Heaving Bosoms

Kimberly Lemming and Alexis the Sword are here to recap LOTHAIRE by Kresley Cole with us!! Our morally gray king with questionable mental health is here!!!!!!! Read Kim's new book I GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AND NOW I'M TRAPPED IN A ROM COM now! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check...

Hey HBs! If you WANT an explanation for the 2025 Reading Embrace Categories, this is the episode for you! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday, we're doing a Quickie on the last 4 books in the Necessary Evils series by Onley James! Credits: Theme Mus...

Hey HBs! It's finally time to celebrate everyone who did our 2024 Reading Embrace! Come into our bosoms and BE ENSCONCED IN LOVE AND LIGHT AND BLANKET BURRITOS AND RICE BEAN BAGS!!!!!!!!!! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday, we're doing a Quickie o...

Hey HBs! We're back with ANY DUCHESS WILL DO by Tessa Dare! We restart our tale right after the library finger-b*ng, and these two are convinced that they only have until the end of the week. Will he gut his BFF for this woman?? Content warning: discussions of infant death and mentions of miscarriage. Bonus Content: Mel just dropped her family off at the airport, Mel and Sabrina "haven't even...

Hey HBs! We're here to recap ANY DUCHESS WILL DO by Tessa Dare! It's an Englandtimes book featuring a sad, broken Duke, his desperate mother, and the serving girl who will change them all forever. Bonus Content: Mel's got a mesakkah dick on her phone screen now, Sabrina learned about screenshots a long time ago, Sabrina has special feelings about stickers, and so much more! Lady Loves: Sabrina: We...

Hey HBs! It's time for part 2! Jacob has decided to put his juvenile pranks behind him and make things right. Maybe he'll even do a little bit of a woo on her! Throw in a secret identity reveal, a hotel breach worthy of a cat burglar, and a pubic declaration of love and you've got an excellent second act! Bonus Content: Mel can't get over hotel event logistics, and so much more! Lady Loves: Mel: R...

Hey HBs! We're here recapping THE MATZAH BALL by Jean Meltzer! From the summer camp backstory, to the grown-up pranks, the hijinks abound in this Hanukkah romance! Bonus Content: Mel's friends know how to treat her bum, Sabrina's vendetta against poo-pourri, only ONE of these pals needs to be better about using the mail system, there's a LOT of horny internal monologue for a closed-door romance, a...

Y'all. It's Navy SEAL Times this Christmas with THE NAVY SEAL'S CHRISTMAS BRIDE by Cora Seton! We've lovingly renamed it THE NAVY SEAL'S GENDER ESSENTIALIST CAMPAIGN OF HARRASSMENT TO GET A CHRISTMAS BRIDE. Get ready for gender essentialism to the max, competing for HONOR, and acrobatic schmexy times that BLEW OUR MINDS. We call this book Bonus Content: we thought we had seen it all, salmon ladder...

Happy Christmas week, HBs! We're bringing you two holiday novellas this week. Today is  HAVE YOURSELF A BILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTMAS by Tracey Livesay! Bonus Content: Taylor Swift's private jet , "Come here, you stupid ducky" AKA translating nursery rhyme lyrics, pathetic blanket vulvas, and so much more! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super he...

HBs!!!! We're back for [art 2 of THE GOVERNESS AND THE ORC by Finley Fenn, the 7th book in the Orc Sworn series . When we left off, Rathgar had just gotten Geva to be very vulnerable in front of all of his kin and then he called her easy and cheap. I still don’t think I’ve recovered. Reconciliation seems like a really big ask, but Finley Fenn has convinced us of more in the past! Lady Loves: Mel:...

HBs!!!! We're back! Yeah, we're back at Orc (Splash) Mountain! Mel and Sabrina are recapping THE GOVERNESS AND THE ORC by Finley Fenn, the 7th book in her Orc Sworn series . Geva Okoro is a damn good governess working for terrible people. And then she's forced to help an orc pirate steal all their stuff! Instead of trying to flee and hide as a Black woman in a very white region, this orc offers to...

Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN by Talia Hibbert! Bonus content: first kiss PSA, CPTSD reactions, and so much more! Lady Loves Sabrina: Pattern Keeper! It's an android app and it will change your crafting game. Mel: it's hot pot season! Having friends over for a night of good food in the cold weather is wonderful! We’ll be back next week with our recap of The GOVERNESS A...

Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here to recap GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN by Talia Hibbert! It's one of their favorite contemporary romance series, so get ready for a lot of cackling and swooning! Bonus Content: is Sabrina a MapQuest person now? (down with the "fancy sky computers!"), having someone up your email game just by being incredibly clever charming, great fibromyalgia rep, being too m...

The pals are here to finish up Hot Frosty! Is there a murder? Yes. Is there still an HEA? Allegedly!! Bonus Content: eggs in nog, and so much more! Lady Love The whole group: do the dumb, or low priority thing when you need to!!! Content warning for discussions of possible child predation, racial dynamics, police brutality, and immigration. Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favo...

Hey HBs! Nic is here to chat with Mel and Sabrina about the new Netflix sensation Hot Frosty! In this heartwarming film, a very chiseled baby snowman eludes the police while teaching a local widow how to love again. Bonus Content: V saying "alright, big boy" to her swimming instructor, Nic is our Christmas movie consultant, this movie was made in the spiritual breakroom of all other Chri...

Part two of our Thanksgiving book, BOYFRIEND by Sarina Bowen, gets HOT AND HEAVY! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz  Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heavingb...

Happy Thanksgiving, American HBs! Get stoked for part 1 of BOYFRIEND by Sarina Bowen! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz  Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heav...

Hey y'all! We're here for part 2 of BULL MOON RISING by Ruby Dixon! Aspeth has been discovered by her dastardly ex-fiancée and it's ALL HANDS ON DECK to save her home! The found family in this book really made our hearts soar just as much as the rutting in this book made our eyes bulge. Awoooga! Lady Loves: Sabrina: a heated mattress topper! It's soooo cozy for when you jump into bed. But be sure...

Hey HBs! We're recapping BULL MOON RISING by Ruby Dixon and we couldn't be happier! This is part one of our foray into a new corner of the Dixonverse where magic is outlawed and Conquest Moons disrupt everything. We've got a determined heroine who's undercover to save her life and home and a minotaur hero who cannot catch a break in the run up to the next celestial f*ckfest. A marriage of convenie...

Hey HBs! This is part 2 of FRISCO'S KID by Suzanne Brockmann, the third book in the Tall, Dark, and Dangerous series! We hope you're ready for a little bit of action and more emotional growth! Bonus Content: getting nakie in the living room, "then I'll choose you," the miscommunication trope done with excellent communication, future purveyors of toilet wine, paranormal creatures in regul...

Happy Veteran's Day to all our American Listeners! It’s our annual Veterans Day episode and we decided to continue our journey through the Tall, Dark, and Dangerous series. Today is part 1 of FRISCO'S KID by Suzanne Brockmann! We were hoping for similar ridiculous antics to the first two books, but we got a very sincere recovery story with the following content warnings: debilitating injury and ag...

HBs, we get to spend more time in the zany universe of Lily Mayne's Goliaths of Wrestling! Hot dad bod human Taylor and unabashed perv + style icon monster Holt can't get enough of each other and we can't get enough of them! When you add addictive side characters and truly hilarious drunken shenanigans, you get a masterpiece. Bonus content: Sabrina encounters another foot scene that doesn't bother...

HBs! We have discovered IMPROMPTU MATCH by Lily Mayne and we'll never be the same again! This is part one, in which we meet depressed and unfulfilled human Taylor Hough. He works a job he hates, he's given up everything he loves for a boyfriend who left him for a hippie, and there's no end in sight to his dearth of contentment. Until he accidentally gets mistaken for a stripper and he enters a sec...

It's Halloween week and the characters in BEWITCHING THE BOSS by Jessa Kane were entirely too unafraid! Their fear bones are broken, but other important bones aren't! We've got a party-planning stalker and a virgin who has taken a vow of misery, but is DELIGHTED when he realizes he's being stalked. Our jaws where on the floor the whole time and we couldn't stop gasping. Whew! Bonus Content: NO TIM...

Happy Halloween week, HBs! We're celebrating with an accidental omegaverse summoning with KNOT TODAY SATAN by Calliope Stewart! Turns out, the devil is an alpha and the secret ingredient is slick.... goddess bless romance. Bonus Content: assuming your niche interest is common knowledge, Mel was reading signs that weren't there, coordinating scents and tastes, if they had to choose a fictional worl...