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We’ve learned of the existence of faeries with Meghan Chase in Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King (review). We fell in love with faerie boys (one in particular… we like bad boys) and found ourselves along with Meghan in The Iron Daughter (review). We have to know how this story ends. Things got ever more complicated The Iron Daughter, as they often do in the second books of trilogies. We’ll leave out the... 
Update: Thanks for the overwhelming response to the contests. We’ve selected our winners — Jessica and Beleth — and both have claimed their prizes. Keep an eye out. We have many more contests coming up. Wow! We just hit 500 followers via Google Friend Connect (not that the 1,200+ of you on Twitter aren’t favorites, too) and had to celebrate. Thank you so much for reading the blog. We hope you don’t hate... 
A few weeks back the lovely folk at Harlequin asked if they could use our review of The Iron King by Julie Kagawa in marketing materials to promote the Iron Fey series. We love these books, so we gladly gave the OK. Yesterday, Janet from Harlequin emailed us the first ad featuring our recommendation. Check it out below (click to see a larger version). Also, big shout-out to one of our favorite bloggers... 
This week we had three unexpected (and pretty excellent) excerpts from upcoming novels released online. All three were books we’re anxiously awaiting, and even the little teases had us squealing with glee (not in a fangirl way, we swear). And, what kind of book club would we be if we didn’t share previews with you? Not sure, but it wouldn’t be nice. THE IRON QUEEN Julie Kagawa may have just released the... 
Because we’re really excited for Mockingjay, the final chapter in the Hunger Games trilogy, to be released later this month, we’re giving the first two spots to Hunger Games-related contests. (Related: Waiting on Wednesday: Mockingjay) Win all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy — The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay — from Supernatural Snark. The contest is open through Aug. 17. Only open... 
We spotted contests this week offering several books we either already love or are very excited about reading. That and a giveaway of the Kindle 3. (We were surprised, too.) Read on to find our favorites this week. We like Jaye Wells. Book Addicts also like Jaye Wells. They have a set of her Sabina Kane books to giveaway to a lucky entrant. Just comment on Book Addicts’ giveaway blog post to enter.... 
In the second installment of Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey series, The Iron Daughter, Meghan Chase finds herself pulled between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Her father reigns over the summer court, while the boy she loves Prince Ash is a winter court royal. Add in the additional complications of war, a potential second love interest from the Seelie side and, you know, trying to save the world, and we’d be... 
Just because it sits in the young adult section doesn’t mean a book is just for teens. Usually, it’s more about there being a teen protagonist. We like it; so this week we give you five contests tied to excellent YA novels and series. Oh, The Book Smugglers (we love this blog). They’ve smuggled out two copies of Kim Harrison’s Early to Death, Early to Rise (book 2 in the Madison Avery series) for their... 
Update: You have spoken. With 35 percent of the votes, our August group read will be J.A. Saare’s Crimson Moon. Group read details and book review posts coming soon. August is edging toward us, so we need to select a new book for our group read. For July we talked about Julie Kagawa’s epic fantasy opener The Iron King (review), with discussion points related to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Labyrinth. For... 
