Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, I’ve eaten my body weight in gelt, so it’s time to go lift weights – or books. Or both!
To continue the festive merriment to celebrate reading, both paper and digital, I have a collection of contemporary romance – hardcovers and paperbacks!
All you have to do to win is leave a comment, and I’ll select a winner each day. These contests are open to international winners, and I will do my best to ship this week, provided people send me their addresses promptly.
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. If anything, my gift is exceptional support of the United States Postal Service (Happy Hanukkah, US Mail Carriers!). We r who we r. Edited for television. Keep cool. Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all.
Ahoy! Contest the seventh!
On the Seventh Night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches Gave to Me: A massive selection of contemporary romance and contemporary fiction!
Just leave a comment below, and tell me which contemporary romance setting is your favorite – cities? small towns? cruise ships? space stations? – and you’re entered to win. Comments close in 24 hours, but fear not, there’s another book – paper or digital – giveaway coming soon. Because Hanukkah lasts for eight crazy nights, and I have lost my ever lovin’ mind.
Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Reading!
When reading contemporaries, I prefer cities as a setting. Any well written locale will do. I also like traveling to foreign settings.
I don’t read much contemporary, so I really don’t have a preference.
While I don’t mind small towns, I prefer cities. This goes for pretty much any contemporary book I read. I even prefer cities in real life. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a small town or maybe I just like the energy and atmosphere cities create.
I read a lot more historical romances than contemporary, but think I prefer cities as settings for them.
Another great selection of books! I enjoy the small town contemporary romance – where everyone in town knows what’s going on and sticks their noses in, that’s always fun.
i haven’t read many comtemporaries lately, but when i do, i like ones that take place in cities. I find it harder to associate with modern characters that still live in small towns because i have lived in big cities my whole life. I don’t see the sense in living in an area where there are more cows than people, so I find it weird when heroines that have lived in big cities their whole lives move to small towns and realize that everything they have known before was crap and that the small town is where it’s at. It feels like the author is preaching to me, and i don’t like that.
Small towns as long as they’re not so stereotyped as to be completely ridiculous.
I love small towns…especially when authors write a series of characters there and you get introduced to them in the first book, and can’t wait to read the next so you can see how they end up!
I prefer small towns, but have learned to my dismay, that reality rarely mirrors fiction. I’m moving my fanny to a big city/town as soon as I can manage.
I like tropical locations for all of the instances of naked swimming followed by nookie! (though not on the beach itself ‘cause, ow. Just, ow.)
As a person who lives in a big city I think it’s fun to read small-town contemporaries for the change of pace!
I would have to say cruise ships because I love, love love beach settings and they usually port at beach locales.
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I would say small cities or towns is my favorite.
Sam
I love stories set in cities, but that’s because all of my nightmares happen in suburbia. It’s too damn dark (where are the streetlights and sirens?) and people are just a little bit too friendly. It’s weird.
I prefer reading about smart, spunky women living in cities, living it up.
Small towns! There’s something so cozy about them and since I live in a big city it’s a nice change of pace!
I think I’ll go with small towns or space stations. But I can’t stand it when it gets too techie for me. I don’t need all those details!! Thanks!! 🙂
I like cities, especially NOLA.
I started out liking the small town books, because I was a farm kid. Any more, I don’t have a particular setting, although farm books tend to annoy me, since it is rare that the authors get the details right in how a farm operates.
Cities. Though I’ve read so many good romances with small town settings lately.
I like small towns, because I’ve never lived in one. Thanks for all the great comps!
My favorite category!!
I like the small towns, especially when it becomes a series and you get to see previous characters again.
I think it’s not so much where it is, as if the characters have a good supporting circle of friends and relatives, especially if they break a stereotype. That happens in cities (Bet Me is set in a city) and in small towns.
I just reread Linda Howard’s Open Season and fell in love with it all over again. Particularly the part where the heroine(a small town librarian) decides to announce her availability by buying a giant box of condoms in the drugstore owned by the biggest gossip in town.
Not sure which exact setting I love the most. Like someone else said, just that the author works the location into the story so that the location makes sense.
I prefer contemporaries set in cities. Then after the H and h get married they can move to a small town to raise their family 🙂
I love small town settings. Coastal if possible. A case of wanting art to imitate life? I think so.
I enjoy small town romances the most, even though I know that the way they’re depicted in contemporary romance probably makes them seem far more, well, romantic than they really are! Big cities as settings are, for me, too impersonal. Seattle is my one exception, grew up near there and love a good, accurate portrayal. By contrast, get the emerald city wrong, and it’s an instant wall-banger and DNF/TSTL.
I heart small town stories. There’s something about a quirky cast of characters from a small town that always makes things more interesting.
Now that I live in a big city, I find myself drawn to books set in smaller places, where there’s a sense of community and where everybody knows everybody else’s business. I don’t think I want to move back to one any time soon, but it’s nice to get my fix every now and then.
As others have said, it’s not the setting that’s important in a Romance, although a good one can certainly contribute (can you say “tropical beach” or “remote mountain cabin”?) Snappy dialog is probably my biggest turn-on for a good Romance, and I always love me a dash of real humor. But for settings, my “favorite” is probably something remote, where the H & H have to learn deal with each other and can’t just run home. I also like small towns (in theory they sound like a great place to live; not sure in reality…).
I have a soft spot for small town stories.
I am a location junkie .. I like a bit of everything in my reading :). I do think the small town settings and tropical settings can be cozy though!
I prefer cities to small towns, especially cities that are not usually written about.
Cities!! I can’t do small towns. Too many times they come off as cutesy (a big no no) and everybody is all up in everyone else’s business. No can do! That just seems a little creepy to me. I keep wanting to tell characters to mind their own darn business!
single66: dear god, I hope I’m not still single when I’m 66!
I like the stories that involve a stranger in a small town (preferably a tall dark and handsome stranger)
I have a slight preference for big city settings, but really if the story and characters are good, I couldn’t care less.
I like small town settings because the cast of supporting characters is always so interesting and quirky.
I love small town romances where everyone knows everyone else’s business.
For me it’s near future (think the In Death series) or alternate universe settings.
I have little patience for SATC-esque plotlines. I prefer romances set in real-life middle America. Or middle Ireland, or middle… you get the drift. Something I can relate to.