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!
Small towns—because I live in the big city! 😉 It somehow makes it more romantic to read about smaller communities—I get nostalgic for where I grew up.
I think both cities and small towns can be a lot of fun for different reasons. In small towns it can add humor to the story especially when everyone is butting into whatever is going on. And cities can add to the story almost by being its own character.
I like a small town contemporary romance – probably because I live in the city.
Big cities are okay but small quirky towns,ala Stars Hollow,are nice locales for romance for me:)
Being from a big city myself, I prefer reading about the small towns.
Small towns all the way! I love how you can find that sexy (and sweet) man in the least likely of places 🙂
I must confess that I just adore big city settings—especially those glitzy ones that never seem to have strikes of essential city services.
Depends on my mood. And there’s a Teresa Medeiros book I missed???
I think I like the small town setting best, as I’m so unfamiliar with them but they seem very cozy. And those crazy townspeople always butt in!
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Cities for me, I’d say.
Small towns, but also anywhere the protagonist has an unusual job or occupation, like coupon sales girl for the Tri-State area.
My favorite – small town settings – love the quirkiness often found in the characters of small town settings.
Favourite setting?
City scape, with overtones of either comedy and/or Raymond Chandler-esque detective noir. Especially combined with heat and rides into the desert/on the beach.
while i love small towns in actuality, i really love reading about big city romances. Finding that one in a million. Sigh.
Sports arenas and fire houses. And lately, tatto parlors… damn you Lauren Dane.
I like a small town setting, unless the author describes it as podunk. Then the supporting charaters are as dumb as rocks, and the whole story falls apart.
I like small towns and the country PROVIDED that the writer avoids cliches. I grew up in a small town and currently live in a small town so I’m easily annoyed when writers get it wrong.
I like small town settings because I always wanted to live in a small town where everyone knew everyone. It would have to be near the mountains though so all the romantic walks and time together could be done outdoors with a beautiful backdrop.
I’m not really a reader of contemporaries (not that I don’t want one!), but I might gravitate either towards small towns or cities. Small towns would add the trope that everyone would be all up in the main characters’ business, which is fun. Cities, though, would give lots of opportunities for parties, fun dates, excitement, that kind of thing.
Small towns… cause everyone is a nosy busybody and they ALL KNOW BETTER THAN THE PROTAGONIST! So there. Unf!
Definitely prefer small towns. Just gives it a little more fun I think when everyone knows everyone and there is an endless supply of gossip!
I like them both, but I love city stories with a neighborhood feel.
I love contemporaries in any setting. It’s all about the relationship!
I like settings that remind me of my hometown of Costa Mesa, CA. We’re not a big city like LA or New York, but at the same time we’re not some small, rinky dink town where nothing happens after 6 and everyone knows everybody else.
Sadly, I rarely find books like this. It’s always either some small town that sounds so boring to me that I wonder why all the characters don’t move away or someplace huge – usually New York or London.
So it’s a treat when I do find them.
I wish someone would set a romance here in Costa Mesa, however.
Umm… How about a setting that feels real? With characters that feel real? Because I don’t think I have a favorite type of setting, unless it’s the particular places from favorite books. How’s that for a non-answer? I won’t say a place I know, because if it’s not done well, it tosses me right out of a story.
Cities for sure!
Specific cities, especially ones I know personally ( I don’t have to know them well—just to have been there, so I can visualise places accurately). I don’t object to American small towns; it’s just that they are no more familiar to me than a space-station, so I tend to get distracted from the story itself by the accounts of strange American customs… 🙂
Considering I’m a city girl, it’s kind of funny that my favorite setting is a small town.
I like small-town settings, as they USUALLY ring true-everybody knows everybody else business, and therefore interfere.
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Big cities!!! But only b/c I’m a southern, small town girl that never moved to a big a city so it’s fun escapism…
Small towns! Or a farm in a remote area. It’s so cozy to see the whole town support the couple.
Ahh… give me contempories with a seaside setting!
I love seeing locations outside of the US, especially if they’re described really well. Or fantasy settings, that completely immerse you in a whole new world.
I like any setting…I just finished one a few days ago that was in a space station..I read ones set in small towns, big cities, apacolypse settings, etc. I read anything and everything 🙂
Good Luck everyone!
I love small towns and rural b/c that’s where I’ve lived almost my whole life. Of course, my second fav is the flip side of corporate/royal setting 😛
Hmm…. I like anything, as long as it’s well-written and the people aren’t reduced to Stereotypical City or Stereotypical Rural.
I like cities and foreign local!
I like contemporaries set in cities, especially Chicago. I love Julie James books because of her setting. I live in a small town, so it is always nice to read books set in places totally different than what I experience every day while living life in a small town.
I seem to gravitate to small town settings. I like how everyone is somehow related or friends. But I do like big city setting if the descriptions ring true. Nothing more distracting than reading a description of a famous landmark that is wrong.
I honestly don’t think I have a favorite…. just has to be well written. I love contemporary, but any setting will do!
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