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. Bube says:

    Yes,about The Marriage Trap by Jennifer Probst,I have read and saw not so shining ratings and reviews about this book,I was a little bit sceptical,but after reading this book become one of my favorite books 🙂

  2. Krista says:

    The Gift of Fear came highly recommended, including by Carolyn Hax (advice columnist) but I found it practically useless and had a really hard time seeing why so many people think it’s great. I’m glad it helps them, but I was sorry I had wasted my time.

  3. Kacey S says:

    I really try not to read reviews (except for the awesome and fun ones here) because I’m way too easily swayed. I can be enjoying a book and then read a review where they say something negative and then that’s all I can think of.

  4. maddbookish says:

    Is it terrible to say that I don’t remember reviews unless they’re funny or awful? Mostly I disagree with the awful ones. Can’t think off the top of my head of any particular book that people had an overwhelming opinion of that I felt the opposite about. The closest would maybe be 50 Shades. Sooooo many of the ladies in my family loved it and I just couldn’t even finish the first one.

  5. Kim says:

    There are a couple of authors that get excellent reviews and the books just don’t work for me. Since they are sometimes advertised here, I’d rather not list the authors.

  6. Kim says:

    There are a couple of instances where a popular author gets glowing reviews, but I just didn’t care for the book.

  7. Celia says:

    I loved your review for the Playboy Sheik’s Virgin Stable Girl and I’d have to say I completely agreed with what you said!

  8. Hannah S says:

    There were several reviews of Patrick Rothfuss’ novels that I 100% agreed with. In fact, they helped me to voice my own thoughts about the book.

  9. PamG says:

    Never Judge a Lady by her Cover / Sarah Maclean
    So many people loved it and I hated it. I was so frustrated that I reviewed it on Amazon as Warpammer and gave it 2 stars, something I’ve never done. Political & personal clash brutally in my estimation.

  10. Trapnel1640 says:

    I love Courtney Milan now. I read a review and thought I’d try, and I’m so glad I did!

  11. I’m sure both scenarios have happened to me before, but I can’t really remember any examples…

  12. Nancy says:

    Oddly enough, I rarely agree with the Georgette Heyer reviews I’ve read. I didn’t like The Grand Sophy, which most people love, and even in negative reviews of the book no one ever mentions the reasons why I disliked it. My favorite Heyer,These Old Shades, has the opposite problem. There are mostly mixed reviews on the book but I disagree with all the negatives and am shocked more people don’t gush about its positives 🙂

  13. Leslie says:

    I thank this community for Tessa Dare – would not have found her without the reviews here!

  14. Sara says:

    All of the rave reviews of the Game of Thrones series…ugh. Too many descriptions. Detailed, overly detailed descriptions. I realized that I’ve actually tried to read/consume the first book 4 different times – after discovering the paperback on a bookshelf, which I had to have bought at least 10 years ago. I’ve also tried ebook, audiobook, and the series. I could only get through the last.

  15. Diane Mc. says:

    Every persons taste is different.

  16. Alexandra says:

    That never happened to me, as far as I remember – but sometimes friends recommend books to me, and when I read them I think “WHO EVEN ARE YOU?!”. Sometimes it’s a surprise what people read. And like. 😀

  17. Amy East says:

    Gabriel’s Inferno. It is totally hate or love kind of book. The “hate” reviews are spot on to the way I felt the whole way through. SO confused why so many people love and rave about it! Some books are just like that!

  18. Katie Lynn says:

    I disagree with really good reviews all the time. I pick up a lot of free or cheap ebooks through the bookbub and other daily emails, and I’m pretty picky as to what I’ll put on my kindle. But sometimes a book with A LOT of really great reviews is just ‘eh’ to me. One that I recall getting from goodreads first reads was called ‘The Thirteenth Chime’, which was written by a prolific book blogger. All of the reviews were five-star, and there were a lot of them. I gave it two. It wasn’t well written.

  19. Kimberly B. says:

    I guess I would say that a review I read of Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce I disagreed with. Or rather, I agreed with what the reviewer said but separated the character’s attitude towards other girls from the author’s.

  20. infinitieh says:

    I don’t read reviews of books I’m going to read. Of course, I have read reviews that prompted me to read the book, mostly out of curiosity. I just want to know the details, more than the reviewer’s impression or feelings.

  21. Julia says:

    I have read reviews where my response is, “Did we READ the same book?” and I’ve read others where my response is, “We are clearly review soul sisters!” I can’t remember any specific books, but there are lots of times where a book has been positively acclaimed and I go seeking out a review that aligns with my experience with it. Sometimes I am the first to write that experience, but then get likes or comments agreeing. 🙂

  22. Lauren says:

    I know this has happened to me, but I can’t think of a good example. Reviews have certainly gotten me to read books I would have otherwise avoided.

  23. Meg says:

    My reaction to Cocaine Blues (the first Phryne Fisher book) was exactly the same as the review posted on here.

  24. jennifer says:

    The review for Something About You by Julie James convinced me to read the book and I am in total agreement with the review posted here.

    Especially this line: “This is a contemporary romance well worth savoring, and laughing over, and reading all over again.”

    And yes, I have read it over and over again.

  25. Emily says:

    I had a crazy experience with Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I had such a hard time making it past the first 200 pages, but it had some good reviews, and I think it even won an award.

  26. Jennifer says:

    the most recent Tessa Dare, Say yes to the Marquess, didn’t live up to expectations after I read the reveiws

  27. Michelle says:

    Love your reviews – our tastes generally align pretty well

  28. Carrie C. says:

    Occasionally. I remember getting the first of Rachel Herron’s Cyprus Hollow Yarn series (How to Knit a Love Song) via SBTB sale alert and really loving it. I checked out the next two books in the series from the library, and well…not so much would be an understatement. What made them such exercises in complete frustration was that both of them were bursting with interesting characters whom I would have loved to read more about. Unfortunately, the heroine of Book 2 was a sanctimonious asshole under her veneer of mousy timidity (seriously I HATED her, and that’s not a feeling I often get even when I dislike a heroine), and the heroine of Book 3 was a completely neurotic drip to the point I had a hard time believing she could summon the strength to get out of bed day to day, much less become a successful doctor.

    When I went on Amazon and Good Reads to see if anyone felt the same: they did not. Everyone loved the heroines. I resisted the urge to thwap my head into many a wall that day.

  29. Eli says:

    Linda Howards “Mr. Perfect”, can’t even remember much of the review, just that the reviewer really really hated the book. This is one that I have in HB, paperback, and kindle because I like to re-read it. Always thought it was designed to become a movie. I keep re-reading trying to figure out exactly why it works for me, doesn’t really hit my usual reading catnips.

  30. Mary C. says:

    If the author is an auto-buy, I don’t read the reviews. There have been books that friends have raved about, but the stories didn’t work for me.

  31. Violet Bick says:

    That’s more likely to happen with movies and TV shows. I remember all the hype around the first Home Alone movie, and when I finally saw it, I thought, meh.

    Can I say, how fun it would be to travel to different places and photograph the Nora Roberts bobblehead a la Flat Stanley? So totally fun!

  32. Corinne Day says:

    Not romance, but Lev Grossman’s The Magicians kept being touted as “Harry Potter with sex and drugs” so I read it. I didn’t agree… not at all. I would have thrown the book if it hadn’t been from the library. But I bonded with a friend’s new boyfriend (now husband!) over hating it, so things didn’t turn out so badly 🙂

  33. Diane/Anonym2857 says:

    Hmn. Well according to the little raffle-whatsis, I already posted a comment. But I have no memory of doing so, nor any idea of what I said!! I looked through all of the pages of comments and see nothing with my name on it, so I’ll just quickly say something so I can be included in the drawing — not to mention say something I can actually remember! LOL Actually I had been trying to access it from my phone, and it wasn’t connecting well, so that might be why it thinks I posted when I didn’t.

    Anyway, I generally agree with most of the reviews I’ve seen here. When I don’t, I think it’s usually because my age/perceptions/lifestyle/personal preferences, etc. are so different from the reviewer, so we are looking at the story from different directions. I can’t remember the name of the book now, blocked it from memory, but there was one that everyone was just raving about how modern, hip, funny, this book was. I thought I was reading the wrong book. While a lot of you young’uns thought these people were such free spirits, I thought they were narcissistic brats. But then, I am a geezer, so it prolly wasn’t written for me. LOL

  34. Winnie P says:

    Can’t pinpoint a specific book, but there’s usually a good enough range of reviews where there’s agreement with someone. Not sure what I would do with a Nora Roberts bobblehead; maybe get her to nod agreement when I give my rating of a book.

  35. Yaara says:

    I don’t remember where I read the review, but someone somewhere recommended A Demon Bound by Debra Dunbar – the heroine is an imp, which apparently makes it ok for her to be bitchy and annoying but it’s cool because it’s a plot point. Zzzz. DNF

  36. Lindsay says:

    Nora. Roberts. Bobblehead.

    I generally get that “did we even read the same book?” review feeling on Amazon when it’s 5-star reviews for books that really push all my NOPE buttons. David Sedaris’ book (forget which) was like this for me — read the sample, seemed okay, 5-star reviews all over the place, bought it… whoa rape jokes and racist jokes all around! First (and only) ebook I ever returned.

  37. Anne-C. says:

    Quite often I read just absolutely glowing 5 star reviews on goodreads, so I go into the book with high expectations, only to finish it and wonder if the reviewers sniffed glue while reading, or if everyone on goodreads are just too nice to say what they actually think.

  38. Kris says:

    I never knew there were Nora Roberts bobble heads.

  39. Irma Jurejevčič says:

    My favourite word is book and I didn’ like a book from S. Jeffries – Never Seduce a Scoundrel. But as I said in my review – I blame it on a not so good translation. I read the book in my mothers langauge.

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