Smitten by Books

Rate this book, please. 🙂 Yes, what I’d like is for you, the readers, to review this book for other interested readers. Every once in a while, when a force beyond my control compels me, I’ll jot down my thoughts on a particular author or book and do a post. However, due to writing, running The Season sites and busy mommy life, that will happen infrequently. But the visitors to my blog want to see more current reviews and I want to give them what they want. So this is my solution to that.

What I will do is post the cover, the blurb and and the average rating or single rating from all the review sites that I can find. Then I want you the readers to rate the book and tell me what you thought of it. I think sometimes (perhaps a lot) readers would rather see what other readers thought of the book than a reviewer who does this as a job (or part-time job). Readers don’t HAVE to read a book they wouldn’t otherwise buy in a book store. Readers will buy or borrow from the library, books they want to read, books that pique their fancy. Who else then can give you a completely unbiased opinion of a book they took the time to seek out or put down cold hard cash to read?  So that’s how I (okay, my sister if I’m going to be completely honest) came up with RATE ME REVIEWS. I’ll leave the review posts until Sunday night and then the posts will get a page of their own, that way, as readers read the book, they can easily access the review to add their rating and comments or check to see what others thought of the book.

How do I pick the books? It’s usually going to go this way. If I buy the book myself, it will probably get a post to rate it (beyond my must buy authors, I usually will pick up mass market debuts). If I receive books from a publisher, you’ll more than likely see them here. With that said, the first book that will go up is Caroline Linden’s FOR YOUR ARMS ONLY from Avon Books. If you’ve never tried any of Caroline Linden’s books, you can read her free novella, Deeper Than Desire, here which is a companion piece to FOR YOUR ARMS ONLY. I think a free read is an excellent way to try out an author before plunking down money to buy their bigger books.

RT Book Reviews: 4 ^1/2 Stars, TOP PICK
“Linden weaves history into the backdrop of her current romance. Her characters, from very different backgrounds, are intriguing, honorable and deeply emotional. These characters, coupled with an unconventional plotline, combine to create a surprisingly rich and passionate tale.”

Good Reads: Average rating 3 1/2 Stars (4 ratings)

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For Your Arms Only
Author: Caroline Linden
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub. Date: November 24, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0061706459
384 pages

He’d never been shot by a woman . . .

He was once a distinguished army officer, a man of honor and heroism. But that was before Alexander Hayes was wrongly accused of treason. Forced to abandon everything he held dear, Alec became a spy for England in an attempt to clear his name. His latest commission sounds simple: locate a retired soldier gone missing. But it also sends him back home, to a family who’d thought him dead for five years—and a woman who’d like to shoot him.

Everything Cressida Turner’s ever heard about Alec tells her that he’s a traitor of the worst kind, and yet this enigmatic, infuriating, and utterly captivating man may be the only person she can trust—and the only one who can find her missing father. With nowhere else to turn, she reluctantly joins forces with Alec, unprepared for both the dangerous secrets that threaten them and the relentless passion that drives them into each other’s arms.

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