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Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

Tam Lin

Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean, is one of those novels that has popped up in the comments and in book recommendation posts a lot of times and never gotten a full review. I figured I’d use some of my quarantine time to tackle it and what a long, strange book it was – sort of a romance, sort of a fairytale, and mostly a book about college. I feel like I’d need to read it … Continue reading Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

Book Review

Her Magical Pet, edited by Rachel Manija Brown

Her Magical Pet

Her Magical Pet is a collection of SFF short stories featuring women in love and their magical pets. It was put together as a fundraiser for OutRight Action International, an organisation that fights for the rights of LGBTIQA people worldwide. It is a collection of gentle, low-tension stories about women in love with women, or women falling in love with women, featuring cute magical pets and happy ever afters. About half the stories are traditional … Continue reading Her Magical Pet, edited by Rachel Manija Brown

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Her Magical Pet

Her Magical Pet

Have a shot of concentrated joy, with fourteen stories of women in love… and their adorable magical pets!  All proceeds from the collection will be donated to OutRight Action International, which fights for the rights of LGBTIQ people worldwide. In this enchanting collection, a flying cat transports love letters, a fox-dog and a pair of watercats help two lonely women launch a post-apocalyptic cat cafe, a baby griffin brings unexpected love to a runaway troll woman, … Continue reading Her Magical Pet

An Autumn Recommendation for All Your Seasonal Needs

old book on the bench in autumn park

It’s nearly fall here in the northern hemisphere (though happy spring to y’all below the equator!). Leaves are turning, spices are pumpkining, candy is proliferating, and I can see holiday tinsel peeking at me from around the end of the aisle. Recently I received a request for “cozy fall romance” recommendations, and another for “creepy, scary romance” recs, and then a few for Halloween, witchy, ghostly, haunted, or spectral romances. Then there’s Thanksgiving, both American … Continue reading An Autumn Recommendation for All Your Seasonal Needs

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Tam Lin

Tam Lin

In the ancient Scottish ballad “Tam Lin,” headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul. In this version of “Tam Lin,” masterfully crafted by Pamela Dean, Janet is a college student, “Carterhaugh” is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane. … Continue reading Tam Lin

Book Review

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

Teach Me

This guest review is from Aarya Marsden. Aarya Marsden is a pseudonym for an Indian-American college student and long-time romance reader. Her favorite authors include Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Lucy Parker, Kresley Cole, Alisha Rai, Lisa Kleypas, Alyssa Cole, Tessa Dare, Meredith Duran, Mina V. Esguerra, Kate Clayborn, and many more. You can follow @Aarya_Marsden on Twitter, where she gushes about romance novels and is a firm advocate for a happily-ever-after. … Here’s my elevator … Continue reading Teach Me by Olivia Dade

About the Smart Bitches

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It is Howdy! Welcome to our “About Us” page, where we can wank on without limit as to who we are, and why we’re here. If you came to this page looking for how to contact us, there is a whole other area for that. Follow the pretty red hyperlinks. ❤ SB-TB Books ❤ Meet the Bitches ❤ Contact Us ❤ Once Upon a Smart & Sassy Time… Smart Bitches Trashy Books began in 2005 … Continue reading About the Smart Bitches