In My Mailbox

This is my first IMM post.  I see them in my feedbox every week; figured I would join in the fun since I have a bunch of books from April and May to share with everyone!

Special shout out goes to BBPCon 2011 and all the amazing organizers, publishers, authors, and bloggers that took part in making this conference a reality.  Many thanks to the publishers and authors that contributed the books that I received below (these are all paper books, I haven't received the ebooks yet):
Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs (Walker Books)
Thunder and Ashes by Z.A.Recht (Gallery Books)
Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth (Gallery Books)
Beyond Exile by J.L. Bourne (Gallery Books)
Virgin by Cheryl Brooks (Sourcebooks)
Rock Hard by Olivia Cunning (Sourcebooks)
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger (Gallery Books)
Play Dead by Ryan Brown (Gallery Books)
Songs of Love and Death Anthology (Gallery Books)

Courtesy of the author, Jennifer Turner:
Eternal Seduction
Eternal Hearts

Courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales book tours:
Divergent by Veronica Roth

DTBs Purchased:
You are so Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
Bloodline: Reckoning by Kate Cary

Ebooks Purchased:
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Glimmer by Vivi Anna

Happy Reading/Reviewing!

~Helena

Blog Hop 6

Follow Friday time with Parajunkee!

Q. Circle time! Time to share. What character in a book would you most like to be, what character in a book would you most like to date?

Character I would like to be: Mac from Fever series
Character I would like to date: Rhage from the BDB

If you are interested, we have a giveaway currently in progress and ending on Sunday for a copy of Jennifer Turner's Eternal Seduction.  The characters rock!  Check out my review then enter in the giveaway!

~Helena

Blog Hop 5

Today's question from Parajunkee's Follow Friday is:

Q. Keeping with the dystopian and apocalypse theme that seems to be running rampant on parajunkee.com, I have one very hard question for you: If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?

JR Ward's Lover Mine and Lover Eternal

Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Fever series by Karen Marie Moning (5)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

~Helena

Blog Hop 4

Friday is nearly upon us, so it's time once again for Follow My Book Blog Friday blog hop, hosted by Parajunkee.

Q. What is on your current playlist right now?

My top five, in no particular order:
1. Kayne West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Panic! at the Disco's Vices & Virtues
3. Sick Puppies' Tri-Polar
4. Foo Fighters' Wasting Light
5. Cee-Lo Green's The Lady Killer

What are you listening to?

Later today (Friday morning) on the blog, we have an interview with debut author Carolyn Rosewood, talking about her new paranormal novella, The Last Soul. This is too good to be missed!

~Lily

Blog hop 3

It is friday again!  Well, it will be in a few hours and it is time for Parajunkee's Follow Friday question!

Q. Do you have anyone that you can discuss books with IRL? Tell us about him/her.

Yes, my mother and I talk all the time about new free kindle editions and such.  I recently got my strictly mystery/horror/suspense thriller mother to start reading and loving paranormals..."winning" (Charlie Sheen style). My blog co-authors Arianna and Lily are also a part of my book discussion circle IRL.  Pretty much anyone that will listen and has a healthy love of paranormal/urban fantasy gets assaulted by my favorite authors/series/story lines lol.  They all enjoy it, or else ;p.

Waves to new and old followers,
~Helena

Blog Hop 2

Follow Friday fun from Parajunkee!

This weeks question:

Q. Do you judge a book by it's cover?

I definitely judge books by covers.  We literally have a feature here that we entertained for a while called "Book by It's Cover Tuesdays" (click the label below if you are interested!)...which we totally need to start doing again.  First impressions are everything in this lifetime.  A pretty cover is what makes me read the summary and then decide if I want to read what is on the pages.  Really ugly covers, well I pick those up to mock and sometimes actually end up reading and enjoying.  The run of the mill standard covers are the novels that I breeze by and never touch.  So apparently I am attracted to both ends of the spectrum lol.

Are you a judger?

~Helena

Blog Hop 1

I recently read about blog hops, where bloggers get together every week and make friends.  We could always use more friends here at Vamps R Us...so here we are, casting our proverbial line out there!

This week's question from Parajunkee is:

Q. Inspired by the inane twitter trend of #100factsaboutme, give us five BOOK RELATED silly facts about you.

1. I am instantly drawn to any book with the promise of vampires or shifters.
2. Zombies have recently found a handhold in my TBR pile.
3. The kindle/nook are the best things since sliced bread!
4. I dibble-dabble in writing short stories from time to time.  My favorite was about a rabid llama.
5. I used to be addicted to bookmarks.  I hate bending the pages/covers of my DTBs.

This is my first journey into blog hopping.  Hope I get to know some of you!

~Helena