Bodice Tipplers

We recorded this one in... September, maybe?  Who knows!  Life is weird these days!  Anyway it's December and that's appropriate because this book has cabins! Spies! Amnesia!   It's  White Lies  by Linda Howard! He's... possibly her ex husband but probably not her ex husband and he's got amnesia and is in full body traction!  She quit her high powered finance job because the FBI is paying her rent...

GOBBLE GOBBLE YO!   He's America's Farmer.  She's America's Guilt.  Together they are our tryptophan turd - Stella Bagwell's  Their First Thanksgiving .  Seriously, y'all, this book is awful.  He gaslights her, she's got a white savior complex, every woman in his family puts a solid 80 hours of work into Thanksgiving for five people... it is a damned mess.  We burned the book in protest.  Do you k...

We had a lot of fun talking with Denise Williams, author of  The Fastest Way to Fall .  If you'd like to purchase a copy, please consider doing it from  Dog Eared Books , Denise's local independent bookstore in Ames, Iowa. Britta didn't plan on falling for her personal trainer, and Wes didn't plan on Britta. Plans change and it's unclear if love, career, or both will meet them at the finish line....

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN to those who celebrate! We're continuing our Halloween tradition by bringing you another Anne Rice jam with Special Guest Dr. Claire!   Last year we covered  The Vampire Lestat  and you should totally go  back and listen to that one too.  This time we didn't go for three hours -  two and a half hours is not three hours .  We got off the rails because quite frankly this book never...

Welcome to spooky season, where we get ghosts in our brains that make us incapable of remembering the name of the book or half of the characters!  So so sorry, "Ted"!  OooooooOOOOOoooo spooooky!  We love Halloween here at Bodice Tipplers so we decided to give you not one but two Halloween books - the first is Devil May Care  by Elizabeth Peters.  The second you'll have to wait to find out about -...

 He's Brig McCord (no really), a  Hatchet -scenario survivor, ex-soldier of fortune, and rancher.  She's Johanna something or other, hot redhead-in-certain-lights and general doer of nothing in particular (except for, of course, big game hunting with her dad.)  It's a tale of murder, mystery, and doing it - it's  Ride the Thunder  by Janet Dailey! Content warnings for this include big game trophy...

We had the great pleasure of sitting down with Alison Cochrun to talk about her very buzzy book, The Charm Offensive .  If you'd like to purchase a copy, please consider buying from Alison's local independent bookstore, Vintage Books!  At this time there are signed copies available! Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it's no wonder then that he's spent his career crafting them on...

If you're seeing two  Navy Wife episodes in your aggregator, this is the one that doesn't have a bunch of weird audio problems!  We couldn't figure out how else to make sure that people set to automatically download episodes would get the corrected version once we replaced the file - our apologies. Life comes at you fast!  When we recorded this episode focusing on the military and talking a great...

She's brought her masters' degree in performance piano and her new Trans Am to the bright lights big city Detroit to... engage in corporate espionage for her eighteenth cousin once removed.  He's a 36 year old high flying executive with the world and all the women in it at his feet.  Together they do crimes   cry a lot  have a gross 80's boss-secretary relationship.  This is obviously gonna have s...

Banner O'Brien is the worst possible lady doctor in 19th century Washington State, which I guess also makes her the best lady doctor around (but no, she is not good at this doctoring thing.)  Adam Corbin is the biggest assholes in 19th century Washington State and he does have plenty of competition.  They yell.  They slap.  They do it, a lot.  He's always "plundering" her various underclothes busi...

 She's a pilot and owns her own charter service!  He's an actor preparing for a role!  Together they are  oh my god they are so boring you guys.   Welcome to a super short episode of Bodice Tipplers where our luck in series romance runs out!  It's got... well, it's got planes.  It's got a cute flight suit.  It's got a shuttle launch, which you would think would be exciting but don't worry, it isn'...

Welcome to Robin Schone's  The Lady's Tutor .   She's a wealthy Victorian politician's wife, proper in every way.  He's a halfbreed bastard... oh god I can't with this racist book, I just can't.  It's about a woman who asks for sex lessons with no lab component, and then she realizes her husband sucks and opts for the lab after all.   This is one Sara had very fond memories of that... did not nece...

Today we have a special treat for you - we got Henry from  FireStarters   to read Grace Metalious'  Peyton Place  with us and let me tell you... it's a real Peyton Place in there. I honestly can't even describe the plot of this book so let me just give you the trigger warnings, I guess?  So this book is trying really hard to shock you, which shouldn't shock you - the stuff that  isn't  intentional...

Meet gentle Lady Madelyne, kidnapped by the studly Baron Duncan!  Meet a lot of people whose names we cannot recall!  Wonder why "honor" is spelled the American way but "splendour" got that extra u!  Thrill to dastardly deeds, "dastardly deeds" if you know what I mean, and last minute court intrigue for no reason!  It's Honor's Splendour  by Julie Garwood, a special listener request! Trigger warni...

We have had all our shots and we are  back in the same room  so get ready for some seriously overexcited people!  (That would be us but it would also be the people in this book.)   Fancy Pants  by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - she's a British socialite with big "See You Next Tuesday" energy, he's a hot redneck golfer with a self esteem problem, they slap each other in parking lots more than the avera...

We're back with Martha Waters for her  second book ,  To Love and to Loathe !  If you remember, Martha had the unique bad luck to release her first book the week the world ended last year, and it's been so long that she's back with a sequel. The widowed Diana, Lady Templeton and Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham are infamous among English high society as much for their sharp-tongued bickering as thei...

You guys you guys this is it!  This is the big one! We are fifty episodes old and we are going BIG!  We have gotten so many requests for this one - we read The Thorn Birds, you guys, and we're gonna watch the miniseries (check social media for upcoming details about watching it with us!) and we got a secret guest (spoiler: Courtney's secret brother Nate) all the way from Australia, and of course i...

 You guys.  We have done it.  We have finally gone so far down the rabbit hole of vintage romance that we have found one that is  not on Goodreads .  Welcome to  The Leopard Tree  by Valerie Parv, reigning queen of Australian romance!  There's a UFO!  It's Australia!  He's a... he's an ex-military rodeo bronco buster and she makes ugly jewelry and has an awful fiancé and she'd like to pretend that...

Yooooo, it's a pre-Plum Janet Evanovich!  It's got capers and slapstick and... business!  Ivan is a schooner captain.  Stephanie is an ex-cop, now cute bread and breakfast owner!  Tess is maybe a ghost!  It's got no major trigger warnings beyond what you'd expect for this sort of madcap comedy business - gggggghosts, cold-ass Maine water, possibly a lie about a shower?, a whole ass town gaslightin...

Happy lunar new year!  We rang in the Year of the Ox with Butterfly Swords, which was Jeannie Lin's first book.  It won the Golden Heart Award back in 2009 and started her illustrious career. Ai Li is to be married to the powerful and hawt Li Tao, a scheming jiedushi.  When she discovers his treachery and his murder of her brother she escapes to warn her father, the Tang Emperor.  Except her fathe...

 Y'all, it's our first Loveswept!  She's a children's librarian, he's stripping to fund his owl-rescue habit!  It's incredibly sweet and just wonderful in every possible way, there are no major content warnings, just read this one - trust us.  

Are... are you actually ready for this?  (We were not.) Get ready for some Jackie Collins all up in your face-parts!  Lucky Santangelo is a boss businesslady who Has Sex.  A whole lot happens in this book - everybody gets married six times, at least one hotel is opened, dirty deeds are done on yachts....  I honestly do not know how I could possibly describe the plot.  I  can  tell you that if you...

We were asked if we'd like to interview Melissa Croce about her new book,  Single and Forced to Mingle  - a guide to what to do if you're unattached and have to go do things.  (Somebody remind me what doing things is like?  I think I've forgotten!) It comes out today, so go get a copy wherever you buy your books! 

Happy holidays, y'all!  We all needed something a little... lighter.  Something a little more... snowy.  Something with a mustache.  Enter Diana Palmer's The   Humbug Man , the tiniest little book that packs the most chest hair!  He's another ranchin' Tate (why is that a trope?) who hates kids and loves ranchin' (childfree.)  She's a secretary who moved to Arizona to be close to Montana who needs...

He's a cat burglar, she's an ethnobotanist, they both get their cardio in and it's  Medicine Man  has a weirdly paced baby with  Romancing the Stone !  On this special Thanksgiving episode we give genuine thanks to Stacey Abrams for her tireless work  flipping the state of Georgia oh my freaking god you guys!  And if you'd like to thank a black woman for doing a hard grimy job nobody else wanted t...