have?

Warning: Fun, Feisty and Fearless

A painter with platinum blonde hair and tattoos that tell her story on her skin, Josie Winarsky is not afraid to take on the big dogs and liable to get in way over her head. All she really wants to do is paint, but when she lands smack dab in the middle in a mob plot she has to push aside her dreams to find a treasure  in Dry Creek, Nebraska and save her family from harm.

Warning: Strong and Silent

Uptight history professor Sam Layton may have the abs of a movie action hero, but he stopped believing in the joy of adventure a long time ago. However, when a one-night stand with a tattooed bombshell leads to a treasure map for the long-buried Rebecca’s Bounty, the call to action is too strong to ignore. With Josie by his side and a Vegas loan shark on their tail, the treasure they find turn out to be much more valuable than emeralds and rubies.

So how about you? What kind of warning label would you carry?

Passion Creek by Avery Flynn available Aug. 31.

Blurb: Uptight history professor Sam Layton may have the abs of a movie action hero, but he stopped believing in the joy of adventure a long time ago. However, when a one-night stand with a tattooed bombshell leads to a treasure map for the long-buried Rebecca’s Bounty, the call to action is too strong to ignore.

All Las Vegas cocktail waitress Josie Winarsky wants to do is paint. But when she lands smack dab in the middle in a mob plot, she has to push aside her dreams to find a treasure in Dry Creek, Nebraska and save her family from harm. With Sam at her side and a Vegas loan shark on her tail, the treasure she finds turn out to be much more valuable than emeralds and rubies.

About Avery Flynn

Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. Evernight Publishing released the first two books in her Layton Family series, Temptation Creek and Seduction Creek. The third book in the series, Passion Creek, released on Aug. 31. Find out more about Avery on her blog , follow her on Twitter, like her on Facebook or friend her on Facebook. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the Internet, she’ll be your best friend for life.

 Contest:

The author is giving away a HUGE prize pack! Digital copy of Passion Creek
Signed paperback copies of Temptation Creek and Seduction Creek, 1 I heart Dry Creek, Nebraska T-shirt, 1 I heart Dry Creek, Nebraska keychain, 1 $100 Amazon gift card To pick the name of a character in Avery Flynn’s next book. Enter Here.
Feature & Follow is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee's View & Alison Can Read
If you'd like to participate just hop on over to one of their blogs for all of the rules :) 
We're being Featured this week at Parajunkee's View! So excited! Thanks so much Ladies! You can check out our interview on her website :)
Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your blog? Is it to one day become an author yourself, just for fun, maybe get some online attention, or maybe something very different? 
When we started our blog we just wanted to share what we thought about the books that we had read, and most importantly we wanted to share our favorite books with others. Now I just do it because I enjoy it. I would love to write books someday but that isn't what drives me to blog, I simply love books and love to read.
Luminosity by Stephanie Thomas
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Entangled Teen (November 6, 2012)
ISBN: 1620611279
Blurb: My name is Beatrice. When I was born, I was blessed with the Sight. I was immediately removed from my parents and enrolled in the Institution. At the age of twelve, I had my first true vision, earning my raven’s wings. And when I turned seventeen, one of my visions came true. Things haven’t been the same since.
The Institution depends on me to keep the City safe from our enemy, the Dreamcatchers, but I’m finding it harder to do while keeping a secret from everyone, including my best friend Gabe. It is a secret that could put us all in danger. A secret that could kill me and everyone close to me.
But the enemy has been coming to me in my dreams, and I think I’m falling in love with him. He says they’re coming. He says they’re angry. And I think I’ve already helped them win.

Stephanie Thomas has been writing ever since she could put letters together to form words. When she was a small child, she would present her mother and father with self-made newspapers filled up with make believe stories and pictures. Her love for writing followed her all throughout her schooling, where she entered and won writing contests of all sorts. Stephanie decided to become an English teacher and completed her B.A. at The Pennsylvania State University. While teaching, she later went on to get her Master’s in writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She completed her very first manuscript during her graduate studies, and by the end of the program, she had completed two more. Stephanie is quick to tell anyone that she’s a born and raised Philadelphian, and her heart will always belong there. She moved to Baltimore with her husband, and they’ve been living there for the last five years with their doggie, Sailor, and their rabbit, Buns (aka “T Sizzle).
Where you can find Stephanie-  
Gravity by Melissa West
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Entangled Teen (October 30, 2012)
ISBN: 1620610914
Blurb:  In the future, only one rule will matter:

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.


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About the Author:
 
Melissa lives in a tiny suburb of Atlanta, GA with her husband and daughter. She pretends to like yoga, actually likes shoes, and could not live without coffee. Her writing heroes include greats like Jane Austen and Madeleine L'Engle.

She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and an M.S. in Graphic Communication, both from Clemson University. Yeah, her blood runs orange.

GRAVITY is her first book.

Where you can find Melissa-



Title: Down to You
Author: M. Leighton
Genre and Age Group: Adult Contemporary Romance (Mature/New Adult ages, too)
Release date: September 23, 2012
Blurb: The scorching tale of one girl, two brothers and a love triangle…that’s not.
Olivia Townsend is nothing special. She’s just a girl working her way through college so she can return home to help her father run his business. She’s determined not to be the second woman in his life to abandon him, even if it means putting her own life on hold. To Olivia, it’s clear what she must do. Plain and simple. Black and white.
But clear becomes complicated when she meets Cash and Nash Davenport. They’re brothers. Twins.
Cash is everything she’s always wanted in a guy. He’s a dangerous, sexy bad boy who wants her in his bed at any cost. He turns her insides to mush and, with just one kiss, makes her forget why he’s no good for her.
Nash is everything she’s ever needed in a guy. He’s successful, responsible and intensely passionate. But he’s taken. Very taken, by none other than Marissa, Liv’s rich, beautiful cousin. That doesn’t stop Olivia from melting every time he looks at her, though. With just one touch, he makes her forget why they can never be together.
Black and white turns to shades of gray when Olivia discovers the boys are hiding something, something that should make her run as far and as fast as she can. But it’s too late to run. Olivia’s already involved. And in love. With both of them.
Both brothers make her heart tremble. Both brothers set her body on fire.
She wants them both.
And they want her.
How will she ever choose between them?

Excerpt

Her grin fully forms and she releases my wrist to salute me. “Sir, yes sir.”
I love how playful she is. Such a nice change from Marissa, who’s always…well…who’s just not.
“Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about,” I say with a nod. “A woman who knows her place is beneath me. Oh, wait. That didn’t sound right,” I tease.
She laughs. “I’m beneath no man!” she replies harshly. Then, with a mischievous quirk to her mouth, she adds, “At least not without dinner and a drink first.”
“Ohhhh, so that’s how it’s gonna be! Because there’s a McDonald’s right across the street.”
I offer her my arm and she curls her fingers around the inside of my elbow. I know it’s ridiculous and juvenile, but I flex my bicep hoping she notices.
“Is that all it takes to get you to, ahem, come to attention?” she asks, suggestively sliding her eyes over me.
“I’m a twenty-five year old completing an internship at one of the most influential law firms in all of Atlanta. McDonald’s would never do it for me.” I stop at the door and open it, gesturing for her to precede me. “But now a look like the one you just gave me…”
Her cheeks turn a delicate pink and she drops her eyes shyly. It makes me want to tear that dress off her with my teeth.
“Colonel, just what is it you’re insinuating?”
“Colonel? A salute like that and all I get is a Colonel?”
“I don’t know. Have you earned enough stripes to be a General?”
We stroll leisurely to my car. “Depends on how you think someone earns their stripes.” Two little dimples pop out on either side of her mouth where she’s trying to control her smile.
“Oh, I guess the same way most guys earn their stripes,” she says, swinging the red purse attached to her wrist, trying to act nonchalant.
“Baby, if that’s your definition, I’d be a four-star General.”

The author is giving away an ebook copy of her book The Wild Ones

Blurb: **MATURE CONTENT ADVISORY: May not be suitable for younger readers**

  Passion as hot as midnight in the South and love as wild as the horses they tame.
  Camille “Cami” Hines is the darling daughter of the South’s champion thoroughbred breeder, Jack Hines. She has a pedigree that rivals some of her father’s best horses. Other than feeling a little suffocated at times, Cami thought she was pretty happy with her boyfriend, her life and her future.

But that was before she met Patrick Henley.

  “Trick” blurs the lines between what Cami wants and what is expected of her. He’s considered the “help,” which is forbidden fruit as far as her father is concerned, not to mention that Trick would be fired if he ever laid a hand on her. And Trick needs his job. Desperately. His family depends on him.
  The heart wants what the heart wants, though, and Trick and Cami are drawn to each other despite the obstacles. At least the ones they know of.
  When Trick stumbles upon a note from his father, it triggers a series of revelations that could ruin what he and Cami have worked so hard to overcome. It turns out there’s more to Trick’s presence at the ranch than either of them knew, secrets that could tear them apart.


Winter's Magic is coming out Nov. 1. Celebrate with us starting October 1 and lasting all month long culminating to a release day party November 2! Winners will be picked and announced at the party. (emailed too) RSVP to the Facebook Party HERE Owner of La Bella Vita, a five-star day spa nestled in the affluent suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, Beth Sergeant knows her elite clientele first hand. She attended their private schools. She was even engaged, although briefly, to one of their most recognized bachelors. But she never fit in to their social-elite world. After losing his parents to a car accident at a young age, Nick Chester was raised by his grandfather, the wealthiest man in Nashville. When he chooses to socialize, he has a never-ending list of exclusive events and beautiful women vying for his attention. Yet he never lets himself forget that everyone has an agenda. Beth can’t resist Nick’s charm and accepts an invitation to dinner, despite her deep-seated insecurities. She proves she’s nothing like other women Nick's dated and learns to trust him in return. But just as the last of their resistance crumbles and true love is within reach, challenges from Nick's past threaten to destroy everything and force Beth to reveal her most guarded secret.   Visit Cynthia Gail's Blog for Extra Entries for Fun Prizes HERE Follow Cynthia Gail on Facebook

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The Evolution of Vampires


  I'm a sucker for a good vampire book, they can be the old fashioned horror type or the steamy paranormal romance type, but either way I'm bound to enjoy them. Vampires in popular culture seemed to have changed though. Somehow they have evolved from gruesome creatures of the night stalking the countryside in search of hapless victims into the sexy brooding blood-suckers that just need a little love and understanding.
  Face it, they've become the ultimate bad boy. Vampires are portrayed as powerful, nearly indestructible, incredibly sexy, and wealthy (guess all those extra years are spent building a financial empire). It could have came about because it is slightly more believable, I mean if you had tons of people terrified of vampires that would definitely be a threat to their existence. Or it could just be the old "Sex Sells" adage in action.
  Whatever the reason, vampires have changed, and for us paranormal romance fans it's all for the better. Bring on the vampires :)

Some books featuring vampires that we love (in no particular order):

 So what are your favorite books featuring vampires?

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For Lily Drake, slaying vampires is easy...Dating them is the hard part." Join the release party on Oct 5th at Inkspell Publishing website to find the Blog hop winners!
Blurb: For Lily Drake, slaying vampires is easy...Dating them is the hard part.
  Lily Drake is your everyday hard-working single mom…until a gorgeous vampire shows up on her front door who she mistakenly assumes is her blind date for the evening. As one crazy scenario after another unfolds, Lily finds herself falling in love with two vampires, slaying the evil ones, and being prophesied as the savior of the entire undead race.
  Deciding between pizza and Chinese take-out will no longer be one of the hard decisions facing Lily Drake once she is emerged into vampire society. Humanity or immortality? That doesn't hold a candle against this question - which of the two handsome vampire cousins?
  The Life and Death of Lily Drake is not your typical vampire love story. It’s a tale about the humorous mistakes a woman makes simply trying to survive not only life, but the dating scene. How will Lily manage working full-time, taking care of her young son and fighting the undead at every turn?
Lily will have to figure it out, but who better to save the world than a mom?

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www.facing50withhumour.blogspot.com
www.readersconfession.com
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cecereadandwrite.blogspot.com
paranormalopinion.blogspot.com
highlyreadioactive.blogspot.in
www.snowdropdreams.ca
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