The most listened to romance novel podcast, Fated Mates is co-hosted by bestselling author Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop. Weekly episodes include romance novel read-alongs and lively discussions of the work of the genre, highlighting the romance novel as a powerful tool in fighting the patriarchy…with absolutely no kink shaming.
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episode 33: 16: Was It as Good For You as it Was For Me? Sweet Ruin
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In two weeks, we’re finishing up the Game Makers series with arguably Kresley’s most broken hero (don’t worry, we’ll get to the bottom of this ranking on the episode), Dmitri Sevastyan! Basically, July is “Sarah’s favorite books” month, so settle in for that…we’ll be joined by one of our favorites, Kate Clayborn, who will reveal the name of our group text thread! Read The Player at Amazon, B&N, Apple Books, Kobo, or from your local Indie.
Show Notes
- Short chapters make for quick pacing.
- The Morior are like the Super Friends...but evil.
- All about The Starship Enterprise.
- More about a witch's familiar.
- Runes are actually from Norse Mythology. You'd think Rune would use the internet to learn more about them.
- Rune is poison to everyone but her. Jen's never read The Poisoner's Handbook, but everyone says it's amazing.
- Thinking about theme as a literary device isn't just for English class.
- Our twitter friend Aunt Angelique has changed her username, so follow her for interesting tidbits like this.
- That cock tweet.
- All about edging.
- The Mariana Trench is real deep, y'all, but we've still discovered plastic there.
- Uluru is a sacred place for Aborigines, and Australia reverted to officially using this name in 2002.
- Revenge is stupid.
- Jen loves that scene where Captain America beats the shit out of everyone in the elevator.
- In case you need help finding Shipper Names.
- The What Would Allixta Do Button.
- The story of Supergirl.
- Speaking of our Heaving Bosoms friends, It wasn't Melody, it was Erin who said she doesn't read epilogues!
- Speed is a romance. Don't at Jen or Bandherbooks.
- The Player is coming up after our next interstitial!
- Pre-order Brazen and the Beast, and if you say "Fated Mates" in the notes, Sarah will include a Fated Mates sticker!