1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,120 You know, once Alarming Beeping enters the chat, it's gonna be crazy. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:13,200 That's like the most confusing way to kick this episode off for anybody who wasn't on 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:18,680 this recording before you hit record, which is quite literally everyone except for us. 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:19,680 Yeah. 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,000 Do you feel left out, listeners? 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,520 Kind of weird. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,800 Like, Carrot, are you trying to dangle? 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,400 They want to know about the beeping! 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,400 They don't. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,220 There's nothing to know. 11 00:00:34,220 --> 00:00:36,520 She just beeped when she hit record. 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:43,080 Like I was NASA launching a rocket, but it was just me hitting record on the podcast. 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:48,800 Sometimes when I'm reading about cats in books, they describe the cats as making a beeping 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:49,800 noise. 15 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,800 I feel like they might have done that in We Could Be So Good. 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,400 You ever heard a cat beep? 17 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,400 No. 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:01,480 So cats make a lot of weird noises, my cat in particular, he's Siamese, and Siamese 19 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,480 cats talk a lot. 20 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,840 So he talks constantly. 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,520 Anytime you go outside, he has things to say. 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,520 And it's always weird and new and exciting noises. 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,240 And sometimes they really do sound like beeps. 24 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,320 He'll be like, and you're like, oh, what does that mean? 25 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,320 I don't know. 26 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,320 How did we get here? 27 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,320 Oh, you were beeping. 28 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,600 I just think it's funny when cats are described as beeping. 29 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,600 Or they chirp. 30 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Chirping, I've heard that before. 31 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,640 Beeping, I don't, I guess I just never noticed anyone saying that about cats. 32 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,120 I'll have to keep an eye out. 33 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,520 I just do sometimes because my cat beeps occasionally and it makes me laugh. 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,120 Because I'm like, that is how you would describe that noise. 35 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,680 You weird, weird little animal. 36 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,080 You sad, strange little man. 37 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Exactly. 38 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:56,160 So we shan't delay because we're tired. 39 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,160 What? 40 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,160 Us? 41 00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,160 Tired? 42 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,360 I'm sure we say that every episode and somebody listening is like, why don't you just record 43 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,920 at a different time of day? 44 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:06,920 Yeah, it doesn't work like that. 45 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,200 It's just so hard. 46 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,120 Because I'm like, my family's either being loud or there are other things happening and 47 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,240 I'm like, I don't want to deal with that. 48 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,740 And then on the weekend, you just want to be lazy. 49 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:31,600 So then we end up here at 9pm on a Sunday night and my eyelids keep not wanting to reopen. 50 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,000 Not to mention, I'm gonna be so real. 51 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,160 Keeping it real today, listeners. 52 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:41,360 No matter what time of day we recorded, I would probably be sleepy. 53 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,360 That is so true. 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:43,360 I just love sleeping. 55 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,360 I'm just sleepy all the time. 56 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:47,360 Yeah. 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:55,760 I just...there's something so real about sleeping. 58 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,760 I mean, yeah. 59 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,760 I love it so much. 60 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,760 I suppose. 61 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,880 You ever think about what the first person to ever go to sleep must have thought? 62 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Be terrifying, honestly. 63 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,280 Because sometimes when I'm falling asleep, I'm like, what if I'm dying? 64 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,280 You ever have that? 65 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,800 You're like, what if I just don't wake up? 66 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,800 No. 67 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:15,800 Okay. 68 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,800 I mean, sometimes. 69 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,800 I can't wait to go to sleep now. 70 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,800 Oh no. 71 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,680 Sometimes I get a weird...I'm like, well...it makes me think of the prayer that I used to 72 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,680 say all the time as a kid. 73 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:35,440 The little ending was like, and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul shall take. 74 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:36,440 Yeah. 75 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,440 Dark. 76 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,960 I mean, reasonable that you would be like, if I die in my sleep. 77 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:43,960 I mean, yeah. 78 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,680 I hope I see you, but like...dark nonetheless. 79 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 Dark nonetheless. 80 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:50,680 Yeah. 81 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,080 Well, here we are. 82 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,240 Romance or TBR? 83 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,240 Here we are indeed. 84 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,200 I was trying to find...I really feel like there was a funny where I just finished...well, 85 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,440 actually, let's just jump into it, shall we? 86 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,440 Hell yeah. 87 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,440 TBR Tuesday. 88 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,120 Because I just finished We Could Be So Good. 89 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Yes you did. 90 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Which I won't talk too much about because you've talked about it before, and also it 91 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:20,240 was for my Fable Book Club, so if you really want my thoughts... 92 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,200 I saw your little updates as a hack. 93 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,840 I never have anything super insightful to say in those, because I don't tend to have 94 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:31,560 insightful thoughts until the end and I can kind of reflect back, but I want to keep people 95 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,320 posted as I'm reading because that's the whole point. 96 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:42,040 So my updates are always just kind of like, wow, I love him. 97 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:48,320 You reference some historical writer person. 98 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,720 There's a book throughout that...Mary Reynolds? 99 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,240 Is that what you're thinking of? 100 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Yeah. 101 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,240 I thought that was impressive. 102 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:04,960 Also, I've read...so throughout the book they reference this book that a book reviewer that 103 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:05,960 works at the news... 104 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:06,960 Oh, that one, yeah. 105 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,840 That he leaves a galley copy of and the whole thing is that he's like, I don't want to read 106 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:16,840 Kill Your Gays essentially because all of the queer books, they have to be miserable 107 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:22,680 or dead at the end because it's America in the 50s. 108 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,680 And the guy is like, this one's not like that, but he doesn't believe him until Andy reads 109 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:31,440 it and is essentially like...I mean, they're not super happy, but they're not unhappy either. 110 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,000 And I was like, Mary Reynolds? 111 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,720 I didn't know that she had written World War I era historical fiction because I read her 112 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:47,480 Alexander the Great historical fiction and it was gay, but not overtly. 113 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,800 It very much reads as like, they're in love. 114 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,680 We're not really going to talk about it that much because Alexander the Great was almost 115 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 definitely gay. 116 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaking of which, this is not related to the topic at hand. 117 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:07,880 However, I just need everyone to know that I found a t-shirt on TikTok that I'm definitely 118 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,000 going to be purchasing at some point. 119 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,040 It's like the Alexander the Great World Tour. 120 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,000 It's a tour style t-shirt, like rock and roll. 121 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:24,000 And on the back, it's got a list of all the cities he conquers, but then any of them that 122 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,080 aren't already called Alexandria, it's scratched out and renamed Alexandria. 123 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,080 That's funny. 124 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:33,080 I'm really excited about it. 125 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,080 Do you have a fascination with Alexander the Great? 126 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,440 I just really like Alexander the Great. 127 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,840 I was a class 6 minor. 128 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,160 And that was...I read... 129 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:44,160 He conquered your love. 130 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,160 Yeah, sure. 131 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,280 I just think he's neat. 132 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:52,520 I mean, he sure did conquer a lot of places and rename them after himself. 133 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,760 I used to know a lot more about him and I forgot most of it. 134 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,720 But that was a really good historical fiction. 135 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,800 So Mary Reynolds would recommend. 136 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,520 I've got a bunch of her other...she wrote a bunch of ancient Greek and Roman historical 137 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,520 fiction. 138 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,520 I need to read them. 139 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,080 Anyway, what was I going with that? 140 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:16,680 Oh, I was trying to find the ebook of We Could Be So Good because there's a cat in that one 141 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,640 and there's at least one where I'm pretty sure Cat Sebastian uses a funny beep or something 142 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,360 like that to describe the noise that that stupid cat makes. 143 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,360 That cat was adorable. 144 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,360 I love that stupid cat. 145 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,360 It's fine, we'll come back to it if I can. 146 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,360 It's not available at my library. 147 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:38,920 I was going to say, yeah, I looked...because I wanted to search it for the Speak Now pairing 148 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,520 and then I just had to get my physical copy. 149 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:42,520 Yep. 150 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,520 And it's not on script either. 151 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:46,520 Oh well. 152 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,520 It sucks. 153 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,800 I know every book that I wanted to search for those pairings that I couldn't access, 154 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,280 I was like, well, sucks to suck. 155 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Indeed. 156 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,840 Because I'm not going to place a whole... 157 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,760 I wish you could search an audiobook and then it would just bring you to the time when they 158 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,760 say the word. 159 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:10,440 Not longer, but it would be very useful in my experience. 160 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,720 Well if anybody knows what I'm talking about, if they're like, oh yeah, I don't know if 161 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,640 it's beep, but it's something like that. 162 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:17,640 Beep. 163 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:18,640 Interesting. 164 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:24,080 Well, if I reread via audio, I shall let you know. 165 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:25,800 I really liked the audiobook. 166 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,080 I liked the narrators a lot. 167 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:34,120 I just can't handle third present, especially in audio, so I had to read it physically. 168 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,120 But either way, great book. 169 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,840 I love it so much. 170 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,120 Well it was so long ago. 171 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,960 I read Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon. 172 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:53,880 I think it's coming out on the 11th or it's already come out. 173 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,760 I think it's already out. 174 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,880 Well today when this goes live, it's 11. 175 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,360 Either way, you're right, by the time it goes live... 176 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:04,360 It's going to be helpful now. 177 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:05,360 Because I pre-ordered... 178 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,360 Maybe it wasn't really that long ago. 179 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,360 Did I pre-order it? 180 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,920 I just pre-ordered it the day before you couldn't pre-order anymore. 181 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:12,920 So it must have been... 182 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,320 I think it came out this past Tuesday because I pre-ordered it Monday night when I saw the 183 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,200 Ripped Bodice thing because she's going to sign them. 184 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,960 She was going the week of her promo and stuff. 185 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:26,720 So that one was great. 186 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,060 I had the audio book from PRH. 187 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:31,840 So I read it a while ago. 188 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,880 But the One Night... 189 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,100 So the entire premise is just sex lessons. 190 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:41,240 Because he is a child... 191 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Was he a child actor? 192 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,240 He's some star. 193 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,160 It's kind of like Teen Wolf. 194 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:51,240 So he's the stylist Alinsky character of this Teen Wolf show. 195 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,240 And then they're grown up. 196 00:09:52,240 --> 00:10:01,160 So then he's dealing with being like a B to sometimes maybe an A-list celebrity. 197 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:07,120 And then she is going to be, I think, the ghostwriter of his memoir. 198 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:13,280 And he shows up at a bookstore that she's at and they hit it off and they go and have 199 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,280 a one night stand. 200 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,640 It is the most awkward jaw dropping. 201 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,960 My god, what did I even write? 202 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,760 It was like hot and ready. 203 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,120 Little Caesar's up in this bitch. 204 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,360 It was literally... 205 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:29,980 There was so much lube. 206 00:10:29,980 --> 00:10:31,460 It was hot and ready. 207 00:10:31,460 --> 00:10:33,240 It was insane. 208 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,400 I hadn't read the back of this book before I started it. 209 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,960 And I was like, okay, he's going to be the hero because he's getting a lot of character 210 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:41,960 description. 211 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:42,960 This makes a lot of sense. 212 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,960 And then that happens. 213 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,880 And I was like, holy no. 214 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,180 He cannot be redeemed. 215 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:49,320 That is not possible. 216 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,320 He is... 217 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,520 And then I still didn't go back to read this. 218 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,720 I'm like, why ruin a good thing? 219 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,240 And then turns out that he gave her a fake name. 220 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,520 He was indeed the celebrity and she has to write his memoir. 221 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:09,320 And sweet Jesus, the work that that man did to redeem himself. 222 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:14,280 I did not think it would work, but it did. 223 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,760 It's my favorite of her books now. 224 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,440 Especially her adult stuff, I don't know if it... 225 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:25,360 You can't even compare it to Today, Tomorrow, Today, Tomorrow, Tonight, Today. 226 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,360 Whatever the fuck that book's called. 227 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:27,360 It's the blue one. 228 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,360 I have no... 229 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:29,360 I don't know. 230 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,160 So those are my two favorite from her. 231 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,160 But this one was just... 232 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,160 It was like a pure rom-com in the purest sense of the word. 233 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:40,680 It went back to the roots. 234 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:42,120 It was so good. 235 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,120 The audiobook was great. 236 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,960 The narrator was fantastic. 237 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:51,360 I loved it so much and it really gave Stiles, Dylanski fan fiction vibes. 238 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,440 And I adore that because I sure love Stiles. 239 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:01,800 So I had a great time and my job was on the floor. 240 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,040 Whatever I say, you're not ready. 241 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,120 You're not hot and ready for that chapter. 242 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,120 But like... 243 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,120 Ooh. 244 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,120 Ooh. 245 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,600 And he was so upset. 246 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,600 He thought he was so good at sex. 247 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,000 And then he texts all of his past girlfriends and he's like, was I that bad? 248 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 And they were like, yeah. 249 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 And he's like, oh no. 250 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 He's like, please teach me. 251 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Oh god. 252 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000 I went delivered on the sex lessons. 253 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 I really did. 254 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 It's giving to love and to loathe. 255 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Mm. 256 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Mm-hmm. 257 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Where he's like the notorious rake. 258 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Yeah. 259 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 And she agrees to sleep with him and he's so bad. 260 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Whatever is that close? 261 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 And she's like, what is going... 262 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Why are you so taken aback? 263 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 264 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 265 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 266 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 267 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 268 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 I'm like, I'm so mad. 269 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,600 And she's like, what is going... why are you so terrible at this? 270 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,600 And he's like, what? 271 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,600 Yeah. 272 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,600 Oh, I love when they're shocked. 273 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:49,600 Mm-hmm. 274 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,800 We actually, I do think there should be more bad sex. 275 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:53,800 Yeah. 276 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:54,800 Well, there's... 277 00:12:54,800 --> 00:13:01,080 I think it's a wicked bargain with a rake, rogue something by Megan Franton. 278 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,600 It's like a mahogany, like brownish cover. 279 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,120 It's in our Hazards of Duke series, I think. 280 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,600 He is also, he thinks he's great and he is not. 281 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,120 And the vaguest memory I have. 282 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,120 Sure. 283 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,120 It's in that one too. 284 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,120 So we've got three. 285 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:19,120 I just think there should be more bad sex. 286 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,120 There's the... 287 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:26,320 How to Win a Wallflower, it's not bad exactly, but their first time having sex isn't very 288 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:27,320 good. 289 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:32,920 And it's just kind of presented as like a normal, like, it's not going to be great the 290 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:33,920 first time. 291 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:34,920 And I actually really liked that. 292 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,280 I thought it was like very like tender emotionally, like it worked. 293 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,840 It wasn't uncomfortable, but it was like, oh, that's like very realistic. 294 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840 I know. 295 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:44,840 I like when that happens. 296 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,280 Like, there's also The Duchess War by Courtney Milan. 297 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,280 I think was he... 298 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,640 I can't remember if... 299 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,560 I think he was just really bad at sex. 300 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:59,160 I think that's what it really is. 301 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,680 I can't remember if he was like a... 302 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:01,760 Yeah, he was a virgin. 303 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,160 So one, he was a virgin. 304 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,760 So I guess that explains it. 305 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,160 But he thought the first time that they had sex was great. 306 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:10,520 And it was not. 307 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:15,040 And she was like, yeah, because he was like, holy shit. 308 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,000 That's what the poets write about, guys. 309 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,440 I understand now. 310 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,240 I am part of the knowledgeable. 311 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,800 And that's also Eloisa James's Rapunzel one. 312 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,960 Oh, I think he was also a virgin. 313 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,400 They're both virgins and it hurt so bad for her. 314 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,040 And he was just on cloud nine. 315 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,520 Because they got married super fast and it was like crazy chemistry. 316 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,080 He played the cello or she played it. 317 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,040 Someone played a cello. 318 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:51,880 And then they had sex and she was like, I am never doing that again. 319 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,560 She locks herself in the tower. 320 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:54,560 He is distraught. 321 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,880 Honestly, I didn't even like the book, but it was hilarious. 322 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:00,880 Because it was so bad. 323 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,200 So apparently that's that we know a lot about that one. 324 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,480 Once Upon a Tower is that one. 325 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,920 But it's so fun. 326 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,200 Just the horror that they feel when they're like, you're not satisfying. 327 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:18,200 Like what? 328 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:19,200 What? 329 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,200 As they should. 330 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,160 As they should, yes. 331 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:25,720 And that one, she doesn't really tell him. 332 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:30,000 She just like, I think she just like shuts down and just ascapes. 333 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,840 And he's very confused. 334 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:39,800 But I think most of the other ones, they're like actively like, hey, you need some work. 335 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,800 So that was that was nice. 336 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,640 Got some notes for you. 337 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,640 Yeah. 338 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,640 Big day. 339 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,920 She wrote him like a syllabus in Business with a Professor, I think. 340 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,600 She had like a full, she was invested. 341 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,280 Just giving the kiss quotient. 342 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:57,280 Yeah. 343 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,280 That's another one of my favorite sex lessons books. 344 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,280 Yeah, I need to reread it. 345 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,840 God, that book hits every note. 346 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,240 Yeah, it's fine. 347 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:15,720 Helen Wong, I will read anything you write and it will own me. 348 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:16,720 Let's see. 349 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,600 I'm trying to look at like what I read in July. 350 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,240 That isn't something we already discussed. 351 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:24,240 I know. 352 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,920 I'm just a little bit daunting for this episode because we haven't done like a normal. 353 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:27,920 I'll throw out. 354 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,880 I won't really talk about it because I know we're planning on doing a full episode about 355 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:32,880 it. 356 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:33,880 But I did read Queen Bee. 357 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:34,880 Oh, yeah. 358 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:35,880 By Omelie Howard. 359 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,880 I don't really care for YA most of the time, but I'll take a YA historical. 360 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,880 And I think that one was really fun. 361 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,880 Like quite literally, it's just like a vibe. 362 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,880 It is honestly. 363 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,360 Go get your revenge girl. 364 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,480 Make her suffer. 365 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,640 Yeah, because when you start, you're like, does she really deserve like, is she just 366 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:58,640 kind of a mean girl? 367 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:04,080 Does she deserve and then you're like, oh, yeah, it gave me everything. 368 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,480 Like it was it was I love that book. 369 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,440 Because, yeah, I love when the YA and the historical intersect. 370 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,440 And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's good. 371 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,440 That's good soup. 372 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:25,600 That's a throwback meme. 373 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,600 I guess that doesn't really count as my submission. 374 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaking of good soup, I did read the seven year slip. 375 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:38,080 My eight person book club picked that for our July book and the audio book came in and 376 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,760 I was like, I guess I'll read it way early because normally even for my own book clubs, 377 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,560 I'm reading them the night before. 378 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,080 I had to read that one night before and after and every I love that book so much. 379 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,080 I know you do. 380 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,640 It didn't hit for me the way it did for you, but that's OK. 381 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,160 I think Ashley Poston's writing is just not for me or not not not for me. 382 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,480 Like I didn't I gave it four stars because you did you get three stars at Dead Romantics? 383 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:04,480 Yeah, I didn't care. 384 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,480 Yeah, one. 385 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:12,960 Um, I think part of it is just it does that thing that most contemporary romances do where 386 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:17,840 it uses too many contemporary references for me. 387 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:18,840 She does that a lot. 388 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:19,840 Yeah. 389 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,120 It tries to be funny and I'm like, ah, your humor and mine does not align. 390 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,120 It's fine. 391 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:25,120 I gave it four stars. 392 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:29,800 It was more like the romance itself was not something that I was like, oh yes, the best 393 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:34,840 romance ever, but I think that the time travel aspect was done really interesting. 394 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,840 Have you seen The Lake House? 395 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:38,840 No. 396 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,200 Aha, it's based on the Lake House, which is Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. 397 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,360 And that movie is crazy. 398 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:46,360 It's time slept, too. 399 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:48,880 So basically, like he gets a house. 400 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,360 She has a house in two different time periods. 401 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,000 They like write letters back and forth and then they're like presence merge. 402 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:01,600 And so and then the Dead Romantics was just like heaven kind of by with Reese Witherspoon 403 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,600 and Mark Ruffalo. 404 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:09,000 So like to if you like those movies, those books. 405 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,600 Okay, well, I'm not seeing either of them. 406 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,080 Probably will not be watching them. 407 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:19,360 But I thought it was an interesting it did not go the direction that I thought it was 408 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,200 going to go in a good way. 409 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,600 I was kind of worried about it. 410 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,880 And then yeah, it was lower angst than I thought it was going to be. 411 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,760 It was lower angst, and I just thought it was kind of a fascinating vehicle for looking 412 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,200 at like, processing grief. 413 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,200 Yeah. 414 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,600 So that's, I think, when most of my enjoyment of it came from. 415 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,920 I think it was, I think the grief aspect was really well done, which I think makes sense 416 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:50,240 when you read her author's note, she was experiencing a loss during the rewrites for the book. 417 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,160 And you can, I think, see that. 418 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,800 So yeah, one of the better contemporary I mean, like I said, I feel like I did not act 419 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,520 accurately, describe I gave it four stars, like it was a good book. 420 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:03,520 I enjoyed it. 421 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:04,520 The romance was sweet. 422 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,720 I loved his southern accent in the audio. 423 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:09,720 See, I didn't. 424 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Oh, I loved it. 425 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,480 I guess I am from the south. 426 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,040 I do not hear it often. 427 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,200 So it worked for me. 428 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Yeah, that's okay. 429 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,120 My next one is Her Good Side by Rebecca Weatherspoon. 430 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,120 It's a YA. 431 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,720 Again, I read this one so long ago. 432 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,040 When did I even read that? 433 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,760 It was June 2nd. 434 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,400 So pardon my memory. 435 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,640 But I really liked this one because I feel like I've read a lot of like contemporary 436 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:50,040 like YA's like, you know, throughout my life, and especially recently and stuff. 437 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,120 And there's definitely like, I think I saw this in Twitter too. 438 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,760 There's a marked shift of kind of like aging up YA's and like there's a lot of like sex 439 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,520 talk in them now, which I think is good. 440 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:04,360 Like there are different like things, you know, when you're a young person reading, 441 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 it's good to have a range. 442 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:11,640 But I think nowadays, it's really rare to find like an older like YA characters who 443 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,480 are still like very inexperienced and like very like innocent. 444 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,240 And this one, I think did it really well. 445 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,080 Like they were both super awkward. 446 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,880 She had never even had a first kiss. 447 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,400 She like had a huge crush on this guy, asked him to the dance. 448 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,440 He was like, absolutely no way, Sailor. 449 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,160 Like I can't do it. 450 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,020 You're just too, you're too innocent. 451 00:21:32,020 --> 00:21:37,000 And then the hero, suddenly like he had like a glow up over the summer. 452 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,540 So he got really hot. 453 00:21:38,540 --> 00:21:40,160 And he had previously like been a nerd. 454 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,000 So he didn't know like he had no experience with girls. 455 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 He had no clue what to do. 456 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,080 He was kind of a lackluster boyfriend to her friends. 457 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,800 Like they had started dating like half like a little bit into the book. 458 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:56,080 The friend is kind of like he is cute, but not a lot going on. 459 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:01,320 And so then they start fake dating to like figure out how to actually date someone and 460 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,240 like be, I don't know, experienced or whatever. 461 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,840 And so I just thought it was really nice to kind of like take it back a little bit and 462 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,440 like experience some of the more innocence of YA. 463 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,680 I've just read a lot recently, which again, I think it's a good thing. 464 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:23,000 I just remember like when I was reading YA, like when I was a YA, there was like no sex 465 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,200 or any like talks of it or anything. 466 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:30,200 And I feel like four out of five now that I read are like the one characters at least 467 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,360 already had sex, one whatever. 468 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,600 So it's just interesting to compare. 469 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,200 But it was really cute. 470 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,320 The audiobook was really good. 471 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:45,880 And I will definitely reread it at some point. 472 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:53,560 I read someday my Duke will come by Christina Britton, which I've been sitting on for approximately 473 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,560 a million years. 474 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,560 Oh, that's going in my speech now. 475 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,080 I know. 476 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,640 It probably will make it into mine, although I don't think it'll be the same as yours. 477 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,720 I have a feeling I know what at least I have a couple of options that I feel like you would 478 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,280 rank it before the one that I picked. 479 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,280 So I'm hoping we have different. 480 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,520 It'll be fine. 481 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,240 I still have the last book in that series to read, but I've read all the other. 482 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,240 Wreck my heart. 483 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,240 Why don't you, Christina? 484 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:30,280 I've been sitting on these latter two because I mean, I read the Sinful Spinsters. 485 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,280 Yeah. 486 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,280 The green and the pink. 487 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,280 Yeah. 488 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:41,280 The three I Love Sin books, someday my Duke will come is the second. 489 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:47,040 I cannot for the life of me remember the titles of the others, but they're related to Dukes. 490 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,880 It's the one Mulan song, A Duke Worth Fighting For is book three. 491 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:51,880 Sure. 492 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:52,880 Yeah, that's horrible. 493 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,840 And the red is the first one and it's Peter and Lenora, but I don't remember what the 494 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:57,840 title is. 495 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:58,840 It doesn't matter. 496 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,520 The point is that's that trilogy. 497 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,800 And then the second book will have come out today when this episode is out. 498 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,800 I have to read that still. 499 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,880 It is very good. 500 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800 And some dudes have all the luck. 501 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,000 There we go is the first one. 502 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,400 And then once a Duke got to do with it will have just come out. 503 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,240 And those are like spin offs of this. 504 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,360 So it's on the same island and you see some of the characters. 505 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,520 I actually I so I've read those. 506 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:31,920 And then in someday my Duke will come you have Lady Tash who like is in all of the books. 507 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,800 And oh my god, I literally just read this. 508 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,200 Why can I not remember her name? 509 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:43,520 Our main character, Clara, is like, you know, you'll you'll need a companion trying to like 510 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,760 imply that maybe she could still be the companion and Lady Tash is like, Oh, no, don't worry 511 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:48,760 about it. 512 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,240 I've got a girl picked out Katrina Denby. 513 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,240 She's on the way. 514 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:57,360 And I of course have read Katrina's book, which is the one that came out. 515 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:01,560 I know her. 516 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,560 It brought me a lot of joy. 517 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:03,560 It was fun. 518 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:12,080 I like I really like the I love sin as her writing, writing the heartstrings every time. 519 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,120 Yeah, it was. 520 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,600 Well I had read it because she was ruined. 521 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,600 Although you don't know until later in the book what precisely happened. 522 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,000 And I was like, it was rougher than I was expecting it to be. 523 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,480 Oh, I was gonna say I put this one in the last one on hold for so long, even though 524 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,000 I read the first one a million years ago because they don't have audio books. 525 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 I know. 526 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,320 It rips my heart out not having an audio book and just reading the book. 527 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,040 I think I think I gave that book four stars when I first read it because I like took like 528 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,040 a huge gap. 529 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,160 Like I read like the first half, took a break, read other things just for like reasons that 530 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,160 I don't remember. 531 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,360 And then like I picked it back up. 532 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,600 So I don't think the end hit as much as it should have because I reread the second half. 533 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,760 I was like, oh my god, so I bumped it up to five stars. 534 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:08,240 I was like, I weeping epilogue. 535 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:15,680 So I also read half of that in this time frame. 536 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:21,360 Well I've already talked about so I read the entire the London trilogy series. 537 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:25,640 Like I said, Private Arrangements is coming up in speak now we talked about a little bit 538 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,840 for us one of mine that I just read as well. 539 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,280 Yeah, for our like speak now moment. 540 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,760 So I won't talk about it besides the fact that I love it. 541 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,280 And the fact that she should have shoved that wedding ring up herself. 542 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,240 I will be fascinated when you read Ravishing the Heiress. 543 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,960 Yeah, the whole time I was reading Private Arrangements. 544 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:53,560 I was like, this is a they're different relationship dynamics, but a very similar premise in the 545 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:59,160 sense that it's a marriage that it's not a marriage in truth that now could potentially 546 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:06,200 be coming to an end at least the way that it has been, and they have to work on producing 547 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,200 an heir. 548 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,960 So there's that like forced intimacy aspect. 549 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,720 But again, very different like relationship dynamics, because private arrangements, they 550 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:17,960 hate each other. 551 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,720 And Ravishing the Heiress, she's just been secretly pining for him for years. 552 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,200 And I preferred Ravishing the Heiress. 553 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,320 And I thought it was a more interesting relationship arc than I mean, I love private arrangements 554 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,320 also. 555 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,720 But the whole time I was reading Private Arrangements, I was like, I like Ravishing the Heiress better. 556 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,440 And I mean, knowing us, you'll be the opposite. 557 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,280 That has a good chance of happening. 558 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,320 You'll probably have a great chance of having. 559 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,200 Yeah, I mean, I was on the verge of like four or five star like I was on the verge of like 560 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,280 four stars for a lot of the book. 561 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,160 And then like the end I really liked. 562 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,280 It just it was not what I was expecting, because I anticipated like that I was gonna hate it. 563 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:04,160 His At Night though, the third one of that series vehemently disapprove. 564 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,040 And they start off so good. 565 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,240 And then it just got so goddamn long. 566 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:15,120 But one character from the one she's technically like engaged to in book two is the hero's 567 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,520 brother in book three. 568 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,920 So it was nice seeing him and like I liked like parts of the book. 569 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:26,680 But as a whole, Luckiest Lady in London is still my favorite of that series, I think. 570 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,680 And then Pride Arrangements. 571 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:28,680 So it goes in order. 572 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:29,680 Then his At Night. 573 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:35,240 But I have Ravishing the Heiress and I think I have the entire series that I got on the 574 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,200 Audible sale or on trip or something. 575 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,720 So time, they will come. 576 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,400 And I guess that was enough of a talk to go to you again. 577 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,640 It was supposed to be short, but look at us. 578 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,640 So Pride Arrangements. 579 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:56,120 I read to Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins, which rounds out my Women Who Dare series 580 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,120 read. 581 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,040 I wouldn't call it a favorite of hers. 582 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,840 I still give it four stars. 583 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,480 I have some others of hers that I prefer. 584 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,760 I think I was a little disappointed in the heist. 585 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,240 I think that was my main... 586 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,800 Kat, I was really invested in the relationship, the heist I really didn't care about. 587 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,600 Well, and it's because she didn't give you anything to care about. 588 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,880 It was like they have to go on this quest, or not quest, they have this mission, they 589 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:21,880 have to get it back. 590 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,560 And it just kind of works out every step of the way. 591 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,360 So I was looking for more difficulty that they would have to overcome. 592 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,360 And they just went... 593 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:37,480 Everything got according to plan and then they got out of there and I was like, oh, 594 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:38,880 where was the heist? 595 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,800 Beverly, I know that you can write a heist. 596 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,600 Maybe it was just a little treat, a little snack. 597 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,400 She's like, I know what you guys have been through, all these kidnappings. 598 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,400 This is just a little treat. 599 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:54,400 He's just going to pamper her and bathe her and give her massages and spoil her and then 600 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,400 it's just going to all work out. 601 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,400 I mean, it was fine. 602 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,400 The relationship was good. 603 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:08,280 The villains did be villaining only to get really some not great ends. 604 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,360 Not great in the sense that they deserve them. 605 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,760 And then there was an axe murder that you find out about. 606 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,000 And you're like, oh, like it was it was foreshadowed. 607 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,800 Beverly still Beverly. 608 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:22,800 It still happens. 609 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:23,800 Beverly still Beverly. 610 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800 Just in the background. 611 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,600 Yeah, I was like, okay, sure. 612 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,680 I did appreciate Juliana Levesque pulling up. 613 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,560 I was like, hey, Queen, missed you. 614 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,560 Love you. 615 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:37,560 She was like, let me take you. 616 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,560 Great to see you again. 617 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:39,560 She's an icon. 618 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,560 She's a legend. 619 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,560 She is a moment. 620 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:42,560 So yeah, it was a vibe. 621 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,560 Again, wasn't a favorite, but it was a vibe. 622 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:48,560 Nice. 623 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:49,560 What else do I have here? 624 00:30:49,560 --> 00:31:01,200 I've already read that series and I don't feel like talking about it. 625 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,760 I read The Duke Gets Desperate by Dan and Quincy. 626 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:04,760 It was an arc. 627 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:09,160 It comes out September 26th. 628 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,160 So it's in a while. 629 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,840 I won't say too much about it. 630 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:19,200 But basically, like he's been like, I guess, disinherited like twice. 631 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,600 Like his father died. 632 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,920 And so he's obviously a Duke. 633 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:31,240 His father, the Duke, died, left everything or like left the castle to his like new wife. 634 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,280 So the hero was like miffed about it. 635 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,760 But he's like, okay, when she dies, I will get it. 636 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,320 And that was like understood. 637 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:45,440 So he like had the surrounding lands and then she had the castle and then she dies, starts 638 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,960 out at her funeral. 639 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,200 And then you find out that he was also not given it this time around. 640 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,360 He is angry about it. 641 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:59,480 He's a wee bit dickish about it, but it worked. 642 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:07,440 And so then you find out that the second wife gave the castle to the heroine. 643 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,720 She had no clue it was coming. 644 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,740 She was like in business with her family. 645 00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:14,520 Her brother was like trying to like force it out of the business. 646 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:20,020 And then she like went to this funeral and realized she now has a castle. 647 00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:24,320 And since he has the lands and she has the castle, it's like a symbiotic relationship 648 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,440 because all the money the castle would make would be from the lands, stuff like that. 649 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,360 And so they have to like work together. 650 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,960 He wants to buy it, but he doesn't have the money. 651 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,200 It's a whole thing. 652 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,200 And they just hate each other, but they're so attracted to each other. 653 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:46,880 There's a scene that like they're just like making out, but they're so angry about it. 654 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,680 And it lives in my mind. 655 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,880 Like Mr. and Mrs. Smith energy. 656 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,640 Like it just, they were so angry, but it was hot. 657 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,640 It was good. 658 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:02,440 It was like just really, it was just a really good story, I thought. 659 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:07,120 And whenever there's like the forced cohabitation of like the castle and all that, there was 660 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,120 like a good drunk scene. 661 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,120 It was just, it was so fun. 662 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,720 His little angsty at the end. 663 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,720 He was down so bad. 664 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,880 I loved it. 665 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,680 So yeah, mark your list for September. 666 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,280 I had a marvelous time. 667 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:32,120 Yeah, I guess I said, I'm like, I was going to keep talking. 668 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,960 I don't have any more words. 669 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:35,960 Call me Ariel. 670 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,960 I have no words. 671 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,640 So true. 672 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,280 I just before this call was like, I have to stop saying that phrase because I've said 673 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,280 it so many times. 674 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,280 Like it's not funny anymore. 675 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,280 I just keep saying it. 676 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,280 And yet here we are. 677 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,280 Here we are. 678 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,720 Anyway, the last one I've got, because honestly, God, I don't feel like going back to my June 679 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:56,720 Reads. 680 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,720 So we're just sticking with July. 681 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:08,160 I read Knockout by Sarah Maclean, which comes out at the end of August. 682 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:12,640 I understand that especially these later Sarah Maclean's are not for all historical romance 683 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:13,640 readers. 684 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,640 Some folks just don't vibe with like the really overt aggressive like take down the power. 685 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:24,760 Which is funny because I vibe with these more than I like her old ones. 686 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,760 Sure. 687 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,960 And there I was just recently having a discussion with people that were like, that's too. 688 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,160 Because I saw so many people hating on bombshell. 689 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,480 And I'm like, do we read the same book? 690 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,480 Because he fucks. 691 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:36,480 He's hot. 692 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,480 Can you look at who? 693 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:42,160 I see or just that it's not as interesting as the more kind of subtle. 694 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,160 I guess. 695 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,160 Yeah. 696 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:49,600 Which, you know, if that's what you're here for, peace and love. 697 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:50,600 I love that for you. 698 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,600 I love a good, subtle historical as well. 699 00:34:53,600 --> 00:35:00,680 However, do I eat up a secret society of ladies carrying out vigilante justice? 700 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:01,680 Yes, I do. 701 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,360 I'm a wild Winchester stand in my court. 702 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,360 That's not ladies, but you know. 703 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,360 Vibes. 704 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,360 Vibes. 705 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,360 I listen. 706 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,360 Listen. 707 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,360 The dynamic. 708 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:20,360 The dynamic of just a little chaos goblin. 709 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:26,760 And a starchy detective who is so obsessed with said chaos goblin, but also is so stressed 710 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:27,760 about it. 711 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:28,760 Yeah. 712 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,760 And he's like kind of mad. 713 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,040 But it's also like, I will put my life on the line. 714 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,080 And God forbid you put your life on the line. 715 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,400 That is the most like that is the worst thing. 716 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,400 You can do so bad. 717 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,160 He got so he was like, what the hell are you doing? 718 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,480 And then he got angry at side character. 719 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,960 He's like, you let her do this. 720 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,960 They're like, he's like, oh my God. 721 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,960 We didn't know. 722 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,680 He's like, I will murder everyone here. 723 00:35:54,680 --> 00:36:00,200 Like if she gets hurt, I will kill you so hard. 724 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:08,560 And he I he I was picturing him as the detective from Miss Scarlet and the Duke, except the 725 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,560 detective in that show is Scottish. 726 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480 And that did kind of throw me off because I had to stop. 727 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,880 I kept hearing that guy talk and I was like, wait, he's not Scottish. 728 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,680 Let me imagine Mary Jane Wells voice doing the voice that she did for him in the audiobooks. 729 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,680 Yeah, the whole thing. 730 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:29,200 However, Detective Inspector Thomas Peck would have a great day if I had anything to say 731 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,560 if I ever ran into Detective Inspector Thomas back, he would have a fantastic day. 732 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,600 You have a terrible day because Imogen would blow you up. 733 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:37,800 That's true. 734 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,200 That's true. 735 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,960 She would not hesitate. 736 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,560 But maybe maybe you'd have a great like hour before it. 737 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,080 Maybe she will tell me you would never let's be real. 738 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,080 You would not. 739 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,520 There's not a chance. 740 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:57,940 He already didn't realize how into him everyone is. 741 00:36:57,940 --> 00:36:58,940 He's like, I don't know. 742 00:36:58,940 --> 00:36:59,940 I have the objective idea. 743 00:36:59,940 --> 00:37:02,200 Like, I guess I'm attractive. 744 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:07,080 I love when I'm like, I want to eat you whole. 745 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,080 I have nothing. 746 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,080 I'm nothing. 747 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,280 I the vibe is when you can't really talk about because everyone needs to experience it for 748 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,280 the first time. 749 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,280 It's hard. 750 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,280 Yeah, it's got that good. 751 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,360 Like, it's also just so chaotically like the things that happen. 752 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:25,960 You couldn't like a million dollars brothel where I was like, that's like, what? 753 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:31,240 Like, for a million dollars, I would never have guessed that anything that was coming 754 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:32,680 in that I was like, what the f***? 755 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,480 That was wild. 756 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:40,520 It was big a cab energy, which you don't expect because he's a detective. 757 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,240 Like, there's a mystery. 758 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:51,800 And then and then and then you get to the teaser for book four. 759 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:52,800 Oh, God. 760 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,800 Yeah. 761 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,800 I am so excited. 762 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,800 Yeah. 763 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:58,800 Yeah. 764 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:08,240 Big, big image and loveless stand over here. 765 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,360 Every time there was a sentence that was like Detective Inspector Thomas Peck was having 766 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,360 a very bad day. 767 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,840 I was like, that's a direct quote. 768 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:22,320 That's exactly what I sounded like. 769 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:23,320 It was it was a good book. 770 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,360 The only thing I didn't like was that he was really caught up on the class difference. 771 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,720 He got over it. 772 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:33,080 It took him a while, but that's never my favorite trope. 773 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,040 That one that always grates on me. 774 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,000 So like, but I still give it five. 775 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 I mean, it was still a great book. 776 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,280 Yeah, there were just so many parts of that book that were just so unexpected. 777 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,600 So wonderful. 778 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,640 I think I talked about I think I ended up cutting it from the episode to say because 779 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,880 it was a super long episode. 780 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,640 I read an Earl to Remember by Stacey Reed. 781 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,640 Maybe I left it in. 782 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:06,040 It's basically like if you wanted to write a book for me, write this book and be Stacey 783 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:14,200 Reed, because the two things overboard and Stacey Reed together are like my like 100 784 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,000 percent my hopes, dreams, wishes. 785 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,040 Like if I had a genie, all three wishes would go to this. 786 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,400 Like, sorry, world peace. 787 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,840 And Earl to Remember by Stacey Reed. 788 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,560 Like it is the book. 789 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:31,040 And the funny thing is, is that I love Overboard so much. 790 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,040 We all know this. 791 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,320 But the funny thing was reading some reviews, people were like, what the hell? 792 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,440 Like, why is he so why is he so like, why is he so bad? 793 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,800 I'm like, just girls who get it, get it. 794 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:42,880 And girls who don't don't. 795 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,120 And that is my official statement, because it was perfect. 796 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,120 It was so good. 797 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,480 It was so hot. 798 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,800 It just it was so perfect. 799 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,720 I again, it's just overboard. 800 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,600 He is a nasty Earl. 801 00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,880 He's like having to going to have a threesome. 802 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,880 He thinks she's in on the threesome. 803 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,240 She's the caterer on his like houseboat. 804 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:06,560 He has a horrible mistress. 805 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,520 She pushes him off the boat. 806 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,520 He gets amnesia. 807 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,720 She like rescues him. 808 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:20,080 And she's like, the funny thing is that in the movie, he like takes Goldie Hawn as like 809 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,880 a little bit of revenge. 810 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,480 But like in the book, because they like they like made out like once like he like thought 811 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:27,880 she was in on this threesome. 812 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,240 And she was kind of like, I mean, he's hot, but like, I'm not. 813 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:36,080 But also, so he has the only thing he remembers is when he sees her is that they like had 814 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,080 a passionate affair. 815 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,200 It didn't go any farther than that. 816 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,280 But in his mind, he like knows what she feels and tastes like. 817 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,400 So he's like, I know her. 818 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,480 I have had intimate knowledge of her. 819 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,600 So she's immediately ruined. 820 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,480 She's like, I like you. 821 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,480 That's not me. 822 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,480 Like, you don't know me. 823 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,600 And he's like, no, actually, I know. 824 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,600 I know you. 825 00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,840 Like, I don't know much, but I know you. 826 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:04,880 And so she has to like claim him as her husband, like her husband's that they got married like 827 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,360 super fast because she'd be ruined otherwise. 828 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,900 So I thought that was really fun. 829 00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:14,280 It was just a really great book. 830 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,600 I eat up amnesia. 831 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,800 So no surprises there. 832 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:24,720 I just was like this is like one of my most anticipated reads for the year. 833 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:25,720 And it delivered. 834 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:27,560 Boy, did it deliver. 835 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:34,640 So that's all I've got. 836 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:35,640 And like the food content. 837 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,240 And then she's got like the little she's got her siblings. 838 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:43,880 So then, oh, yeah. 839 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:44,880 And then he cooks for her. 840 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,240 It's a whole thing. 841 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,200 So when is that out? 842 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,200 I don't even know. 843 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,160 It's out in my heart. 844 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,200 August 22nd. 845 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,080 So go for it. 846 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,080 Knockout. 847 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,360 What a great day. 848 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,560 What a great day. 849 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,560 August 22nd is going to be. 850 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,600 Yeah, I love that book so much. 851 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,600 Stacy, she's her writing. 852 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,600 I love it. 853 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,240 I guess you don't have any you don't have any more you. 854 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:17,240 Nice. 855 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:20,720 Let me see if I do unplug my phone. 856 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,240 Bebidi babidi babidi bebidi boo boo. 857 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:25,780 Bibbidi babidi boo. 858 00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:30,680 But if it were scat jazz. 859 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,440 Wait, that would kind of hit somebody who can just scat. 860 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:36,440 I was like, I can't. 861 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,880 I don't know, Bibbidi babidi boo for us. 862 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:48,800 I read A Lady for a Duke, which is great. I'll be talking about it more in a future 863 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,560 episode so I don't need to talk about it now. You've already talked about it, but it was 864 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:58,840 so good. So I read that one. That one was on my TBR for ages. I did read the first three 865 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:03,800 Maiden Lanes that I hadn't read. Wicked Intentions, Notorious Pleasures, and Scandalous Desires. 866 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:09,520 Of the three Wicked Intentions is my favorite of those. I really enjoyed that one. It's 867 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:16,560 a fun book. It was really fun. It's wild. It was wild. The third act of that book is 868 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:26,160 actually insane. There's no reason for that to happen. I was like, whoa. It's also one 869 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:34,080 of my favorite examples of the historical romance hero who's like, oh, I have these 870 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:42,200 dark, twisted sexual proclivities. In his defense, he is touch averse to that out of 871 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,080 layer to it, but for the most part, it's just that he likes to tie up and blindfold his 872 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:51,280 partners. And it's like, my dude, that's just bondage. 873 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:56,360 And then unfortunately, people are being murdered in that fashion and he's like, oh shit. Yeah, 874 00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:01,840 that's rough for him. That's really rough for him. I think my favorite part was it was 875 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,040 a great, this isn't even, it was just a great murder mystery. I was like, what the fuck 876 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:13,800 is happening? But I just love how he was so uninterested in love until he found her. And 877 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,640 then he was just so hurt at the end. He was just so, he was down so bad, but he stood 878 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:26,400 up for himself. It's like, I deserve it. It was Lazarus. Lazarus. Well, cause then he 879 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:32,960 shows up in, I think it's that Duke of sin, the crazy one I read for the Valentine episode, 880 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:39,440 cause his name is Valentine Napier. Whoa. Lazarus shows up. So I had read Duke of sin 881 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:46,240 before this one because the heroin of that has some connection to that family. My review 882 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:53,760 of Duke of sin. Well shit. I mean, that stands. What a crazy book. I mean, yeah, I, everything 883 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,600 that I've learned about me in lane, cause I've only read the first one, but everything 884 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:03,120 is like, huh? Honestly, because then like this number two could have technically worked 885 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:09,200 for like our, like, like a love triangle situation, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Scandalous 886 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:15,920 desires was the charming, charming Mickey. The river pirate. River pirate. It was an interesting 887 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,400 book. It wasn't my favorite. Um, I actually will just never recover from his character 888 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:27,680 introduction. The introduction hit so hard. There was, we've, I'm, I don't remember if 889 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,360 you left it in whatever episode we were discussing. No, it's in the, it's in the bonus episode. 890 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:35,160 Okay. So if you're subscribed to the newsletter, you can listen to the bonus episode. Our entire 891 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:42,320 unedited. Um, so we don't have to talk about it now, but Jesus Christ, nothing hit me. 892 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,640 That smacked me across the face. There's no reason for Elizabeth to have written that. 893 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,120 No, because then I like, cause like I said, I think in our last episode, like I saw that 894 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,560 character, she was happily married. I was like, Oh, that's cute. And then he was bad 895 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:59,400 at sex. I was like, Oh, I understand now. I see how this is always going to start. Marked 896 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:04,240 for death. If you worked for death, you won't go down on her. So in the daylight hours and 897 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:10,120 wouldn't go down on her. Like it, I mean, don't do that if you want to stay alive, I 898 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:15,400 mean, um, so like the setup, I think was just like the book itself was, is very good. I 899 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:21,200 liked a lot of it. Um, I know, I'm not sure if I liked Ashford McNabb's accent for him. 900 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:26,520 It wasn't my favorite. And then the audio book itself, I lost some steam because I was 901 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:32,120 getting to their first sex scene and then it just skipped over. Like it, yeah, it was 902 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,680 like, she was like feeling him up. And then it was just like, they woke up, he woke up 903 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,960 from a dream and she was next to him. And I'm like, did Elizabeth Hoyt give me closed 904 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:47,960 door? I was like, what? I was scandalized. And then I was like, I was like, rewind it. 905 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,240 I was like, what am I missing? So I listened to it again. I was like, no, that's not right. 906 00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:56,160 And then I kept listening. I was like, what, like there was, how are, like they talked 907 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:00,680 about having sex. I was like, huh? And so then I go to my, my physical copy, lo and 908 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:07,120 behold, they cut five pages of the sex scene and I was like, where'd it go? So I keep listening. 909 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:13,600 And then you get to a part where he's literally like pulling out of her or actually, no, he's 910 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,680 staying inside of her and they're going to bed. He's like, I'm just going to stay here. 911 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,800 It's fine. Um, and then you, and then, and then the next scene cuts to the sex scene 912 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,040 that was cut. So then she's now just like feeling him up again. They haven't had sex. 913 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,480 Penis is not in that vagina. And I'm like, why is this happening? And then there was 914 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,360 a dream that he had. And then that dream is then pasted like at the end of it, like that 915 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:39,920 editor, whoever edited that audio book. And it's been out for a long time now. I don't 916 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:46,000 know what happened, but it kind of harsh, the vibe a little bit. I was like, it was 917 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:54,240 4 AM. I was so confused and I was just like, oh, what is happening? We got there eventually. 918 00:47:54,240 --> 00:48:01,320 I had just read it physically for that scene. And then I piece it all together, but who 919 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:08,880 knows? Um, yeah, crazy book, crazy times were had. And if you listen to the audio book, 920 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:21,800 just know it ain't right. It ain't correct. So that happened. And recently, uh, yeah. 921 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:27,040 Okay. So I read a nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel like KJ Charles. Again, that's 922 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:32,880 an arc. I haven't written my review yet, which sucks for me because that is daunting because 923 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:38,080 like it's so hard to write book like reviews about books you love. Like, it's just so hard. 924 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:42,000 And I finished it. I was like, that was perfect. That's all. That's all I've got. Like it was 925 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:46,640 just, it was perfect. Yeah. Everything that happened in the country lives, secret gentlemen 926 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:53,080 was just like amplified, like the romance, like this one just like it was just so good. 927 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,440 Like the one character, like I said, it was like Luke, who is the 13 year old in secret 928 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,320 lives of country gentlemen. And then it's 13 years later. So he's like 26. And then 929 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:08,040 there's a, what is he seeing Earl? Yeah, Earl. Um, so I went back and reread a part of the 930 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,320 secret lives of country gentlemen. And it like introduces like the characters of this 931 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,880 book there. They're like the, he's like the Earl of Oxney and they like come up in that 932 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,680 one. Um, and just like the relationship, Luke is he's scheming and you don't know what his 933 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:27,840 scheme is. And then like it gets revealed and things happen. And the appalt, the groveling 934 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:36,240 here was key. It was a really good gravel. Um, it was just so good. And it was hot. I 935 00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:41,180 think it was hotter than book one. The relationship hit harder for me. I loved the, like the high 936 00:49:41,180 --> 00:49:47,880 civil, like everything that they were doing is just, it was so good. And I am terrified 937 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:54,200 of writing review, which is okay, I guess. Best position to be in, I suppose. Um, and 938 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:59,920 then just the other one, the last one would be diary, diary of an accidental wallflower 939 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:06,240 by Jennifer McQuiston. Um, Jennifer McQuiston is an author that I have loved one of her 940 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:11,320 books. It was What Happens in Scotland, another amnesia. They have a one night stand. She 941 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:17,560 like wakes up in his bed. Um, she proceeds to knock him out with a toilet because she's 942 00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:22,000 like, what the fuck happened? And then the entire day is them like piecing together what 943 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,200 happens the night before. He didn't have amnesia until she hit him in the head. And then he 944 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,800 had amnesia was because it's just like, like they were like so drunk. So it was like they're 945 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:35,680 blackout. Like what did we do when we were blackout? Um, and that book, ooh, again, another 946 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,640 like, if you were to write a book for me, it's that one. Um, so diary of an accidental 947 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:47,120 wallflower. Um, she was like a like a kind of a mean girl, not really. He's a hot doctor. 948 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:53,640 Um, she gets attacked by a goose, um, twists her ankle. So she's a wallflower. She has 949 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:59,080 to stand in the wallflower line. And then the lady who's hosting the ball, um, her private 950 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:03,920 doctor is there and she's like ailing. So he's there to make sure she stays okay. Um, 951 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:08,200 and so then he like checks on her ankle and they just, they fall in love throughout the 952 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:13,800 book and it was really good. He was a hot, he was hot. He was a hot doctor. And I just 953 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,800 really liked the, the mean girl characters and seeing them. And she, it wasn't even really 954 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,520 that mean. She was just kind of like stuck up a little bit, um, and didn't think that 955 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:29,600 she could ever lower herself to a mere doctor. Um, but it was really fun. And then her, one 956 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:36,200 of her sisters is the heroine of the next book. Um, yeah, it was, it was really good. 957 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:44,840 So that's all I got, but expect more on the other books as I read them. And then that, 958 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,600 that's all we read and that's all she wrote. 959 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,160 Yep. I got nothing else. 960 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:56,720 No, currently reading Dreaming of You. I'm excited for that. For that episode of every, 961 00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:00,000 like people keep swiping up on my Instagram and being like, this is your first time. I'm 962 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:05,480 like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. Well, there you have it. Go forth, listen to Dreaming 963 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:12,920 of You and stream Speak Now, Taylor's version to prepare for the next episode. So long, 964 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:24,200 farewell. Auf Wiedersehen, adieu. Adieu. Adieu. And you, and you. 965 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:28,800 I just, you needed to finish that out. I needed to get to the rhyme.