Book Bag Giveaway: Day 21

Posted September 30, 2009 by Casee in Reviews | 68 Comments

Today is the last day of September (October already?) and marks the final day of our Back-to-School Extravaganza. Today, we have a Harlequin Famous Firsts bag. Included are the following books:

Impetuous by Lori Foster
Moontide by Stella Cameron
State Secrets by Linda Lael Miller
Uneasy Alliance by Jayne Ann Krentz
Night Moves by Heather Graham

In honor of Famous Firsts, what was the first romance you ever read?

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Today is the last day of giveaways! Check back at midnight to see if you’re the winner.

Thanks to everyone for making our first Back-to-School Extravaganza such a success!

XOXO,
Casee, Holly, & Rowena


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68 responses to “Book Bag Giveaway: Day 21

  1. I only started reading romance within the past year. I think my first (non-paranormal) was The Bride by Julie Garwood.

    Thanks for a month of amazing giveaways!

  2. My first was Hers Forever Man by Leanne Banks at the precocious age of twelve!It was my mom’s but I read it in secret and it remains one of my favorites till date!

  3. My first romance novel was in Spanish. the title is “Juventud en Extasis, by Carlos Sanchez, the book is really good for teenagers, it like a sex education class squeeze into a romance.

  4. Scorpio M.

    Hmm, first romance? I think it was a Sylvie Sommerfield one, called Wild Wyoming Nights or something. It had a REALLY lusty cover too, I was pretty embarrassed checking it out of the library, lol.

  5. It was an anthology with Angela Knight and Lora Leigh. I cannot recall the name! Which is going to drive me nuts. Nothing like your first being a Lora Leigh breed…whew, it was HOT and I was blown away!!

  6. I was babysitting and after the kids were in bed I picked up a book that was sitting on top of the tv and started to read…woman with flaming red hair in front of Native Americanesque hero with supermantitty popping out of a suede vest…it was a Johanna Lindsey (the title escapes me), and I believe some sexxoring on a horse occurs…just Googled it – the title was Savage Thunder.

  7. QLady48

    Well, it’s been almost 40 yrs. for me, but it was by Danielle Steele. I used to read everything she wrote, now I have too many other favs. This giveaway is GREAT today!!! I have been buying the Famous Firsts and love them all.

  8. Luci

    The first romances I read were my sister’s Georgette Heyers but I forgot the titles.

    When i switched genre from thrillers though the title that got me hooked back to romance was SEP’s Match me if you Can.

  9. I know I started reading Harlequinns from the 1980s.. you know the ones where they refer to making out as “making love,” which confused the heck out of me. But the first real modern one I read was “Bet Me” by Jennifer Crusie. I LOVE that book!

    Thanks!
    Morning Glow
    ohmorningglow AT aol DOT com

  10. Lisa N.

    I honestly can’t remember the title… I remember bits of the plot and the cover, but not the important info! It was probably an old Harlequin book.

  11. I can’t remember what the title was, but I know it was a Danielle Steel that I “borrowed” from my mom. It was completely inappropriate for a pre-teen and I loved it. I’ve been reading romance ever since!

  12. When I was in junior high, my school library had a series of books called A Career Romance for Young Moderns. I suspect one of those was my first.
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  13. kza

    The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss, followed by The Windflower by Laura London. I loved the second book and would get a kick out of reading it again, but it’s out of print.

  14. Ok, not sure you would classify it a typical romance, but my first was Gone With the Wind. I could not figure out what she saw in Rhett, I was a Team Ashley all the way!!!

  15. Awesome prize package!!! This has been an amazing contest — you ladies ROCK.

    I don’t know title or author, but the first romance I ever read must have been a Harlequin Presents. My aunt gave me several one summer in the early 70s when I complained of being bored. I devoured them, and she gave them to me (one grocery bag at a time) for the next several summers. I passed them to my younger sisters, too.

  16. My first romance was Forever Yours by JanMarie Anello
    I was so anti-romance. I considered it every stereotype (pathetic, sad, blah blah blah ect.) But since I read it and gave it a chance I was so hooked. And I had to apologize to the people I shoved romance books back in there face when they offered them for me to read. oops.

  17. Chelsea B.

    Oh man….I can’t remember, but I xthinkx it was a SEP book. Probably was, because from then on I was hooked!

  18. Anonymous

    So embarrassing but it was a Barbara Cartland. Something about a gypsy. I loved it [blush]. I was 11 or 12. — willaful

  19. My mom used to read Phyllis A. Whitney and Victoria Holt’s books. I am sure my very first book I read by Phyllis A. Whitney was called The Trembling Hills.

  20. Sherri

    I don’t remember the first romance I read but it was likely one of my mom’s Harlequins. But I do remember the first romance I read that turned me onto the genre – Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann. Now my shelves runneth over with man titty.

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