Heaving Bosoms

Hey y'all! Jen Comfort joins Mel to squee about their shared childhood obsession with Phantom of the Opera! When she was writing Midnight Duet she obviously did a lot of research and she BRINGS RECEIPTS about the production and cast! Bonus Content: Andrew Lloyd Webber always being *extra* , explaining the Hades and Persephone trope to a 4 and 6 year old, "doing a gondola on her", a 4 year old excl...

Oooohhhhhhh! Kimberly Lemming is here to recap Mea Monique's brilliant debut The Grim Reaper's Lawyer ! Joyce is self-confidence goals, Aiden is the king of mixed messages, the lawyering is clever, the voice is crystal clear, and the bureaucracy is WHIMSICAL! Plus the sex is scorching hot! And she nails the comedic timing every time! Bonus Content: Mel and Kim's upcoming album, learning to wink, t...

Hey HBs! We're here with the annual Reading Embrace! Your favorite cult mods, Meredith and Sabrina, are here to help me wrap you up in the sweetest embrace of your life! The 2023 HB Reading Embrace is ready for you! If you want to share what you're reading for each category, @ us and tag your social posts with #hbreadingembrace! I cannot say this enthusiastically enough: Order Midnight Duet by Jen...

Hey HBs! Jen Comfort is here to swoon over Lindsay Lohan and Tad Fairchild! We're recapping Netflix's Falling for Christmas, in which a hotel mogul's spoiled daughter gets amnesia, a discount Chris Hemsworth *doesn't* come up with a clever plot, and Creepy Father Christmas is actually the villain! Plus, a new segment *Bing Boong Bong* Hotel Stuff with Jen. Seriously, she knows so much! Make sure t...

Hey y'all! We're baaaack! And Sierra Simone and Julie Murphy are here! We're recapping the Jonathan Taylor Thomas film I'll Be Home for Christmas in which Jessica Biel is the late '90's feminist of our dreams! If you want to be kind to yourself, check out their first team up A Merry Little Meet Cute ! It's the Christmas book I've always wanted. HB - Make sure you email your 2022 Reading Embrace en...

Surprise! To celebrate the last few days of Naima's Book Boyfriends Box, we're releasing our first recap of The One That Got Away! We're up to episode 7 now on Patreon and this show only gets better from here! Bonus content: worshipping at the altar of Anthony, breastfeeding with elastic boobs, and so much more! Naima's Book Boyfriends Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more con...

Hey HBs! IT'S OUR FIRST LIVE SHOW!!! Nat and Sara recap Halfway To The Grave by Jeaniene Frost. Boy does this Spike and Buffy homage not age well... CWs: off-page sexual assault in the past, descriptions of kidnapping, illusions to sexual assault in the present, on-page drugging with the intention of sexual assault, slut shaming, sex trafficking, and the term "white slavery" is used to describe se...

Hey HBs! Sally Thorne is here! Bearing gifts! First, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match (out Sept 6th, preorder now!). It's Sally's newest release, first historical, has all the sparkly Sally dialogue, and is the perfect spooky season read! Next, she introduced Sara and Mel to Howl's Moving Castle! Ehrrmehhhgeerrrrdddd it's SO GOOD. Are we now in love with a cartoon man? WHAT OF IT. Bonus Conte...

Hey y'all! Liz from the Make Out Already Podcast is here to chat about Reel by Kennedy Ryan! WOW this book is gorgeous! It's showbiz and glitz with beautiful commentary on art and creation and the fight. The fight for your life, for justice, for love. Bonus Content: an episode of Behind the Bastards about the Twilight Zone movie , being a Chad with a B, rollerskating, juicy peaches, and being so p...

Hey y'all! EF Dodd is here to recap the 2018 movie Book Club! We had so much fun worshipping Jane Fonda's wardrobe, watching Murphy Brown make a romantic comeback with Mr. Holland's Opus, and yelling about terrible daughters! Lady Loves: EF: Fancy coffee makers and the best friends who support you in everything! Mel: Paint your ceiling yellow and get the most florescent rug you've ever seen in you...

Hey HBs! Erin is here to recap Yuri on Ice with Charissa! Charissa is an amazing Competence Boner patron and at that level, you can record an episode with the host of your choice! This is an extra huge treat because we get all of Erin's figure skating passion and expertise! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter ! MERCH! Teepublic...

Hey y'all! Nat and Sara are here to recap Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score! It's book one in the Knockmeout series with runaway bride Naomi and bearded, bad-boy barber Knox. WHEW! Bonus content: what would Stefan say about this book, small town books as fantasy, Nat keeps forgetting the sex, Yolanda has the worst timing, DING! Lady Loves Sara - Buy this kaftan/robe from Etsy ! Nat - Everythi...

Hey HBs! Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop from Fated Mates join Erin and Mel to talk about Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews! It's the first book in the Hidden Legacy series and BOY do we now understand what people mean when they talk about "Mad Rogan." YOWZA. Bonus Content: sexy tortures, sexier loopholes, what we'll forgive for a fictional sociopath (everything), scapecows,"malls are the m...

Hey HBs! Tanya is back to finish squeeing about Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase! Jess is one of the top heroines of all time! Bonus Content: emotional appetites, Puerto Rican grandmothers, strategies for burglars, and Valor makes a cameo. Self-Love Recommendations: Tanya - Roxanne with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah! It's a Cyrano de Bergerac retelling with a GIANT-nosed Steve Martin who's at t...

Hey HBs! Mel's best friend Tanya is here to recap Lord of Scoundrels with her! Boy does she love a schnoz on a man, so she was putty in Dane's hands. Bonus Content: Mel's move mishaps, Tanya's assumed relationship status, racehorse names, *Bing Boong Bong* Tricks for Chinatown Shopping with Tanya, tarts and trollops, and so much more! Check out Mel's KICKSTARTER ! Launches tomorrow! Next we'll be...

Hey pals! Mel, Nat , Holly , and Sara are here to finish up Fire Island! It's the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice probably ever and we're dying of cute and sweet and witty and hot hot hot. But also, can we get a Max follow-up to this treasure?? Bonus Content: Do you time sex by an episode of chopped, or an episode of PJ Masks?, hot goggle summer, and MOAR TICK BIOLOGY!!!! Check out the Happ...

Hey everyone! Holly , Sara , Nat , and Mel are here to recap Fire Island on Hulu. And we loved it so much that it's gonna be two parts! This is the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice ever (fight me). Bonus Content: Nat's cheese pocket forever, Margaret Cho is here!, Quibi inside jokes, middle school attempts at flirting, rich people cheese, rewriting misogyny in daycare, how to prep for guests...

HEY HBs! Holly and Nat our here with Regarding the Duke by Grace Callaway! Our first AMNESIA BOOK. But, we have some content warnings . This book leans heavily on the fetishization of....Sultans. We were also surprised. So there is much discussion on the page of (consensual) sex slave role play and the white MMC role playing a sultan. We want you to go in with open eyes and ears. Bonus Content: Th...

Oh heyyyy! Bree Hill from The Categorically Romance podcast and @bree.unabashedly on Instagram is here to help Mel recap The Best Man! Woo, this movie is soooo 1999 and it took us back. Terrence Howard is smizing all over the place, Tae Diggs is a commitment-phobic literary bro, and Sanaa Lathan voluntarily leaves a very luxurious bathtub! Plus, forehead kisses and Stevie Wonder dance breaks. Make...

Helloooooooo! It's Mel's favorite time! It's ALIEN TIME!!! Boy are Nat and Mel here to piece together world-building that's been established over an entire series... because this is the final book! Mel still loved it, and it didn't quite overcome Nat's natural avoidance of alien romance. But wow there's some hot sex and WILD seeds planted for the next series! Bonus Content: Beer coozies with CHEES...

Oh hello! Mel's brother's wedding was the weekend before she moved her whole house and family and life. In other words, things are nuts over here! So you get an encore of A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest! Or, as we’re calling it, 50 Shades of Twilight: A Tale of Teenage Stockholm Syndrome. Full disclosure, we didn’t necessarily *like* this book, but we cannot wait to give you a hilarious after-...

Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton Novels, stopped by Heaving Bosoms to chat all about MISS BUTTERWORTH AND THE MAD BARON ! It's the new graphic novel that she and her late sister Violet Charles created together! Come here all about Violet Charles' art, the way they collaborated on this work, and tons of adorable details! It was an honor to talk to JQ and help to memorialize her incredibly tale...

Here is part 2 of Annika Martin's The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl! Nat and Sara deep dive into what the definition of a "perfect summer walking skirt is", there are CUCUMBERY dicks(??), they still love this book, btw, and they will keep saying it, all throughout part 2. Lady Loves: Sara - two very bingeable shows: Crashing on Netflix featuring a manic pixie Jonathan Bailey and Starstruck on HB...

Ooooooh, Nat and Sara are here to recap The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl! This steamy contemporary has been on the list for a while and they do it justice! Plus, ferret stories! Next week you get part 2, but PATRONS have access to the ep in full right now! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter ! MERCH! Teepublic , Chicaloo Kat...

Hey Pals, some shit has gone down in Erin's world and there's just no way she can be a main pillar of the podcast anymore. She's healthy, she'll be ok, but she needs to focus on her. So, she's still part of the community and she'll be back sporadically, but we can all support her by sending healing thoughts to Alaska and appreciating everything she's given us for the past 4 years. X-files clips an...