Blood,Sweat and Books

It's time for another Mash-Up Monday. So what is Mash-Up Monday you ask?? Well Mash-Up Monday is when you take two books that really have nothing in common and Mash them up to create an entirely different book. Sounds simple enough right? This week I'll be Mashing up Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes and Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. Under The Tucsan Sun is a lovely story on it's own and one I enjoy. Warm Bodies is a Zombie Romcom that I have a love/mostly hate relationship with. Each book stands on it's own easily but....mash them together, taking the best bits out of both books, and you have the awesomely titled Novel that is Eat Brains Love. Now I realize that Eat Brains Love isn't out yet but if you read the above mentioned books you can sort of get a sense of what type of story elements you'll find in it. As of this moment *since I'm not yet done with Eat,Brains, Love* I definitely think it is worth picking up when you can. The story has a r...

Trailer Tuesday is a Weekly Blog Post hosted by me at Blood Sweat and Books. Each week I choose two Book Trailers to showcase. One Trailer will be for an upcoming book and the other will be one that has already been released. This Week I will be spotlighting Nocturnal by Scott Sigler and while the book is out I wanted to share The Warm Bodies Movie trailer which was released this week. Available Now: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler Homicide detective Bryan Clauser is losing his mind. How else to explain the dreams he keeps having—dreams that mirror, with impossible accuracy, the gruesome serial murders taking place all over San Francisco? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him—not disgust, not horror, but excitement? As Bryan and his longtime partner, Lawrence “Pookie” Chang, investigate the murders, they learn that things are even stranger than they at first seem. For the victims are all enemies of a seemingly ordinary young boy—a boy who is gripped by th...