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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), and 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 early as the bigger trade houses. As always, if we missed any books that you’…
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Diablo Lake: Moonstruck RECOMMENDED: Diablo Lake: Moonstruck by Lauren Dane is $1.99! Sarah reviewed this one and thought it was a great start to the series. Here are some of her thoughts: This paranormal small Southern town of shifters and witches and rival pack tensions between the Dooleys and Pembrys is immersively fun, sexy, and thoughtful. Bonus points: witches AND vivid, loving female friendships. In Diablo Lake, Washington, a town populated by werewolves, witches, and more, magic woven deep into the earth protects the town’s secrets from outsiders. Katie Grad…
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Welcome back to Cover Snark! Get a beverage of choice, pull up a chair, and let’s go! Tara: The sea has many songs and I have many questions. Question number one: WTF? Claudia: No. 2, will she be able to swim at all if her head is bigger than her tail? Maya: I guess now I know what it looks like when an accent color stops being an accent color and become a violet hellscape I’ll never escape Shana: Is this what they meant by violet eyes? Because those laser orbs are terrifying. Sarah: She looks SO pissed off. Like, “You sea faring fuckboys have shown up again and expect me to sing on command? UGH. Why.” Carrie: You know, I was willing to throw down for this cover, …
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Seventeen years ago, Smart Bitches began. Smart Bitches launched on 31 January 2005 with a review for Angel-Seeker by Sharon Shinn and for The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann. We’re still here. This honestly blows my mind a little. Still here, talking about books, never running out of things to say about romance. Woohoo! Thank you! I’m so honored you’re part of SBTB! Our community is still welcoming, and warm and wonderful. None of that would be possible without you. So thank you for hanging out with us each day, for sending us so many great covers for snarking, for telling me bad jokes, for telling us about books you loved, sending Amanda links, reporting hot sale…
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Anna and the French Kiss Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is $2.99! This is a contemporary YA romance, Kindle Daily Deal, and many reviews on Goodreads mention becoming a member of the Bad Decisions Book Club in order to finish it. However, some found the heroine a bit too cutesy for their tastes. Have you read this one? It’s on my TBR pile. Anna can’t wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she’s not too thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boardin…
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Our bestseller list is brought to you by hot coffee, smooth Bailey’s, and our affiliate sales data. Uncharted by Adriana Anders Amazon | B&N | Kobo London Celebrities Collection by Lucy Parker Amazon | B&N | Kobo | GooglePlay The Cursebreaker Series by Brigid Kemmerer Amazon | B&N | Kobo A Duchess in Name by Amanda Weaver Amazon | B&N | Kobo | GooglePlay Wait for It by Mariana Zapata Amazon The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary Amazon | B&N | Kobo | GooglePlay The Matrimonial Ad…
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Well Played RECOMMENDED: Well Played by Jen DeLuca is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal. Carrie gave this a B+ in a Lightning Review: This is a gentle and obvious Cyrano de Bergerac story with very little conflict. Another laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story. Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it’s been years now, and even though Stacey loves spendin…
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January is my least favorite month. Every January, the steady stream of people hating their bodies intensifies into a deluge. Nonstop weight loss ads fill my tv screen and social media feed, promising dramatic, if unlikely, results. At gatherings, the delicious holiday cookies from December have been replaced with tasteless grain-free hockey pucks. Inevitably at least one family member will talk incessantly about their diet, while looking askance at my body. And I’m grumpy because my usual exercise spots are suddenly packed with new people loudly complaining about their “bad” and “ugly” bodies. By St. Patrick’s Day, I know diet culture will have melted down to its usual …
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The transcript for Podcast 495. Fearless Knitting and Writing with Vanessa North 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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Aurora Blazing RECOMMENDED: Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik is $1.99! If you’re collecting the series and picked up the third book, this is a great deal. It’s the second book in a sci-fi romance series I love, but you can jump in here without reading the first. I gave it a B+: If you’re part of the “Slow Burn Just Kiss Already Dammit” club, though, you’ll be white-knuckling this one. To save her brother and protect her family’s future, a powerful princess must join forces with a dashing man from her past in this thrilling space adventure, the second novel in the Con…
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B+ D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia Higgins January 25, 2022 · Carina Adores LGBTQIARomance I have been talking about wanting to read D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding for ages! Tara has been very patient with my desperation to read this book. A lesbian rom com about a wedding reality show? Girl, sign me up! Anticipating a book for years usually leads to crushing disappointment, but this book lived up to the hype for me. It’s so good, y’all! Tara, what did you think? Tara: Patient, *snort*. Shana, you kn…
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I follow Vanessa North on Instagram and after she posted a picture of her first completed project of 2022, I had to talk to her about knitting. So of course we also talk about gender, crafting, raising fearless trans teenagers, photography, and writing romance. Plus book recs, as always. LPT: Always Buy Extra Buttons! … Music: purple-planet.com Listen to the podcast → Read the transcript → Here are the books we discuss in this podcast: You can find Vanessa North at VanessaNorth.com. But you’re here for the Instagram links, right? Here…
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton is $1.99! I’m hoping this sale stays up and isn’t a leftover from yesterday. This one was mentioned in a Hide Your Wallet from last spring. Cleeton’s historical fictions have been recommended a few times on the site. At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman–Evangelina Cisneros–who changed the course…
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One, I hope you’ll enjoy the title I came up for this request. Two, this one came from our own Catherine and Sneezy: Catherine: So Sneezy and I were watching Eurovision 1956 and one thing led to another and now we are wondering about a rec league for smutty closet/wardrobe action… Amanda: I’m sure we’re all curious about what led to this! Sarah: I’m sorry what action? Sneezy: Smut actions! In closets! Sarah: So books with boning inside a closet. A journey to bonetown in the clothes cupboard? Catherine: Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James definitely has hot closet action. There’s a Take Me To Narnia scene in one of Celeste Bradley’s Liar’s Club books, too. I can’t…
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January is coming to an end already. And then it’s time for the worst month of the year! At least for New England. There’s just something about the winter in February that just…sucks. In continuing with my theme of giving things I can look forward to each month, February will be finishing my tattoo! I’ll be getting the color and shading done and I’m so stoked to see what the artist has planned. Then in March (fingers crossed), I’m going to Germany to visit my brother. I haven’t seen him in three-ish years. If any of the European Bitchery has suggestions, I’ll be there for two weeks and will have plenty of time to bop around to other places. Enough about me, let’s get i…
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The Highland Fling The Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn is $1.99 at Amazon! This is a contemporary romance with a grumpy Scottish hero. I’ve always been curious about Quinn’s contemporary romances. Would you recommend them? In this steamy tale by USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn, an American searching for her purpose escapes to a Scottish town but finds more questions than answers when she meets a brooding yet handsome handyman. Freshly fired from her third job in a row, Bonnie St. James has lost her way. So when she and her best friend stumble upon a “help wa…
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There was no Bachelor last week due to sportsball, but the weirdness is back tonight and Pudding and I are ready. Well, I am anyway. Pudding is currently having an intense meeting with her stuffed animals, possibly warning them that they better be here for the right reasons. Last week Cassidy revealed she had someone she was hooking up with before she went on the show and that she went on the show to make him jealous, all of which Sierra relayed to Clayton. Clayton asks Jesse if it’s possible to rescind Cassidy’s rose. THERE ARE NO RULES HERE CLAYTON. Then Jesse says, “There are no rules.” I TOLD YOU SO. Clayton asks to talk to Cassidy. She denies seeing someone p…
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B- The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu November 2, 2021 · Avon Contemporary RomanceNew AdultRomance Content warningThis is very much a story about the ways your family can hurt you while having the very best intentions in the world. If this is also your story, you might find it hard going. I certainly did. The Donut Trap is a New Adult romance with strong coming of age themes. Jasmine’s parents sacrificed and suffered so that their children would have better lives, but at times, Jasmine feels like she and her brother are …
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Not the Kind of Earl You Marry Not the Kind of Earl You Marry by Kate Pembrooke is $1.99! I mentioned this on a Hide Your Wallet over the summer and it’s the first in a series. Did any of you pick this one up? Fans of Netflix’s Bridgerton series will adore this stunning historical romance debut, where a wary wallflower enters a fake engagement with one of London’s most eligible bachelors. The one woman in London who doesn’t want to marry him is now his fiancée. William Atherton, Earl of Norwood, is as shocked as the rest of London to discover his betrothal via an an…
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This HaBO comes from Michelle. Content warning for the description below: Its a contemporary romance I read around like 2007 or so, and it was pretty recent. A woman is at this fancy government party in a foreign country, I think. I don’t remember what her job was. She has to go to the bathroom. She’s at the sink washing her hands, and all of a sudden a group of terrorists with big guns come storming into the building to hold all the people hostage. She ends up getting shot, I’m pretty sure. Cut to her like 5 years later or something, she’s moved back to her hometown and has opened up a bakery. It turns out that she had been pregnant when she was shot and she had a mis…
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B+ Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon January 11, 2022 · Berkley Romance Show SpoilerTW for depression, ableism, anti-Semitism, microaggressions Weather Girl is a rom-com that manages to stay sweet and funny despite tackling some serious subject matter. I found this book to be charming and relatable, and I especially enjoyed the mature communication between the two leads. Ari Abrams loves being a meteorologist, but hates the constant conflict between her boss (the weather reporter, Torrance Hale), and Torrance’s …
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The Perks of Loving a Wallflower The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley is $2.99! This is book two in The Wynchesters historical romance series. This one has been mentioned a couple times on the site, including a Hide Your Wallet post and Get Rec’d with Amanda. Fans of Bridgerton will love this Regency romp in which a proper Society miss recruits a very improper lady grifter in a quest for vengeance, only to find love instead. As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. Anything to solve the case. Her latest …
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B The Dating Dilemma by Mariah Ankenman January 24, 2022 · Entangled: Amara Contemporary RomanceRomance The Dating Dilemma is a fun, sexy contemporary romantic comedy about learning to ask for the things you need in life. Lexi is on a six month break from dating, because her boyfriends always take advantage of her giving personality. But when a hot fireman turns up to perform a safety inspection at the youth centre where she is the Assistant Director…well, even if one isn’t dating, one can enjoy looki…
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How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by KM Jackson is $1.99! For some reason, this one isn’t price-matched at Barnes & Noble yet. This is a rom-com road trip with a friends to lovers romance. USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot. What?! How could the world’s perfect boyfriend and forever bachelor, Keanu not realize that making …
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Welcome back! Are y’all ready for more recommendations? For those who don’t know, I talk about books a lot in various corners of the book world from working at an independent bookstore to writing freelance book reviews. Here are some titles I recommended to readers in the last couple weeks. Did you get any good recommendations lately? Let me know! A Marvellous Light Granted we ran a review of this one, but I wanted to highlight this one again. I’ve been hand-selling it like crazy and suggesting it to anyone who loves TJ Klune’s newer stuff or Casey McQuiston. Robin Blyth has…
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