This HaBO request comes from Mandy, who is looking for a YA romance she read in the 90s: I’m looking for a teen romance book that I read in the 1990s. It was probably published in the late 80s or super early 90s. The heroine was in marching band, and she played the saxophone. She had named her sax “Horatio” and referred to it by name all the time. I think she was a freshman in … Continue reading HaBO: Sax Named Horatio
A Kiss for Lady Mary by Ella Quinn is 99c! This historical romance has a fake relationship plot and is the sixth book in The Marriage Game series. Many of the other books in the series are available for $4 or less! Some readers thought the beginning was pretty slow, while others loved the hero and his protective hero.
Reading has such a lovely ability of transporting us to various worlds and settings, interacting with all sorts of characters. Great stories and great writers have an uncanny way of getting their readers attached. I’m sure we’ve all cried over books or felt the bittersweetness of finishing a series. We’ve shared moments with these fictional characters and though their stories may end, we can always return. But aside from the main characters that we follow … Continue reading Shipping Secondary Characters
Happy new year, y’all! I am probably the 56th person to wish you a healthy and warm new year, since even my former dentist two dentists ago sends me an email wishing me the same. But I mean it MUCH MORE than my former dentist! (I mean, maybe it’s about the same, but I can pretend, right?) I wanted to share some of the plans we have for this year! We’ll be continuing our SB … Continue reading Happy Bitchery New Year!
Once upon a time a tiny Blondeheadedgirl sat down to watch a movie. And that movie had a Princess for the ages. She was a leader, could withstand torture, and managed to carry on even after her home and her family were destroyed. She was, you might guess, Princess Leia, and she was one of my first feminist icons, even before I knew what that word was. Carrie Fisher’s death on December 27 has … Continue reading We Love You, Carrie Fisher
Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn is $2.99! I know Quinn is an autobuy author for a lot of people and Carrie did a Lightning Review for this particular title. She said:
If you like the other Bridgerton books, you will probably like this one just fine. Just don’t expect anything terribly new or different.
It’s the eighth and final night of the Extrava-Hanukkah giveaways! I hope you’ve had as much fun as we have with all the mayhem and merriment. It’s just delightful for me to celebrate all of you and to party for eight straight days. The eighth night of Hanukkah is pretty special for me, too. We can probably heat the whole house with the warmth from all the candles, and we can definitely make s’mores. It’s bright … Continue reading 2016 Smart Bitches Extrava-Hanukkah Giveaway, Part 8
NB: Welcome to Flashback Friday! Because of Carrie’s Four Weddings and a Sixpence anthology review, we wanted to run another anthology with a similar grade that we enjoyed. The Brightest Day has one of Sarah’s favorite novellas of 2015! This review was originally published June 17, 2015. Reviewing anthologies is always difficult for me. I’m never sure if I should give a grade for the collection as a whole, even if some of the stories didn’t grab … Continue reading The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Anthology by Kianna Alexander, Lena Hart, Piper Huguley and Alyssa Cole
Amanda, Carrie, Elyse, and RedHeadedGirl heave great sighs and discuss garbage, dumpster, compost and tire fires as we look back at 2016. We also talk about the books that rocked our worlds and made us happy, and a few bright moments of the past year. In between we discuss all sorts of things, as we do, including cats, angry vengeful women, more about cats, and fun stories from Elyse’s office. We also make tag predictions … Continue reading 227. Smart Bitches Assemble: Looking Back at 2016
It’s the seventh night of the Extrava-Hanukkah Giveaway! Only two nights left – so let’s get this one going, eh? I hope you’ve been having a lovely holiday and are surrounded by warm and delicious things, and possibly warm and delicious people, if you’re into that kind of thing (I hope not. Warm people are good. Eating people… not so much.) So that took a turn. Anyway, perhaps you’re surrounded by everyone and everything you love, … Continue reading 2016 Smart Bitches Extrava-Hanukkah Giveaway, Part 7
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn is a Kindle Daily Deal and is $2.99! Sharp Objects is also part of the KDD today. Some found the format a little frustrating, with all the jumping between POVs and between timelines. But many said the book kept them entertained with the mystery and all its twists. Also, be warned it’s a pretty graphic book. Have you read this?
An Improper Holiday is a m/m romance novella set during the Regency period. Regency people weren’t all that big on the actual day of Christmas (this was post-mistletoe, but pre-Christmas trees, cards, and presents). However, Regency people loved to party, and they kicked off their festivities on Christmas night and carried on for twelve days. Apparently there was some controversy over exactly when the twelve nights actually started and stopped. I like to imagine that … Continue reading An Improper Holiday by K.A. Mitchell
It’s the sixth night of Hanukkah, and Smart Bitches gave to me… the Extrava-Hanukkah Giveaway of great simplicity! Sometimes you just need books, and maybe some things to read with. Whatever you need, we’ve got you covered: today’s giveaway is…. A $100 Amazon gift certificate! That’s easy enough, right? Here’s how to enter: leave a comment below and tell us something good you learned this past year. Maybe it’s a new author, or a new skill, … Continue reading 2016 Smart Bitches Extrava-Hanukkah Giveaway, Part 6
So here’s the news: All Romance eBooks and OmniLit will be closing effective 12/31/2016. Per the email sent to ARe customers, readers are encouraged to “take this opportunity to finalize any transactions, download your purchases, and back up your library.” If you’ve purchased ebooks there, you must download them immediately* as the sites will go dark at midnight CST, 12/31/16. *Of course, all the traffic is making the download and access process very slow. I’m having a … Continue reading All Romance is Closing Effective 12/31/2016
It’s almost 2017! Are we ready for this year to be over? I think I can hear the resounding yes from the Bitchery. Hopefully, next year will be leagues better than this one! … I will warn you that this first link is not for those with sensitive stomachs as it does deal with grisly crime scenes. However, Broadly’s interview with women who work in crime scene clean up was fascinating: Cleaning. It’s not for … Continue reading Links: Carrie Fisher, Asexual Characters, & a Cat Documentary
The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy is $2.99! This is a fantasy romance with an arranged marriage. Readers loved the scholarly heroine, but found that the second half of the book had a very different feel than the first half. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Four Weddings and a Sixpence is super comforting. It’s a collection of four novellas, all Regency romances, all remarkably angst-free. Five minutes after reading each story I had already forgotten all about it, but I remembered my enjoyment while reading it. The novellas are held together by a framing story written by Julia Quinn. In 1817, four girls who are attending Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls find a sixpence in the mattress. The girls … Continue reading Four Weddings and a Sixpence by Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane
