Smart Bitches Trashy Books | All of the romance, none of the bullshit.

It’s a best seller? Yet every opinion I’ve read from people who’ve read it is that it’s dull, dreary, the characters are hardly inspiring and an all round “feed to the paper shredder” book

Apology? Methinks she should bw thanking Prof. Spellberg for marketing you just can’t buy *is cynical*

Maybe the translation into Serbian made it better…?

If Spellberg hadn’t made like Chicken Little, the likelihood is that this book would have come and gone with a few poor reviews and otherwise little fanfare.  Remember, its original release date would’ve put it within a week of Breaking Dawn’s release, which meant the firestorm of publicity would’ve been aimed elsewhere.

Admittedly, I was hoping for the book to be better than “meh” but after the swipe that Sherry Jones took at romance, I’m not feeling a whole lot of sympathy her way either, beyond the manner in which Spellberg publicly trashed her.

I bought five for the library.  Then it was cancelled.  Then it was re-announced.  I bought five for the library.  there is one request.  no one gives a shit.

nothing to see here.  can I show you something in a nice Julia Quinn?  Mr. Cavendish has 58 holds…..

Jewel of Medina is being offered by LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program. It will be interesting to see how many requests go out and what the reviews are like.

Its a terrible book and the original publishers looked at its impact on their bottom line profit. The new publishers want to jump on the bandwagon of the anti-muslim “free speech” brigade because that will generate sales. At the end of the day, there is alot of bullshit in this book. If you can’t sift out the historical bullshit in the book, what bullshit can you sift out from the novel?