Romance at a Glance

TRIGGER WARNING ON THIS WHOLE SEASON!

Dear listeners,

as you'll hear at the beginning of this and every episode this season, these dark romances are going to be filled with triggers small and large. We totally respect that this season isn't going to be some listener's cup of tea, and we want you to know upfront what this season contains so you aren't surprised or triggered. We have lots of reviews and interviews for you to catch up on in our previous seasons and will be back into fantasy, cyborg, historical, contemporary, and PNR soon enough.

For those of you ready to tackle the dark and taboo with us, we welcome you as we journey through this season to learn more about the genre, and hopefully get titillated along the way.

As always, we're planning to have some amazing authors and guests on this season who are going to help us explore real desires, questions, and all the things that pop up from reading these books.

Thank you all for joining us on this amazing journey. For helping the podcast grow. For sharing with your friends. For reviewing the show. For being our friends and loving to read and think about sex, love, companionship, relationships, friendship, and dirty talk :)

We have so much in store for 2021. without further ado. Let's get this shit poppin'!!!!

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Shani hosted Toni from Lit Wallflowers podcast on the podcast today to talk through Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase! Listen to Shani as she leads the conversation like a pro and they get into this book and discuss all manner of plot, sex, cover, and more!

This was our most requested book on Instagram and we are SUPER stoked to read it. Bridget was super bummed to be missing this book so she's going to be reading the book and doing a commentary on this podcast on Patreon! Become Patron for lots of fun goodies and BTS :)

Bridget is going to be on Lit Wallflowers in a few weeks to talk Lisa Kleypas!

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Trigger Warning- Grooming / child molestation in the heroine's past

Friends, this historical season is doing us right. Tessa Dare delivered and we had a great time meeting her at the panel last fall. This episode was recorded PRE Corona - so enjoy a nostalgic time when we could wander the streets of Target and in general leave the house with no fear.

Things we discuss in the book:

• The parrot - Pretty girl - Fancy a fuck, love?"
• Their meeting - her lusting after him immediately
• Her aunt/brother saying she has to get married or move into the country
• Her taking in all the lame and weird animals.
• Duke of Ruin - willing to ruin everyone’s reputation
• Their love story (OBVI!)
• Her past trauma

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As you all may remember, we were going to do book 3 of this series but realized that one of us wouldn't know what was going to happen because they really are not standalones. So we decided to go back to the beginning with book 1!

We start with Devil and Felicity and get a lot of backstory about the Barenuckle Bastards and the world. One thing we didn't realize is that Felicity is featured in one of the other MacLean series and the Bastards are mentioned. Thankfully that didn't affect us too much!

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We discussed:

• The dark balcony meet-cute
• Felicity's lock-picking abilities
• The Barenuckle Bastards world
• The relationship between Grace, Devil and Beast
• Devil's power
• The whispering bench scene
• Our desire to read Whit/Beast's story.

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Happy 1 year anniversary from launch for us!!

Now on to the book!

Vanessa Riley came recommended to us by a lot of our friends (maybe even you!) on the old Instagram. But a different book, so maybe, that book would have had a little more open doors, and a little less plot lines, but this book was not that for us.

This book was very heavy on the praying to God and trusting in God. Each character was doing this at least once per chapter, so if that isn't your thing, this book isn't for you. As Shani says, "I wanna do things that are ungodly hahahaha."

Things we talked about in this episode:

• Gaia finding out about her mixed heritage - coming to terms with it and pride in it
• William and her meet-cute (cursing at the cliff)
• Book picked up for me when he proposed to her
• Plot was a lot! Dark secrets on both sides, attempted murders, kidnapping, multiple suitors, sister betrayal, cinderella story
• Lots of god talk
• Lots of her crying. Pull your shit together gaia (except when she tells the black servant to watch the baby)
• Where was the sex? --- the kissing scenes were good though
• The love triangle aspect

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