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Book Review

Pining for You by Stef Ferrari

Pining for You

This one was so good, you guys. This is one of the most irresistible, easy-to-love YA reads of the year. Pining for You has a great, relatable, funny and enthusiastic heroine, and she kept me coming back to this one. I fell immediately in love with the prose, too. Pining for You is going to end up being a book I go back to again and again – a rare thing for me, as I … Continue reading Pining for You by Stef Ferrari

Help A Bitch Out

HaBO: Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Part Deux

This HaBO comes from Lindsay, who wants to find this romance: This is an historical (probably written in the early 2000s or 2010s), and the protagonists have either a marriage of convenience or they marry young and some sort of Big Misunderstanding has the hero leaving shortly after the wedding night and going off to war. He returns from war to find that the heroine is thriving without him. As he proceeds to grovel, he … Continue reading HaBO: Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Part Deux

Book Review

Scorched by Sin by Makayla Lynn

Scorched by Sin

This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviewed at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where she’s on staff, and you can catch her at @‌thatbouviergirl on Twitter. There, she shares good reviews, bracing industry opinions and thoughtful commentary when she’s not on her grind looking for the next … Continue reading Scorched by Sin by Makayla Lynn

Cover Snark: Sound the Alarms for a Full Back Tattoo

Simon by V.A. Dold. A blond man is facing away from us in a pair of light wash, low rise jeans. His hands are on his head. The background is of an estate surrounded by trees, but everything has a royal blue filter. The man has a giant wolf head tattooed on his back and the wolf has light blue eyes.

Welcome back to Cover Snark! From Kelly: Where did his fingers go? Also their eyebrows are distractingly the exact same color as their hair. Sarah: I maintain that faces and necks are hard to draw. Elyse: She looks like when my sister would pull off my Barbie’s head and I’d stick it back on but the neck would disappear. Sarah: It’s never the same, is it? Like when you wash a Barbie’s hair. It never … Continue reading Cover Snark: Sound the Alarms for a Full Back Tattoo

Sunday Sale Digest!

Smart Bitches in a blue typewriter font, and After Dark lit up like hot pink neon

This piece of literary mayhem is exclusive to Smart Bitches After Dark, but fret not. If you’d like to join, we’d love to have you! Have a look at our membership options, and come join the fun! If you want to have a little extra fun, be a little more yourself, and be part of keeping the site open for everyone in the future, we can’t wait to see you in our new subscription-based section … Continue reading Sunday Sale Digest!

Book Review

Emma Gets Even by Josie Johns

Emma Gets Even

This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviewed at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where she’s on staff, and you can catch her at @‌thatbouviergirl on Twitter. There, she shares good reviews, bracing industry opinions and thoughtful commentary when she’s not on her grind looking for the next … Continue reading Emma Gets Even by Josie Johns

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