Who Did It Better . . . On a Pool Table

It's been a while since Jen's last Who Did It Better post but we're back and this is a fun one! Time to find out who did it better . . . on a pool table. Let the fun begin! ;)

Who Did It Better . . . On a Pool Table

Who Did It Better . . . On a Horse

You've been waiting for this one for a while and the wait is finally over -- today's Who Did It Better is part racist, part WTF, and a whole lot of this-is-why-romancelandia-is-awesome fun. Once again, we've got to thank Jen for taking one for the team!

Giddy-up!

Who Did It Better . . . On a Horse

I mean, does this post even need more of an explanation than the title? Probably not. So let’s get a few disclaimers on the table:

1. This city girl has only been in the saddle one time and the closest I get to horses are the ones that clip-clop tourists around Michigan Avenue.
2. A bunch of these books had super racist tropes about Native Americans and served as a good reminder of why no one should read romances written by white folks that are set in the Old West. Thank God for the Kindle search feature, y’all.

Let’s do this thing.

Who Did it Better . . . in an Elevator

It's been a while, I know, but Jen has been working hard to get you another Who Did It Better list. And this time, things are getting steamy in the elevator!

Who Did It Better . . . In the Elevator

Elevators are the perfect, ready-made symbol for modern society: they open and close, they go up and down, they can be public or private. It’s fascinating to me how elevators tap into some primal place in our brains---think of all the movies and TV shows where characters meet up, break up, and hook up in elevators. I think most people would agree that having sex in an elevator just sounds...uncomfortable and kinda scummy. Nevertheless, I was easily able to come up with five books with memorable elevator hook ups or sex scenes that were already on my Kindle. So even though the logical part of our brains knows having sex in an elevator wouldn’t be all that fun, they really work as a symbol: for the lure of being caught, the hint of voyeurism, or maybe it’s the chance to act out your very own Will Gardner-Alicia Florrick fantasy (The Good Wife). (Meanwhile, my biggest nightmare is getting trapped in an elevator without my phone because I wouldn’t have anything to read!)


As always, the ratings below are just for the elevator scenes, not the entire book.

Who Did It Better . . . On Thanksgiving

Ready for another edition of Who Did It Better? Jen received a bunch of Thanksgiving holiday romance recs on Twitter a few weeks ago and decided to read them and rank them for you. 'Tis the season of giving, and what better gift than book recs?

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, then I wish you and yours a very happy, stress-free dinner tomorrow! And if you're going out on Black Friday -- either to shop or to work -- be safe and polite.

Now on with the list!

Who Did It Better . . . On Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving isn’t my favorite holiday---I don’t like cooking and I hate turkey, football, and parades. Turkey Bah Humbug! I’m not a total monster. I am thankful for lots of things, but why celebrate them around a meal that I don’t like that takes days to prepare?



Then I thought, maybe I’d like Thanksgiving better if I had a great Thanksgiving themed romance to read. Of course I talked about it on Twitter and got some great recommendations. But know that I was skeptical: real Thanksgiving stories would be about families bickering and everyone being too full from dinner to have sex.

Who Did It Better . . . In the Library?

We've got a new post today, and hopefully it'll be an on-going series with more topics to come! Jen's talking about 5 romances that had a library sex scene in them, and rating them from honorable mention to platinum medal. Are you ready to get busy in the library? 😉

All right! This is the first in what I hope will be a continuing series where I compare similar scenes or tropes across romance novels. This particular entry was inspired by a tweet from Sasha Devlin. 

plotbunny https://t.co/wQlxSoW6Gx

— Sasha Devlin (@SashaDevlin) October 15, 2017

I’ve always joked that I wanted to keep a Goodreads list of romances where the couples have sex in a library, but obviously first I had to write a post about it. I hereby open the Library Sex Olympics Games, as judged by me. (To be clear, the awards below are strictly for the library sex scenes, not a score for the whole book.) And, of course, thanks to the folks in Sasha’s thread that suggested books that would qualify in this category. I salute you, good citizens of Romancelandia!