Plot Trysts

This book is neither hinged nor unhinged. It was fun, but we like the extremes.

This novella is a perfect standalone, and you should read it. However, it is the last book in a series, which made us sad, even though we wouldn't change anything about this book.

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Meg and Alex are joined by R.E. Stearns to discuss the next book in Miles' coming of age journey. Given the social status of the main characters in this series, the social and political dynamics of being powerful and isolated are a focus of conversation.

If we didn't know better, we'd say Olivia Dade plumbed the recesses of our minds to produce Meg's platonic ideal of a sexy book and Laine's nightmares in book form. But with monster porn!

If you criticize Sunny, Meg will fight you. Just an FYI.

Ali Hazelwood breaks away from science contemporary into paranormal romance. A lot of her go-to tropes really worked for us here! Laine got a crash course in werewolf sub tropes that broke her.

Meg and Alex are joined by Lynn Buchanan to introduce the Miles-focused part of the series. So many characters get new framing from Miles's perspective that the discussion focuses a lot on character study.

This was a really tough one for us. On the one hand, West and Sophie have great banter and a series worth of feelings to work through. On the other hand, West is perfect and Sophie is very unforgivably mean to him.

Verify finally figured out who her phantom is! And he's hot! But he's also busy saving England. Is this book great? No. Is it the best in the series? Yes.

College sweethearts go on tour when one of them gets super famous writing about the breakup. Excellent concept, we were iffy on some of the execution but had fun!

Meg and Alex are joined by Aliette de Bodard for an in-depth discussion of Barrayar. Long live Cordelia.

This modern take on Dangerous liaisons charmed both of us. Who knew hide and seek could be so sexy?

We bought this one completely, from the conflict to the love story. Maybe the ending was unbelievably sweet, but that's a good thing.

This book is fun and charming and cute. However, be prepared that (for a book about a sex bet) it's very tame.

Meg is joined by Alexandra Vasti for a new limited series in which they will dive into the Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold with a new guest host each week. This week, Elizabeth Everett joins them to discuss the foundation of the Vorkosigan series, Shards of Honor. How much did the cold war impact this book? How sexy are experienced heroes? Is this a Romance?

We really loved the unapologetic incorporation of a sexually active heroine, and if anyone knows anything about those pearls, hit us up.

Look, this was an adorable book with a fun concept but the official rating is G.

Hypothetically a virgin widow crime fighter getting with the heir is a plot we can get behind. The specifics of this one, however, left something to be desired for us.

We kick off the new year with an adorable and sexy novella that understands sometimes you just need two hot people and weather-related forced proximity.

Parts of this book are very fun and then a major spoiler/twist happens and we stopped having any fun at all, but the main characters weren't having any fun either. Meg is still personally victimized by chess.

Meg and Laine agree that this book does its thing very well and that there is significantly more attention paid to one character's development. We disagree about whether or not that makes for an enjoyable read.

Stephanie Laurens doesn't know how to write less than 300 pages and even when there's nary a whiff of plot to be found, we can't spend less than 40 minutes talking about it.

The good: well executed, sexy, and a total breath of fresh air. The Laine has notes: It is December and there was nary a Christmas carol to be found.

This is a novella about a Christmas sex cabin. It was so good, but we struggled to stay on topic when discussing