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Oh. Megan is interested. Right? Turn on the cum

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lamp and sign me up. Hello Brats and welcome

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to another episode of Rainbow Book Rats, a queer

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romance podcast where four feral rats nerd out

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about their favorite reads. On this Rat Chat

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episode, we are going to talk about the books

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we read recently and what's on our book radar

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at the moment. So grab a treat, settle in, and

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let's get to yappin'. I'm JD, my pronouns are

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they, them, and I have a piece of stained glass

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shaped like a glorious crab rangoon. I thought

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you were going to say you had a penis. No, I

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don't have one of those yet. I'm Kit, they, he,

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and if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, I

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want to get bitten first. me too i will not survive

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okay okay you know i'll just hide away that's

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when you'll see katie's mean side finally i've

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had a lot of conversations with how we would

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survive a zombie apocalypse with my family and

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i have flat out told everyone i am not surviving

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don't expect anything of me exactly right the

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second my glasses break i'm done for oh my yeah

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i can't see well even with my glasses so um i'm

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megan she her they them and i used to think that

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there was a salami animal and i believed this

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up until like my mid -20s my mid to late 20s

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wait like Like there was an animal made of salami

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that we harvested salami from? Yes, like salami

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or pepperoni. Why is that so cute? Wow, that's

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the cutest fact I've ever heard. You win. Oh

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my gosh. I'm Katie. She, her. And if you don't

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already know, I collect trolls. And I'm obsessed

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with them. So cute. I love your collection. My

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babies. Little treasure trolls all staring down

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at you as one. Actually, yeah, because they're

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all on the walls and stuff. I have a tattoo of

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one on my arm. Yeah. How was your week, JD? What

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dirt do you have to share? You know I don't want

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to talk about the dirt. I do want to talk about

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the dirt, unfortunately. Sorry, everyone. It's

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real actual for real dirt. My wife bought some

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garden beds. for our yard this year two really

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big ones and we vastly underestimated how much

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dirt was necessary to fill those suckers i think

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she bought like i want to say close to 10 bags

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of soil and it didn't fill it like at all oh

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no oh my gosh So, last weekend, we borrowed my

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father -in -law's truck to go get dirt from,

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like, the dirt place. I don't know. The dirt

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store. The dirt store. Dirt is everywhere. It's

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wild that you can go buy it. You had to buy it.

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I know. You need specific dirt. Yeah, if you

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just go find some dirt, you have to, like...

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dig it up i'm not doing that you're not gonna

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go dig a hole in the it was hard enough to dig

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it out of the truck and when we got there the

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guy looked at us like no because of the size

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of our truck because no not a very big one but

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he was like yeah i don't i mean we'll see what

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we can get in there so He did the first scoop

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and it filled the truck. And he was like, I don't

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think we can get any more in there. So yeah,

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we just ended up doing half a yard and then I

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shoveled it into a wheelbarrow and we had my

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husband assemble while we were out getting the

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dirt because his foot is still, you know. in

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a booth and so he couldn't help us with the dirt

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which is why i was helping with the dirt um anyway

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against your will yeah well i mean i'm happy

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to help them if they need my help but usually

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they don't and i'm happy for that because i don't

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like doing stuff like that listen i i think i

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think wifey bought the planners and then your

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husband was like I'm going to break my toe because

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I don't want to help. For real, yeah. We got

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the planters and then suddenly somebody broke

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his toe. Yeah, no. So I shoveled all that dirt

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into a wheelbarrow. Yeah, so that took a long

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time and it made my arms hurt. But I look really

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cool doing it, though. So anyway, yeah, that's

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what's been going on with me. Just dirt. What's

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going on over there? JD's got dirt, Kit's got

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sand. Yeah. Yep, I've been getting the tank ready

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because we might have some crabs coming. Yay!

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I'm so excited. The babies. Babies. Oh, I've

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got three coming. And you've got names picked

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out. Yep. So we're thinking Pebbles, Crabather,

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and Clorins. Gotta meet them first. I mean, I've

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seen that tank. They're going to be pretty spoiled.

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Yeah, it's a pretty lush tank. I would live in

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it if I was a crab. Yeah, they've got a lot of

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toys in there. They're going to have fun times.

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But yeah, how about you, Megan? I went and saw

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Conan Gray on concert. I was so fun brought my

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husband with me because I've listened to him

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a lot and so Alex heard a couple songs here and

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there so he was like yeah I'll go it'd be fun

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like I'll hear the couple songs I'm excited about

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and then like we were there and we had really

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good seats and and like Conan's just such a great

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performer and then when we left my husband was

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like oh i'm a fan now yeah he was like asking

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me about like some of the different songs and

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stuff and i was like oh this makes me so happy

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that's so sweet every video you were sending

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i was like oh my god i love it i was so excited

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and i was just like the sailor costumes i know

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the set was so cute he had like the yeah the

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sailor costume and he had like a pajamas costume

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how much did you cry oh yeah So the first song

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he started with, I cried. It was just like chills,

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instant chills, right? And then obviously cried

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during Vodka Cranberry. The first song, the second

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song, and then the third song. Yeah, so that

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was my week. What about you, Katie? My week.

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Well, it wasn't super exciting. I have a nephew

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and he turned five. So I went to what I thought

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was the rat house, but I learned it's the mouse

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house. Chuckie Keys is not a rat. He's a mouse.

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I didn't know that. And he was in the building.

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I don't like, I'm not a mascot person. They freak

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me out. i don't like him and he was walking around

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and i was like mr cheese was there you're like

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yeah from me i'm over here you know his real

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name is charles e cheese right yeah entertainment

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cheese charles entertainment cheese as a british

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person is this true yeah i think true oh my god

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It was awful. Like, it was just so loud. So chaotic.

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And like, of course I'm there for my nephew's

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birthday, but like, he's not. My nephew doesn't

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want to hang out with me at his birthday party.

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He's five. He wants to play with his friends.

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He's like jumping everywhere. Yeah. And playing

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games. And so I'm just trying to survive and

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make small talk with other parents. And I ended

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up getting stuck in the bathroom for like 20

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minutes because I went to go pee and there was

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no toilet paper and I didn't have my purse on

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me. And we were all too far away to help you.

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Yeah. Yeah. We got an SOS. I'm texting you guys.

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Like, you'll help. But like, I can't. I'm not

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going to ask a... I was too embarrassed to ask

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one of the other kids in the bathroom to like,

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hey, can you get me toilet paper? Hey, kid, bring

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me some toilet paper. So I'm just I'm like texting

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everybody. I need help. But they're not responding

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because they're busy with the children. So, you

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know, if we were real friends, we would have

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looked up the Chuck E. Cheese you were at and

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called it and told them. I was like a minute

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or two away from taking a sock off, guys. I was

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done. I was ready to leave. Only other highlight

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I have for my week. We have this. So where the

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water comes down from the rain gutters is broken.

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So it's like dripping from up high now. So all

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the snow melting off the roof. And it makes these

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giant icicles on the side of our house. And I

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got in trouble one year. because I wanted to

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break it. And I broke our broom in half, smacking

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it. So I haven't done it since. But this week,

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my nephew decided to take up the family job and

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smack it with a broom. And he broke a broom.

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It's tradition. You must have been so proud of

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him. I was pretty proud. He and his friend, they

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got the bright idea to take hammers. They took

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hammers. They didn't get hurt. They were fine,

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but they took hammers and we're just, me and

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my sister inside the house, just watching like

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TV or something. And you just hear like, he kept

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coming in. Look at this chunk I got. And I'm

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like, okay, that's nice. wow it was great he's

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playing outside you know that's yeah yeah it's

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not a tablet he's fine oh boy see i would have

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helped him and taped the hammer to the broom

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there you go kid that should work tape an ice

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pick to the other side just in case Go have fun.

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Oh, boy. All right. Well, let us. move on to

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what we read i will go first in the last couple

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of weeks i read a couple of books that i want

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to talk about the first one is stick around by

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em lindsey it is a spin -off series from the

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punk as puck series it is about jonah who is

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a goalie in the pphl and he was born blind he

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is a blind goalie and he plays professional hockey

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and we love him he's baby we love him We love

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him. He's like my favorite character in the first

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three books and he's only a side character. Yeah,

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yeah. He's just so sweet and lovely. This is

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his book. It was actually like more emotional

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than I was expecting. Oh no. Uh oh, Megan. Jonah

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is estranged from his parents because his dad

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was like super checked out when he was growing

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up. He has two other brothers. Micah is also

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fully blind and he also plays professional hockey

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as a goalie but on a different team and then

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his other brother caleb he is partially blind

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so their dad was like really checked out when

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they were growing up and he resented the fact

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that jonah and micah couldn't see and he like

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favored caleb but only just barely yeah it was

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really awful and then their mother basically

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exploited them for their blindness like started

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like a youtube channel and was like watch how

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my kids eat blind like it was awful truly truly

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you fuck parents like that yeah fuck any parents

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that exploit their kids for youtube but especially

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that they have a lot of trauma surrounding that

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and they get a call from their mom saying like

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i need you guys to come over like i have to tell

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you something and so they're like oh my god what

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now so they all go over there and jonah is kind

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of the one who ends up shouldering a lot more

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of the drama between parents and and kids because

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micah and caleb are very much like a no fuck

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this this is not my problem they leave and then

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their mom tells jonah that she's moving to the

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uk completely ignoring all life's responsibilities

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and fucking off basically and then she tells

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him too that his dad has alzheimer's and he's

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gonna need help so lol bye Fucking parents. Yeah.

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So he finds out by getting a phone call from

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a man who owns a restaurant asking him to come

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pick up his dad. And he's like, what? So apparently

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his dad is like really late stage Alzheimer's

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and he's been like, yeah, wandering around. and

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his mom just like rented him this shitty apartment

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and like put him there and left him and he finds

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out that his dad has been going to this restaurant

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and like bothering the guy who owns it and uh

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but the guy's super super kind like really nice

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so jonah's like oh my god like she really did

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it because he tried to call his mom and it was

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disconnected oh my god yeah so he goes down to

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the restaurant gets there and uh the guy who

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owns it is like he's he's fine you know like

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he comes in here and sits here for a while every

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day and yeah i just think you should probably

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get him home and jonah's like i don't know where

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he lives i don't know anything about him like

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i haven't talked to him in years and he's like

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oh okay well let me call my brother because my

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brother brings him home sometimes so he calls

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his brother and it turns out his brother is an

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nhl player that jonah knows and thinks is an

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and it's his name is Alexio he doesn't know that

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Alexio like recognizes him because he doesn't

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like really expect anyone to know who he is because

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their team like you know their league in general

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isn't as well known so Alexio does recognize

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him and when he finds out that that's his dad

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he thinks that Jonah is a neglectful person there's

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no way you didn't know and so he like instantly

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hates him all he knows is that this man has just

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been wandering around alone with no one and he

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thinks that jonah was just like letting it happen

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but the story is pretty much about jonah trying

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to find care for him and trying to get him into

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a good home jonah was like absolutely not willing

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to have him live at his place a because he wouldn't

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be able to really take good care of him and b

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because even when he wasn't suffering from alzheimer's

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he didn't do things that kept jonah's place in

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order on purpose so we don't owe our families

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anything yeah you don't want to be like i'm a

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horrible person but you also like he's like you

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know he deserves dignity It was just really hard

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for him. And he couldn't ask his brothers because

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his brothers really didn't want anything to do

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with it. So he was like trying to do everything

00:17:14.019 --> 00:17:17.160
by himself. And then Alexio and Alexio's brother

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who owned the restaurant were helping him out

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a lot because they had already been helping make

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sure he was eating and stuff like that. They

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considered him kind of a friend. And so they're

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helping him. But it's just it's like a big spiral

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kind of for Jonah. Alexio kind of shifts into

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a little bit of like a caretaking role. It's

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a hurt comfort situation for sure. The found

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family comes in big time with the punk as puck

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crew really coming together to help him out.

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Killian! Yeah, Killian's in it because he's really

00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:53.660
good friends with Jonah. Should I have read punk

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as puck before I read this? you don't need to

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no I don't think you need to I mean it would

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help because then you would know all the side

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characters and I think it's always better if

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you do but I guess it depends on how much you

00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:09.210
care about that I mean, I plan to read them.

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I just want to read this now. Very good. Yeah.

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So it's like a high heat one, too. So there's

00:18:15.309 --> 00:18:18.029
spice like right off the bat. There's a big time

00:18:18.029 --> 00:18:21.509
praise kink in it. Oh, yeah. And we love a praise

00:18:21.509 --> 00:18:26.970
kink. Yes. Face fucking. And also this one is

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a small peen tag. Yes. Oh, yes. I love it. Yes.

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Diversity. So. so yeah it was really really good

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oh and also one of the side characters in this

00:18:41.869 --> 00:18:45.849
one Vanya he is the goalie for the NHL team that

00:18:45.849 --> 00:18:48.410
Alexia was on he's one of my favorite characters

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ever oh my gosh I adore him he's like a big teddy

00:18:52.369 --> 00:18:56.970
bear Russian himbo Oh my gosh. I'm pretty sure

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he is getting a book in this series. I don't

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know when or who it's going to be with, but I'm

00:19:01.509 --> 00:19:03.329
pretty sure he is. And I can't wait because I

00:19:03.329 --> 00:19:06.529
fell in love with him. He is so lovely. I will

00:19:06.529 --> 00:19:09.170
be reading. Stick Around by E .M. Lindsay. Very,

00:19:09.250 --> 00:19:12.089
very good. And then the second book that I want

00:19:12.089 --> 00:19:17.000
to talk about is Eden by Lily Main. Yay. You

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can't see, but I'm like fist pumping and shaking.

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Yes. Katie was very excited to get me to read

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this and I read it on audio and I like followed

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along on my. Oh yes. The audio is so good. Yeah,

00:19:32.059 --> 00:19:35.720
it was good. I, I liked it a lot. I'll just give

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like a brief overview. I feel like everyone's

00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.759
read this book, but me, but not just you guys,

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but like everyone, but I'll just do it anyway.

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Hunter and his fellow soldier BFF Charlie were

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on a mission and never heard back from HQ, basically.

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So they decide to walk to the base, which is

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a pretty long walk. They get there and it's destroyed.

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It's the base from the first book. This is an

00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.849
apocalyptic setting. So they're like, well, okay,

00:20:06.930 --> 00:20:09.250
great. I guess we'll go back to the other base.

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There's a lot of walking in these books. So as

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they're walking, Charlie gets captured by a swarm

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of monsters and Hunter trying to... Hunter tries

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to save him and he's running towards him and

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he doesn't realize there's a giant sinkhole in

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the ground. Foles in a hole. Yeah. And then over

00:20:38.450 --> 00:20:43.869
the hole peaks Eden. Yay! And he's like, what

00:20:43.869 --> 00:20:51.049
you doing? nice hole you got there so he pulls

00:20:51.049 --> 00:20:53.410
hunter out and hunter tells him like his friend

00:20:53.410 --> 00:20:55.869
just got taken he's like okay i'll help you and

00:20:55.869 --> 00:20:58.069
hunter's like i don't need any help i'll just

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get him myself and he's like oh yeah how are

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you gonna do that which way did they go He has

00:21:03.450 --> 00:21:07.049
no idea. So Eden helps him. They spend the book

00:21:07.049 --> 00:21:09.670
tracking where these monsters are going. They

00:21:09.670 --> 00:21:11.650
think they're taking them one place, but it turns

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out something else is going on. They meet up

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with Wynne and Danny. They get Wynne and Danny

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to help them. And oh my gosh, I was like so excited

00:21:22.490 --> 00:21:24.609
because I love the voice that Michael Leslie

00:21:24.609 --> 00:21:27.910
does for Wynne. Ooh, the Wynne voice. Oh my gosh.

00:21:27.910 --> 00:21:32.420
It is so good. I also love his Danny voice. I

00:21:32.420 --> 00:21:34.980
was very happy to see them. I'm assuming it,

00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:37.660
maybe the next one is about Charlie. I'm not

00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:39.200
sure. I haven't looked it up yet. No, you have

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.400
a little bit. Oh, well, anyway, I liked the ending

00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:46.279
because it was very calm. yeah you have charlie

00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:49.380
walking in on um hunter and eden and oh my gosh

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and then there's my the part that lives rent

00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.680
free in my head is when charlie calls hunter

00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:59.440
a size queen yeah yeah he's like i didn't know

00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:04.420
you were a size queen hunter's like don't ever

00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:07.759
call me that again you're not cheating that word

00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:12.980
yeah so this book is a size difference book which

00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:15.799
is crazy because charlie is six foot five hunter

00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:20.539
eden is just ginormous yeah yeah like seven foot

00:22:20.539 --> 00:22:23.579
something he's just a big purple monster in his

00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:28.569
kid a kilt in a kilt yes just a giant sweet precious

00:22:28.569 --> 00:22:31.710
angel baby and i love him he is my favorite i

00:22:31.710 --> 00:22:34.869
love him too yeah it's a it's a grumpy sunshine

00:22:34.869 --> 00:22:40.230
the monster is the sunshine i love hunter i love

00:22:40.230 --> 00:22:42.170
that he's just so grumpy i just want to like

00:22:42.170 --> 00:22:44.670
i love i love it when the grumpy becomes like

00:22:44.670 --> 00:22:48.619
soft you know he had grumpy yeah but He does

00:22:48.619 --> 00:22:52.920
soften up a bit. So yeah, so this book was a

00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.519
size difference, a grumpy sunshine. There was

00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:58.680
some caretaking in it. Also limb difference because

00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:03.980
Hunter is missing a leg. I have one quote that

00:23:03.980 --> 00:23:08.109
I highlighted that I loved so much. It is when

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they're at the homestead after all the drama

00:23:10.349 --> 00:23:14.609
happens. Eden is drawing him a bath, but the

00:23:14.609 --> 00:23:17.529
water in the house isn't heated, so he's warming

00:23:17.529 --> 00:23:21.619
it up over a fire and bringing it. upstairs oh

00:23:21.619 --> 00:23:24.500
i love that scene yeah yeah so the quote goes

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:27.779
i heard eden tromping back up the stairs his

00:23:27.779 --> 00:23:30.500
foot falls a little slower than usual as he carried

00:23:30.500 --> 00:23:33.859
up water for a bath something hot and sweet pulsed

00:23:33.859 --> 00:23:38.000
in my chest he was so good kind Had I ever told

00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.599
him that? Had I ever said the words? I loved

00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.319
that so much. Eden's just so good. He's just

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.640
so good. He's Beth's boy. He really is. He is.

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:53.319
Every time when Hunter confesses his love for

00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:55.779
Eden for the first time, it always gets me in

00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:58.240
my feels because one thing in the book is you

00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.559
find out Eden is the last of his kind. He's pretty

00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:03.500
much alone. It just makes me so sad because there's

00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:06.460
a part after Hunter says, I love you and Eden.

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.000
like i'm wondering if love means something different

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:13.220
for him i just want to cuddle eden he's so sweet

00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:15.839
and kind when he was telling hunter like his

00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.059
background and everything i like almost cried

00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:22.839
it was it was really sad they almost got don't

00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:25.400
worry don't worry lily's gonna get you she'll

00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:28.519
get you yeah oh yeah just wait yeah probably

00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:31.279
from what you guys say i believe you yeah another

00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:33.539
thing that i really loved about this book and

00:24:33.539 --> 00:24:36.359
hated at the same time was that eden didn't know

00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:42.759
what kissing was He hurt Hunter's feelings so

00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:45.140
much, but he didn't even know he was because

00:24:45.140 --> 00:24:47.839
Hunter has like a big scar across his face that

00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.359
goes into his lip. He's really self -conscious

00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.500
about it and he thinks that he's really ugly

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:55.740
because of it. And he thought that Eden was like

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:57.960
rejecting kissing him because he didn't like

00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.619
the way that his lip crooked up. And it broke

00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:04.359
my heart and I was like screaming in the buddy

00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:12.460
read like, Eden, how could you? But then he didn't

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:14.759
even know what kissing was. And it was just so

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:17.700
sweet. I was like, okay, instantly you are forgiven.

00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.690
I love you. I'm sorry I'm not mad. That's one

00:25:21.690 --> 00:25:25.529
of my favorite tropes, actually. Someone doesn't

00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:28.329
know what kissing is. Oh my God. It was just

00:25:28.329 --> 00:25:31.329
so, so sweet. But yeah, I enjoyed it very much.

00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:35.109
And I will end this segment by reading a few

00:25:35.109 --> 00:25:37.829
more of the tags that I had for this book. Throat

00:25:37.829 --> 00:25:42.029
fucking, rimming, snowball, restraint, tail play,

00:25:42.210 --> 00:25:50.769
and huge hog. Let's go Eden! Those are the books

00:25:50.769 --> 00:25:53.349
that I wanted to talk about from last week. So

00:25:53.349 --> 00:25:57.829
what about you, Kit? Great. Yes, I've got two

00:25:57.829 --> 00:26:01.500
that I want to talk about. The first one is Hallucidating

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:05.140
a Demon by Ashlyn Mills. So this is part of season

00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:08.160
two of the Monster Match series. It's a multi

00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.440
-author series. It's urban fantasy. And this

00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.259
book was really cute. Okay, so it's a sleep paralysis

00:26:15.259 --> 00:26:19.039
demon who, instead of wanting to feed off people's

00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.079
fear when they sleep, wants to see if he can

00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:24.799
feed off of good energy rather than giving them

00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:28.700
nightmares. Give them... happy dreams and that

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:30.799
kind of thing and see if he can feed off that

00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:35.000
energy also he's like really cute oh my god he's

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.839
the cutest sunshine character you've ever met

00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:42.059
his name is arian and then the other mc is elias

00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:47.200
and he has narcolepsy with cataplexy oh no yeah

00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.000
he doesn't really sleep more than a couple of

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.099
hours at a time but he sleeps a lot he gets a

00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:53.920
lot of nightmares because he has trauma from

00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.380
his very first cataplexy episode where he was

00:26:57.380 --> 00:27:01.299
in a car crash when he was driving yeah it's

00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:04.160
really sad and somebody died in it one of his

00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:08.059
loved ones oh no yeah so he has like all of these

00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:12.019
what he thinks are just um Night terrors? Yes,

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:15.500
thank you. My brother used to get night terrors.

00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.799
Where you're like awake, yeah. Yeah, it's a night

00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:20.539
terror. It's like when you're awake, but your

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:22.900
eyes are open, but you're not really awake, but

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:24.579
you're kind of awake. Yeah, okay, thank you.

00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:28.960
Sorry. No problem. So he gets kind of like night

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.640
terrors where he's having a cataplexy episode

00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:35.579
and he's awake, but he can't move. He's paralyzed.

00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:40.180
And he sees these like hallucinations of... Essentially

00:27:40.180 --> 00:27:43.539
the person who died begging for help and like

00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:47.680
all bloody and stuff. Horrible. I'm making this

00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:49.759
book sound really gruesome and scary and it is

00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:57.359
not. Because what happens is our sunshine little

00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.519
sleep paralysis demon gets hired as like a test

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.599
subject thing to go into this guy's life and

00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.559
see if he can Not heal him from his narcolepsy

00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.259
because you can't cure somebody. But make his

00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:13.579
dreams nice instead of awful. Yeah, and see if

00:28:13.579 --> 00:28:15.539
he can help him get into a proper routine and

00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:17.960
help him heal a bit from the trauma and all of

00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:19.420
that. Now, the guy doesn't know this is going

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:21.839
to happen, but suddenly this really cute guy

00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:24.380
pops up in the middle of his nightmares and is

00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:27.119
like, actually, we're going to go and fish in

00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:31.339
this nice, fantastic lake. Aww. Yeah, and we're

00:28:31.339 --> 00:28:33.539
going to ride giant slug monsters and race each

00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:35.079
other instead of being in this car crash. Oh,

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:39.339
racing slug monsters. That sounds lovely. Right?

00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:42.259
It's so cute. It's really well done. I want to

00:28:42.259 --> 00:28:45.019
say Ashlyn Mills actually has narcolepsy. So

00:28:45.019 --> 00:28:47.200
this is Own Voices and it's really well done.

00:28:47.259 --> 00:28:49.720
I learned so much from this book. So yeah, and

00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:52.680
they also go on some really cute dates. It's

00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.519
because obviously the demon ends up popping up

00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.079
in real life as well. He's like, I know you.

00:29:00.299 --> 00:29:01.839
But it's a lot about learning to live with loss.

00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.640
So it's his brother who died and he completely

00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.039
idolized his brother. And then as the book goes

00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:09.359
on, we learn some things about him that like

00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:13.519
not great. Oh no. But the thing is that he still

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.400
loves his brother at the end of it. So it's learning

00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.839
to like live with the reality of having complicated

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.380
feelings towards someone and still loving them.

00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:22.500
Ooh, I like that. Yeah, I thought it was really

00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:24.799
good. Like missing the person that you thought

00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:27.039
they were, like mourning the person you thought

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:29.200
they were while also learning about who they

00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.920
really were. yeah exactly there's not much spice

00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.420
in this book but the spice scenes that we do

00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:37.460
get are a lot of like cataplexy spice scenes

00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:40.200
where it's kind of somno but he's awake but he

00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:47.940
can't do anything oh megan is interested right

00:29:47.940 --> 00:29:51.539
so obviously like he's consented beforehand like

00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:53.660
they both know it's gonna happen but yeah it's

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:56.240
pretty hot and a lot of come play as well Sign

00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:04.380
me up. Turn on the cum lamp and sign me up. And

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.859
then the other one that I read is The Handyman's

00:30:06.859 --> 00:30:10.099
Howl by Ducky Mac. Oh, yay! I'm going to read

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:13.819
that soon. This is a lowish angst paranormal

00:30:13.819 --> 00:30:17.200
romance. This is Fated Mates. The insta -love

00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:21.640
in this is so good. I love that kind of insta

00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.950
-love. You see someone and it's like, mine. So

00:30:25.950 --> 00:30:29.730
literally this guy is, he's human, but he can

00:30:29.730 --> 00:30:32.289
talk to animals. He doesn't know why. He just

00:30:32.289 --> 00:30:35.549
thinks he's a weirdo. All of these animals are

00:30:35.549 --> 00:30:37.289
like, something is chasing you. You need to go

00:30:37.289 --> 00:30:41.529
west. He's like, okay, going west. Oh, I guess

00:30:41.529 --> 00:30:44.609
you better listen. Yep. So he ends up on this

00:30:44.609 --> 00:30:47.430
island where there's an inn. And he's like booking

00:30:47.430 --> 00:30:49.309
into this inn. Like, I don't really know why

00:30:49.309 --> 00:30:54.660
I'm here, but like, can I stay? And then he hears

00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:58.000
this like growling sound behind him. And the

00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:03.400
guy just goes, smells so good. It's werewolf

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.500
handyman guy. So the thing about the werewolf

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:09.359
guy, right? He's, as I say, he's the handyman

00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.119
for the inn, but he also co -owns it. It's paranormal

00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:14.960
found family. They all own the inn and it's the

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.960
whole island is basically for supernatural creatures

00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.980
to come and be themselves. is the idea of it

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:25.339
i like that yeah it's really nice and so werewolf

00:31:25.339 --> 00:31:28.619
guy his name is rudy rudy i love him that's such

00:31:28.619 --> 00:31:32.799
a cute name what the heck right so he has like

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.279
two really different sides to him you've got

00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:37.599
the werewolf side who by the way he doesn't just

00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:39.859
come out on the full moon um rudy doesn't have

00:31:39.859 --> 00:31:43.220
control of him and he comes out a lot in this

00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:47.430
book oh he just like pops out werewolf yeah He

00:31:47.430 --> 00:31:51.410
is a self -confessed alpha hole. Massively possessive.

00:31:51.430 --> 00:31:53.490
But also really likes dog treats. And being told

00:31:53.490 --> 00:31:59.049
he's a good boy. Oh my god. So you have like

00:31:59.049 --> 00:32:04.250
that. And then you have. Quick question. Does

00:32:04.250 --> 00:32:06.309
he only eat dog treats. When he's transformed

00:32:06.309 --> 00:32:08.170
into a werewolf. Or does he eat them when he's

00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:12.410
a person too. Oh I'm going to get to that. The

00:32:12.410 --> 00:32:17.660
important questions Katie. Oh, trust me. So he

00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:20.740
eats human food, but there's a whole scene involving

00:32:20.740 --> 00:32:28.180
a bully stick and wanking. Oh, okay. I don't

00:32:28.180 --> 00:32:30.240
know what a bully stick is, but I'm intrigued.

00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.240
Yeah, what's a bully stick? It's like a rawhide

00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:39.410
chew. It is the only one with a dog. Yeah, exactly.

00:32:41.690 --> 00:32:44.430
Yeah, when they first meet, they meet first with

00:32:44.430 --> 00:32:47.549
him being a werewolf. And Bowen, who is the human,

00:32:47.650 --> 00:32:50.529
gives him a bully stick. He spends like half

00:32:50.529 --> 00:32:52.309
the night chewing it. And then he wakes up as

00:32:52.309 --> 00:32:55.329
a human. He's still got this bully stick. He's

00:32:55.329 --> 00:32:58.450
like, oh, God, I'm remembering the scent of the

00:32:58.450 --> 00:33:02.410
human. And then he starts, he starts like jerking

00:33:02.410 --> 00:33:06.630
it. oh god I need to remember the night so then

00:33:06.630 --> 00:33:08.509
he stops and he wants something in his mouth

00:33:08.509 --> 00:33:10.589
so he just puts the bully stick back in his mouth

00:33:10.589 --> 00:33:17.049
I mean if it works right and it becomes a whole

00:33:17.049 --> 00:33:19.089
running joke in the book as well which I loved

00:33:19.089 --> 00:33:21.210
like that was my favorite thing actually because

00:33:21.210 --> 00:33:23.130
Bowen carries his bag everywhere and it's got

00:33:23.130 --> 00:33:26.250
lube in it whenever they would go to have sex

00:33:26.250 --> 00:33:29.990
he'd like reach for the bag and then Rudy would

00:33:29.990 --> 00:33:36.029
go It's not time for a bully stick. Oh my god,

00:33:36.029 --> 00:33:40.309
that's so cute. That is so cute. You've got the

00:33:40.309 --> 00:33:42.230
alpha hole possessive side of the werewolf, but

00:33:42.230 --> 00:33:44.269
when he's a human, he's really shy and uncertain

00:33:44.269 --> 00:33:48.670
and cute and sweet. Oh my gosh. I'm excited to

00:33:48.670 --> 00:33:50.730
read this one. It's so good. You're going to

00:33:50.730 --> 00:33:53.289
love it. I downloaded it on my Kindle last night.

00:33:53.450 --> 00:33:56.099
Opened it up, downloaded it. immediately fell

00:33:56.099 --> 00:34:00.500
asleep kindle controller in my hand i passed

00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:06.700
out i was so tired relatable i'm very excited

00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:10.079
to read it though yeah i loved it i just found

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.280
it really fun i love the found family aspect

00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.039
of it the whole like he's very separate from

00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:16.780
his werewolf at first and the whole book is about

00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:20.639
him becoming like one with his werewolf yeah

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:24.360
It was a great time and I thoroughly recommend

00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:27.039
for anybody who enjoys paranormal romance. I

00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:29.619
cannot wait. I'm excited. What about you, Megan?

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.000
What did you read this week? I read a lot. As

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:37.420
you guys know, I always read a lot. I narrowed

00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:40.440
it down. The first one I read, I did with my

00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:42.800
ears, my ear balls. I listened to it, read it.

00:34:43.820 --> 00:34:47.159
It was a novella called Blessed by the Cupid

00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:51.909
Distribution System. Katie had recommended this

00:34:51.909 --> 00:34:56.630
one in a post or two, I believe. And it's by

00:34:56.630 --> 00:35:01.510
Robin Jo Margaret. And it is a sapphic human

00:35:01.510 --> 00:35:06.210
slash Cupid romance. Yes. And it's very, it's

00:35:06.210 --> 00:35:08.849
very sweet. It's very cute. It's low angst, but

00:35:08.849 --> 00:35:12.469
like high heat. And Iris, who is a trans femme

00:35:12.469 --> 00:35:17.710
human, a spec. We love that rap. Yes. And then

00:35:17.710 --> 00:35:22.730
Jaya is a as the Cupid and she is black and plus

00:35:22.730 --> 00:35:25.849
size. So I'm obsessed with her. I want to marry

00:35:25.849 --> 00:35:30.079
her. Yes. She's like, she's like so sweet and

00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:33.320
naive, but bubbly, but also like really interested

00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:37.380
in sex. Because it takes place during Valentine's

00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:40.239
Day and they go places and people are like getting

00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:42.320
frisky in public. And she's like, look at those

00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.760
people. They're at a bookstore. She's like picking

00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:48.880
up like a smut book. And she's like, look at

00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:53.460
these people. but yeah so it was a very sweet

00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:55.980
novella and it's got like a lot of first times

00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:59.440
because even though jaya's a cupid and she's

00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:03.739
like 100 years old or 101 um she's still a virgin

00:36:03.739 --> 00:36:06.099
because she spent like 100 years training to

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:09.619
become a cupid wow thanks that's a long time

00:36:09.619 --> 00:36:14.099
yeah i know right um and iris is a virgin still

00:36:14.099 --> 00:36:17.300
too because she's got kind of she's got low self

00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:20.400
-esteem and you want to just like cuddle her

00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.920
and so the premise of it is that iris is looking

00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:26.219
at valentine's day and thinking she's going to

00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:28.900
be alone again her friends are all coupled up

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:32.780
and so she's feeling lonely and sad and so she

00:36:32.780 --> 00:36:34.739
kind of makes a wish saying like i just want

00:36:34.739 --> 00:36:40.030
somebody and so the cupids all hear these wishes

00:36:40.030 --> 00:36:42.429
and what like thousands of cupids or something

00:36:42.429 --> 00:36:45.070
like that they all get to pick out somebody that

00:36:45.070 --> 00:36:46.590
they're going to spend valentine's day with and

00:36:46.590 --> 00:36:48.210
help them fall in love and help them find their

00:36:48.210 --> 00:36:51.630
person right yeah so jaya ends up choosing iris

00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:54.269
because jaya kind of thinks iris is pretty but

00:36:54.269 --> 00:36:56.730
also is like i want to help her find you know

00:36:56.730 --> 00:37:00.650
her person and so when jaya shows up to iris's

00:37:00.650 --> 00:37:03.570
house she iris kind of mistakes her for like

00:37:03.570 --> 00:37:06.639
being there for her for as her date and so they

00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.940
decide why not for one day we'll be each other's

00:37:09.940 --> 00:37:11.960
dates and we'll experience Valentine's Day together

00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:14.159
go on all these really sweet dates and do all

00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.300
these things that Iris had never gotten to do

00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:19.780
oh but then also yeah it's really sweet and along

00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:23.090
the way she finds out that like Because she spent

00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:25.690
100 years training to become a Cupid. She doesn't

00:37:25.690 --> 00:37:28.210
really have any interests of her own. So they

00:37:28.210 --> 00:37:30.329
kind of start exploring things that she might

00:37:30.329 --> 00:37:32.769
like. And so it's just like a lot of really sweet

00:37:32.769 --> 00:37:36.809
first times, first dates. Super cozy. Super cozy.

00:37:36.809 --> 00:37:39.809
It has a few of really hot spice scenes with

00:37:39.809 --> 00:37:45.230
exhibition in it. Excellent. Yes. But it's like,

00:37:45.250 --> 00:37:47.030
yeah, it's a really sweet novella. It's a lot

00:37:47.030 --> 00:37:49.889
about like learning. about yourself while also

00:37:49.889 --> 00:37:52.449
learning about what it is to like, what it feels

00:37:52.449 --> 00:37:56.730
like to fall in love. Yeah. So I got it off of

00:37:56.730 --> 00:37:59.449
Hoopla. I'm sure it's available other places

00:37:59.449 --> 00:38:01.710
too. And you can also eyeball read it, but I

00:38:01.710 --> 00:38:05.090
loved the narrator. So definitely recommend reading

00:38:05.090 --> 00:38:09.340
that one. My next one was. I read Glitched Fates

00:38:09.340 --> 00:38:16.300
and Stolen Mates by TJ Rose. Yay! I got the ARC

00:38:16.300 --> 00:38:18.340
for it and it was like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:22.840
yes, yes. Yeah, Kit and I love the series. And

00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.400
JD, you read the first one. Is this the ARC that

00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:27.719
you signed up for that you didn't select the,

00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.239
I promise not to tag the author in negative reviews

00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:36.679
or whatever? That was lockstep. Oh, yeah. Which

00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.400
I did get. so thankfully this is one that I forgot

00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:44.940
to sign up for that I thought I had oh no I know

00:38:44.940 --> 00:38:46.960
it hit my kindle and I was like did you get it

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.239
and they were like no I must have got denied

00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:55.219
but then they hadn't even applied for it I was

00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:57.619
really sad for like three hours and then I was

00:38:57.619 --> 00:39:02.920
like wait wait a minute I didn't apply yeah like

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.460
i have the opposite where i've literally had

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:07.900
an author tell me that i signed up for their

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:12.860
form like four times like okay you'll get it

00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:17.059
just stop filling it out i'm so sorry i kept

00:39:17.059 --> 00:39:19.760
or like with gemma where i signed up for the

00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:21.679
arc and then i was like oh i'm gonna get the

00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:27.019
fucking a patreon like i never sign up for demos

00:39:27.019 --> 00:39:29.019
just because i'm on the patreon so i always get

00:39:29.019 --> 00:39:31.480
the the arcs that way but i used i used to sign

00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:34.019
up for arc teams and not realizing i'd get it

00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:36.219
from like their patreon or whatever and then

00:39:36.219 --> 00:39:38.000
i'd get two copies and i'm like what am i supposed

00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:42.679
to do with this i just signed up for her patreon

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.179
so i completely forgot that um i was gonna get

00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:50.019
that way i love her patreon yeah okay so it's

00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:52.219
uh yeah glitched fates and soulmates by tj rose

00:39:52.219 --> 00:39:56.340
it's the third book in the killagrew street case

00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:58.539
files so it's the third book in the killagrew

00:39:58.539 --> 00:40:02.079
street case files that's a mouthful for me to

00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:08.639
say um it's felix who is the hacker human shy

00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.309
anxious little bean baby such a little bean I

00:40:13.309 --> 00:40:17.650
know, I love him so much. And it's Kit, who is

00:40:17.650 --> 00:40:21.610
the wolf shifter, ex -military, kind of older

00:40:21.610 --> 00:40:25.090
brother of the crew. And literally Rory's older

00:40:25.090 --> 00:40:29.329
brother. And so basically it starts with you

00:40:29.329 --> 00:40:32.309
finding out that, well, I guess we kind of already

00:40:32.309 --> 00:40:35.900
knew, but we find out that... felix is kit's

00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:40.039
fated mate and kit knew it from the moment he

00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:42.380
met felix and i'm just happily wiggling in my

00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:47.260
chair right now and it's just so cute because

00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:51.539
kit is so like awkward about it and because he

00:40:51.539 --> 00:40:54.119
doesn't know how to how to handle felix like

00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:56.739
because felix is such a you know nervous shy

00:40:56.739 --> 00:40:59.340
bean he's like doesn't want to scare him off

00:40:59.340 --> 00:41:03.420
so in the book it's got like three different

00:41:03.420 --> 00:41:06.840
timelines and TJ does it really well in in terms

00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.559
of like you've got the current timeline which

00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:12.360
is December of this year and then you've got

00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:14.639
one that's a few months earlier in like September

00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:16.619
of this year and then you've got the timeline

00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:23.150
from when Felix joins the crew and and kit realizes

00:41:23.150 --> 00:41:25.949
that felix is bait and you've got that timeline

00:41:25.949 --> 00:41:30.250
is in the form of kit's mission reports so tj

00:41:30.250 --> 00:41:33.050
wrote these like mission reports of kit trying

00:41:33.050 --> 00:41:37.730
to have encounters with felix the first one is

00:41:37.730 --> 00:41:40.329
like kit realizes that felix likes earl grey

00:41:40.329 --> 00:41:43.090
tea so he's like making the tea it like says

00:41:43.090 --> 00:41:46.449
something like practice here's your tea 46 times

00:41:46.449 --> 00:41:54.190
in the mirror so cute and then it's like approaches

00:41:54.190 --> 00:41:58.590
layer to deliver tea and scares felix and then

00:41:58.590 --> 00:42:05.929
and it's like mission aborted subject subject

00:42:05.929 --> 00:42:11.070
is terrified well like we'll reassess next encounter

00:42:11.070 --> 00:42:15.050
you know oh my god there's one where he's the

00:42:15.050 --> 00:42:17.090
mission reports talking about how he's noticed

00:42:17.090 --> 00:42:21.170
how felix likes ice cream so the mission is to

00:42:21.170 --> 00:42:23.550
ask felix if he wants to go get ice cream after

00:42:23.550 --> 00:42:30.429
work and it's just like it's so sweet um and

00:42:30.429 --> 00:42:33.269
just watching like this like alpha you know ex

00:42:33.269 --> 00:42:37.010
-military grumpy wolf shifter kind of stumble

00:42:37.010 --> 00:42:40.949
and like just be soft only for felix you know

00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:43.960
precious That's so cute. I can't wait to read

00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:47.440
this one. I'm excited for it. So it's got multiple

00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:51.360
years of pining, obviously, from afar. I love

00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:55.360
that. And the pining slowly turns into light

00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:58.239
stalking that kind of turns into full -blown

00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:03.119
stalking. Is this the stalker episode? Yeah,

00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:08.039
I think so. You've got Kit doing that, and then

00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:11.809
you've got Felix's. His anxiety is... ramped

00:43:11.809 --> 00:43:18.789
up and he's also um demi so yes yes we love the

00:43:18.789 --> 00:43:21.690
demi rep and it's done really well so while like

00:43:21.690 --> 00:43:26.130
kit is like making a fool of himself and like

00:43:26.130 --> 00:43:29.829
and then attempting to make these um these you

00:43:29.829 --> 00:43:33.929
know these gestures towards felix the last thing

00:43:33.929 --> 00:43:37.400
on felix's mind is that kit is attracted to him

00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:43.099
you know no no in the book two wait in book two

00:43:43.099 --> 00:43:45.420
yeah in book two I think there's a scene where

00:43:45.420 --> 00:43:49.099
Ren from the coffee shop and Felix kind of start

00:43:49.099 --> 00:43:53.340
dating so in this book Kit is kind of assuming

00:43:53.340 --> 00:43:57.119
that Felix and Ren are still dating even though

00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:59.900
they're just friends so he's like standing off

00:43:59.900 --> 00:44:04.820
in the back watching them hang out and he's like

00:44:04.820 --> 00:44:07.969
talking about how or like internally he's like

00:44:07.969 --> 00:44:10.989
thinking about how felix he's watching felix

00:44:10.989 --> 00:44:13.929
laugh with this guy and open up and give him

00:44:13.929 --> 00:44:17.710
smiles and and kit's just like i'm too broken

00:44:17.710 --> 00:44:29.929
for him it's also baby then so there's one night

00:44:29.929 --> 00:44:33.469
where felix is at home and he's like he looks

00:44:33.469 --> 00:44:36.510
out his window and he sees a man in a hood standing

00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:40.730
outside his window oh no that's normal that's

00:44:40.730 --> 00:44:44.110
fine and so he gets really scared and he calls

00:44:44.110 --> 00:44:46.409
sebastian he's like i've been being stalked for

00:44:46.409 --> 00:44:51.230
a while and i don't know what to do And so, so

00:44:51.230 --> 00:44:53.230
he, so Sebastian's like, okay, I'll send Kit

00:44:53.230 --> 00:45:05.199
over. He's going to get there so fast. yeah there's

00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:06.719
a few moments like that like he accidentally

00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.440
runs into kit like a weird part of town and kids

00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.480
like trying to hide behind some some trash cans

00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.579
and felix is like what are you doing back there

00:45:15.579 --> 00:45:20.360
and kids like taking a piss like who wants to

00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:28.739
know this is normal felix is like well i was

00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:31.599
doing i was Mapping a new running route or something.

00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:38.559
Behind this trash can. Exactly. I'm doing very

00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:43.960
normal stuff. Lisa, thank you. Felix thinks he's

00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:47.219
being stalked. Sebastian suggests that Kit starts

00:45:47.219 --> 00:45:51.260
training Felix self -defense. So, yeah, self

00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:57.710
-defense classes turn into other classes. because

00:45:57.710 --> 00:46:00.789
yeah Felix even though he's he's had I think

00:46:00.789 --> 00:46:03.190
he's had sex twice but it's been with women so

00:46:03.190 --> 00:46:06.190
he's never been with a man and so therefore Kit

00:46:06.190 --> 00:46:11.070
takes over to try to uh show him the moves you

00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:13.909
know I don't know what it is about it but I'm

00:46:13.909 --> 00:46:16.469
so obsessed I love a book where it's like teaching

00:46:16.469 --> 00:46:19.750
um specifically like those like intimacy whether

00:46:19.750 --> 00:46:23.619
it's sexual or just like dating I Can never get

00:46:23.619 --> 00:46:26.039
enough of that. Yeah. There's a lot of dating

00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.039
in this because Kit, big sweetie he is, he's

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.880
like, I'm going to do so right by you, Felix.

00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:32.300
I'm going to take you on all the dates before

00:46:32.300 --> 00:46:38.679
we do anything. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:40.500
So there's, yeah, there's a lot of dates. There's

00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:43.019
also the mystery part, which is a continuation

00:46:43.019 --> 00:46:46.079
of the story from book two with the gray water

00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:48.840
experiments and stuff. Oh yeah. It's just really,

00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.360
it's really sweet and it's really cute and it's

00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:54.039
cozy and cut. and Felix is a pillow princess

00:46:54.039 --> 00:47:00.340
yes and Kit is a plant daddy and you've got like

00:47:00.340 --> 00:47:03.199
a shifted scene where Kit is like for you know

00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:06.039
for training purposes takes Felix into the woods

00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.380
and shifts and and so it's a really sweet moment

00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:13.039
with like Kit in his shifted form and Felix is

00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:14.900
like giggling and being like oh you're just like

00:47:14.900 --> 00:47:18.050
a little puppy and they're playing around And

00:47:18.050 --> 00:47:21.409
it's really sweet. So I cried a lot at Kit's

00:47:21.409 --> 00:47:27.030
pining. But that's me. Yeah, so it's a great

00:47:27.030 --> 00:47:29.789
book. And then the fourth book is, I think, the

00:47:29.789 --> 00:47:33.929
last book in this series. Really? Uh -huh. Sorry.

00:47:34.010 --> 00:47:39.510
So, you know. Read it, love it, and enjoy it.

00:47:39.570 --> 00:47:43.190
And definitely five out of five stars. And it's

00:47:43.190 --> 00:47:45.480
like... Also, the thing I'll say is it is slow

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:47.699
burn, but it's not as slow burn as the other

00:47:47.699 --> 00:47:51.139
books in the series. OK. Yeah. And that's partially

00:47:51.139 --> 00:47:55.159
because of the dual timelines. Yes. Katie, what

00:47:55.159 --> 00:48:03.179
about you? Me. OK. I have been. Back at it with

00:48:03.179 --> 00:48:05.679
the Leighton Green, the Morelli family series.

00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:08.539
I'm actually listening to one right now. Well,

00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:10.500
not like actively, but like currently my read

00:48:10.500 --> 00:48:15.480
is another one. So I read Yelling at Us. Listen,

00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:21.219
I get so worked up with these books. Oh, my God.

00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:26.000
So the first one I read was I read Beloved by

00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:28.679
the Boss, which is book two. And that one is,

00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.179
like, the continuation of Luca and Finch. We

00:48:31.179 --> 00:48:35.579
start off, like, Luca is now the head man, the

00:48:35.579 --> 00:48:40.360
mafia daddy of the family. That's the official

00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:46.139
name. And so this book, immediately, like, a

00:48:46.139 --> 00:48:50.199
mood, man. Like, they just went through a lot.

00:48:50.300 --> 00:48:52.880
Like, Luca's the head guy. Angelo is now his

00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:56.360
underboss. Yeah, well, he hasn't made him underboss

00:48:56.360 --> 00:48:58.800
at the beginning of the book, but he does make

00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.760
him underboss at the end. He's like his right

00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:05.960
-hand guy. Also, Finch's older sister, Maggie,

00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:10.079
who's just a complete, just a total bitch. I

00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:13.559
cannot stand her. She's not a nice lady. She's

00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.820
not a nice lady, to put it lightly. So they want

00:49:16.820 --> 00:49:21.500
to take her out. On a date? No, like, with the

00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:25.619
mafia. I don't know how. They want to kill her.

00:49:26.260 --> 00:49:31.280
And put his other sister in her place as the

00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:33.980
head of the Donovan family. There's a lot going

00:49:33.980 --> 00:49:37.320
on. They go to Vegas because... So Luca gets

00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:42.219
invited to go to Chicago to meet with the Mafia

00:49:42.219 --> 00:49:45.159
Commission, which is heads of a bunch of other

00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:48.940
Mafia families from all over. And they go and

00:49:48.940 --> 00:49:52.280
he sort of... Spits in their face because while

00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.340
he's there, they invite him to, like, a dinner

00:49:55.340 --> 00:49:57.840
to, like, welcome him and, like, celebrate him

00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.800
becoming the head or whatever. But while he's

00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.079
there, Finch gets news. And so he, like, lies

00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.179
to Marco and, like, he's like, we're going to

00:50:07.179 --> 00:50:10.739
go on a road trip. But Marco is well aware of

00:50:10.739 --> 00:50:13.900
Finch's shenanigans. Marco is, like, the bodyguard

00:50:13.900 --> 00:50:16.920
assigned to him. And it causes a lot of drama.

00:50:16.980 --> 00:50:19.030
So they end up... realizing that they need to

00:50:19.030 --> 00:50:20.929
kind of get away for a bit so they go to vegas

00:50:20.929 --> 00:50:24.010
but while in vegas somebody tries to kill them

00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:29.829
finch and luca yeah and a lot of drama happens

00:50:29.829 --> 00:50:32.449
i don't want to like give every bit of the story

00:50:32.449 --> 00:50:36.429
but um how much of this is spoilers this is spoilery

00:50:36.429 --> 00:50:41.869
yeah all of it um hey brats it's editor megan

00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.000
I'm just cutting in to tell you that I had to

00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.360
sadly cut a lot of Katie's review here because

00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:54.320
it gets, it gets real spoilery. And since recording

00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:58.380
this episode, we have changed our stance on including

00:50:58.380 --> 00:51:02.960
spoilers. So it was, it's kind of difficult to

00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:07.500
edit this in a way that is complete, but spoiler

00:51:07.500 --> 00:51:10.369
free. If you're really interested in what she

00:51:10.369 --> 00:51:12.969
has to say, we will have the unedited version

00:51:12.969 --> 00:51:17.090
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00:51:17.090 --> 00:51:21.409
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00:51:21.409 --> 00:51:27.409
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00:51:28.250 --> 00:51:32.670
So, yeah, sorry. And sorry, Katie. I love you.

00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:40.760
But, okay, so this killed me. This is why I got

00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:42.780
upset with JD and Megan. They did nothing wrong.

00:51:42.820 --> 00:51:45.380
This is on me. But I don't like spoilers. Just

00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:48.300
to clarify. When I read a book, I don't want

00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:49.860
to know anything that's going to happen until

00:51:49.860 --> 00:51:52.679
I read it myself. And so I had been talking to

00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.400
them about how excited I was for the series.

00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:57.340
And JD and Megan were like, yeah, keep reading,

00:51:57.460 --> 00:51:59.920
keep reading. Like, no spoilers. They didn't

00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:02.929
tell me anything. Well, no, you said. You didn't

00:52:02.929 --> 00:52:04.389
agree with anything I said. You're just like,

00:52:04.429 --> 00:52:06.789
I'm not going to give you spoilers. I said, stop

00:52:06.789 --> 00:52:08.809
looking things up because you're going to spoil

00:52:08.809 --> 00:52:13.309
it for yourself. Yeah. But no one ever told me

00:52:13.309 --> 00:52:17.090
I was wrong. I didn't tell you you were wrong.

00:52:17.210 --> 00:52:20.510
I said, it's not. That's true. When people say

00:52:20.510 --> 00:52:22.570
they don't want spoilers, I take that very seriously.

00:52:23.090 --> 00:52:25.449
Yeah, I do. Because you were like, oh, it's going

00:52:25.449 --> 00:52:27.550
to be Yvonne. And I was like, well, that's. it

00:52:27.550 --> 00:52:29.889
doesn't say that and that's not right but stop

00:52:29.889 --> 00:52:33.570
looking or you're gonna get spoiled you both

00:52:33.570 --> 00:52:36.849
respect my spoiler no my no spoiler wish very

00:52:36.849 --> 00:52:40.210
well that's sort of how the book ends like things

00:52:40.210 --> 00:52:44.010
are good again the spice between Luca and Finch

00:52:44.010 --> 00:52:45.909
like it's not the priority of the book like the

00:52:45.909 --> 00:52:47.750
priority of the book is all the drama because

00:52:47.750 --> 00:52:49.389
they're already together they love each other

00:52:49.389 --> 00:52:52.289
their relationship is fine they like know each

00:52:52.289 --> 00:52:53.809
other really well at this point and I kind of

00:52:53.809 --> 00:52:57.869
love how I like how Luca knows that he tells

00:52:57.869 --> 00:52:59.730
Finch to do something and Finch is going to do

00:52:59.730 --> 00:53:03.090
what Finch is going to do still. Oh, yeah. Which

00:53:03.090 --> 00:53:06.710
is great. They're very in sync as a couple. They

00:53:06.710 --> 00:53:10.329
are. Yeah. It's so much better. Like the angst

00:53:10.329 --> 00:53:13.269
and stuff is not there. So it's so much easier

00:53:13.269 --> 00:53:15.409
to read their relationship in this book because

00:53:15.409 --> 00:53:17.289
you're not like, oh, my God, Luca, just tell

00:53:17.289 --> 00:53:21.969
him you love him. I know. So it's really cute.

00:53:22.090 --> 00:53:25.590
And Luca ends up letting Finch take over the

00:53:25.590 --> 00:53:28.789
club that they met at, which is so sweet because

00:53:28.789 --> 00:53:33.309
he ends up buying the club. So, yeah. The next

00:53:33.309 --> 00:53:38.329
book is a novella. And it's 2 .5 in the series,

00:53:38.469 --> 00:53:40.929
Heist of the Heart. And it takes place pretty

00:53:40.929 --> 00:53:43.469
much entirely at the club that Finch now owns.

00:53:43.730 --> 00:53:47.769
And so this is Hudson, Connie's brother, and

00:53:47.769 --> 00:53:50.610
Gio, who's a new character. And he is the new

00:53:50.610 --> 00:53:56.190
bodyguard. Yeah. And it's a really short, like,

00:53:56.190 --> 00:53:59.130
it's really quick. It is so good, though. Like,

00:53:59.130 --> 00:54:01.090
honestly, I think it's my favorite so far just

00:54:01.090 --> 00:54:03.710
because it was so fun. It's really fun. It's

00:54:03.710 --> 00:54:06.650
like a little whodunit. Oh, yeah. Like a holiday

00:54:06.650 --> 00:54:10.710
whodunit. Yeah. It was like New Year's Eve, right?

00:54:11.489 --> 00:54:13.829
And it's the end of the night at the club. And

00:54:13.829 --> 00:54:16.469
every night they do, like, the count of the money.

00:54:16.860 --> 00:54:20.219
This night stuff happens where somebody dies

00:54:20.219 --> 00:54:23.280
in the club during that. And like, yeah, it's

00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.179
like a whole bunch of drama. Like on purpose

00:54:25.179 --> 00:54:30.679
or? Overdoses. And they go upstairs to do the

00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:32.400
count and they realize that the money is gone

00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:36.730
from the lockbox. yeah it's this whole thing

00:54:36.730 --> 00:54:39.949
of like who did it um but during it like hudson

00:54:39.949 --> 00:54:42.650
and geo sort of work together and it's it's so

00:54:42.650 --> 00:54:45.150
cute there's this moment where they're in like

00:54:45.150 --> 00:54:47.849
a little passageway they're like standing super

00:54:47.849 --> 00:54:51.110
close to each other and i just goosebumps i'm

00:54:51.110 --> 00:54:53.789
like i was kicking my feet it's really adorable

00:54:53.789 --> 00:54:59.130
there's surprisingly like a lot of adorable cute

00:54:59.130 --> 00:55:03.239
like little banter between them And there's no

00:55:03.239 --> 00:55:05.119
angst, anything like that. Like, it's pretty

00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:07.159
much immediate that they like each other. But

00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:09.199
there is, like, a little bit of, like, the teeniest

00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:11.400
bit of pining in the very beginning. But it's,

00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:13.920
like, not even a day, like, because it all happens

00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:16.500
within the same night. And also, there's a coat

00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:20.059
closet scene. Ha ha ha. Yes. There is a coat

00:55:20.059 --> 00:55:22.760
closet scene. But they figure out what happened,

00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.440
and then they go back to Hudson's house, which

00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:28.440
is, like, a really nice townhouse. And then they

00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.070
just, like, pork for, like... the whole night

00:55:31.070 --> 00:55:36.090
like just go at it like a rabbit maybe fucking

00:55:36.090 --> 00:55:41.110
good for them honestly they earned it yeah yeah

00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:44.329
they really did but they're just it was so cute

00:55:44.329 --> 00:55:47.150
like i love hudson because he's so anxious the

00:55:47.150 --> 00:55:50.510
whole time he's just he doesn't want he doesn't

00:55:50.510 --> 00:55:53.070
want finch to think that he would one like betray

00:55:53.070 --> 00:55:56.949
him or like steal from him and he's still kind

00:55:56.949 --> 00:55:59.750
of new to the family and so like the suspicion

00:55:59.750 --> 00:56:04.789
around him from everyone else was kind of high

00:56:04.789 --> 00:56:07.269
because he's like this newer guy who's come in

00:56:07.269 --> 00:56:10.150
and taken a management position and even though

00:56:10.150 --> 00:56:13.329
finch really trusted him hudson was really worried

00:56:13.329 --> 00:56:16.429
that that he was gonna lose that trust it's a

00:56:16.429 --> 00:56:18.650
lot of drama but it was so fun it really feels

00:56:18.650 --> 00:56:21.550
like one of those like those dinner party murder

00:56:21.550 --> 00:56:25.210
mysteries but like yeah in a book it was so fun

00:56:25.210 --> 00:56:27.929
i didn't want to stop reading it i read it in

00:56:27.929 --> 00:56:31.150
a day yeah so that was what i read this week

00:56:31.150 --> 00:56:37.349
nice um okay so let's move on to book radar um

00:56:37.349 --> 00:56:43.730
i have a couple this week one is portrait of

00:56:43.730 --> 00:56:49.929
a killer by k a american It is in a multi author

00:56:49.929 --> 00:56:53.949
series and it's going to be coming out April

00:56:53.949 --> 00:57:05.650
10th. It's about a twisted painter and like a

00:57:05.650 --> 00:57:09.769
famous painter who's kind of like a recluse and

00:57:09.769 --> 00:57:15.230
like another painter whose career was ruined.

00:57:15.329 --> 00:57:18.059
I don't know if it was from. the famous one or

00:57:18.059 --> 00:57:21.300
not but his career was ruined and so he's like

00:57:21.300 --> 00:57:24.219
out to prove that this other like this famous

00:57:24.219 --> 00:57:31.800
painter isn't all that basically so he like breaks

00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.519
into his house and is like trying to find proof

00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:40.840
that he's lame i don't know and but in doing

00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:47.440
so he ends up captured oh this famous painter

00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.619
is apparently like a pretty evil dude and so

00:57:51.619 --> 00:57:55.320
yeah i'm i'm i couldn't find anywhere if it said

00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:57.179
if it was stockholm syndrome but i think it might

00:57:57.179 --> 00:58:04.260
be um and it is a size difference touch starved

00:58:04.260 --> 00:58:10.860
there is dacrophilia there is bondage and Foot

00:58:10.860 --> 00:58:15.360
jobs. Oh. Wait, I'm sorry. Did you say necrophilia?

00:58:18.079 --> 00:58:21.860
Necrophilia. I knew you would love that, Katie.

00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:26.800
Oh, I'm excited for the foot jobs. I got scared

00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:30.579
about the possible necrophilia. No, no, not necrophilia,

00:58:30.659 --> 00:58:35.800
dacrophilia. No, I mean... Get clarified. It's

00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:42.539
like a crying pain. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so one

00:58:42.539 --> 00:58:45.230
of the, like, kind of quotes... advertising this

00:58:45.230 --> 00:58:49.110
book was think home alone but the intruders end

00:58:49.110 --> 00:58:52.269
up impaled on spikes hidden in the floor and

00:58:52.269 --> 00:58:55.489
the mysterious reclusive homeowner has exquisite

00:58:55.489 --> 00:58:59.489
taste in who he keeps oh my god i'm so here for

00:58:59.489 --> 00:59:02.969
that yeah so that one i'm excited about comes

00:59:02.969 --> 00:59:07.070
out april 10th um which might already have happened

00:59:07.070 --> 00:59:09.670
by the time this airs i can't remember no this

00:59:09.670 --> 00:59:14.820
is um april 9th okay tomorrow no tomorrow yeah

00:59:14.820 --> 00:59:19.599
no this one no it's 23rd yeah oh not tomorrow

00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:24.539
so it's already out right yes yeah yes okay so

00:59:24.539 --> 00:59:31.380
this book is out now um uh so yeah i'll be reading

00:59:31.380 --> 00:59:36.760
that soon um it sounds really fun the next one

00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:42.400
that i have is it's called poof my life And it's

00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:48.119
by D .G. Carruthers. It is book four in the Twilight

00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.719
Temptations series. And I have read the other

00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:55.239
three books and enjoyed them. It's about, it's

00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.119
fated mates, but they're brought together by

00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:03.199
an organization that kind of like works for the

01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:08.639
cosmic fate. Oh, that's pretty cool. yeah so

01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:11.320
it's it's kind of like an outside force that

01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:16.059
like decides to bring fated mates together via

01:00:16.059 --> 01:00:18.860
certain situations so which is a really weird

01:00:18.860 --> 01:00:25.320
way to say that but um but in in this one we

01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:31.880
have a neurodivergent portal mage who is a half

01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:38.300
elf half like a deep dwarf so The name of this

01:00:38.300 --> 01:00:45.840
race is really hard for me to say. And then the

01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:52.780
other person is a bear shifter described as gentle

01:00:52.780 --> 01:00:59.099
but bratty. It is an insta -love fated mate story.

01:00:59.380 --> 01:01:04.639
It's two introverts. Also is described as like

01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:12.699
a preening bear and like praise. And then snuggles

01:01:12.699 --> 01:01:21.760
and cuddles. There's a tickle fight. Okay, I'm

01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:28.219
in. Let's go. And then body worship is one of

01:01:28.219 --> 01:01:33.599
the other ones. I love that. yes it's it's it

01:01:33.599 --> 01:01:35.340
looks like it's going to be really cute and they're

01:01:35.340 --> 01:01:37.019
these are all like pretty short books usually

01:01:37.019 --> 01:01:40.420
they're like novella sized um the actually the

01:01:40.420 --> 01:01:42.820
book before this one one of the characters was

01:01:42.820 --> 01:01:46.780
a pygmy hippo shifter oh my gosh oh my god it

01:01:46.780 --> 01:01:50.559
was actually kind of a really sad book but only

01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.980
for the first half but the last half was great

01:01:52.980 --> 01:01:55.800
and that character was super cute um but yeah

01:01:55.800 --> 01:01:59.820
i i like this series it's it's like an interesting

01:01:59.820 --> 01:02:03.690
take on Kind of like a, it's a little bit of

01:02:03.690 --> 01:02:09.110
an Omegaverse -ish world, but magic -y and yeah,

01:02:09.170 --> 01:02:12.650
it's fun. So that's the newest one. It is out

01:02:12.650 --> 01:02:17.010
now. And yeah, it looks super cute. I think,

01:02:17.090 --> 01:02:20.849
I haven't been able to like 100 % confirm yet,

01:02:20.909 --> 01:02:26.829
but I think that the bear shifter is either like

01:02:26.829 --> 01:02:32.860
a little or little coated. I'm not sure. Exciting.

01:02:33.619 --> 01:02:36.599
Yeah, it just looks really cute. So I'm excited

01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:40.119
for that. Yeah, so Kit, what's on your radar?

01:02:40.739 --> 01:02:44.260
Okay, I've got one for today. I've got Muse by

01:02:44.260 --> 01:02:49.000
N. Slater. It's an MM Omegaverse. Okay, right.

01:02:49.099 --> 01:02:53.900
So it's dark -ish. Right. Inexperienced Alpha

01:02:53.900 --> 01:02:57.500
is obsessed with his sassy camboy Omega neighbor.

01:02:57.820 --> 01:03:03.300
Oh, yes. yes right so he he watches him in secret

01:03:03.300 --> 01:03:05.380
he watches all of his videos he gets a little

01:03:05.380 --> 01:03:08.639
bit stalkery but here's the thing right our omega

01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.559
knows about this and is waiting for him to crack

01:03:11.559 --> 01:03:14.639
so he can get the omega so he can get the alpha

01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:18.099
on his knees and make him the omega's good boy

01:03:18.099 --> 01:03:23.340
yes because this my friends is a power bottom

01:03:23.340 --> 01:03:27.900
dom omega with a submissive alpha yes i am very

01:03:27.900 --> 01:03:33.760
excited yeah let's go yeah so there's a couple

01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:37.380
of quotes um at the moment on nick's instagram

01:03:37.380 --> 01:03:39.739
if you want to go and have a look at those um

01:03:39.739 --> 01:03:42.820
and uh there'll be a lot more near the top well

01:03:42.820 --> 01:03:45.639
by the time this episode goes live i'm sure there

01:03:45.639 --> 01:03:47.260
will be some more and there's some art already

01:03:47.260 --> 01:03:50.519
as well so yeah uh definitely i'm very excited

01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:54.059
and uh check it out if contemporary omegaverse

01:03:54.650 --> 01:03:57.449
with a slightly dark twist, is your thing. Heck

01:03:57.449 --> 01:04:02.030
yeah. That sounds great. Hell yes. Yeah. Megan,

01:04:02.150 --> 01:04:05.489
what about you? Okay, I have... Well, I have

01:04:05.489 --> 01:04:06.789
two that I'm going to talk about, but one of

01:04:06.789 --> 01:04:09.369
them is a lot. So the first one I'm going to

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talk about is Brie Soleil. It's her debut book

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that's coming out in spring. It's called Veil's

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Edge in Mahogany. And so it is... mythic and

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modern southern gothic romance um yeah and Dante

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who is like a soft boy poet yeah and then Rome

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who is like a he he cries easily and he likes

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wearing like mesh and lace um and the end it's

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like a moody sunny um dynamic and it's got like

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mental illness rap and it takes place in like

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an eerie cozy town with hidden secrets and so

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yeah so it's got magic and it's got spice because

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brie's been posting some of the excerpts of her

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spice on her page and she also posts non -spicy

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excerpts but but i'm very excited about it yeah

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so am rose are spearheading a multi -author series

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called because canon sucks and basically they

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wrote a short that you can get for free from

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multiple people's instagrams but mainly go to

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am rose's instagram you can get it for free and

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it's the ending of it it's not great it's not

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it's not a it's not a great ending on purpose

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it was written yeah it was written like that

01:05:30.230 --> 01:05:33.289
on purpose they didn't you know uh i'm not i'm

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not you know saying hateful things about them

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because i love them um so they they wrote this

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short and then they've given this short to several

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different authors and it said okay change it

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for us and so it's kind of like a an a tribute

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to fanfic because there's a lot of authors in

01:05:51.989 --> 01:05:54.070
our space that like got started writing fanfic

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um it's a really really fun concept it really

01:05:58.710 --> 01:06:01.989
is i'm excited for it and they're also doing

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an alternative version themselves yes they theirs

01:06:04.630 --> 01:06:07.429
is the first one that comes out i believe i think

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so and yeah so it's it's the two mcs are milo

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and rowan and so all these authors i didn't i

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didn't write down all the authors because it's

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a lot but uh but you can find it out by going

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to am rose's instagram again um and so yeah they

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handed this off to all these authors and now

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these authors get the chance to kind of write

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fanfic style an alternative canon for these two

01:06:31.739 --> 01:06:35.679
characters um and i wrote down what you can expect

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um so we've got dragon that one i believe is

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am roses um we have robot we have a football

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dark romance idol shifter omegaverse coffee shop

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monster um warrior and mage hellhound which that's

01:06:56.389 --> 01:07:01.349
shannon yeah um selkie uh werewolf and witches

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so that's so fun yeah yeah and so the werewolf

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and witches one sorry is is sam northman they've

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posted a lot of uh snippets on their instagram

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looks so good yes but yeah and it so they start

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releasing them in june and i think the last one

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gets released in August. So I'm assuming it'll

01:07:23.210 --> 01:07:28.909
be once a week until they're all released. So

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I'm excited for that. That'll be good. Yeah,

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that's going to be really fun. That's my summer

01:07:34.570 --> 01:07:39.570
sorted. Yeah. I was going to say, I feel like

01:07:39.570 --> 01:07:41.829
there's so many multi -author series to look

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forward to right now. At least the two. Yes.

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What about you, Katie? What do you have? The

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first book I have is Gemma Croft's Worth a Try.

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That is book three. Yay. I'm so excited for it.

01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:00.739
Book three in the Try for Love series. And this

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one covers Aiden and Flynn. They've been best

01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:06.039
friends since they were teens. And they've been

01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:09.059
made co -captains of the Bath Centurions. So

01:08:09.059 --> 01:08:11.719
they're trying to figure out how to like kind

01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:15.000
of play as team captains together. But they have

01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:17.079
very different like styles, very different like

01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:21.090
leadership. And so they're just trying to make

01:08:21.090 --> 01:08:24.710
it all work and also hooking up in secret. So

01:08:24.710 --> 01:08:29.470
there's a little bit of drama. So there is some

01:08:29.470 --> 01:08:31.770
cheating in this book so that they can be together.

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So I know that can be like a big no -no for a

01:08:34.869 --> 01:08:36.489
lot of people. So if that is something, just

01:08:36.489 --> 01:08:39.670
make sure you take a look at the content warnings

01:08:39.670 --> 01:08:42.670
for the book. But it's got idiots in love, autism

01:08:42.670 --> 01:08:45.329
rep, tons of banter because it's written by Gemma.

01:08:45.329 --> 01:08:49.380
So, of course. There's Dog. Apparently it's going

01:08:49.380 --> 01:08:51.939
to be a lot spicier than the others in the series.

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The other two books haven't been that spicy,

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but apparently this is the spiciest. So that's

01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:01.380
something to look forward to. It looks amazing.

01:09:01.579 --> 01:09:04.479
The cover makes me laugh because you've all seen

01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:09.659
those reels of the sports teams doing the awkward

01:09:09.659 --> 01:09:14.390
photo shoots. It's exactly that. And you've got

01:09:14.390 --> 01:09:17.930
a mullet and a little slutty mustache. A slutty

01:09:17.930 --> 01:09:22.189
mustache. Yeah. So I'm really excited for that.

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So you can expect that May 20th. Yay. Great.

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Nice. Awesome. I think we've got a wide selection

01:09:30.949 --> 01:09:36.050
of very good things. Yes. Lots to look forward

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to. Okay. Well, that's all for this week, Bratz.

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