Ep.18—Taming Demons for Beginners: Meet Our New Favorite Murder Baby

Offering a scary demon some cookies in exchange for protection? Seems like a damn good deal if you ask us! It doesn't hurt that said demon is rather easy on the eye...despite the tail and horns (or maybe it's *because* of them). From this bargain unfolds a tale of adventure, magic and friendship as evil threatens our world and it is up to our heroine and her new demon companion to put a stop it. Can they succeed? Also discussed in this episode of Romancing the Monsters: Overcoming social anxiety and a lack of self confidence, the darker side of humanity, enslavement of foreign species and how it relates to our own dark history, and much more. Trigger warning: mentions of torture, manipulation and social anxiety. Book of the week: Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie Books mentioned: Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon Breeds series by Lora Leigh Media mentioned: Beastars directed by Shin'ichi Matsumi, 2019–present Pokémon, developed by Game Freak, 1996– Match.com, “Match Made in Hell” commercial, 2020 Match.com, “When Satan Met 2020” commercial, 2020 Find us: E-mail—[email protected] Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast TikTok—@romancingthemonsterspod Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.