Heaving Bosoms: A Romance Novel Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Best friends and romance lovers, Erin and Melody, recap romance novels from a comedic, open-hearted feminist, sex-positive perspective! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound! We take ourselves VERY seriously.
Hey y’all! Mel and Sabrina are here with SORRY, BRO by Taleen Voskuni! It’s a gorgeous sapphic contemporary between two Armenian-American women, one of whom is on a serious journey to self-discovery. This book weaves a beautiful love story within a rich tapestry of Armenian history and culture. It was GORGEOUS. Bonus Content: Mel’s son...
Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here with AVARITIA by Colette Rhodes! This series is much beloved by both of them and this book didn’t disappoint. Plus, we’ve got a heroine that is 100% HMHB (Hot Mess HB). It’s a grumpy and adorably delusional Shadow Daddy plus a sunshine, go-with-the-flow, sex-positive maximalist. We went into...
Hey HBs! We’re here with a brand new historical era: Dickens’ Times! Elizabeth Hoyt came out swinging with WICKED INTENTIONS, the first book in her Maiden Lane series. We’ve got a do-gooding heroine who needs cash for her orphanage, a bad boy aristocrat who needs entree into London’s worst neighborhood, a murder mystery, a vigilante...
It’s been a minute since we’ve recapped an alien romance, and HERE WE ARE, HBs! ARTEK by Honey Phillips manages to be both Western Times and alien, which is hard to pull off. This slice-of-life Seven Brides for Seven Brothers retelling was a romp from beginning to end! Bonus Content: Sabrina’s Libby nemesis is still...
Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here with LOVE & OTHER DISASTERS by Anita Kelly! This queer contemporary romance is set on an amateur cooking show. Dahlia is a divorcee who quit her job to be there and doesn’t quite know how she’ll pay rent if she doesn’t win the $100k prize. Meanwhile, London is...
Hey HBs! We’re here with the second half of THE SPYMASTER’S LADY by Joanna Bourne! Our couple is on a fall-in-love trek on foot all the way to London and boy does Annique feel guilty about being attracted to boy Grey and Robert… little does she know, they’re the same bloke! Come with us as...
Hey HBs! We’re here with THE SPYMASTER’S LADY by Joanna Bourne! It’s great to be back in France Times with an extra dose of intrigue and nefarious plots! We meet Annique, a 19 year old lifelong spy and Grey, the second in command of all the British spies right after the French Revolution. They are...
Hey HBs! We’re here with our first Nora Roberts book, THE VILLA! It’s winerytimes and the Giambelli matriarch is here to shake up with corporate structure! But also intrigue and murder with no less than 3,000 characters. And in this head-hopping 3rd person book, everyone (and we mean EVERYONE) gets a POV moment. Plus, not...
Hey HBs! Mel’s here with gueesstttssss! BFFs of Mel and the pod Jenny Nordbak and Katee Robert (of Bonkers Romance) are here to recap the movie Challengers, starring the one and only Zendaya. Jenny and Mel had no idea what they were in for and BOY did this romantic psychological thriller deliver. It’s so sexy!...
Hey HBs! We’re here with masterpiece of sorcery! Emma Hamm’s WHISPERS OF THE DEEP took every single one of Sabrina’s phobias and said we shall overcome with seggsy swooniness! It’s a monster romance between a merman and a human deep, DEEP under the sea. Like, in the vast deep. He kidnaps her to get information...
Hey HBs! We’re here with a contemporary sapphic romance! It’s a fake relationship extravaganza with a buttoned-up couple’s counselor and a cool, alt actor. CW: Mel got really triggered by this book, so look out for discussions of disordered eating, diet culture, rampant fatphobia, and more. Bonus Content: Mel cut her own hair!, where is...
Hey HBs! We’re back with another book we didn’t know was part 1 of a 4 part series with the same couple. WHOOPS, but no regrets. BENEATH BLACK SAILS by Clare Sager is a historical fantasy pirate adventure with a famous pirate queen and the pirate hunter sent to take her down. This heroine is...
Hey HBs! This week we’ve got a delicious contemporary lesbian romance: D’Vaughn and Kriss Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins! This perfect morsel has so many things we love! Reality TV, fat rep, queer rep, overcoming religious trauma, loving and eccentric families, and WOWZA the spicy times are faaaantastic. This is a hard recommend...
Hey HBs! We’re here with the contemporary Scottish romance ON DUBLIN STREET by Samantha Young! It’s Edinburgh, it’s family tragedy, it’s basing life decisions on great bathtubs. There’s an emotionally skittish heroine, an alpha hero who’s eight years older, a friends-with-benefits arrangement, and a little too much boundary pushing for Mel’s complete comfort. And we...
Wooo! HBs we’re here with book 1 of the Victorian Rebels series, THE HIGHWAYMAN by Kerrigan Byrne. We loooooved this book! As Sabrina is a longtime Kerrigan Byrne fangirl, it’s not a shock. We’ve got a childhood-spouses-to-lovers book that knocked our socks off! But yikes, it gets dark. Lady Loves: Sabrina: if you’re lonely, but...
Hey HBs! In this episode, Sabrina and Mel recap DEATH’S OBSESSION by Avena St. Graves. It’s a dark, paranormal, stalker romance that gave us KING OF FLESH AND BONE, SING ME TO SLEEP, and SOUL EATER vibes. Overall, they enjoyed the experience, but were generally underwhelmed. But! They talk a lot about reader “meters” and...
Hey HBs! We’re here with LOVE FOR THE COLD-BLOODED, OR THE PART-TIME EVIL MINION’S GUIDE TO ACCIDENTALLY DATING A SUPERHERO by Alex Gabriel! Boy, oh boy, this MM superhero fantasy novel is fan-damn-tastic; the voice is SO UNIQUE, the world-building is incredible, and the romance is SMOKING HOT. There’s accidental sex work, it highlights the...
Hey HBs! We’re here to recap JUST FOR THE CAMERAS by Viano Oniomoh! It’s a fluffy contemporary with delicious and supported sex work, amazing communication, a sad sad Sebastian boy, best friendship goals, and an MMF menage that made us feel all gooey and sparkly inside. And WOW the hot hot sexy times! This is...
Hey HBs! It’s Post-Apocalyptic Times!! We’re recapping CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy, and wow is outlaw country sex and kink positive! We’ve got a heroine with a BIG secret, a hero with a vendetta, and a passel of boys we can’t get enough of! Bonus Content: Michael’s angry bird artistic debut, that potent post-apocalyptic pussy, sexy...
Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here to recap RAVISHED by Amanda Quick! It’s a historical with a fossil-obsessed heroine, a VERY misunderstood hero, a dangerous ring of robbers, and a cavernous ruination!! Bonus Content: Mel got her 5 yards of dirt delivered, Sabrina wants to be BFFs with this heroine, the gals go on...
Hey HBs! HAPPY ST. VINCENT WEEK! Tomorrow, April 2nd, is officially the 3rd (or maybe 4th?) annual St. Vincent Day! Where we celebrate Sebastian St. Vincent, the misunderstood bad boy who’s really just broken and wants to ensconce your feet in warmth and feed you and plan funerals so you don’t have to and become...
Hey HBs! We haven’t recapped an alien romance in a while… dare we say TOO LONG! We’re here today with TAKEN TO VORAXIA by Elizabeth Stevens! As of the release of this episode, Mel has read through book 6 without any plans to stop. This series is sooo good! TW: discussions of sexual assault, slavery,...
Hey y’all! We’re here with part 2 of IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE by Roan Parrish! We left you in the middle of their first (and only?) fight, which we acknowledge was a mean thing to do. But! There’s an HEA! CW: for discussions of parental death and attempted suicide. Bonus Content: Mel did some...
Hey HBs! We’re here with IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE by Roan Parrish! This is part 1 because we loved this book soooooo much. This MM romance features a tattooed professor with anxiety and a super burly, cabin-building, care-taking dreamboat. Bonus Content: Mel’s bringing big grown-up-lady-sleepover energy, Sabrina is now tailoring reading lists to Mel’s...
Hey HBs! We’re back with ANY DUCHESS WILL DO by Tessa Dare! We restart our tale right after the library finger-b*ng, and these two are convinced that they only have until the end of the week. Will he gut his BFF for this woman?? Content warning: discussions of infant death and mentions of miscarriage. Bonus...
Hey HBs! We’re here to recap ANY DUCHESS WILL DO by Tessa Dare! It’s an Englandtimes book featuring a sad, broken Duke, his desperate mother, and the serving girl who will change them all forever. Bonus Content: Mel’s got a mesakkah dick on her phone screen now, Sabrina learned about screenshots a long time ago,...
Hey HBs! It’s time to cross the finish line of THE GIRL WITH THE STARS IN HER EYES by Xio Axelrod. Toni is starting to mesh with and carve out her role in the band, Seb is remining himself of his no-fraternization clause constantly, and Kandy is ready to make some waves! Y’all, this childhood...
Hey HBs! Kim Loraine (AKA Stella Hunter) is here to recap A French Fling by Emily Silver! We've got an enthusiastic alt girl tour operator and an aloof French driver. If they can get past their first impressions, sparks will fly! And the narration performed by Samantha Brentmoor is brilliant!
Bonus Content: Mel's new obsession with Floriography, Kim loves that violets are a sapphic symbol, our latest lumberperson obsession @nicole_coenen, old people have sex and it's totally cool, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Kim: Therapy! And living the life you have right now, like taking your kids to concerts!
Mel: Embrace whatever thing gives you joy. If having people stop and smile at your flowers gives you a goofy grin, make that front garden bigger and sit in front of the window!
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Hey HBssssssssssss! Surprise! This episode is tardy because we decided to thoroughly enjoy our Labor Day weekend over at HBHQ and wow did school start right after! Very exciting changes. This week, Sabrina joins Mel to recap Dark Lover by JR Ward, the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series! If you love a hate episode, this just might be for you because... let's just say this was a rough first time read in 2023. Luckily, Sabrina is here with her wrap-around-mid-2000's-nostalgia-glasses, so there's some balance!
We've got Wrath and Beth and lessers and Tohrment and Phury and doggens and Rhage and casual police brutality and Zsadist and pimp juice and Vishous and Escalades and shellans and war horniness. Welcome to a brand new world!
Bonus Content: Mel read this book to the tune of constant and unstructured 4 year old whistling eye twitches, Mel goes on a rant about white supremacy, misogyny, fatphobia, police brutality apologists, toxic sexuality, strict binaries, gender essentialism, etc etc (you know, NORMAL STUFF), Darius the accountant, #justiceforMarissa, and so much more!
Lady Loves: GET YOUR GREENS!
Sabrina - make healthy routines that you can stick to when your mental health takes a dive. It's ok to set up shortcuts in advance!
Mel - hide your greens in a chocolate protein smoothie! Trick yourself like a toddler as a grown-ass-person!
Notes and Resources from Mel:
- Sarah Wendell's excellent review of Lover Revealed which is an imagining of the actors who play these characters in the movie.
- Top BDB scenes from Saucy Wenches Book Club.
- A bonus recap series of Dark Lover by DocTurtle on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.
- Re: white supremacist themes. I've sat with this for a while after recording this episode and I can understand how it might have been hard to spot or parse these themes when this book came out because everyone in the two warring factions (to my knowledge) are white. Hell, the lessers get fairer and fairer as they age to a point that seems to mimic albinism. I still hate it, but I can see how readers in 2005 and beyond might have whimsied on past without further interrogation.
- Re: queerbaiting. The panel I referenced was at the 2012 Romantic Times conference (apparently the same event that launched #peegate). A summary of what was discussed can be foundhere. While I completely stand by everything I said in the episode, I can acknowledge some complicating factors that may have influenced the trajectory of BDB. This series is traditionally published and it's well-known that representation like queer relationships, let alone HEAs, were much harder to get approved by trad publishing houses of the time because "readers don't want that" was the status quo within that machine. Ward was a newer author at that point and may not have had the power to push for an MM HEA, even if she wanted to. HOWEVER, other than what is on the page, my main issue is the camp-straddling that is exhibited when you pair series canon with Ward's unofficial statements to readers. Here's the pertinent excerpt from that write up:
Q: We haven't seen much of Butch and V lately--
JR:interruptsThey've been seeing plenty of each other!
Q: -- will we ever see any of that on the page?
JR: No..[paraphrased]... I will give hints about it and talk about it verbally, but it won't be on the page...because too many people would hate it.sotto voceButch is getting it regularly.
In my opinion, making statements like the above to hopeful readers, essentially creating her own fanfic to pander to queer folks and allies, while officially siding with people who would be offended by the very existence of a queer relationship by never putting it on the page, is cowardly and underhanded. Regardless of the motivation or intention, by doing this, it appears that Ward is presenting as an ally to profit from queer folks and allies while still maintaining enough deniability to avoid risking general sales. Now, saying "people would hate it"couldbe a subtle way of saying that her publishing company is ultimately behind that decision, but that doesn't go far in changing my view. Either stand up for what you believe by putting it on the page or stand by the words you put on that page.
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Hey y'all! Alexis the Sword and Kimberly Lemming are back to finish our recap King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander! If you haven't yet, go listen to Part 1 before finishing this episode. We're about to go topside with our plucky heroine and our psychotic god (ie sad, sad boy) and that might just include a little more twisting!
We're not going to get the HEA for these two in this book, but we'll be recapping Queen of Rot and Pain for Patreon, where we'll get the most satisfying HEA!!
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Woo! Alexis and Kimberly Lemming are here to recap King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander! It's a dark romance featuring a scrappy, oath-keeping midwife and a selfish, dramatic god of the dead. Did we mention it's pretty dark? WE LOVED IT SO HARD. But! Trigger Warnings: in this episode, we discuss death, suicide, murder, glib mentions of domestic abuse, very very dubious consent (at best), violence, sexual violence, and forced servitude, so take care. This is part one! Part two will be coming next week, but is up on Patreon now!
Bonus Content: WE ARE NOT WELL, startling like a cat, fear of book recs ruining friendships, gleefully following a psychotic god into his mind palace, redefining the meaning of eternity, and so much more!
Today (8/21/23) is the last day to bid on items in the Romance for Maui auction that was organized by Lucy Eden!
Our annual Patreon fundraiser is going to benefit Maui relief as well! From 8/21-9/18, we're going to double any new or increased Patreon pledges and split the donations between the Maui Fire Relief Fund and the Maui Food Bank. If you opt for an annual membership, you get 10% off, but we'll still double the first month's pledge as if it were paid in full!
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Hey HBs! Meredith is here to recap A Lady Awakened by Cecelia Grant! Wow we loved this book, and part of that was because of all the mixed feelings we had about it during the reading experience. This is a brand new premise to us and we've never seen a historical like this before. Ahhhh! It's so good!
Bonus Content: #justiceforthatpig, a very principled, prickly heroine, and so much more!
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HBs, Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is here! We're recapping Dragon Called by Cassie Alexander and Kara Lockharte! It's Paranormal Dragon Times, there's a magic cat, and a badass nurse heroine!
Buuuuut, it's a cliffhanger. I know! I'm sorry! Part 2 of this book will be on the Smart Bitches, Trashy Podcast feed on Friday! And then books 2-4 will be recapped on our Patreon this week! So you'll get the HEA (and tons more shenanigans) there.
Bonus Content: Monster ICE, migraines are succubus injuries, and so much more!
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Hey HBs! Kiran and Lynn Camden are here! They started as listeners and now, years later, we're great friends! They're also long-time besties. We recap Trashed by Mia Hopkins and WE LOVED IT. It's told compeltely from the hero's POV which, Lynn points out, puts him on a "heroine's journey" a la Gail Carriger in a way we've never seen. The characters are vivid, the prose is complex, and the spice is SPICETACULAR. Y'all. Read this book.
Bonus Content: the awkwardness of audiobooks with pals, The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger, Bing Boong Bong Health Inspector Times with Kiran, feeling extreme voyeuristic bangxiety, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Mel: do you think you have a brown thumb? You probably just need some tools! Mel just discovered mini plant sun lamps for her indoor plants that you stick into the soil and OMG the difference!
Lynn: Vitamin D! Are you feeling down? Vitamin D could help! And maybe a PEOPLE sunlamp!
Kiran: First Aid Beauty Bump Eraser Scrub and Ingrown Hair Pads! Do you love the beach, but hate the bikini shave situation? Check this stuff out! Lifechanging. Also, Mel needs to add Bush Balm to this list. Heard it's amazing!
Books Rec'd In the Ep:
Imagine You and Me by Lynn Camden
LC Venus for some top notch one handed reads
What Comes After by Blair Leigh
Mead Mishaps series by Kimberly Lemming
Moira Scott books! She writes paranormal and contemporary DELIGHTS.
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Hey HBs! Naima Simone is back to recap Smut by Karina Halle! Two twenty-somethings who hate each other are forced to write their final project together and... it goes really well! Then they start writing erotic romance together under a very secret pen name. There's a lot of (very realistic) romance shame that we didn't love, but the book was soooo good!
Bonus content: Naima's daughter got her first tattoo, the Lion King is becoming a theme with us, Melody knows she's Pumba, Mel was a pig farmer, "stopping is my current hard limit," shopping for kid shoes while listening to this audiobook, we needed a grovel TO ROMANCE from all the characters of this book, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Mel: Are you a Pumba? Embrace and love on your Pumba! Also, Berries and Greed by Lily Mayne! It's an M/F (her first?) with soft D/s play and unapologetic vaginismus!
Naima: The Marriage Favor by Shvonne Latrice! It's a book that expanded her horizons!
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Hey HBs! Shante is here to help Mel recap Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai! Supremely private Katrina has just gone viral for a fictional meet-cute and the only one who can save her is her bodyguard and crush. Can their escape turn into a steamy meet-cute?
Bonus Content: men who leave their trash for someone else to clean up, sexy eyebrows, presidential pardons, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Shante: watch shows or movies while facetiming with people you love!
Mel: If you can, just do the thing that will make you succeed. Mel joined a yoga studio because the truth is, not matter how much she tries, apps at home just aren't going to happen.
Shante Gorman is the founder and owner of Sugarpunch Marketing! Follow her everywhere!
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Hey romance lovers! Cathy Yardley is here to recap the Netflix rom-com A Tourist's Guide to Love! Starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Scott Ly and set in Vietnam, this movie is GORGEOUS! The romance is top-notch, the eye-contact is meaningful, and kisses are GOOD!
Bonus Content: GenX romances with feral introverts, condescending boyfriends with punchable faces, "is the CEO friend also the stepmom in The Parent Trap??" (turns out, Missi Pyle and Elaine Hendrix are actually two different people. Who knew?!), and so much more!
Check out Cathy's new book ROLE PLAYING! It's out now! Both protagonists are Gen Xers (48 & 50!), Grumpy Heroine and Sunshine Hero, hilarious misunderstandings, online gaming, and doesn't shy away from real life issues!
Mel's first Alien romance audiobook is out now! Go get Toxic Desire by Robin Lovett in audio!
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Naima and Mel are back to finish the recap of Amazon Prime's My Fault. These two kids try to stay away from each other and they just CAN'T! We can't blame them!
Bonus Content: these two are less discreet than Naima AND Mel.. it's impressive, deconstructing translated dirty talk, Smoking Stubble Man of the Chin Clan, telepathic driving plans, and so much more!
If you want more step-sibling romance, read Naima's book Passion & Ink! It's sooooo angsty taboo good!
NEW AUDIOBOOK ALERT: Get Toxic Desire by Robin Lovett, narrated by Mel!
Lady Loves:
Mel: @shabazsays on tiktok and instagram! He's hilarious and his commentary is spot-on.
Naima: In The Gray by BB Reid! She has a major book hangover after this one!!!
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Hey HBs! Naima Simone is back to recap the movie My Fault, based on a novel by Mercedes Ron! Whew, this movie is hilarious! Stepsiblings, "gangs," and so much more!
Bonus Content: Watching these movies with your daughter, a guy named Owen, learning to drive, playing tricks on your kids, vroom vroom cars, gang names, and Father's Day cards.
Naima mentions the Mzani Youth Choir! Check out when they got the gold buzzer and singing Circle of Life!
Part 2 is next week!
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Hy HBs! Meredith is hereeeee and she has brought us many treats! We're recapping Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (who is maybe the overall winner of any NaNoWriMo ever?). This high fatasy with low stakes is EXACTLY what I needed! Who knew I would love 300 pages of watching someone slowly build a coffee shop? There's themes of reinvention, found family, finding your place, the zen of an honest day's work, and so much more! Plus, two! Perfect! Kisses!
Bonus content: now Mel understands why people like make-work games, this is the slowest and most comfy and still most interesting book, capturing the romance of the mundane, fabulous sensory descriptions, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Mel: Huge batches of iced tea!
Meredith: spend money on things that make you happy. Will you love floating multiple times this summer? Buy the season pass! AND Pocket Books in Lancaster, PA! A Queer Femme owned bookstore (owned by 3 besties!). You can visit in-person or buy online!
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Sabriiiiina is here to recap The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole! It's the first in the Immortals After Dark series and we're here to say... maybe don't skip it! We've got two immortals, one femme fatale, one warlord hot dummy, FATE, savage goodbyes, memorable reunions, VERY questionable/dubious/non-existent consent (also enthusiastic consent), and so much more! Could this be viewed as problematic? Sure. Did we super love it? Very yes.
Bonus content: series hopping and existential crises, Forebears/Four Bears, brains while reading, noodle fuckery, and more.
Lady Loves:
Sabrina: 360 degree rolling suitcases. What a revelation!
Mel: #plantdad instagram (also #plantdaddy). And specifically @theplantpapi. Such a good follow!
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THE TWINS ARE HERE!!!! Kimberly Lemming and Alexis the Sword join Mel to recap Crow by A Zavarelli! Irish Mafia, missing BFF, scrappy boxer's daughter orphan, MAGNETIC ATTRACTION, Russian Mafia, basement Dexters, pole dancing!, and Rob Zombie lap dances.
CW: sexual assault, violence against women, and mentions of child abuse in a later book in the series.
Look, Mel loved book. Kim and Alexis, not so much. But the great thing is, there's room in romance for everyone! Serious reminder: we chat as if the characters are real people and we're three friends gossiping about them. We talk about our personal reading experience and we hold space for people who love books we don't and loathe books we worship. Unless there's harm being done, our opinions are not a commentary on the author or the quality of the book.
Bonus content: is this the whitest book we've read in a minute?, mafia social media managers, child fight clubs, Living Dead Girls, I repeat: Basement Dexters, and so much more!
GO READ KIM'S NEWEST BOOK! That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human is just as imaginative and delicious as the first two in the series and stars a character I've been waiting eagerly for! Plus, the saddest rich boy dragon who is the perfect autistic king. It's a romp and you need it!!!!!!!!
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HBs, we're back with this delicious display! Display of what? Still not totally sure! All we know is we loved almost every second of it.
Bonus Content: applause post-first sexytimes, Two Face, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Naima: Charlize Theron always. She makes an excellent St. Vincent.
Mel: Check on your thermoses! Maybe they say "push to clean" and you don't have to deal with weird, dangerous tastes for weeks. Don't be an illiterate bridge troll!
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Oh golly! Your pal and mine Naima Simone has turned this into a Yoshi Appreciation Podcast. That's right, she's back to talk about our new problematic fave Through My Window on Netflix! This dubbed classic is a new adult stalking extravaganza that gave us all the delicious conflicting feelings! It's Venezuelan Twilight and we're not mad about it.
Content Warnings: stalking, emotional abuse by a romantic partner maybe?, parental emotional abuse for sure, the perpetuation of the predatory teenage girl (who is actually being victimized) trope, underage tighty whiteys (I'm not being cute, it legitimately bothered me).
Part 2 is next week!
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Hey y'all! It's part 3 of The Bride! The final part! This last 20% of the book is so action packed that it'll make your head spin.
Bonus Content: demanding bribes for adulting, severe aversions to heights, necrophilia jokes that Mel understands right in front of you, Sabrina putting the mystery's puzzle pieces together in real time, and so much more!
Don't miss out on the Dangerous Tides Kickstarter! It ends this week!
Lady Loves:
Mel: Hoopla! OMG! Librarian HBs, if you know of a way for Sabrina and other rural HBs to get Hoopla, email us!
Sabrina: space operas with giant, complicated, overarching plots. Inspired by The Zion Warrior series by Regine Abel, Susan Trombley, and more.
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Hey HBs! Sabrina is back for part 2 of The Bride by Julie Garwood! We start with the morning after the consummation and watch these two hot dummies try to parse their feelings while also shedding a bit more light on the suspense subplot! (There's a murderer in their midst)
Bonus Content: blinking like a broken cupie doll, abandoning sexytime metaphors, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Sabrina: Frozen pot stickers! In the air fryer! Sooooo good!
Mel: This darn Kickstarter for Dangerous Tides! I'm just so proud and happy and I want to share with everyone! It's only available for a super limited time, so don't miss out!
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HB Sabrina and Mel begin our saga covering The Bride by Julie Garwood! Boy this book is bonkers! We couldn't stop talking about this Medieval Highlander Times gem, so this is part 1 of 3.
Bonus Content: Approaching books with an open heart but wary mind, loving books even if they're problematic, Mel tells problematic childhood stories, getting scruffed, Fishbowl Jamie, 1100s saddle? What is?, and so much more!
Hey HBs! It's part two of Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall! Meredith and Mel recap the competition, the switcheroo, and so much more!
Lady loves:
Meredith: Pansies. It's flower season and flowers are happy! And annuals are cheap and cheerful!
Mel: Also spring flowers! My magnolia tree is blooming for the first time since we moved into the new house and I'M OBSESSED!!!
Dangerous Tides launches on April 28th at 12:30pm ET! Don't miss it!
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Hey HBs! Meredith is back to recap Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall! Structurally, it's one of the most interesting romance novels I've read. Plus, it comes with Alexis Hall's signature wit AND WE LOVED IT! Did it elicit some completely rational text messages from Mel to Meredith? No. This text required hard muppet texting; that's what good books do! They make you care. [Insert sheepish giggles here]
Bonus Content: soliciting chickens, GBBO background, bi-phobia, Meredith and Mel are co-presidents of the Jennifer Hallet fan club, HOO IZ HEEROH?!?, and so much more!
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Sophie Jordan is here to recap Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey! It's Pirate Times! It's England Times! It's America Times! It's all the head hopping! It's George's adventure and she's falling in love along the way.
It's also a HUGE inspiration for CM Nascosta's book in the Dangerous Tides series TO RAVISH A ROGUE. Nascosta takes Lindsey's delicious bonkers framework and adds monsters and more baths and so so so so so much more. I CANNOT.
Make sure to check out THE COUNTESS, book 1 of Sophie Jordan's new series The Scandalous Ladies of London.
Lady Loves:
Sophie - Skincare, Golden Girls, and her airfryer.
Mel - skincare also! And SPF on the face, neck, and chest. And maybe elbow-length driving gloves.
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HAPPY ST. VINCENT DAY, HBs!!!!!! It's a community celebration! Thank you to everyone who wrote in and sent audio files! I LOVED hearing and reading all your thoughts! I'm basically obsessed with you. #stvincentwouldalways
Thank you for celebrating Sebastian St. Vincent with us!
Socials referenced: @theheakitchen | @quote_quake
Books recommended:
Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
The Luckiest Lady In London by Sherry Thomas
A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James
The Devil Is a Marquess by Elisa Braden
Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
Crashed by Julie Kriss
Glitterland by Alexis Hall
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa
A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
This is the Tweet referenced when Stephanie asserted that St. Vincent would always protect someone who wasn't ready to be outed. Robin Williams forever.
Naomi from the HEA Kitchen is the winner of our care package! Congrats!
Happy St. Vincent's Day! Curl up and stay cozy!!!
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KIMBERLY LEMMING IS BAAAACK!!!!!!! Let us rejoice! And she brought a fabulous contemporary novel that involved a bakery, a boxing gym, an ex's wedding, a divorce party, a cake eating contest, a parrot in a shirt, and more nouns that feel like they maybe shouldn't go together but actually did. BEAUTIFULLY, in fact. Mimi Grace did it with Make a Scene. Oh, also dirty talk! Truly a marvel.
Bonus content: Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen, Sir Duncan: Knight of our Hearts, Clown Jail, cheek licking, nodules (or nobules??), and so much more!
Make sure to follow Kim on socials (especially the tiktok!) because book 3 in her Mead mishaps series is IMMINENT and you don't want to miss it!
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Hey HBs! Blair Leigh and Bryan are here to help Mel recap Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall! Luc and Oliver are here with all the witty banter, misunderstandings, and fake dating goodness! Plus, a fabulous cast of side characters we couldn't get enough of. AND THE SWOON FACTOR! It's high! Whew.
Bonus Content: Achilles penises, bathroom antics on dates, distraction snuggles, "DELETE, BLOCK," and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Mel: Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall. Same voice, but lots of sex!
Bryan: "DELETE, BLOCK" Do what you gotsta
Blair: Daisy Jones and the Six TV show, Ted Lasso Season 3, and Invisible String by Meg Jones (that one comes highly recommended by Neighbor Becci!)
Check out Blair and Bryan's bookstore Beausoleil Books! They ship everywhere! And read Blair's debut novel: What Comes After!
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Oh hello! Mel's brother's wedding was the weekend before she moved her whole house and family and life. In other words, things are nuts over here! So you get an encore of A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest! Or, as we’re calling it, 50 Shades of Twilight: A Tale of Teenage Stockholm Syndrome. Full disclosure, we didn’t necessarily like this book, but we cannot wait to give you a hilarious after-school special about why we didn’t. We present a very special episode about what the kids are reading these days.
Self Love Recommendations:
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Watch Big Little Lies on HBO or something else where talented people are slaying the game.
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Listen to the last 15 minutes of The Ringer's Binge Mode. In the final episode there's a beautiful oration about not being ashamed for your interests and escapism. Plus, best friends gush about each other, which you know we LOVE!
Episode Notes:
If you like excellent vampire tales, be sure to check out American Vampire wherever you get your comics! Scott Snyder is the main writer and they've had arcs with Stephen King and more.
And quick CORRECTION from this episode, "women in refrigerators" or "getting refrigerated" began in the 90's with Green LANTERN, not Green Arrow. Either way, I think we can all agree that ladies should be fully formed characters instead of merely plot devices, right? Thank goodness even mainstream comics have seen the light since then!
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Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton Novels, stopped by Heaving Bosoms to chat all about MISS BUTTERWORTH AND THE MAD BARON! It's the new graphic novel that she and her late sister Violet Charles created together! Come here all about Violet Charles' art, the way they collaborated on this work, and tons of adorable details! It was an honor to talk to JQ and help to memorialize her incredibly talented sister.
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Nat and Sara bring us part 2 of The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl by Annika Martin!
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Ooooooh, Nat and Sara are here to recap The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl! This steamy contemporary has been on the list for a while and they do it justice! Plus, ferret stories!
Next week you get part 2, but PATRONS have access to the ep in full right now!
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The Stag Brothers series by Lanie Davis!
SWEET DISTRACTION, book one in this series is free for all of 2022, so GET IT NOW! All 4 Stag Brother books are out now and will give you all the brooding alpha you could ever wish for! And Patrons have a chance to win an advanced copy of the newest audiobook, BEAUTIFUL GAME.
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Hey Pals, some shit has gone down in Erin's world and there's just no way she can be a main pillar of the podcast anymore. She's healthy, she'll be ok, but she needs to focus on her.So, she's still part of the community and she'll be back sporadically, but we can all support her by sending healing thoughts to Alaska and appreciating everything she's given us for the past 4 years. X-files clips and figure skating gossip wouldn't go amiss either.
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Hey HBs!!! Kenya Goree-Bell is here to recap the Netflix movie Really Love! Ooooh, an artist and a law student are falling in love in this moody indie film set in DC. And it's delicious!
Bonus Content: the glory of Michael Ealy, the artist mindset and struggle, rarefied air, waist beads, and the shenanigans that would go down if Kenya and Mel go to her Netflix Movie Premier together!
Make sure to check out The Kronic and the rest of the Mogul Series!
Lady Loves:
Mel: send your friends flowers. It doesn't have to be a romantic gesture!
Kenya: Call your friends and check on them! You can do a world of good and make people feel great just by showing you're thinking about them.
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Bonkers Book Club for May and June!
Hey y'all! It's the perfect time to join the Bonkers Romance Book Club! In May, you get The One Month Boyfriend by Roxie Noir and Always Practice Safe Hex by Juliette Cross. In June, you can look forward to After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez and Skin2 by Aveda Vice! Join the Temple of Defiant Joy at the Joy Bringer tier or higher to get these advanced copy ebooks!
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Oh heeeeyyyyyy! Sarah Wendell is back to finish up Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta! Part 2 heats up hard!!! We've got more fantasy-world fetishes, an incredibly deliberate hero, great communication, and a climactic finish that's perfect in every way.
Bonus Content: public girl-code, firmly Millennial skills (google and horoscopes y'all), more Sarah/Mel Mythology, and so much more!
Lady Loves:
Mel: The Book of Life Soundtrack! It's soooo good! And Sarah dropped some serious knowledge when she told everyone that Placido Domingo is the opera ancestor! THE Placido Domingo!
Sarah: Rise of the Guardians! It's a gorgeous movie with a stacked voice actor cast (including Erin's beloved Chris Pine).
Make sure to check out Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Smart Podcast, Trashy Books, and Sarah's new project Lovestruck Daily!
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"We produce our novels as audio dramas, featuring a multicast, sound effects and music. We write real and real graphic, intended for an adult audience." The WOLFE BROTHERS SAGA is a gritty and dark, romantic suspense saga that deals with life’s hardships including: alcoholism, rape, effects of child abuse and bullying, psychological instabilities, vigilantism, family unity, revenge, political corruption, abuse of power, domestic abuse, condemnation and redemption yet offers enough light at the end of the tunnel that gives way to hope, cheer and even the occasional victories over life's most daunting ordeals. FOR AN ADULT AUDIENCE! Contains NSFW content, including violence.
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Bonkers Book Club for May and June!
Hey y'all! It's the perfect time to join the Bonkers Romance Book Club! In May, you get The One Month Boyfriend by Roxie Noir and Always Practice Safe Hex by Juliette Cross. In June, you can look forward to After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez and Skin2 by Aveda Vice! Join the Temple of Defiant Joy at the Joy Bringer tier or higher to get these advanced copy ebooks!
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Hey HBs! Sarah Wendell is here to swoon and geek the hell out with Melody. Did you think a book that's grounded in minotaur hand jobs would be an amazing example of structural organization, labor rights, and include layered feminist commentary on society's obsession with the phallus? ...you did? OMG you're a genius. We did not. But you get to hear us break down every stunning moment in part 1 of Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta! Plus, like, minotaur testicles, dirt coffee, and lots of MANual stimulation ;)
Bonus Content: podcast compliments, the endless possibilities at "Smart Bosoms Milking Farm," the hallmarks of good fantasy, tooth trauma when pregnant, Princessglitterhead on tik tok, complicated mom relationships, fetishes in fantasy cultures, and so much more!
Go follow Sarah on Twitter, Instagram, check out the amazing Smart Bitches, Trashy Books website, and go listen to her podcast!!
Sarah and Mel teamed up recently for Bonkers Romance where they discussed A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor!
Make sure to check out our Patreon page to get access to our exclusive book club! Tessa Bailey will be joining us on April 29th!
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The boys are back in town! The Overdue Boys, that is! Craig and Andrew join us to recap Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis and we are delighted from start to finish. Get ready for Reylo parallels, Flintstones references, and Bing Boong Bong Higher Education Dollar Bills with Erin.
Bonus Content: Science Daddies pushing cars, the magnetic appeal of an adult orphan, a "miasma of misogyny," full pipettes, and so much more!
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Ohhh HELLOOOO! It's our St. Vincent's Day episode! Happy St. Vincent Day! All three bosoms are here to venerate Silver Fox St. Vincent, also known as the Duke of Kingston. What are names in England Times, anyway? Evie and St. Vincent's daughter has been widowed and her first event post-mourning is a wedding! Attended by her husband's childhood bully! Who turns out to be super hot and smart and meddling Sebastian loves him! Plus, SOUP.*
*not in the Winter Garden.
Bonus Content: We raised $3,660 for World Central Kitchen and Razom Emergency Response! Nat's a genius, Winterbone, and so much more!
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