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We crave donut and so we must keep this concise so that we can go get donut.

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I'm so excited.

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I woke up today and I really should have just went and got them when I woke up, but that's

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not who I am fundamentally.

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No, I get up just in time for work.

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I did pop out to go get my Dunkin.

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Like you buy a drink and you get a free donut and then I was annoyed because I placed the

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order online and I went and they didn't have the flavor or whatever type of donut that

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I had requested so I had to pick another one and then the donut wasn't even good.

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It was like kind of stale.

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I was like, who's giving me a stale donut at 11 a.m. on national donut day on national

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donut day.

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That's a crime.

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Yeah, I would say so.

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I was planning to go to Dunkin.

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So this is this is just normally I like Dunkin.

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Yeah, me too.

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I love their iced coffee because I don't like really sweet coffee.

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So I just get there without any sugar.

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I am quite literally still working on this.

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I see the straw.

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I know we have like a local donut shop, but they didn't post anything for national donut

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day.

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So I don't know what's going on with them.

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There's one I'm going to go to after this to get some.

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They're not doing like free donuts, but they're I can't remember how old they are.

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Yeah, they've been open for many years.

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I think it's 30 years, something like that.

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So they're bringing back like this original flavor for the original price of like a dollar

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or something.

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Then it's like a one day only they're bringing back this raspberry donut.

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And I love a raspberry flavored thing.

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Me too.

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I used to not like like jelly filled donuts, but I feel like since I had Duncan's little

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whatever the time the ball, what are their donuts?

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Yes, I completely forgot.

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Pulling.

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They have like the best their little jelly filled munchkins are so good because it's

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like the perfect amount of jelly to the munchkin because like I find when there's like a yeah,

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when there's like a full jelly donut, there's just so much jelly.

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There's a lot of and it just goes everywhere.

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But the munchkins are perfect, but they're always the ones sold out.

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So I do take that kind of personally.

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Well if you couldn't tell we are recording this on Friday, National Donut Day, because

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I don't even have a good excuse.

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I was just no, I mean, yeah, I mean, to be fair, Wednesday, I was like, I could text,

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but I didn't.

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I don't know what I was doing.

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Probably a puzzle or something.

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I don't know what I was doing Wednesday either.

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I know I got home.

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What was Wednesday?

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Not too late.

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I don't know.

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Look, I don't it's just it's just busy.

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It is the days run together.

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It's already June 7th.

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What is life?

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Don't tell me that.

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It's illegal.

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It should be.

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It really should be.

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Anyway, so you're listening to this after the fact, whenever this goes up.

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You know what?

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And it's fine.

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I've decided.

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I just need to get her done and get her up.

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There are just a lot of jokes in my brain right now and I'm going to go ahead and skip

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past those.

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Hello and welcome to Romancer TBR.

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We hope that you got a donut today.

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We really do.

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That wasn't stale and not the one that you wanted.

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Honestly, I know.

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And I hope if you have dietary restrictions, you have a local vegan or gluten free donut

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place.

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I know my dad and sister are gluten free and there's like no place to get like a fresh

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gluten free donut.

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There was this one lady who did it at the farmers market last summer.

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Every Saturday we went now.

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She's not there.

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And we're like, where are your donuts?

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So we're going to see tomorrow.

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Wish us luck.

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But I am ye of little faith.

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So I don't know.

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I don't think I am ye of little faith.

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I know.

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I am me.

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That's that me espresso.

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I am so obsessed with the new one.

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Like I like the lyrics fine and I like the song, but I love the instrument like the instrumental.

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Like it just sounds so cool.

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And then when she says motherfucker, like the country, it just sounds like something really

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satisfying about the way she says motherfucker.

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Specifically, it's like a twang.

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It's like, you know, did you watch the video?

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When she like the first time she does it, when she's slamming the trunk and there's

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something about the delivery of that where I was like, oh, she's an actor.

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Like that's what I remember.

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I was like, OK, so yeah, he's an actor.

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I'm like, this makes a lot of sense.

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Also the way that I gasped when Barry Keegan showed up, I was like, OK, pop icon, putting

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your actual boyfriend in the.

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I also feel like she was like, oh, you guys don't think my boyfriend is hot.

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I agree.

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Him being the hottest I've ever seen.

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I didn't either.

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I see.

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I did the exact same thing.

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He showed up in the all black criminal fit and I was like, oh, yep.

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He was like beating people up in that room.

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Oh, yeah.

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It was a good vibe.

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I'm excited.

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My friend is hot.

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New episode, historical romance to give the vibes of whatever was going on in that video.

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I don't know any off the top of my head, but I want them.

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The only one I can think of is a Madison Michaels where the guy is truly just shy of villain

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status.

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I love a just.

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Yeah.

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Criminals.

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Yeah, exactly.

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We can do it.

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We can do it.

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We can pull it together.

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Yeah.

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Like brothel or not brothel.

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I mean, do I know any brothel in fiction?

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Probably in gaming, gaming, hell, then thing people.

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We've got it.

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Sarah McLean.

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There's Lorraine Heath.

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You have those.

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We can do it.

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I have.

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I am me of immense faith.

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That's that me of immense faith.

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Espresso.

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Espresso.

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I love that song, also a song that I can't stop singing.

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Also just like the pop icon behavior of writing a song about how your boyfriend is like embarrassing

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and then putting your real life boyfriend in the video about how your boyfriend is embarrassing

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you.

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She is just so funny.

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How can someone be so hot and so funny?

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It's not fair.

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I don't know.

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Her tweets, like everything she tweets are common.

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She just has perfect comedic timing and just knows what to say.

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I'm like, I'm jealous.

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I don't know.

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But that song, both of them.

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And then she was smart enough to release the two songs, both on an EP, like the Please,

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Please, Please and Espresso, so I can listen to them just over and over again on a loop.

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And I'm like, thank you for putting those two together for me.

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I am just listening to one after the other after the other.

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I know my friend wants to go to her tour and I just fear for Ticketmaster these days.

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Yeah.

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But because we went to Ed Sheeran in Kansas City and that was super fun.

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So she goes to Kansas.

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I would love to do that.

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It's all expensive now.

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I know.

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I go to T. McCray and I was like, yeah, there is that.

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That's that concert espresso.

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I just love how celebrities just keep talking about their Mi Espresso.

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There was this band.

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He was singing.

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It was a very dramatic song.

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And then he just goes, all right, all right.

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That's that Mi Espresso.

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Randomly.

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I'm like, what?

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I didn't even find out who it was.

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It's just a stupid phrase.

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The lyric is so stupid.

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That's that Mi Espresso.

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We all just collectively were like, yeah.

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It's so funny.

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What does that mean?

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I mean, I know what it means.

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I want to know how she came to know what it meant.

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I want to know how she came to discover it.

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Was that something she said?

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I mean, the idea of I'm keeping somebody up at night.

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That's that Mi Espresso.

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But I never would have thought to say that phrase.

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Exactly.

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Getting there.

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That's the part that fascinates me.

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Beautiful.

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It's art is what it is.

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It is art.

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It's that Mi Espresso.

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Yes, it is.

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Oh.

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Speaking of things that keep me up at night, our TBRs are simply so long.

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They really are.

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Well, number one got asked, I had done a question box or something on Instagram a while ago

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of what kind of episodes would you like to see if somebody had asked for our TBRs?

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And then Faded Mates did a really excellent podcast episode recently, very recently in

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the past few days.

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Of their TBRs.

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And number one, you should actually pause this episode and go listen to that.

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Because they talk about discoverability.

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And I thought everything that they had to say was really great.

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I mean, we have our own kind of ways of discovering books, but it's different when you're not

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working in publishing or entrenched in book spaces.

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I mean, before I had Bookstagram, I had no clue where to find books.

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Exactly.

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It was a random Facebook group for a YouTuber I watched and they were terrible recommendations.

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They still haunt me to this day.

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And I remember, because I think Bookstagram is the only reason I kept on reading historical.

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Because I loved bringing down the Duke and I had a few, like I read the When He Was a

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Wicked and a few other ones, but I didn't know what else to do.

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I didn't know what historical romance really was or like that series were a thing, like

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interconnected but standalone series.

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And so like I didn't know there were other Bridgerton books or anything, but it was really

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Bookstagram that was like, oh, here are all these books.

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And then connecting with authors and stuff.

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I mean, they really covered all the bases.

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The only thing I would add was like they didn't say anything about if you're in a traditionally

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published like following publishers, which I always go check like Berkeley and Avon's

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They don't always post all of their upcoming books, but it's worth taking a glance.

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Yeah, Berkeley's been doing like a month preview or whatever.

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I mean, forever we do the same thing.

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So they'll post whatever books are publishing within that coming month, which is nice.

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And then I personally show the book like we post galleys or upcoming books.

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And so just scrolling the feed, you might find something.

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So yeah, give that a listen for that.

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But then also they went through their summer TBRs and books that they have not read but

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are excited about.

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And I was like, oh, that's perfect because I have a lot of books that I have not read,

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but I'm excited about and would like to try to get through this summer.

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And it's also perfect because I have read one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

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nine, ten.

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You've been reading arcs.

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I have reached a point where I would like to get back to reading arcs.

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And I do have some from NetGalley, but I have to read the books that I'm working on so early

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that most of the time I'm like catching up on books that are already out from other publishers

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and then reading my books that I'm working on, which I'm not going to talk about any

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forever books.

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But I definitely think Lady Scandal.

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That's one that I really enjoyed.

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Everyone should read.

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Yeah.

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I mean, Fated Mates, they talked about several, which was very exciting for me personally,

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because some of them are books that I am working on.

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But I'm just not putting any forever books on my list because I personally am only going

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to talk about books that I haven't read yet or that one of them I have just started.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I have a solid amount.

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I feel like that I haven't read.

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And then at the end, I'll just go through all the ones that Fated Mates want to read

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that I've read.

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Do you want to run through it now since we're talking about the Fated Mates episode?

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Yeah.

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Here are books that Fated Mates talked about on that episode that Hannah has read and

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would recommend.

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I don't think they want to read any book that I have read and disliked, which is a plus

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for them and for me.

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So these are all just ones that I've read and liked.

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Congrats, Sarah and Jen.

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Hannah approves.

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I know that's what they've been waiting for.

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Only my approval.

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But the ones I've read and loved have been The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood.

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I know Sarah was talking about the kind of like death industry books.

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That one was really good and I didn't know how it was going to end.

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And it was like a very peaceful and like romanticized way of viewing death, which I personally enjoyed

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because that shit scares me.

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And then Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe.

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It's the kind of they have to like get together and do like a podcast on different conspiracy

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theories and they go like hunting for Bigfoot and stuff.

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That one was really fun.

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I liked the writing.

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And then A Love Like the Sun by Rissam Nielsen.

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Just read an arc of that.

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I think it just came out.

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Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating.

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My favorite way to read Friends to Lovers is through fake dating because a lot of times

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Friends to Lovers takes so long for them to like do anything couple-y.

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But fake dating makes them couple up and like at least pretend to do things a lot sooner.

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And that man was down so bad.

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The third act is a little dramatic, but like I don't care.

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Like, did he need to apologize to do anything?

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No.

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But I enjoyed what he did because he was so down.

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Like I really enjoyed it.

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And the audiobook was so good.

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Isabel and the Rogue.

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That one again just came out by Liana De La Rosa.

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Another one.

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Very good.

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I'll be rereading the audiobook at some point.

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And there's a hot balloon scene akin to Bridgerton.

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And then Lady Scandal that I mentioned by Laura Lee Gurkey.

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That's a forever one.

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I read that a few months ago, but it was very good.

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An experienced hero and he was willing to learn.

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And she was kind of like a little, she was widowed, like they said a few times.

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I'm looking for some fun.

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And this Savoy is just a fun background because Bookshop Cinderella was also.

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Dana and I are going to London at the beginning of July for the Formula One race, as one does.

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And my parents are also overlapping on their cruise.

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And so we like overlap by one day.

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And so I was like, oh, like we should get dinner or whatever.

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And of course, my parents are like doing a million things every day.

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So they're like, do you want to join?

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And they're doing like a tour of some Abbey and what?

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So I'm like, yeah, sign us up for whatever you're doing.

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That afternoon we'll join.

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And they were like, and then we're going to go get dinner at the Savoy.

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And I texted Dana and I was like, we have to bring copies of Laura Lee Gherke's, the

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Bookshop Cinderella and Lady Scandal so that we can take pictures at the Savoy.

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I was so excited.

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You need to do that because I'm very excited to see all the pictures and stuff because

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like, oh yeah, I just got my passport.

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Well applied for it.

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And that like passport picture process was the most humbling thing I've ever experienced

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in my life.

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I'm just going to leave it there.

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But it was horrible and I want to sue.

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So anyway, yes.

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You also read this one.

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You Should Be So Good by Kat Sebastian.

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Fantastic book.

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I was sobbing.

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I knew it was going to end.

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You Should Be So Lucky.

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That shit.

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I can find them.

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We could be.

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I know I did the same thing.

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We're on the.

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I know I was when I was in the back.

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I was like, yep.

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OK, you should be so lucky.

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Yeah.

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I was a crying mess.

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Yeah, but very good.

353
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Yeah.

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So Witty and Pink by Erica George was the YA one historical.

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I've mentioned before, too, that like if you want first person narration and historical

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YA is where you're going to find it.

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And also J.J.

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McAvoy in her Do Bells series, my personal favorite, Hey, They're the Prince.

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But yeah, I wonder if we'll get be getting more first person just to see.

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Because it's kind of like a good jump from contemporary to historical that way.

361
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Yeah, it feels very.

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You know how we have like gateway historicals that we talk about?

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Well, that's.

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Yep.

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That's what I put in the news letter.

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I was like, if you like are new, new and are like very hesitant, go to Hey, They're the

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Prince, like skip the first two books.

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They're good.

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But like, hey, they're the prince is like a very perfect introduction because it's first

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person.

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They're pretty young.

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Like they're in their early 20s and it's very easy, like the language is accessible and

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everything is diverse.

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And I just think that would be like the first person is a very good place to start, like

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if you're scared of like the writing or just getting into like a historical world.

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Yeah, I don't I mean, I don't have a lot of strong feelings about POVs.

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I mean, I read that second person POV novella the one time.

378
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Yeah.

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Like so I know you have feelings about POVs and tenses and all that.

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And I'm not typically somebody who does first person, though, is harder for me.

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I don't I don't really care about the tense, like first person, present versus past.

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But I don't mind first present.

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A lot of people actually dislike that one more than third present, which I'm happy I

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don't mind it.

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Yeah, I don't I just I have a harder time with first person.

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I think typically I don't know if it's because actually I do think I know why now that I'm

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thinking about it.

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I think it's because typically if you're writing in first person, you have to have the character's

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voice really nailed.

390
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Yeah.

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So if it's like Rick Riordan POV, yes.

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So if it's dual POV, you have to convince me that when you're alternate, like your narrative

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voice should sound different in these.

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And a lot of times that's really hard because you have like an authorial style.

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I agree, because I mean, I read like I grew up reading YA.

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So most of that is first person person.

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But the trend in POV, like dual POV or whatever, didn't really like it was obviously a thing.

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But most of the YA that I read, it was just single person, which can work first person.

399
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Yeah.

400
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Well, which I really enjoyed.

401
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I think that's why I enjoy just single POVs opposed to dual POVs in contemporary stuff.

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And even YA, I obviously want both in historical.

403
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But I think I'm like you, so I don't really have an issue, but I do agree that since it

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is more new or like newer, I guess to have like dual first person, I haven't run into

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that a lot.

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But I could definitely see where that would be a lot harder.

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I think that was my issue with Aphrodite and the Duke.

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Or I thought the book was fine.

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I think that was one of the things that kind of bothered me when I read it was that I was

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like the narrative voice sounds the same all the way throughout.

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Which if you're going to give me multiple POVs, you need to be distinct.

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I would try that.

413
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I feel like they're pretty different.

414
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Oh, no, I'm planning on it.

415
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Yeah.

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And the audio book was so good.

417
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I think it's like Shane, West or East or something.

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There are like two hot guys with hot voices who have directions as names.

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But I will.

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But the other thing with first person is that if I don't like your authorial voice, like

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Emily Henry has a very clear style and all of her books are first person, single POV.

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And I like her voice.

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So they really work for me.

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But I've read first person where I'm like, you are so voicey that I can't stand it.

425
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Yeah.

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Which is just personal preference.

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So I find it.

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It all really is because I mean, I read that Kat Sebastian one in third president and I

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didn't notice it at all.

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Even like, I know, that's just because Kat Sebastian is really good.

431
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So good.

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Because I mean, I noticed it and we could be so good.

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I'm like combining the names.

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Like I noticed it there and I had to get over it.

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But this one, like it was like a non issue.

436
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And I think I had read another book in third president before that.

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And like, I can read it.

438
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Like it's fine.

439
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But you could just tell the craft level was just so different compared to Kat Sebastian.

440
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Like, yeah.

441
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So I had no issue.

442
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I still can't really do it in audio.

443
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I don't like how it sounds.

444
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Like I need to read it physically.

445
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But yeah, so I'm happy.

446
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I also have Emma, I guess one of my on my TBR is the third president one so I can talk

447
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about that later.

448
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And then the last few, The Prince's Bride by Sheris Michaels.

449
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Did you read that?

450
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No, it's not my I think my Libby hold is still passing.

451
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That one is so good.

452
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Yeah.

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If you read the first one, you'll love this one.

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If you didn't read the first one, go do that and then read this one.

455
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Amazing.

456
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So he's an exiled prince and he lives in a cave and trains horses.

457
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I was going to say, isn't he a horse whisperer?

458
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Yes, he's a horse whisperer.

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He's like an exiled French prince.

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So like he's been in the cave for like 15 years.

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Now he's all alone because his like, or like I guess his adoptive family, like the older

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man died and then the sons are away and he hasn't really been with a woman in years.

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I mean, he's had the I know we're so bad, like had the occasional dalliance, but he's

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never like been close to a woman like intimately just near.

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And so he's so confused and silent, but also he loves it.

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And he's a waterfall in his cave.

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As one does, as one does.

468
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So read that one because it is a perfect follow up to the book one.

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The Mistress, the Mistress experienced by Scarlet Peckham was fantastic.

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I wasn't a huge fan of book one or two.

471
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I know you like book one.

472
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I don't know the what the siren.

473
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No, nope.

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Dang.

475
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What is the name of that?

476
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I don't know.

477
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I don't know.

478
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But I'm going to cover the the Ray Cass Ray Cass.

479
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There we go.

480
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Society of Sirens.

481
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OK, yeah.

482
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So great cover.

483
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So I read that one and then I read the second one.

484
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But book three, five stars.

485
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It was so good.

486
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He's looking for sex lessons.

487
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He hires a courtesan and they just go off to the country and they don't touch.

488
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:47,920
Yeah, he buys it.

489
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They don't touch for a really long time, which normally is like bait and switch for me in

490
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like a sex lesson book where like they're not going to be doing fulfilling a promise

491
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of the premise.

492
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Yes, but it worked.

493
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So enjoyed it.

494
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I ate it up.

495
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Yep.

496
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Yep.

497
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That covers for that whole series also.

498
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So good.

499
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They're so beautiful.

500
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Mm hmm.

501
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Mm hmm.

502
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Mm hmm.

503
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,760
I'm just like remembering everything about that one.

504
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:20,560
So definitely I will be repeating because I read that one a while ago, too.

505
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,360
And then the last one was Viscount in Love by Eloisa James.

506
00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:31,360
Now this one was fun because at any point it was either two stars or five stars.

507
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,240
I started off and I was like, do I like this?

508
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,040
And I was like, I really like the hero.

509
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:40,600
Then he ended so much of a simp that like it kind of rewired my brain and I still think

510
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:46,080
about it because like again, I don't I didn't know if I was liking the book for like I'm

511
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:47,880
like a good half of it.

512
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,160
But then I was like, what it fuck it.

513
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,720
Like it was really good.

514
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:57,640
So that one was a fun experience if you want a guy who just gets completely like down bad

515
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,960
at the gym, but he doesn't really like realize it's happening until he's like massaging her

516
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:08,280
stomach because she gets stressed and stomach aches and she's just like, what are you doing?

517
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,280
He's like, I don't know.

518
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,840
It's just so good.

519
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,440
So it reminded me that Eloisa James is like a great writer because to be honest, her past

520
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,320
two books have like very disappointed.

521
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,320
Like I've been very disappointed.

522
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:26,320
And so like this one was another we're so back like.

523
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,040
So all those were great.

524
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,960
Here we are into our actual TBRs.

525
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,720
Yes.

526
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:40,600
I've got well, so technically I've got eight historicals on my summer TBR that I would

527
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,920
love to get to if my brain allows it.

528
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,400
And then four contemporaries that I'll just kind of throw in at the end as a little bonus

529
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,040
also books that I'm looking for.

530
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:56,880
I mean, we've already kind of knocked it down because the mistress experience is on my list.

531
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:02,040
And then the other one that we already are that you already talked about was Isabel and

532
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,200
the Rogue, which is also it's already out.

533
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,200
It came out very recently, a couple of days ago.

534
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,800
But I just started the audiobook.

535
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,200
I don't love the narrators for it, but I do really like Liana's writing.

536
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,320
So like it's one of those like I'll be fine.

537
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,320
You know, I'll push through.

538
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:23,640
But it's I mean, she's a Mexican spy.

539
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,920
I mean, she's a Mexican like heiress who is spying for the Mexican government.

540
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,880
And then he's also like a spy of sorts.

541
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,600
And so then they run into each other and they're very confused as to why they're both.

542
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,600
They're also very into each other, but not talking about it.

543
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,200
I mean, at least not yet.

544
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,720
I'm only I'm not very far into it.

545
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:52,840
So that's my we already talked about those two.

546
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,840
Do you hear that?

547
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,840
Yeah.

548
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,840
What is that?

549
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,840
Is that me?

550
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,840
It's gone.

551
00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,840
That was weird.

552
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,840
I thought you were like starting to beatbox or something.

553
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,640
I was like, no, simply would never happen.

554
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,480
I was going to say user again.

555
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,760
If you heard that, it was like sound like something was disconnecting.

556
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,280
If you didn't hear that, it sounded like something was disconnecting.

557
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,400
But it's gone.

558
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,920
So hopefully we're all good.

559
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,640
All right.

560
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,720
Vaguely in sort of semi chronological order, I don't know if it technically is.

561
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,560
The first one I've got on here is another one that is already out, which is a blue stockings

562
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,040
guide to decadence.

563
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,080
Yes, that's on my list.

564
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,080
Perfect.

565
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,800
That's probably going to happen.

566
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:45,480
Our TBRs, I assume are probably not super different.

567
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,920
I'm trying to find my thing where I like screenshotted when it's coming out.

568
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,920
I mean, it's already out, but like what it's about, I don't remember.

569
00:25:52,920 --> 00:26:00,680
All I do remember is that I really liked the first two books in that series by Jess Eberle.

570
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,040
They were both Acolyan like M.M.

571
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:10,360
And this one is FF, Safek, Fun.

572
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,720
And we met, I actually don't remember who the heroine is in this.

573
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,400
Again, we haven't read or I haven't read these books on my list.

574
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,160
So why am I into it?

575
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,240
Because I liked the other two books in the series.

576
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:27,000
And Jo has been a side character in those previous books in the series.

577
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,760
And she's in a lavender marriage, which is funny to me because I feel like you don't

578
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,000
actually see that very much in queer historicals.

579
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:41,240
Even though every time I read one, I'm like, why don't you just marry a gay man?

580
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,180
Why don't you just set up a lavender marriage?

581
00:26:44,180 --> 00:26:48,440
And that's never the solution, because obviously in a romance, you want to be yourself and

582
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,440
live proudly.

583
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,440
I feel like I could see readers being.

584
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:55,420
No, I know why, but it's just every time I read a historical, I'm like, well, the obvious

585
00:26:55,420 --> 00:27:01,520
solution is a lavender marriage because that actually was a solution that people used.

586
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,640
And for obvious H.E.A. reasons, that's not what they do.

587
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,760
But in Jo's case, she is in a lavender marriage.

588
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,520
Maybe there was one that I read where she was in one, but the guy died.

589
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:14,520
Damn.

590
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,520
But I don't.

591
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,720
But I don't remember what that was.

592
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,680
So who is to say?

593
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,680
Oh, OK.

594
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:28,120
So the heroine, I mean, or the love interest is the doctor who has been brought in to take

595
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:33,760
care of her husband's pregnant paramour.

596
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,640
I love that for me and you.

597
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:37,640
So very excited.

598
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,640
That one's out, you said, right?

599
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,840
Yes, I believe it is.

600
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,480
It also, I think just it was the same release day as.

601
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,480
Yep.

602
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,480
Oh, look at that.

603
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,480
Yeah.

604
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,840
So I need to get the audiobook stat and read that.

605
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:51,840
Because it's also Pride Month.

606
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:52,840
So happy Pride Month.

607
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Exactly.

608
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,400
So that should be fun.

609
00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:03,000
And that was, oh, my gosh, a Blue Stockings Guide to Decadence by Jess Eberly.

610
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Am I going next?

611
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,800
Yeah, I figure.

612
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,640
OK, let's do.

613
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,120
This one is probably on your list.

614
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:15,840
A Sure Thing by Joanna Lowell.

615
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:16,840
That was my next one.

616
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:17,840
Yep.

617
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,840
Perfect.

618
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,320
I knew this was going to happen.

619
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:27,960
I started this audiobook yesterday, but it was a curious case of my brain being on Friday

620
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,880
time, even though it was Thursday.

621
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,360
And I listened probably an hour because I was sped up.

622
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,280
So it registered as two hours.

623
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,880
I probably retained 10 minutes of information and I had already restarted at once, even

624
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,480
though that was like eight minutes in.

625
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,920
And so I had to put it on hold.

626
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,600
I'm reading or I'm rereading Tefl's Daughter because I was like, I can't process any new

627
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,280
information.

628
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:54,640
But from the 10 minutes that I digested, it was very good.

629
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,640
I'm very excited.

630
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:03,640
The relationship is between a woman and then a transmask hero.

631
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:09,320
And I know Joanna started the book saying that she is in a similar relationship, I believe

632
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,040
her partner is also transmasked and she wrote it very closely.

633
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,720
So like, I didn't know that.

634
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,720
I didn't mean either.

635
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,760
So it was a cool author at the beginning.

636
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,360
And it's about bicycling.

637
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,400
I know he like runs into her with his bike.

638
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Sleigh.

639
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,560
And they're just all cut.

640
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,160
Like, there's just so much bike stuff.

641
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,400
I am notorious for not knowing how to ride a bike.

642
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,200
So like, I mean, I probably could.

643
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,880
I shouldn't be trusted on one.

644
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,560
Like breaking is hard or like I could go in a straight line.

645
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,360
That's probably about it.

646
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,200
Crossing streets is a no no, anything like that.

647
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,560
So I'm listening with envy at all these bike riders, but I will be reading it.

648
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,320
I just don't know if I should.

649
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,920
I think I need to like sleep a little bit more.

650
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,840
I love that it's also I mean, I'm just like looking up the description.

651
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:05,480
We're also incorporating the various elements from her previous books because he is or was

652
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,560
like formerly an artist and now has apparently lost the ability to paint.

653
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,960
So his decide and I'm quoting this year.

654
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,760
Why not devote himself to selling bicycles and twisting with the holiday makers?

655
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,800
As one does, honestly, I get that.

656
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,040
Well, in the two hours I listened to that I read and she's a botanist, which is also

657
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,040
from the other series painting and plants.

658
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:31,720
But I know she the one Muriel, she's the one that they thought in the Runaway Duchess.

659
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,720
You're so right.

660
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,460
I did not connect those dots.

661
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:39,360
This is probably pretty obvious, but we're to anyone else.

662
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,480
This is great news to me because I loved the Runaway Duchess as my favorite in that series.

663
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,880
I am actually going to reread that and then read this.

664
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,720
But she's already they've already kissed and then she's already proposition propositioned

665
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,840
him to do some artwork in this first.

666
00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,760
So like that's like more the tension is that like he can't do art, but she wants him to.

667
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,640
So I am very excited.

668
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,160
I just cannot believe I didn't connect.

669
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,840
I mean, I read about Muriel's all that often, so I really should have noticed that.

670
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,120
I didn't connect those dots either.

671
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,120
No, that makes so much sense.

672
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,880
Also, I love a pun.

673
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,680
And as Kit and Muriel spend their days cycling together, their desire begins to burn with

674
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,920
the heat of the summer sun.

675
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,840
But are they peddling towards something impossible?

676
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,760
I also the from what I again got for the 10 minutes I digested, I think it's very fascinating

677
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,640
because, you know, especially in like in modern historical romances, there are like so many

678
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:44,160
like women's groups and like they're all progressive and, you know, they're all advocating for

679
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,760
change or at least on the outside or whatever.

680
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:52,400
And this one, I believe the hero has felt very rejected because in his former life,

681
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:58,720
he was part of a woman's group and his friend that he told she completely rejected him and

682
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,040
did not understand him.

683
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:08,200
And so I feel like that's a very interesting and fascinating thing to discuss, whereas

684
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,800
like maybe some of like I've seen discussions about some modern historical feeling rather

685
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,440
performative in some regards and stuff.

686
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,600
Yeah, because a lot of times you get rich.

687
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,880
I read another one where they came out to their family and it was just like they were

688
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,760
all very accepting, which on the one hand, I don't think shouldn't be written because

689
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,720
I'm sure that's very therapeutic and good to read for so many queer people.

690
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,760
And so I would never ever say that that's a bad thing to write.

691
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,200
But sometimes I am like that.

692
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,680
But but what if they weren't?

693
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:46,440
Yeah, well, and even just like the groups of like rich white women in these groups,

694
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,700
who are super being the the ones advocating for change, but then still having like servants

695
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:56,800
and like, like there are like all these things that I think like, on one hand, they were

696
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,800
white feminists.

697
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,800
Yeah, exactly.

698
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:06,240
I think this is a very interesting like, like, it's just very, I'm very excited to see how

699
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,240
that works.

700
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,400
Again, I will be reading it.

701
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,400
And then I'll probably have more to say after.

702
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,560
But I did think that was very just poignant and a cool thing, not necessarily cool, because

703
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,720
it's not great for the character, but just to read about.

704
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,120
But yeah, that one in the cover so good.

705
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,120
Oh, yes, very interesting.

706
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,120
It's very summary.

707
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:34,720
So yes, I mean, they're like, like, you know, yes, I don't like what more what more do you

708
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,720
want guys?

709
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,280
Literally.

710
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,780
Okay.

711
00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:42,560
My next one, which probably also is in your list.

712
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,000
I don't think you've read this.

713
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,080
I feel like I would have noted if you had but India Holton has got another book.

714
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,080
I did.

715
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,080
You did.

716
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,080
Okay.

717
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,080
I couldn't remember.

718
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,520
When did I month or month ago?

719
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,600
Only about me is I'm an India Holton Santa till I die.

720
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,840
So have I read this book yet?

721
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,840
No.

722
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,160
Do I know I'm going to love it?

723
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,160
Yes.

724
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,160
I did read the little excerpt of it.

725
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:13,560
The Raptor, I think, or Raptor, whatever the website they posted an excerpt.

726
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,520
And I was like, we're so back.

727
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,040
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love.

728
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,040
What a title.

729
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,040
India Holton.

730
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,040
What a writer.

731
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,960
All that I need to tell you and I mean, you've read it so I'm sure you can add on here.

732
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,920
But the first line of the description is rival ornithologist, which if you don't know listener

733
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,480
is bird.

734
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,480
They're studying birds.

735
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,340
Which is hilarious because in the book, no other character because they're trying to

736
00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:37,720
make ornithology cool.

737
00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:38,720
That's the whole premise.

738
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:42,120
That's why this competition is happening because they're trying to market it.

739
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:47,400
So they're like, we need a romance to market it because it's not cool.

740
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,360
So then they set these two up to be a romance.

741
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,440
They don't know they're being set up.

742
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,720
But they're throwing them together in all these situations.

743
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:56,600
But then every side character who's not in ornithology completely mispronounces it.

744
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,040
And it's the running bit of the book.

745
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,040
And that's very funny.

746
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,040
I love India Holton.

747
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,040
Same.

748
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,040
Same.

749
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,040
I loved the PR aspect.

750
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,040
It was hilarious.

751
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,520
That's just excellent is what that is.

752
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,240
Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical

753
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:14,600
fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones, but with manners, tea and helicopter parasols.

754
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,280
Which is everything I want, actually.

755
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,440
She's so funny.

756
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,120
I love a historical fantasy romance.

757
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,640
We're obsessed with her other books.

758
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,200
So of course I'm going to be obsessed with it.

759
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,560
I just am so excited.

760
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:39,000
I mean her writing, again, the way she writes humor in camp needs to be studied, preferably

761
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,820
by many universities.

762
00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:43,560
Because it was so funny.

763
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,640
And seriously, I don't know how she came up with the idea of making ornithology cool through

764
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,920
a PR romance.

765
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,160
Hilarious.

766
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,960
I will say there was a lot of bird content, which obviously there's going to be.

767
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,080
And I didn't quite care about the birds.

768
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,080
Sorry to the birds.

769
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:06,560
Just because there was a lot of saving birds and bird hunting or not hunting that bad.

770
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,760
Bird rescuing.

771
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,400
But I have no egrets.

772
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,400
Nice.

773
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,920
That was excellent.

774
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,320
I'm trying to find Reactor's excerpt.

775
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,920
In the last book, I don't know if it's in the actual book or just in the galley, but

776
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:31,920
there was an excerpt from the very first chapter or whatever.

777
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,280
But this one was...

778
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,240
I don't remember.

779
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:38,160
I don't think it says where from the book it's pulled from.

780
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,800
I'm sure within the first few chapters, but it's not the very beginning of the book.

781
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
And so we'll link it in the show notes.

782
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,400
I will send it to you.

783
00:36:46,400 --> 00:37:02,840
I mean, you've read the book, but the excerpt is him catching her.

784
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,480
Like catching her snooping around.

785
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:16,360
It really gives...if your favorite Dangerous Damsels book was The Wisteria Society, this

786
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,400
one is very reminiscent of that.

787
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:26,240
So personally, I'm very excited for book two or book three, because I think book one is

788
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,480
my least favorite in that series, even though they're all five stars.

789
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:35,280
But this one felt like the relationship, very insta-love, very opposites, but similar.

790
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,120
Like Nealia, I just created a couple names.

791
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,120
Oh, ship name?

792
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,640
Ship name Nealia.

793
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:46,040
They're not really...they're pretty similar once you get down to it, which I feel like

794
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,360
is what this is.

795
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,640
They have the same interests.

796
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,960
They go about it differently, but under everything, they're very similar, which is a very fun

797
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,320
dynamic because you don't really get similar, similar a lot.

798
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,520
You get opposites attract.

799
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,840
But this one, it really gave me book one of the last series.

800
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:10,040
I'm going to read this little chunk just because I think...this also embodies one of my favorite

801
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:18,200
India Holt and whatchamacallit, a feature of her writing, which is personifying...personifying

802
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:28,600
generally, but specifically personifying wiles or wits or the aspects of your experience

803
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,960
into parts of you that are doing things that you don't want them to be doing.

804
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,320
And she does that in all of her books and it's one of my favorite things and it's so

805
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,560
funny every time she does it.

806
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,040
So let me just...this is her looking at this man.

807
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,680
You're getting a dramatic reading just because I'm so excited.

808
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,920
He was implausibly handsome for a university professor who in Beth's experience were a

809
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,240
paludlot, rather musty with a constant yearning in their eyes for dinner wine and their latest

810
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,360
lecture to magically right itself.

811
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,520
But if there was any yearning to be done in regard to Devin Lockley, it was almost certainly

812
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,640
not by him, but toward him.

813
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,320
Not that Beth felt any such yearning.

814
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,960
Heavens no, she was far too sensible for that.

815
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,400
The riotous sensations in her stomach were merely due to French tea.

816
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,680
She also suspected him of possessing masculine wiles.

817
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,360
He probably kept them up his sleeve or in a trouser pocket, upon which thought Beth

818
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,600
glanced at said pocket and managed to prevent herself from blushing only by a dint of general

819
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,040
aggravation.

820
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,080
She hauled her vision up by the scruff of its neck and discovered Devin watching her

821
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,840
smugly as if he could guess her thoughts and was considering whether to reach his naked

822
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,480
hand into that pocket and bring out something truly scandalous indeed.

823
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,680
Her aggravation increased by several notches.

824
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,680
God, I...

825
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:44,200
The hauled her vision up by the scruff of its neck.

826
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,880
She suspected him of possessing masculine wiles.

827
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,280
Yep.

828
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:54,600
Like I could never have a bad time reading an India Houghton book because her writing

829
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,960
is truly no one is doing it like her.

830
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:03,360
I mean, like the closest I've come to was The Princess Bride by William Golding.

831
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,480
Like nothing really compares.

832
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,200
And book two, so I read like there was like a little teaser, I think.

833
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,200
So it's Second Chance.

834
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,040
So India Houghton writing Second Chance, Slay.

835
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:20,200
But it was a former marriage of convenience and current and estranged marriage of inconvenience.

836
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,600
So they got married for convenience.

837
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,400
All my favorite things.

838
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:25,400
I know.

839
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,400
I know.

840
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,160
And it's India Houghton, so I'm so excited.

841
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,760
So like, well, I liked this one.

842
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,640
I am very ready for book two already.

843
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,360
And she's just so good.

844
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,160
She's a national treasure, even though she's, I believe, from New Zealand.

845
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,520
Yeah.

846
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,000
We claim her.

847
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000
We do claim her.

848
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,240
I specifically, the two of us, she's claimed by the podcast.

849
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:50,640
We've been talking about her since the inception of the podcast, so I do feel...

850
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,640
Yeah.

851
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,320
Also, she has shared our newsletter on her newsletter.

852
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:59,560
So we get a lot of newsletter subscribers coming from her hot tea newsletter.

853
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,800
If you go into our email and look into our new subscriber emails that we get from Substack,

854
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,120
it'll tell you where people came from.

855
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,920
And a lot of them are coming from India.

856
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,960
So this is the right place to be.

857
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,840
India, did you want to die for you?

858
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,320
You lovely, lovely woman.

859
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,320
I know.

860
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,160
So I'm very excited.

861
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,480
And I think there's a Goodreads giveaway going on for this book right now.

862
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,280
So again, go enter that as well.

863
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,480
I just love her.

864
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:33,680
I used to say if you didn't like, you know, with serious society, I used to be like, you

865
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:34,680
know what?

866
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:35,680
I get it if you don't.

867
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,640
But actually, I'm taking that back.

868
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:38,640
Yeah.

869
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,600
I think you're wrong.

870
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:47,280
I can understand book one because I do think to me that is a little bit harder to get into,

871
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,280
but I think I could get into book two and three easier because I already got into book

872
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:51,280
one.

873
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:56,520
So like, I think I'll say you're wrong if you read book one and then read book two and

874
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,840
also didn't like book two.

875
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,920
I actually think you're wrong if you didn't like book one.

876
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,640
I'm actually going to die on that hill.

877
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,440
And I would support you.

878
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:10,400
I'll be at the bottom of the hill with a big little parachute.

879
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,400
Yeah.

880
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,400
Yeah.

881
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:13,400
So that's my yeah.

882
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:14,400
Okay.

883
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:15,400
So we did that.

884
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,400
Did that.

885
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,400
Did that.

886
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,320
You're the problem.

887
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:25,600
It's you by Emma R. Alban.

888
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,600
I do have the art for this one.

889
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:29,600
Look at us go.

890
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:30,600
Have the art for that one.

891
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Is it this whole weekend or was it just a...

892
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,080
I think it was two days.

893
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,080
Okay.

894
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,080
I think.

895
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,560
That is a great question.

896
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:39,560
Let me go check.

897
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:40,560
I'll look up.

898
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:41,560
You talk.

899
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:42,960
Oh, me talking.

900
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,480
I don't have much to say about this one just because again, I haven't read it and I requested

901
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,440
it as soon as it was live because I really enjoyed book one.

902
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,800
And I do know that I was living for this relationship in book one.

903
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,480
So like nothing was going to...

904
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,560
But you can still go request it.

905
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:01,560
Yes.

906
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:06,640
Enemies, televers, queer Victorian romance, follow up to don't want you like a best friend,

907
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,120
a young lord and a second son clash but find themselves thrust together again and again

908
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,200
by their meddling cousins.

909
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,200
Beautiful.

910
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,200
Yeah.

911
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:23,880
Well, we met them at the end of the first book and it was like, ooh.

912
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,280
Well because one of these guys, the one that like...

913
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,280
He inherited, right?

914
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,280
Yeah.

915
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,840
Neither of these were the ones that like either the heroines were trying or they were trying

916
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:35,840
to get the heroine, right?

917
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:36,840
I don't think so.

918
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,080
Because this is us having done no research and just going, yeah, we definitely want to

919
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,080
read the next book.

920
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,080
Which you know what?

921
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,080
This is what I classify as an auto-bi.

922
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,080
Yeah.

923
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,800
Like no thoughts, just vibes.

924
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,360
One of them is the brother or the cousin of one of the heroines, right?

925
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:59,120
And then I couldn't remember if like the other hero is like one that like...

926
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:05,760
No, no, he shows up at the end of the book because he like inherited from her.

927
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,720
He's like the new Viscount or whatever.

928
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:09,720
Viscount.

929
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:10,720
Got you.

930
00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:17,680
So the one main character whose mother was also having her little romance is because

931
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,520
the mother was widowed.

932
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,000
And so he shows up as like the new Viscount.

933
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,320
And there's meddling and shenanigans.

934
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,320
Yeah.

935
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,360
I'm reading the summary and I am even more excited.

936
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,800
So maybe that's what I'll do this weekend.

937
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:42,480
I should probably reread book one, but again, it's first or third person president, so I

938
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,520
can't do the audiobook, but it is Mary Jane Wells.

939
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,920
So maybe I could suck it up.

940
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,040
Got to give and take.

941
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,240
But yeah, I am real excited and I love the cover.

942
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:56,360
I love the Taylor Swift-ness of it.

943
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,480
And it just sounds delightful.

944
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,880
And very summary.

945
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:04,160
I just know like when they interacted at the very end of the last book, I was like, yeah,

946
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,160
I'm going to sign me up.

947
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,160
Yep.

948
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,000
My review at the end of it is like, please, I need book two now.

949
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,000
And here we are.

950
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,000
And I have been edging it like a criminal.

951
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,040
So not edging like a criminal.

952
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,160
Edging like a criminal.

953
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,400
It's two guests.

954
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,160
That is also on mine.

955
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:31,240
My next one I also know very little about, but it's Untamed by Lisa Reign.

956
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:32,240
God bless.

957
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,240
I will come on when does that one come out?

958
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:35,240
July 30th.

959
00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:36,240
That's sooner than I thought.

960
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:39,240
I was like, why are we talking about that one this soon?

961
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,240
I know.

962
00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:41,240
It's a western.

963
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:44,240
This one wasn't on my list, but it should have been.

964
00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:45,240
I didn't realize it was.

965
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:47,760
She uses the best little whorehouse in Texas as a cover.

966
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,160
I'm like, yeah, sign me up for that.

967
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,080
I will always love you.

968
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,080
Yeah.

969
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:59,920
So a black western, like historical western from God bless her, Lisa Reign, who we still

970
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:03,640
have to have on the podcast, maybe we didn't talk.

971
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,920
We plan to do an episode about the Scottish.

972
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,680
What's the name of it?

973
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:08,680
Never Cross a Highlander.

974
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:09,680
Never Cross a Highlander.

975
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,480
And it just didn't work out time wise because we're the worst.

976
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,520
So maybe this one will be the one that we have around to discuss.

977
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,920
His name is Blaze with two A's, first of all.

978
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,920
He's a...

979
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,660
I just simply have to have a little giggle.

980
00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:30,520
He's like a retired, I think, unless I'm hallucinating.

981
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:36,120
Burned out bounty hunter Blaze Lasseter is all set to retire in a quiet, uneventful town.

982
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,200
He thought he'd found the perfect place to abandon his live by the gun ways.

983
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,200
But there's a she devil.

984
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:47,760
The she devil is proper Eastern lady Mary Catherine Templeton, who has inherited a saloon

985
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,400
out west.

986
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:54,680
And she discovers that the saloon, I believe, unless I'm hallucinating.

987
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,760
I'm assuming it's a brothel if she used the vessel of her house in Texas.

988
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,760
Yes.

989
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:01,760
Yes.

990
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,280
Her innocent sensibilities are shocked to discover it's other sinful commodity.

991
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,280
I honestly just another auto-buy.

992
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:08,280
I didn't read the description.

993
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,280
I did not.

994
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:10,320
I knew nothing about this.

995
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,040
I was just so excited when I saw her announce it.

996
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,400
So she changes the rules.

997
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,840
Clearly has outlawed the upstairs amenities.

998
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,920
Or not outlawed, but you know, I like that your little camera just gave a thumbs up.

999
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:23,920
So true.

1000
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:24,920
Yeah, it really is.

1001
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,640
I need the fireworks again.

1002
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,680
But because she's done that, the frustrated men of Lawless, Lawless is the name of the

1003
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:39,200
town, the frustrated men of Lawless have started a ruckus worthy of the town's name and detrimental

1004
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,160
to Blaze's peaceful existence.

1005
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,040
And now the backlash against her is life threatening.

1006
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:50,240
And so Blaze feels, and I'm quoting, duty bound to strap on his guns again to protect

1007
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:53,840
the woman who's got his blood riled in more ways than one.

1008
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:58,080
And once he puts down this insurrection, he's going to take up a new leisure activity, one

1009
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:04,060
that involves giving the Prissy College graduate a whole different kind of education.

1010
00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:07,040
Like everything happening here.

1011
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,680
I just know that we were both, because I think this is only her second.

1012
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:11,680
Historical.

1013
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:12,680
Historical.

1014
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,440
And we both thought she had like an extensive backlist.

1015
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,440
We were so excited to like go read more.

1016
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,920
And then there wasn't anything because she did such a good job of like selling us on

1017
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,200
this book or like her first book at Steamy Lit.

1018
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,200
Or her first historical.

1019
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,920
I think she has her first historical.

1020
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,520
Yeah, she's written other things.

1021
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,240
And so like, I just thought that she would have more history.

1022
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:36,040
Like I, she just seemed like she had more historical to give us and she didn't.

1023
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,460
And so I'm so excited.

1024
00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:39,400
I was very excited to see the cover announcement again.

1025
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:40,400
I didn't even read the summary.

1026
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:41,880
I was just like, yeah, we'll be reading.

1027
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:42,880
We'll be purchasing.

1028
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:43,880
Yeah.

1029
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:44,880
So ready.

1030
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:45,880
Oh my God.

1031
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:46,880
Bessalabra in Texas.

1032
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:53,000
We so at our cabin, we've since upgraded, but we only had like a VHS and like a DVD

1033
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,840
player for like the longest time.

1034
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,920
And I don't think that movie was like on DVD at that time.

1035
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:01,400
So we had to like scour flea markets for the best little whorehouse on Texas on VHS because

1036
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:02,400
my mom wanted it.

1037
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,120
And then we all watched it and it was very good.

1038
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,680
Also Dolly Parton was so hot.

1039
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:09,680
Still is.

1040
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:10,680
But she was so hot.

1041
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:11,680
I'm like, Dolly.

1042
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:12,680
Yes, Queen.

1043
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:13,680
Well, I'm excited.

1044
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,440
Lisa's I believe we're going to be at Steamy Lit again.

1045
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,440
Yeah, yeah.

1046
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:18,440
Yeah.

1047
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:19,680
Also Beverly Jenkins is going to be there.

1048
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:20,680
Sarah McClain.

1049
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,600
It's all coming together.

1050
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:25,800
And so will we.

1051
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,800
So so will we.

1052
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,480
Yeah, I just just right below Beverly Jenkins and Sarah McClain.

1053
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:33,480
Yeah.

1054
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:34,480
100%.

1055
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,400
That's where we need to be.

1056
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,840
Yeah, I I was like, yeah, immediate.

1057
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:42,840
Yes.

1058
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,440
I also didn't even read the description.

1059
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:46,440
Nope, I did.

1060
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:52,640
And I was like, yeah, literally auto by definition.

1061
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,720
So excited.

1062
00:49:54,720 --> 00:49:57,000
I have two ones from forever.

1063
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,200
So Hot Earl Summer by Eric Ridley and then Good Duke Gone Wild by Bethany Bennett.

1064
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,000
Summaries I also have not read.

1065
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,680
So I don't know what they're I read Hot Earl Summer.

1066
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,560
So I can tell you that I what a delight.

1067
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,580
Hot Earl Summer is Elizabeth Winchester's book.

1068
00:50:13,580 --> 00:50:19,000
She is a disabled cane user with chronic pain, but her canes all have swords in them.

1069
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:23,240
And she is constantly finding reasons to pull out said sword.

1070
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,800
And she's on her first solo mission.

1071
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,480
She shows up at this guy's castle.

1072
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:32,920
He's a bad guy, or not a bad guy, but he's in this castle and they've been hired by like

1073
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,040
an elderly aunt, something or other.

1074
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,640
Somebody's died and she's she's like, you've left the castle or the castle's been left

1075
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,160
to me and I need to turn it into an orphanage.

1076
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,400
But the Earl is the worst and he won't leave and he won't talk to me.

1077
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,120
So she shows up to quite literally hack his door down with a couple of battle axes.

1078
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,560
And when she gets in, it's like all booby trapped and she discovers that actually the

1079
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:53,800
Earl is missing.

1080
00:50:53,800 --> 00:51:00,880
And it's his reclusive inventor cousin who has been roped in by the Earl has been roped

1081
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,280
into pretending to be him.

1082
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:08,560
And meanwhile, there's a neighbor who's like really into war reenactments and fancies himself

1083
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:14,640
kind of a Wellington and he won the castle in a bet from the Earl before he disappeared.

1084
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:19,480
And so he's constantly trying to wage literal war on them.

1085
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,880
And Elizabeth is giving romance to the Duke for war.

1086
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,800
Yeah it is definitely it's so silly.

1087
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:28,600
It's so funny.

1088
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:34,640
And also they're like very into each other.

1089
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:35,640
It's not like super steamy.

1090
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:40,120
Erica's books aren't or at least the Winchester's aren't.

1091
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,240
They are open door, but it's not a ton.

1092
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:43,600
But it's just so funny.

1093
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,920
Do you know when that one's out?

1094
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,560
I have it sitting in front of me.

1095
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:48,560
It is August 6th.

1096
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:49,560
August 6th.

1097
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,360
So I think I'm just going to wait for the audiobooks.

1098
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,080
I've enjoyed all the audiobooks for the series, but I may not.

1099
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:56,080
So who knows?

1100
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,200
I mean, I like all of the Winchester's.

1101
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,720
This one is just so like full of shenanigans.

1102
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:03,960
It's a booby trapped castle.

1103
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:09,960
And also there's the woman who or whatever, whoever she was, aunt that died and left the

1104
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,320
castle.

1105
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,820
She and her husband who died before her were very into riddles.

1106
00:52:17,820 --> 00:52:22,440
And so in order to find the will that has been updated to leave the castle to this other

1107
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:29,560
lady, they have to solve a series of riddles hidden throughout the castle.

1108
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,960
I love that.

1109
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,200
Like so elaborate.

1110
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,880
And so here's a quote for you.

1111
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,960
This is again, not a book that I'm technically working on, but it's forever.

1112
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:47,020
So I, you know, all opinions are my own standard disclaimer.

1113
00:52:47,020 --> 00:52:52,480
She says something about like measure the viscosity of this and his immediate response

1114
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:58,080
is to drop to a whisper and say, and I quote, did you just say measure the viscosity?

1115
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,120
I have never heard a phrase more erotic.

1116
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,680
Prepare to lose your virginity.

1117
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:09,040
And her response is I don't have any pay attention.

1118
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,000
So those are the vibes.

1119
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,760
I am ready.

1120
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,680
And then good Duke Gunnwild, another one I have no clue what it's about, but I was thinking

1121
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:18,680
recently.

1122
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,640
I haven't read that one, but I think she's an erotic writer.

1123
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:27,840
I was, I don't know if I asked you frequently or just myself when she was going to come

1124
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:28,840
out with another book.

1125
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:29,840
And then I think it was like announced.

1126
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,360
I was like, Oh, I do remember you saying that.

1127
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,360
Yes.

1128
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:38,200
So we'll be reading, we'll be loving, very ready for that.

1129
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,960
And I'm assuming that's sometime in the summer.

1130
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:40,960
But again, I don't know.

1131
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,600
I can't, I think they talked about that one on Faded Maids.

1132
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:44,600
They did.

1133
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:45,600
Same thing with Hot Earl Summer, I believe.

1134
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,200
So that's another one that they did recommend.

1135
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,660
And I love the pink dress on this cover and the cover is very good.

1136
00:53:52,660 --> 00:53:59,200
She's got a, this is again, a book that I'm not, but she's got her finger under his chin.

1137
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,720
Yes, she does.

1138
00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:02,240
And that was so hot.

1139
00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:06,320
And his hand is like very clenched in her dress.

1140
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,400
And he's got his white billowy shirt that's hanging on for dear life.

1141
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,360
I just love the like, tipping his chin up with one finger.

1142
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:15,360
It's a great cover.

1143
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,720
This cover is, I think one of the best you guys have done recently or even within the

1144
00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:20,720
past few years.

1145
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,080
Like this is like a perfect historical romance cover.

1146
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,200
So love that.

1147
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:26,880
A bookseller and a Duke.

1148
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:27,880
Hell yeah.

1149
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,600
That's all I need to know.

1150
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:30,600
Oh my god.

1151
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:31,960
Say less actually.

1152
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,400
So when the intriguing bookseller he's hired to liquidate his late wife's library.

1153
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:36,920
So he's a widower.

1154
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,420
Oh yeah.

1155
00:54:38,420 --> 00:54:42,720
So liquidate his late wife's library finds love letters revealing an affair.

1156
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:45,920
He is drawn into a mystery alongside a lady who sharp intellect dazzles him and dares

1157
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,920
him to imagine a new adventure outside the gilded cage of the tongue.

1158
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,920
Oh, her name is Caroline.

1159
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:52,920
Really?

1160
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:53,920
Yeah.

1161
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,920
Oh, it's all coming together.

1162
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:57,920
Bethany.

1163
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,920
Squawk like a bird.

1164
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:01,920
Caroline.

1165
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:06,960
Caroline's historical tend to be bitchy.

1166
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:07,960
Or named Caro.

1167
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:08,960
Or named Caro.

1168
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:09,960
It's one or the other.

1169
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,360
Hannah's are always the maids.

1170
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,760
Like nine times out of ten I'm a poor serving lunch or like a poor maid.

1171
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:15,760
So servant.

1172
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,200
So honestly not too far, far off from reality.

1173
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,200
There have been a few.

1174
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:22,200
There's a Caroline Lyndon.

1175
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,320
I think that's Caroline Lyndon.

1176
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:25,320
Which was great.

1177
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:26,320
She got railed real nice.

1178
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:27,320
Good for her.

1179
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,480
I remember that she was like a widow.

1180
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,040
Obviously her husband didn't know how to have sex.

1181
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,040
Right.

1182
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:34,040
Well, he's dead.

1183
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:35,040
So that tracks.

1184
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,040
Yeah.

1185
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,400
Well, and then that one was fun because she meets a guy and then he's like, I'm going

1186
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,280
to marry you.

1187
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,760
But then they get to the altar and it's his brother up at the altar because the guy was

1188
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,640
playing a trick on them both.

1189
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:51,480
And then they get married because the one brother is like too starchy to refuse.

1190
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,560
But then he's like super angry and very cold for like half the book.

1191
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,240
And then it's just very good.

1192
00:55:58,240 --> 00:55:59,240
What was that called?

1193
00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:01,160
Because I can't just leave you here without.

1194
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,560
It's in my heroines named Hannah shelf.

1195
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,600
So I'll find it quickly.

1196
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,280
Cause I do document that because it just gives me a good love retirement.

1197
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:10,280
I'm not a maid.

1198
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:14,280
That's so valid.

1199
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,440
And I do also include Diana Quincy's Hannah, but spelled differently.

1200
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,680
That one was what a gentleman wants by Caroline Lyndon.

1201
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:23,680
Caroline.

1202
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:24,680
Yes.

1203
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:25,680
It's true.

1204
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:26,680
Yeah.

1205
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,880
My review was I love when a widow has a chance to get absolutely real.

1206
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,240
It's really good for them.

1207
00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:33,240
Yep.

1208
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:34,840
And she had a cute kid, I believe.

1209
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,480
So loved that.

1210
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:41,480
And then the dynamic Quincy one was the desk cover one.

1211
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,480
The bike out made me do it.

1212
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:43,480
And there are a few others.

1213
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,200
So there's that.

1214
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,200
Did you have another one?

1215
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:47,200
I have one more.

1216
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,200
Okay.

1217
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:51,200
I do have one more as well.

1218
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,200
Excellent.

1219
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,560
So the founding oaths by Alexis Hall comes out August 27th.

1220
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,920
And this is another mortal follies book.

1221
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:00,920
Okay.

1222
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,560
So yes, mortal follies.

1223
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:04,880
Another book that I love.

1224
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,640
This is one that I'm like this.

1225
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:12,400
It doesn't matter to me if anybody else likes it because it was written for me.

1226
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:13,400
Yes.

1227
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:14,960
So the target audience was satisfied.

1228
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:15,960
That one.

1229
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:16,960
I don't know if this one is the same again.

1230
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:17,960
I haven't read it.

1231
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,760
That one was narrated by Puck or Robin Goodfellow.

1232
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:28,760
So you have this third narrator character who's narrating this magical historical fantasy

1233
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:33,160
romance that was also sapphic.

1234
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,180
And it was just perfect.

1235
00:57:35,180 --> 00:57:37,520
It was just a goddamn delight.

1236
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:38,520
And I love to see it.

1237
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,080
So this one, I don't know much about it.

1238
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,160
I know that it's called Confounding Oaths and I know that it's coming out August 27th

1239
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,280
and I know that it's set in the same world.

1240
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,040
And this one is about a nobleman who must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister

1241
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:55,880
from a mystical bargain bargain gone wrong.

1242
00:57:55,880 --> 00:58:02,160
So he is orchestrating a successful coming out for his younger sister.

1243
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:06,400
But according to the description, he is thwarted by the various interventions of a ragtag regiment

1244
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:12,400
of soldiers, a mysterious military cult, and a malicious fairy godmother.

1245
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:18,920
So his sister gets cursed by the Fair Folk and he has to work with the stolidly working

1246
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:24,200
class yet inescapably heroic Captain James to rescue her.

1247
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:25,200
That's an introduction.

1248
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:26,200
Yes.

1249
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:27,200
Love a captain.

1250
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:28,200
I want to get more into pirates.

1251
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,600
I know he's not a pirate, but I need more pirates in my life.

1252
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:33,600
I bought a lot of pirate romance.

1253
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:37,520
I want to get more into pirates.

1254
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,840
I want pirates to get more into me if I'm being honest.

1255
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:40,840
So real.

1256
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:48,680
I just had such a good streak of pirate romances that they really can't be rivaled.

1257
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:53,680
Unless another pirate wants to fight for me then they can be rivals.

1258
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:54,680
Wow.

1259
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:55,680
And lovers.

1260
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:56,680
Wow.

1261
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,800
Well, he's not a pirate.

1262
00:58:58,800 --> 00:58:59,800
He's a soldier.

1263
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:06,800
But they're trying to save this guy's sister from the curse of a malicious fae.

1264
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:07,800
I love that.

1265
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:08,800
I need to reread.

1266
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:13,240
I need to read book when that's another audio book where my brain got 10 minutes into it,

1267
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,400
where physically I was three hours into it.

1268
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:16,400
Yep.

1269
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,760
I read it, I think three or four times.

1270
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:24,120
So it's probably one that I should just read either if I'm not doing anything else and

1271
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,320
just listen to the audio book or just read physically because I liked it.

1272
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:33,240
Again, I just did not comprehend anything that I listened to.

1273
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,200
So that one, that one was going to be good.

1274
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:41,680
And then this next one is again, ones that I truly don't know the quality.

1275
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:46,120
I don't know anything, but there's this thing called the rake review.

1276
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:51,200
And it's a it's indie published and they're all in Kindle Limited.

1277
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,720
And then every month you get a book for the month, but it's like are centered around the

1278
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,720
month that it's in.

1279
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:01,640
So like in May, I read One Fine May by Courtney McCaskill.

1280
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:02,640
That one was very good.

1281
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:03,640
She's a very good author.

1282
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,640
And then she sent me the calendar that they made for it.

1283
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,320
So like I have on my wall, the Scott who made June hot.

1284
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:11,320
And it's like a man.

1285
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,320
He's in a kilt.

1286
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,600
He also has like a fanny pack.

1287
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,600
I bought that for him.

1288
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,280
So like that's my Fenton Edgewood.

1289
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:20,780
So that's for June.

1290
01:00:20,780 --> 01:00:28,120
And then for July, it is Ruthless Rivals three point seven.

1291
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:29,880
But the rake review number seven.

1292
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,680
So it's for July and that's my birth month.

1293
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,280
So I'm very excited because it's Kate Bateman.

1294
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:35,520
So love that.

1295
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,560
So it's indie published independent of her other series.

1296
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:39,560
God bless.

1297
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:40,800
That's a Kate Bateman I can read and talk about.

1298
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:41,800
I know.

1299
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:42,800
Boycotting the publisher.

1300
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:43,800
I know.

1301
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,080
So she also has one that you should read.

1302
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,320
Phantom of Drury Lane.

1303
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:49,640
That's also another indie that she did.

1304
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,520
So she does a lot of like cool like indie collaborations.

1305
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,040
So I do think this one is technically in that series that we can't talk about, but it's

1306
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:58,040
indie.

1307
01:00:58,040 --> 01:00:59,040
So nice.

1308
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:00,040
Very excited for that.

1309
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:01,520
And it won't come out obviously to July 1st.

1310
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:06,040
And then in August is an heiress for August by Kathleen Ayers.

1311
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,920
And again, I know nothing about these books, but I will be reading Kate Bateman because

1312
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:10,920
I love her.

1313
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,640
I'll just read the other two because I want to read more indie.

1314
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:19,040
And I just love the theme of it and the fact that I have the calendars.

1315
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,560
It just makes me kind of sentimental.

1316
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:23,560
And I love novellas.

1317
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:27,960
I need more novellas in my life because sometimes my attention just can't handle it.

1318
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,840
So there is that.

1319
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,520
And then the only other one, again, I don't know anything is The Lady's Mistake by Cara

1320
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:35,520
Devlin.

1321
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:39,000
I think I've seen Dani at Overflowing Bookshelf.

1322
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,520
I think she's read Cara Devlin.

1323
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:41,520
I think she really likes her.

1324
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,520
And I saw this one on Netgalley in the cover.

1325
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:46,520
Caught my eye.

1326
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:52,120
But again, I don't know what The Lady's Mistake.

1327
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,360
Cara Devlin.

1328
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,480
The Lady's Last Mistake.

1329
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,880
Something about a scandalous secret.

1330
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,360
She was, was she pregnant?

1331
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:03,560
I don't know.

1332
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:07,520
It seems dramatic and fun and has good reviews.

1333
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,000
And I've heard her writing is very good.

1334
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,560
And it's part of the Beaux Street Duchess Mystery series.

1335
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,720
So there's a little bit of mystery, Beaux Street.

1336
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,280
All the things I love.

1337
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:19,640
And that's June 15th.

1338
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:21,400
And it's indie, I think.

1339
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:22,400
So boo, yeah.

1340
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:23,400
There you go.

1341
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:29,600
I do have four contemporaries that I was literally just going to zoom through.

1342
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:34,160
We've done pretty good on time.

1343
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:35,240
I'm impressed.

1344
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,120
I'm just going to run through them and not really say too much about them.

1345
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:43,480
The first one is, of course, Crossed a Line by Simone Soltani, which comes out July 23rd.

1346
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:47,000
It's already out in the UK, but from Berkeley it comes out July 23rd.

1347
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,000
And it's a Formula One romance.

1348
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:56,440
I like our brother's best friend, F1 driver, social media manager.

1349
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:58,840
I hear nothing but wonderful things.

1350
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:03,160
And I have been meaning to read this or wanting to read it since before it was traditionally

1351
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:04,160
acquired.

1352
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,800
It's exciting.

1353
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,440
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood comes out June 11th.

1354
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:10,640
I haven't read her.

1355
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,280
Her last couple of books have been sitting on my TBR for a million years and I just have

1356
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,000
not gotten to them even though everyone raves about them.

1357
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,120
This one is interesting to me because it's been divisive.

1358
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,680
Some people have hated it.

1359
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:25,720
However, I did go to happy hour last night with Alice.

1360
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:31,240
Alice is booked and our lovely friend, Sand, friend of the pod at Baskin Sons.

1361
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:37,200
And both of them loved this book and are willing to fight people who are saying absolutely

1362
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:40,720
nonsense things about it not being good.

1363
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:41,720
There's no infidelity.

1364
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:42,720
Let me say that.

1365
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:46,720
They said that there is no infidelity and a lot of the discussion around it is people

1366
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,840
being mad about infidelity and there like isn't.

1367
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:58,180
I saw Ali has at the beginning a note saying that it's not really a romcom.

1368
01:03:58,180 --> 01:04:02,240
It's more of an erotic romance with an ATA which intrigued me.

1369
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,800
I think Susanna Reads posted that the other day.

1370
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,880
Well, interestingly, that came up during the discussion.

1371
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:13,200
Sand said that's not in like her physical arc I want to say.

1372
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,920
She said that Alice said it is in her digital arc and so they think she added that.

1373
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:17,920
It was a digital arc I think.

1374
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:18,920
After the fact.

1375
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,600
Like after people started being like this.

1376
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,800
They were mad that it was different from some of her other books.

1377
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,600
Which is intriguing because I don't know what it is.

1378
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,800
There are some authors or books that like I will read a book by theirs and not like

1379
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,760
it and then still read their books.

1380
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,480
And there are some where like I'll read one that I'll just never read their book again.

1381
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:42,240
But like I don't really know what dictates that.

1382
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,320
But so I read the love hypothesis and I wasn't a fan.

1383
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,520
So I haven't read anything else by Ali Hazelwood.

1384
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:48,740
But I mean I've heard nothing but good things.

1385
01:04:48,740 --> 01:04:53,480
And so this one definitely got me intrigued and I have the I think I have the ALC and

1386
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:56,040
access to the arc if I want it.

1387
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,120
So like I feel like this may be the one.

1388
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,840
I've heard this is very horny.

1389
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:02,840
Because they read.

1390
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:03,840
I'm down for that.

1391
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:05,960
Not another love song and this one back to back.

1392
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,920
Both or both of them read them around the same time and not another love song.

1393
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:10,920
Also a forever book.

1394
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,040
Also possibly one of the horniest books I've ever read.

1395
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:14,040
I'm obsessed with it.

1396
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:18,320
I'm also waiting for the audiobook for that one.

1397
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:21,280
This also is just deeply horny.

1398
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:25,360
Like I just feel like maybe since it's not like a rom maybe that doesn't give it romcom.

1399
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,160
Like maybe I'll like that more.

1400
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:32,400
Because I just wasn't like there were things I didn't really like about the love hypothesis.

1401
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,620
Just like writing wise and stuff.

1402
01:05:35,620 --> 01:05:41,680
But like I've given other authors other chances and stuff.

1403
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:45,480
So this one I feel like maybe the one that I read again.

1404
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,200
Because I have seen really good things about it.

1405
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:49,560
I haven't seen any of the negative stuff.

1406
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,120
So that is interesting to me.

1407
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:52,120
Yeah.

1408
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:53,120
I wonder.

1409
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,720
There were just things about like oh they got sent.

1410
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:00,040
Like somebody saw that they had read it and was like here's like a really terrible review

1411
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:01,040
they saw.

1412
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,400
But here's my thing.

1413
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:05,320
Y'all who are really really overly.

1414
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,680
It's one thing to just be like I'm not a big fan of cheating in romance.

1415
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,480
But there's like a subset of readers who are like if there's even a whiff of infidelity

1416
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:17,800
they will go on a rampage against the book and talk about like is this a safe book to

1417
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:18,800
read?

1418
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:23,360
Like guys, guys, people are bad people sometimes.

1419
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:24,360
Yeah.

1420
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,520
Well because I mean I'm not a fan.

1421
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:29,720
Like I definitely don't enjoy it.

1422
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:33,960
But like I love in the Beverly Jenkins was I think it was book one that you just read

1423
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,680
Destiny's Embrace.

1424
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,940
I mean he was trying to go like sleep with another woman.

1425
01:06:39,940 --> 01:06:41,940
But he physically couldn't.

1426
01:06:41,940 --> 01:06:43,360
Like and I think that's so funny.

1427
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:44,360
He's had up every time.

1428
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:45,360
Yeah.

1429
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:46,740
Like technically like he met the heroine already.

1430
01:06:46,740 --> 01:06:51,680
Like he was trying and then he was trying to like go and get her out of his system.

1431
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:52,680
But it didn't work.

1432
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:53,680
Like he could not get hard.

1433
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:54,680
So like I think that was very fun.

1434
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:57,960
But I feel like that would be crossing the line maybe for some type of readers.

1435
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,840
I straight up don't care if they're not together yet.

1436
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:02,160
Even if they've met.

1437
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:04,720
I don't care.

1438
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:09,400
I don't I mean I don't want to read and I think it's I don't think I've ever read where

1439
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:14,160
like they are explicitly together and one of them cheats to my knowledge.

1440
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:15,160
Yeah.

1441
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:16,160
I've ever read that.

1442
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:19,240
I like at the beginning, you know, like the Sarah McLane one and stuff like that.

1443
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:20,920
But like that's different.

1444
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:21,920
That's true.

1445
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:23,320
But that if it's at the start then it's like a second show.

1446
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,000
We have to come back from that.

1447
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,000
Yeah.

1448
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:32,200
And I've seen like a few authors talk about how like everything is so squeaky clean and

1449
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,520
so moral.

1450
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,040
It's so boring and so boring.

1451
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:41,160
Like I've still like all the books that I've talked about are very fun.

1452
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,760
And like all of that and there are some like the by count in love.

1453
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:48,120
Like I feel like Eloise, I kind of gave you a hero who you're kind of like, what the fuck

1454
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:49,120
for some of it.

1455
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:52,360
But it made it fun because then by the end I was like, OK, I can definitely see like

1456
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:58,520
why like why she loves him because now I love him and like he is so great.

1457
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,040
But like he was not a perfect character.

1458
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:02,040
And so I think it's very interesting.

1459
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:06,720
So I think we had a conversation at Simulite with a few of the authors just about kind

1460
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,960
of like what they enjoyed in historical romance and like some of the trends and stuff and

1461
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:13,280
what they're seeing now.

1462
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:22,080
And it is interesting that everything is very, you know, groups of women, like white women

1463
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:28,080
in historical romance, like being very preachy and stuff.

1464
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:29,080
I mean, even the.

1465
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:31,480
Well, it's the readers, too, because the second that you.

1466
01:08:31,480 --> 01:08:33,600
Well, that's exactly because that's yes.

1467
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:34,600
Right.

1468
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,000
Almost dictating at this point.

1469
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,000
Yeah, because the second that you write anything with a character who does something immoral,

1470
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:47,360
you're going to get tons of read also probably mainly white women, but tons of readers jumping

1471
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:54,040
on it and being like there's this inability for so many people to separate like.

1472
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:58,120
Just because a character does something bad does not mean that the book is endorsing this

1473
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:01,160
bad thing.

1474
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:04,560
And so it's like, well, this is problematic because this character cheated.

1475
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:09,680
No, that's I mean, it's one thing to just not like reading it.

1476
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:14,200
I don't care if you don't like that's fine, whatever you're allowed to have your preferences.

1477
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:20,920
But to be like on a rampage, one star problematic X, Y, Z, like.

1478
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:25,040
Could it be that that's your personal taste and there's nothing immoral about writing

1479
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:30,040
characters who do immoral things because we all do immoral things and that makes it more

1480
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,320
interesting.

1481
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:34,320
I do agree.

1482
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:35,320
Like I just couldn't.

1483
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:41,000
And I'm not a fan of like certain things, but there are other things that make it so

1484
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:46,240
juicy and dramatic and fun and interesting and different.

1485
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,240
I'm just like thinking of Sherry Thomas and like there's a difference between you saying

1486
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:53,600
I don't like to read that and saying this is inherently problematic and no one should

1487
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:54,600
write about it.

1488
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:55,600
Yep.

1489
01:09:55,600 --> 01:10:00,160
And it would be very hard to be an author, especially an author of color, because they're

1490
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,560
even held to even more standards.

1491
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:04,560
And it's crazy.

1492
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:09,920
There's a book I'm working on right now, which is kind of why the conversation came up.

1493
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:14,560
So I won't say what book, but it has a.

1494
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,800
And it's also like a white straight author.

1495
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,200
So like it's not even whatever.

1496
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:26,080
But it has a female main character who, because of certain things about the way she was raised,

1497
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:27,080
has affected her.

1498
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:28,680
Like she's mean.

1499
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,600
She's mean and she does mean things to people that she loves.

1500
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:36,120
And that's like explicitly explored in the text and her like reckoning with that and

1501
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,040
trying to like she's self aware.

1502
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,840
Those are some of my favorite heroines that I love.

1503
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:46,520
Like, yeah, I also I'm like, oh, I love like she's mean and she knows it.

1504
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:50,920
And she and the hero have this very like.

1505
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:52,380
What's the word I'm looking for?

1506
01:10:52,380 --> 01:10:54,360
Like not the healthiest relationship.

1507
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:55,680
Yeah.

1508
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:59,640
Because they both have these like traumatic things that they are actively working through.

1509
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,840
And sometimes that comes out in not healthy ways.

1510
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:07,040
And that was just like so it's so fun for me to read these like two not always good

1511
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:12,720
people trying to reckon with that and the way that they are like self aware of their

1512
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,120
problems, but almost self sabotaging.

1513
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:20,440
And like the way that the reviews for this book have been so mixed, which doesn't surprise

1514
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:21,440
me.

1515
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:24,120
I read it and I was like, this is a book that you're either going to love or it's like not

1516
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:25,120
for you.

1517
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,120
Absolutely not.

1518
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,120
Which I think is normal and fine.

1519
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:33,040
But the way that so many of the bad reviews that I have seen have been people being like,

1520
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:37,280
I just hated this female main character like she was awful and terrible in XYZ.

1521
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:42,520
And I'm like, you cannot ask me for complex, realistic women in romance.

1522
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:48,120
And then when you're given a complex, realistic, flawed woman who does not act perfectly, you

1523
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,000
should on the book.

1524
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:55,620
That's what I've seen criticism about Rissam Nielsen's A Love Like the Sun.

1525
01:11:55,620 --> 01:11:57,040
Because I enjoyed the third act.

1526
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:00,960
I knew where it was going and I can see why people didn't like it for that almost exact

1527
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:01,960
reason.

1528
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:07,280
But like of there was not the right thing for her to do.

1529
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:09,480
But literally everything in her character led her to that.

1530
01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:11,960
Like you knew it would have been odd for it not to happen.

1531
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,040
You're like, yeah, that you right.

1532
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:19,040
Because I mean, I mean, the entire like undercurrent of the book was she was being gaslit by her

1533
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:21,880
doctor and not being taken seriously.

1534
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:26,800
And she was like, I'm feeling all these things and he's just not taking it seriously.

1535
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,720
And it was a very poignant thing.

1536
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:33,480
And I had seen Riss talk at a Berkeley influencer event, like talk about it.

1537
01:12:33,480 --> 01:12:37,400
And so I knew a little bit more context and maybe some other readers.

1538
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:42,080
But like, one, I found that fascinating because I think it's a very real issue.

1539
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:48,240
Two, it made her do things that maybe I wouldn't do.

1540
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:49,440
But how do I know I wouldn't do that?

1541
01:12:49,440 --> 01:12:52,240
But even if it doesn't matter what I would do, because it's like it was not about it

1542
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:53,520
was what the character exactly.

1543
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:54,720
It's what the character was doing.

1544
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,040
And like, I understood.

1545
01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:59,520
And like, it made it interesting because, again, like I knew where the third act was

1546
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:01,440
going because of like specific things.

1547
01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:03,040
And like, it was not a mystery.

1548
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:06,440
But I enjoyed how every character reacted to that.

1549
01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:07,720
I enjoyed what happened.

1550
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:10,580
I enjoyed what it led to.

1551
01:13:10,580 --> 01:13:14,720
And like, I don't like it wasn't coming from a place of like harm or anything.

1552
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,640
Like it just made sense.

1553
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:17,640
Like it made a lot of sense.

1554
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:21,800
But like, I've seen criticism of the third act and of things.

1555
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,560
And I'm like, I don't know, like it was dramatic.

1556
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:24,680
It did what I needed to do.

1557
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,320
Like it made a very romantic book.

1558
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,600
Like at the end, like I loved what it did.

1559
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,320
I knew it was coming.

1560
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:34,640
Like it would have been weird to subvert a third act because it would have been very

1561
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:35,640
odd to me.

1562
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:41,400
Like I wondered if so much of this like one besides the misogyny of always needing a squeaky

1563
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:46,200
clean, squeaky clean heroine and you don't hold the mailman character to the same standards.

1564
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:47,200
Obviously there's that.

1565
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:57,800
But the like the absolute abhorrence of like cheating or any other immoral thing and the

1566
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,720
criticism of like, well, I wouldn't do that in the third act or the like insistence on

1567
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,520
a lack of a third act breakup.

1568
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:08,680
All of this to me comes down to people who are exclusively reading for a self insert,

1569
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,560
which isn't a bad thing in itself.

1570
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,680
It's not bad to self insert when you read.

1571
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:14,720
I do it sometimes.

1572
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,320
I do it with every book, but sometimes it's really easy to do.

1573
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:18,320
Pirates.

1574
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:22,120
But it's the only thing that you are doing when you are reading is reading for self insert.

1575
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:25,400
Number one, you're missing so much of what the books are doing.

1576
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,760
And number two, suddenly you're holding it to weird standards like that.

1577
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:30,760
Like, well, I wouldn't have done that in the third act.

1578
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,000
And it's like, it's not about what you would have done.

1579
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,800
It's about this character.

1580
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,280
And then I also saw people, I'm like, it's showing a point.

1581
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:38,280
Like it is illustrating.

1582
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:40,680
Like this book is working two different things.

1583
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,680
It's working the romance pot line, but it's also working this woman who is being gaslit

1584
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,880
and misled by her doctor.

1585
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,520
She's not supposed to see what she's missing at the beginning of the book.

1586
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:51,680
Because so many people are like, oh, like she's so dumb.

1587
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:53,000
Like, why didn't she notice this?

1588
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,760
Like, she's just like, and I'm like, but that's not what the book is trying to do.

1589
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:00,880
Like, what interest would that be if like right at page one, she was like, oh, my doctor

1590
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:02,040
doesn't know what's wrong.

1591
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:03,360
I'm going to go get a second opinion.

1592
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:05,880
I'm like, she had to work through the entire book to get there.

1593
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,920
And everyone knew all the things.

1594
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:13,800
And if there was no conflict and no one ever did anything bad, there would be no book.

1595
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,480
That's the exact like and I love a low angst book.

1596
01:15:16,480 --> 01:15:19,560
I love when things can be just done.

1597
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:25,040
But again, the low angst books that I love still have in like they're so romantic and

1598
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:29,520
they still do things and they still have third acts that are interesting.

1599
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:30,680
And that makes sense for the book.

1600
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:35,840
They're not just like, oh, we're not going to have any push internal conflict.

1601
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,560
Yes, exactly.

1602
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:38,560
Yeah.

1603
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:41,520
Or like there still has to be some kind of internal conflict.

1604
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:42,520
Well, no.

1605
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,560
I mean, I love a mean heroine.

1606
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:47,440
Like I honestly in the worst you can London, I wanted her to be meaner.

1607
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:51,160
I'm like, girl, let let your mean flag fly.

1608
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:55,560
I was like, I want you to yell at some people.

1609
01:15:55,560 --> 01:16:01,920
There was a book that is by Lisa Byrne, The Redemption of Philip Thane.

1610
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:03,400
And it's like a Groundhog Day book.

1611
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,600
And it got terrible reviews.

1612
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,440
And I read it and like some of the reviews were like it was just so repetitive because

1613
01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:09,440
it was Groundhog Day.

1614
01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:10,640
I'm like, I can see that.

1615
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:12,480
But he was a shitty character at the beginning.

1616
01:16:12,480 --> 01:16:15,480
Like he was a horrible person.

1617
01:16:15,480 --> 01:16:19,020
And I mean, he was like banging all these wenches and like doing all this stuff.

1618
01:16:19,020 --> 01:16:23,900
And then like in Groundhog Day, obviously, I'm like one look at the inspiration.

1619
01:16:23,900 --> 01:16:25,800
Was Bill Murray a great character?

1620
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:26,800
No.

1621
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:32,560
But I just think it made it such an interesting book because like by the end, I really enjoyed

1622
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:34,080
him and like I really liked it.

1623
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,880
Same thing with the Stacey Reed and Earl to remember.

1624
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:41,600
Like so many reviews didn't get past the first 30 percent because he was a horrible person

1625
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:42,600
at the beginning.

1626
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:43,600
I'm like, have you seen Overboard?

1627
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:48,760
Even if you don't haven't seen Overboard, aren't you fascinated as to why he's that

1628
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:49,760
way?

1629
01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:50,760
Like it was so.

1630
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:52,160
Do you have no concept of character development?

1631
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:53,160
Yeah.

1632
01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:59,000
Like it's almost always better for me in a book if at least one, if not both of the characters

1633
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:04,120
starts from a this isn't a good person or they are doing a bad thing, even if they're

1634
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:05,920
not bad in their core.

1635
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:06,920
You know what I mean?

1636
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,600
Like you have to start low in order to have a satisfying arc.

1637
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:11,600
Yeah.

1638
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:14,640
Well, the Vivian Lorette one that's coming out in August, so that should also be on your

1639
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:15,640
guys's list.

1640
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,120
I mean, he is arguably doing a bad thing at the beginning.

1641
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:24,240
Like he is blackmailing her and he is like lying to everyone.

1642
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:26,440
But I'm like, I enjoyed it.

1643
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:28,360
I mean, that one is a very silly campy book.

1644
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:34,240
Like it's not really this, but even then, like most of the time you do want something

1645
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:35,240
like that.

1646
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,640
It's one thing if you have a bad character who is not like the author does not redeem

1647
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:43,960
them sufficiently or how I do experience is not as gravel is a thing that I feel like,

1648
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:48,160
especially with heroes, they don't have to grovel enough or they don't grovel enough

1649
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,280
just in a very satisfying way.

1650
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:57,040
I also feel like they're better grovels in slightly older historicals because now authors

1651
01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,720
are again being dictated by readers who will give them terrible reviews.

1652
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:05,800
And a lot of authors feel like they can't start low with a character because readers

1653
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,280
will DNF it in 10% and be like, oh, he was horrible.

1654
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,320
And it's like, would you keep reading the book?

1655
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:11,320
He has to get better.

1656
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:12,320
Yeah.

1657
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:18,320
Well, that's always heroes because everyone's afraid of writing a God forbid a heroine starts

1658
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,040
in a bad place.

1659
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,640
Which is crazy because it's like even for me, the cold hearted rake, like when I first

1660
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,320
read that book, I was in some type of mood.

1661
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,200
And I mean, I just listened to I think the first hour and then I DNF it because like

1662
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,120
all the reviews were like, he never got better.

1663
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:34,600
He was an ass objectively incorrect.

1664
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:35,960
It is objectively incorrect.

1665
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:37,480
But like I was there.

1666
01:18:37,480 --> 01:18:39,120
Like I also felt that way.

1667
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:40,560
Like I don't even know what I was going through.

1668
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:41,560
Yeah.

1669
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:43,880
But if you had started it and you were like, I hate this man.

1670
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,200
And then you had gone to the reviews.

1671
01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,480
And if the reviews were like, he gets so much better.

1672
01:18:48,480 --> 01:18:50,040
Would you have kept reading?

1673
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:51,040
Yeah.

1674
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:52,040
Yeah.

1675
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:54,720
Because I literally in my initial review was like, it seems to be the case that he doesn't

1676
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:55,720
improve.

1677
01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:56,720
I'm not going to waste my time.

1678
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:57,720
Like that's literally what I wrote.

1679
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:03,360
And then like when I read it, I was like, I was like that man.

1680
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:08,360
And it's also I see people have criticism with marrying Winterborn as well.

1681
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,920
I mean, most people, most people love that book.

1682
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,120
But there are some people who think he is like a terrible Reese Winterborn doesn't even

1683
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:17,160
start as a terrible person.

1684
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:18,920
I love that man.

1685
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,480
I mean, I'm like, guys, he's hot.

1686
01:19:21,480 --> 01:19:23,960
I'm on the devil's daughter now with Mary Reed.

1687
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:28,000
And honestly, it should be the daughter.

1688
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:35,240
I love him because Sebastian is like, dude, like you need like get on that.

1689
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:36,240
Like what are you doing?

1690
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:37,240
That's so real.

1691
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:42,560
Sebastian pulls his weight in that book.

1692
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:46,120
He said, oh, sorry, I didn't know you needed to marry a milk stop.

1693
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:52,480
Like, he's literally like, I raised a fucking coward of a daughter.

1694
01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:57,400
And it's just it's I'm enjoying it the most I have on any reread of that book, because

1695
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,240
I just for some reason, I'm like in the mood for it.

1696
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:02,240
Like it's so good.

1697
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:05,400
Obviously, you knew that.

1698
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:11,240
But yeah, I just feel like it's interesting to see what's being written now in historical

1699
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:18,320
and like what ones like what's happening in the feeling about the like morality standards.

1700
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:25,360
I mean, so many like so insightful readers that I know talk about like romance is not

1701
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:26,880
an instruction manual.

1702
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:31,040
Its job is not to teach you or oftentimes they do teach you about things.

1703
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:38,200
But like their job is not to teach you or to be a moral like what is the word I'm looking

1704
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:41,280
for?

1705
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:43,600
You should not be looking to this for morality lessons.

1706
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:45,400
Yeah, that's not the point.

1707
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:49,640
Well, it's like I understand like there are some books that just do it poorly, like from

1708
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:52,600
a craft standpoint, from a writing standpoint, from a character development, like there are

1709
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:56,200
some that like, I think sometimes there needs to be more editorial work, like pushing the

1710
01:20:56,200 --> 01:21:00,440
writer to do more and make these characters give us more.

1711
01:21:00,440 --> 01:21:03,320
But like, that's separate.

1712
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:04,320
Right.

1713
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,600
Well, that's like not wanting anything.

1714
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:12,200
The book that I'm working on that I will not name, but that I have feelings about.

1715
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:13,200
Yeah.

1716
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:16,400
Like if I see a one star review where they're just like, I really did like struggle with

1717
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:17,400
XYZ.

1718
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:18,400
But I'm like, okay.

1719
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,120
I mean, I disagree just because I like the book that I'm working on.

1720
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:24,840
But like, I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong.

1721
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:29,400
Like that's it's the ones where they explicitly are like I DNF'd at whatever percent she's

1722
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,360
horrible where I'm like, that's a frustrating review to me.

1723
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:37,480
One that's often why I don't DNF because I don't like to make those broad claims.

1724
01:21:37,480 --> 01:21:38,480
Right.

1725
01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:40,440
Without knowing the rest of the context.

1726
01:21:40,440 --> 01:21:41,440
Right.

1727
01:21:41,440 --> 01:21:42,440
Because I want to be able to back myself up.

1728
01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:43,440
And I can continue.

1729
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:46,880
Yeah, because you understand the concept of character arcs.

1730
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:49,400
DNF totally you guys if you want to.

1731
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:52,120
But like, that's why personally for me, I like to argue.

1732
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:54,560
So like, I like to read things fully to then have.

1733
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:58,160
Well, but it's one thing to just like to talk about the craft or to be like this didn't

1734
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:01,760
six or even to say like, she wasn't successfully.

1735
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:02,760
Yeah.

1736
01:22:02,760 --> 01:22:04,240
Like if you I disagree with you.

1737
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,920
But if you got to the end and you were like, I don't think that this character did the

1738
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,140
work and that's your whatever.

1739
01:22:09,140 --> 01:22:11,280
But if you're just like, I hated her and she was mean.

1740
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:12,880
I'm like, OK.

1741
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:17,520
I'm like, I'm also mean.

1742
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:18,520
I enjoy reading.

1743
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:19,520
Like, they're just fun.

1744
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:23,880
I mean, one of my favorite like YA books is like a Taming of the Shrew retelling.

1745
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:27,480
And she starts off as like a pretty like a mean girl in high school.

1746
01:22:27,480 --> 01:22:29,440
And I just thought it was so fascinating.

1747
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:30,760
The journey she had to go on.

1748
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:36,360
And like I it's if I'm being honest by Austin Sigmund Broca and Emily Wibberley, my favorite

1749
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:37,640
book by them.

1750
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:43,600
And I just loved the journey that she went on because, again, she was not a great person,

1751
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:44,600
but she's also in high school.

1752
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:50,520
So like she doesn't need to be a good person, like great.

1753
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:51,760
Like it.

1754
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:54,720
Yeah, it's just so interesting.

1755
01:22:54,720 --> 01:23:03,100
Also why do you need someone to be completely like morally irreprehensible to enjoy their

1756
01:23:03,100 --> 01:23:06,440
story or to feel like they deserve to find an H.E.A.?

1757
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:11,400
Yeah, there is not one person in real life who is perfect and is morally untouchable.

1758
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:17,800
Well, it's also interesting to see where romance started to see where it's now come to and

1759
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:22,640
just like that whole thing or that like that whole like timeline of like the different

1760
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,600
trends of like things.

1761
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:29,520
Because I know like even now, like whenever I recommend like Lady Pirate by Lindsay Sands

1762
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:36,560
or anything pre like 2010, I'm always like just so I'm off the hook, know that it was

1763
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:40,960
written that because I'm like every situation they got into in Lady Pirate was fan fucking

1764
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:41,960
tastic.

1765
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:49,720
But like I can definitely see where I want to just preface because like I don't I don't

1766
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:54,120
want that responsibility of people, I don't know, being angry.

1767
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,680
But I wish that book could be published today.

1768
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,280
Beloved like it happened one autumn and devil in winter.

1769
01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:02,000
Yeah, it's some people like newer readers.

1770
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:06,440
Like revisions and stuff that is also interesting to look at.

1771
01:24:06,440 --> 01:24:08,520
Oh, well, yes, that's a whole separate.

1772
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,720
We could do a whole other separate episode on that.

1773
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:15,320
But like, looking at the people who read a lot of historicals and the people whose opinions

1774
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:20,720
I really trust and are willing to, you know, not do all of the things that we have discussed

1775
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,120
and are willing to just be like, yeah, you know what, he does kidnap the heroine of the

1776
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:25,280
previous book.

1777
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:30,000
And he does it's understood you read in Devil in Winter that he would not have actually

1778
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:31,000
done this.

1779
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:33,640
But he threatens to forcibly marry and rape her.

1780
01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:35,600
Yeah, he doesn't.

1781
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:38,700
And then again, in the second book, you come to understand that that was an empty threat.

1782
01:24:38,700 --> 01:24:43,920
But like, even if it is an empty threat, not an OK thing to do.

1783
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:51,520
But like, Sebastian is one of the most beloved historical romance heroes of all time, because

1784
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,160
Lisa Clayfister really did that.

1785
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:55,760
And the book is like, I'm so good.

1786
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:56,760
Yeah.

1787
01:24:56,760 --> 01:24:57,760
I'm obviously guilty.

1788
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,720
I mean, some of the old old school books I read, I don't think I just fucking hate this.

1789
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,520
It'd be like that sometimes.

1790
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:03,520
Yeah.

1791
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:07,560
Like I mean, personally, the writing and some of them was not for me.

1792
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:11,240
But then you have a thing where like in the Lorraine Heath one where I was enjoying 75%

1793
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:15,800
of the book and then the third act just I was like, what the hell is happening?

1794
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:18,460
But there's even The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson.

1795
01:25:18,460 --> 01:25:23,460
I already read it and I think it already came out to like not as relevant for summer.

1796
01:25:23,460 --> 01:25:24,460
But I don't think it's a summer book.

1797
01:25:24,460 --> 01:25:25,460
It's baseball.

1798
01:25:25,460 --> 01:25:26,460
Hasn't it?

1799
01:25:26,460 --> 01:25:27,460
I don't think it's out.

1800
01:25:27,460 --> 01:25:31,200
Oh, no, it's June 11th or June 11th.

1801
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:33,680
Oh, why haven't I have?

1802
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:38,640
I don't think it's out yet because I remember seeing it and thinking that it was.

1803
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:44,080
Well, oh, yeah, that's why, because I requested my early copy of that from Berkeley because

1804
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:47,200
I'm going to a Twins game next Tuesday and I wanted to have my copy.

1805
01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:48,200
It's the end of June, you're right.

1806
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:52,560
So I wanted to have my copy at the game to take a picture.

1807
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:56,320
And I was like, the only way I can get it early is if that's the book I choose, which

1808
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:57,320
it worked.

1809
01:25:57,320 --> 01:25:58,320
I have it in my possession.

1810
01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:59,320
It is far lovelier.

1811
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,160
Like the production of like the cover is gorgeous.

1812
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:04,880
It is such a pretty book.

1813
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,840
Like in person, I'm like enamored by it.

1814
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:12,400
But that book even I started my review off with like, we just got to get this out of

1815
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:16,480
the way because like she is lying throughout the entire book.

1816
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:18,320
Like that is a thing that is happening.

1817
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,960
And like there were parts of it that I was had an issue with, but it wasn't the fact

1818
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:22,960
that she was like lying.

1819
01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:26,320
It was like some of the like how it was working and like things like that.

1820
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:28,480
And I still really enjoy the book.

1821
01:26:28,480 --> 01:26:33,560
But I'm like, if you go into the book and get 10 percent, I'm like, she's going to be

1822
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,680
like the premise of this book is that she is lying to him.

1823
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:37,680
Right.

1824
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:38,680
Like that is what's going to be happening.

1825
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:44,240
So like I can just see and I've already seen reviews being like it was just too much to

1826
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:45,240
see.

1827
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:48,720
And I'm like, but it's just I don't I don't think you should write that book off because

1828
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:49,720
you don't like lying.

1829
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:51,400
I'm like, that is the entire book.

1830
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:53,480
So without that, I don't know what about it.

1831
01:26:53,480 --> 01:26:54,960
And you read the premise of this book.

1832
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:55,960
Why did you pick it up?

1833
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:56,960
Yeah.

1834
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,720
Well, that's why I like I started my I'm like, please, like if you don't like lying, like

1835
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:01,640
maybe rethink this.

1836
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:07,120
But here's why I think you should also read this, because it was very good and fun.

1837
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:10,960
And I really enjoyed it, especially for a sports romance that I don't read a lot of.

1838
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:15,280
But and again, like I think there were some things that could have maybe been different,

1839
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:19,280
but taking lying out completely and making it like it would have been a different book.

1840
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:21,520
I don't know how you would have done that.

1841
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:26,480
Well, I mean, and so so many that are based on I mean, the one that you mentioned, the

1842
01:27:26,480 --> 01:27:34,040
Vivian Lorette where the premises is blackmailing her like, yeah, guys, it makes it interesting.

1843
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:37,840
And you don't have to be doing you can write the softest squeakiest, cleanest.

1844
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:41,320
I mean, Kat Sebastian, I don't think the one that we talk that you should be so lucky.

1845
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:45,520
Yeah, there's really anything morally that either of them do wrong.

1846
01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:48,160
There's not like a problematic premise or anything like that.

1847
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:49,920
It's very soft.

1848
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:53,920
It's that's like an example of like how to write a low angst.

1849
01:27:53,920 --> 01:27:55,360
Yeah, like you can do it.

1850
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:59,360
I'm not saying it's impossible to write an interesting romance without something bad

1851
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:00,560
going on.

1852
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:06,480
But like the requirement, I think, makes the genre as a whole less interesting.

1853
01:28:06,480 --> 01:28:07,480
I agree.

1854
01:28:07,480 --> 01:28:11,760
Because I just think I love a low angst, but it has to be done well.

1855
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:14,640
And I think that is it's hard to do it well.

1856
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:15,640
Yes.

1857
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:16,640
Yeah.

1858
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:19,840
And I think there's a difference between like a low angst relationship in a in a crazy

1859
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:20,840
plot.

1860
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:21,840
Things like that.

1861
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:25,960
Sometimes you need a low angst relationship in a very wacky external plot because like

1862
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:27,560
you can't be bogged down by both.

1863
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,160
So you have to like pick and choose.

1864
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,880
And so there are just I mean, obviously, you can have your preferences.

1865
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:35,080
And if you don't like lying, don't read books.

1866
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:38,640
But I also think that like, again, I have preferences like I don't really like friends

1867
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:43,080
lovers, but I don't let that stop me always.

1868
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:48,320
I'll be like, maybe that's not the one I want to pick up today, but I think if I didn't

1869
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:53,280
read things that I wasn't huge, like I would never find ones that disprove my theory or

1870
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,280
like go against the grain.

1871
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:57,080
OK, you dislike friends to lovers.

1872
01:28:57,080 --> 01:28:58,080
That's whatever.

1873
01:28:58,080 --> 01:28:59,080
That's your preference.

1874
01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:00,080
That's fine.

1875
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:02,600
But there's a difference between saying saying I'm not really a big shit.

1876
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:03,600
Yeah.

1877
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:04,600
Or like, I'm not going to pick it up.

1878
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:06,500
I don't love friends to lovers.

1879
01:29:06,500 --> 01:29:10,720
And then reading a well written Friends to Lovers book and giving it one star just because

1880
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:14,600
you're like, I hate friends to lovers versus reading one that it wasn't well done.

1881
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,720
And you're like, this Friends to Lovers didn't work.

1882
01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:20,440
And again, like things can be well done and poorly done.

1883
01:29:20,440 --> 01:29:24,160
I mean, that one was very well done, especially because the fake dating.

1884
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:28,000
And again, I mean, I've seen criticism of fake dating as well, which I love that trope

1885
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:29,000
come at me.

1886
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,480
I actually am enemies with anyone.

1887
01:29:31,480 --> 01:29:36,200
Actually, anybody who says inherently a trope is bad, you're wrong.

1888
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:37,200
Yeah.

1889
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:40,400
I mean, I think it's something to again be like, generally, this doesn't work for me,

1890
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:41,400
which I think you do.

1891
01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:42,400
And that's great.

1892
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:43,400
And that's fine.

1893
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:44,400
And that's whatever.

1894
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:46,640
But like, a lot of people don't like amnesia.

1895
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:52,040
If you hate a trope, it's probably because you're reading poorly done ones.

1896
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:56,840
I mean, I've read poorly done amnesia tropes where I really dislike it.

1897
01:29:56,840 --> 01:30:00,240
Like, I mean, it is just interesting.

1898
01:30:00,240 --> 01:30:03,240
This is the hill I'll die on with miscommunication.

1899
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:04,240
Miscommunication isn't a trope.

1900
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:07,520
Like, the trope that you hate when you say that you don't like miscommunication is poorly

1901
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:08,520
done.

1902
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:09,520
Third acts.

1903
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:13,880
Well, I'm like, everything honestly should have some form of miscommunication.

1904
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:17,200
Well, some people just miscommunicate.

1905
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:18,320
That's just a fact of life.

1906
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:20,760
And also, if you don't have any miscommunication, there's no book.

1907
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:24,400
And also, most tropes are miscommunication.

1908
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:28,320
What is fake dating if not two people who can't have an honest conversation about the

1909
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,200
fact that they are in love with each other?

1910
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:31,200
Marriage and convenience?

1911
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:32,200
Same thing.

1912
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,400
How much is?

1913
01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:38,240
Yeah, just interesting to see things happen.

1914
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:43,440
You know who writes a really good problematic person but also problematic situation?

1915
01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:46,280
And I eat it up every time?

1916
01:30:46,280 --> 01:30:49,120
Sherri Thomas.

1917
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:53,040
Her characters oftentimes, not every character, obviously, but they're not good.

1918
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,640
Well, yeah, like the heroine in Private Arrangements.

1919
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,520
I mean, she's schemed to get that man to marry her and I was like, full sent.

1920
01:30:58,520 --> 01:30:59,520
Those are two not good people.

1921
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:00,520
The luckiest lady in London.

1922
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:01,520
Yeah, I was like, do it.

1923
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:06,200
And I was like, two not great people who are just like really horny and doing bad, like,

1924
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:07,600
or not like bad things.

1925
01:31:07,600 --> 01:31:12,440
But I mean, the thing that he did to get her to marry him was inherently not great.

1926
01:31:12,440 --> 01:31:13,440
Yeah.

1927
01:31:13,440 --> 01:31:14,440
But I loved it.

1928
01:31:14,440 --> 01:31:15,440
I was like, yes.

1929
01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:16,440
It's so fun to read.

1930
01:31:16,440 --> 01:31:17,440
Do it.

1931
01:31:17,440 --> 01:31:18,440
Yeah.

1932
01:31:18,440 --> 01:31:19,440
Private Arrangements?

1933
01:31:19,440 --> 01:31:20,440
Two bad people.

1934
01:31:20,440 --> 01:31:24,040
I mean, okay, when I say bad people, I mean not perfect people.

1935
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:25,040
That is what I should.

1936
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:27,800
Like, they're not inherently evil to their core or anything like that.

1937
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:32,400
But like, they do some fucked up stuff to each other.

1938
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:35,040
But I love them.

1939
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:36,040
It's so good.

1940
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:39,720
Anyway, that was a very long rant.

1941
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:44,360
The other two I wanted to mention were The Truth According to Ember, which was also mentioned

1942
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:48,520
on Fated Nights by Danica Nava.

1943
01:31:48,520 --> 01:31:52,760
And it's a native romance, which is very exciting.

1944
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:56,040
And then Marriage and Musty by Rishi Sharma.

1945
01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:57,200
Yep, that one's on mine.

1946
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:59,840
Which I have the arc of, which I'm very excited about.

1947
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:05,800
And it's, oh my god, what's the name of the historical that I mean, Shakespeare.

1948
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:06,800
Twelfth Night.

1949
01:32:06,800 --> 01:32:07,800
Thank you.

1950
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:08,800
Isn't it?

1951
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:10,200
Yeah, I think so.

1952
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:11,200
I believe it is.

1953
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:15,320
I just read the Much Ado one.

1954
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:16,320
Yes.

1955
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:17,320
Not too long ago.

1956
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:18,320
It is Twelfth Night.

1957
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:21,480
It's the third book in the If Shakespeare Were an Auntie series, which I really liked.

1958
01:32:21,480 --> 01:32:24,760
You didn't like the first one, but I really liked the second one.

1959
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:30,560
The thing is, this book is even an example of when I first read the, maybe the setup.

1960
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:33,640
So after I finished the second book and then you know you got the little teaser of this

1961
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:35,960
one, I was like, I don't know if that's going to be for me, the setup of this.

1962
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:37,800
Then I went and read the summary and then reviews.

1963
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:39,640
I'm like, oh wait, actually, no, that sounds so fun.

1964
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:44,500
Because it did it different than I thought it was going to do just by having minimal

1965
01:32:44,500 --> 01:32:47,520
context of things because she's been pining for him, I think.

1966
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,520
And then he's doing something.

1967
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:50,520
I don't know.

1968
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:51,520
Twelfth Night.

1969
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:52,520
Yeah.

1970
01:32:52,520 --> 01:32:53,520
And then it's Twelfth Night.

1971
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:56,480
And I'm like, well, it's going to be fun.

1972
01:32:56,480 --> 01:32:57,760
And so I'm very excited for that one.

1973
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,760
So that one was on my list and now I get to talk about it.

1974
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:00,760
Yes.

1975
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:01,760
And it comes out in August, I believe.

1976
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:03,760
I don't know the exact date, but.

1977
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:05,240
Yes, I believe it's August.

1978
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:09,040
So those were my other contemporary on my TBRs.

1979
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:16,120
I have a few that published on my birthday, Sleigh, which is fun for me.

1980
01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:19,040
The X-Files by Jessica Joyce is one of them.

1981
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:21,060
I want to read that.

1982
01:33:21,060 --> 01:33:25,240
And then Not Another Love Song is also July 16th.

1983
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:26,740
So that's another one.

1984
01:33:26,740 --> 01:33:32,480
And then I believe Business Casual by BK Borison, yep, is July 16th.

1985
01:33:32,480 --> 01:33:33,800
I've heard really good things about that one.

1986
01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:35,520
I haven't read Love Like Four Arms or anything.

1987
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:39,200
And honestly, it's not an author that I've ever felt the need to read, but I've seen

1988
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:43,580
very good reviews about this one and I want to read it.

1989
01:33:43,580 --> 01:33:45,560
So I will be partaking in that as well.

1990
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:50,720
I think that one just got a starred review from Library Journal.

1991
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:51,720
I think it showed up.

1992
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:52,720
I had another book that I'm reading on.

1993
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:54,320
Oh yeah, yeah, because me and her books.

1994
01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:57,760
Because Beth, she writes for Library Journal, I believe.

1995
01:33:57,760 --> 01:33:59,200
Oh, I didn't know that.

1996
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:03,080
And she's the one who she's basically the one who is like said this one's really good.

1997
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:05,200
I believe that's by Beth.

1998
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:06,200
I did not know this.

1999
01:34:06,200 --> 01:34:09,840
I just remember seeing it and I had another book that I'm working on that got a starred

2000
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:10,920
Library Journal review.

2001
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:16,000
And so I saw like the list of the ones that they had just published and I think that one

2002
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:18,240
was on the list.

2003
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:23,580
So I've heard very good things about that one and I've heard it's very spicy and exciting.

2004
01:34:23,580 --> 01:34:24,920
So we'll be reading.

2005
01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:28,040
Again, that's a I share a birthday with it.

2006
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:30,040
So there's a fondness there.

2007
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:31,040
Jewel.

2008
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:32,040
Is it Julin Twice?

2009
01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:35,040
I don't think I know the heist ones.

2010
01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:37,240
Yep, by Cherish Reed.

2011
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:40,880
Also on this one was also talked about a Fated Maids.

2012
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:41,880
I love Cherish Reed.

2013
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:44,520
If you haven't read Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up yet, do it.

2014
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:45,520
Do yourself a favor.

2015
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:46,520
It was so good.

2016
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:51,720
So this one I'm very excited for everything I've read by Cherish Reed is just fantastic.

2017
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:53,640
So that's one anticipated one.

2018
01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:58,000
This Summer Will Be Different by Carly Fortune, another author who like I have not had any

2019
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:01,960
compunction to read before this one.

2020
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:06,820
But I've seen good reviews from people I follow and just like it seems a little bit different

2021
01:35:06,820 --> 01:35:10,400
than her other two and it seems like a very perfect like summer one.

2022
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:13,680
So I actually started the audiobook and then I was like, no, I have to get more into summer.

2023
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,680
So I will be reading that.

2024
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:20,120
Yeah, I'll be reading that when I'm like outside like by pool or a lake or something.

2025
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:26,400
And I've also seen good things about actually that one may be SMP.

2026
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,760
I may have to edit that out.

2027
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:30,760
Shitballs.

2028
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:31,760
Yeah, it's SMP.

2029
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:33,480
OK, well, where's my list?

2030
01:35:33,480 --> 01:35:34,640
Oh, I'm sorry.

2031
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:35,640
I'm malfunctioning.

2032
01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:36,640
We're OK.

2033
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:42,480
Oh, and then Jackie Lau and her publicist sent me Love, Lies and Cherry Pie.

2034
01:35:42,480 --> 01:35:46,040
This one came out a little bit ago, but I'm very excited for that one.

2035
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:47,040
I love Jackie Lau.

2036
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,280
She writes a marvelous sex scene.

2037
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,240
Her novellas were really good.

2038
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:53,360
She's like two like movie star novellas.

2039
01:35:53,360 --> 01:35:54,840
I loved those.

2040
01:35:54,840 --> 01:36:00,800
And then Jenda Luca has one coming out, Haunted Ever After, which I'm very intrigued by because

2041
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:05,560
I haven't liked the last few of the Well Met series ones, but I loved Well Met.

2042
01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:08,880
Like that's one of the books that got me into the genre.

2043
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:11,120
So I'm excited and I just love ghosts.

2044
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:12,280
I love a hot ghost.

2045
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:14,960
We know nothing gets us going like a ghost.

2046
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:20,240
Nothing does for good reason, because you need to read Ann Mallory is what you need

2047
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:21,240
to do.

2048
01:36:21,240 --> 01:36:22,240
I know I do.

2049
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:23,240
I know I saw.

2050
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,240
That Earl, the Earl of her dreams.

2051
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:28,560
Something for the Earl's pleasure.

2052
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:31,680
Yeah, wild, wild.

2053
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:36,360
Again, the hero is a very complex specimen.

2054
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:37,920
What a fantastic book.

2055
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:38,920
I was so stressed.

2056
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:39,920
I was so sweaty.

2057
01:36:39,920 --> 01:36:43,320
I couldn't like I was not reading that book fast enough, like because there's no audiobooks

2058
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:44,320
for a book.

2059
01:36:44,320 --> 01:36:45,720
So I was like, I need to like read a hyper speak.

2060
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:49,840
So I'm like, I would be listening at three times, like if I could, like at the end, no

2061
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:50,840
clue.

2062
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:51,840
Like it was so good.

2063
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:52,840
And then I literally read the next one.

2064
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,920
Like this is also should be on your summer TBR.

2065
01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:58,160
Just like things to do is read Ann Mallory.

2066
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,120
The other one was like a clue esque.

2067
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:02,520
They're snowed in at an end.

2068
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:07,840
She's pretending to be like a little man.

2069
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:11,920
Yeah, she is statually little.

2070
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:13,840
She's pretending to be like a tailor or something.

2071
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:15,040
And then they had to like share a room.

2072
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:18,240
And then obviously he's like, ha ha ha, your secret.

2073
01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:23,480
And then the selling point of that one is that so there's obviously a murder mystery.

2074
01:37:23,480 --> 01:37:27,680
And he's been like trying to like quietly seduce the heroine for the entire book.

2075
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:29,560
And he's like not forcing her to do anything.

2076
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:33,360
And like the first scene where they're like physically intimate, he like gets her off

2077
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:36,040
and he's like, OK, I can't like I'm not going to take this any farther.

2078
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:38,080
So then he like leaves the room.

2079
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:41,280
He's like, I need to go like jerk one off, like in this bathroom.

2080
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:43,480
Like I got to just get out of my system.

2081
01:37:43,480 --> 01:37:47,000
And so he's like in the bathroom and he like stumbles and then he breaks the wall and there's

2082
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,240
like the murder weapon.

2083
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:50,520
Like he like finds the murder weapon.

2084
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:52,320
I saw your upshade for this book.

2085
01:37:52,320 --> 01:37:53,320
Yeah.

2086
01:37:53,320 --> 01:37:56,960
And he was like really like so he's like a heart like he's erect.

2087
01:37:56,960 --> 01:37:59,160
But he's also got this murder weapon and it's bloody.

2088
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:03,320
He's like, what do I and then he like and then there's like a ghost hunter in this in

2089
01:38:03,320 --> 01:38:04,320
too.

2090
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:05,800
So then he like sets off a ghost trap.

2091
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:09,220
So then everyone that comes out, there's like a like a wailing sound.

2092
01:38:09,220 --> 01:38:14,240
So then like he's like aroused and confused and frustrated.

2093
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:17,700
I also am constantly aroused and confused.

2094
01:38:17,700 --> 01:38:19,640
He's pretending to be a bowstreet runner.

2095
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:20,640
Sure.

2096
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:21,640
He's not.

2097
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:22,680
He's an undercover like Earl.

2098
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:24,280
It was so fun.

2099
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:30,760
And I had a marvelous time and I proceeded to like buy a few more animal books and I'll

2100
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:35,400
be buying her rest because she's written a lot, which is sad.

2101
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:36,400
One night.

2102
01:38:36,400 --> 01:38:39,160
There's one that a lot of people I know talk about that I haven't read yet that's been

2103
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:40,560
on my list for a long time.

2104
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:44,760
That should be where he like wins three nights of sin.

2105
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:48,800
No, I feel like I want to say it's like one night is never enough, but I don't know if

2106
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:49,800
that's the actual title.

2107
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:52,040
I've definitely heard of them.

2108
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:54,000
They like play chess.

2109
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,880
That's the notable thing about it that I hear a lot of people talking about is it's like

2110
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:57,880
the best.

2111
01:38:57,880 --> 01:38:58,880
Oh, yeah, I have.

2112
01:38:58,880 --> 01:38:59,880
I bought that one.

2113
01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:00,880
Chess scene.

2114
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:01,880
I've ever read.

2115
01:39:01,880 --> 01:39:04,280
Yeah, one night is never enough.

2116
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:07,040
He like wins her in a.

2117
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:08,680
I think is that the one I'm thinking of?

2118
01:39:08,680 --> 01:39:09,680
Yeah, it is.

2119
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:11,880
Yeah, that written Gambler father and a game of chance.

2120
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:14,520
Yeah, he wins her in a wager.

2121
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:19,520
And they he like I think he wins like one night with her and he plays chess with her

2122
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:20,520
or something like that.

2123
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:21,520
Good.

2124
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:22,520
I don't know.

2125
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:25,000
But a lot of people that I really trust are like this is one of the best historicals.

2126
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:30,480
I was like, she's a great write, like the fantastic writing.

2127
01:39:30,480 --> 01:39:33,440
Definitely not as big of a backlist as I'd prefer.

2128
01:39:33,440 --> 01:39:37,200
This book looks exactly like A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare.

2129
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:41,160
So that's intriguing to me because they look so similar.

2130
01:39:41,160 --> 01:39:46,560
But yeah, if you just need a good palate cleanser, like historical romance, that's like like

2131
01:39:46,560 --> 01:39:47,560
2000.

2132
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:48,560
So that one's 2011.

2133
01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:49,560
It's like mid 2000s.

2134
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:50,560
Oh, so good.

2135
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:55,280
I think it was Chels.

2136
01:39:55,280 --> 01:40:00,520
I think their podcast they had talked about for the Earls pleasure about the ghost.

2137
01:40:00,520 --> 01:40:04,040
And I think being her books, then was reading it.

2138
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:08,040
And then I saw there was a ghost and I was like, nothing gets me going like a ghost.

2139
01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:09,040
So then I read it.

2140
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:10,040
It's great.

2141
01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:14,160
And then I bought a bunch more like paranormal historical romances at some used bookstores

2142
01:40:14,160 --> 01:40:15,640
this past weekend.

2143
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:19,440
So I'm living large.

2144
01:40:19,440 --> 01:40:20,880
Well there you have it.

2145
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:24,840
There's your summer TBR, our summer TBR, but also your summer TBR.

2146
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:30,720
And also if you're the romance morality police, you're fucking boring.

2147
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:34,040
And I don't know why you're listening to us.

2148
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:35,040
Where's your applause?

2149
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:38,040
Yeah, I wish I had it.

2150
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:39,760
That's the end of the episode.

2151
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:40,760
That's all I got.

2152
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:41,760
That really is.

2153
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:43,840
Okay, we're gonna go get donuts.

2154
01:40:43,840 --> 01:40:44,840
Hell yeah.

2155
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:48,240
And two hours later.

2156
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:49,240
Two hours later.

2157
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:50,240
Nice.

2158
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:51,240
Thank you.

2159
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:52,240
It was terrible.

2160
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:53,240
I got it.

2161
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:54,240
I got the reference.

2162
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:55,240
Thank you for listening.

2163
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:58,240
If you have been, stay tuned for another newsletter next week.

2164
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:04,600
And yeah, I think that is everything.

2165
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:05,600
Happy summer reading.

2166
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:11,040
Oh my god, I wish they had a summer reading program here at the library for like adults.

2167
01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:12,040
Just do it yourself.

2168
01:41:12,040 --> 01:41:13,040
I've heard of them.

2169
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:14,040
I just, I mean.

2170
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:15,040
Just give yourself a pizza party.

2171
01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:16,040
That's so true.

2172
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:19,000
Make yourself a donut party and then a pizza party.

2173
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:20,000
So true.

2174
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:21,000
Wow.

2175
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:22,000
Fantastic.

2176
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:23,000
Okay.

2177
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:24,000
I'm gonna go get some donuts.

2178
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:53,000
I'm gonna go get some donuts.