Raging Romantics

The librarians ride again, back into the land of cowboy romances with a book discussion! We chose two historicals and one contemporary romance to take a deep dive into the journey the cowboy trope had gone on. We discuss what original cowboy romance books look like, problematic heroes, cinnamon rolls, independent women, and whether or not Jen will read more cowboys now. Jackie also discovers that...

Congratulations to the winner of our Lyssa Kay Adams giveaway! We had fun doing this and we will DEFINITELY be doing similar giveaways in the future, so stay tuned! Have you ever dreamed of riding off into the sunset with a faithful steed and a cowboy hat? Have you ever wanted to hear a debate about what a modern cowboy actually is...ad nauseam? WELL YOU ARE IN LUCK, because this month we get into...

Don't forget to send us an email at RagingRomantics@gmail.com to be entered to win a copy of Crazy Stupid Bromance! You have until May 28 to enter. We will announce the winners on the June 4th episode. May the odds be ever in your favor... Content Warning: Discussions of #MeToo, victim blaming, internalized misogyny and toxic masculinity, as well as mild language use We're back with another Broman...

It's finally here! Jen and I were so honored to get to sit down with the amazing Lyssa Kay Adams, author of the Bromance Book Club Series!!! In this episode we have a (very long) casual conversation with Lyssa about her career as a romance author, her journey to the bestseller list, her inspirations, and the best part about being an author. We also hype up a bunch of newer/lesser known/inclusive r...

Lyssa Kay Adams will be live online with Jen interviewing on April 21 @7pm!  Registration is now live !   TW: discussions of rape, dubious consent, forced consent, violence against women and domestic abuse, kidnapping, forced captivity, forced drug use, torture scenarios, severe S&M, blood and knife play, NSFW content, language use   Welcome back to the scary world of Dark Romance, fellow roma...

TW: Issues and tropes of dubious consent, forced consent, and non-consent, rape and rape fantasies, pornography and its influence on real-world violence, violence against women, language-use, NSFW content This whole episode is a trigger warning and rather NSFW, so listener beware! Here be morally-questionable heroes, dubious scenes, and a lot of stuff that traditional romance wouldn't touch with a...

TW: discussions of racism and racial slurs, violence against women, erotic romance, BDSM, language use, and really annoying "heroes" These proud smut readers are happy to bring you a discussion of some off-brand regency romance novels...and Georgette Heyer. In this episode we talk about the books we read by Heyer, Kate Pearce, and Vanessa Riley. Featuring discussions of inclusivity, classism, whit...

If you loved Regency romance novels before 82 million households tuned into Bridgerton's on Netflix, or if you're new to the regency game, then this episode is dedicated to you. Here Jen and Jackie attempt to boil down an iconic era of British history into a single podcast episode. Jackie's gives you a fun history lecture on what precisely the regency period was, and together your favorite hosts d...

TW : Talk about grooming, disordered eating, drug abuse and addiction, stalking, physical abuse, physical abuse of children, teacher-student relationships, statutory rape, abortion, some discussion of BDSM practices including gagging and whipping, #MeToo and blackmail; language use We would like to introduce you, dear listener, to the concept of "hate reading," because Jackie sure as heck hate-rea...

Raise your hand if you've ever read 50 Shades of Grey. Now raise your other hand if you've ever seen the movie(s).  If your hands remain by yours sides, then don't worry, we're here to introduce you to the world of the 2011 viral sensation that was 50 Shades. In this episode we look at the rise of the series and EL James (aka Snowqueens Icedragon), and examine just how it go so darn popular. We'll...

Welcome back to Not-Hoth, dear humans! You sparkly thing you, thanks for giving us a listen! In this episode, we, Jen and Jackie, follow up on our discussion of the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon. We narrowed down the 18+ books of the series into a critical think session of four books that we reallllllly wanted to talk about. This is a heavier discussion, and we have some difficult the...

Hey there sparkly blue romance nerds, are you ready for an out-of-this-world discussion? No...literally. We're talking about sci-fi romance! Even better, we're talking in this episode about our favorite Kindle author (maybe one of our favorite authors out there?), Ruby Dixon and her alien romances series Ice Planet Barbarians and Ice Home ! We're going to put on our spacesuits and jet out to the f...

Hello again sparkly romance nerds! We're back with Jen's favorite heroes to hate, billionaires. In our last episode we discussed the billionaire trope as a whole and had an open discussion of whether or not it's okay to like them in romance novels (if you haven't listened to it yet, this is your sign. GO DO IT NOW). In the meantime, if you really want to hear Jen's true feelings on billionaires, g...

Bear with us on the audio for this one, folks. We're sorry...we had some technical difficulties with having to record remotely. Why are we so obsessed with billionaires as romance heroes? In real life billionaires are nowhere near as popular, or common, as they seem to be in romance novels, where it appears that they are on nearly every street corner. We're not talking Christian Grey here, people!...

"...[D]ear reader, everyone knows that romance for women ends at 30. Doesn’t it?”(Jones, 2017 ) Be warned y'all, JACKIE GETS VERY RAGEY IN THIS EPISODE. Why, you may ask? Because herein Jen and Jackie take on the patriarchy that is rife in western culture with a discussion of cougars in romance novels. We review the history of the term "cougar," and ponder why older women in romance novels simply...

"Mr. Rochester was about forty, and this governess not twenty; and you see, when gentlemen of his age fall in love with girls, they are often like as if they were bewitched." ( Jane Eyre , chapter XXXVI) In this episode, Jackie and Jen explore how older men (aka, "silver foxes") are portrayed in romance novels; why are they so popular, and why does it seem like no one cares that these older men ar...

Welcome to Raging Romantics! In this episode, librarians Jackie and Jen introduce themselves and their history with the romance genre. Curious how we got into reading these books, and the sorts of titles we like to read? Listen to find out more!   TW: NA   PS: we're sorry for the audio quality on this one. Bear with us...it gets better!