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How Did We Go From Percy Jackson to S*x Parties? | Smutty Hades & Persephone Retellings     In this episode of The HEA Book Club, Summer and Kelsey talk about the well-loved Hades & Persephone trope! We discuss Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R Miller, Neon Gods by Katee Robert and Lore Olympics by Rachel Smythe. From romance novels to a visual novel these Greek characters give a platform...

Get a soda pop the size of a tot and a slightly smaller barrel'o'popcorn because yr grls are going to La Cinema with friend-of-the-show Andrea from Shelf Love! We are following up our live Tweet watch along of She-Devil (1989, dir. Susan Seidelman)with in-depth discussion of the film. Who is the titular "SHEEEE Devil"? Is vengeance against a patriarchal wrong necessarily a feminist practice? Why E...

Enemies to Lovers ft. Badass Women   Join Summer and Kelsey in the HEA Book Club as they joke with each other over their personal history with this week's romance trope: enemies to lovers. Blockshot by Kennedy Ryan and Focused by Karla Sorenson are this episode's reads featuring badass female leads in the sports industry.   They debate if this is a trope that happens in real life along with the hi...

Fake Honeymoons and  Possessive Aliens  Welcome to the HEA Book Club! Where a happily ever after is guaranteed.     In the first episode of The HEA Book Club, Summer and Kelsey talk about what happens when your book characters are forced into spending time together- both frustration and hormones fly.  We discuss Taken to Voraxia by Elizabeth Stephens and The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren.  Ke...

An Unusual Wedding Date: Attempted Assassination??   In this episode of The HEA Book Club, Summer and Kelsey discuss the enemies to lovers trope with a fake dating twist! We discuss Brutal Prince by Sophie Lark and The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas and find out how fake relationships can turn into something very real and very steamy.    An interesting trope that doesn’t really exist outsid...

Excuse me, but - you can't look at that likeness like that. At least not in here. In front of...us. In this little house, with Jane standing right. there. I mean, get yourself together St. John. Oh my. Oh my goodness. You can't just jump into...you know...kneeling on an ottoman. Join us as we try to keep it together while reading Chapter 32 of Jane Eyre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

WARNING: This week's episode may give you whiplash, looking back on '21 and forward to '22 so quick! Yr grls look back on their stack as a whole and as individual books and experiences - what was the weirdest read of 2021? The sexiest? The suprisiest? The biggest WHOA and the lowest NO? And what did we learn? And what can we do with it moving forward? Bring your novelty "2022" glitter glasses and...

Jane has a new life and a new job and is generally whelmed. St. John has a crush and crushes a tuft of daisies. Yr grl Morgan struggles to read in the present tense. Join us, won't you, for this lovely lazy river ride through the novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yr Grls are wrapping up the festive season with a read that had us tugging at our cable knit turtlenecks. In "Twelve Drummers" Angelina M. Lopez introduces us to a jewel thief who gets much more than she (or the security guard she's been oBsEErViNNg) bargained for in a sleepy museum in middle America. About twelve more...actually. Where is the line between a steamy romance and an erotic romance? C...

In chapter 30 of Jane Eyre, Isabeau reads Jane reading St. John. And guess what? St. John goes on a long diatribe about St. John. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, yr grls discuss the show's first Hanukkah story from an anthology of shorts titled "Eight Kisses: Eight All-New Tales of Holiday Romance". Specifically we are back in bonnie Scotland for "A Highlander for Hanukkah" by Lori Ann Bailey (who also edited the anthology!)Shoshana likes James, and James likes Shoshana even though she's Jewish and he's Catholic. But then a series of B'n'E's sta...

Jane makes new friends. One of them has a Roman-esque profile and dreamy eyes. Another one has an offensive, phonetically written accent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Secrets, secrets are no fun. But THE Secret? By Julie Garwood? Well…Judith leaves her dysfunctional behind in England to use her DIY doula skills to help her friend deliver a baby in the highlands. You know what they have in the highlands, don’t you? That’s right - HIGHLANDERS. Big, hunky, aloof-yet-communicative, laird-y ones named Ian. Does the context a book was published in really matter? Is t...

For Chapter 28, Isabeau's melodic tones sweep us away to the beautiful Northern English countryside where Jane learns it is a hard knock life outside the walls of Thornfield, as well. But in a whole different way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whoa!mance is once again donning their trench coats and magnifying glasses to bring you the only romance novel-specific crime conversations on the web. This time around, Morgan takes Isabeau on a journey to one of the dreariest corners - FAMILY COURT - via one of the most sparkling highways - CELEBRITY.Danielle Steel.......'s husband sued two writers from People Magazine to keep adoption records s...

Good word, but that boy can talk! In Chapter 27 Rochester wants Jane to know a few things, and then a few more. And then a few more. Join us as Jane confronts, at least internally, Rochester. TW: Sexual assault, abuse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Baby, yr grls are HOWLING for (and about) "Mating the Huntress" by Talia Hibbert this Halloween. Chastity feels anything but chaste around local werewolf/fated mate/homeschooled-only-child Luke. The only problem? She comes from a family of huntresses--as in werewolf huntresses! What's Halloween's whole deal? Are white people really ignorant about race, or is it just all getting channeled into meta...

This week yr girls are keeping it short’n’sweet as carrots with A MAN OF TASTE by SHIRA GLASSMAN. Milly the Vampire decides to treat herself and make herself a snack of a snack (wink). Little does she know she just found the everlasting gobstopper of boyfriends/dinners. Can women consume anything without it being a moral conundrum? Is camp essential to vampire horror? Why is romance so good at gen...

Halloween isn't all about spookies, sometimes it is about parties. This week, yr grls explore the latter with PUMPKIN POUNDER by LAURA LOVELY.Titular Daisy pursues her preference for those with the MC1R gene into a rom-com cum softcore Halloween evening with a guy from Ireland. But guess what? He's different from the other pumpkins she's pounded, and her passion for pounding pumpkins could just be...

Awoooooooooooo-tmespheric season is upon us, and this week yr grls are bundling up in the wooly caress of FOR THE WOLF by HANNAH WHITTEN.Red was born to be a sacrifice to the enigmatic Wolf in the Woods, bound long before her time by a curse that is a lot like a marriage. But it turns out, he's more puppy than predator. And the woods aren't quite the bloodsucking borderlands they appear. But that...

It's a livin' thing. This week, yr grls conclude their discussion Georgette Heyer's seminal novel of VENETIA! This time we get into the sexiest part, the weirdest part, and the final verdict on whether or not we Whoa! or No! Venny. We may not stroke your ego, but we will get you in your feels. Is the romance vibe, on the whole, more Georgette or Jane? Who is the Emma in your friend group? If you c...

It has been a long time coming, so we hope you don't mind if we stay awhile. This week, yr grls embark on two part discussion of VENETIA by Lioness in her Field GEORGETTE HEYER. In an English country village (alleged) nonpareil Venetia meets an infamous rake and...well you know how this goes. Georgette Heyer basically wrote the song after all. A return to the canon means a return to the big questi...

We return just in time for a wedding. Time: Rushed. Location: Church near the packed carriage, literally at your house. Mood: Sometimes it is hard to tell if you're excited or scared, you know? Guests: Unexpected. Join us as we pick back up right where we left off with Chapter 26 of Jane Eyre. If you enjoy this show, please let your friends know! If you're concerned about a pal's new love interest...

Is he hot or is he just from the wrong side of the tracks? This week on Whoa!mance we answer "YES" to both while discussing HURTS TO LOVE YOU by ALISHA RAI.Fancy pants Evangeline has been secretly crushing cum app-enabled stalking flannel pants Gabe for years. And now at her family's wedding weekend *cough*regency house party*cough* she is ready to make a move. Is slow burn > sudden burn? How h...

Wowie kazowie there is a whole other part of Evening Star by Catherine Coulter where they go to New York and actually fall in love and have lots of pregnancy sex and lots of fights and Thanksgiving but way too early and bust a union and all cause like Women in Business! And man, that stuff really burrows into your grl's brains. Is erasure preferable to hero/ines who acknowledge the problems of the...