The Hood

06/07/19 • 42 min

The Hood by Carin Rafferty: It's 1992! She's a treasury agent! He's an... accountant! A white savior accountant! Just read it, okay? This white boy plays basketball in his Daisy Dukes in it, it is amazing.

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Rogue - With Special Guests!

Guess what, y'all? It's a very special crossover episode! We got together with the ladies from Textual Tension and all four of us had to read this piece of crap that Fabio "wrote" so we hope you appreciate what we do for you.

So. This book. Jesus fuck. He's named Ryder Remington (yes really) which is kind of all you need to know. She's masquerading as a tavern wench to investigate a disappearance. In, get ready, Charleston. You know we love it when these books go to South Carolina.

Nobody actually gets sexually assaulted in this book but there's a lot of aggressive bullshit, kidnapping, blackmail, ahistorical jabronis, etc.

Because we did this one in two different states the sound quality is a little off.

Did you know that Fabio had a line of clothing sold at, I shit you not, Sam's Club? HE DID.

Did you know that this already-embarassing book to carry around came with a goddamned centerfold, completely unrelated to its content?

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Wishes

Y'all I don't even know, this is about an 80's lady with fake boobs who dies and gets stuck being a fairy godmother for an 1890's-era girl in Colorado. I swear this is the god honest plot of this book.

This WOULD be delightful but in fact it's alarmingly full of some insanely intense fat shaming, plus some shockingly evil family emotional abuse, including hella gaslighting. Seriously, this is supposed to be a light and frothy book! And it is! But if any of that sounds like it's going to bother you, the light and frothy tone of it is going to make it a lot worse for you. The fat shaming gets to insane and hysterical levels (I don't mean hysterical like ha-ha.)

I think Jude Deveraux is accidentally letting her own body issues slip out, because she makes the enormous mistake (heh) of telling us exactly what this woman weighs. Please understand that she's supposed to be so fat that the whole town feels a little sad revulsion when they see her out in public. (Not that any weight would make that okay! Obviously!) But this poor girl is a whopping ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO POUNDS.