Books On Sale
Contemporaries All the Way Down
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood is $2.99! I hope this sale lasts! Sarah had the author on the podcast and she picked it as her favorite read of 2024.
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What to Do If You Think You’ve Been Plagiarised
Yep, it's true - I was so shocked I didn't know what to do next.
Tarot After Dark: A Relationship Reading
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: A Relationship Reading
Book Review
Variation by Rebecca Yarros
Variation is a tough book to review. On one hand, I found myself putting aside things that I needed to get done in order to keep reading it, but on the other, I found the frequent “surprise” reveals in the plot to be so frequent that sometimes they felt silly. This book starts off as a forbidden summer romance. The four Rousseau sisters vacation at their family summer house in Haven Cove every year, but … Continue reading Variation by Rebecca Yarros
Books On Sale
Holiday Romance, Alexis Hall, & More
Just Some Stupid Love Story by Katelyn Doyle is $3.99! This is Scarlett Peckham’s penname for her contemporary romances. It came over during the summer. Did any of you read this one?
Links: A Banana Mystery, Ice Skating Drag Queens, & More
Welcome back to Links! You get a special morning edition today. Over the weekend, we braved the Saturday crowd at our local H-Mart. I grabbed supplies to make rosé tteokbokki. It was so good! Highly recommend the linked recipe. Have you tried any new recipes lately that turned out amazing? … Shoutout to Malaraa for posting about this in the SBTB Patreon Discord! One of the oldest surviving operas by a Black composer will be … Continue reading Links: A Banana Mystery, Ice Skating Drag Queens, & More
Books On Sale
Vampires and Contemporary Romance
Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez is $3.99! This is the third book in The Friend Zone series, which can all be read as standalones. All of Jimenez’s books pack an emotional punch, so be ye warned.
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HaBO: He Marries His Crush to Help Raise a Baby
This HaBO request is from Tihana, who wants to find this romance: I read the book a few years ago and it was a part of a series about a group of friends/cousins. It might have been a next gen type of series. The hero liked the heroine since they were kids and always teased her. He was jealous of her best friend; I think his name was Carter maybe? Anyway, the heroine gets pregnant … Continue reading HaBO: He Marries His Crush to Help Raise a Baby
Books On Sale
Sports Romance, a LitRPG, & More
The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson is $1.99! This is book on in the Dark Inheritance Trilogy. The main couple are in an arranged marriage for political reasons.
The New York Public Library’s Best New Romance List 2025
We have a fun announcement today! The New York Public Library has announced their Best New Romance List for 2025! Not only do we have the complete list (see below) but I got to do a Q&A with Kate Fais, Young Adult Librarian at The New York Public Library’s Bloomingdale branch, and co-chair of the Best Romance List committee! … How many folks at NYPL are involved in the creation of the list? Kate: The … Continue reading The New York Public Library’s Best New Romance List 2025
Cover Snark: Script Font Confusion Strikes Again!
Welcome back to Cover Snark! Shana: Falling for the Schooge? Snooge? Scirooge? Claudia: Definitely Schooge!! Sarah: I thought it said “Scnooge” and I thought a new word had been invented and I missed it. I showed this to Adam and he can’t figure it out either. Now it looks like Schooge. I hate this font style so much. From Linnea: Severe pectus excavatum—my medical opinion… Sarah: Did he drop his keys or did he lose … Continue reading Cover Snark: Script Font Confusion Strikes Again!
