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!
I love it when the short, nerdy, awkward, shy, glasses heroine finds herself with an athlete. Throw in a high school reunion and I’m hooked!
I know, it’s lame.
I’m a city girl but I prefer books set in quirky small communities. Like tiny islands! Or fishing villages! Maybe I just have a weakness for the ocean. Yeah, that’s it.
Small town stories. I’m a city girl, so the small town setting is strange and foreign to me, almost like a space station. 😉
Hmmm… small town, big city, space stations, rain forests, desert islands, apocalyptic bomb shelters… as long as it’s well-written and witty, I’m up for reading it.
Spaceships are always good, but I’m not sure there are many contemporary romance novels set on them.
In general I prefer small town settings, but I like any location that has some character. Overly generalized novels might be easier to write, but they’re not very memorable.
I read all kinds of settings…except space stations. So, I don’t have a specific preference. Thanks. for another great contest.
I like islands, especially smaller islands. My fantasy life centers around islands, so I enjoy stories of finding romance on an island.
Small towns, no contest!
I’m a sucker for romances set in bookstores. Books + romance = perfection!
Cities
I love military contemporary romances because I really identify with them, being a Veteran myself.
Definitely small towns. Everyone knows everyone (and their business). Potential for lots of fun 😀
I loves the small town, especially if there are farms involved (on the outskirts of town). I like the “everybody knows everybody” aspect because it usually plays out well in books, but not so much in real life!
Space stations are not contemporary, they are Sci-Fi! I like cities best as the setting in any case 😉
i like non-US settings, the more unfamiliar the better, preferably with enough background detail to really give the feel of a different place or culture. And if a difference in cultures affects the relationship, so much the better.
I love a short/shy/glasses/nerdy awkward girl who gets her hunky charming athlete. Throw in a high school reunion and I’m hooked!
I know, I’m lame.
I started reading romance with contemps but I don’t have a fave setting. As long as the characters and plot are interesting, it’s fine by me.
So many authors I haven’t read yet. Weeeee! I wouldn’t say I have a favorite setting. I enjoy them all. It is the characters that I have to like.
I like books set in cities like London, NYC, San Francisco and Vegas.
I like small towns…but I hate the trope where the h/h is a flashy city slicker and thinks that that everyone in their new town is going to be a hick. Being from a small town myself, and having lived in some large cities, that trope really, really bugs me, from both ends!
I like small town books because I think they give the author greater license to create a world and invite the reader into it. In a lot of the small town books I’ve read, I feel like I’m actually there (Kristan Higgins and Jennifer Crusie come to mind). Small town books seem to create a warmer environment and crazier, more entertaining characters.
I’m a sucker for any story set in small towns! I guess they fascinate me because I don’t live in one, sounds so great to know all your neighbors. Guess the downside would be they would be all up in your business though:)
I love stories set in cities—NYC, London, Chicago. I love the cosmopolitan feel.
I prefer urban to rural in general, but story drives the setting. I like foreign locales where I can travel vicariously and learn a little something, maybe.
I like both but prefer the small town romances.
I’m a sucker for a New Orleans setting by an author who really knows the city and its small-town feel.
Hrm…Probably small towns, because I live in Anonymity-Thy-Name-Is-Suburbia where no one knows anyone else. I’m not a fan of the everyone-up-in-everyone-else’s-business cliche, but I *like* the idea of living somewhere where I’d actually know and interact (maybe even have dinner or play cards) with my neighbors.
I love small town settings and think it brings more to the story. We get some cooky characters and nosy neighbors and rivals. Not that you can’t get that in big cities, it just seems to happen more in small towns. It’s also heartwarming to watch a small town come together in a crisis and see maybe one character running from the small town and another character trying to anchor them to their home and it’s endearing for the character who is trying to run away figure out that everything they have ever needed is in that small close knit community. I am from a big city and am currently living in a small town. I hate it, but I love reading about it 🙂
I think small towns are probably my favourite contemporary romance setting…usually because of the tight knit community that just happens to interfere in everything.
I love the small town stories and am eagerly awaiting the day that I can finally move to one!
small towns….
I like romance novels set in the time before or after a wedding.
My favorite setting for romances is on a road trip. Two people, sizzling chemistry, and the open road? PERFECT.
At first I read “space station” as “bus station” which strikes me as a particularly miserable place to set a romance, but maybe someone could run with it. As for setting, I just like it to seem like a real place (especially if it is one). If it’s in a city there should be restaurants and shops open late at night. If it’s in a small town the lead couple should be known to at least some local proprietors.
I don’t have any specific place I prefer as a setting. It’s the characters who are well drawn and interesting who get to me.
Small towns are definitely my preferred setting for contemporary romance. It feels more real to me – probably need it to balance out all of those category romances I read in the 70’s set in London or New York.
I like small town settings, which is funny because I lived most of my life in small towns and HATED it, so I’m cynical about finding true love in such a limited setting. But I’m willing to suspend reality for a story.
Small town romances get me every time. By the end of the book, I always want to move to a tiny yet amazingly full of interesting characters small town. Somehow the tiny towns I’ve lived in have never been quite as exciting as the ones in books.
Small towns provide the best opportunities for clandestine cuddling in attractive rural settings and sneaking around to make sure no one finds out about it.
Dont care where they are set. If the story is good, character development and romance are excellent, and descriptions of places are spot on then that makes the story for me.