Plot Trysts

Meg and Alex are joined by Olivia Waite to discuss For My Lady's Heart, and all I could think of was "a little sincerity is a dangerous thing, a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Don't you miss the days before museums had things like security or glass cases?

This is now a Roman Empire/Republic romance fan account.

Meg and Alex are joined by Adriana Herrera to discuss Laura Kinsale's most conventional book. (That is not a diss.)

We ADORED this book and it managed to be fun while dealing with some serious topics.

This book is adorable and so much fun to read and I really enjoyed the balance of romance and world building and I wanted it to be smut and it wasn't. If you go in knowing what to expect it's a romp.

We were both so charmed by the road trip romance between a brutal Visigoth and a Roman princess. We were not charmed by the asshole king letting his people starve, oh wait, it was the same dude.

Alix E. Harrow joins Meg and Alex to discuss The Prince of Midnight, by Laura Kinsale, a book that is both bonkers and heartbreaking.

The concept of this series is very cool, and this book is very effective, but it was also hard to read at this moment in time.

Do I get what is objectively good about Mary Balogh's writing? Yes. Is a low-stakes, low-conflict, low-steam story what I need right now? Not really.

Loretta is BACK. Is this the marriage in crisis as we expected? No. But once you set aside the expectation that something horrible is about to happen this book is a FANTASTIC brother's best friend romance.

Meg and Alex resume their read of all Laura Kinsale's books. Today they are joined by Angelina M. Lopez to discuss the Shadow and the Star.

This book is exactly what we expect from this series, rompy and very very sexy. Please give me a book about Jasper, I am such a sucker for a real spy.

We read this because we will read pretty much anything set in Egypt. There were parts that were really fun, but you can really tell it was written in 1997.

We were both a bit scared of this book and were pleasantly surprised, but were left wondering who the target audience was. Also, we now return to our regular posting schedule.

Stephanie Laurens NYE novella? Sign us up for the batshittery.

Meg and Alex are joined by Charis Michaels to discuss Laura Kinsale's first book. If I learned anything from editing this episode, you should definitely listen to the audio book.

This is the perfect Christmas novella to end our season with. Yes, I know it's January 9th.

Everything about this book charmed us, even the things that shouldn't have. It's a Christmas miracle!

A sex cabin 12 days of Christmas book? Well ok, if we must, we must.

The Halifaxes are all home for the holidays, and it's exactly what you expect (that is a good thing).

Elizabeth Hoyt is back, baby!

This is super Christmasy and super sexy but we do have to hate on the heroine at the beginning of the book. She improves very much over the course of the story! And Christmas!

It's really fun to see the convention of introductions in the regency taken to a rom-com extreme. We liked it, even if the ties to Christmas feel tenuous.

The end of the Christmas Notch series returns with plenty of Christmas cheer and gingerbread lube.