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So we were in the middle of a discussion when I realized we weren't recording and this is a story that I do need the internet to hear.

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I was on a FaceTime call with originally one of my best friends and it eventually became both of them.

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And she was like, have you heard that song by Racial Girl?

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And I was like, no, what are you talking about?

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She's like, oh, it must be like really big on maybe it's like black TikTok or something.

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She's black for context.

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Like this is where I'm getting it.

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She goes, there's this guy.

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This album is from 2009.

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This guy puts out an album of music called Ladies of Color and all of the songs are different ethnicities.

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And it's so bad.

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It's so it's so trocious.

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Ladies of Color by Sean Fury.

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Actually, the first couple are big girls and Why Should It Matter?

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And you do get big girls too and Why Should It Matter too at the end of the album.

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Ebony Princess, Snow, Latina, Asian Girl, Indian Arabic Girl, not Indian or Arabic or Indian Arabic Girl, Exotic Girls, which is my personal favorite.

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It's acapella for some reason, but badly and biracial.

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Now, all of these are terrible, mostly because this man can't sing, but also for the weird fetish vibes.

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So we're talking about this because the friend who showed me this is black and the other friend who had not gotten on the call yet, she's Sri Lankan.

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Because Sri Lanka, like that's Asian, but you can tell the Asian he means.

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He refers to like yellow skin.

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Like, you know what kind of Asian he means.

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Because Indian Arabic girl, I have to assume he just watched Aladdin.

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I highly recommend giving this a listen because it's terrible.

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The first one is about Jesus.

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Jesus Made Me Do It.

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Jesus Made Me Do It, Ladies of Color.

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Sean Fury's Diversity.

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The Man, The Myth, The Sean Fury.

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It's awful.

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That's my recommend.

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This is about a completely different album this episode, but that is my music recommendation.

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We've got all the recommendations today.

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None quite so genre bending, boundary jumping, wall breaking recommendations as that.

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So, I mean, I don't know what you want.

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You could stop it here or you could keep listening.

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There's slightly lesser quality recommendations.

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Just trying to look out for you.

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You can't breathe.

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I'm fine.

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She was not fine.

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We are doing 1989 Taylor's Version.

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Deluxe.

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Add the Sweet of the Fiction for the symmetry of it.

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Romance Your TBRs Furium.

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What's the longest we could make that title?

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So very long.

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No true.

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We're finally doing it.

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This was a hard album.

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I still don't feel confident in a lot.

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There are quite a few that I'm like, this can work.

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If I squint, take off my glasses.

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It's not as solid as I felt with Speak Now.

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I was like, why?

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There were so many that I was like, this is so romance novel.

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I was still down to the wire, like changing some things out.

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But what a banger of a rerecording though.

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That's so true.

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I wasn't prepared.

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I have always liked the songs of 1989, but I would never just put on the album.

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The songs are in lots of other playlists.

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This is one of my top albums.

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I was definitely like when it first came out, I was like, she's going pop.

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It's true.

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They feel like some of them were easier than others.

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We're done.

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I read two years ago.

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I barely remember.

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I think that matches the vibes.

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Maybe somebody is going to read this on our recommendation and be like, what?

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Don't worry.

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Vibes are so personal.

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They really are.

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And it's just like you said, I think for Speak Now, some songs like fit, but like would not fit the album itself.

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Like they fit the lyrics, but maybe they don't fit like the album.

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This one, I was like, you know what?

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I'm not. I can't be that picky.

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I just need anything.

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Does a Highlander scream?

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Do I have a few?

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Well, but if you wanted to match to the vibes of the album, they would have to all be like Gilded Age.

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It's a New York album.

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And they can't all be Gilded Age guys.

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And I love that I never I didn't even choose New York one for Welcome to New York.

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What do you mean?

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It's called it's the whole thing is about you'll understand.

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I have a shoot.

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Am I going?

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Are you sure you go?

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Take it away.

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I went with a Scandal is Dealed by Joanna Shoop.

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It's this kind of convoluted.

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He's like a super rich guy in New York and he's building a hospital, a hotel, and he

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Now she has a book.

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I have to assume because how many female architects are there?

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never she's working pretending that she's carrying out his orders and also on the ship.

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So everybody thinks she's super unlucky.

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That's also a thing.

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She's like the unlucky lady.

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I don't remember.

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She has a nickname.

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So she's trying to like not go somewhere where nobody knows her and on the ship crossing

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she has a really hot anonymous hookup with a guy and then she gets there and it turns

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he can't come but not how sick he is.

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There's just a lot happening here.

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I'm here and it's the Gilded Age.

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And like I can be an architect and be who I want to be.

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That's it.

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That's all I got.

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I love how you said be who I want to be.

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That was funny.

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You're welcome.

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Thank you.

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I have a couple of videos, a Caribbean heiress in Paris.

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One, it says a location in the title.

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I'm telling you, I'm not batting all home runs today, but I do think this is one of

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That is Paris.

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The lights don't blind me.

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I just think the vibes of her going to Paris, looking for the business ventures, getting

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railed on top of the Eiffel Tower.

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Lights are so bright, can't blind you up there.

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She can go on the Eiffel Tower and mine, she gets railed in a brand new hotel that isn't

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open yet, I think.

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No, it's not a hotel.

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It's something else that's just been built.

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It's something famous.

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We love christening things with sex.

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So true.

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Not to welcome to New York for you.

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But yeah, I felt that that one had the vibes of going to a new place and being both a little

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starstruck but also having hopes and dreams, but being brave enough to do it.

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So that was mine.

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Blank space.

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This one, I tried not to pick this one because I was like I've already picked it in another

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album but I had to go Bombshell by Sarah McLane.

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I had to do it.

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I just think Cecily has just the attitude of blank space.

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I do have this one later.

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Cecily does have big 1989 vibes.

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I just feel like she really embodied the kind of tongue in cheek-ness of the song.

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And also her reputation was not nearly as bad as people were saying, but she was also

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she owned what she's done.

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She was not ashamed of anything she'd done.

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And it's just a hot book.

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I love Caleb.

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I love that book.

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I get some hate, but delicious.

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I think it's also because I have a weird fascination with Mary Jane Wells' American accent, which

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is doubly funny for that book.

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If you've read it, you know, but people hate it, but for some reason it just unlocks a

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vault in me of yearning.

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So there's that.

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Yeah.

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So true.

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So relatable.

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I also went with I think I might have picked this one for another one.

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Maybe not.

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Anyway, I also went with a heroine who's like, fine, call me a slut.

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I don't care.

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And that was The Wrakesh by Scarlett Beckham.

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I think mine's like if Cecily were angrier, I think.

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That idea of like, everybody's decided I am this way and therefore I'm just going to play

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it up and behave the way that you think I'm going to behave.

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And also have some hot sex with a single dad.

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And good for her.

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Great for her, might I add.

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I also as a backup had The Ruin of a Rake by Kat Sebastian just because his reputation

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was like causing strife in his life.

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Didn't mean to make that a rhyme.

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And he definitely had a bad reputation, but it was amplified and made public and splashed

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everywhere by the other hero to add some drama in there.

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It'd be like that.

310
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So true.

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Style?

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Listen, do I have a back and forth relationship like that?

313
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No.

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Do I have a good girl?

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Yeah.

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Good girl, bad boy?

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Yes.

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And that's a good girl's guide to rakes.

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Nice.

320
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That really fits.

321
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Good job.

322
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Thank you.

323
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Thank you.

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They do have a little bit of on and off, I think, with the no strings vibes and then

325
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he's trying to court other people to get married.

326
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Yeah, a little bit happens at the end.

327
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It's not all easy breezy.

328
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Right.

329
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But really mainly the thing is the good girl.

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I like that.

331
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Bad boy with the long hair.

332
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He's not an actor slash singer, but he is a poet.

333
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That's about as close to Harry Styles as you get in historical romance.

334
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So true.

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This one was hard.

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Style was hard.

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There's not much more I can say.

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I did A Daring Pursuit by Kate Bateman.

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It's not necessarily the good girl, bad boy.

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It's reversed.

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It's reversed in that sense.

342
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But even then, he does kind of have a little bit.

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He's got an edge to him.

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He's not all good.

345
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At the beginning, he's like, why don't I?

346
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I could just fuck her now.

347
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She's open to it.

348
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He's not the typical cinnamon roll.

349
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He's definitely not a cinnamon roll.

350
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And then I just think she's really big into fashion.

351
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So I was like, style.

352
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I feel like they fit the vibes of the song more than the lyrics.

353
00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:10,880
But that one was hard.

354
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And I do have to say, my friend Maddie reads historical romance.

355
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And she always says that A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare is her style song.

356
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So I wanted to throw that out there for anyone who wants to read that.

357
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Next is Out of the Woods.

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This one is an arc.

359
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Doesn't come out until 2024, but I had to do it.

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It's The Diamond and the Duke by Christy Caldwell.

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It's book three in whatever series she's currently writing with Berklee.

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I was just really stuck on the hospital scene and getting out of the woods.

363
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She met the guy when she was pretty young and he was going off to war.

364
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She has had a crush on him.

365
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And then she ends up the Lisa Kleifus book, writing him letters as someone else because

366
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he's got a sweetheart at home and then she doesn't write him back.

367
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And then she picks it up and then she stops and then he gets injured.

368
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These bitches in historical romance not writing, they're like wounded.

369
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I know.

370
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It worked out better for him in that regard than the Lisa Kleifus one of at least the

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reason why she didn't write back.

372
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So then he ends up getting grievously wounded.

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So this entire second half or even two thirds of the book is him just having to heal from

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the trauma and just talk to her.

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She's one of the only people who can actually talk to him.

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And there's a really emotional scene.

377
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They're not at a hospital, but it's a healer, a bones that are actually.

378
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And it just really gave me those vibes of her always thinking like, is this like, is

379
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he going to let me in?

380
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Are we going to get through it?

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And then obviously by the time that he's ready, she's kind of moved on and then it's dramatic.

382
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But it was really good.

383
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,760
So I love that series so much.

384
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But that stopped.

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I quite literally just switched my pick because I was all mad because so my backup for this

386
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one is The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean.

387
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That one could go so many places, so many places.

388
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And this was a slap it.

389
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,720
But I've tried really hard to only do one book per author in these.

390
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,960
Yeah, I can spread it out and I have another Sarah MacLean later.

391
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,920
And so I finally was like fine Day of the Duchess.

392
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,600
But then I just now realized I have a better or maybe not better, but different one that

393
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:52,600
works for this.

394
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So that is my backup because my God, that book is angsty.

395
00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,440
They go through a lot of woods.

396
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:07,520
But I just realized Morning Glory by Laverle Spencer is so like they just cannot catch

397
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:12,220
a break and they fall in love and then he goes to war and then he's injured and he comes

398
00:21:12,220 --> 00:21:16,920
back and he's sad and then he gets arrested because they think he's murdered someone and

399
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,000
they just eventually they get out of the woods though.

400
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:25,960
And there's like a moment where oh, oh, break up, not break up, but I'm going to push you

401
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,960
away.

402
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,640
And then because we're going to have the sweetest, sappiest ending you've ever read in your entire

403
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:31,640
life.

404
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:38,720
And the sun came up and they were looking at Morning Glories and each other.

405
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,720
Nice one.

406
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:44,280
Oh, I wrote the abbreviation.

407
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,080
All you had to do is stay is that the full title?

408
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,920
I cannot because she has that one and then she has stay, stay, stay.

409
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,600
There's too many stay songs.

410
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,120
All you had to do is stay.

411
00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,320
How to Deceive a Duke by Samara Parrish, which I think I actually use on the official like

412
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,240
forever pairings that we did.

413
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:06,480
But I'm using it for this one too because it was my idea.

414
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,120
So we're putting it in all the places and also because I couldn't think of a better

415
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:16,840
one because twice over because you start the book, it's already a second chance where he

416
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,000
they were so in love and then he left her for reasons.

417
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,720
And so already you're like my guy, all you literally all you had to do is stay like she

418
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,080
was in love with you.

419
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,840
He really did.

420
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,360
He screwed the pooch on that one.

421
00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,760
And then strictly speaking, he didn't like leave the second time, but it has the like

422
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:39,400
kind of big breakup vibes in the third act.

423
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,640
That he has to do a little grand gesture situation.

424
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,960
It was grand.

425
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:45,960
It was grand.

426
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,600
And I respect that.

427
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:54,760
But yeah, just the vibes of her being like literally all you had to do.

428
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:59,080
Like you just left and you never like really explained why.

429
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,200
Oh, his mother.

430
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,480
I hate that wench.

431
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:07,480
That's a good one.

432
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,040
I chose marrying off Morgan McBride by Amy Berry.

433
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,240
I thought about that one.

434
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,880
Yeah, he just kept on leaving.

435
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:20,200
And I was like, dude, stay like literally like that one was definitely it was a hard

436
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,600
one for me to choose because at first I wanted to do Aphrodite and the Duke.

437
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,880
But I didn't think he didn't grovel enough for me.

438
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,080
When also it's not like he really left like he got married.

439
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,160
Well, but I mean, yeah, no, like he didn't leave.

440
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:41,080
It was like a he he had to like you read the why and you're like, oh, yeah, you would be

441
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,880
like a bad person if you because then she wasn't mad and then I wasn't mad.

442
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:50,680
So then I was like, that doesn't give me the correct enough vibes.

443
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,160
But yeah, Morgan, I was just like, dude, stay.

444
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,360
Junebug wanted him to stay like I was just irritated at him.

445
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:04,480
But I did still really enjoy the book because then she ends up leaving.

446
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,960
And I was like, yes, see how you like that taste of your own medicine.

447
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,640
But yeah, do I think that book fits 1989 vibes?

448
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,720
Not really.

449
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,480
But if you want a strict lyrical.

450
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,840
Interpretation, interpretation like she was just there to do the cooking, to do the like

451
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,680
she was she would have done anything.

452
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,280
She just wanted a family and a home.

453
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And he just really fucked it up for so long.

454
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,920
Like he was so.

455
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,200
Back and forth stubborn.

456
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,240
But I did end up liking him.

457
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,680
So there is that.

458
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,160
And there was sex in that one.

459
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,040
We didn't know.

460
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,800
Just as an aside, it was hot, too.

461
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,720
I was like, oh, OK.

462
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,640
It's a good day for me all around.

463
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,680
The next one is Shake It Off.

464
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,920
I think I also featured this story somewhere else, but I said screw it because in which

465
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:11,280
Margo Halifax earns her shocking reputation by Alexander Basti really gives me Shake It

466
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:12,280
Off.

467
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,840
Like Margo is just going to shake it off.

468
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:16,840
And that's kind of that.

469
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:17,840
I don't.

470
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:18,840
She didn't.

471
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:19,840
Not as bad.

472
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:26,480
You know, like book two, let the rumors and stuff like get her down a little bit and like

473
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,880
didn't really want the reputation.

474
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:33,640
But Margo was kind of just like, yeah, I'm going to go fuck this barrister outdoors.

475
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:34,640
So true.

476
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,640
So true.

477
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,640
I love her.

478
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,640
She really did.

479
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,560
I also have used this one previously.

480
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,560
I don't care.

481
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,960
I'm going with an Island Princess starts a scandal by Adriana Herrera.

482
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:52,880
She was here to bang women and make art, make very lesbian art.

483
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,880
She was like, fuck it all the time.

484
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,200
That was just the vibe I got from.

485
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,200
I'm blanking on her name.

486
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,200
We'll pick Luz because no, no, that's book one.

487
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,640
Oh my God.

488
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,600
I know Cora is the other one.

489
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,040
Why am I forgetting Cora?

490
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,480
Yeah, this is going to make me want to die.

491
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:13,480
I'll find out.

492
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,480
Really tell some things.

493
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:20,640
Anyway, while you're searching, it's just that.

494
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,080
I did actually have that one as a backup for style just because Taylor Strupp gave an interview

495
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:30,040
saying that style is about a person who would come and interrupt your wedding.

496
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,040
Manuela and Manuela.

497
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,120
Yes, I knew there was an M.

498
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:39,600
And we know because I can't stop talking about it that she sure interrupted that Cora interrupted

499
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,600
Manuela's wedding.

500
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,600
So so true.

501
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,640
That was just a little fun thing, but I couldn't do another Adriana Herrera like that close

502
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:47,640
together.

503
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:55,240
So it does also have the big city vibes that you were talking about.

504
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,880
Oh, it's me.

505
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:00,880
What's the name of this song?

506
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,880
I wish you would.

507
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:02,880
Oh, I wish you would.

508
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:03,880
OK.

509
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,240
And then there's another would somewhere too many as opposed to out of the whatever.

510
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,760
The point is, I wish you would.

511
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:19,000
The Ugly Duchess Violet, Lucy James is what I'm going to because this and this one I read

512
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,240
and I was like, it could work for a few.

513
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,120
There are a few different ones it works for.

514
00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:27,680
I went with this one specifically because they fight and he leaves for seven years and

515
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:36,240
becomes a pirate and then he comes back during the hearings to declare him dead in absentia.

516
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,640
So there's a lot of drama and basically she's pissed at him for waiting until literally

517
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,480
while they're trying to declare him dead.

518
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,440
Like she's like you couldn't and he turns out he really couldn't come back until this

519
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,440
point.

520
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,840
He didn't mean to time it like this.

521
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,520
It's just when he happened to be able to get there after recovering from having his throat

522
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,000
cut and whatnot.

523
00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:01,040
But she's like, you have the audacity to let us think you were dead for seven years and

524
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,420
then you come back.

525
00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:05,480
You don't bother to tell your wife that you're alive.

526
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,160
You just show up and then, oh, you happen to pick me up while I fainted.

527
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,960
And then he just stands there holding her and like talking to other people.

528
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,000
And she's like, hello, like the audacity.

529
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,200
Do you not care that I have full on fainted?

530
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,200
And she's pissed.

531
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:23,160
But she literally said she's like, I actually wouldn't be like I was really worried about

532
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,760
him and I wanted him to come back and be alive.

533
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,880
I'm only mad because of the way he's come back.

534
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,040
But she's not mad that he has come back because he's like her childhood best friend who married

535
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,040
her for the wrong reasons.

536
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,240
And like in the past seven years, she's gotten over it.

537
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,560
And it's just like, I hope he's alive.

538
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,560
That's a good one.

539
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,880
So those are the vibes.

540
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,880
She's like, I'm not even mad anymore.

541
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:50,880
Just preferably don't be dead in the Indian Ocean somewhere.

542
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,360
I mean, that's all you can really ask.

543
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,800
I wish you would.

544
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,400
I wish you would not be dead in the Indian Ocean somewhere.

545
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,320
That's actually the deluxe version of that song.

546
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:09,040
I chose this one was a hard one for me because to me it represents like a moment in a book,

547
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,360
you know, rather than like the full books.

548
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,440
It was like really hard for me to like pick out a book with that moment.

549
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,880
So I don't really even know how I just like thought of this one, but I did.

550
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,840
So we're going to go with it.

551
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,760
Which is Scoundrel of My Heart by Lorraine Heath.

552
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,560
Basically the book is like split into two.

553
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:34,120
And I don't think it's really a spoiler because it's like in the summary, I believe.

554
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,260
The first half, she is friends with his sister.

555
00:29:37,260 --> 00:29:41,840
He overhears her talking about how she would never marry a second son.

556
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,200
That's a permanent chip on his shoulder.

557
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,280
Once he hears it, he's like, I'm not worthy.

558
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,120
So he gets like very angry about it.

559
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:57,920
But she's like, they've always kind of like had the fighty but lusty relationship.

560
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,720
And then his father commits treason.

561
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,640
I hate it when they do that.

562
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,520
As fathers are wont to do apparently in historical romance, they plot to kill the queen.

563
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,520
They do it a lot.

564
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,640
And so his older brother loses.

565
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:22,240
Wait, wait, wait, before you finish explaining, have you seen the TikTok trend of the like,

566
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,280
we're girls, we're gonna do such and such.

567
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,960
Okay, now I have developed a compulsive need to do that for historical romance, but I'm

568
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,480
a dad in a historical romance.

569
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,880
I'm gonna commit treason.

570
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,680
And then let your children suffer the brunt of it.

571
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,680
Sorry, continue.

572
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,600
That's all I'm going to be able to think of now.

573
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,000
So then he's technically in like a better position because he was only a second son.

574
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,280
So he's not really like he was never going to be the Duke.

575
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,200
And so the brother who was always going to be the Duke is in like more hot water because

576
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,620
now what does he do with his life?

577
00:30:56,620 --> 00:31:01,480
So the second son, because he has a major chip on his shoulder all the way back from

578
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:07,480
that girl rejecting him, and she didn't even know she rejected him, he just overheard it.

579
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,960
He starts a club called the air or the spare.

580
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,600
So only second sons and below or whatever can get in.

581
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,840
So like firstborn sons literally can't get in.

582
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:22,980
He goes to the dark side, he's a little bit hot, he's a little bit bruised and battered.

583
00:31:22,980 --> 00:31:29,040
So like the first half is her like, they kind of become friends in the first half.

584
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,560
And there's a Duke in the land who's looking for a bride.

585
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,800
And so he advertises it, that he's like, just write me a letter, and I'll pick whoever I

586
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,240
want to be my bride.

587
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,560
She's like debating if she wants to do it.

588
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,600
So this guy obviously is like, I can't compete with a Duke.

589
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:53,800
And then the second half is him living in shame of his father's deeds and creating this

590
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:54,800
nightclub.

591
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,080
It's like a few years later, maybe I don't really know.

592
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,800
And then she finds him a really hot now that he's like, full of historical romance hero,

593
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,520
I'm gonna start a scandalous club.

594
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,880
Yes.

595
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,320
And she was really into it.

596
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,800
There's a thing that he does with the whole Duke looking for a thing, a wife that was

597
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,600
like really dramatic and romantic.

598
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:26,720
But the I'd never forget you as long as I live was very, was the trigger for this book.

599
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,440
And again, like I just think the song is like a scene.

600
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,200
But then there is kind of that scene in the book, like at the end, it's very dramatic.

601
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:41,160
I don't know, but it felt like a very life changing, like relationship between the two.

602
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:49,520
So yeah, that's my long way of saying that's one of the ones that I kind of had to be a

603
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,120
crooked love in a straight line down.

604
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,200
So there we are.

605
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,840
Bad Blood.

606
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:05,080
Well, this one, it's just in the title Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rain.

607
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,080
Don't do it.

608
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,240
You're gonna have bad blood.

609
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,880
This one was a little bit hard too, because I just I didn't quite know what I wanted the

610
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,120
vibes to be.

611
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,520
But I distinctly remember like the big battle scene in this book.

612
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,400
And like in the music video, like it culminates to like the point where they're all going

613
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,760
to battle.

614
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,160
And so I had a really fun time.

615
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,560
Guys I'm bringing up Formula One again.

616
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,040
The McLaren team did a little, a very long actually commercial for their like Jack Daniels

617
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,400
sponsorship on their car for this past race.

618
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:44,360
And it was like an elaborate commercial where like the driver at Lando and Oscar had to

619
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,320
like go to Jack Daniels and like get this trailer and then they went on a road trip

620
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,640
and it was very silly.

621
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,800
However, there is a scene where the two of them are slow mo dramatically walking away

622
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,840
from something bursting into flames behind them.

623
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:05,000
And somebody shot or like edit edited them into either side of Taylor video.

624
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,400
And I have been watching it at least once a day.

625
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,320
So I just need you to know that exists.

626
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,080
I am very happy that exists.

627
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,080
Thank you.

628
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:20,520
But yeah, that this one like I just I really wanted like a really good rivalry.

629
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:26,920
And just like a good like bad villains that get comeuppance and a good battle scene.

630
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:32,080
And I just really remember that it was like a very cinematic battle scene in that one.

631
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,600
And what a good freaking book.

632
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:35,600
True.

633
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,440
So true.

634
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,920
I'm reusing things.

635
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,000
It's Queen Bee.

636
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,640
It's Queen Bee by Anne Howard.

637
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:48,960
I literally had that when I was I just literally had no other that fits the especially because

638
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,040
bad blood is a friendship breakup.

639
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,040
Yeah, I know.

640
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,040
That's I had it.

641
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,480
I was like Hannah, you can know I'm proud of you for coming up with something else because

642
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,480
I couldn't.

643
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,480
Yeah.

644
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,120
So just know that I'm fully support.

645
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,120
Thank you.

646
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,120
You doing that.

647
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,120
It's just the vibes.

648
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,120
It's perfect.

649
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,480
It's just better than revenge and bad blood.

650
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,480
Their sisters.

651
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:09,480
They are sisters.

652
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:10,480
So true.

653
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,480
Yeah.

654
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,480
So I agree.

655
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:23,760
Wildest Dreams, it's giving kind of forbidden secret affair that you think has no future

656
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,760
for reasons.

657
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,560
And therefore I went her night with the Duke by Diana Quincy.

658
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,320
I literally I was thinking about that one.

659
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:37,240
Because look, sometimes you hook up with a really hot guy in a hotel only to find out

660
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:41,720
or an inn rather only to find out the next day that he's on his way to get betrothed

661
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,740
to your stepdaughter.

662
00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:45,240
And then you're still really into each other.

663
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:47,720
But he's the trope to your stepdaughter.

664
00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:50,080
Should happens, guys.

665
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:56,120
Also bonus points for being a Palestinian heroine written by a Palestinian author.

666
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,120
Yes.

667
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,680
So you should read it anyway, if you haven't already.

668
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,160
You should also series and then the Duke et cetera.

669
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,880
I'll just all the books so good.

670
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,720
But also Wildest Dreams vibes.

671
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,360
Yes.

672
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,800
I chose the Lady Thames and Air by Harper St. George.

673
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,440
I also went with the doomed aspect of the relationship, like the one person knows it's

674
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,360
going to end that one.

675
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,400
Basically she is a widow.

676
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,920
She her husband got, I believe, like very angry when they couldn't get pregnant.

677
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,640
And it was a whole thing.

678
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,560
And so she knows that she can't have kids and that it's like impacted her relationships

679
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,520
because she's scared if she would remarry that they would expect that of her.

680
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:48,360
He is the heir to the huge the shipping company, I believe, that his father owns.

681
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,080
This is like book three in the series.

682
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,600
So he's American.

683
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,400
And they first they have kind of like a snippy relationship.

684
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:01,160
And then they have to go and rescue the book to his heroine because she goes on like a

685
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,380
road trip with a scoundrel who compromises her.

686
00:37:04,380 --> 00:37:06,400
And then they have to go rescue her.

687
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,120
And you never you don't know in that book what they go through on that journey to get

688
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,120
to them.

689
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,880
So you learn a little bit about that in this one.

690
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,680
And then they just have hot sex.

691
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,920
And she's just like, I won't marry you because she's like, you need an heir.

692
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,240
Like you're not going to want to stay.

693
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:34,280
And so it's just a very dramatic moment throughout the I guess at the end of when she leaves.

694
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,560
And he's just so hurt.

695
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,600
He's so sad.

696
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,080
And yeah, it looks and she's also like he needs like a plot of land.

697
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,760
And then she's also like having I think there's like an orphanage that she wants to put in

698
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:47,760
the building.

699
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,040
And then they're kind of like battling in that sense.

700
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:56,040
But they're also just like getting down and dirty on a rug in front of a fire.

701
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,240
He's really hot.

702
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:05,720
I just felt like all of their scenes were like this is going to end, but let's just

703
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:06,720
burn it down.

704
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:10,120
So yeah, that's a good book.

705
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,680
I think number two is my favorite, but that one's a close second.

706
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,960
Wow, we've got how you get the girl next.

707
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:24,520
This one was a fun one because I chose A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Lay, which is

708
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:25,520
Dom.

709
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,360
OK, I was like, I saw your face.

710
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,880
I was trying to do mental math.

711
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,080
It's not the one that I said.

712
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:34,080
No, no.

713
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,040
So this is book three in that series.

714
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:47,160
I just think if I were the girl, how you would get me would be dressing like an ancient Greek

715
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:56,640
hero, like taking me to this like stone.

716
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:57,640
What was it like?

717
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,640
Pavilion.

718
00:38:58,640 --> 00:38:59,640
Pavilion.

719
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:06,520
And then blooding your knees going down on me, like groveling and then like just trying

720
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:11,800
to get my forgiveness the entire book because you know you were wrong.

721
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,200
Standard like a ghost shaking from the rain.

722
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,320
He literally slept in the attic that was like leaking and he just like was really soaking

723
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:18,400
wet the next morning.

724
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,720
And she's like, what are you doing?

725
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,160
He's like, I'm being dramatic.

726
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:28,600
It was just I just think that book is so funny while also being so like because it was angsty

727
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,360
but in a different way than I thought it was going to be.

728
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,720
And it was just so good.

729
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:40,200
And I just think if there was a manual on how to get the girl, Dom, he knows it.

730
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,200
He could write it.

731
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,840
And I think Willow would co-sign it.

732
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:44,840
Yeah.

733
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:51,920
Shout out to my man.

734
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:58,000
I also have one that's funny but also angsty and that is Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

735
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,240
by Jennifer Ashley, which is from the McKenzie's and McBrides.

736
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:07,960
See I have not read it's the book after The Madness of Lurdy and McKenzie, which I also

737
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:08,960
have not read yet.

738
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:09,960
So it's in that yet.

739
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:10,960
That one.

740
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:11,960
I remember that one.

741
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,960
Okay.

742
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,140
We'll be reading it though because I love Ian.

743
00:40:14,140 --> 00:40:16,560
He shows up in this book and he is fantastic.

744
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:23,120
Anyway, this one, the premise of it, you get not like flashbacks, but they talk about what

745
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,720
happened in the past.

746
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,600
So basically, Mack is like a big Scottish guy.

747
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,440
He's a big Scottish.

748
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,520
He's just a big Scottish.

749
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,680
And Lady Isabella has her debut ball.

750
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,760
She comes out and his like terrible annoying friends who he is done with by the time we

751
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:44,560
meet him, but at the time he is falling in with them, they basically like bet that he

752
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,120
can kiss this debutante during her coming out ball.

753
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:53,280
And so he takes her out on a balcony and kisses her and then they proceed to elope that night.

754
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:58,760
They are like so immediately, this was, I almost did it for Wonderland too for reasons,

755
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,600
but like they so immediately are like, we are in love.

756
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,920
Her family, like her father like disowns her.

757
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,920
She hasn't had contact with them and for like, they go off, they live a very scandalous life

758
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:14,560
because he's very scandalous and she wants to like live up to that.

759
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,960
He's an artist, but the problem is he's also like an alcoholic who disappears for months

760
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:25,040
at a time to go to the continent to like paint and stuff because he has this, he's like afraid

761
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,920
that his abusive father's tendencies are going to show up in him.

762
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,040
So there's all of this going on.

763
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,880
And so it's very like fiery passion, but then they'll fight and then he'll disappear without

764
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,880
really telling her.

765
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,840
And so all of this cumulates in her being like, I love you, but this is going to kill

766
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:41,840
me.

767
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,040
Post it, something really tragic happens.

768
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,720
And so she finally is like, no, I'm leaving you.

769
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,720
They stay married, but they separate.

770
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,440
And the thing that I find so, I have a lot to say about this book actually.

771
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,400
I find it so fascinating that the whole book, they constantly tell each other they love

772
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:02,960
each other, even though they're not together because they know that that was not the issue.

773
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,200
And they are openly anyway.

774
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,480
So now it's like seven years later or something, I don't know, years later, she's still close

775
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:09,520
with his family.

776
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:10,880
She shows up in his house.

777
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,680
He's trying to paint a naked woman.

778
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,220
It's not going well for him.

779
00:42:14,220 --> 00:42:18,720
She shows up and is like, hey, somebody is trying to pass off forgeries like or like

780
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:20,900
paintings that they are claiming are yours.

781
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:22,400
And he's like, I don't really care.

782
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,560
But it turns out she really cares.

783
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,640
So he decides that he's like, oh, she's back and I am still in love with her.

784
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,640
So I am going to get my wife back.

785
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:36,200
I'm going to investigate these forged paintings, not because I care, but because it means I

786
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:37,200
can.

787
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,720
And he just like the entire book finds reason.

788
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:42,720
Like his house burns down and he just shows up at her house with all of his servants and

789
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,460
is like, we have to stay here.

790
00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:45,680
And she's like, no, you don't.

791
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,680
And he's like, yes, I do.

792
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,400
Whoops, I have to.

793
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,320
And they're like traveling with her family or his family rather for a lot of the book

794
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,040
and they're all besties.

795
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,560
And then at one point, there's this whole little running bit where he starts like he's

796
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,080
like, hey, I have this friend who's really bad at courting.

797
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,800
What would you tell him to do, like to properly court someone?

798
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,040
And she knows what he's doing, but she plays along with the bit anyway.

799
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:16,040
And so kind of this running bit throughout is like her telling him the advice to tell

800
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:22,060
his friend on how to properly court a lady and then him doing it to her.

801
00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:24,160
So it is literally how you get the girl.

802
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,160
Like this is just this large Scottish man being like, did I fuck up?

803
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:29,160
Yes.

804
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:34,040
Am I now going to annoy my wife into loving me?

805
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,560
Also yes.

806
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,500
And he does.

807
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:40,040
And it was excellent.

808
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,600
And in fact, if you look at my review, it was a this is a fuck it five stars situation.

809
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:45,600
Oh, hell yeah.

810
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,340
Where I finished and I was like, you know what?

811
00:43:48,340 --> 00:43:51,840
Maybe it doesn't fully deserve the five stars, but I'm giving it to them, giving them to

812
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:52,840
it.

813
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:53,840
Whatever.

814
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,840
You get it.

815
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,280
I love when that happens.

816
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,000
There you have it.

817
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000
Onward.

818
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:00,000
This love.

819
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Onward.

820
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,000
Mm hmm.

821
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,320
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall.

822
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:05,760
Oh yeah.

823
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:06,760
It's soft.

824
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:07,760
It's tender.

825
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:13,720
It's not second chance, but they grew up as childhood friends and then she basically faked

826
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:18,720
her own death in a war so that she could like live as herself, but she didn't tell him that

827
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,280
she had faked her own death.

828
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,720
So he was just depressed and so they had to let the love go free.

829
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:29,400
But then it came back different than it was before.

830
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,400
It was just very soft.

831
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,600
It was such a soft book.

832
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,400
And the Jack Scallion.

833
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,840
Oh, like Rap Scallion.

834
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:39,840
But he was Jack.

835
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:40,840
We know.

836
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:46,760
I still weep in the dark.

837
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,240
I did.

838
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,840
I did again The Magic by Lisa Klepas.

839
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,360
That's a good one.

840
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,760
I just the whole this love is good.

841
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:56,840
This love is bad.

842
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,240
This love is a light back from the dead.

843
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:01,560
She didn't know if like he was alive, if he was dead.

844
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,360
This love left a permanent mark.

845
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,120
They both got permanent marks, man.

846
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,600
Lots of things happened.

847
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,480
Very angsty, very romantic.

848
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,520
I also like so that's since again, The Magic has two romances.

849
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,320
It was like it was hard for me to place it because I thought was going to be another

850
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,920
one because I thought the secondary romance kind of fit for another one.

851
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,000
I went back once I placed again, The Magic in this love and I cleaned up some other things

852
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,840
like that's when my Rex kind of like came into line.

853
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:36,520
It was when I was really sticking it into the one bucket that just didn't quite fit.

854
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,000
And I was having a hard time.

855
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,920
So yeah, that one just really like embodies.

856
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,280
I mean, strictly speaking, the secondary romance could work for this love also because they

857
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,400
have to go or like separate.

858
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,240
She's like, you have to get better.

859
00:45:54,240 --> 00:46:01,080
Just a very angsty, dramatic time, but also incredibly romantic.

860
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,320
Especially when she's like, you won't love me.

861
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,400
And he's like, I am offended.

862
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,000
He's so angry.

863
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,000
He's so mad.

864
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,000
McKenna.

865
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Yeah.

866
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,000
What a scene.

867
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,560
He said, actually, I'm going to have sex with you right now.

868
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,800
I'm so mad at you.

869
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,840
And he did.

870
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,160
And he did.

871
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,840
So good.

872
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,720
I know places.

873
00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:33,560
I did the Wolf in the Wildflower by Stacey Reed.

874
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,280
You haven't read that one yet.

875
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:42,040
That's the one where he goes like spelunking or whatever.

876
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,520
I don't know if that's the right word.

877
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:51,480
He just like goes traveling in like Alaska or somewhere cold with caves and mountains.

878
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,680
I don't know why you would do that back then.

879
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:55,720
Like I just couldn't be me.

880
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:57,000
But he does.

881
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:03,200
And then he gets lost in the wilderness of like around Alaska, Alaska-esque climate for

882
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,200
10 years.

883
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:12,200
So for 10 years, he's been literally raised by wolves and they all think he's dead.

884
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:19,760
And then they find him and he has to be rehabilitated because he is basically part wolf at this

885
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:20,760
point.

886
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,080
I just have a theory Stacey really wanted to write a Shifter romance, but didn't want

887
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,680
to have to deal with like all of the world changing things.

888
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,280
So she's like, fuck it.

889
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,240
I'm going to make this guy raised by wolves.

890
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:31,720
We're going to Tarzan it.

891
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:33,600
He's going to like love doing it from behind.

892
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,240
That's how wolves do it.

893
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:38,240
And she did.

894
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:39,240
She wrote it.

895
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:44,920
I don't support her because then the heroine has been living as a man for her entire life

896
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,800
because her father was desperate to have an heir.

897
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,640
The mother could not handle another pregnancy.

898
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,360
And so the mother was like, he didn't see the baby.

899
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,280
It's a boy.

900
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,440
And so the father literally never knew.

901
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:04,120
So she's like had to like, it did a lot of like psychological damage.

902
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,120
I'm also a romance father.

903
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,160
I'm going to force my wife to have babies until I have an heir.

904
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:16,240
Literally like he wasn't like a terrible guy like after like in the present, but in the

905
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:21,000
past and even then I'm like, bro, I hate you.

906
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,880
And so like, but they're psychologists.

907
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,360
And so she's like a higher she's like his apprentice.

908
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:32,120
So she's like hired with the father to go help the Duke.

909
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,360
Like re acclimate himself to society when he doesn't want to.

910
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,000
It's his family who wants it.

911
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,400
And it turned like it's a wild premise.

912
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:47,040
A lot of things happen, but it's also just like they just create places for themselves

913
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,260
to just like go and be together.

914
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:52,600
They kind of say fuck it to everyone like they don't care.

915
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:57,760
Like it's just like he like sense her like through like through walls like they're like

916
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,960
like a joined route, like joined rooms.

917
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,120
But like there's no but remember, he's part wolf.

918
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,680
I don't know if that's how wolf sentences work either, but he's like, I smell your arousal.

919
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:14,080
And there's like a scene where he like shows up at the ball, dances with her one time and

920
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,080
just like leaves.

921
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:20,800
And like she's dressed like she's like in a dress because she's always dressed as a man.

922
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,840
And so when she's finally able to dress as a woman, like no one knows who she is.

923
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:31,320
So then they're like, who the hell this like wolf Duke just come dance with and then leave.

924
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,100
It dramatic.

925
00:49:33,100 --> 00:49:38,200
I was not prepared for it.

926
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:44,480
I just think the theme of I know places we can hide and go have crazy wolf sex is the

927
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,240
theme of that one.

928
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,520
Like all of it was from behind, like so much.

929
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:54,240
Like I just I was shocking him out.

930
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:56,400
It was so fun.

931
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:57,400
I love Stacey.

932
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,240
I love her so much.

933
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:07,760
Like no one else could have done it.

934
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,760
I also chose to interpret I know places very literally.

935
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:21,920
Listen, listen, I went with scandalous desires by Elizabeth White because specifically, very

936
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:28,040
specifically, he had a place he knew a place where they could go hide from people who were

937
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:34,200
trying to throw whatever that acid on them was the acid.

938
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:35,800
He said, don't worry, babe.

939
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:42,540
I've got an estate, like a country manor where everybody I have an alter ego and no one knows

940
00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:44,520
who I actually am.

941
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,240
And we can go hang out there.

942
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:50,000
I know place and I'm just a respectable.

943
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,480
Yeah, I'm just a respectable boat shipbuilder.

944
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,720
Hey, you are.

945
00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:57,840
Go you.

946
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,720
He knew places a place specifically one.

947
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:03,640
He knew also erogenous places.

948
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:04,640
Nice.

949
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:05,640
So true.

950
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:06,640
Charming Mickey.

951
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:07,960
He was charming.

952
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:09,880
He was charming.

953
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:10,880
Clean is hard.

954
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:16,880
I chose to interpret it not strictly in the truest sense of the song.

955
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:17,880
Yeah.

956
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,080
Well, that mean how do you even like I don't even.

957
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,400
Yeah, because the problem is if it's a second chance romance, you don't want them to be

958
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,400
fully clean.

959
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,120
Yeah, it was hard.

960
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:32,080
Instead, I went with Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleipas because number one, he's clean in

961
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,040
the literal sense like he's no longer an alcoholic.

962
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,040
Yay.

963
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,520
Shout out to Daddy West.

964
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:43,200
Number two, she's finally like emotionally moved on from her dead husband.

965
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,840
That's a good one.

966
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,680
Which again isn't like the whole like kind of toxic relationship moving on thing, but

967
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:55,960
just the like here is a past relationship that I have now moved on from and I'm ready

968
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,520
to have some sex with a guy who really deserves these children.

969
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:07,480
Yeah, Sebastian's even like I loved your last husband, but you weren't like fully like who

970
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:08,480
you could be with.

971
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,240
Like she lived like a completely different life with him.

972
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:12,960
I know Sebastian has like a very pointy.

973
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:20,600
And you could be banging a really hot farmer gentleman who's really into food and you and

974
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:21,600
raising your children.

975
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:22,600
As he should be.

976
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:23,600
Nobody's doing it like Daddy West.

977
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:24,600
And then your child's gonna call him.

978
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:25,600
Was it dad that he called him and?

979
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:26,600
Yeah, and we're all gonna cry about it.

980
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:27,600
In chasing Cassandra?

981
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:28,600
Yeah.

982
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:29,600
That did a number on me.

983
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:30,600
Yep.

984
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:31,600
Still does.

985
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:32,600
Just thinking about it.

986
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:33,600
It hurt his heart.

987
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:34,600
And it did a number on him too because he's crying.

988
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:35,600
He just started crying.

989
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:36,600
Yeah.

990
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,600
I do love him.

991
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:38,600
I'm unweliches.

992
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:51,600
Me too.

993
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:55,600
Again, this one I was like, I don't know.

994
00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:01,520
So I went back to my queen, Lorraine Heath, and I did Once More My Darling Rogue.

995
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:06,200
That book is like historical overboard, basically.

996
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:12,360
She has always shunned him and not been the nicest to him.

997
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,080
And he is like a family friend.

998
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,000
She is friends with his sister.

999
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,920
He's adopted, but his adopted sister.

1000
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:25,040
And the adoption is crucial because it happens in another book.

1001
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,160
And then he loves his father.

1002
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:32,200
So then he gets a huge dragon tattoo on his back, which is also pertinent to things because

1003
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,200
she bathes it.

1004
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:35,200
Yeah.

1005
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:36,200
A lot happens.

1006
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,280
And so they just don't like each other.

1007
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,280
And he's miffed that she doesn't like him.

1008
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,040
He's like, you think you're better than I am?

1009
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,040
She's like a full lady.

1010
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,040
A full lady.

1011
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,600
She's just a lady.

1012
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,540
Like different social standings.

1013
00:53:51,540 --> 00:53:59,320
So then he finds her passed out in like a ditch because, you know, like an overboard,

1014
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:04,000
like she ends up like going overboard and she ends up getting a head injury in this

1015
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,000
one.

1016
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,000
And then she's like, oh, she ended up there.

1017
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,560
It was like after the ball at the beginning of the book.

1018
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,920
And so he's like, well, I'm just going to like take her home.

1019
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,160
I don't know how she like got here.

1020
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:18,200
And then he has the incredibly smart idea to pretend that she's his housekeeper for

1021
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,080
a little light revenge.

1022
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,800
And then he has like, I mean, that's not a great intention, but then he has like some

1023
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:28,560
good intentions of like going to her brother and being like, are you missing her?

1024
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,160
And the brother's like, no.

1025
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,320
So he's like, well, I don't want to give her back to the brother.

1026
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,840
Like if she doesn't remember who she is and like, he could be bad.

1027
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:41,120
So then he kind of just like keeps her, but also he's already told her she's his housekeeper.

1028
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:46,280
And she like, no, like she feels in her body that that's not right because she's like,

1029
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,280
get like, she's like, you make like draw me a bath.

1030
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:50,280
Like you do all this.

1031
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:51,840
He's like, no, you're my housekeeper.

1032
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,840
It's like funny.

1033
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,680
And then she's like dealing with things that you don't know about and she doesn't know

1034
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,640
about because she has amnesia.

1035
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:08,040
And it, you know, that book, it's, I think it's like my favorite Lorraine Heath book.

1036
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,920
It just, it works.

1037
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,360
And is it clean?

1038
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,800
I don't know.

1039
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:24,280
I think in my sense, it's kind of a spoiler, so I can't quite say, but she's able to like

1040
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:30,360
do a lot of things when she has amnesia because she, she like wouldn't like, there were things

1041
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,800
that she wouldn't let herself do before.

1042
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:38,200
And you know why, like you find out why she like was shitty to him.

1043
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:44,520
Like always kind of like had like a very self-possessed like air about her and he ends up feeling

1044
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,960
real bad.

1045
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:54,240
And also she gives him a bath and he got clean.

1046
00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:57,960
And I think he also gave her a bath and she got clean and then I had sex.

1047
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:04,240
So a literal interpretation, quite literal, I will say.

1048
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:07,560
I took some liberties.

1049
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,040
But what a good book.

1050
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,200
And I like, it would make sense.

1051
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:16,280
Like if you've read it or you do read it, like I don't even really like the, that she's

1052
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:17,280
clean.

1053
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,480
Like it's not that she is clean, but it's that she's just like, she can like realize

1054
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,320
that she's not.

1055
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,720
I don't know.

1056
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:30,560
But it, oh, I love it.

1057
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,920
So terrible.

1058
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:37,840
Me describing how it relates to the song, but I think it, I think it does.

1059
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:43,200
If you try hard enough.

1060
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:50,880
For Wonderland, I chose Touch of Enchantment by Teresa Medeiros.

1061
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,960
Now is it fully historical?

1062
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:55,200
No.

1063
00:56:55,200 --> 00:57:02,440
She is, she is born in the 20th century, but she does go back in time and she ends up right

1064
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:09,040
next to a wounded, like knight who falls off his horse and is like, Ooh, I'm wounded.

1065
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,960
And she's like, Ooh, you're kind of clean for being a knight.

1066
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:15,640
You know the things you say when you fall off a horse.

1067
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:20,160
She's just very, like, she's like talking to him and then she's like, what is going

1068
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:21,160
on?

1069
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,640
And he just like falls off the horse.

1070
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,080
And so she's like lugging him and he's being chased.

1071
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,080
It's a whole thing.

1072
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:29,080
It's book two.

1073
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:33,080
So like, you definitely have to read book one, which that could also be Wonderland because

1074
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:34,320
she's in like a whole Wonderland.

1075
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:39,640
Like she goes to the 20th century or is that would be the 1900?

1076
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:40,640
Yeah.

1077
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:41,640
So then maybe she's in the 20.

1078
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,920
So this daughter is in the 21st.

1079
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:47,640
In book one, it's the 20th century.

1080
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:53,120
And so she just goes back in time, falls down the rabbit hole.

1081
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,120
He is like, what, who are you?

1082
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:57,120
What are you?

1083
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,400
Like she is in pajamas, talks about Big Macs.

1084
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:01,860
He's very confused.

1085
00:58:01,860 --> 00:58:05,400
She gets outed as a witch and he's like, literally, you're a witch.

1086
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,280
I have to burn you at the stake.

1087
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,880
Like you're a witch.

1088
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,280
And then he's very confused.

1089
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:13,280
Close.

1090
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:17,600
There's a dragon.

1091
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:23,000
He's very confused, but he's also like, you're very hot.

1092
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Things happen.

1093
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,000
I'm a romance hero.

1094
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:29,200
I'm going to try to burn you at the stake, but also think you're hot on your own.

1095
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:30,200
Literally.

1096
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,120
He was so, he was like very conflicted about it, but he was close to doing it.

1097
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:35,120
And then she started crying.

1098
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,480
He's like, witches can't cry.

1099
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,080
What are you?

1100
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:42,280
A lot was happening.

1101
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:49,080
It also happened in Lady Pirate by, no, by Lindsay Sands.

1102
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:57,680
She's literally like very close to like hanging him by the neck off her ship.

1103
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:58,680
Like very close.

1104
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,440
It really didn't like that.

1105
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:01,440
Yeah.

1106
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:07,240
Because she thinks that he's going to turn them in for keeping treasure from the crown.

1107
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,120
And he wasn't, but she didn't know that.

1108
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:10,280
She didn't talk to him about it.

1109
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,920
So he was like very close to just being murdered by her and she was feeling very bad about

1110
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:15,120
it, but she was going to do it.

1111
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:19,040
And then she was like, well, our only recourse is to get married because then you can't turn

1112
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,040
me in.

1113
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,160
The 11th hour, she gets him real drunk.

1114
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:27,560
They get married, end up on a deserted island and she has to have sex with him.

1115
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:28,560
And it's great.

1116
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,040
It was so good.

1117
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,040
He's like, what is happening?

1118
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:33,880
But it was good.

1119
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,720
So two for the price of one for that one.

1120
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,600
But really, Touch of Enchantment.

1121
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,520
We're just in a crazy Wonderland the entire time.

1122
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:44,520
Yeah.

1123
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:45,520
Big yawn.

1124
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:46,520
Big yawn.

1125
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:47,520
Yeah.

1126
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,480
You still like me talking to my cat?

1127
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,560
Yeah, Wonderland.

1128
00:59:54,560 --> 01:00:02,200
I went with the once again, the forbidden aspect of like, we're not really supposed

1129
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:03,200
to be together.

1130
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:08,320
And as soon as people start to suspect something, it's going to be bad.

1131
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:14,120
Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins.

1132
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:17,200
They forgot.

1133
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:27,000
They forgot that this could not last forever because he is passing as white and she cannot

1134
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,880
because she is dark skinned.

1135
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:37,840
Also, I'm pretty sure he has green eyes, which ties into the song.

1136
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,400
So it's forbidden.

1137
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,320
They go a little bit mad.

1138
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:51,560
They fall down the rabbit hole and then things go badly from there because they thought they

1139
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:52,560
were alone.

1140
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:57,480
But there were strangers watching and Whispers turned to talking.

1141
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,640
Talking did turn to screams.

1142
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:01,640
It didn't go well.

1143
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:05,000
But it's fine because they fell in love and there was an H.E.A.

1144
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,000
So forbidden.

1145
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,160
You are in love?

1146
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,240
Not me not remembering what the song was.

1147
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,640
I'm like, why did I pick this book?

1148
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,240
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian.

1149
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,080
This is another just like it's very soft.

1150
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:24,240
It gives the like friends to lovers vibes, mainly because of the lyric where he says

1151
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,600
you're my best friend.

1152
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:31,720
That one I think I had I contemplated that one.

1153
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:36,320
I just feel like it could be in the background of that whole book when they're hanging out.

1154
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,640
Yeah, it's such a song.

1155
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,880
We just friends falling in love.

1156
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:43,680
It's unfair how soft it was.

1157
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:44,680
So soft.

1158
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:45,680
And just them falling in.

1159
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:49,320
And also it has the vibes of like they don't have to say it to know.

1160
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:50,440
Yeah, absolutely.

1161
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,520
That's all I have to say about that.

1162
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:56,520
Also set in New York.

1163
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:58,200
You're so right.

1164
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:04,120
I had this one and I didn't touch it like I had this one so long ago and I just left

1165
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,360
it there.

1166
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:09,200
It's How to Be a Wallflower by Eliezer James.

1167
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:15,120
My reaction to first reading that book was absolutely unhinged.

1168
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:18,080
I like it was just so like they were so in love.

1169
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:19,760
I was like not OK.

1170
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:26,200
It was like I pulled an all nighter, which was unwise because I was incoherent.

1171
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:31,960
But like just the little things of Jacob Astor Addison.

1172
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,320
I mean, the little I mean, he's big.

1173
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:34,320
He's a big thing.

1174
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:39,920
But like the little things that he did have to just like get her to fall in love with

1175
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,200
him and to just like see that she is in love with him.

1176
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:46,560
Like, I mean, he started the book with a woman he was going to propose to.

1177
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:50,840
So like so soon he's like, no, bye.

1178
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:51,840
Love that.

1179
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,440
That's the only way I support.

1180
01:02:54,440 --> 01:03:00,360
And in the song Coffee, His Place or like breakfast, something.

1181
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:01,560
Breakfast is like a huge thing between them.

1182
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:06,960
Like they just end up just like eating breakfast together all the time because he loves kippers.

1183
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:13,320
And at the end, he loves her more than kippers, which was just it decimated me.

1184
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,000
It really took me out.

1185
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:20,720
Doesn't sound great right now, but in context, it hurts in a good way.

1186
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:27,040
I just really felt like they were two people who could just sit in the same room in silence

1187
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,040
and just be content.

1188
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,840
Now that I think of it.

1189
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,480
One by Eva Devon.

1190
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:36,480
What was that?

1191
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:42,080
He like buys her a chair to just like have a reading chair next to him.

1192
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:43,240
That also gives those vibes.

1193
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:49,320
One second, just so I don't mislead you, because I truly don't know what that was called.

1194
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,840
The spinster and the rake, because like at the beginning, it's a whole thing like she's

1195
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:53,840
sitting in his chair.

1196
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:58,960
But by the end, like they just have two chairs and they can just sit together forever.

1197
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,160
Takes me out.

1198
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:05,280
Well, new romantics.

1199
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:06,600
Here's a New York one.

1200
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,560
I did the Ducats even by Joanna Shoop.

1201
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:14,800
I just feel like Nellie is a real big new romantic.

1202
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:19,640
Like the scarlet letters just kind of like not giving a fuck, building a castle of all

1203
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,400
the bricks they threw at her.

1204
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:27,520
Yeah, I loved them together.

1205
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:29,440
And I just feel like I also had like the bride goes rogue.

1206
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,920
I feel like that entire like friend group, because I was like looking for something with

1207
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:38,880
like a friend group that could like show up to a party and just kind of like have at it.

1208
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:40,480
And that happens in book two.

1209
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,160
Nellie and what's her name?

1210
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:44,360
So sorry.

1211
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:51,840
They show up and then she gets absolutely pleasured by that guy, which is also hot,

1212
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:56,240
because then in that book, Nellie, the Duke sees Nellie and he's like real jealous because

1213
01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:03,200
she's with like an artist guy and he's like, and then they like talk about it in book three.

1214
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:04,200
No, book four.

1215
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:05,200
It's book four.

1216
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:06,200
I forget book one exists.

1217
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,200
High five on that, you insistent.

1218
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:14,080
Yeah, I just feel like Nellie really gives you romantic.

1219
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,600
This is my bombshell pick.

1220
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:20,040
Yeah, that's really also gives me romantic.

1221
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:27,320
The whole friend group also gives every day is like a battle, literally, but every night

1222
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,320
with this like a dream.

1223
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:33,400
Yeah, yeah, they give new romantic vibes.

1224
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:39,640
And Cecily specifically is like, I am here to have a good time.

1225
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,640
So there you have it.

1226
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:48,880
It has an exclamation point.

1227
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:53,720
I went unclaimed by Courtney Milan and it makes me unhinged because the more I think

1228
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:57,280
about it, the more perfectly it lines up with the song.

1229
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,920
Yeah, like the entire because nobody even knows that she okay.

1230
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,000
Wait, premise.

1231
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,240
She's a courtesan.

1232
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:08,760
She's hired to like seduce this guy because he literally wrote the book on chastity.

1233
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,760
And so he's like a celebrity.

1234
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:12,760
He did.

1235
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:16,160
But he would mean for it to get famous.

1236
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:19,400
And so now he's accidentally famous for not having sex.

1237
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:25,280
And he's like, I mean, none of you guys get what chastity really is about, which was hot.

1238
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,280
I love him.

1239
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:32,960
But anyway, so she's hired by a rival to seduce him and therefore undermine him.

1240
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,760
But she can't because he's into her.

1241
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:39,400
But he also understands that like chastity is about like you feel desire, you just have

1242
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:40,400
to say no.

1243
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:45,360
Anyway, she's very in the name or that guy is like his veins are popping out of his head

1244
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,440
and he's just like, true.

1245
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:51,880
But he was like, yeah.

1246
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:55,520
Anyway, but everybody like even though nobody knows in this town that she's a courtesan,

1247
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,800
they do know she's a slut.

1248
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:03,100
Like I say that lovingly, but they all slut shame her constantly.

1249
01:07:03,100 --> 01:07:05,280
And she's like, OK, bet.

1250
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:08,040
Like I'm going to look really good and I'm going to seduce you.

1251
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:11,280
You're not saying you're in love with me, but you're going to.

1252
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:18,440
But then she gets love struck because in a world of boys, he's a gentleman.

1253
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,840
It's all it's all coming together.

1254
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,640
So now every time I listen to the song, that's all I can do.

1255
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:24,640
I am a mastermind.

1256
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:25,640
Oh, yeah.

1257
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:30,680
I that book was so I wish there was an audio book because I would reread it so fast.

1258
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:35,920
I just love that Courtney was like, I'm going to write a superstar like romance, but he's

1259
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,400
going to be a superstar because he wrote a book on chastity.

1260
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:44,160
It was just so like the camp looking at straight in the eye.

1261
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:47,300
I chose seduction of a highland last by Maya Banks.

1262
01:07:47,300 --> 01:07:52,000
This one quite literally, she's not a slut, but she was slut shamed so terribly that she

1263
01:07:52,000 --> 01:08:02,960
had to leave her clan because the chief guy, whatever, what would the chief.

1264
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:03,960
What is it?

1265
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:04,960
Is he not a chief?

1266
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:05,960
I don't know.

1267
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:06,960
I don't know.

1268
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:07,960
Maybe it does.

1269
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:08,960
It doesn't sound right.

1270
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:13,960
What is the leader of a highland clan?

1271
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:14,960
I'm Google.

1272
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:15,960
Laird.

1273
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:16,960
Laird.

1274
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:19,960
Oh, I knew there was a OK.

1275
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:20,960
Yep.

1276
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:21,960
OK.

1277
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:28,280
Because the the Laird tried he was basically a pedophile and tried to rape her.

1278
01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:31,160
And so the wife found him like pawing at her.

1279
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:32,160
Yes.

1280
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:33,160
This is the second in a series, right?

1281
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,160
Yes.

1282
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:36,880
And I read the third two.

1283
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:38,080
Yeah.

1284
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,440
And the wife like found her.

1285
01:08:40,440 --> 01:08:44,000
And instead of like blaming the husband, she's like, you're a slut.

1286
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,000
You were trying to seduce my husband.

1287
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,040
So you have to go.

1288
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,000
And then her best friend was like the daughter of those two.

1289
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,360
So that was like very dramatic.

1290
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:53,400
So she's like had to leave.

1291
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:54,400
She's been like living on her own.

1292
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:55,800
And she's a healer.

1293
01:08:55,800 --> 01:09:02,800
And then the rival, the rivals that come up to her house.

1294
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,320
And basically the hero is like wounded and she has to like treat him and they kind of

1295
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:07,320
like kidnap her.

1296
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:11,080
They do kind of kidnap her also.

1297
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:15,800
And just quite frequently throughout the book, she's just like, you know what, it'd be worth

1298
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:23,560
it for once to be called a slut if I can, you know, have him because he is fully engaged

1299
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,360
to her former best friend.

1300
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:31,040
And she's like, you know, it would be it's worth it.

1301
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:34,400
And then the people in like the like that.

1302
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,400
He's the hero, the hero.

1303
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:37,400
Wow.

1304
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,560
The hero of the third book, right?

1305
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,640
Isn't he the one that everybody is getting engaged to?

1306
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:49,280
What is I thought she the the hero of book two is the guy who's engaged to the heroine

1307
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:50,280
of book three.

1308
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:52,440
Oh, the heroine is the one who keeps getting passed over.

1309
01:09:52,440 --> 01:09:54,160
I couldn't remember which is which.

1310
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:55,160
That poor girl.

1311
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:57,440
Yeah, I know.

1312
01:09:57,440 --> 01:10:01,760
So he like because they get all the way because I read this one because I wanted to do for

1313
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:02,760
the style.

1314
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:06,000
I wanted to find an interrupted wedding one.

1315
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:12,120
This wedding does get interrupted because they're under attack and she's like running to them

1316
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:13,120
and then she gets shot.

1317
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:17,200
Oh, so then he's like, I can't marry you goes and saves her.

1318
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:22,360
And so it was dramatic in that sense because she was like going to give him up and it was

1319
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,360
angsty.

1320
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,440
But really, she was ready to be a slut for him.

1321
01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:29,520
And it was like very hot.

1322
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,080
They just had so much sex after that.

1323
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:35,200
She committed to that.

1324
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:39,880
Also the cover, I think they like edited out her nipple because like she's fully like her

1325
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,520
boob is just there.

1326
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:45,160
Like I don't quite know how that got through.

1327
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,320
But if you look at it, it's just like blurred.

1328
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:49,320
Like it was the top.

1329
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,640
Just like, you know.

1330
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,960
Yeah, I love that song.

1331
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:02,960
It was my favorite, but now say, well, I don't know if they don't cause I don't know.

1332
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:04,720
It's so hard.

1333
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,760
But I do love.

1334
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:07,760
They don't go.

1335
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:14,760
So you just want to say.

1336
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:19,560
This one came to me on a just an inspiration.

1337
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:23,200
I thought you were going to say it came to you in a dream and I was really excited.

1338
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:24,200
It didn't.

1339
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:27,160
No, I can't say that it did.

1340
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,160
That's a bummer.

1341
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:30,160
Yeah.

1342
01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:31,160
But.

1343
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:32,160
Carry on.

1344
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,200
Bringing down the Duke by Evie Dunmore.

1345
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:42,400
I really wanted one that had like a very dramatic, like he just wasn't going to tell her to stay,

1346
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,000
even though like they both loved each other.

1347
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:48,200
And she knew it was kind of doomed.

1348
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,040
He was kind of like in denial.

1349
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:57,640
And then I feel like a lot of us have read this book, but if you don't know, she like

1350
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:03,000
a lot of the book happens.

1351
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:06,840
You know, they're very like they're lusting for each other.

1352
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,400
They're very well suited.

1353
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,600
They have a night when he's like, be my mistress.

1354
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,640
And she's like, no, that's insulting.

1355
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:18,040
And then she finally, she's like, but I do kind of want to sleep with you still.

1356
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,640
He thinks that she's going to like she's agreeing to be his mistress.

1357
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:22,840
She's like, no, I won't do it.

1358
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:23,840
So then she leaves.

1359
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:30,000
He's kind of just lets her because he's like, well, I can't marry you because you're not

1360
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:31,840
of my social class.

1361
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:40,240
And he's kind of a little bit of a jerk about it, but it's fine because his name Sebastian.

1362
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:45,720
But like there's like another scene where he like tries to get her back, but he still

1363
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,120
doesn't like offer marriage.

1364
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:53,240
And she's just like, you could say like, it's very easy for you to have me.

1365
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:58,080
Like if you would just say that you're going to like want me for your wife and he just

1366
01:12:58,080 --> 01:12:59,080
doesn't.

1367
01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:00,080
So then she dramatically goes again.

1368
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:04,600
And then he has to finally get her back that third time.

1369
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:10,120
I mean, yeah, I feel like time because he does try and it goes badly for him.

1370
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:11,120
Oh, yeah.

1371
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:12,120
He falls off a fucking.

1372
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,920
Oh, he falls off a horse, gets a head injury.

1373
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,880
He's like, ah, it struck me.

1374
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:18,880
He's so slay.

1375
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,400
And then he like goes up to her.

1376
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,280
He's like, I have a head injury.

1377
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:23,280
I can marry you now.

1378
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,240
She said, what are you talking about?

1379
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:26,240
Go home.

1380
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:29,400
And then he's like all drunk and his brother's like, what's wrong?

1381
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,120
He's like, I said no.

1382
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:35,720
He's like, you told her that you were like wounded in the head and that's when you could

1383
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:36,800
finally like love her.

1384
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:40,800
And he's like, oh, oh, Sebastian.

1385
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:41,800
I hope his name is Sebastian.

1386
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:46,480
I think it's the blonde duke, my blonde duke named Sebastian.

1387
01:13:46,480 --> 01:13:48,480
Yours is Saint Vincent.

1388
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:53,280
So, yeah, I just want to one that like he really at any point could have just said marry

1389
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:57,280
me and he never did.

1390
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:04,720
And she was was it I'll be yours, but you're not mine.

1391
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:05,720
That kind of thing.

1392
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,560
And I just love the kiss me and it stops time part of that song.

1393
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:10,560
That verse is excellent.

1394
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:12,240
It gets me.

1395
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:13,240
It does.

1396
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,240
It's like song me.

1397
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:21,840
It's particularly the screaming in the background.

1398
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,220
I said, I love you.

1399
01:14:23,220 --> 01:14:25,400
No one talked to me ever again.

1400
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:29,080
Anyway, listen, mine's a role reversal.

1401
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:35,580
It's because I was really stuck on it being the heroine walking out.

1402
01:14:35,580 --> 01:14:36,700
But it's not.

1403
01:14:36,700 --> 01:14:41,400
In Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman, I went back and I reread the scene because

1404
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:45,160
I was like, I swear to God, this happens in this book and I couldn't remember.

1405
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:46,560
I don't think I said this earlier.

1406
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:48,000
I work for forever.

1407
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:49,000
Disclaimer.

1408
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:52,200
Anyway, Marry Me By Midnight.

1409
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:56,960
It's like a Cinderella gender swapped Jewish historical romance situation.

1410
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:02,880
He's been collecting blackmail for her suitors that she's trying to choose for business reasons.

1411
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,440
It's a whole thing.

1412
01:15:05,440 --> 01:15:08,440
And towards the end of this book, things go badly for her.

1413
01:15:08,440 --> 01:15:13,480
And she shows up at his little room beneath the synagogue where he lives, feeding birds

1414
01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:15,720
and mice and such.

1415
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:19,160
And she basically freaks out and is like, none of this is going the way that I wanted

1416
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:20,160
it to.

1417
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:21,160
They're going to outplay me, blah, blah, blah.

1418
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:24,080
I don't even want to marry them, all this stuff.

1419
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:27,440
And she's trying to get him to make her feel better.

1420
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:29,440
And he is having none of it.

1421
01:15:29,440 --> 01:15:31,040
And he is so mad at her.

1422
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:38,160
And he's like, I don't know what you want me to say, but I'm not going to be the one

1423
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:39,160
to say it.

1424
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:44,560
Like, you have to tell me, essentially, literally goading her to be like, you have to say you

1425
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:45,960
love me.

1426
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,840
I'm going to America.

1427
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:52,040
Like, my boat is leaving before this festival.

1428
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,040
I'm leaving.

1429
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:54,040
And she's like, why?

1430
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:56,920
And he's like, why do you think?

1431
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:03,240
Like, I can't be the one because he's like a custodian and she's like a business owner.

1432
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,560
So he literally is like, I can't be the one to say it.

1433
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,520
And he's so mad at her.

1434
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,680
And then she tries to pay him for his service, you know, because he's been doing stuff for

1435
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:13,680
her.

1436
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:19,080
And he's like, I don't want your money.

1437
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:20,880
I got this just for you.

1438
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:21,880
Keep your money.

1439
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:24,640
But he's offering blackmail on suitors.

1440
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:29,520
And it's just so and she ends up leaving and he does he leaves.

1441
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,920
And there's like a very dramatic like they have to go chase him down and get him to come

1442
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:34,560
back and all this stuff.

1443
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:40,640
But I reread the scene and it really is so like he is waiting for her to say, don't go

1444
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:42,360
like stay and be with me.

1445
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:45,040
And she doesn't because she can't she's not there yet.

1446
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,040
He's like, OK.

1447
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:51,240
Yeah, like, well, then I'm like, this one had to hurt, you know, and it did hurt.

1448
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,560
Yeah, because like the song you're just like, er.

1449
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:55,560
Yeah.

1450
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:56,560
And the way she sings it.

1451
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:57,560
Yeah.

1452
01:16:57,560 --> 01:16:58,560
What a good song.

1453
01:16:58,560 --> 01:16:59,560
So true.

1454
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,600
It gets stuck in my head.

1455
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaking of songs that get stuck in my head now that we don't talk.

1456
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,000
Oh, God, I love this song so much.

1457
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:11,520
All these songs like they're all that classic Taylor Swift thing where like you're crying,

1458
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:12,760
but you're all like bopping.

1459
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:13,760
You want to.

1460
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:14,760
Yeah.

1461
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:15,760
I'm like, why am I dancing?

1462
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,720
But also devastated now that we don't talk.

1463
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:23,480
I also this unlocked something in me when I paired these because I got so excited about

1464
01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:24,920
how well it fits.

1465
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:32,880
Third degree yearn by Lainey Hatcher is they grew up to get he was the son of their housekeeper,

1466
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:34,120
their nobility of some kind.

1467
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:37,480
I don't remember what level, but nobility.

1468
01:17:37,480 --> 01:17:39,440
And he's the son of their housekeeper.

1469
01:17:39,440 --> 01:17:41,920
But his mom is kind of terrible.

1470
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:46,560
So he spent most of his childhood growing up with the kids and like the family is kind

1471
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:48,080
of unconventional and very loving.

1472
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:51,040
So like they literally did treat him like one of his own, one of their own.

1473
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:55,520
Like he never quite felt like he fit in there because his mom was really telling him like

1474
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:56,800
you're the housekeeper son.

1475
01:17:56,800 --> 01:18:01,360
Anyway, he was best friends with the youngest daughter.

1476
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,120
And they grew up and they were very, very close.

1477
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,480
And then his mom sent him away to some like stable.

1478
01:18:06,480 --> 01:18:09,800
I think it was like his uncle ran like a horse breeding business.

1479
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:13,160
And so at like 15 or something sent him away.

1480
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,320
And they basically they both send each other letters.

1481
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:20,800
But because of interference, neither of them ever gets any of the letters.

1482
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:25,940
So both of them think for years that the other person just completely forgot about them.

1483
01:18:25,940 --> 01:18:29,440
The difference being he stopped writing letters after like a couple of months and she continued

1484
01:18:29,440 --> 01:18:33,280
for years to write letters.

1485
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:34,280
But like they were best friends.

1486
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:39,880
But she by the time he left knew that there were more feelings there, but he didn't.

1487
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:43,760
But then he gets the letters and now oh and now he's back because he's working with she's

1488
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:47,520
staying with her sister and he's working with the sister's husband.

1489
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:51,660
So like they're in the same vicinity again and they're mad at each other.

1490
01:18:51,660 --> 01:18:53,600
But there's also a lot of like hurt feelings.

1491
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,520
But then they realize what's happened and then they're trying to like kind of be friends

1492
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:57,520
again.

1493
01:18:57,520 --> 01:18:58,720
But they're also into each other.

1494
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:04,240
Anyway, this whole idea of like, well, I can't be your friend.

1495
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:07,740
Like coming to terms with what you've got like the whole like now we don't talk.

1496
01:19:07,740 --> 01:19:09,100
And so you're doing all these things.

1497
01:19:09,100 --> 01:19:12,720
And I'm watching from the outside as you like run your horse breeding business and work

1498
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:14,520
with my brother in law.

1499
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:18,320
But we don't talk, so I have nothing to say.

1500
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:19,560
And it hits so hard.

1501
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:22,320
The only thing that doesn't quite match is the little petty part at the end that I love

1502
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:26,480
so much, which is like pretend.

1503
01:19:26,480 --> 01:19:28,780
That doesn't quite work.

1504
01:19:28,780 --> 01:19:32,560
But the rest of it of like, oh, it's a friend breakup because the song feels like a friend

1505
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:33,560
breakup to me.

1506
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:35,400
But also there were feelings there.

1507
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:36,400
It's not platonic.

1508
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,160
It's just ended.

1509
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:44,080
I think mine actually pretty much I think it works for the petty moment.

1510
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,760
Just because of how like the book opens.

1511
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,880
They were childhood friends.

1512
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:51,760
They were like really good friends.

1513
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:57,960
Definitely like either had like a little romance or everyone thought it was going to happen.

1514
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,760
And he's the Duke.

1515
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:04,960
She's some she's I believe a lady.

1516
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:07,960
And basically, it's a little bit Indiana Jones.

1517
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:11,780
It is I was going to just start saying the plot before I even say what it is.

1518
01:20:11,780 --> 01:20:15,680
It's for the Duke size only by Lenora Bell.

1519
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:19,200
It was just like a very fun book.

1520
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:28,160
It opens with them being at like this like gentleman's club and she's like in disguise

1521
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:33,480
and he's looking for it like they're both like artifacts and like going to different

1522
01:20:33,480 --> 01:20:38,640
locations and stuff and like jet setting and everything.

1523
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:43,240
And she thinks like he like stop talking to her like randomly.

1524
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:47,080
And he she doesn't know he's a spy.

1525
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:51,420
So as spies are wanted to do, they kind of have to stop talking to people because of

1526
01:20:51,420 --> 01:20:53,040
danger.

1527
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:54,040
She didn't know that.

1528
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,920
So he just becomes a spy and he's doing all these things.

1529
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:02,760
He's like maybe growing his hair long, maybe getting new icons because he has to like fit

1530
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:10,400
a role and like be like a very pretentious, like very kind of like dumb dude who doesn't

1531
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,920
know what he like the value of artifacts and everything.

1532
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:16,880
Because I think the whole thing is like they're like artifacts missing from somewhere that

1533
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:18,460
they have to like go rescue.

1534
01:21:18,460 --> 01:21:20,800
And so she like sneaks into it.

1535
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,480
He recognizes her.

1536
01:21:22,480 --> 01:21:24,080
There's like sexual tension.

1537
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:29,720
But she's just like very miffed at him because she doesn't know why they stopped talking.

1538
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:32,640
She thinks that he's just like doing this for all the wrong reasons.

1539
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:34,120
He doesn't know like his motives.

1540
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,840
He doesn't know hers.

1541
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:46,960
And they just kind of like go places and do things and have good 69 times.

1542
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,960
Go places, check, do things.

1543
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:50,960
Yeah.

1544
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:58,320
So this one really, it really hits on the she like thinks his new like persona is just

1545
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:01,120
completely fake and she's just disgusted by it.

1546
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:04,360
But then she's turned out when she realizes that it is fake.

1547
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:08,520
And then he's always been the same guy who had to stop talking to her.

1548
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:12,600
So that was a fun one.

1549
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:17,840
Suburban legends or I should say dot dot dot suburban legends.

1550
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:23,520
I chose the secret lives of country gentlemen by KJ Charles.

1551
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,240
You know, they weren't there to make friends.

1552
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:30,920
They just wanted to fuck.

1553
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:36,640
I just think like they just feel very like urban legend.

1554
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:42,680
I don't know, like the vibes of that book just feel very mismatched star signs, like

1555
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:49,080
two very different people from like two very different places, like trying to make it work

1556
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:53,600
and like trying to just like be in love.

1557
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:54,680
This one was another hard one.

1558
01:22:54,680 --> 01:23:00,080
I was like, I don't quite know.

1559
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:09,200
But I just I think the mismatched but very well matched under all of it.

1560
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:10,200
But this one was hard.

1561
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:11,200
I don't know.

1562
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,720
I have now that we don't talk stuck in my head.

1563
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:16,400
I was like, you're you're dancing.

1564
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:18,040
You got to bop to it.

1565
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:20,280
You got to the chorus of that.

1566
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:24,120
I'm going back to now that we don't talk just because the chorus of that scratches an itch

1567
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:25,120
in my brain.

1568
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:28,400
But I call my mom, she said to get it the way it goes up.

1569
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,560
Oh, scratches an itch in my brain every time.

1570
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:34,600
Anyway, suburban legends, which is one that I didn't love when I thought it was fine.

1571
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,600
Now that I've listened to it, gotten better.

1572
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:39,440
Kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up.

1573
01:23:39,440 --> 01:23:45,000
I don't even love like the story of the song, but the song just hearing it.

1574
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:53,040
Anyway, this song reads to me as like a childhood or young relationship that you really wanted

1575
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:54,040
to make work.

1576
01:23:54,040 --> 01:24:00,200
Both of you had other things that you had to go do, and so it just did not quite work

1577
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:01,200
out.

1578
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:02,880
Although the book I chose, it does eventually work out.

1579
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:10,120
And that is a Rope to Remember by Emily Sullivan, which doesn't work out because of meddling

1580
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:11,280
from other people.

1581
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:17,240
But nevertheless, I think he was like the ward of her uncle or something.

1582
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:22,280
It was another like they grew up together situation and the feelings were there.

1583
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,480
Yeah, the feelings were there.

1584
01:24:25,480 --> 01:24:27,040
And then he also became a spy.

1585
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,360
What is it about becoming spies?

1586
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,920
But she doesn't know.

1587
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:32,920
She does know.

1588
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:34,000
It's not that he became a spy.

1589
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:38,660
He went into like government service doing something or other.

1590
01:24:38,660 --> 01:24:41,920
So she does know that because it's her uncle that gets him into it.

1591
01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:44,200
But oh yeah.

1592
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:48,280
But still, it doesn't know like, yeah, he just kind of leaves and she doesn't know why.

1593
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:53,440
And then she's off trying to like fake a scandalous elopement so that she can go live in Italy

1594
01:24:53,440 --> 01:24:55,240
and mind her business.

1595
01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:57,000
And then he comes to get her.

1596
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:02,200
And then it's a cross country Italian road trip.

1597
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:10,080
And it just gives the vibes of like, you don't knock anymore.

1598
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:11,240
And my whole life's ruined.

1599
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:14,680
And also you kiss me in a way that's going to screw me up forever.

1600
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:18,560
But it gives that like childhood friends that you thought.

1601
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:23,040
But then they didn't come here to make friends.

1602
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:25,680
They were born to be suburban legends.

1603
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:26,680
That's so true.

1604
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,240
Yeah, the you don't knock anymore.

1605
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:30,800
Like for mine, definitely.

1606
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,680
The bridge hits so hard.

1607
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:39,040
I broke my own heart because you were too polite to do it.

1608
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:44,320
Anyway, on to my actual favorite song possibly out of the entire album.

1609
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:49,040
I'm like, I love Say Don't Go, but I'm just like, do I love it more than it is over now?

1610
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:50,040
Like, I don't know.

1611
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:51,040
Is it over now?

1612
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:52,680
I will listen to that song in a loop.

1613
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:53,680
It doesn't matter.

1614
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,680
What's now?

1615
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,120
The entire what, pre-chorus?

1616
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:00,640
The Did You Think I Wouldn't See You?

1617
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,400
They were flashing like that sequence.

1618
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:06,640
I feel like I'm like the hottest person ever when I'm singing that song.

1619
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:10,320
The rage that I channel as if this has ever happened to me.

1620
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:12,920
Anyway, listen, have I used this book on one of these before?

1621
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:13,920
Yes, I have.

1622
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:14,920
Did you think of a better one?

1623
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:15,920
No, I couldn't.

1624
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:17,240
Private arrangements, Sherri Thomas.

1625
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:18,480
That was my what?

1626
01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:23,440
Yeah, it's not mine, but that was my backup.

1627
01:26:23,440 --> 01:26:30,760
They're both sleeping with other people and they're so angry at each other and he's flaunting

1628
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:37,800
it and she's mad about it, but they're still like the feelings are so there.

1629
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:38,800
They are there.

1630
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:40,200
So many feelings.

1631
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:44,400
And what really gets me is that I feel like Sherri Thomas is the only writer.

1632
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,400
That's true, there is a boat.

1633
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:47,600
Blue dress on a boat.

1634
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:54,040
And then he sees her and then she sees him and then he was going to go apologize and

1635
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:58,200
then he sees her with another guy and then he's like, oh, so that was his final straw.

1636
01:26:58,200 --> 01:26:59,200
He saw her.

1637
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:01,880
Oh, God.

1638
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:06,720
And then the You Dream of My Mouth before it called you a lying traitor.

1639
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:07,920
And they both are so...

1640
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:12,280
I feel like nobody I could have put a Sherri Thomas book for like all of these songs.

1641
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:18,160
I don't because Ravishing the Eras I almost did for I think I was going to do it for Say

1642
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:19,160
Don't Go.

1643
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:22,360
It doesn't quite fit because she wasn't going to walk out necessarily, but she was going

1644
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:24,440
to let him go.

1645
01:27:24,440 --> 01:27:32,680
Listen, Sherri Thomas just gets the kind of problematic we're sleeping with other people,

1646
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:37,080
but into each other, but we can't admit our feelings and now we're angry.

1647
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:42,640
The luckiest lady in London, I feel like also has 1989 vibe.

1648
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:45,880
I have that one as like backups for several.

1649
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:46,880
Yeah.

1650
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:47,880
And I'm just like...

1651
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:48,880
So...

1652
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:49,880
Yeah.

1653
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:50,880
Sherri Thomas.

1654
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:54,720
I have it for like one, I think on like Folklore or something.

1655
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:55,720
I don't know what's evermore.

1656
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:59,680
So I've been like saving it for that.

1657
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,360
We've got a whole long time before that's ever going to happen.

1658
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:06,120
But Sherri Thomas and Taylor Swift are besties.

1659
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:10,800
I just like they don't know each other, but in my soul, they are besties.

1660
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:18,440
So yeah, Private Arrangement and Is It Over Now is a combination that will just make me...

1661
01:28:18,440 --> 01:28:20,080
It'll throw me deep into my feels.

1662
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:25,360
And then to combine that with The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean, which is my pick,

1663
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:27,880
I think it's just...

1664
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:30,980
It all hurts.

1665
01:28:30,980 --> 01:28:36,840
This one, I just love the... if she has blue eyes, I will surmise that she'll probably

1666
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:38,280
date her.

1667
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,640
Because I did some investigation.

1668
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:46,440
I investigated via a plea on Instagram because I didn't have the ebook.

1669
01:28:46,440 --> 01:28:50,900
The woman that he was fucking by the fountain had blue eyes.

1670
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:55,760
So that's just very critical to everything that I stand for.

1671
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:56,760
She wasn't sleeping with other people.

1672
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:57,760
He thought she was.

1673
01:28:57,760 --> 01:28:58,760
Yeah, he thought she was.

1674
01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:01,280
Because like, women empowerment.

1675
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,160
But like, it's fine.

1676
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:05,400
But he thought she was.

1677
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,880
And that one just like, again, like you said that earlier, like it could have went a lot

1678
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:09,880
of different places.

1679
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:10,880
It also could have been...

1680
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:15,040
I kind of wanted to put it for suburban legends just because her nickname was TikTok.

1681
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:16,680
And then the song goes TikTok on the clock.

1682
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:18,680
It doesn't fit the song.

1683
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:22,360
But I thought it was just funny.

1684
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:30,160
And basically, like they got married, and then they were in an unhappy marriage.

1685
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:31,160
That's it.

1686
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:33,840
Also, she does fully walk in on him fucking another woman by a fountain.

1687
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:34,840
Yeah.

1688
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:35,840
Well, and then his sister...

1689
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:36,840
Well, sure.

1690
01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:37,840
Which pushes him into the fountain.

1691
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:38,840
The first book.

1692
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,680
Like that whole, did you think I wouldn't see you?

1693
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:42,680
Like...

1694
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:43,680
Yeah, they were...

1695
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:44,680
Yeah.

1696
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:45,680
And he's like, well, yeah, that was the point.

1697
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:47,120
He's like, what is correct?

1698
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,240
And I don't even believe you're carrying my child.

1699
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:51,800
And like, he was so awful in that.

1700
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:54,000
He was so horrible.

1701
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:55,520
I am lucky that I read...

1702
01:29:55,520 --> 01:30:00,640
Because I just went balls deep into this book before reading the other ones in the series,

1703
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:04,280
because I don't know if I could have gone over it as well as I did.

1704
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:05,280
It was intense.

1705
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:10,640
If I would have read book one before this, because I really did want to get a rubber

1706
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:13,440
hose and beat him with it.

1707
01:30:13,440 --> 01:30:18,120
But in the third one, if you just start there, you're kind of like over it.

1708
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:19,120
Is it over now?

1709
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:22,760
It's like when you read Devil in Winter without reading and having one on him, and you know

1710
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:23,760
what?

1711
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:24,760
He doesn't seem so bad.

1712
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:25,760
That's what happened to me.

1713
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:26,760
I did that too.

1714
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:27,760
Yeah.

1715
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:31,360
So like, was it my favorite book ever?

1716
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:32,360
No.

1717
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:33,360
But it was very good.

1718
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:38,160
I will give Sarah McLane props, because not a lot of times...

1719
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:41,160
I mean, it felt easy.

1720
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:42,160
No.

1721
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:46,160
To come back from just that man blatantly cheating on page.

1722
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:47,160
And maliciously.

1723
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:48,160
And intentionally.

1724
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:49,160
Yeah.

1725
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:54,920
But then, obviously, it wasn't good reasoning.

1726
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:56,640
And I don't support that.

1727
01:30:56,640 --> 01:31:00,320
But you read about why he did it, and you're like...

1728
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:01,320
Exactly.

1729
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:08,720
And then he never touched anyone for the next however many years.

1730
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:11,380
And then he's like, oh god.

1731
01:31:11,380 --> 01:31:18,080
There's a scene where she's giving birth, but he carries her in, and it's a whole thing.

1732
01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:20,720
I mean, that book will devastate you.

1733
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:21,720
Red blood, white snow, guys.

1734
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:22,720
I don't know.

1735
01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:24,720
There's no snow, but oh god.

1736
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:27,720
Yeah, it hurt.

1737
01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:28,720
Yeah.

1738
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,800
I think she did it really well.

1739
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:35,680
He just really regretted it from the time it happened all the way through.

1740
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:41,680
And he was visibly...

1741
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,680
You knew that he felt bad.

1742
01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:50,080
Because Eloisa James has one, like his duchess or something, I don't know, where he does

1743
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:51,080
the same thing.

1744
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:56,640
He fucks a lady on his desk at work because his father had weird proclivities.

1745
01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:02,640
And so he's like, if I fuck a very conventional, normal mistress while I'm married, people

1746
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:07,280
will think that I am not like my father, which was just a very bad reasoning for him.

1747
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:10,160
And I don't support him at all in that sense.

1748
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:12,200
But she then was like, okay, well, whatever.

1749
01:32:12,200 --> 01:32:13,200
I'm going to go.

1750
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:16,120
I'm going to sleep with other people like it's like, oh, I think.

1751
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:19,920
So they live estranged for a while and come back to it.

1752
01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:23,640
It wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but his reasoning in this one was a lot better.

1753
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:28,720
I mean, you're kind of just like, I feel for you, bro.

1754
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:35,800
Yeah, I was found in the ditch, lost control.

1755
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:40,960
So that book did a number.

1756
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:45,800
And we've reached sweeter than fiction.

1757
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:47,800
I didn't even realize she was going to put this one on.

1758
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:52,360
I didn't realize it was like 1989 time when it came out.

1759
01:32:52,360 --> 01:32:55,960
But I just chose Forever You're Wroled by Aaron Langston.

1760
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:57,920
I never looked back.

1761
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:00,520
I don't like it just was like, oh, that could work.

1762
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:03,880
And then I didn't touch it again.

1763
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:10,760
So I just think like because he starts like very low and like very down on his luck, like

1764
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:14,280
the beginning and she he's like her only option.

1765
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:20,880
She's trying to get custody of the two kids and the awful family members are trying to

1766
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:21,880
get it from her.

1767
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:30,960
And the only way she could gain it is to have like a like a fiance, which sucks for her

1768
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:34,240
because like the one that she chooses him, he has a terrible reputation and she has to

1769
01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:38,080
like they have to like build that back up.

1770
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:39,600
And she had done like a favor for him.

1771
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:42,360
She like bailed him out like years prior.

1772
01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:44,680
And she was like the only one who like believed in him.

1773
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:49,880
And that just turns out into like a very sweet book of him just like kind of like daddy Westing

1774
01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:55,280
it up, West, daddy Westing it up.

1775
01:33:55,280 --> 01:34:00,000
And I just think that she like always knew all along that he would be the guy that she

1776
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,040
needed and it ended up very sweet.

1777
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:04,360
Good.

1778
01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:07,760
Also for context, if you didn't know this one is a bonus track on the final, you will

1779
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:08,760
not find it on.

1780
01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:09,760
Streaming.

1781
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:13,040
I mean, you'll find the original on streaming.

1782
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:14,320
You can still listen to that.

1783
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,920
But and I will eat it up every time, even though that one lyric still doesn't make sense to

1784
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:18,920
me.

1785
01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:24,520
Wider than distance doesn't make sense.

1786
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:26,080
We've had this conversation before.

1787
01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:27,880
I went a love by design.

1788
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:28,880
It's a role reversal.

1789
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:31,960
She knew she was going to go do great things.

1790
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:34,100
That's cute.

1791
01:34:34,100 --> 01:34:35,400
And that's really the whole explanation.

1792
01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:39,940
He just really had faith that she was going to go be a great architect and gave her up

1793
01:34:39,940 --> 01:34:42,800
in the past because of it.

1794
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:46,640
And now he still knows that she's going to go on to do great things.

1795
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:49,880
He's just got so much faith in her.

1796
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:50,880
That's it.

1797
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:51,880
That's the whole reasoning.

1798
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:52,880
Sweeter than fiction.

1799
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:53,880
Hell yeah.

1800
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:55,600
So there you have it.

1801
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:56,600
We did it.

1802
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:58,760
It only took us an hour and 40 minutes.

1803
01:34:58,760 --> 01:34:59,760
It could have been longer.

1804
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:00,760
It could have.

1805
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:01,760
That's so true.

1806
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:07,520
This is a win in my book.

1807
01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:09,520
You will take what you get.

1808
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:10,520
Yes.

1809
01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:13,160
Yeah, that was hard.

1810
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,960
Happy that it's over.

1811
01:35:16,960 --> 01:35:20,880
I didn't like it was so hard.

1812
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:21,880
Well you made it through.

1813
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:22,880
Ow.

1814
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:23,880
I did.

1815
01:35:23,880 --> 01:35:24,880
Oh, that's fine.

1816
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:28,520
I just knocked my trash can over.

1817
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:29,520
Everything is fine.

1818
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:34,520
Yep.

1819
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:35,520
That's it.

1820
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:36,520
That's all I got.

1821
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:37,520
Uh huh.

1822
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:40,760
We've got a little maybe bit of a break I think.

1823
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:43,160
Next episode is on December 8th.

1824
01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:45,560
I don't think that.

1825
01:35:45,560 --> 01:35:47,440
I think we skip a Friday maybe.

1826
01:35:47,440 --> 01:35:49,400
I think we skip Thanksgiving weekend.

1827
01:35:49,400 --> 01:35:54,440
No, we're doing this is Thanksgiving this week and I'm going to drop this on the 24th

1828
01:35:54,440 --> 01:35:55,440
on Black Friday.

1829
01:35:55,440 --> 01:35:56,440
Oh.

1830
01:35:56,440 --> 01:36:04,440
So however it shakes out, our next episode is The Bride by Julie Garwood.

1831
01:36:04,440 --> 01:36:09,720
That is our last old school school book for the season and I have already read it but

1832
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:16,200
it was two years ago, maybe three at this point.

1833
01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:18,560
So I'm very excited to reread it and see how I like it.

1834
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:20,080
I didn't do the audiobook back then either.

1835
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:21,080
I just bought the book.

1836
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:31,960
So I'm giving that a read and I just remember a lot of blanket fire sex so good times will

1837
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,960
be had by us, I am sure.

1838
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:37,240
I mean I haven't read Julie Garwood but that is what I know her for.

1839
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,040
Sex and a kilt by a fire.

1840
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:40,880
Sex and a kilt by a fire.

1841
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:41,880
Very true.

1842
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:42,880
Yes.

1843
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:46,040
And then we're almost done with the year.

1844
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:50,160
So who we got?

1845
01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:53,520
And then we'll maybe do a holiday TBR.

1846
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:56,960
It's been very hit or miss with holiday reading.

1847
01:36:56,960 --> 01:37:01,600
I'm just really trying to do the year of novellas for that because like it's only a hundred

1848
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:02,600
pages.

1849
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:05,280
Can it hurt me that badly?

1850
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:07,680
For some reason Christmas books are just hard.

1851
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:09,200
Yeah I really struggle.

1852
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,720
I have Halloween books hit I think because they don't have to be Halloween specific.

1853
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:18,840
They can just be like magical or paranormal or whatever but Christmas books and of course

1854
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:21,280
there's barely any other books for other winter holidays.

1855
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:27,800
So you know the like one Kwanzaa and one Hanukkah book or whatever that you can find especially

1856
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:29,480
when you're trying to find historical.

1857
01:37:29,480 --> 01:37:31,160
Oh historical it's so hard.

1858
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:33,560
I know there's like a Kwanzaa series on KU.

1859
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:34,560
Yeah.

1860
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:40,480
Holly Jolly Diwali which Diwali like has different dates but it falls within like this range

1861
01:37:40,480 --> 01:37:45,280
of fall winter.

1862
01:37:45,280 --> 01:37:48,280
Hanukkah.

1863
01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:51,280
Yeah it's rough.

1864
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:56,920
I would love there to be more for the historical romance especially.

1865
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:00,800
But we will see what we can come up with and do that and then I think we should do the

1866
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:04,360
ranking of all of our old school school and then see what that gets us.

1867
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:11,560
If we do the superlatives or whatnot but yeah.

1868
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:13,560
Is it over now?

1869
01:38:13,560 --> 01:38:15,560
Yes.