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Sunday Sale Digest!

Smart Bitches in a blue typewriter font, and After Dark lit up like hot pink neon

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 Sunday Sale Digest! →

Sunday Sale Digest!

Smart Bitches in a blue typewriter font, and After Dark lit up like hot pink neon

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 Sunday Sale Digest! →

Book Review

Max Seventeen: Firebrand by Kate Johnson

Max Seventeen: Firebrand

Back in July, I reviewed the insanely fun but also somewhat problematic book Max Seventeen . I have now read the sequel, Max Seventeen: Firebrand and I loved it, despite some problematic elements (so many rape threats, sigh) that lowered the grade. It has all the elements that made the first book fun, including a fantastic romance, but it has less of the problematic stuff from the first book – there’s still some, but much less. … Continue reading Max Seventeen: Firebrand by Kate Johnson →

Book Review

Max Seventeen by Kate Johnson

Max Seventeen

Max Seventeen is a science fiction romance that has a lot of problematic elements (several of which ambushed me near the end of the book). On the other hand, it has an action heroine of color, a rickety spaceship with a motley (and diverse) crew, and mosasaurs. Once I started the book I couldn’t stop reading it, and every time I said to myself, “Wait, WHAT?” another mosasaur or some other shiny plot device popped … Continue reading Max Seventeen by Kate Johnson →