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I wouldn't be able to take that seriously. I

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know you're about to murder me, but can you please

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put your penis away? Hello, brats, and welcome

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back to another episode of Rainbow Book Rats,

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a queer romance podcast where four feral rats

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nerd out about their favorite reads. As always,

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we're going to be talking about the books we

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read recently, what's on our book radar at the

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moment, and then if anybody has any tea to spill,

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we'll be spilling a little bit of tea. So let's

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get yappin'. I'm JD, my pronouns are they them,

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and I have a tattoo of my favorite donuts. The

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worst donuts. I'm Kit, he they, and call me James

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Bond, because I once signed the Official Secrets

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Act. Can you tell us about it, or are you going

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to have to kill us first? I don't know what that

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means. Well, I can't tell you about it on air.

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Secrets in the dark. I'm Megan. My pronouns are

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she, her, they, them. And I know way too much

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about cryptids to the point where it's kind of

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embarrassing. No such thing. I love that. I'm

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Katie. He, her. and i learned that rats can laugh

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we can oh yeah wow little baby little rats and

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it's so high pitched that like humans can't hear

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it like with our bare ears oh my god that's adorable

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that's the cutest yeah ever that makes me want

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to kind of cry yes rats can also cry yes as we

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learned in episode two oh my gosh all right well

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Usually in this slot we do a how was your week,

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but since we're coming clean on this episode.

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We're coming clean. This is the 6 ,000th time

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we've tried recording this. We're coming dirty.

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Megan's coming dirty. The rest of us are coming

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clean. We tried recording this episode and Megan's

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track didn't record. Fucking Steve. yeah it's

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fucking steve's fault um we're sure of that and

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we just decided that we didn't want to lose the

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books that we talked about so we're gonna do

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it again but we didn't want to lie and pretend

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like it was the first time so also we're not

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we're not super good at pretending or at least

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i'm not yeah yeah me either yeah no i'm not we

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kind of we kind of forgot what happened to us

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yeah yeah we don't remember what happened when

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we recorded this the first time it was so long

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ago yeah we only record every two weeks and we

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record two episodes a day like when we do record

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so so yeah it's been almost two weeks since we

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recorded yeah um and our our memories aren't

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that good yeah i don't remember what i did two

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days ago so instead of doing a how was our week

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and what did we do uh we've just decided to vomit

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our gratitude into this section instead i love

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the way you put that yes because two days ago

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on the 26th our podcast went live for the first

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time yay and we were all very nervous um oh my

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god right yeah but very excited and yeah it just

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i don't want to say it went better than we thought

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it would but we're pleased we're just very pleased

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that anyone listened at all so thank you Katie

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and I were up till 2am like messaging each other

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being like it's like the night before Christmas

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like yeah I was there too but it wasn't too anthony

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yeah Katie was sleeping soundly in her bed but

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yeah I think I was awake until 3 30 or something

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same here that night isn't that unusual for me

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if i'm being honest but i have been going to

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bed early lately because i've had to get up early

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to drive my broken husband to work but but yeah

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um yeah so we just want to say thank you to everybody

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for listening for throwing us your congratulations

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and yeah for commenting and sharing and listening

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and like super shout out to everybody who who

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posted specifically about it like we sent a handful

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of authors and other instagramers an early version

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of the podcast of the episode and um so like

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you have to help me with names because again

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i'm not great at remembering but there was carly

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yes carly and mel Renly. Adrienne. Adrienne.

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Amrose. Amrose. And Lance as well. Yes, Lance.

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So thank you everyone for sharing and posting

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for us. And yeah, it was really, really sweet

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of you to want to do so. And it helped a lot.

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It really did help a lot. It really did, yes.

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And everybody that commented and everybody that

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messaged us and like even just people who shared

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it. You know, it was just so grateful. Yeah.

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Watching my stories and just seeing people that

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we hadn't contacted sharing the stuff just because

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they're excited made me excited and happy. Yeah.

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And anyone who just gave us a chance and is giving

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us a chance now and listening, like, thank you

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so much. Yes. I don't know about you guys, but

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for me, it was one of the busiest days in a long

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time, but it was one of the best I've had. So

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yeah, it meant a lot. I know it was it was really

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fun because it was like it felt like a community

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event right even though like that kind of sounds

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egotistical for me to be like we were an event

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it was an event to us yeah a lot of work went

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in time went into this whole process like it

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was just an hour recording but like that hour

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recording was months of planning and weeks of

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of discord calls and so many late nights and

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like so much work into doing this and and it

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was finally here and like it's so surreal it's

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really exciting like we're glad it's out but

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it was an event yeah yeah and also each recording

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is more like four hours for us yeah yeah laughing

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we laugh and yap way too much but yeah Thanks

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for enjoying. Thanks for loving the worm to penis

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pipeline. That was a fan favorite. and then when

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his ass got murdered was the other one that was

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yeah number two favorite so yeah we loved yeah

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if you guys have any other favorite quotes where

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uh we love to hear them so let us know yeah let

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us know that was our week so it really was it

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really was yes uh let's get into the books that

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we read several weeks ago several weeks ago since

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our recordings of what we read did survive episode

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three curse we're going to use those in this

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next section and then we will be coming back

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to the present to re -record our book radar section

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because that part was affected by Megan's internet

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refusing to let her talk so yeah i guess that's

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all yeah so that was my week and it was fun what

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did you read this week jd well that is the question

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isn't it i've been in a little bit of a book

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slump it's a book slump realness moment um i

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i know i know but um i don't know whenever i'm

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in a book slump i these days i just tend to fall

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back on my favorite book junk food in i say that

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in a very affectionate way um which is becca

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vale yes It's just comforting. And they're just

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like short and easy reads. And they're usually

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at least a four star. And the spice. Yes, very

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spicy. Yeah, it's my junk food. So whenever I

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can't think of what I should read next, I just

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toss a couple of Becca Vale books in there. So

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I read the other two that I didn't already own.

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That one was in -flight entertainment. I've read

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that one. Oh, you did? The in -flight entertainment,

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yeah. That one was about Wiley and Ferris, and

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they were on a flight to go back home for the

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holidays from college, and Ferris is terrified

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of flying, and he gets sat next to this super

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creeper on the flight instead of sitting next

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to his brother, and so he's not only freaking

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out about the fact that he has to be on a plane,

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but he also got separated and can't sit next

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to his brother oh no and uh yeah there was like

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crazy turbulence on the flight too but his brother

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ended up uh charming one of the flight attendants

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by telling her that they were a couple and that

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they were on their anniversary and is there any

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way that she could you know get their seats swapped

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because he just hated to see his uh boyfriend

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freaking out up there with nothing that he could

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do and this flight attendant was just like eating

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it up oh yeah oh my goodness of course i'll help

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so she ends up switching their seats so that

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they can sit next to each other and you know

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to distract ferris from the turbulence and being

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afraid things happen under the blanket can i

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just say i've never been on a plane where i was

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offered a same i think i think it's because it

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was an overnight flight and because he had that

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flight attendant eating out of the palm of his

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hand that she just like brought them one but

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yeah so wiley is just like very kind of arrogant

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and self -assured and ferris is just kind of

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like a little anxious bean um yeah so wiley is

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like well i have to do you know what i can to

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make him comfortable and i think i know what

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he needs and ferris is like oh my god what is

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happening oh my god why do i like that so much

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i love it Yeah, there's very little angst in

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this one. There's like just a little bit. So

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Wiley ends up telling him what happens at 30

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,000 feet stays at 30 ,000 feet. And so Ferris

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is like kind of angsting over the fact that he

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doesn't think that anything can happen between

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them like in the real world because it like just

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on the plane, like this is just happening on

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the plane. So that's like the only bit of drama

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in that book. But it was really cute. I enjoyed

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that one. so the third one that i read was morally

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gray and that one is about twins and one of the

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twins is a psychopath yes and he is very very

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possessive of the other twin i love it even like

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towards their parents so this one it's not one

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where they get together because they realize

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they have feelings they've been together their

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entire life from the moment that they were born

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they were just inseparable so gray is the psychopath

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and wyatt is the other twin this is very much

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a free use situation i love for you basically

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like wyatt to him like he exists to please gray

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like that's pretty much yes oh my god yeah so

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like when you say free use is that just to just

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to gray yes so he's just like ready at all times

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to do whatever gray wants i love them yes yes

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there's not enough free use there needs to be

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more good for you yeah i agree yes please there's

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cock cage involved as well so like yes yeah and

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he he is barely ever unlocked which is an interesting

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point because he exists to please gray that is

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it so he doesn't get to come like hardly ever

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and is he enjoying this oh yeah okay Oh, he's

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very much enjoying it. That's all that matters.

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Yeah, he's very much enjoying it. It's very,

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very consensual. All he wants is to please Gray.

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And he does. So this story is basically about

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Wyatt getting notes from a stalker. The stalker

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works at a coffee shop that Wyatt goes to frequently.

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and he has like been putting notes under the

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door and like sneaking them into like his stuff

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and they say like i love watching the way you

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like lick that whipped cream or whatever they're

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just like really creepy note about a guy who's

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just like watching him drink coffee sexually

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telling Gray about it. Oh no. Because he knows

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that Gray is not going to be happy. And not with

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him, but with the stalker. And in their past,

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any person who has kind of dared to do anything

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against Wyatt has disappeared. Oh my God. He's

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murdering them. I went to the farm in the sky.

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Yes. And Wyatt has never really questioned it.

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He's never really asked Gray about it because

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he knows. He knows. And so he is aware that people

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tend to disappear when they upset him. Oh, my

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gosh. trying not to tell gray about the stalker

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because he doesn't want gray to get caught like

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his whole thing is that he doesn't want gray

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to get caught because he like won't survive without

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him and if he goes to jail like he just can't

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handle what about the murders what murder he

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doesn't care it's called morally gray not i feel

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bad about the murder yeah Yeah, so he's trying

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to keep the knowledge of this away from Gray

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because he doesn't want Gray to continue killing

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people for him because he's just afraid that

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eventually he's going to slip up and get caught.

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And so he's trying to, you know, not tell him

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about it. But eventually Gray does find out because

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he like walks into the room when he's supposed

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to be in a lecture. They're at college, by the

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way. I don't know if I said that. But he walks

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into the room when he's supposed to be in a lecture

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and sees Wyatt kind of stuffing one of the notes

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under his notebook. So he does find out about

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it. Then he takes Wyatt out for coffee the next

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day at the coffee shop. Because when he reads

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the note, he can tell that it's from someone

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who works there because they're like saying about

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how he like eats whipped cream or whatever. So

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they go to the coffee shop and they get drinks,

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sit down and Wyatt knows too. He can tell right

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away that he's like, and he's like, shit, because

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Gray hasn't told him that he found the note,

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but he knows. And so they sit down and the barista

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brings over like a. a little dish that has like

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an eclair on it and a little note tucked underneath

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it and she's like oh this is from your secret

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admirer it's a note from the stalker that says

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you should be with me you know like your your

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brother is an overpowering presence in your life

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and you should be mine and blah blah blah you

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know just like delusional yeah stalker being

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here gray sees the note and he's furious he's

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seething and so he automatically kind of figures

00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.740
out who it is just based on the fact that the

00:18:24.740 --> 00:18:26.900
barista brought it over to the table and he noticed

00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:30.000
like a guy looking at them from the back so he's

00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.339
like i see you i know it's you what whatever

00:18:32.339 --> 00:18:35.200
so he's like okay well knowledge collected so

00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.259
he's like we're leaving so he grabs wyatt and

00:18:38.259 --> 00:18:40.559
basically drags him out of there and then they

00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.799
they go into the alley behind the coffee shop

00:18:44.819 --> 00:18:47.240
And Wyatt's like, I'm sorry, Gray. I'm sorry.

00:18:47.380 --> 00:18:49.339
Like, I know that you saw the night. He's like,

00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:51.240
yeah, I did see it. He's like, I'm sorry. I just

00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.599
don't want you to. I don't want you to kill him.

00:18:53.660 --> 00:18:56.740
I don't want you to get caught. And so they're

00:18:56.740 --> 00:18:58.960
like having this moment in the alley. And then

00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:03.779
it leads to Wyatt giving Gray a blowjob in the

00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:11.180
alley. As one does. As one does. And right at

00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:14.940
the end of said blowjob. the stalker comes around

00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:17.500
the corner and he doesn't know that they're together

00:19:17.500 --> 00:19:21.819
yeah he sees them and he's like thinks that gray

00:19:21.819 --> 00:19:24.720
is like forcing wyatt to do that and he's like

00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.500
oh how could you do that to your own brother

00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:29.440
blah blah and he just like starts going off on

00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.460
them and then why it's like still on his knees

00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:35.579
in this like dirty alley and gray like pulls

00:19:35.579 --> 00:19:38.299
back from him and then why it basically like

00:19:38.299 --> 00:19:41.930
blinks and then when he like opens his eyes the

00:19:41.930 --> 00:19:48.410
guy is dead what the gray just snapped his neck

00:19:48.410 --> 00:19:51.210
oh my god wait this whole time though why it's

00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:55.529
on his knees yeah oh my gosh yeah wait okay i

00:19:55.529 --> 00:20:04.720
have a question is his penis still out That's

00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:06.720
a really valid question, Katie. Thank you for

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.619
asking. This is the important shit. I think murder

00:20:09.619 --> 00:20:12.000
would be more difficult to do with your penis

00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.440
out, but not impossible. I neither have murdered

00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.400
nor do I have a penis, so I don't know. Clapping

00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.319
around while he murders? Yeah, same. But I can

00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.839
see the complication, you know? But it wasn't

00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:28.420
out anymore. Yeah, yeah. After he finished, he

00:20:28.420 --> 00:20:32.500
put himself back in his pants while the stalker

00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:35.809
was yelling at him. i don't know that might be

00:20:35.809 --> 00:20:37.789
like a power move though to have your dick out

00:20:37.789 --> 00:20:40.410
while you're killing someone yeah that's true

00:20:40.410 --> 00:20:45.470
do the helicopter beforehand i'm thinking about

00:20:45.470 --> 00:20:49.369
what it would sound like it would be like yeah

00:20:49.369 --> 00:20:57.630
have you ever heard a helicopter oh my god um

00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:00.640
I wouldn't be able to take that seriously. I

00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:02.960
know you're about to murder me, but can you please

00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:13.420
put your penis away? Well, okay. That would have

00:21:13.420 --> 00:21:16.180
been really funny, I guess, but it wasn't like

00:21:16.180 --> 00:21:20.200
that. It's not that kind of book. I'm sorry.

00:21:20.380 --> 00:21:23.460
It's not that kind of book. Anyway, he kills

00:21:23.460 --> 00:21:26.940
the stalker in the alley. stops him in the dumpster

00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:31.200
to come back for later and takes Wyatt back home

00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.019
because Wyatt he always knew that that Gray was

00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:36.420
killing people but he's never seen him actually

00:21:36.420 --> 00:21:40.900
do it so he was pretty shaken by it so Gray brings

00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:43.539
Wyatt back to their place and puts him in bed

00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:46.259
and and then he goes back for the body but and

00:21:46.259 --> 00:21:49.680
gets rid of it and you know he doesn't get caught

00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:54.049
of course yeah He doesn't get caught. But yeah,

00:21:54.190 --> 00:21:57.950
so that ends with them fucking. Them fucking.

00:21:58.089 --> 00:22:01.890
Yeah. Oh, and Wyatt gets unlocked for that. Oh,

00:22:01.890 --> 00:22:04.170
what a treat. Well, that was nice of him. Oh,

00:22:04.170 --> 00:22:06.609
I'm glad they unlocked him. Lucky him. Yeah,

00:22:06.670 --> 00:22:10.950
just a little treat for him. Yeah, so yeah, that

00:22:10.950 --> 00:22:13.130
was another one of those Becca Vale books that

00:22:13.130 --> 00:22:15.549
kind of have more plot than you would expect.

00:22:15.890 --> 00:22:18.549
What a wild ride. It was like a nice jaunty good

00:22:18.549 --> 00:22:21.569
time. Jaunty good time. Yeah. Yeah, it was a

00:22:21.569 --> 00:22:26.150
jaunty good time. Yeah, so my little junk food

00:22:26.150 --> 00:22:28.869
reads got me through the week. Yeah. What did

00:22:28.869 --> 00:22:33.710
you read, Kit? Yeah, I also had a bit of a book

00:22:33.710 --> 00:22:37.289
slump week. No. But I did read one book that

00:22:37.289 --> 00:22:40.269
really helped. It was called My Everything by

00:22:40.269 --> 00:22:44.250
Jada Marks. It's another daddy boy book. My favorite.

00:22:44.289 --> 00:22:48.599
We love. Yes. We love. yes it was one of those

00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:51.220
low angst books where the daddy just gives the

00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:54.180
boy all of the love that he never got before

00:22:54.180 --> 00:23:00.079
okay so the meet cute they actually have two

00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:05.500
right so daddy whose name is titus is a bouncer

00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:09.720
at a nightclub and he's like really you know

00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:13.980
big tall thick um i think he's like six foot

00:23:13.980 --> 00:23:17.500
four daddy yeah yeah exactly i think he's like

00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:22.000
shaved head um bearded basically he looks terrifying

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.180
he looks mean but he's not right teddy bear yeah

00:23:26.180 --> 00:23:28.440
there's a quote in it where it's like i know

00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.599
i'm a fighter but if people just give me the

00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:34.940
chance i could be a lover too damn it so like

00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:37.940
he's yeah he's been really unlucky in love and

00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:41.480
the boy owen has also been quite unlucky in love

00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:46.059
um he very much likes to wear the makeup and

00:23:46.059 --> 00:23:49.160
he likes crop tops and sparkly things and people

00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:51.819
have just very much judged him for it and also

00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:54.700
the fact that he does like like the daddy boy

00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:56.940
relationship thing people just haven't given

00:23:56.940 --> 00:24:01.240
him what he needs yeah so the dates have not

00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.400
gone well for either of them beforehand so the

00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:06.640
first meet you that they have is at the club

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:10.849
and owen the boy is quite a homebody But his

00:24:10.849 --> 00:24:14.849
friends have dragged him out. And then he's on

00:24:14.849 --> 00:24:17.230
the dance floor and these two guys decide to

00:24:17.230 --> 00:24:20.170
fight over him. Oh no. Over who gets to dance

00:24:20.170 --> 00:24:25.210
with him. Right? Like, who does that? So Titus,

00:24:25.329 --> 00:24:28.589
Daddy Titus, goes to break it up. When he breaks

00:24:28.589 --> 00:24:31.430
the two eyes up, he finds Owen huddled on the

00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:37.789
floor between them. so he like he gets him up

00:24:37.789 --> 00:24:40.589
and he makes sure he's okay he kind of he has

00:24:40.589 --> 00:24:43.640
to escort the the two men out and while he does

00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:46.319
that he loses sight of owen but when he turns

00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:48.420
back around owen is there and he's like i just

00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:50.640
want to thank you and also here's some water

00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:52.839
because i want to make sure you're drinking it's

00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:55.420
like oh that's so cute but there's no time to

00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:58.599
like get each other's numbers and stuff so they

00:24:58.599 --> 00:24:59.920
think they're never going to see each other again

00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:02.420
and then the next week owen is in the supermarket

00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:05.400
trying to top up his makeup and get his favorite

00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:07.880
hair gel and stuff and someone's moved his hair

00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.079
gel to like the top shelf and No, I hate that.

00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:17.180
Right? So rude. It's hard to be short. Exactly.

00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:21.339
Owen is like 5 '4", I think it was. He's tiny.

00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:30.480
That's not short. It's okay, Katie. I'm 5 '3".

00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:37.119
I have an idea for bag tongs. So you just put...

00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.240
the tongs in your bag and then you go to the

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:43.460
store you can't reach out the top you know what

00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:51.259
hell yeah we're all pretty short around here

00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:56.339
so we could all benefit from some bag tongs i

00:25:56.339 --> 00:26:14.000
need these our first merch idea if you don't

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.839
if you don't carry a bag that you just wear them

00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:23.259
on your belt like in the holster yes oh my god

00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:33.869
i need that on a carabiner here we go wow awesome

00:26:33.869 --> 00:26:38.450
okay sorry go on so he was like oh god am i gonna

00:26:38.450 --> 00:26:42.269
have to climb the shelves um and then this hand

00:26:42.269 --> 00:26:47.009
just like reached up and grabbed it and and it

00:26:47.009 --> 00:26:56.789
was titus daddy daddy yeah daddy um so they were

00:26:56.789 --> 00:26:58.710
like really happy to see each other and titus

00:26:58.710 --> 00:27:00.910
was like i'm not letting you leave without asking

00:27:00.910 --> 00:27:06.420
you on a date yeah and like just the whole thing

00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:08.900
was really cute they go on loads of different

00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:12.740
dates like they go to dinner but also they have

00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:15.539
a day out on the river on a boat that Titus owns

00:27:15.539 --> 00:27:18.740
and that's really fun they take some sexy pictures

00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:22.250
of each other yeah they go swimming for a bit

00:27:22.250 --> 00:27:25.190
there's a lot of like teasing each other and

00:27:25.190 --> 00:27:27.250
like getting each other a bit horny through the

00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:31.829
whole book and they go on this picnic um like

00:27:31.829 --> 00:27:36.230
a treat that titus gives owen whenever he does

00:27:36.230 --> 00:27:38.829
his chores, Titus rewards Owen with a treat and

00:27:38.829 --> 00:27:42.089
it's usually like a date. So yeah, so this one's

00:27:42.089 --> 00:27:44.730
a picnic. He gets Owen to choose the spot and

00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:47.089
like Owen's running around going, oh, we could

00:27:47.089 --> 00:27:49.509
go by the tree, but ew, ants. And he's like,

00:27:49.529 --> 00:27:52.450
oh, we could go by the river, but ew, goose shit.

00:27:52.549 --> 00:27:56.569
Which like, frankly, yeah, especially because

00:27:56.569 --> 00:27:58.049
like where there's goose shit, there's usually

00:27:58.049 --> 00:28:00.470
geese. Oh yeah, you don't want to mess with that.

00:28:00.609 --> 00:28:02.769
Oh, and they're mean. No, geese are terrifying.

00:28:04.009 --> 00:28:06.210
Like, geese have a vendetta against me, so I

00:28:06.210 --> 00:28:09.170
get it. They have a vendetta against humanity.

00:28:09.369 --> 00:28:12.490
They really do. As a whole. Yep. Do not fuck

00:28:12.490 --> 00:28:14.890
with a goose. No, do not fuck with geese. And

00:28:14.890 --> 00:28:17.130
then he finds a place which, personally, I would

00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:20.009
have gone to people. But he was like, there are

00:28:20.009 --> 00:28:23.710
people, so this is perfect. So they had this

00:28:23.710 --> 00:28:25.750
lovely picnic, and they got to know each other,

00:28:25.970 --> 00:28:28.069
and they cuddled, and there were blankets. It

00:28:28.069 --> 00:28:31.269
was very cute. Yay, cuddling! And then my personal

00:28:31.269 --> 00:28:34.470
favorite date they had. Owen was really sad.

00:28:34.750 --> 00:28:37.769
There'd been like some family drama. So Titus

00:28:37.769 --> 00:28:41.210
was like, why don't you make over daddy? Yeah.

00:28:42.490 --> 00:28:46.150
So he painted Titus's toenails and then he put

00:28:46.150 --> 00:28:50.210
makeup on Titus. Oh my God. It was just so cute.

00:28:50.390 --> 00:28:53.230
I need to read this. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah.

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:56.339
It's just, it was a really great book all about

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:58.720
like accepting all of each other because they've

00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.319
never found anybody who does that for, you know,

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:04.460
before. Yeah. Like the spice, funny enough, it

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:07.119
was kind of vanilla. It's very much like, it's

00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.119
not particularly detailed or kinky in the spice.

00:29:09.259 --> 00:29:12.240
It's more like the relationship itself is the

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.519
daddy thing. There's a lot of like rules and

00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:16.940
stuff. And he really wants like his daddy to

00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:19.019
be making decisions for him. So like when they

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:20.839
go out to eat and stuff. Hard relate. And just

00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:24.000
decisions in life. So, but yeah, it was. incredibly

00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.759
sweet book and it's really what i needed yeah

00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.099
yeah so i i thoroughly recommend so i know it's

00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:32.740
the first book in the series and i believe the

00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:36.380
second book is also about them oh yeah maybe

00:29:36.380 --> 00:29:38.900
it'll be a little spicier yeah but it ends on

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:41.420
a happily ever after but yes it does end on a

00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:42.880
happily ever after okay so yeah that's what i

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.039
read this week uh what about you megan i also

00:29:45.609 --> 00:29:52.410
had a hate slumpy week. Doing so well. Continuing

00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:56.970
the trend. But I did two rereads this week that

00:29:56.970 --> 00:29:59.910
I want to talk about because I love them. And

00:29:59.910 --> 00:30:02.670
I couldn't choose between the two. That's all

00:30:02.670 --> 00:30:06.630
the reason you need. Exactly. So the first book

00:30:06.630 --> 00:30:10.230
that I reread was Cold Hard Cash by K .L. Hears.

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:14.519
This was a book that JD recommended to me months

00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:16.720
and months ago. And I recommend it to all of

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.380
you as well. Oh my God. It's so good. Sorry,

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:23.339
go on. It's so good. Yes. Especially if you love

00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:26.660
mafia romances. Yes. It is amazing. And I was

00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:28.740
so surprised because when I posted about it last

00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:30.839
week, they responded and they said that this

00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.019
was like their first book they published. Really?

00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:36.460
Really? Yeah. And so I was like, dang. I did

00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:39.500
not know that. Yeah. Great for a debut. No kidding.

00:30:40.740 --> 00:30:43.500
Yeah. said they want to get back and write more

00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:46.440
of their story and i'm like yes please yes please

00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.640
i will eat it up i will eat it up please we are

00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:57.670
here for it feed me It's a mafia romance, like

00:30:57.670 --> 00:31:00.869
I said. Age Gap, which we love. And basically

00:31:00.869 --> 00:31:04.289
it stars Jimmy Poe, who is another sad boy. And

00:31:04.289 --> 00:31:07.609
as everybody knows, we love a sad boy. We love

00:31:07.609 --> 00:31:11.130
a sad boy around here, okay? Yes, sad boys forever.

00:31:11.349 --> 00:31:16.170
Sad boys. Yes. So Jimmy Poe's a sad boy. And

00:31:16.170 --> 00:31:19.309
his mom was murdered when he was younger. And

00:31:19.309 --> 00:31:23.700
he witnessed the murder. And his dad was arrested

00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:26.140
for it and sent to prison. Since he witnessed

00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:28.759
it, he knows that his dad didn't actually do

00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.099
the murder. Nope. So an attempt to try to get

00:31:32.099 --> 00:31:33.980
his dad out. So he knows who did. Well, he saw

00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:36.779
the person, but he doesn't know who that person

00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:39.420
was. And he was a child. But he knows it wasn't

00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:41.740
his dad. yeah but he knows it wasn't his dad

00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:44.339
yeah he was a child and and the police like didn't

00:31:44.339 --> 00:31:46.140
take him seriously because they were like oh

00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:48.279
you're just traumatized because of you saw your

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.660
mom get killed and yeah rude but also like the

00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:53.759
murderer was wearing a white coat and his dad

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.519
is a doctor so you know a white coat white coat

00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.180
you know after his dad goes to prison he ends

00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:02.740
up getting pseudo adopted i guess adopted by

00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:06.380
a police detective who is also convinced that

00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:08.589
his dad was the one that that did the murder.

00:32:09.329 --> 00:32:12.289
And so even though Jimmy's like trying to convince

00:32:12.289 --> 00:32:14.950
him that it wasn't his dad, the cop just doesn't

00:32:14.950 --> 00:32:16.930
really believe him. He does not believe him.

00:32:17.049 --> 00:32:19.450
Yeah. And so in order to try to get his dad out

00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:22.750
of prison, he borrows money from the mafia to

00:32:22.750 --> 00:32:25.509
be able to pay the legal fees. That all happened

00:32:25.509 --> 00:32:27.549
before the book starts. So the book starts with

00:32:27.549 --> 00:32:31.630
Jimmy's like pseudo, I don't know. He's a little

00:32:31.630 --> 00:32:34.289
bit of a father figure, but he was really good

00:32:34.289 --> 00:32:37.650
friends with Jimmy's dad. His name's Maury. yeah

00:32:37.650 --> 00:32:40.710
so the book starts with maury telling jimmy your

00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:44.470
debt has been sold and now it's owned by boss

00:32:44.470 --> 00:32:48.390
cold who is like the new head of the mafia and

00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:50.410
he's not gonna let you kind of skate by without

00:32:50.410 --> 00:32:52.609
paying him he's gonna like demand the money now

00:32:52.609 --> 00:32:54.829
and jimmy's just got fired from his job at the

00:32:54.829 --> 00:32:59.299
grocery store and he's like i have $19 to my

00:32:59.299 --> 00:33:04.200
name or something like that. I know. Well, he's

00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:06.960
already pawned all of his possessions to Mari.

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:08.839
And so he's like, it's fine. I'll talk to him.

00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:13.660
And Mari is like, listen, I heard he's gay. Just,

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:19.420
you know, offer to work off your debts with him.

00:33:20.089 --> 00:33:22.890
i heard uh i already let somebody do that one

00:33:22.890 --> 00:33:26.769
time maybe you could try oh my god exactly and

00:33:26.769 --> 00:33:29.930
jamie's like no i'm not gonna do that then he

00:33:29.930 --> 00:33:32.869
gets home and boss cold is at his house in his

00:33:32.869 --> 00:33:36.029
living room in his living room lounging on his

00:33:36.029 --> 00:33:39.049
couch and he's like hey you owe me money and

00:33:39.049 --> 00:33:41.910
jamie's kind of like oh he's he's kind of fucking

00:33:41.910 --> 00:33:46.950
hot like oh god i think i will do it he's like

00:33:46.950 --> 00:33:52.589
well actually maybe i will and his enforcer um

00:33:52.589 --> 00:33:55.990
Jules Jules yes so Jules is there too and Jules

00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:58.150
literally grabs Jimmy and is taking his hand

00:33:58.150 --> 00:34:01.769
about to burn it on like the stove and then like

00:34:01.769 --> 00:34:03.509
Jimmy yells out something like I'll I'll let

00:34:03.509 --> 00:34:09.929
you fuck me well all right yeah so he like stops

00:34:09.929 --> 00:34:12.789
Jules and holds like asking like well is that

00:34:12.789 --> 00:34:16.179
what you want he's like well it's what you want

00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:18.880
right and it doesn't really matter what i want

00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:21.460
at this point i want to keep my fingers exactly

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:26.699
then boss cold or um roderick legrand is his

00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:34.309
real name wow Love that. Cold is basically like,

00:34:34.369 --> 00:34:36.530
we'll do a trial run. Not going to buy the cow

00:34:36.530 --> 00:34:39.829
without tasting the milk. Oh God, I hate that.

00:34:41.610 --> 00:34:44.130
So he tells Jimmy like, be here tonight at this

00:34:44.130 --> 00:34:46.190
address and we'll do a test run or whatever.

00:34:46.530 --> 00:34:49.110
Yeah, so Jimmy shows up and Cold's sitting there

00:34:49.110 --> 00:34:51.150
behind the desk, can't be bothered. He's just

00:34:51.150 --> 00:34:52.670
like, okay, take a shower and then sit on the

00:34:52.670 --> 00:34:55.130
bed. So Jimmy does that. He like takes a shower

00:34:55.130 --> 00:34:57.110
and he sits on the bed and he's waiting and waiting

00:34:57.110 --> 00:35:02.190
and then really dirty stuff happens. cold warns

00:35:02.190 --> 00:35:03.630
him he's like you don't know what you're about

00:35:03.630 --> 00:35:06.829
to get into yeah yeah exactly there's i'll just

00:35:06.829 --> 00:35:09.590
say like there's a toy involved boss is what

00:35:09.590 --> 00:35:13.670
what's up what kind of toy i just a dildo okay

00:35:13.670 --> 00:35:16.809
well he said he tells jimmy to pick out a dildo

00:35:16.809 --> 00:35:18.869
from the side drawer or whatever he picks the

00:35:18.869 --> 00:35:20.670
smallest one but the smallest one still seven

00:35:20.670 --> 00:35:24.170
inches and cold like laughs at it he's like yeah

00:35:24.170 --> 00:35:27.690
okay you know so that's when you find out like

00:35:27.690 --> 00:35:32.619
boss is hung huge hog huge hog tag incoming and

00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:40.059
like he doesn't get in dress at all he literally

00:35:40.059 --> 00:35:42.840
just like opens his pants and then is like look

00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:53.699
at it here it is you know and then basically

00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:56.039
like proceeds to fuck him into the mattress excellent

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:59.880
yes and then zips up and it tells jimmy to like

00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:01.960
take a shower and jimmy's like getting ready

00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:04.079
to go home and he's like no i have you until

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.010
5 a .m you're staying longer in case i want to

00:36:07.010 --> 00:36:11.110
use you again oh my god and then tells jimmy

00:36:11.110 --> 00:36:13.449
that he's hired and then proceeds to say like

00:36:13.449 --> 00:36:16.070
i'm giving you a tip and then to like literally

00:36:16.070 --> 00:36:20.969
throw dollar bills onto his body make it rain

00:36:20.969 --> 00:36:24.110
jimmy's this whole time is just what he's like

00:36:24.110 --> 00:36:27.070
he's so fucked out he doesn't even register what's

00:36:27.070 --> 00:36:28.929
happening and then he's in the shower and he's

00:36:28.929 --> 00:36:32.539
like he didn't even kiss me Poor Jimmy's just

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:35.679
getting feelings. And then Boss Cold's just like,

00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:38.880
very cold. Very cold. Yes, he's very. He lives

00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:41.460
up to his name. The whole book is just told from

00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:44.500
Jimmy's POV. So you don't really get to see Cold's

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:46.199
point of view. I think that it wouldn't be my

00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:48.940
cup of tea because for most of the book, like

00:36:48.940 --> 00:36:51.659
maybe what, 60 or 70 % of the book, Cold is kind

00:36:51.659 --> 00:36:56.280
of. cold to jimmy jimmy you could tell starts

00:36:56.280 --> 00:36:59.179
falling for him fast and cold does little things

00:36:59.179 --> 00:37:02.159
for him that kind of blur the lines between like

00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:05.300
having a contract and being boyfriends like cold

00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:07.440
sister shows up and she takes jimmy shopping

00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.420
and gets him a new wardrobe which we love a shopping

00:37:10.420 --> 00:37:14.980
scene you know yeah i do desperately needed it

00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:18.059
he desperately needed it he needs a day job because

00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:20.119
the sleeping with cold is just to pay off his

00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.199
debt to the mafia but he's like i still need

00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:24.320
to pay my rent and everything and to keep the

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.739
lawyers and stuff yeah exactly so he gets a job

00:37:27.739 --> 00:37:30.360
singing at one of cold's clubs and that becomes

00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:32.519
a whole fun thing because then he's up there

00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:34.699
singing and he's singing to cold when cold's

00:37:34.699 --> 00:37:39.280
watching he's just entranced oh my god it's so

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.000
good yeah you can tell he's totally falling for

00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.099
jimmy but because surprise surprise he's got

00:37:46.099 --> 00:37:52.480
trauma in his past no way I was owned once and

00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.300
no one's going to own me again. But towards the

00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:57.699
end, you know, he softens up. And then book two

00:37:57.699 --> 00:38:01.380
is just so good. It's just like it's finally

00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:04.179
seeing him be completely gone for Jimmy. But

00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:06.940
also still, they have a very dom -sub relationship

00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:10.780
in the bedroom. Jimmy calls him sir. And then

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:18.260
Colt calls Jimmy Mr. Poe. Fucking hot. It is.

00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:21.300
It's really hot. Here are my kink tags for the

00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:23.920
book. Come play, dirty talk, breath play, degradation.

00:38:25.130 --> 00:38:27.730
Dub con, face fucking, fingering, impact play,

00:38:27.929 --> 00:38:30.110
out control, objectification, power exchange,

00:38:30.489 --> 00:38:33.409
rough fuck, sex contracts, banking, free use,

00:38:33.690 --> 00:38:37.150
toys, restraints, cock ring, desk sex, biting,

00:38:37.289 --> 00:38:41.070
bondage, edging, marking. Oh my everything. Yum,

00:38:41.070 --> 00:38:45.289
yum, yum, yum, yum. Hand collar, hands free.

00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:49.230
He puts a gag in at one point. He's got handcuffs.

00:38:49.230 --> 00:38:51.829
There's whimpering. There's belching. Oh, I love

00:38:51.829 --> 00:38:58.489
whimpering. Oh my gosh. Yes. Baby. Your favorite.

00:38:59.250 --> 00:39:05.989
Mentioned. Yes. Yes. It was like, well, this

00:39:05.989 --> 00:39:07.889
is my first. I'm just going to, I'm just going

00:39:07.889 --> 00:39:11.210
to put it all in there for you. Oh my God. And

00:39:11.210 --> 00:39:14.789
they did. And it was glorious. I have a question.

00:39:14.969 --> 00:39:17.329
So I know you said he's very cold, but is there

00:39:17.329 --> 00:39:19.769
aftercare? First two scenes. He doesn't, but

00:39:19.769 --> 00:39:21.369
see, he always spends the night. He never kicks

00:39:21.369 --> 00:39:23.809
Jimmy out. And he always sleeps in the bed with

00:39:23.809 --> 00:39:26.800
him. so there is a little bit of that it's not

00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:28.659
like he's just like fucks him and then kicks

00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:31.260
him out and then ignores him like i think even

00:39:31.260 --> 00:39:33.500
the first night that they're together jimmy points

00:39:33.500 --> 00:39:37.079
out that he has a memory of feeling like his

00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.079
arm around cold as they sleep yeah and then and

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.019
then he orders jimmy breakfast in the morning

00:39:42.019 --> 00:39:45.420
he literally orders breakfast yeah orders like

00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:47.840
everything off of the menu to be delivered to

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.260
the hotel room so there's aftercare in that sense

00:39:50.260 --> 00:39:56.360
but not in the cold is touch averse he doesn't

00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:58.519
like people touching him without permission when

00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.019
they get deeper into the relationship do they

00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:03.519
or or no what is that is that sort of a constant

00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:06.360
for him that he's not much of a as long as he

00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.159
feels comfortable with you and you have asked

00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.199
permission he's fine with it they don't have

00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:13.480
their first kiss though until like 75 into the

00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:17.440
book oh my gosh yeah but it's epic but it is

00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.250
epic yeah It's just it's so like I said, he's

00:40:20.250 --> 00:40:23.090
not cruel. He's cold, but he's not cruel. Like

00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:25.789
basically is what it is. Yeah. And like he does

00:40:25.789 --> 00:40:27.750
start doing more aftercare. Like I think the

00:40:27.750 --> 00:40:29.510
third time they sleep together, he like cleans

00:40:29.510 --> 00:40:31.769
up Jimmy. And then like there is a scene where

00:40:31.769 --> 00:40:34.030
they take a bath together. Yes, I love that scene.

00:40:34.550 --> 00:40:37.369
Yes, it's so good. He hadn't even seen cold naked

00:40:37.369 --> 00:40:39.710
yet. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. And that scene you

00:40:39.710 --> 00:40:41.889
find out. Yeah, because he always left his clothes

00:40:41.889 --> 00:40:44.590
on. Yeah. Was that like a power thing or? It's

00:40:44.590 --> 00:40:47.590
a trauma thing. Yeah. But he's covered in scars.

00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.019
i have this on my tbr it has a scene where literally

00:40:52.019 --> 00:40:55.719
cold goes on a rampage to save jimmy yes i love

00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:59.699
that i always eat that up yes i know so good

00:40:59.699 --> 00:41:03.619
yes and even though it's got all this like sex

00:41:03.619 --> 00:41:07.389
and kink they do a great job of balancing the

00:41:07.389 --> 00:41:12.789
plot with the kink very cohesive exactly i feel

00:41:12.789 --> 00:41:15.090
like that's true of all of kl here's his books

00:41:15.090 --> 00:41:19.269
yes yes i agree i agree yeah they do so good

00:41:19.269 --> 00:41:22.199
at that their writing is just like Yeah, it's

00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:23.760
just perfect. I don't know. They're one of my

00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:25.900
favorite authors to read. I'm never disappointed

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:29.500
with any of their books. Yeah, auto -read. That

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:33.860
was my week. Katie, what about you? So I only

00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:37.159
read two books and I literally finished the second

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.280
book last night at like 11 p .m. I'm like, I

00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:44.059
gotta finish for tomorrow. I didn't want to disappoint.

00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:48.079
You could never. The last books I read, Married

00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:52.780
to the Mobster by Leighton Green. Yes. Not outside

00:41:52.780 --> 00:41:54.780
my normal, but like a little bit because I'm

00:41:54.780 --> 00:41:59.019
very much like a cozy, sweet, kinky, like soft

00:41:59.019 --> 00:42:02.800
book. I'm not a dark mafia kind of reader. Three

00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:08.880
guesses who got Katie to read that one. It was

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:11.179
so fun, though. Like when I was reading it, I

00:42:11.179 --> 00:42:13.699
would be like up just messaging JD like, oh,

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.820
my God. Oh, my God. I loved it. I loved it so

00:42:17.820 --> 00:42:20.389
much. I love making people read that book. book

00:42:20.389 --> 00:42:23.750
it was a great time so the book is about luca

00:42:23.750 --> 00:42:26.250
and finch and like it starts off with finch like

00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:28.110
at a club and he comes off as just like a young

00:42:28.110 --> 00:42:31.809
party boy clubbing you know drinking drugs drugs

00:42:31.809 --> 00:42:35.769
big time yeah and he loves just to go and like

00:42:35.769 --> 00:42:38.369
hook up move on no worries no strings no nothing

00:42:38.369 --> 00:42:41.690
but then he meets luca at like a club and he's

00:42:41.690 --> 00:42:43.670
like immediately like really drawn to him and

00:42:43.670 --> 00:42:45.230
they're kind of like you know flirt or whatever

00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:49.480
but then luca just like fucks off and he finds

00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.400
him in an alley later that night having been

00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.559
beaten and like shot i think right yeah stab

00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:56.860
he ends up saving luca's life he takes him back

00:42:56.860 --> 00:42:59.840
to his hotel his fancy like new york hotel stitches

00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:03.500
his arm up and then just by having just been

00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:05.639
like on the brink of death, Luca's like, you

00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:10.099
know what? Let's have sex. So they do. Let's

00:43:10.099 --> 00:43:12.420
fucking go. I haven't lost enough blood. It's

00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:17.519
fine. I have just enough for an erection. They

00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:20.340
end up having a one night stand and it's like,

00:43:20.420 --> 00:43:22.659
immediately Finch is just like, you know what?

00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:26.840
This man. I'm obsessed. He rocks Finch's world.

00:43:27.739 --> 00:43:31.500
I don't remember. I didn't use the huge hog tag

00:43:31.500 --> 00:43:34.079
for this book, but I could be wrong. I don't

00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:36.500
think it's big, but it's not huge hog worthy.

00:43:36.579 --> 00:43:38.559
I don't think. Okay. It's pretty normal. Okay.

00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.800
That's fine. But then like immediately we get

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:44.860
a time jump five years later. And like one thing

00:43:44.860 --> 00:43:48.239
you find out is so Finch's dad, who's super absent,

00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:50.320
not in his life, really just kind of sent him

00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:52.320
off to like boarding schools. And it's kind of

00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:54.909
a jerk. He's head of the Irish Mafia, but when

00:43:54.909 --> 00:43:57.909
Finch was a kid, he witnessed his mother's murder.

00:43:58.429 --> 00:44:02.570
And ever since his mom passed, his dad was like,

00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:04.250
I don't want anything to do with this kid. And

00:44:04.250 --> 00:44:06.230
kind of also really stepped back from the whole

00:44:06.230 --> 00:44:09.630
mob stuff. So as far as Finch knows, his family's

00:44:09.630 --> 00:44:12.130
not really in the mob anymore. And his family's

00:44:12.130 --> 00:44:13.969
just rich. That's how it seemed to me. I could

00:44:13.969 --> 00:44:17.929
be wrong. They kind of pulled back from it and

00:44:17.929 --> 00:44:20.150
were trying not to really be in it anymore. But

00:44:20.150 --> 00:44:23.719
the fingers were... still a little bit dipped

00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:26.420
in yeah i mean once you're in i feel like it's

00:44:26.420 --> 00:44:28.460
kind of like yeah that's not one of those things

00:44:28.460 --> 00:44:29.860
you're just like all right well i'm done with

00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:34.260
this for now bye bye mafia yeah so luca is now

00:44:34.260 --> 00:44:36.579
not a capo but he's just like a he's like an

00:44:36.579 --> 00:44:39.179
enforcer i guess in the mafia for this for a

00:44:39.179 --> 00:44:41.679
family he does not like the family he works for

00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.480
though like the overall family so there's like

00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:46.300
the head family and then there's like the smaller

00:44:46.300 --> 00:44:49.750
groups within listen don't don't come to me for

00:44:49.750 --> 00:44:53.730
knowledge on how mafia these work sounds like

00:44:53.730 --> 00:44:59.469
something a mafia would say so he's like he's

00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:02.309
not a fan of the dude he works for he's he doesn't

00:45:02.309 --> 00:45:04.329
respect him but he loves well not loves but he

00:45:04.329 --> 00:45:07.510
respects like the big honcho the bomb daddy big

00:45:07.510 --> 00:45:16.210
daddy big daddy the big mafia daddy so he's like

00:45:16.210 --> 00:45:19.010
ordered to kidnap this kid and like essentially

00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:22.269
kill him to send a message to this irish mob

00:45:22.269 --> 00:45:25.309
family and they kidnap the kid shows up at a

00:45:25.309 --> 00:45:28.210
warehouse and who is it it's freaking finch and

00:45:28.210 --> 00:45:31.869
he's like oh my god he's like oh my gosh i can't

00:45:31.869 --> 00:45:35.989
i can't kill this kid and so sure you can they

00:45:35.989 --> 00:45:39.769
end up going to like the big big mafia daddy

00:45:39.769 --> 00:45:43.510
and It's like a marriage of convenience or arranged

00:45:43.510 --> 00:45:45.510
marriage, I guess, kind of like a forced marriage.

00:45:45.750 --> 00:45:48.690
I was going to say Luca was just as taken with

00:45:48.690 --> 00:45:51.329
Finch as Finch was with Luca all those years

00:45:51.329 --> 00:45:54.789
before. And when he sees him, like when they

00:45:54.789 --> 00:45:57.130
pull the bag off and it's Finch, he's like, I

00:45:57.130 --> 00:46:00.829
can't do this. And so when they go to the boss,

00:46:01.150 --> 00:46:03.769
Luca basically tells him that like he has a life

00:46:03.769 --> 00:46:06.869
debt towards Finch because Finch saved his life

00:46:06.869 --> 00:46:09.650
those years ago. And so he can't kill him because

00:46:09.650 --> 00:46:12.769
he has a life. debt for him and so then tina's

00:46:12.769 --> 00:46:14.909
like okay well we can't let him go either because

00:46:14.909 --> 00:46:19.289
yeah now he knows stuff so you're gonna you're

00:46:19.289 --> 00:46:21.570
gonna marry him and you're gonna treat him well

00:46:21.570 --> 00:46:25.829
um so but the thing is luca even though he does

00:46:25.829 --> 00:46:28.289
have feelings for finch and he cares about him

00:46:28.289 --> 00:46:31.280
he's like I can't let anyone know how I feel.

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:33.780
I can't even let him know how I feel because

00:46:33.780 --> 00:46:35.500
the second people know that I really care for

00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:37.619
him, he's a target. He's going to be killed.

00:46:37.780 --> 00:46:40.460
I can't have that happen. And so it's just really

00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:42.619
frustrating, like kind of push and pull because

00:46:42.619 --> 00:46:44.679
he cares. But then obviously they're married.

00:46:44.699 --> 00:46:47.739
They go on a honeymoon. Tino, big mafia daddy,

00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:50.380
sends them on like a cruise for like a month

00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:52.099
or something or a couple of weeks. And they get

00:46:52.099 --> 00:46:53.579
to go on this like fancy cruise. And while they're

00:46:53.579 --> 00:46:56.159
on the cruise. He like makes them sleep in separate

00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:57.880
beds and he's like, we're not going to be touching.

00:46:58.460 --> 00:47:02.219
And that doesn't last. So I had started reading

00:47:02.219 --> 00:47:07.059
this before JD and I became friends and I DNF'd

00:47:07.059 --> 00:47:08.880
it at this part because I was like, nah, fuck

00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:14.750
this. He was being a shithead. and also because

00:47:14.750 --> 00:47:17.070
you find out that Finch was lusting after him

00:47:17.070 --> 00:47:20.610
the entire time too yeah and I was like this

00:47:20.610 --> 00:47:23.949
is so mean but then JD was like nah Megan you're

00:47:23.949 --> 00:47:27.289
you're almost there just keep going you know

00:47:27.289 --> 00:47:30.070
yeah I was like please get back in there get

00:47:30.070 --> 00:47:32.409
back in there soldier come on I will say yeah

00:47:32.409 --> 00:47:34.630
if you're reading this book and you get to the

00:47:34.630 --> 00:47:36.449
if you get to the honeymoon part and you're like

00:47:36.449 --> 00:47:39.150
what the hell like why are you being such a dick

00:47:39.150 --> 00:47:42.139
yeah keep on reading it is going please keep

00:47:42.139 --> 00:47:44.059
going it is really frustrating because there

00:47:44.059 --> 00:47:46.519
is so much of that luca likes him and luca's

00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:48.199
sleeping with him but then luca kind of pushes

00:47:48.199 --> 00:47:51.000
him away and isn't mean but isn't super nice

00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.639
yeah it's push and pull yeah he has those possessive

00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:56.119
moments of that's my husband kind of thing and

00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:59.409
i really like that i'm a big fan and it is sort

00:47:59.409 --> 00:48:01.510
of slow burn and obviously they're together but

00:48:01.510 --> 00:48:04.030
the slow burn is for once the feelings are out

00:48:04.030 --> 00:48:06.130
yeah if that makes sense emotional slow burn

00:48:06.130 --> 00:48:09.670
emotional slow burn yes but so there's like a

00:48:09.670 --> 00:48:11.309
lot that happens i don't want to ruin the whole

00:48:11.309 --> 00:48:13.929
plot because there's a lot of drama going on

00:48:13.929 --> 00:48:16.329
in the mafia family and there's going to be like

00:48:16.329 --> 00:48:19.889
an uprising and it gets wild kind of a mystery

00:48:19.889 --> 00:48:22.579
which i was I was so proud of myself. I get a

00:48:22.579 --> 00:48:24.559
gold star. I guessed what was going to happen.

00:48:25.179 --> 00:48:28.059
I was messaging JD. I'm like, oh, I know what's

00:48:28.059 --> 00:48:30.119
happening. And I didn't think I was right. And

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.719
then JD's like, yep, you called it. Good job.

00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:36.320
Got it. Nailed it. Oh, I so did not. Me either.

00:48:36.460 --> 00:48:40.000
I messaged them and I was like, oh my God, I

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.940
love this person. And then like 10 minutes later,

00:48:44.139 --> 00:48:46.659
I was like, what the fuck just happened? That

00:48:46.659 --> 00:48:55.199
didn't happen. No. Like... oh my gosh it's it's

00:48:55.199 --> 00:48:57.420
funny there's a lot that goes on it does end

00:48:57.420 --> 00:49:00.179
with them together and having like an open like

00:49:00.179 --> 00:49:01.780
not open relationship like open communication

00:49:01.780 --> 00:49:04.840
between the two of them finally one thing i love

00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.639
though is so luca was raised really poor not

00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.699
fancy he's coming from nothing where finch is

00:49:10.699 --> 00:49:13.159
the opposite like he was raised finest things

00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.780
money could buy fancy cars drinking like he's

00:49:16.780 --> 00:49:20.179
used to luxury and so when they reconnect five

00:49:20.179 --> 00:49:22.860
years later luca's wearing like just the worst

00:49:22.860 --> 00:49:26.659
outfits like men's warehouse or yeah just like

00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:28.900
really like a cheap suit that he's trying to

00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:31.500
like make look expensive but Finch sees right

00:49:31.500 --> 00:49:33.460
through it and he's like nah nah nah nah not

00:49:33.460 --> 00:49:36.699
my game yeah he's like oh it's Armani he's like

00:49:36.699 --> 00:49:39.840
no it's not Finch is like it's for sure not it

00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:43.599
is I love how often that Finch is just like that

00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:46.179
suit's horrible that suit's terrible oh yeah

00:49:46.179 --> 00:49:49.480
Finch has like a one person campaign against

00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:54.719
every suit And rightfully so, because he just

00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.599
wants his man to look at the part, you know,

00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.139
he wants him to be king of the city and you got

00:50:00.139 --> 00:50:03.099
to look like you are. I do love that. So the

00:50:03.099 --> 00:50:05.920
whole time Finch is like trying to uplift, like

00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.940
really trying to help him be the best mobster

00:50:08.940 --> 00:50:11.619
that he can be. Like he's really standing by

00:50:11.619 --> 00:50:15.699
his man. Yeah. I'm just hearing Michael Ferriolo's

00:50:15.699 --> 00:50:18.679
like Finch voice in my head saying like, you

00:50:18.679 --> 00:50:22.090
can rule the city, baby. like with that accent

00:50:22.090 --> 00:50:27.489
i do love the audio yes um it's so good the audio

00:50:27.489 --> 00:50:30.070
is so good i'm gonna i actually checked out the

00:50:30.070 --> 00:50:32.369
second book so it's a it's a series the morelli

00:50:32.369 --> 00:50:35.449
family series and books one and two and then

00:50:35.449 --> 00:50:38.489
i think six are this couple and then the other

00:50:38.489 --> 00:50:40.869
books are other couples connect and they're all

00:50:40.869 --> 00:50:44.059
so good But Married to the Mobster was really

00:50:44.059 --> 00:50:47.420
fun. I loved the spice because, so Finch is like

00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:51.460
super bratty, bossy, like, but also kind of like

00:50:51.460 --> 00:50:53.219
a pillow princess. I don't know how to explain.

00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:55.800
Yeah, a little bit. A little bit of a mix. But

00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:58.420
there's this part where he's just like, they

00:50:58.420 --> 00:51:00.599
were like arguing or something. And Finch is

00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:02.420
just like, eat my ass to make up for it or whatever.

00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:11.409
It's so funny. And Luca does. There's a lot of

00:51:11.409 --> 00:51:18.469
eating in this book. It was so good. Hidden feelings,

00:51:18.750 --> 00:51:22.570
miscommunication, mobster. You get all of it.

00:51:22.630 --> 00:51:26.329
It was a wild ride and I loved it. I'm so glad

00:51:26.329 --> 00:51:31.110
that you enjoyed it. Hey lovelies. Editing Megan

00:51:31.110 --> 00:51:36.519
here. How you guys doing? You okay? enjoying

00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:40.260
that audible sale getting lots of good good audiobooks

00:51:40.260 --> 00:51:45.019
I know I am anyway as you have heard by now this

00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:48.599
is the cursed episode and what that means is

00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:52.079
it was a pain in the ass to edit and put together

00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:56.539
and record and just generally just to get it

00:51:56.539 --> 00:52:00.159
out to you guys but the authors and the books

00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:02.099
that we talked about in this episode were so

00:52:02.099 --> 00:52:04.880
important to us that we didn't abandon it so

00:52:05.579 --> 00:52:08.679
that being said there are a number of audio issues

00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:12.159
that normally wouldn't pass my scrutiny but I

00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.940
did my best I could with this and sometimes you're

00:52:15.940 --> 00:52:17.440
going to hear echoes and sometimes you're going

00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:18.820
to hear beeping and sometimes you're going to

00:52:18.820 --> 00:52:21.659
hear I don't know just stuff in the background

00:52:21.659 --> 00:52:25.699
and I tried my best to get it out and you know

00:52:25.699 --> 00:52:28.039
wasn't able to every time um just wanted to let

00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:29.400
you guys know that this is not going to be our

00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.679
standard for episodes moving forward obviously

00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:35.820
we're going to do better about everything like

00:52:35.820 --> 00:52:39.079
that so if you don't notice them thank you if

00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:43.159
you do notice them sorry uh thank you thank you

00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:49.179
thank you thank you how do i end this wait wait

00:52:49.179 --> 00:52:52.219
wait wait wait um so katie just told me that

00:52:52.219 --> 00:52:56.320
the audible sale ends before this episode goes

00:52:56.320 --> 00:53:03.780
live so i i hope that you did enjoy that audible

00:53:03.780 --> 00:53:12.639
sale Okay, bye. Okay, so moving on to our book

00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:18.280
radars. I have a couple today. The first one

00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:23.019
that I have is a book that's actually out already.

00:53:23.179 --> 00:53:27.159
So you can go read it if you want to. This one

00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:39.269
is Dead Nights by Kriya Raytan. It is an MMMM.

00:53:43.809 --> 00:53:47.530
It's a poly romance. Yes, it's a poly romance.

00:53:47.670 --> 00:53:50.570
Some of the things that were on the graphics

00:53:50.570 --> 00:53:55.630
that I've seen were broken boys. Yeah, I love.

00:53:55.889 --> 00:54:00.639
We love the broken boys. I don't know why I sang

00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:06.619
that. Some things need to be sung. One of the

00:54:06.619 --> 00:54:13.719
things on there was secret society. It has ghosts.

00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:17.460
Hell yes. Ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost. There was

00:54:17.460 --> 00:54:20.920
also a quote that said more dead than living.

00:54:21.099 --> 00:54:26.420
It's on like a remote island. Remote. Yes. Thank

00:54:26.420 --> 00:54:31.730
you. It's on. Like a remote island. I think it's

00:54:31.730 --> 00:54:36.070
like a haunted island. Oh. Yeah. It sounds super

00:54:36.070 --> 00:54:40.230
intriguing. Forced proximity. Stormed in was

00:54:40.230 --> 00:54:43.349
the reason for that. And then it's like a hookups

00:54:43.349 --> 00:54:46.929
to lovers. And then one of the other quotes that

00:54:46.929 --> 00:54:49.769
I found intriguing was intruders with knives.

00:54:50.230 --> 00:54:55.860
Oh. Yeah. So I don't really. I don't know. It's

00:54:55.860 --> 00:55:00.340
giving good vibes. I don't know what's up with

00:55:00.340 --> 00:55:02.619
that one, but it's giving good vibes. So I think

00:55:02.619 --> 00:55:06.500
I'm going to have to read that. Oh, yeah. Is

00:55:06.500 --> 00:55:09.460
that going to be too scary? I don't know. I don't

00:55:09.460 --> 00:55:14.699
think so. Good. I don't think Kreia writes really

00:55:14.699 --> 00:55:17.139
scary things. I think it's going to be more of

00:55:17.139 --> 00:55:22.559
a mystery. um but maybe i'll i'll read some reviews

00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:26.860
before i go because i'm just a baby i'll read

00:55:26.860 --> 00:55:30.219
it with you and then okay and you read faster

00:55:30.219 --> 00:55:36.619
than me so you can warn me yeah so that one sounds

00:55:36.619 --> 00:55:39.739
really good and then the other one that i have

00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:45.480
is very exciting for me and i mean i guess for

00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:48.280
you guys too probably for everyone but i'm very

00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:53.000
very excited it's a new chloe archer book and

00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.320
a new series that just got announced that is

00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:02.599
about ghost hunters and it has so many authors

00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:07.630
involved that we all love I'm so excited. I love

00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:10.269
ghosts and I love these authors. Megan loves

00:56:10.269 --> 00:56:17.230
ghosts. Entirely for them. They wrote it all

00:56:17.230 --> 00:56:20.969
for me. It's all for you. Yeah. So I'm just going

00:56:20.969 --> 00:56:23.889
to talk about Chloe Archers today. And then I'm

00:56:23.889 --> 00:56:27.329
assuming that we're going to talk about the other

00:56:27.329 --> 00:56:31.659
books. in more episodes for sure I don't think

00:56:31.659 --> 00:56:34.360
we'll be able to help ourselves it's just too

00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:38.440
exciting so the series is starting like from

00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:42.199
September through October I think through like

00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.179
Halloween is like the last release yeah this

00:56:45.179 --> 00:56:50.480
one is coming out October 15th according to Goodreads

00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:56.050
and it's called shake your boo thang Great name.

00:56:56.429 --> 00:57:01.869
Yes. It is about a haunted former underground

00:57:01.869 --> 00:57:07.210
gay nightclub that burned down. Oh my gosh. There

00:57:07.210 --> 00:57:10.289
is a gym that was built on top of it, I guess.

00:57:10.329 --> 00:57:15.329
And the customers are complaining about flickering

00:57:15.329 --> 00:57:19.090
lights. music that they can't stop and it's like

00:57:19.090 --> 00:57:23.989
abba and like the bgs disco music oh my god at

00:57:23.989 --> 00:57:27.750
really really loud volumes i'm so here for this

00:57:27.750 --> 00:57:30.809
yeah and then one of one of the things that it

00:57:30.809 --> 00:57:33.250
also said customers were complaining about was

00:57:33.250 --> 00:57:39.949
ectoplasm facials so well yeah we all know that

00:57:39.949 --> 00:57:43.909
ectoplasm is basically ghost cum so yeah yeah

00:57:43.909 --> 00:57:48.730
exactly yeah it's about a former detective turned

00:57:48.730 --> 00:57:52.050
ghost hunter and a podcaster and it's located

00:57:52.050 --> 00:57:56.230
in west end london excellent i don't know where

00:57:56.230 --> 00:57:58.769
that is what's that it's like the the broadway

00:57:58.769 --> 00:58:02.090
okay yeah of london i think i knew that yeah

00:58:02.090 --> 00:58:04.110
because we just talked about it because yeah

00:58:04.110 --> 00:58:07.469
we literally i was like wait wait now that you're

00:58:07.469 --> 00:58:11.690
saying bringing it back around goldfish memory

00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:15.579
It all connects. I'm so excited because I think

00:58:15.579 --> 00:58:17.980
it's going to be, I don't know, Chloe does such

00:58:17.980 --> 00:58:21.139
a good job. We love Chloe. Yes, love Chloe so

00:58:21.139 --> 00:58:23.119
much. She just does such a good job with pop

00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:26.980
culture references. Even in books that I've read

00:58:26.980 --> 00:58:29.900
of hers in the past, even pop culture references

00:58:29.900 --> 00:58:32.659
that I didn't really get because I didn't watch

00:58:32.659 --> 00:58:35.059
those things. I thought they were really funny.

00:58:35.179 --> 00:58:37.460
I'm sure if you had watched them, you would have

00:58:37.460 --> 00:58:39.079
loved it even more. I don't know. She just does

00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:41.840
a really good job of that. I did watch. Yeah,

00:58:41.880 --> 00:58:43.900
I watched everything that she talked about. Is

00:58:43.900 --> 00:58:45.980
it Tentacular Tales? Tentacular Tales. Yeah,

00:58:46.059 --> 00:58:48.760
there were so many there. Oh, I've got that on

00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.900
my TBR. Yeah, all of those references were like

00:58:51.900 --> 00:58:54.480
hit home for me. It was like Doctor Who, Star

00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.440
Trek, Star Wars. Princess Bride. Princess Bride.

00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:01.139
Everything. Yeah. Okay, so the important question.

00:59:02.059 --> 00:59:05.019
Do we think there are going to be ghost tentacles?

00:59:05.780 --> 00:59:12.340
Oh. You know. I want to say no, because I don't

00:59:12.340 --> 00:59:15.780
think this detective or this podcaster are in

00:59:15.780 --> 00:59:19.239
any way tentacled. Maybe some of the jokes would

00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:21.000
have tentacles, but I don't think we're going

00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.920
to get sexy tentacles from Chloe this time. But

00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:28.329
hey, I'll be happy to be wrong. yeah and we'll

00:59:28.329 --> 00:59:32.909
be happy whatever yes i'll be happy to be wrong

00:59:32.909 --> 00:59:35.710
happy to be right just happy to be reading another

00:59:35.710 --> 00:59:39.170
chloe archer book yes exactly i've only read

00:59:39.170 --> 00:59:41.150
the two chloe archer books the ones you recommended

00:59:41.150 --> 00:59:45.690
oh the monster hollow series yes yeah i really

00:59:45.690 --> 00:59:48.329
like those books they're so like low angst and

00:59:48.329 --> 00:59:52.630
just cozy they're so good i love them too i'm

00:59:52.630 --> 00:59:55.550
so excited for the new one yes the little town

00:59:55.550 --> 00:59:58.070
and like i'm just yeah i'm gonna go back monster

00:59:58.070 --> 01:00:01.789
hollow and greg rudrow shout out to the audio

01:00:01.789 --> 01:00:05.250
narrator i need to listen to the audios they're

01:00:05.250 --> 01:00:07.989
good i feel like every episode is me saying oh

01:00:07.989 --> 01:00:13.210
i should listen to those in audio Somebody make

01:00:13.210 --> 01:00:17.289
me do it, please. Now I need to listen to Vampire's

01:00:17.289 --> 01:00:21.710
Mates and Monsters Hollow. Oh, my pile is getting

01:00:21.710 --> 01:00:24.210
high. But yeah, anyway, those are mine. I'm very

01:00:24.210 --> 01:00:28.269
excited for both of them. What do you have, Kit?

01:00:28.449 --> 01:00:30.329
I've got two that I'm really excited about as

01:00:30.329 --> 01:00:32.929
well. The first one is called Violent Devotion

01:00:32.929 --> 01:00:36.969
by Elle Norell. It's a debut. So congratulations.

01:00:37.429 --> 01:00:42.920
This is a Mafia book. Yay! I know, right? We

01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:46.139
do love our Mafia. We've got the ruthless Russian

01:00:46.139 --> 01:00:49.380
Mafia enforcer who is completely numb to all

01:00:49.380 --> 01:00:52.500
of his feelings. But he's almost killed one night,

01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:56.840
except he's saved by the guarded veterinarian.

01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:01.099
I love MCs who work with animals, so I'm really

01:01:01.099 --> 01:01:06.179
excited about this. So, like, obviously, this

01:01:06.179 --> 01:01:08.869
random guy saved his life. So the mafia guy just

01:01:08.869 --> 01:01:11.110
becomes obsessed with him. And, you know, just

01:01:11.110 --> 01:01:14.150
a little bit of stalking. I love a little, like,

01:01:14.150 --> 01:01:17.570
light stalking. Right? I love a lot of little,

01:01:17.590 --> 01:01:19.309
little stalking. Nothing wrong with a little

01:01:19.309 --> 01:01:23.150
light stalking. What about a lot of heavy stalking,

01:01:23.150 --> 01:01:26.329
too? Yeah, we could also do that. We could also

01:01:26.329 --> 01:01:29.690
do that. It seems like the vet, he doesn't mind

01:01:29.690 --> 01:01:32.150
too much, from what I can gather. He basically

01:01:32.150 --> 01:01:37.579
goes, a red flag parade? For me? Let me get my

01:01:37.579 --> 01:01:42.420
chair. Yeah. They're both touch starved. Love

01:01:42.420 --> 01:01:45.909
a touch starved boy. So it's soft. only for you,

01:01:45.949 --> 01:01:47.510
but it's also, and this was like specifically

01:01:47.510 --> 01:01:49.989
in the marketing, it's adorable only for you.

01:01:50.230 --> 01:01:54.730
Oh, stop it. It doesn't even matter who it is,

01:01:54.789 --> 01:01:57.570
which one it is. It's going to be good. Yeah.

01:01:58.050 --> 01:02:01.369
Right? And there's like breaking in to nap in

01:02:01.369 --> 01:02:04.090
his bed. Oh, it's going to be so cute. Stop it

01:02:04.090 --> 01:02:07.449
right now. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. So it's

01:02:07.449 --> 01:02:08.889
going to be really good. There's going to be

01:02:08.889 --> 01:02:11.269
dark humor in it. Yes. Breathe in his direction

01:02:11.269 --> 01:02:13.429
wrong and die. It's going to be fantastic, I

01:02:13.429 --> 01:02:17.429
think. Sign me up. yeah that's coming out the

01:02:17.429 --> 01:02:20.530
24th of april cannot wait and then the other

01:02:20.530 --> 01:02:23.750
one that i've got is shadow prince by s rodman

01:02:23.750 --> 01:02:26.989
yeah yeah this is the start of a new series it's

01:02:26.989 --> 01:02:28.510
probably going to be quite a low angst series

01:02:28.510 --> 01:02:31.429
which is different for them uh different from

01:02:31.429 --> 01:02:34.510
what yeah uh says normally writes quite dark

01:02:34.510 --> 01:02:37.800
subcon kind of stuff really good though like

01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:40.980
yes says his spice is usually off the charts

01:02:40.980 --> 01:02:43.320
oh it's top tier but this right i've got to read

01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:45.539
you the tagline okay and the first bit of the

01:02:45.539 --> 01:02:48.559
blurb because it's just oh yeah right okay ready

01:02:48.559 --> 01:02:51.840
let's go nightmare to love a romance what if

01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:54.920
your childhood bogeyman turned out to be real

01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:59.679
and a real pain in the ass literally apparently

01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:02.699
the monster under my bed imprinted on me as a

01:03:02.699 --> 01:03:06.659
child like a baby duck a six foot insufferably

01:03:06.659 --> 01:03:11.500
hot made of shadow baby duck oh my god all right

01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:15.239
give me right i need this now i'm crying it's

01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:20.719
so good right so like from what i can gather

01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:25.119
the Monster used to feed on nightmares, but now

01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:28.099
he needs to feed on sexual energy. It's like

01:03:28.099 --> 01:03:32.400
a sexy Monsters, Inc. Right? I mean, isn't Monsters,

01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:35.219
Inc. already kind of sexy? Oh my god. I'm so

01:03:35.219 --> 01:03:39.539
sorry for the image that invoked. Sexy -er Monsters,

01:03:39.539 --> 01:03:43.659
Inc. So yeah, and apparently the bogeyman has

01:03:43.659 --> 01:03:47.019
a filthy mouth, so I can't wait for that. What

01:03:47.019 --> 01:03:50.449
is this book called? Shadow Prince. Oh, I need

01:03:50.449 --> 01:03:54.489
it. Katie's got her notebook out. Yeah. Writing

01:03:54.489 --> 01:03:59.590
it down. I'm on Goodreads right now. Don't worry

01:03:59.590 --> 01:04:01.650
to anyone who's listening and doesn't have a

01:04:01.650 --> 01:04:04.650
notebook. We will be putting all of these in

01:04:04.650 --> 01:04:07.909
our post. Don't worry. We will have it for you

01:04:07.909 --> 01:04:10.730
on a platter. So yes, this is April 14th. It

01:04:10.730 --> 01:04:12.289
should be really good. There's going to be six

01:04:12.289 --> 01:04:14.050
books in total in the series, but each one gets

01:04:14.050 --> 01:04:16.690
an HEA. So I think they're going to be interconnected

01:04:16.690 --> 01:04:20.179
standalones. oh this is gonna be so good yeah

01:04:20.179 --> 01:04:24.559
i'm so ready yeah i'm so excited um so yeah that's

01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:28.039
me basically megan what about you okay i have

01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.179
a few the first one that i have on my list is

01:04:30.179 --> 01:04:32.340
one of my i'm currently art reading it's called

01:04:32.340 --> 01:04:35.659
wish we were here by risa cruz and it will be

01:04:35.659 --> 01:04:43.280
out on 420 blaze it other drugs are available

01:04:44.900 --> 01:04:48.179
and so it's a 90s nostalgia road trip romance

01:04:48.179 --> 01:04:53.280
with uh caretaking and a bi reawakening obviously

01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:55.400
forced proximity because they're it's a road

01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:58.659
trip strangers to lovers only one bed and so

01:04:58.659 --> 01:05:01.039
basically it's ash basically he's running from

01:05:01.039 --> 01:05:05.320
his past he has epilepsy he's never left his

01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:08.239
home of providence rhode island shout out to

01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:12.639
rhode island and he he's a sex worker ash overhears

01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.940
sam at a bar telling the bartender like that

01:05:15.940 --> 01:05:18.619
he's got to drive back to miami because poor

01:05:18.619 --> 01:05:21.840
old sam got dumped by his girlfriend and that

01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.059
he drove all the way up north to meet and surprise

01:05:25.059 --> 01:05:29.260
oh she dumped him so i know right that's a bummer

01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:31.320
So, yeah, he's basically telling the bartender

01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:33.159
he's got to drive back home to Miami. Ash over

01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:35.800
here is like, if you take me with you, I will

01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:39.900
pay your way. Oh, that's sweet. yeah yeah so

01:05:39.900 --> 01:05:42.599
you know sam is like you know what yeah i was

01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:44.639
gonna have to just sleep in my car sure i'll

01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:46.280
bring this kid with me but then like shortly

01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:48.980
after he agrees he starts noticing ash is kind

01:05:48.980 --> 01:05:51.619
of withdrawn and he suspects that ash has been

01:05:51.619 --> 01:05:54.320
unhoused and going through some stuff so it's

01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:56.440
gonna be like caretaky like got lots of cuddles

01:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.059
got high heat so it's got like roadhead and skinny

01:05:59.059 --> 01:06:04.880
dipping i love a road trip book me too right

01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:08.239
just do There's so many good ones. Exactly. And

01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:10.719
as soon as I saw the arcs open for this, I was

01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.440
like, fuck, I'm going to sign up for this one

01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:18.599
too. Your pile grows and grows. God, it's so

01:06:18.599 --> 01:06:22.800
out of control. That one comes out on 420. Highly

01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:27.280
recommend. And then the next one I have is another

01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:31.880
arc reading one. It's Lockstep by C .T. Whistle,

01:06:31.980 --> 01:06:34.840
which we all know I love this Omegaverse Case

01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:38.619
Files series coming out on April 16th. And this

01:06:38.619 --> 01:06:41.380
is book three in the series. This one is an Alpha

01:06:41.380 --> 01:06:48.719
Alpha pairing. yes and like one of the tags for

01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:51.019
the promotions was like oops they touch knots

01:06:51.019 --> 01:06:55.320
during a threesome oh i'm so here for that yeah

01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:59.519
so it's taylor and johnny and they have been

01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:01.539
best friends like their entire lives and they

01:07:01.539 --> 01:07:04.199
both went to school together went to academy

01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:06.860
together they worked together they're just like

01:07:06.860 --> 01:07:09.380
their entire lives are just intertwined and so

01:07:09.380 --> 01:07:10.860
i have a feeling it's going to have a touch of

01:07:10.860 --> 01:07:13.579
like idiots to lovers because one of them has

01:07:13.579 --> 01:07:15.800
been in love with the other one for like 14 years

01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.619
oh no yeah so it's gonna be it's gonna be pining

01:07:19.619 --> 01:07:24.280
and oh but they're they're really codependent

01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:28.219
on each other and um there was like a scene at

01:07:28.219 --> 01:07:30.480
the beginning that was really sweet where um

01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:35.519
taylor who is uh one of the who was i think he's

01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:41.050
okay so it's taylor so taylor seems like the

01:07:41.050 --> 01:07:44.889
more unhinged one he's got adhd and he um undiagnosed

01:07:44.889 --> 01:07:47.369
adhd and he has trouble kind of regulating his

01:07:47.369 --> 01:07:49.409
emotions sometimes so in the beginning of the

01:07:49.409 --> 01:07:50.809
book there's something that happens that kind

01:07:50.809 --> 01:07:53.570
of causes him to have trouble regulating his

01:07:53.570 --> 01:07:56.489
emotions and so he's about to basically shift

01:07:56.489 --> 01:07:58.590
because it's a shifter omegaverse so he's about

01:07:58.590 --> 01:08:05.010
to shift in the um In the police place. Station.

01:08:05.449 --> 01:08:09.050
Yeah. Thank you. At the police station. And Johnny

01:08:09.050 --> 01:08:11.170
kind of starts to notice the sign. Johnny then

01:08:11.170 --> 01:08:14.110
pulls out a handful of. nail polish and some

01:08:14.110 --> 01:08:16.170
beads and he's like okay are we doing nail polish

01:08:16.170 --> 01:08:19.829
or are we making bracelets oh my god so it's

01:08:19.829 --> 01:08:21.869
really cute because yeah they'll either paint

01:08:21.869 --> 01:08:23.869
nails or they'll make bracelets to kind of help

01:08:23.869 --> 01:08:26.789
regulate Taylor's emotions that way I love that

01:08:26.789 --> 01:08:30.189
yeah it is a slow burn but you got a lot of cute

01:08:30.189 --> 01:08:33.029
moments leading up to it and along the way they're

01:08:33.029 --> 01:08:35.409
solving a mystery of this small town and then

01:08:35.409 --> 01:08:38.270
knitting needles which comes out on June 1st,

01:08:38.270 --> 01:08:40.510
and this is by Ezra Wren. It's a tea for tea,

01:08:40.689 --> 01:08:43.970
found family romance, kind of cozy. It stars

01:08:43.970 --> 01:08:48.449
Oscar and Aaron, and they meet at a gender clinic

01:08:48.449 --> 01:08:52.250
the morning of their top surgeries. Ooh. Yes.

01:08:52.350 --> 01:08:54.630
I don't think I've ever read one that has that

01:08:54.630 --> 01:08:57.729
kind of meet cute. No. So they meet at the clinic,

01:08:57.770 --> 01:09:00.720
and then... kind of loose touch over a few weeks

01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:04.119
but then erin's managed to track down oscar on

01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:06.319
a gaming server and then they start texting and

01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.800
it kind of becomes like a cozy going on dates

01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:13.859
obviously so excited for this one it looks so

01:09:13.859 --> 01:09:16.819
cozy and cute it does yeah you were the one that

01:09:16.819 --> 01:09:19.039
showed me this and i was like oh yes please right

01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:22.020
now yeah i absolutely have to read this it sounds

01:09:22.020 --> 01:09:24.659
so good do they have knitting dates because of

01:09:24.659 --> 01:09:31.979
the name of the book yes and yeah they're both

01:09:31.979 --> 01:09:34.840
cinnamon rolls so we love that we love a cinnamon

01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:39.949
roll Mostly there's like a lot of healing and

01:09:39.949 --> 01:09:42.289
then they've got like a found family full of

01:09:42.289 --> 01:09:45.550
queer friends. Yes. You know, I love a queer

01:09:45.550 --> 01:09:48.090
found family. So, yeah, that's June 1st. And

01:09:48.090 --> 01:09:49.689
then the last one I'm going to talk about is

01:09:49.689 --> 01:09:56.050
Suck by E .M. Lindsay and Cora Rose. Yes. As

01:09:56.050 --> 01:09:58.689
you guys know, we love this pairing. Love so

01:09:58.689 --> 01:10:02.390
much. So this is a smutty monster romance. Yeah.

01:10:02.510 --> 01:10:04.569
And it's coming out May 8th. I guess it started

01:10:04.569 --> 01:10:06.369
off as a novella and now they're like kind of

01:10:06.369 --> 01:10:07.850
turning it into. to a full -fledged book according

01:10:07.850 --> 01:10:10.489
to what i've read in the reviews our star is

01:10:10.489 --> 01:10:13.229
everest who is kind of a clueless human and in

01:10:13.229 --> 01:10:16.289
the world these portals appear and monsters are

01:10:16.289 --> 01:10:18.250
coming through and like you know the world is

01:10:18.250 --> 01:10:20.149
like oh we gotta attack we're gonna go to war

01:10:20.149 --> 01:10:22.270
but really they just are looking for humans to

01:10:22.270 --> 01:10:28.430
do um sex sex things with it's like horny monstrous

01:10:28.430 --> 01:10:34.409
like they're just up front about the horny from

01:10:34.409 --> 01:10:38.800
the beginning one of the things about this book

01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:41.380
though is like i'm doing it to save humanity

01:10:41.380 --> 01:10:44.680
or something yeah that's literally one of the

01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:52.199
taglines okay good for you some of the tropes

01:10:52.199 --> 01:10:56.220
are obviously monster romance sucking and swooning

01:10:56.220 --> 01:11:00.600
peddling body piercings yes yes yeah uh secret

01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:05.439
romance monster peen yes we love the monster

01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:09.579
pain antagonist to lovers and then it's got banter

01:11:09.579 --> 01:11:13.319
and it's supposedly kinky as hell so i'm so excited

01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:17.020
excellent yes i'm so excited that's all for me

01:11:17.020 --> 01:11:20.119
but yeah that one comes out april 8th also so

01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:23.619
soon what about you katie the books i have on

01:11:23.619 --> 01:11:26.659
my radar are all technically out already i just

01:11:26.659 --> 01:11:29.439
sort of wanted to like remind people and just

01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:31.699
give them extra shout outs because i really like

01:11:31.699 --> 01:11:35.579
them So Enchanted by Envy by Nick Knight came

01:11:35.579 --> 01:11:39.960
out March 12th. It came out some time ago. It's

01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:45.340
Zeph and Bryce and Zeph works at the cafe and

01:11:45.340 --> 01:11:47.920
Bryce is coming to Purgatory through like a work

01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:50.760
program so he can work with like animals and

01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:56.159
stuff in the Hell dimension. It is so sweet and

01:11:56.159 --> 01:11:59.239
soft and you've got like queer found family.

01:11:59.979 --> 01:12:02.819
And lots of, there is like cuddling in this book.

01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:07.260
So Zeph is touch averse. They're also aroace

01:12:07.260 --> 01:12:10.020
and they don't have sex at all. There's no sex

01:12:10.020 --> 01:12:13.939
in this book. But it is so, oh my gosh. So it's

01:12:13.939 --> 01:12:16.460
just their romance and first their friendship.

01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:21.319
And then their very slow burn, very sweet romance.

01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:25.300
But it's also. so funny like i don't it's not

01:12:25.300 --> 01:12:28.779
all sweet and soft and stuff like it's a hilarious

01:12:28.779 --> 01:12:31.279
book well nick writes humor really well yeah

01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:33.640
oh my gosh yeah bryce comes to stay in purgatory

01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:36.020
and he moves in with zeff as zeff's new roommate

01:12:36.020 --> 01:12:39.060
um and it's them like navigating one like having

01:12:39.060 --> 01:12:42.300
a new a new roommate um zeff's a little particular

01:12:42.300 --> 01:12:46.380
and like likes things um the way that they like

01:12:46.380 --> 01:12:48.420
things like they have a mug system which i just

01:12:48.420 --> 01:12:53.800
love oh my god i mean i relate i would tell you

01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:55.939
guys about my glass right i have a very specific

01:12:55.939 --> 01:12:58.420
way i put mugs away in the cabinet and i get

01:12:58.420 --> 01:13:00.039
really annoyed when other people put mugs away

01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:01.539
because they'll be like there's not enough space

01:13:01.539 --> 01:13:05.340
but there oh my god do it right You put the ones

01:13:05.340 --> 01:13:08.399
on the top shelf and you put the smaller ones

01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:10.880
on the bottom shelf and stack them. Everything

01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.239
has a place. And if you're not doing it right,

01:13:13.359 --> 01:13:16.739
just don't do it at all. Exactly. I have a mug

01:13:16.739 --> 01:13:18.819
tree for my larger ones and the larger ones go

01:13:18.819 --> 01:13:22.000
on that mug tree. Anyway, so it's a really sweet

01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:24.560
book. I really love it. Go read it. And then

01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:27.180
the other book I wanted to mention is A Daddy

01:13:27.180 --> 01:13:30.239
for Cooper, which came out March 18th. Yes! Yay!

01:13:31.390 --> 01:13:36.189
I am very normal about this book. That's by Emery

01:13:36.189 --> 01:13:39.390
Winters. It's technically book two in the series.

01:13:39.409 --> 01:13:42.310
So the first book is A Dead Mate for Dylan. And

01:13:42.310 --> 01:13:45.270
Dylan is Cooper's brother, younger brother. But

01:13:45.270 --> 01:13:47.449
so this book, it picks up, yeah, I guess in the

01:13:47.449 --> 01:13:49.569
middle. They're still getting together in A Dead

01:13:49.569 --> 01:13:52.130
Mate for Dylan. But anyway, so Cooper and Patrick.

01:13:52.430 --> 01:13:57.529
Daddy. Daddy. He owns the local cafe diner. Waffles.

01:13:57.630 --> 01:14:00.810
Yes, waffles. He meets, he goes to like a kink

01:14:00.810 --> 01:14:03.810
club because Cooper's an alpha and he's only

01:14:03.810 --> 01:14:06.550
attracted to alphas, which in this universe,

01:14:06.649 --> 01:14:08.989
that's sort of the equivalent of like being gay.

01:14:09.109 --> 01:14:11.470
And he hasn't really, he's not out to anyone.

01:14:11.550 --> 01:14:14.050
He hasn't told his family, his friend, no one.

01:14:14.170 --> 01:14:16.510
And so he goes to like a club and you get like

01:14:16.510 --> 01:14:18.569
the bracelets, like alpha seeking alpha. And

01:14:18.569 --> 01:14:21.670
he runs into Patrick who kind of saves him from

01:14:21.670 --> 01:14:25.909
an unpleasant person. Creepy guy. i love that

01:14:25.909 --> 01:14:30.489
trope yes oh yeah the savior yeah well the dom

01:14:30.489 --> 01:14:32.770
savior specifically at like a game club like

01:14:32.770 --> 01:14:37.270
when that happens it's like oh yes yeah um but

01:14:37.270 --> 01:14:40.250
so he he saves him and he agrees to do one scene

01:14:40.250 --> 01:14:42.329
with cooper because you can kind of see that

01:14:42.329 --> 01:14:45.850
like he needs somebody he needs he needs a daddy

01:14:45.850 --> 01:14:48.590
also because patrick is like really attracted

01:14:48.590 --> 01:14:51.539
to cooper but he's oh yeah really heartbroken

01:14:51.539 --> 01:14:53.260
so he doesn't want a natural relationship. Yeah,

01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:56.279
there's a lot of heartbreak. Patrick had a really

01:14:56.279 --> 01:14:59.159
devastating relationship end. He had his own

01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:03.500
partner and was cheated on and it was just like

01:15:03.500 --> 01:15:07.140
really a huge emotional blow for him and he hasn't

01:15:07.140 --> 01:15:09.359
recovered. Broken daddy. Yeah, so he's like,

01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:11.859
I'm not dating but I'll do a scene with you and

01:15:11.859 --> 01:15:14.739
that's it. There's no strings, we're not anything.

01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:18.779
We can't do this again. Yeah, one and done. And

01:15:18.779 --> 01:15:21.859
then proceeds to have the hottest scene. Oh my

01:15:21.859 --> 01:15:25.979
god, yes. It's like the second chapter. My Kindle

01:15:25.979 --> 01:15:30.800
lit on fire. It was insane. It was so good. Their

01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:34.100
chemistry immediately is perfect. And Patrick

01:15:34.100 --> 01:15:36.899
is able to read Cooper so well. He knows exactly

01:15:36.899 --> 01:15:40.319
what he needs. Everything was really good. The

01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:43.779
communication. There isn't a lot of... aftercare

01:15:43.779 --> 01:15:45.859
in the very beginning like because they do a

01:15:45.859 --> 01:15:47.460
scene like he does check in with him but then

01:15:47.460 --> 01:15:49.439
they're nothing like they're not together they

01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:51.680
go their separate ways cooper is just like he's

01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.779
a sweet meaty boy like he just he needs a daddy

01:15:54.779 --> 01:15:57.819
so bad i'm so scared to read this because that

01:15:57.819 --> 01:16:00.899
dynamic in books makes me cry like when it's

01:16:00.899 --> 01:16:04.100
oh but it's so good it's so worth it i know i

01:16:04.100 --> 01:16:07.640
know let me tell you he he's lonely he's so lonely

01:16:07.640 --> 01:16:09.199
and it breaks my heart because like his best

01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:13.699
friend is axel um and axel is who who dylan is

01:16:13.699 --> 01:16:15.979
with um and so now his best friend is dating

01:16:15.979 --> 01:16:18.140
his brother and he he feels like he doesn't really

01:16:18.140 --> 01:16:20.199
have his person anymore because like axel was

01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:24.140
his person and so one thing he does he's not

01:16:24.140 --> 01:16:26.699
an omega but he likes building nests to comfort

01:16:26.699 --> 01:16:31.819
himself oh my god i know i love it so much i'm

01:16:31.819 --> 01:16:34.340
not gonna spoil the whole book but a lot of stuff

01:16:34.340 --> 01:16:37.430
happens at one point in the book he is really

01:16:37.430 --> 01:16:39.750
upset over his relationship with Patrick and

01:16:39.750 --> 01:16:43.130
um he's finally kind of confessed to being into

01:16:43.130 --> 01:16:46.189
alphas to his friend Axel and he has Axel come

01:16:46.189 --> 01:16:49.470
over and like Axel his best friend like comforts

01:16:49.470 --> 01:16:51.770
him and like and lays in the nest with him and

01:16:51.770 --> 01:16:54.609
just like is such a good friend and like gives

01:16:54.609 --> 01:16:57.510
him cuddles but it's like very platonic there's

01:16:57.510 --> 01:16:59.149
no like cheating or anything like that one of

01:16:59.149 --> 01:17:00.789
my favorite things in a book is when there's

01:17:00.789 --> 01:17:02.229
scenes like that with friends platonic when you

01:17:02.229 --> 01:17:04.029
cuddle with your friends or affectionate with

01:17:04.029 --> 01:17:05.949
your friends platonic yeah platonic affection

01:17:06.489 --> 01:17:08.449
I loved it. I thought it was so sweet. Cuddle

01:17:08.449 --> 01:17:11.609
more with your friends, people. Yes. But it was

01:17:11.609 --> 01:17:14.550
such a good show of support. Axel never was like,

01:17:14.670 --> 01:17:16.010
oh, that's really weird. I don't want to cuddle

01:17:16.010 --> 01:17:17.289
you or anything like that. He was just like,

01:17:17.329 --> 01:17:19.529
my friend needs support and I'm going to be there

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for them. It was just really sweet. I loved every

01:17:21.449 --> 01:17:23.630
moment of that book. I already want to read it

01:17:23.630 --> 01:17:26.029
again. Go check him out. Maybe I'll have you

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read it with me so you can be my emotional support.

01:17:28.890 --> 01:17:31.069
So it'll make you cry. You're going to cry, Megan.

01:17:31.170 --> 01:17:33.930
I'll cry at everything, but yeah. I know the

01:17:33.930 --> 01:17:36.649
specific triggers I have for crying. Yeah. And

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I hope we get a third book in this series because

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Patrick has a friend and I want his friend to

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get a book. I just like this town. I love the

01:17:44.069 --> 01:17:47.210
dynamics of the characters. I like the way Emery

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write Omegaverse. I want a thousand more. And

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that's all I have. So that's all for this week,

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Bratz. We are going to be scurrying back to our

01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:09.899
book nests now, you know. Until next time, you

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love you. Bye. Bye.