Heaving Bosoms

Hey everyone! We're here with The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan! We LOVED this fabulous historical about an ambitious, list-loving heroine named Chloe Fong and the charismatic hero named Jeremy Yu who's come to convince her that he wants to marry her. Except, she doesn't know he's a Duke. She also has way too much to do trying to make her father's revenge sauce a roaring success and put the Br...

Hey HBs! It's part 2 of Flirting with Forever! Mary and John and have a lot of misunderstandings, but BOY are they going to figure things out and rub up on each other. Sometimes they rub up on each other before things are technically figured out! Cara Bastone delivers a second half complete with silly (sexy) dancing, public clownfishing, and a sex scene that made Erin and I lose our minds. It's a...

Hey y'all! We're here with part one of Flirting with Forever by Cara Bastone! In this episode, Melody is a big nit-pick and Erin is an enthusiastic stan, but we both LOVED the book! We've got a grumpy Public Defender hero and a small business owning, ray of sunshine heroine. It's the first time Erin has seen her profession reflected back to her accurately and the hijinks are excellent overall.  Pl...

Hey HBs! We usually don't say this, but today, we truly read this book so you don't have to. DON'T BUY OR READ THIS BOOK. There's anti-Asian racism and fat shaming that we are NOT here for, and a whole passel of other issues. BUT Cole is here with Erin, so it's not all bad. They recap some golf/spy/olympics/inexplicable-it-couple/second chance romance that has really hilarious ideas about brand sp...

Hey HBs! Brendan Fraser has gotten some well-deserved love on romance twitter of late, thanks to Charlotte Stein , so we're adding our own fawning to the pile! In this rerelease, Katee Robert joins Mel to recap The Mummy, chat all about what a hot Gryffindor Brendan Fraser is, what competence porn Rachel Weisz's character Evie is, and omg how sexy is that mummy, though, right?  Katee has TONS of a...

Hey HBs! We have a special guest to recap The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning. It's a paranormal historical that is delightfully bonkers in all the best ways. Time travel! Immortality! Faeries! Virgins! Monster dicks! Medieval sex positivity! Throwing poop out windows! See? All the best ways.  Lauren joins us as part of the Romancing the Runoff fundraiser and we are OVER THE MOON that she...

Hey HBs! This week, we recap Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh! It's the first book in her famous Psy-Changeling series. Sascha is a broken psy who feels things, and Lucas is a werepanter who needs to find the psy serial killer who's targeting vibrant werewomen. Plus, dream sex, snarlin', and so much more!  Mentioned in this episode: Check out our Etsy Store! Hey y'all! We've got some high qualit...

Hey HBs! You're getting next week's episode early BECAUSE IT'S ST. VINCENT DAY! Jenny Nordbak and Andie J. Christopher join us to swoon over St. Vincent.  Topics Include:  - Why St. Vincent is the best - How to celebrate St. Vincent Day - Things St. Vincent would always do - Casting Bonus content: coziness, hydration, and spanking. We are who we are.  Find Jenny on the Wicked Wallflowers Club podc...

Alisha Rai is here to usher us into a Bollywood obsession! Band Baaja Baaraat is the perfect first-timer's movie. Two college kids decide to start a wedding planning business together with one condition: don't fall in love! Countless amazing montages, songs, dance numbers, and slow-motion-walks later, IT'S A GORGEOUS HEA!!! Alisha also told us all about her newest release First Comes Like, which i...

Hey y'all! We're back with the conclusion to The Roommate by Rosie Danan! Their pleasure education website, shameless, is in production and these two crazy kids won't realize they're mutually pining. And the reader is mutually pining as a result! It's a swoon.  Bonus Content:  Erin is SO TIRED, Rooster burrowing in snow, Mel LOVES flip cup, Wet humping, Penguin Hygiene Facts, The Gals have a full-...

Hey HBs! We're here with part 1 of THE ROOMMATE by Rosie Danan! We each read this book over hiatus and LOVED IT, so we decided to cover it for y'all! We've got Clara, an East Coast blue blood who is completely scandal-averse, showing up in LA to finally woo her life-long crush. Great plan! Except that he's going on tour with his band (whoops!) and he's found her a roommate on craigslist. The roomm...

Whoooaaaa! Lo of Christina Lauren and Kate Clayborn stopped by to introduce us to our brand new obsession, Crash Landing On You! This K-drama has already bewitched our minds and stolen our souls. Come with us as we recap episode one! We’ll be recapping the rest of the episode, one by one, on our Patreon!  Plus, we chat all about Kate’s new release LOVE AT FIRST . Mel loved it!  Bonus Content: Is t...

Hey Listener! This week Melody is joined by Dani from Black Chick Lit and Ice Planet Podcasts to recap the film Sylvie's Love. It stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomughda and is supported by Regé-Jean Page (from Bridgerton!), Aja Naomi King, and Eva Longoria! It is such a beautiful and cozy watch and it was everything we needed!  Bonus Content: New year, new president, holy vintage fashion, Batma...

Hey HBs, it's the fabulous conclusion to Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas! St. Vincent is a big hero and Evie is the perfect sickbed caretaker (shocking with her views on germs, I know!). And it was St. Vincent in the Billiards Room with the Cunnilingus! Lady Loves: Mel: Weighted scarf for anxiety care on the move Erin: Stickers! Get 'em, stick 'em, they will brighten your day! Episode Sponsor: LOV...

Hey HBs! It's The Lord St. Vincent PART 2! In which the marriage is CONSUMATED, they finish their roadtrip, Evie is in big danger, and the couple strikes a bargain: 3 months of celibacy for lifelong sexytimes and fidelity. Woo! Bonus Content: Erin is "a reader" on Fated Mates because her twitter bio didn't include Heaving Bosoms, we plan St. Vincent Day (4/2!), we can't say the word dick...

We're back from hiatus with the best book everrrr, Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas. We have been introduced to our favorite hero in the whole universe, Sebastian The Lord St. Vincent! This is part one, so buckle up for a wallflower, a marriage of convenience, and a first kiss! In the rain! Bonus Content: Hiatus was so restful! (not), we would die and betray each other for St. Vincent, we're horrib...

Hey HBs! On this last week of hiatus, we're bringing you Tessa Dare's The Duchess Deal! This episode was the birth of recurring bits like Queen Bird, Darkwing Duke, Werecunt, and more. It was originally aired in 2 episodes, but you're getting the full experience in one shot! We've got a strong, survivor seamstress, a Duke marred by burn wounds, and a marriage of convenience turned redemptive love....

Hey HBs, happy third week of hiatus! We're bringing one of our faves in the back catalogue. THE RED by Tiffany Reisz! It's an erotic fantasy novel about a fiery gallery owner who's in debt and on the brink of losing everything and the mysterious man who wants to help her save it... for a price. He's not interested in her soul, though, he wants her BODY. Yum!  Bonus Content: Ember's newest skill, E...

Hey HB's! This week we read After We Fall by Melanie Harlow. It's a contemporary novel with a soul-searching, rich girl heroine and an emotionally isolated widower who's still navigating symptoms of PTSD. There's a farm. There are attempts at chores. There are accidental meetings. There are dubious decisions outdoors. There's some peeping. There's some excellent dirty talk. And TREE SEX. Oh yes. ...

Hey HBs! It's week one of our winter hiatus! We're here with The Covert Captain, or A Marriage of Equals by Jeanelle M. Ferreira, a historical that's so historical, even two ladies who can read and understand Shakespeare couldn't quite decipher it a lot of the time. What we understood, we loved, though! It's about a Captain in the army with a Big Secret and the spinster with nothing to lose bondin...

Hey HBs! It's time for the 2020 HB Reading Embrace HUGFEST!!! That's right, you're about to get the congratulatory snuggle of your lifetime! In this episode, we explain the embrace, we explain the category origins, tell you what books popped up the most for each category, and then embrace ALL the participants!  Bonus Content: Erin's new BANGS, her husband's love for Taylor Swift, and so much more!...

Hey HBs! It's time for Princess Switch: Switched Again! Vanessa Hudgens is back TIMES THREE to bring us more ridiculous Christmas antics. The gang is all here with Stacy and Prince Doofus, Marg and Kev the hot baker! Newcomers Serialkiller McSmirkface and MVP Fiona the Queen Bird also light up the movie!  Lady Loves:  Erin: Dateline Podcast always has Keith Morrison read Christmas stories around t...

Hey HBs! We're here with Mel's new favorite holiday novella Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera! It's a novella set in the midst of a TV Christmas Baking Show where Kiskeya and Sully are competing.... AS A TEAM! With ONLY ONE BED! In SCOTLAND! Y'all there's a red hot Traditional Highlander Fingerbanging along with so much mouth-watering food descriptions as only Adriana Herrera can deliver. It's...

Hey HBs! It's the start of our Christmas movie/book extravaganza, and what better way to kick it off than with FAMOUS CELEBRITIES?! Christina and Lo of Christina Lauren join Erin and Melody to talk all about Netflix holiday movie Operation Christmas Drop! It's a delightful military propaganda film starring Bonnie from Vampire Diaries (Kat Graham) and Bjorn Irondside from Vikings (Alexander Ludwig)...

Oh hey HBs! It's almost the start of Hanukkah, so we wanted to read an appropriate book to honor the holiday! We chose Holiday by Candlelight by Laurel Greer because it was lauded as a Hanukkah triumph. But... while it has a Menorah on the cover, it's more of a Skiing Times book that happens in December? REGARDLESS, it's got Garnet, a holistic health specialist and avid skiier, Caleb, a half Jewis...