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!
Hmm I like small towns but not farms. And I’m a sucker for anything set in Ireland or Scotland.
small towns 🙂 makes me homesick
I like small towns because you get history with all the people
who are driving the couple crazy.
Awesome selection… and the first one where I have not read a single one (or all) of the books.
Small towns! I like how the characters have to negotiate all the other relationships—you can’t just go somewhere else to avoid people like in a city, and there (usually) isn’t a finite end to things where they’ll be separated, like a cruise ship. 🙂
I enjoy small town romances in theory, but I’m always super annoyed with the ancillary characters. No one in a small town acts like that (well, mostly they don’t).
Sometimes I just know that the author is sitting somewhere in a big city dreaming about the cutsy town her heroine will fall in love in.
It’s typical but I like stories set in small towns to which the hero/heroine returns after a long period away.
I loves me some small town romance!
Teresa Medeiros has a contemporary?!?! How did I not know about this? I LURV her. I like small towns because you get a sense of community, rather than two people wandering around isolated. But then there are the “alone at the lake with the intriguing sexy neighbor” books, where they are completely isolated. Love those. A good author can do anything and make it work, so I’m not too choosy about setting.
I tend toward paranormals and they seem to usually be set in cities; but really, any location works for me as long as the author has done her homework and the details are accurate and the atmosphere suited to the story. Karen White is a whiz at this, but not everyone pays so much attention to detail. Recently read a book set in Atlanta where the author had clearly picked up random place names and facts off Wikipedia or Google maps or something that were blatantly inaccurate and unsuited to the way they were being used and described in the book. That really ticked me off.
able46: I was able to find at least46 flaws in that book!
Regular towns. Not so small everyone knows your name, but not so big the only shoes the heroine wears come with a label.
I’m a fan of the big cities. Endless possibilities and chance encounters!
Cities for me! Not necessary the biggest ones, but the small-town setting is not my favourite.
I like romances with city people sent into suburban areas. There’s a fish out of water aspect I find charming.
I’m a small town girl. Not so small that they count the neighbors’ goat in the population but not too big either.
I like them all but am drawn more towards the small towns. Seems cozier.
I love small towns!
I like reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips books because we live in the same town so I pretend that really hot football players actually live here.
I don’t really have a favourite setting for contemporary romances. What I enjoy most is when the author goes into detail about how the characters’ relationships are affected by their location, whether that is a city, small town, exotic destination, etc.
I’ve always had a soft spot for a nice small-town stories … they lend so well to a good series with interconnected character.
I love a big city romance but that might just be because I haven’t read one set on a cruise ship yet. Who knows!
I like small towns or in the country. Possibly because I’m not a city person myself 🙂
After pondering this, I have to say small towns—large cities are OK, but I love when the residents of the town are part of the story (which is hard to do in, say, Manhattan).
space stations.. I love all the things that go wrong and bring two people together. But if you think about it, Cruise Ships and space stations are nothing but small towns who change inhabitants ever so often.
Small Towns where everyone knows your business ala Mary Kay Andrews
I like both, but what I am looking for is a strong sense of place.
I enjoy contemporaries set in cities.
We live in a small town. I’m not sure I’d read anything set here. 😉
I’ve always been a sucker for the small town setting but also love the big city as well. I just love contemporaries! I hope they have a big uptake in popularity again.
Big cities … preferably somewhere in Europe.
I always love a little mystery and adventure, so my favorites are when they’re running cross country and hanging in hotels (I love room service) or crashing with fabulous secondary characters.
I’m a sucker for a small town contemporary romance. And I love space station romances…but never really consider those contemporaries. 🙂
I really like the small town romances.
I think I prefer small town setting. They usually have such great quirky background characters
I like small towns, but close to enough to big cities to be able to get things the small towns don’t have. I really enjoy a lot of authors, I enjoy series as you can still read about people from previous books.
Hmmm, I can’t say I have a particular fav. Setting is not one of the things that draws me to a contemporary book. Of my favorite contemporary books, it looks like most are set in cities.
I like smaller towns that are in the shadow of a larger city. I like the idea of small town charm but being able to “go into the big city” for date night.
I’ll read about all settings without hesitation as long as the plot is good. However, I REALLY love small town romances, especially when there’s a series focused either on other people in the town or one specific family.
Lately I have been really enjoying the ones set in larger cities. I know I will wander back over to small town stories again though.
does outdoors count at a setting? 🙂 I would love to be entered to win some bookage!
I always love a mixture of big city and a little bit of small town