My guest this week is podcast community favorite Alisha Rai! We start off catching up on our history of podcasting together, our life changes, and the challenges of making children wear coats. Then it’s enemies to lovers time! Her new book, Enemies to Lovers is out now, and we both brought the good trowels. We dig into the trope to examine how it works, what the essential elements are, and what can easily go wrong. … Continue reading 713. Enemies to Lovers with Alisha Rai→
We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark is $1.99! This is a fantasy romance with gladiators and vampires. I did wind up buying this one, but it’s perched atop TBR mountain. I’ve heard good things though!
The Midnight Show is a ridiculously immersive and compelling celebrity mystery told through interview transcripts, email messages, texts, and articles as a Rolling Stone journalist and sketch comedy fan researches and compiles a history of a late-night program clearly based on SNL. The journalist, Madeline, interviews all the original surviving cast members, and is attempting to both investigate the history of the first seasons and establish a timeline for the central mystery: what happened to … Continue reading The Midnight Show by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne→
Despite my confusion regarding some of the worldbuilding, the characters and their relationships are developed beautifully, and the entire story thrummed with the sort of vitality that you can only get from a post-apocalyptic road trip with suped-up BAMFs. I can’t rave enough about the emotional literacy this book is built on, which I find incredibly catnippy.
How I felt starting this book is very different to how I felt ending this book and also different to how I felt about 75% in. To explain this, I’m going to need to include spoilers (don’t worry, I’ll hide them behind spoiler tags). On the tiny island of Ormer, there is a farm shop. Charlie Jones is offered a job as the new farm manager. On the allotted day, two Charlie Joneses show up … Continue reading The Name Game by Beth O’Leary→
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 Tarot After Dark: Sunshine and Rain→
Happy Wednesday! It snowed yesterday in Massachusetts. It’s April! Come on! Will winter never free us from its chilly prison?! Spring is suddenly getting busy over here. Anyone else already feeling overcommitted? I’ve been loving little PJ sets lately. Does anyone have recommendations of places that are affordable and have fun prints/colors? … Sarah: I was a guest on I Couldn’t Throw It Out with Michael Small exploring his history as the author of Fabio’s … Continue reading Links, Language, Ursula K. Le Guin, & More→
Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep is the first book in a fantasy series that features a badass female gladiator on a quest to reclaim the throne from her murderous cousin. It’s tremendous fun, although it wraps up quickly.
This HaBO is from Farah, who wants to find this historical romance: I have been scratching my mind for years and can’t seem to be able to find this one book I read ages ago. I’m hoping you can help me figure it out: -Historical romance published before 2010/ -Heroine is staying over at her friend’s house (I think because she is sponsoring her for the season or possibly the heroine is helping her friend … Continue reading HaBO: Diana Does Calisthenics→
Happy Tuesday! It’s April, which looks to be a major release month for our TBR piles. There are a couple highly anticipated titles coming out this week. Which releases are on your TBR pile? Let us know in the comments!
RECOMMENDED: Tender Cruelty by Katee Robert is $1.99! This is book nine in the Dark Olympus series and it’s probably best to read in order. Lara gave it a B+. Have you kept up with the series?
