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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg Welcome to Book Beat! Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster. The Devil Makes Three Author: Tori Bovalino Released: August 10, 2021 by Page Street Genre: Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Yo…
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A Convenient Fiction RECOMMENDED: A Convenient Fiction by Mimi Matthews is 99c! Claudia reviewed this one and gave it a B: Readers who appreciate character-driven, slow-burn romance, flawed heroes, and a firm sense of time and place will enjoy this one despite its minor flaws. She Needed a Husband… It’s been three years since Laura Hayes’s father died, leaving her and her invalid brother to subsist on the income from the family’s failing perfume business. But time is swiftly running out. What she needs is a husband, and fast. A noble gentleman who can rescue them al…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bigstock-Keukenhof-flower-garden-also-289372672-e1556807413689.jpgMay is on its way out and that means it’s time for our second Whatcha Reading of the month. Time is just flying by! Spring allergies have sent me into a severe slump, but fingers crossed the pollen will be done doing its business soon. Carrie: I’m almost finished with Aetherbound, ( A | BN | K ) a book that starts in hard science fiction dystopia and then swivels around to a fairly utopian state of bliss. It’s by E.K. Johnston. I like it even though it’s pretty disjointed. A | BN | KClaudia: In the very first pages of Betting on the Duke’…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/podcast/header_05c.jpg The transcript for Podcast 458. Hard Sell and Revolutionary Romance with Hudson Lin has been posted! This podcast transcript was handcrafted with meticulous skill by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. ❤ Click here to subscribe to The Podcast → View the full article
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The Lady Traveler’s Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander is $1.99! This is the first book in the Lady Travelers Society series and it has, you guessed it, lady travelers. Readers say the plot takes a while to pick up, but others say this historical romance is both sweet and funny. Embark on the breathtaking romantic adventures of The Lady Travelers Society in the brand-new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander Really, it’s too much to expect any normal man …
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A | BN | K My guest this week is author Hudson Lin (she/her) whose new book Hard Sell is out 25 May! Hard Sell is a trope-tastic queer romance between Daniel and Tobin, who have a secret affair while working opposite sides of a business deal. Lin and I talk about the writing process and how she portrays Daniel’s professional burnout in the story (no spoilers, I promise). We also discuss why Lin thinks romance is a revolutionary genre, and how it’s disruptive to existing power structures. … Music: purple-planet.com Listen to the podcast → Read the transcript → Here are the books we discuss in this podcast: …
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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie RECOMMENDED: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley is $1.99! I loved this book and give it five stars on Goodreads. It’s easily one of my favorite historical romance and it recently showed up in the comments of our Rec League: Unassuming, Underestimated Heroes post. However, some readers didn’t feel any love necessarily between the hero and heroine. For those who have read this, what did you think? The year is 1881. Meet the Mackenzie family–rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. A lady couldn’t be seen with them without…
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None Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor February 1, 2012 · Chicago Review Press Some books defy reviews and Forever Amber, written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, is one of them. Should you read it? Darned if I know. There’s a lot of toxic crap in it, and it features an amoral anti-heroine. There’s also great historical detail, and I cannot tell a lie, I tore through this book as though it was a bag of Cheetos, in that I knew it was bad for me but I couldn’t put it down until it was all gone. I had to read Forever Amber …
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A When Books Went to War by Molly Giptill Manning December 2, 2014 · Mariner Books Historical: EuropeanLiterary Fiction When Books Went To War, by Molly Guptill Manning, is a delightful non-fiction sure to delight the heart of any bibliophile and/or history nerd. The book is fairly short for non-fiction (the paperback is just under 200 pages not counting appendixes), and easy to read (it avoids jargon). It’s fascinating and heartwarming and informative. I loved this book and would suggest it for any avid reader. Wh…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Depositphotos_52671211_original-300x200.jpgHey! It’s Wednesday Links! I am back in New England. I know a few of you wanted to know how traveling was. Well, my flight down was delayed because a man wanted to curse out the plane for wearing masks. I should also note that the plane was going to Orlando and was mostly full of families with young children. If you follow me on social media, you may have seen the video I took. Coming back was fine. I noticed no difference in terms of the amount of people at the airport and while masks are required, a lot of people clearly didn’t know how to wear them. If you’re f…
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A Lady’s Code of Misconduct PODCAST RECOMMENDED: A Lady’s Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran is $1.99! This historical romance was recommended on a podcast episode with Sarah, Elyse, and Karen of the Knit One, Geek Two podcast. Karen mentioned that she’s a sucker for amnesia stories and this one has an amnesiac hero. Have you read this one The next steamy historical romance in USA TODAY bestselling and RITA award-winning author Meredith Duran’s “wonderfully indulgent” (Publishers Weekly) Rules for the Reckless series. A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL… Trapped in the countrys…
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C- Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala May 4, 2021 · Berkley Mystery/Thriller Lila Macapagal has moved back to Shady Palms after a hella-bad breakup, and is trying to help her aunt with her restaurant, which is in financial trouble. When Lila’s ex-boyfriend drops dead during his meal with his stepfather, the restaurant’s landlord, Lila becomes the prime suspect. She decides to investigate the nefarious ex to find out who really killed him. Lila is…not great at detecting. Lila’s investigation mainly rests on her goin…
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This HaBO comes from Katy, who wants to find this contemporary romance: It was a modern day romance. The hero owns a farm or bed & breakfast and needs help, so he puts an ad out for a wife. The heroine responds, and the two get married pretty quickly. He soon realizes she can’t do any of the things he expected of his wife (he’s basically looking for a business partner), so he says they’ll get an annulment. At some point they are lying in bed together and the heroine is reading a romance novel. The hero asks her to read it aloud to him so he can fall asleep. She gets embarrassed when a sexy scene comes up, but reads on. When they’re both sleepy, they end up having …
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The Glass Hotel The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is $1.99! Because this book was such a bestseller, I’m worried this could expire at any moment. I personally haven’t read it, but a fellow bookseller colleague listed this as their best book of 2020. Have you read it? From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events–a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodgi…
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This HaBO is from Gene, who wants to find this paranormal romance: It’s a book that I read part of around 1993 or 1994. It starts out with this vampire couple who pick up a normal couple (at a night club, I think). They take the normal couple back to their place. I don’t remember if the vampires’ place is a mansion or not, but it has a cellar or dungeon under it that a person can be chained up in. After more drinks and partying the male vampire bites the woman and decides to turn her, which only a male vampire can do because he not only has to drink their blood but he also has to ejaculate into the person to finish turning them. The female vampire also bites the man an…
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The Duke Effect The Duke Effect by Sophie Jordan is $2.99! This is book seven in The Rogue Files series. Elyse mentioned this on October 2020’s Hide Your Wallet and said that while this series has been hit or miss, she’s been waiting for this heroine’s book for quite some time. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan continues her bestselling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans. She doesn’t care about love… Despite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms a…
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B+ Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall May 18, 2021 · Forever Contemporary RomanceRomance TW/CW for the book Emotional abuse, bi-phobia, gaslighting, sexual assault Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake is a fun rom-com in which a single mom enters a baking contest (a fictional version of The Great British Bake Off) and finds true love. The question is not “will she find true love” but “with whom will she find it?” Readers should expect to be very hungry while reading this book, as well as by turns amused, inf…
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Sorry if there are repeats from the previous week! I’ve been traveling! The Ashford Affair The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig is $2.99! A historical fiction with dual timelines and a family secret, this book has a 3.8-star average on Goodreads. Fans of the Pink Carnation series may like this, though reviewers caution it has less spying and derring-do than that series. Sarah also gave this one a B! As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clem…
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C+ Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost April 14, 2020 · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Science Fiction/Fantasy Elysium Girls begins in a small Oklahoma town in 1835. The tiny town of Elysium is trying to make it through the Dust Bowl years after the massive dust storms of Black Sunday (April 14, 1935) scour the land and leave survivors in what seems to be the only town left in the world. There’s no telephone, no radio, nothing but desert. People can wander in the desert up to a point, but beyond Elysium either pe…
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This is going to be a quick edition of the Books on Sale today because I’m taking my kids to be vaccinated this morning! Show Spoiler http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/download.gif And they have appointments at a drive through set up at an amusement park. That’s never not going to be hilarious to me. Party time! Vaccinate! So here are a few very quick deals and recommendations, and if you’ve spotted more sales, you know what to do. If you missed a Books on Sale post this week, they’re all collected on this page until midnight tonight! Today I’m going to acquire some inoculations for my house teens and possibly also some fries and a fun…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg Welcome to Book Beat! Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster. Drag Me Up Author: R.M. Virtues Released: March 16, 2021 by Strange Hungers Publishing Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Ro…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg If you’re new to Hide Your Wallet, this is where we list new releases we’re pretty excited for in the coming month. Each reviewer has a book maximum (five per person), but we’ve separated HYW into two parts. The first HYW of the month will cover books that release from the 1st to the 14th. The second HYW will cover books released from the 15th to the end of the month. We also think this will help us feature books from smaller publishers who don’t have buy links up as quickly as the big five. As always, if we missed any books that you’re par…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/podcast/header_05c.jpg The transcript for Podcast 457. YouTube Vlogging And a Very Meet Cute With Colin Dobson-Fox of Foxes Afloat has been posted! This podcast transcript was handcrafted with meticulous skill by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. ❤ Click here to subscribe to The Podcast → View the full article
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Yes, beans. Simmer Down Simmer Down by Sarah Smith is $1.99! Maya was excited about this one when it released, and it has a 3.4-star average on Goodreads. Readers report that there are some rivalry and competition tropes ahoy, along with a significant amount of food p0rn. In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen. Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn’t be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve…
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Colin Dobson-Fox is the co-host and producer behind one of my favorite YouTube channels, Foxes Afloat, which recently reached over 100k subscribers (a very big deal in YouTube Land). Colin and his husband Shaun live aboard a narrowboat in the UK, and produce weekly vlogs of their travels, and their lives, including Colin’s life with autism and with mental illness. This is a bit afield of my usual interviews, but I was fascinated by Colin’s editing process as he takes over 40 hours of film and edits to a 15-30 minute vlog. We also talk about how his relationship with his husband Shawn started (don’t miss that part) (Seriously, goodest part). Vlogs (and blogs, and podcast…
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