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April 17, 2011 | Sunday | 29 Comments
Meagan is looking for a western romance replete with those pesky whore rumors about the town’s secret virgin: It is a Contemporary Western “small town” romance novel where the main male character a rancher (who is raising his younger brother after they’re father’s death awhile past, who is in high school) already has an on-again-off-again fiance who out of habbit not love (not that he realizes it yet) has protected since grade school. Everytime she cancels the engagement he does’nt seem to care, but the opening scene is they are at a bar the spoiled rich girl cheating fiance calls…
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April 16, 2011 | Saturday | 8 Comments
Randall is looking for this book: I’m having a really hard time finding this book…I know it came out in the past 5 or 6 years. It is a contemporary novel in which a radio DJ is kind of Howard Stern-ish. He gets knocked into a coma and meets an angel that tells him he has to do a good deed in order to live. He’s assigned to a woman who he falls in love with. Don’t remember much about her. I remember at the end he’s back on the radio and she’s drawn to his voice and goes to…
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April 14, 2011 | Thursday | 108 Comments
I will state upfront that I had an ulterior motive for reading this book. I read it for the anal. Yup, you read that right. Blazing anal. Blazing the Hershey highway. Firing up the backdoor action. Hot poop chute lovin’. Avast me hearties, there be anal in this novel. While at RT, I heard about this book from Andrew Schaeffer, who reviews the Blaze line for RT Book Reviews. You should have seen my face. I absolutely did not believe him. But no, there is anal. He even says so in his review. I was hoping to like the story,…
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March 21, 2011 | Monday | 150 Comments
You guys do understand that I read these primarily because I enjoy it, right? I mean, some of them were “unpleasant” (Purity’s Passion, I am looking at you), some are off the hook (Forbidden Desires? That’s you) and some are so wonderfully trashy I can’t help but adore them (Henley is my kryptonite). For the most part, I enjoy it. I think I have a very selective form of masochism. And, in general, if I truly hate it, or it’s just not interesting enough to review, I won’t review it. This book is a bit different, though. Because I did…
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February 21, 2011 | Monday | 79 Comments
Hi, sorry, sorry. This semester is kicking my ass, and all my classes are things I actually give a rat’s ass about (I’m taking law in the Ancient World, and it’s the best ever), so there’s a lot less procrastination on my plate this semester than last semester. This is also the first book I’m reviewing from my brand new Kindle, which I adore more than is reasonable. I got it for school (really) and also so people can’t judge me for the covers of what I read. Yay for eink! This book is so deliciously fucked up, you guys. …
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October 20, 2010 | Wednesday | 47 Comments
>RedHeadedGirl is back, this time with a review of a romance from so far back, and so far gone in the WTF department, she calls it “Love’s Passion’s Flaming Bag of Poo.” It was an epic adventure. In pain. Most of the time, reviews are written after you have finished the book. I admit for Season of the SunI started it before I even got the book delivered, but I’d read it so many times before, I could do that, and the hook wasn’t really that relevant to the specific book anyway. This is not one of those reviews. It’s…
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September 08, 2010 | Wednesday | 88 Comments
[This is a guest review from reader R. who found her long-lost romance thanks to the Bitchery and a HaBO that was SO funny I laughed so hard I could barely speak. Read on for more adventure in way-back romance!] Surrender to the Night (Or that book I ran into 18 years ago when I was 13, and finally got 3 days ago, thanks to the Smart Bitches and the Bitchery) For real, guys, I can’t thank you enough. I feel like a niggling mystery from my early teenagerhood has finally been solved. I suppose it feels that way because…
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December 08, 2009 | Tuesday | 82 Comments
Huffington Post invited me to submit a rebuttal to the article by Alan Elsner that I mentioned in passing late last week. Mr. Elsner took a stack of romances from the library, read them, and pronounced the entire genre as absolute crap. My response is now up over at Huffington Post’s book section: Pride and Prejudice and Pedantry. An excerpt: In response, I refer to that book he holds in such high regard, “Pride and Prejudice”, by Jane Austen: “You have insulted me in every possible method. You can now have nothing farther to say.” A shabby, patched-up survey of…
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October 02, 2009 | Friday | 54 Comments
If some guy said to you, “A Jewish guy cut me off while driving on the highway, so I hate Jews,” you’d think he was a complete bigot and a tool. We certainly wouldn’t think he was romance hero material. So how is it a justifiable plot point that a guy is unwilling to commit because one woman, ONE. JUST ONE WOMAN broke his heart, dumped him, slept with his best friend, or committed some other act of douchebaggery? I realize asking these questions may undermine the emotional tension of 65% of romance plots, particularly those in the category category,…
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March 13, 2009 | Friday | 39 Comments
Dear Smart Bitch Sarah: I know this guy, and we’ve been friends for a long time. I’ve always been attracted to him, but he’s never really made it clear how he feels about me. Sometimes there will be a moment when he says something and is looking at me in a way that makes me wonder if he’s trying to communicate something more, or he’ll do something incredibly kind out of the blue, but never anything definite. The problem is, I’ve got a terrible crush on him, and I don’t know what to do next. If I make a move,…
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