Q&A and Giveaway: Beautiful Bastard authors Lauren Billings and Christina Hobbs

left: Lauren Billings; right: Christina Hobbs Last week I reviewed Beautiful Bastard, the new Fifty Shades-esque novel from author Christina Lauren. The pen name Christina Lauren is actually a combination of two writers: Lauren Billings and Christina Hobbs. I was able to interview...

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Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell. He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja vu. I reviewed Rainbow Rowell's first novel, Attachments, back in July 2011, and it was fantastic. It's not surprising,...

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A Good American

A Good American, by Alex George. Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all. And so began my grandfather’s rapturous love...

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Beautiful Darkness

Beautiful Darkness, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. This town owned us, that was the good and bad of it. It knew every inch of us, every sin, every secret, every scab. Which was why most people never bothered to leave, and why the ones who did never came back. Before I met...

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Gates of Paradise

Gates of Paradise, by Melissa de la Cruz. Gabrielle's daughter will bring us salvation. She will lead the Fallen back into Paradise. Her grandfather Lawrence Van Alen had always believed it, and Schuyler knew in her heart that he was right, that she held the key. There was...

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Beautiful Bastard

Beautiful Bastard, by Christina Lauren. My father said the way to learn the job you want it to spend every second watching someone do it. "To get the job at the top, you've got to start at the bottom," he told me. "Become the person the CEO can't live without. Be their right-hand...

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The Truth About Love & Lightning

The Truth about Love & Lightning, by Susan McBride. Gretchen had spent way too much time ruminating over the choices she'd made. It had taken years before she'd finally accepted that Sam wasn't coming back, that Annika had flown the coop, and she was on her own, caring...

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Paper Airplane: Unique Tales from a Mile High

Paper Airplane: Unique Tales from a Mile High, by Kersten L. Kelly. I didn't experience the first crazy thing on an airplane, and I won't be the last. One thing I do know is that my individual experiences were indeed special. Each of the individuals who made them that way influenced...

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Touch & Go

Touch & Go, by Lisa Gardner. Then Mick returned, except this time he wasn't alone. He shoved Justin before him, my husband stumbling toward the nearest bunk, grabbing for the metal frame to support himself. Z released my shoulders, and just as quickly as they'd come, both...

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Also Known As

Also Known As, by Robin Benway. My family works for the Collective. You've never heard of the Collective, but you've definitely read about our work. Tobacco executives on trail because of damning evidence? Human smuggling rings being broken up? The fall of that Peruvian dictator?...

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Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It had made sense when a beautiful girl was saying it. Now that I was back home, alone, and in my own bed, I was finally losing it. Even Link wouldn't believe any of this. I tried to think about how the conversation would...

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