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S05.12: Twinterstitial: Twins in Romance
Season 5 Episode 13
TWINS! For two romance readers steeped in 80s romance mythology, it’s hard to believe that it took us five seasons to have an interstitial on twins (…
3 years, 5 months ago
S05.11: The Best Romance Novels of 2022
Season 5 Episode 12
The Best Romance Novels of 2022!
It’s the best and worst task of the year for us, because we read so many fabulous books over the course of the year,…
3 years, 6 months ago
S05.10: The Diamond Dogs Book Club: Ted Lasso Romance Recs
Season 5 Episode 11
Two seasons ago we promised an episode where we recommend romance novels for each of the characters in Ted Lasso. Sarah’s brother is holding us to it…
3 years, 6 months ago
Hold by Claire Kent: There is Nothing Soft in this Book
Season 5 Episode 10
We’ve talked about this week’s read along so much it’s kind of impossible to imagine that we haven’t read it with y’all, yet! But here we are, finall…
3 years, 6 months ago
S05.08: Trailblazer Iris Johansen
Season 5 Episode 9
Our Trailblazer episodes continue this week with Iris Johansen, who began writing category romance in the heyday of the format at Loveswept. During h…
3 years, 6 months ago
Spooky Stuff! Halloween Romance
Season 5 Episode 8
It’s spooky season and that means we’re reading spooky stuff! We recommend some of our favorite recent witches and demons and incubii and ghosts and …
3 years, 7 months ago
Redemption Romance Interstitial with Christopher Rice
Season 5 Episode 7
In the very best version of “third time’s the charm,” we are finally welcoming Christopher Rice to Fated Mates! A man of many talents, he writes fabu…
3 years, 7 months ago
Stop Book Banning: A Special Episode of Fated Mates
Season 5 Episode 6
In 2022, book bans in United States schools and libraries are at their highest since the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom started collecting data. …
3 years, 7 months ago
Moonstruck: A Wolf Without a Foot Redux!
Season 5 Episode 5
It’s our 200th Episode and we’re finally doing the thing we’ve been talking about doing for 200 episodes! A full deep dive into one of our favorite —…
3 years, 7 months ago
What to Read If You Liked The Love Hypothesis...
Season 5 Episode 4
Today we start one of our new features for Season Five: If You Liked…Read This! We begin with Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, a book that took r…
3 years, 7 months ago