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We're crossing off a classic romance novel structure this week -- the list! Whether life changing to-do lists, bucket lists, or lists for kinky exploration, these romances take characters and readers on remarkable rides, reminding us all that sometimes it really does pay to be organized.
Hop on your favorite mustache and ride it over to @b-andherbooks's collection of mustachioed heroes at The Collections Department.
Headphones in, y’all. We have sixty-nine (that’s right, 69, by pure unplanned luck!) recommendations for you this week — everything from bonkers to bloody to blazing hot…naughty bits that we believe deliver the whole banana (and sometimes no banana at all, if you know what we mean). Pencils ready…your time starts…now.
Three of those 69 are available at great prices today, including free.
Jayne Rylon's KATE'S CREW is $0 today. Nicola Davidson's THE DEVIL'S SUBMISSION is $1. Meka James's BEING NEIGHBORLY IS $2.
We're crossing off a classic romance novel structure this week -- the list! Whether life changing to-do lists, bucket lists, or lists for kinky exploration, these romances take characters and readers on remarkable rides, reminding us all that sometimes it really does pay to be organized.
The transcript for our Radclyffe trailblazer episode is now available. You can link directly to specific moments in audio and text via the website. This was transcribed by a human person who understands what words mean, but if you spot a mistake, please let us know.
Get ready, because today we're teasing your TBR with a list of 50 upcoming books we think you're going to want to read! We've organized them by release month at fatedmates.net and shared the list at Pagebound and Bookshop.org, too.
These are roughly organized by release date from top left to bottom right. They're more clearly organized here.
Get ready, because today we're teasing your TBR with a list of 50 upcoming books we think you're going to want to read! We've organized them by release month at fatedmates.net and shared the list at Pagebound and Bookshop.org, too.
Maybe you're rooting for the asteroid, but you gotta have a plan! To help, this week, we're keeping track of what romance is looking like off-planet--it's Romance! In! Space! (Part 2, but the first episode we did was six years ago, so we figured it's time.) Headphones in, loves, this one covers space scavengers, aliens, anatomy, crash landings, abductions, talking lions and people in Space Army (what happens in Space Army stays there, unless it's here).
The audiobook for Beth Revis's FULL SPEED TO A CRASH LANDING is $5 at Libro.fm right now.
Sometimes you just have to get to the bottom of something, and that’s what we’re here for. Today, we’re taking an unexpected, unexpectedly thorough at what might be one of the rarest and most maligned heroes in Romancelandia—the Himbo. He’s darling, he’s sweet, and he’s made of nothing but love and abs. Journey with us as we consider the place of these lovable dummies in the pantheon of this great genre of ours.
One of our Himbo recs, Eve Dangerfield's OPEN HEARTS, is free today. Snatch it up!
Historicals that happen during a house party?
Suuure!
Joanna Shupe's Fifth Avenue Rebels series kicks off in a house party that takes up most of book 1 and a lot of book 2. Book 3 takes place outside of the house party, but you throw back to it in book 4. This series is incredible, and I'd read it straight through (I like book 1; a lot of people think it's the weakest, so I'll caution you there, but it really is a solid romance to me and sets up the rest of the series wonderfully).
What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long (her best book imo) takes place in a house party AAAND fun games are involved!
The Wrong Marquess by Vivienne Lorret (one of my favorites of hers, I guess I just really like house parties involves a house party later in the book, I believe). The hero is already longing for the heroine after his initial dislike, it gets quiiiite heated.
Of course, Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas takes place in large part at a house party, where Simon Hunt and Annabelle get it going and Westcliff sees Lillian in her underwear which permanently alters his brain chemistry and sets up for their book. This is the first Wallflowers novel, and if you haven't read that series, it's an obvious must that I'd highly recommend reading in order. There's more house party action in It Happened One Autumn; not sure if it's an official house party or Westcliff just constantly letting everyone he knows stay at his house. Again the Magic, which is a prequel to the Wallflowers (and I'd PERSONALLY read it first, though it stands on its own more) may also have a house... but it's Westcliff again, so like. He just really likes letting people stay at his house.
I THINK! The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley features a house party. In this one, the hero and heroine had a near miss years ago, and she's a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria and needs the hero's help retrieving these incriminating letters stolen from the queen. Our hero, a Massive Rake, It Should Be Said, (and single dad of a teenager trying his best) is like "SUUUUUURE.... FOR A PRICE...."
I think! There's a house party involved in Elizabeth Hoyt's Duke of Midnight, a Peak Hoyt. The hero is a duke and is courting this upper crust lady, but he's also basically Batman by night (complete with revenge and meh grip on his sanity) and the heroine finds out and blackmails him into helping her free her imprisoned twin brother. Secret affair ensues.
There is some house party action in Sherry Thomas's The Luckiest Lady in London, in which the most charming guy ever enters into a marriage of convenience with our heroine, only to be FLUSTERED when feelings ensue.
This week, for some reason, we're talking about romance novels with horses in them! Do we know anything about horses? Of course not! Do we let that stop us? It never has before! We're talking about the ones where the horse dies, the ones where they do it on a horse, the ones where she's a horse whisperer, and the ones where she just really likes horses. Giddyup!
Among our hundreds of episodes and thousands of recommendations are 76 (and counting!) deep dives, each devoted to a single book or series. If you're looking for your next great romance read, this is our attempt to help you find it without having to listen to a podcast episode. But if you enjoy the book, you'll have a fun and through discussion to listen to after.
Be sure to join the accompanying quest at Pagebound, where you can finally get that gold medal for reading you've always known you deserved.
Among our hundreds of episodes and thousands of recommendations are 76 (and counting!) deep dives, each devoted to a single book or series. If you're looking for your next great romance read, this is our attempt to help you find it without having to listen to a podcast episode. But if you enjoy the book, you'll have a fun and through discussion to listen to after.
This week, for some reason, we're talking about romance novels with horses in them! Do we know anything about horses? Of course not! Do we let that stop us? It never has before! We're talking about the ones where the horse dies, the ones where they do it on a horse, the ones where she's a horse whisperer, and the ones where she just really likes horses. Giddyup!
