Winners! – Page 4 – Kav's Best Reads

April Giveaway – Week One

Winners will be contacted if they left their email address, otherwise it’s up to the winner to contact me at kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca (please note it’s ca as in Canada, not com.) From time to time a winner and I do not connect so I have a one month time frame on giveaway wins. If I haven’t been able to reach you within 30 days of your win, it will be forfeited. This has happened a few times now, so please, DON’T BE SHY — CONTACT ME IF YOU DIDN’T LEAVE AN EMAIL OR IF I HAVEN’T BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN REACHING YOU!

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK:

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Conversations with Kav – a place for us to chat about bookish topics if anyone is so inclined. Sometimes there will be giveaways, sometimes there won’t. It will just depend on the topic of the day. Hope to see you there! Otherwise my inner book nerd and I will carry on by ourselves. Bwahaha!

Reader’s Choice Week Spring 2025 Winners

The good news is we got snow. The bad news is it’s the heavy wet kind and we are supposed to get 15 hours straight freezing rain tomorrow so the possibility of power outages are still being predicted…..but at least I can post the winners today! Woohoo! Only, before we get to that I do love a wee bit of bibliophile nerdiness. 🙂

BOOK NERDY STATS! Do you ever wonder what the most requested book in each category is? What? You say that’s just me? Well, I’m going to share anyway. So here are the popular books per genre day.

POPULAR HISTORICAL PICK

POPULAR CONTEMPORARY PICK

POPULAR MYSTERY/SUSPENSE PICK

TRIPLE TIE!

And now it’s time to move into the part of this post you will be most interested in (and I thank you for indulging in my bibliophile nerdiness!)

READER’S CHOICE WEEK SPRING 2025 WINNERS!

HISTORICAL FICTION

WON BY CINDY DAVIS

CONTEMPORARY – WON BY LEA

SUSPENSE – WON BY CARYL KANE

CHRISTIAN FICTION

WON BY WINNIE

GOALS – MELANIE BACKUS

But wait, it’s not over yet. The Vanity category has become a blog tradition. It’s where a book is actually judged by its cover and I choose my favourite cover art per genre and then draw from a pool of readers who requested that title. Here are COVER LOVE winners!

HISTORICAL COVER LOVE

WON BY SYLVIA MILLER

That right there is my dream house, complete with turrets. (I would have a multi-floor library in one with a circular staircase and balconies!) I love the mystery created by the shadowed foreground and the curlicue border frames it all perfectly!

CONTEMPORARY COVER LOVE

WON BY STEPHANIE

Such a clever idea to have the scenery reflected in the camera lens! Unique and eye-catching!

SUSPENSE COVER LOVE #1

WON BY TRACEY

Those eyes! ‘Nuf said. 🙂

SUSPENSE COVER LOVE #2

WON BY COURTNEY

Usually I don’t go for the close up of the hero on the cover image so I’m gobsmacked that I couldn’t pick between these two. Absolute cover love draw! I like the way this cover tells a story, gives us so many clues as to what I’ll find inside. And I’m drawn to that diagonal image split between the hero and the heroine. Plus the balance of colour – light and dark – are so pleasing to the eye.

WAIT! Don’t go away ’cause we’re not through yet. We have another Reader’s Choice tradition of picking a random number which becomes a ‘just because giveaway’ on the genre specific days. If that doesn’t make sense, all you need to know is that it means more book giveaways. Woohoo! This time the number is 55.

That’s another RC wrap up. I’ll send winners an email stating their book win, publication date and requesting contact info so that I’ll have everything ready for release day. Then I’ll email you once again once the book has been ordered. Oh — and if you didn’t include your email in your comment it’s up to you to contact me.

March Giveaway – Week Four

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK:

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And then the rest of the week will be devoted to….drumroll please…

READER’S CHOICE WEEK – SPRING 2025 EDITION!

Of note: Harper Muse books won’t be considered as giveaway options this time round as they are not Christian Fiction and may have some questionable content – usually mild – but this week is all about celebrating Christian Fiction. I know some wonderful authors are publishing with Harper Muse and I have read some stunning novels so certainly feel free to share any upcoming releases that interest you in addition to the novels you would like entered in the giveaway.

For folks new to the blog: Reader’s Choice is a week we eagerly look ahead for new books in the CHRISTIAN FICTION genre coming out over the next three months. So this time ’round it will be books releasing in April, May or June 2025. You recommend genre specific titles (up to 3 suggestions per genre day) and you have a chance to win one of your recommendations! Full details will be included in each day’s blog post so be sure to read them. And feel free to ask any questions along the way. Often helpful reader friends will answer them even before I get a chance to.

Monday March 24 – Historical Romance / Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas set in any time period before 1980. May cross genres such as YA, Suspense, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Tuesday March 25 – – Contemporary Romance / Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas set in any time period after 1980. May cross genres such as YA, Suspense, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Wednesday March 26 – Mystery/Suspense Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas where mystery is an important part of the plot. The hero or heroine (or both) are often in peril (more so in suspense.) Can be set in any time period and may cross genres such as YA, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Thursday March 27 – General Christian Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas. Any genre, including previous selections you made on other days this week as well as specific genres not covered yet such as Amish, Women’s Fiction, Speculative, SciFi etc.

Friday March 28 – Goals in Review – where we share our reading progress and suggest books that can help us reach a goal. (can include books published any time up to and including June 2025)

Draw will be held and winners announced on Saturday March 29
You have until noon on the 29th to enter any of the giveaways
It will take a good bit of the afternoon for me to calculate the winners so they won’t be posted until later in the day.

March Giveaway – Week Three

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK:

Please remember to check giveaway details (paperback, ebook, either/or, gently read etc.) each day as they will vary and check for the ‘+ giveaway’ notice added after the title . Titles without that addition are review only.

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