10th Anniversary Giveaway Celebration: Part 3

John DeSalvo in a hot pink toga grasping a woman with huge breasts - above it says Ten Years of Smart BitchesWe’re one day closer to our 10th anniversary on January 31st. Ready for more fun? The other giveaways are still open, but here are two more!

Today we have some special things, including a Kate Spade bag, and a rather rare collectible. I haven’t seen any of these on eBay or anywhere in awhile. Oh – and some books! And treats! And an ARC of an April book, and a hardcover that isn’t out for 2 more weeks.

This is so fun, you guys.

Each giveaway will be open until 31 January 2015, and each prize pack is open to international residents where applicable by law. Must be over 18 to win.  Void where prohibited.

Here’s our first prize pack!

 

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Included in this giveaway are: a new (with tags!) Kate Spade Beantown Lene grey and black wool crossbody handbag. If you’d like a slightly better picture, here it is:   Isn’t it cute? Also included: a Smart Bitches flask, a MAC eyeshadow quad in “An Amorous Adventure” from the True Romance collection, a digital copy of Pride, Prejudice, and Popcorn by Carrie Sessarego, a Moleskine hardcover Book Journal, a hardcover notebook from the Harlequin Notable collection featuring the cover for I’ll Bury My Dead by James Hadley Chase. Ready for the next collection? I bet you are!   a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway collection includes a somewhat rare (I haven’t seen very many, that’s for sure) Nora Roberts bobblehead doll, a hardcover copy of Obsession in Death by JD Robb, an address book featuring the vintage cover of You’re Lonely When You’re Dead by James Hadley Chase, a hardcover notebook featuring the vintage cover for Anna by Anneke De Lange (“She lived like a wicked little animal.” Oh yes), a digital copy of Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn by Carrie Sessarego, and a small hardcover Moleskine notebook (to record all of your wicked adventures with bobblehead Nora, of course).

Good luck, and thank you for being here!

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  1. Shawny J says:

    So many things! I don’t understand the hate for Diana Gabaldon. It is the least cheesy of the highlander romances by far. Also, I find the rhidhiculousness of the Black Dagger Brotherhood hilharhious, but I know it bugs many on this site.

  2. library addict says:

    I’ve had reviews I’ve agreed with and ones I’ve felt the exact opposite. Too many of both to name individual books,

  3. Val says:

    Oh, yes, I’ve had a terrible experience with Alice Clayton’s Wallbanger.

    Every review I read at goodreads said how awesome the book was and blah blah blah and I trusted them and my trust was for NOTHING.

    To say I abhorred the book is one kind way to put it.

    While we might disagree with one thing or another, all the reviews I’ve read at smartbitches pretty much voices my own opinion and that’s why I visit the site at least once a day! 🙂

  4. Jordan says:

    Did you ever read a review and had a totally different experience with the book?–>

    I couldn’t get into the first Game of Thrones book. I usually love fantasy stories, and I’ve made it through some pretty dense writing, but I just didn’t get the appeal.

  5. Susan says:

    I can’t think of any specific books right off hand, but I rarely agree with other readers/reviewers 100% one way or another. I often read reviews and think we either didn’t read the same book, or we’re coming from totally different realities that shape our viewpoints. Even if I agree with a reviewer’s overall rating, sometimes the things that hit my buttons were different than the things that hit the reviewer’s buttons. (If any of this made sense. . .)

  6. Pam Miara says:

    If I’ve read a book that I didn’t like that’s when I’ll read the reviews, to see if anyone else had the same reaction.

  7. LaurieF says:

    A reviewer I follow likes most of the same authors that I do but often we’ll be 180 degrees on which books we like and the ones we’re “meh” on from these same authors. I loved the Suzanne Enoch Sin series and she didn’t like it much but the reviewer really liked others by Enoch that I thought were only ok.

  8. Megan says:

    I almost never read specific reviews for books but instead read reviews to track down authors I like

  9. Holly I. says:

    The Bronze Horseman. The review raved about it but I couldn’t stand the hero (and the heroine wasn’t that great either). I kept reading it trying to see the good that others found.

  10. Cassandra B. says:

    Yes, to both. But can’t think of the specific books/reviews now.

  11. Karin says:

    I just left a snarky response to an Amazon reviewer who called a historical romance book “porno”. Really, the book had not particularly graphic, vanilla lovemaking scenes between a married couple. I feel bad for the author when they get an undeserved 1-star review that’s only a sentence long.

  12. erinf1 says:

    ok… I’m gonna go waaay back here and say the Twilight Saga. I couldn’t even get past the first chapter of the first book. And I never had any desire to watch the movies. Same with the Fifty Shades trilogy. I read the first book and I was so disgusted. It amazed me that so many people adored those books 🙂 There’s a very small, select group of reviewers that I take seriously b/c I’ve found that their tastes run more similar to mine. And don’t even get me started on the Amazon “reviews”. Those generally just make me laugh.

  13. Karen W. says:

    I mostly read reviews for the plot synopsis more than for the grade. I might like things the reviewer didn’t, and vice versa, so I use reviews for general information.

  14. Allison says:

    If a book description interests me, I only read reviews until I’m reasonably assured that it will deliver on its potential. With sbtb that means I will read the first couple of paragraphs and then buy the book before I know too much of the story 🙂

  15. Kelly S. says:

    There is one that most people loved but I didn’t, but I forget the title. Maybe because the whole book was forgettable for me.

  16. Eliza Evans says:

    I definitely have disagreed with reviews. It took me way too long to realize I should seek out reviewers who have similar taste to me, instead of just going by any old review.

  17. Kate says:

    It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I read several reviews that raved about it. I couldn’t stand either character and did not get their chemistry at all. DNF.

  18. Jessica says:

    One thing I think is lovely about reviews is that they are so personal and subjective. I have read reviews that I agree with so much that I feel like the reviewer and I should be friends! I’ve also read reviews that I feel are so off the mark that I wonder if the reviewer and I share the same universe.

  19. Jan says:

    Wow! It keeps on getting better and better!

  20. Elizabeth says:

    For me it’s Sarah McLean. Some of her books I think are okay, and some I think are dreadful. The one with the supposedly genius heroine, who was. . . not smart. Who basically showed off how smart she was by writing middle school level science reports in her diary. Genius heroines are actually one of my pet peeves, because most of the time they’re unbelievable. Courtney Milan pulled it off pretty well, though, I thought.

  21. elianara says:

    Several readers and blogs I like had good reviews of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Many raved about how good it was.

    I couldn’t stand it. It got boring, and I lemmed* it.

    *(To lem = Sword and Laser book club short for Did not finish)

  22. Janiec says:

    Recently read a few rave reviews of Miranda Neville’s “The Duke of Dark Desires” and found myself agreeing, especially about the witty dialogue.

  23. Abi says:

    Destiny’s Embrace. It got really wonderful reviews here, but the writing was just so not up to par for me. Plus, anything with a virginal tit-gasm scene gets the stink eye from me.

  24. Tabs says:

    I totally totally hate Anne Bishop’s much beloved Black Jewels books. I somehow read the whole trilogy even though first book literally made me nearly puke with revulsion. And people are constantly talking about how much they love them. I somehow refrain from screaming about magical cock rings. I don’t know how, but I do.

  25. MariaB says:

    I usually agree with reviews I get from here. I’ve narrowed my genre flavor the last few years, mostly taste, but also because I bought too many I was bummed about from amazon reviews

  26. Julie says:

    I usually only read reviews when I’m seriously on the fence about a new-to-me author, and then I hope fervently the reviewer is from one of the three blogger sites I visit frequently.

  27. jaymzangel says:

    I crack up over the Amazon reviews that complain “This book was raunchy and had too much sex in it!” That usually makes it a one-click buy for me =D

  28. A couple of years ago, I picked up a copy of a Bella Andre book because I’d heard such marvelous stuff about her books. I made it about half way through the book and wanted to put my head through the wall because it was so amazingly bad. I looked up reviews of the book and every single one raved about it. I just didn’t get it. What book did I have that I’m the only person on the face of the Earth that hated it?

  29. Sabrina says:

    Oh my gosh, all the time. Most recently, hmm… Okay, so I also love reviews on the Book Smugglers and find their tastes are almost identical to mine. However, I read The Ghosts of Ashbury High after they gave it their highest grade and… I just didn’t get it. I was so bored I couldn’t bring myself to finish. I still highly trust their viewpoint, but I so could not get into that book!

  30. Michelle DeLeon says:

    None specifically come to mind, I’d say it goes both ways though, sometimes I agree, sometimes I don’t and sometimes I get a book without checking out reviews for it

  31. twirlygirl says:

    One Night with a Cowboy by Cat Johnson–It was like you were reading my mind when you wrote it right down to the WTF about how faculty hiring works! I especially like it when I read a review that confirms my feelings of WTF about a book especially when there are tons of glowing reviews on amazon/goodreads/etc. I sometimes wonder what is wrong with me or if the reviewers read a different book than I did when reviewers say how amazing the book is and I think it is terrible.

  32. lolabotona says:

    Both, I think. First it was ¨Rebecca¨ by Daphne Du Maurier and it seemed that everyone luuurved it, but for me it was more like meh. Wuthering Heights, on the other side, was one of those who people either loved or hated, and I realized that I was with the latter group -and even found a couple of reviews that expressed my hatred of the book in a magnificent way. =)

  33. Shiny says:

    I can’t even count by now how many I’ve picked up because of good reviews here and loved, but stuff by Jill Shalvis, Tessa Dare, Courtney Milan to name a few…

  34. Jikie says:

    Cecelia Grant, it seemed like everyone else likes her stuff and I’m always down for more historical authors, but I couldn’t even finish one book. It makes me very sad 🙁

  35. Danker says:

    I have a number of reviewers I trust and follow – mainly for recs of books previously unknown to me. I’m fine when one of them is tepid about a book I like, and vice versa, but the most fascinating thing is when she hates a book I adore (Lord of Scoundrels being a good example) – and points to flaws I haven’t previously noticed. Sometimes, that can be great – like being in a book group with a shifting and anonymous membership.

  36. Natasha says:

    I wasn’t a fan of Sherry Thomas’ books despite the glowing reviews. Just couldn’t get into the writing style.

  37. Ada says:

    I avoid reading reviews before I start a new book because I don’t want it shape my feelings on the story . Afterwards I do read a few reviews to see what others think and sometimes it leaves me scratching my head because I totally disagree with their opinion but other times, the reviews are bang on. So it’s hit and miss with reviews.

  38. Tünde says:

    Last time it was The Rosie Project that I fell completely in love with and read about it here.

  39. Helen R-S says:

    Thanks so much for changing it so non-Tweeters can enter too, Sarah 🙂 And thank YOU for being here and all the work you do – and the awesome giveaways!

  40. Camilla says:

    I fell that way about the Outlander series…really people???

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