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Charles Entertainment Cheese is not a Rat · Rainbow Book Rats: A Queer Romance Podcast

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Oh. Megan is interested. Right? Turn on the cum
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lamp and sign me up. Hello Brats and welcome
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to another episode of Rainbow Book Rats, a queer
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romance podcast where four feral rats nerd out
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about their favorite reads. On this Rat Chat
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episode, we are going to talk about the books
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we read recently and what's on our book radar
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at the moment. So grab a treat, settle in, and
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let's get to yappin'. I'm JD, my pronouns are
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they, them, and I have a piece of stained glass
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shaped like a glorious crab rangoon. I thought
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you were going to say you had a penis. No, I
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don't have one of those yet. I'm Kit, they, he,
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and if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, I
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want to get bitten first. me too i will not survive
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okay okay you know i'll just hide away that's
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when you'll see katie's mean side finally i've
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had a lot of conversations with how we would
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survive a zombie apocalypse with my family and
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i have flat out told everyone i am not surviving
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don't expect anything of me exactly right the
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second my glasses break i'm done for oh my yeah
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i can't see well even with my glasses so um i'm
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megan she her they them and i used to think that
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there was a salami animal and i believed this
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up until like my mid -20s my mid to late 20s
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wait like Like there was an animal made of salami
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that we harvested salami from? Yes, like salami
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or pepperoni. Why is that so cute? Wow, that's
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the cutest fact I've ever heard. You win. Oh
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my gosh. I'm Katie. She, her. And if you don't
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already know, I collect trolls. And I'm obsessed
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with them. So cute. I love your collection. My
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babies. Little treasure trolls all staring down
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at you as one. Actually, yeah, because they're
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all on the walls and stuff. I have a tattoo of
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one on my arm. Yeah. How was your week, JD? What
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dirt do you have to share? You know I don't want
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to talk about the dirt. I do want to talk about
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the dirt, unfortunately. Sorry, everyone. It's
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real actual for real dirt. My wife bought some
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garden beds. for our yard this year two really
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big ones and we vastly underestimated how much
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dirt was necessary to fill those suckers i think
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she bought like i want to say close to 10 bags
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of soil and it didn't fill it like at all oh
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no oh my gosh So, last weekend, we borrowed my
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father -in -law's truck to go get dirt from,
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like, the dirt place. I don't know. The dirt
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store. The dirt store. Dirt is everywhere. It's
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wild that you can go buy it. You had to buy it.
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I know. You need specific dirt. Yeah, if you
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just go find some dirt, you have to, like...
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dig it up i'm not doing that you're not gonna
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go dig a hole in the it was hard enough to dig
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it out of the truck and when we got there the
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guy looked at us like no because of the size
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of our truck because no not a very big one but
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he was like yeah i don't i mean we'll see what
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we can get in there so He did the first scoop
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and it filled the truck. And he was like, I don't
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think we can get any more in there. So yeah,
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we just ended up doing half a yard and then I
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shoveled it into a wheelbarrow and we had my
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husband assemble while we were out getting the
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dirt because his foot is still, you know. in
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a booth and so he couldn't help us with the dirt
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which is why i was helping with the dirt um anyway
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against your will yeah well i mean i'm happy
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to help them if they need my help but usually
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they don't and i'm happy for that because i don't
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like doing stuff like that listen i i think i
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think wifey bought the planners and then your
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husband was like I'm going to break my toe because
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I don't want to help. For real, yeah. We got
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the planters and then suddenly somebody broke
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his toe. Yeah, no. So I shoveled all that dirt
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into a wheelbarrow. Yeah, so that took a long
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time and it made my arms hurt. But I look really
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cool doing it, though. So anyway, yeah, that's
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what's been going on with me. Just dirt. What's
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going on over there? JD's got dirt, Kit's got
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sand. Yeah. Yep, I've been getting the tank ready
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because we might have some crabs coming. Yay!
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I'm so excited. The babies. Babies. Oh, I've
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got three coming. And you've got names picked
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out. Yep. So we're thinking Pebbles, Crabather,
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and Clorins. Gotta meet them first. I mean, I've
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seen that tank. They're going to be pretty spoiled.
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Yeah, it's a pretty lush tank. I would live in
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it if I was a crab. Yeah, they've got a lot of
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toys in there. They're going to have fun times.
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But yeah, how about you, Megan? I went and saw
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Conan Gray on concert. I was so fun brought my
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husband with me because I've listened to him
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a lot and so Alex heard a couple songs here and
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there so he was like yeah I'll go it'd be fun
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like I'll hear the couple songs I'm excited about
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and then like we were there and we had really
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good seats and and like Conan's just such a great
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performer and then when we left my husband was
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like oh i'm a fan now yeah he was like asking
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me about like some of the different songs and
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stuff and i was like oh this makes me so happy
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that's so sweet every video you were sending
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i was like oh my god i love it i was so excited
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and i was just like the sailor costumes i know
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the set was so cute he had like the yeah the
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sailor costume and he had like a pajamas costume
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how much did you cry oh yeah So the first song
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he started with, I cried. It was just like chills,
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instant chills, right? And then obviously cried
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during Vodka Cranberry. The first song, the second
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song, and then the third song. Yeah, so that
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was my week. What about you, Katie? My week.
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Well, it wasn't super exciting. I have a nephew
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and he turned five. So I went to what I thought
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was the rat house, but I learned it's the mouse
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house. Chuckie Keys is not a rat. He's a mouse.
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I didn't know that. And he was in the building.
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I don't like, I'm not a mascot person. They freak
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me out. i don't like him and he was walking around
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and i was like mr cheese was there you're like
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yeah from me i'm over here you know his real
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name is charles e cheese right yeah entertainment
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cheese charles entertainment cheese as a british
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person is this true yeah i think true oh my god
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It was awful. Like, it was just so loud. So chaotic.
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And like, of course I'm there for my nephew's
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birthday, but like, he's not. My nephew doesn't
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want to hang out with me at his birthday party.
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He's five. He wants to play with his friends.
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He's like jumping everywhere. Yeah. And playing
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games. And so I'm just trying to survive and
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make small talk with other parents. And I ended
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up getting stuck in the bathroom for like 20
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minutes because I went to go pee and there was
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no toilet paper and I didn't have my purse on
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me. And we were all too far away to help you.
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Yeah. Yeah. We got an SOS. I'm texting you guys.
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Like, you'll help. But like, I can't. I'm not
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going to ask a... I was too embarrassed to ask
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one of the other kids in the bathroom to like,
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hey, can you get me toilet paper? Hey, kid, bring
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me some toilet paper. So I'm just I'm like texting
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everybody. I need help. But they're not responding
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because they're busy with the children. So, you
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know, if we were real friends, we would have
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looked up the Chuck E. Cheese you were at and
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called it and told them. I was like a minute
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or two away from taking a sock off, guys. I was
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done. I was ready to leave. Only other highlight
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I have for my week. We have this. So where the
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water comes down from the rain gutters is broken.
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So it's like dripping from up high now. So all
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the snow melting off the roof. And it makes these
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giant icicles on the side of our house. And I
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got in trouble one year. because I wanted to
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break it. And I broke our broom in half, smacking
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it. So I haven't done it since. But this week,
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my nephew decided to take up the family job and
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smack it with a broom. And he broke a broom.
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It's tradition. You must have been so proud of
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him. I was pretty proud. He and his friend, they
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got the bright idea to take hammers. They took
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hammers. They didn't get hurt. They were fine,
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but they took hammers and we're just, me and
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my sister inside the house, just watching like
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TV or something. And you just hear like, he kept
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coming in. Look at this chunk I got. And I'm
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like, okay, that's nice. wow it was great he's
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playing outside you know that's yeah yeah it's
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not a tablet he's fine oh boy see i would have
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helped him and taped the hammer to the broom
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there you go kid that should work tape an ice
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pick to the other side just in case Go have fun.
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Oh, boy. All right. Well, let us. move on to
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what we read i will go first in the last couple
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of weeks i read a couple of books that i want
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to talk about the first one is stick around by
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em lindsey it is a spin -off series from the
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punk as puck series it is about jonah who is
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a goalie in the pphl and he was born blind he
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is a blind goalie and he plays professional hockey
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and we love him he's baby we love him We love
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him. He's like my favorite character in the first
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three books and he's only a side character. Yeah,
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yeah. He's just so sweet and lovely. This is
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his book. It was actually like more emotional
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than I was expecting. Oh no. Uh oh, Megan. Jonah
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is estranged from his parents because his dad
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was like super checked out when he was growing
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up. He has two other brothers. Micah is also
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fully blind and he also plays professional hockey
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as a goalie but on a different team and then
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his other brother caleb he is partially blind
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so their dad was like really checked out when
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they were growing up and he resented the fact
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that jonah and micah couldn't see and he like
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favored caleb but only just barely yeah it was
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really awful and then their mother basically
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exploited them for their blindness like started
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like a youtube channel and was like watch how
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my kids eat blind like it was awful truly truly
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you fuck parents like that yeah fuck any parents
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that exploit their kids for youtube but especially
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that they have a lot of trauma surrounding that
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and they get a call from their mom saying like
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i need you guys to come over like i have to tell
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you something and so they're like oh my god what
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now so they all go over there and jonah is kind
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of the one who ends up shouldering a lot more
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of the drama between parents and and kids because
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micah and caleb are very much like a no fuck
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this this is not my problem they leave and then
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their mom tells jonah that she's moving to the
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uk completely ignoring all life's responsibilities
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and fucking off basically and then she tells
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him too that his dad has alzheimer's and he's
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gonna need help so lol bye Fucking parents. Yeah.
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So he finds out by getting a phone call from
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a man who owns a restaurant asking him to come
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pick up his dad. And he's like, what? So apparently
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his dad is like really late stage Alzheimer's
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and he's been like, yeah, wandering around. and
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his mom just like rented him this shitty apartment
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and like put him there and left him and he finds
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out that his dad has been going to this restaurant
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and like bothering the guy who owns it and uh
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but the guy's super super kind like really nice
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so jonah's like oh my god like she really did
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it because he tried to call his mom and it was
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disconnected oh my god yeah so he goes down to
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the restaurant gets there and uh the guy who
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owns it is like he's he's fine you know like
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he comes in here and sits here for a while every
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day and yeah i just think you should probably
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get him home and jonah's like i don't know where
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he lives i don't know anything about him like
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i haven't talked to him in years and he's like
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oh okay well let me call my brother because my
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brother brings him home sometimes so he calls
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his brother and it turns out his brother is an
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nhl player that jonah knows and thinks is an
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and it's his name is Alexio he doesn't know that
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Alexio like recognizes him because he doesn't
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like really expect anyone to know who he is because
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their team like you know their league in general
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isn't as well known so Alexio does recognize
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him and when he finds out that that's his dad
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he thinks that Jonah is a neglectful person there's
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no way you didn't know and so he like instantly
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hates him all he knows is that this man has just
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been wandering around alone with no one and he
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thinks that jonah was just like letting it happen
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but the story is pretty much about jonah trying
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to find care for him and trying to get him into
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a good home jonah was like absolutely not willing
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to have him live at his place a because he wouldn't
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be able to really take good care of him and b
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because even when he wasn't suffering from alzheimer's
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he didn't do things that kept jonah's place in
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order on purpose so we don't owe our families
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anything yeah you don't want to be like i'm a
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horrible person but you also like he's like you
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know he deserves dignity It was just really hard
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for him. And he couldn't ask his brothers because
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his brothers really didn't want anything to do
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with it. So he was like trying to do everything
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by himself. And then Alexio and Alexio's brother
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who owned the restaurant were helping him out
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a lot because they had already been helping make
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sure he was eating and stuff like that. They
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considered him kind of a friend. And so they're
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helping him. But it's just it's like a big spiral
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kind of for Jonah. Alexio kind of shifts into
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a little bit of like a caretaking role. It's
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a hurt comfort situation for sure. The found
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family comes in big time with the punk as puck
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crew really coming together to help him out.
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Killian! Yeah, Killian's in it because he's really
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good friends with Jonah. Should I have read punk
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as puck before I read this? you don't need to
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no I don't think you need to I mean it would
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help because then you would know all the side
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characters and I think it's always better if
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you do but I guess it depends on how much you
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care about that I mean, I plan to read them.
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I just want to read this now. Very good. Yeah.
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So it's like a high heat one, too. So there's
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spice like right off the bat. There's a big time
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praise kink in it. Oh, yeah. And we love a praise
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kink. Yes. Face fucking. And also this one is
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a small peen tag. Yes. Oh, yes. I love it. Yes.
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Diversity. So. so yeah it was really really good
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oh and also one of the side characters in this
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one Vanya he is the goalie for the NHL team that
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Alexia was on he's one of my favorite characters
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ever oh my gosh I adore him he's like a big teddy
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bear Russian himbo Oh my gosh. I'm pretty sure
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he is getting a book in this series. I don't
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know when or who it's going to be with, but I'm
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pretty sure he is. And I can't wait because I
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fell in love with him. He is so lovely. I will
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be reading. Stick Around by E .M. Lindsay. Very,
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very good. And then the second book that I want
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to talk about is Eden by Lily Main. Yay. You
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can't see, but I'm like fist pumping and shaking.
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Yes. Katie was very excited to get me to read
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this and I read it on audio and I like followed
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along on my. Oh yes. The audio is so good. Yeah,
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it was good. I, I liked it a lot. I'll just give
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like a brief overview. I feel like everyone's
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read this book, but me, but not just you guys,
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but like everyone, but I'll just do it anyway.
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Hunter and his fellow soldier BFF Charlie were
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on a mission and never heard back from HQ, basically.
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So they decide to walk to the base, which is
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a pretty long walk. They get there and it's destroyed.
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It's the base from the first book. This is an
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apocalyptic setting. So they're like, well, okay,
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great. I guess we'll go back to the other base.
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There's a lot of walking in these books. So as
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they're walking, Charlie gets captured by a swarm
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of monsters and Hunter trying to... Hunter tries
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to save him and he's running towards him and
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he doesn't realize there's a giant sinkhole in
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the ground. Foles in a hole. Yeah. And then over
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the hole peaks Eden. Yay! And he's like, what
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you doing? nice hole you got there so he pulls
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hunter out and hunter tells him like his friend
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just got taken he's like okay i'll help you and
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hunter's like i don't need any help i'll just
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get him myself and he's like oh yeah how are
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you gonna do that which way did they go He has
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no idea. So Eden helps him. They spend the book
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tracking where these monsters are going. They
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think they're taking them one place, but it turns
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out something else is going on. They meet up
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with Wynne and Danny. They get Wynne and Danny
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to help them. And oh my gosh, I was like so excited
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because I love the voice that Michael Leslie
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does for Wynne. Ooh, the Wynne voice. Oh my gosh.
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It is so good. I also love his Danny voice. I
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was very happy to see them. I'm assuming it,
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maybe the next one is about Charlie. I'm not
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sure. I haven't looked it up yet. No, you have
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a little bit. Oh, well, anyway, I liked the ending
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because it was very calm. yeah you have charlie
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walking in on um hunter and eden and oh my gosh
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and then there's my the part that lives rent
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free in my head is when charlie calls hunter
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a size queen yeah yeah he's like i didn't know
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you were a size queen hunter's like don't ever
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call me that again you're not cheating that word
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yeah so this book is a size difference book which
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is crazy because charlie is six foot five hunter
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eden is just ginormous yeah yeah like seven foot
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something he's just a big purple monster in his
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kid a kilt in a kilt yes just a giant sweet precious
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angel baby and i love him he is my favorite i
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love him too yeah it's a it's a grumpy sunshine
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the monster is the sunshine i love hunter i love
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that he's just so grumpy i just want to like
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i love i love it when the grumpy becomes like
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soft you know he had grumpy yeah but He does
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soften up a bit. So yeah, so this book was a
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size difference, a grumpy sunshine. There was
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some caretaking in it. Also limb difference because
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Hunter is missing a leg. I have one quote that
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I highlighted that I loved so much. It is when
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they're at the homestead after all the drama
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happens. Eden is drawing him a bath, but the
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water in the house isn't heated, so he's warming
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it up over a fire and bringing it. upstairs oh
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i love that scene yeah yeah so the quote goes
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i heard eden tromping back up the stairs his
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foot falls a little slower than usual as he carried
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up water for a bath something hot and sweet pulsed
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in my chest he was so good kind Had I ever told
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him that? Had I ever said the words? I loved
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that so much. Eden's just so good. He's just
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so good. He's Beth's boy. He really is. He is.
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Every time when Hunter confesses his love for
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Eden for the first time, it always gets me in
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my feels because one thing in the book is you
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find out Eden is the last of his kind. He's pretty
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much alone. It just makes me so sad because there's
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a part after Hunter says, I love you and Eden.
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like i'm wondering if love means something different
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for him i just want to cuddle eden he's so sweet
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and kind when he was telling hunter like his
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background and everything i like almost cried
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it was it was really sad they almost got don't
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worry don't worry lily's gonna get you she'll
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get you yeah oh yeah just wait yeah probably
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from what you guys say i believe you yeah another
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thing that i really loved about this book and
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hated at the same time was that eden didn't know
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what kissing was He hurt Hunter's feelings so
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much, but he didn't even know he was because
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Hunter has like a big scar across his face that
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goes into his lip. He's really self -conscious
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about it and he thinks that he's really ugly
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because of it. And he thought that Eden was like
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rejecting kissing him because he didn't like
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the way that his lip crooked up. And it broke
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my heart and I was like screaming in the buddy
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read like, Eden, how could you? But then he didn't
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even know what kissing was. And it was just so
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sweet. I was like, okay, instantly you are forgiven.
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I love you. I'm sorry I'm not mad. That's one
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of my favorite tropes, actually. Someone doesn't
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know what kissing is. Oh my God. It was just
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so, so sweet. But yeah, I enjoyed it very much.
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And I will end this segment by reading a few
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more of the tags that I had for this book. Throat
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fucking, rimming, snowball, restraint, tail play,
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and huge hog. Let's go Eden! Those are the books
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that I wanted to talk about from last week. So
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what about you, Kit? Great. Yes, I've got two
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that I want to talk about. The first one is Hallucidating
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a Demon by Ashlyn Mills. So this is part of season
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two of the Monster Match series. It's a multi
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-author series. It's urban fantasy. And this
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book was really cute. Okay, so it's a sleep paralysis
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demon who, instead of wanting to feed off people's
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fear when they sleep, wants to see if he can
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feed off of good energy rather than giving them
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nightmares. Give them... happy dreams and that
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kind of thing and see if he can feed off that
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energy also he's like really cute oh my god he's
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the cutest sunshine character you've ever met
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his name is arian and then the other mc is elias
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and he has narcolepsy with cataplexy oh no yeah
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he doesn't really sleep more than a couple of
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hours at a time but he sleeps a lot he gets a
26:52
lot of nightmares because he has trauma from
26:53
his very first cataplexy episode where he was
26:57
in a car crash when he was driving yeah it's
27:01
really sad and somebody died in it one of his
27:04
loved ones oh no yeah so he has like all of these
27:08
what he thinks are just um Night terrors? Yes,
27:12
thank you. My brother used to get night terrors.
27:15
Where you're like awake, yeah. Yeah, it's a night
27:18
terror. It's like when you're awake, but your
27:20
eyes are open, but you're not really awake, but
27:22
you're kind of awake. Yeah, okay, thank you.
27:24
Sorry. No problem. So he gets kind of like night
27:28
terrors where he's having a cataplexy episode
27:31
and he's awake, but he can't move. He's paralyzed.
27:35
And he sees these like hallucinations of... Essentially
27:40
the person who died begging for help and like
27:43
all bloody and stuff. Horrible. I'm making this
27:47
book sound really gruesome and scary and it is
27:49
not. Because what happens is our sunshine little
27:57
sleep paralysis demon gets hired as like a test
28:00
subject thing to go into this guy's life and
28:04
see if he can Not heal him from his narcolepsy
28:07
because you can't cure somebody. But make his
28:10
dreams nice instead of awful. Yeah, and see if
28:13
he can help him get into a proper routine and
28:15
help him heal a bit from the trauma and all of
28:17
that. Now, the guy doesn't know this is going
28:19
to happen, but suddenly this really cute guy
28:21
pops up in the middle of his nightmares and is
28:24
like, actually, we're going to go and fish in
28:27
this nice, fantastic lake. Aww. Yeah, and we're
28:31
going to ride giant slug monsters and race each
28:33
other instead of being in this car crash. Oh,
28:35
racing slug monsters. That sounds lovely. Right?
28:39
It's so cute. It's really well done. I want to
28:42
say Ashlyn Mills actually has narcolepsy. So
28:45
this is Own Voices and it's really well done.
28:47
I learned so much from this book. So yeah, and
28:49
they also go on some really cute dates. It's
28:52
because obviously the demon ends up popping up
28:55
in real life as well. He's like, I know you.
29:00
But it's a lot about learning to live with loss.
29:02
So it's his brother who died and he completely
29:04
idolized his brother. And then as the book goes
29:07
on, we learn some things about him that like
29:09
not great. Oh no. But the thing is that he still
29:13
loves his brother at the end of it. So it's learning
29:15
to like live with the reality of having complicated
29:17
feelings towards someone and still loving them.
29:20
Ooh, I like that. Yeah, I thought it was really
29:22
good. Like missing the person that you thought
29:24
they were, like mourning the person you thought
29:27
they were while also learning about who they
29:29
really were. yeah exactly there's not much spice
29:31
in this book but the spice scenes that we do
29:34
get are a lot of like cataplexy spice scenes
29:37
where it's kind of somno but he's awake but he
29:40
can't do anything oh megan is interested right
29:47
so obviously like he's consented beforehand like
29:51
they both know it's gonna happen but yeah it's
29:53
pretty hot and a lot of come play as well Sign
29:56
me up. Turn on the cum lamp and sign me up. And
30:04
then the other one that I read is The Handyman's
30:06
Howl by Ducky Mac. Oh, yay! I'm going to read
30:10
that soon. This is a lowish angst paranormal
30:13
romance. This is Fated Mates. The insta -love
30:17
in this is so good. I love that kind of insta
30:21
-love. You see someone and it's like, mine. So
30:25
literally this guy is, he's human, but he can
30:29
talk to animals. He doesn't know why. He just
30:32
thinks he's a weirdo. All of these animals are
30:35
like, something is chasing you. You need to go
30:37
west. He's like, okay, going west. Oh, I guess
30:41
you better listen. Yep. So he ends up on this
30:44
island where there's an inn. And he's like booking
30:47
into this inn. Like, I don't really know why
30:49
I'm here, but like, can I stay? And then he hears
30:54
this like growling sound behind him. And the
30:58
guy just goes, smells so good. It's werewolf
31:03
handyman guy. So the thing about the werewolf
31:07
guy, right? He's, as I say, he's the handyman
31:09
for the inn, but he also co -owns it. It's paranormal
31:12
found family. They all own the inn and it's the
31:14
whole island is basically for supernatural creatures
31:17
to come and be themselves. is the idea of it
31:20
i like that yeah it's really nice and so werewolf
31:25
guy his name is rudy rudy i love him that's such
31:28
a cute name what the heck right so he has like
31:32
two really different sides to him you've got
31:35
the werewolf side who by the way he doesn't just
31:37
come out on the full moon um rudy doesn't have
31:39
control of him and he comes out a lot in this
31:43
book oh he just like pops out werewolf yeah He
31:47
is a self -confessed alpha hole. Massively possessive.
31:51
But also really likes dog treats. And being told
31:53
he's a good boy. Oh my god. So you have like
31:59
that. And then you have. Quick question. Does
32:04
he only eat dog treats. When he's transformed
32:06
into a werewolf. Or does he eat them when he's
32:08
a person too. Oh I'm going to get to that. The
32:12
important questions Katie. Oh, trust me. So he
32:17
eats human food, but there's a whole scene involving
32:20
a bully stick and wanking. Oh, okay. I don't
32:28
know what a bully stick is, but I'm intrigued.
32:30
Yeah, what's a bully stick? It's like a rawhide
32:34
chew. It is the only one with a dog. Yeah, exactly.
32:41
Yeah, when they first meet, they meet first with
32:44
him being a werewolf. And Bowen, who is the human,
32:47
gives him a bully stick. He spends like half
32:50
the night chewing it. And then he wakes up as
32:52
a human. He's still got this bully stick. He's
32:55
like, oh, God, I'm remembering the scent of the
32:58
human. And then he starts, he starts like jerking
33:02
it. oh god I need to remember the night so then
33:06
he stops and he wants something in his mouth
33:08
so he just puts the bully stick back in his mouth
33:10
I mean if it works right and it becomes a whole
33:17
running joke in the book as well which I loved
33:19
like that was my favorite thing actually because
33:21
Bowen carries his bag everywhere and it's got
33:23
lube in it whenever they would go to have sex
33:26
he'd like reach for the bag and then Rudy would
33:29
go It's not time for a bully stick. Oh my god,
33:36
that's so cute. That is so cute. You've got the
33:40
alpha hole possessive side of the werewolf, but
33:42
when he's a human, he's really shy and uncertain
33:44
and cute and sweet. Oh my gosh. I'm excited to
33:48
read this one. It's so good. You're going to
33:50
love it. I downloaded it on my Kindle last night.
33:53
Opened it up, downloaded it. immediately fell
33:56
asleep kindle controller in my hand i passed
34:00
out i was so tired relatable i'm very excited
34:06
to read it though yeah i loved it i just found
34:10
it really fun i love the found family aspect
34:12
of it the whole like he's very separate from
34:15
his werewolf at first and the whole book is about
34:16
him becoming like one with his werewolf yeah
34:22
It was a great time and I thoroughly recommend
34:24
for anybody who enjoys paranormal romance. I
34:27
cannot wait. I'm excited. What about you, Megan?
34:29
What did you read this week? I read a lot. As
34:32
you guys know, I always read a lot. I narrowed
34:37
it down. The first one I read, I did with my
34:40
ears, my ear balls. I listened to it, read it.
34:43
It was a novella called Blessed by the Cupid
34:47
Distribution System. Katie had recommended this
34:51
one in a post or two, I believe. And it's by
34:56
Robin Jo Margaret. And it is a sapphic human
35:01
slash Cupid romance. Yes. And it's very, it's
35:06
very sweet. It's very cute. It's low angst, but
35:08
like high heat. And Iris, who is a trans femme
35:12
human, a spec. We love that rap. Yes. And then
35:17
Jaya is a as the Cupid and she is black and plus
35:22
size. So I'm obsessed with her. I want to marry
35:25
her. Yes. She's like, she's like so sweet and
35:30
naive, but bubbly, but also like really interested
35:33
in sex. Because it takes place during Valentine's
35:37
Day and they go places and people are like getting
35:40
frisky in public. And she's like, look at those
35:42
people. They're at a bookstore. She's like picking
35:46
up like a smut book. And she's like, look at
35:48
these people. but yeah so it was a very sweet
35:53
novella and it's got like a lot of first times
35:55
because even though jaya's a cupid and she's
35:59
like 100 years old or 101 um she's still a virgin
36:03
because she spent like 100 years training to
36:06
become a cupid wow thanks that's a long time
36:09
yeah i know right um and iris is a virgin still
36:14
too because she's got kind of she's got low self
36:17
-esteem and you want to just like cuddle her
36:20
and so the premise of it is that iris is looking
36:23
at valentine's day and thinking she's going to
36:26
be alone again her friends are all coupled up
36:28
and so she's feeling lonely and sad and so she
36:32
kind of makes a wish saying like i just want
36:34
somebody and so the cupids all hear these wishes
36:40
and what like thousands of cupids or something
36:42
like that they all get to pick out somebody that
36:45
they're going to spend valentine's day with and
36:46
help them fall in love and help them find their
36:48
person right yeah so jaya ends up choosing iris
36:51
because jaya kind of thinks iris is pretty but
36:54
also is like i want to help her find you know
36:56
her person and so when jaya shows up to iris's
37:00
house she iris kind of mistakes her for like
37:03
being there for her for as her date and so they
37:06
decide why not for one day we'll be each other's
37:09
dates and we'll experience Valentine's Day together
37:11
go on all these really sweet dates and do all
37:14
these things that Iris had never gotten to do
37:16
oh but then also yeah it's really sweet and along
37:19
the way she finds out that like Because she spent
37:23
100 years training to become a Cupid. She doesn't
37:25
really have any interests of her own. So they
37:28
kind of start exploring things that she might
37:30
like. And so it's just like a lot of really sweet
37:32
first times, first dates. Super cozy. Super cozy.
37:36
It has a few of really hot spice scenes with
37:39
exhibition in it. Excellent. Yes. But it's like,
37:45
yeah, it's a really sweet novella. It's a lot
37:47
about like learning. about yourself while also
37:49
learning about what it is to like, what it feels
37:52
like to fall in love. Yeah. So I got it off of
37:56
Hoopla. I'm sure it's available other places
37:59
too. And you can also eyeball read it, but I
38:01
loved the narrator. So definitely recommend reading
38:05
that one. My next one was. I read Glitched Fates
38:09
and Stolen Mates by TJ Rose. Yay! I got the ARC
38:16
for it and it was like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
38:18
yes, yes. Yeah, Kit and I love the series. And
38:22
JD, you read the first one. Is this the ARC that
38:25
you signed up for that you didn't select the,
38:27
I promise not to tag the author in negative reviews
38:31
or whatever? That was lockstep. Oh, yeah. Which
38:36
I did get. so thankfully this is one that I forgot
38:40
to sign up for that I thought I had oh no I know
38:44
it hit my kindle and I was like did you get it
38:46
and they were like no I must have got denied
38:50
but then they hadn't even applied for it I was
38:55
really sad for like three hours and then I was
38:57
like wait wait a minute I didn't apply yeah like
39:02
i have the opposite where i've literally had
39:05
an author tell me that i signed up for their
39:07
form like four times like okay you'll get it
39:12
just stop filling it out i'm so sorry i kept
39:17
or like with gemma where i signed up for the
39:19
arc and then i was like oh i'm gonna get the
39:21
fucking a patreon like i never sign up for demos
39:27
just because i'm on the patreon so i always get
39:29
the the arcs that way but i used i used to sign
39:31
up for arc teams and not realizing i'd get it
39:34
from like their patreon or whatever and then
39:36
i'd get two copies and i'm like what am i supposed
39:38
to do with this i just signed up for her patreon
39:42
so i completely forgot that um i was gonna get
39:45
that way i love her patreon yeah okay so it's
39:50
uh yeah glitched fates and soulmates by tj rose
39:52
it's the third book in the killagrew street case
39:56
files so it's the third book in the killagrew
39:58
street case files that's a mouthful for me to
40:02
say um it's felix who is the hacker human shy
40:08
anxious little bean baby such a little bean I
40:13
know, I love him so much. And it's Kit, who is
40:17
the wolf shifter, ex -military, kind of older
40:21
brother of the crew. And literally Rory's older
40:25
brother. And so basically it starts with you
40:29
finding out that, well, I guess we kind of already
40:32
knew, but we find out that... felix is kit's
40:35
fated mate and kit knew it from the moment he
40:40
met felix and i'm just happily wiggling in my
40:42
chair right now and it's just so cute because
40:47
kit is so like awkward about it and because he
40:51
doesn't know how to how to handle felix like
40:54
because felix is such a you know nervous shy
40:56
bean he's like doesn't want to scare him off
40:59
so in the book it's got like three different
41:03
timelines and TJ does it really well in in terms
41:06
of like you've got the current timeline which
41:09
is December of this year and then you've got
41:12
one that's a few months earlier in like September
41:14
of this year and then you've got the timeline
41:16
from when Felix joins the crew and and kit realizes
41:23
that felix is bait and you've got that timeline
41:25
is in the form of kit's mission reports so tj
41:30
wrote these like mission reports of kit trying
41:33
to have encounters with felix the first one is
41:37
like kit realizes that felix likes earl grey
41:40
tea so he's like making the tea it like says
41:43
something like practice here's your tea 46 times
41:46
in the mirror so cute and then it's like approaches
41:54
layer to deliver tea and scares felix and then
41:58
and it's like mission aborted subject subject
42:05
is terrified well like we'll reassess next encounter
42:11
you know oh my god there's one where he's the
42:15
mission reports talking about how he's noticed
42:17
how felix likes ice cream so the mission is to
42:21
ask felix if he wants to go get ice cream after
42:23
work and it's just like it's so sweet um and
42:30
just watching like this like alpha you know ex
42:33
-military grumpy wolf shifter kind of stumble
42:37
and like just be soft only for felix you know
42:40
precious That's so cute. I can't wait to read
42:43
this one. I'm excited for it. So it's got multiple
42:47
years of pining, obviously, from afar. I love
42:51
that. And the pining slowly turns into light
42:55
stalking that kind of turns into full -blown
42:58
stalking. Is this the stalker episode? Yeah,
43:03
I think so. You've got Kit doing that, and then
43:08
you've got Felix's. His anxiety is... ramped
43:11
up and he's also um demi so yes yes we love the
43:18
demi rep and it's done really well so while like
43:21
kit is like making a fool of himself and like
43:26
and then attempting to make these um these you
43:29
know these gestures towards felix the last thing
43:33
on felix's mind is that kit is attracted to him
43:37
you know no no in the book two wait in book two
43:43
yeah in book two I think there's a scene where
43:45
Ren from the coffee shop and Felix kind of start
43:49
dating so in this book Kit is kind of assuming
43:53
that Felix and Ren are still dating even though
43:57
they're just friends so he's like standing off
43:59
in the back watching them hang out and he's like
44:04
talking about how or like internally he's like
44:07
thinking about how felix he's watching felix
44:10
laugh with this guy and open up and give him
44:13
smiles and and kit's just like i'm too broken
44:17
for him it's also baby then so there's one night
44:29
where felix is at home and he's like he looks
44:33
out his window and he sees a man in a hood standing
44:36
outside his window oh no that's normal that's
44:40
fine and so he gets really scared and he calls
44:44
sebastian he's like i've been being stalked for
44:46
a while and i don't know what to do And so, so
44:51
he, so Sebastian's like, okay, I'll send Kit
44:53
over. He's going to get there so fast. yeah there's
45:05
a few moments like that like he accidentally
45:06
runs into kit like a weird part of town and kids
45:09
like trying to hide behind some some trash cans
45:12
and felix is like what are you doing back there
45:15
and kids like taking a piss like who wants to
45:20
know this is normal felix is like well i was
45:28
doing i was Mapping a new running route or something.
45:33
Behind this trash can. Exactly. I'm doing very
45:38
normal stuff. Lisa, thank you. Felix thinks he's
45:43
being stalked. Sebastian suggests that Kit starts
45:47
training Felix self -defense. So, yeah, self
45:51
-defense classes turn into other classes. because
45:57
yeah Felix even though he's he's had I think
46:00
he's had sex twice but it's been with women so
46:03
he's never been with a man and so therefore Kit
46:06
takes over to try to uh show him the moves you
46:11
know I don't know what it is about it but I'm
46:13
so obsessed I love a book where it's like teaching
46:16
um specifically like those like intimacy whether
46:19
it's sexual or just like dating I Can never get
46:23
enough of that. Yeah. There's a lot of dating
46:26
in this because Kit, big sweetie he is, he's
46:29
like, I'm going to do so right by you, Felix.
46:30
I'm going to take you on all the dates before
46:32
we do anything. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
46:38
So there's, yeah, there's a lot of dates. There's
46:40
also the mystery part, which is a continuation
46:43
of the story from book two with the gray water
46:46
experiments and stuff. Oh yeah. It's just really,
46:48
it's really sweet and it's really cute and it's
46:51
cozy and cut. and Felix is a pillow princess
46:54
yes and Kit is a plant daddy and you've got like
47:00
a shifted scene where Kit is like for you know
47:03
for training purposes takes Felix into the woods
47:06
and shifts and and so it's a really sweet moment
47:09
with like Kit in his shifted form and Felix is
47:13
like giggling and being like oh you're just like
47:14
a little puppy and they're playing around And
47:18
it's really sweet. So I cried a lot at Kit's
47:21
pining. But that's me. Yeah, so it's a great
47:27
book. And then the fourth book is, I think, the
47:29
last book in this series. Really? Uh -huh. Sorry.
47:34
So, you know. Read it, love it, and enjoy it.
47:39
And definitely five out of five stars. And it's
47:43
like... Also, the thing I'll say is it is slow
47:45
burn, but it's not as slow burn as the other
47:47
books in the series. OK. Yeah. And that's partially
47:51
because of the dual timelines. Yes. Katie, what
47:55
about you? Me. OK. I have been. Back at it with
48:03
the Leighton Green, the Morelli family series.
48:06
I'm actually listening to one right now. Well,
48:08
not like actively, but like currently my read
48:10
is another one. So I read Yelling at Us. Listen,
48:16
I get so worked up with these books. Oh, my God.
48:22
So the first one I read was I read Beloved by
48:26
the Boss, which is book two. And that one is,
48:28
like, the continuation of Luca and Finch. We
48:31
start off, like, Luca is now the head man, the
48:35
mafia daddy of the family. That's the official
48:40
name. And so this book, immediately, like, a
48:46
mood, man. Like, they just went through a lot.
48:50
Like, Luca's the head guy. Angelo is now his
48:52
underboss. Yeah, well, he hasn't made him underboss
48:56
at the beginning of the book, but he does make
48:58
him underboss at the end. He's like his right
49:01
-hand guy. Also, Finch's older sister, Maggie,
49:06
who's just a complete, just a total bitch. I
49:10
cannot stand her. She's not a nice lady. She's
49:13
not a nice lady, to put it lightly. So they want
49:16
to take her out. On a date? No, like, with the
49:21
mafia. I don't know how. They want to kill her.
49:26
And put his other sister in her place as the
49:31
head of the Donovan family. There's a lot going
49:33
on. They go to Vegas because... So Luca gets
49:37
invited to go to Chicago to meet with the Mafia
49:42
Commission, which is heads of a bunch of other
49:45
Mafia families from all over. And they go and
49:48
he sort of... Spits in their face because while
49:52
he's there, they invite him to, like, a dinner
49:55
to, like, welcome him and, like, celebrate him
49:57
becoming the head or whatever. But while he's
50:00
there, Finch gets news. And so he, like, lies
50:05
to Marco and, like, he's like, we're going to
50:07
go on a road trip. But Marco is well aware of
50:10
Finch's shenanigans. Marco is, like, the bodyguard
50:13
assigned to him. And it causes a lot of drama.
50:16
So they end up... realizing that they need to
50:19
kind of get away for a bit so they go to vegas
50:20
but while in vegas somebody tries to kill them
50:24
finch and luca yeah and a lot of drama happens
50:29
i don't want to like give every bit of the story
50:32
but um how much of this is spoilers this is spoilery
50:36
yeah all of it um hey brats it's editor megan
50:42
I'm just cutting in to tell you that I had to
50:45
sadly cut a lot of Katie's review here because
50:49
it gets, it gets real spoilery. And since recording
50:54
this episode, we have changed our stance on including
50:58
spoilers. So it was, it's kind of difficult to
51:02
edit this in a way that is complete, but spoiler
51:07
free. If you're really interested in what she
51:10
has to say, we will have the unedited version
51:12
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get every episode unedited and early and ad -free.
51:28
So, yeah, sorry. And sorry, Katie. I love you.
51:38
But, okay, so this killed me. This is why I got
51:40
upset with JD and Megan. They did nothing wrong.
51:42
This is on me. But I don't like spoilers. Just
51:45
to clarify. When I read a book, I don't want
51:48
to know anything that's going to happen until
51:49
I read it myself. And so I had been talking to
51:52
them about how excited I was for the series.
51:55
And JD and Megan were like, yeah, keep reading,
51:57
keep reading. Like, no spoilers. They didn't
51:59
tell me anything. Well, no, you said. You didn't
52:02
agree with anything I said. You're just like,
52:04
I'm not going to give you spoilers. I said, stop
52:06
looking things up because you're going to spoil
52:08
it for yourself. Yeah. But no one ever told me
52:13
I was wrong. I didn't tell you you were wrong.
52:17
I said, it's not. That's true. When people say
52:20
they don't want spoilers, I take that very seriously.
52:23
Yeah, I do. Because you were like, oh, it's going
52:25
to be Yvonne. And I was like, well, that's. it
52:27
doesn't say that and that's not right but stop
52:29
looking or you're gonna get spoiled you both
52:33
respect my spoiler no my no spoiler wish very
52:36
well that's sort of how the book ends like things
52:40
are good again the spice between Luca and Finch
52:44
like it's not the priority of the book like the
52:45
priority of the book is all the drama because
52:47
they're already together they love each other
52:49
their relationship is fine they like know each
52:52
other really well at this point and I kind of
52:53
love how I like how Luca knows that he tells
52:57
Finch to do something and Finch is going to do
52:59
what Finch is going to do still. Oh, yeah. Which
53:03
is great. They're very in sync as a couple. They
53:06
are. Yeah. It's so much better. Like the angst
53:10
and stuff is not there. So it's so much easier
53:13
to read their relationship in this book because
53:15
you're not like, oh, my God, Luca, just tell
53:17
him you love him. I know. So it's really cute.
53:22
And Luca ends up letting Finch take over the
53:25
club that they met at, which is so sweet because
53:28
he ends up buying the club. So, yeah. The next
53:33
book is a novella. And it's 2 .5 in the series,
53:38
Heist of the Heart. And it takes place pretty
53:40
much entirely at the club that Finch now owns.
53:43
And so this is Hudson, Connie's brother, and
53:47
Gio, who's a new character. And he is the new
53:50
bodyguard. Yeah. And it's a really short, like,
53:56
it's really quick. It is so good, though. Like,
53:59
honestly, I think it's my favorite so far just
54:01
because it was so fun. It's really fun. It's
54:03
like a little whodunit. Oh, yeah. Like a holiday
54:06
whodunit. Yeah. It was like New Year's Eve, right?
54:11
And it's the end of the night at the club. And
54:13
every night they do, like, the count of the money.
54:16
This night stuff happens where somebody dies
54:20
in the club during that. And like, yeah, it's
54:23
like a whole bunch of drama. Like on purpose
54:25
or? Overdoses. And they go upstairs to do the
54:30
count and they realize that the money is gone
54:32
from the lockbox. yeah it's this whole thing
54:36
of like who did it um but during it like hudson
54:39
and geo sort of work together and it's it's so
54:42
cute there's this moment where they're in like
54:45
a little passageway they're like standing super
54:47
close to each other and i just goosebumps i'm
54:51
like i was kicking my feet it's really adorable
54:53
there's surprisingly like a lot of adorable cute
54:59
like little banter between them And there's no
55:03
angst, anything like that. Like, it's pretty
55:05
much immediate that they like each other. But
55:07
there is, like, a little bit of, like, the teeniest
55:09
bit of pining in the very beginning. But it's,
55:11
like, not even a day, like, because it all happens
55:13
within the same night. And also, there's a coat
55:16
closet scene. Ha ha ha. Yes. There is a coat
55:20
closet scene. But they figure out what happened,
55:22
and then they go back to Hudson's house, which
55:25
is, like, a really nice townhouse. And then they
55:28
just, like, pork for, like... the whole night
55:31
like just go at it like a rabbit maybe fucking
55:36
good for them honestly they earned it yeah yeah
55:41
they really did but they're just it was so cute
55:44
like i love hudson because he's so anxious the
55:47
whole time he's just he doesn't want he doesn't
55:50
want finch to think that he would one like betray
55:53
him or like steal from him and he's still kind
55:56
of new to the family and so like the suspicion
55:59
around him from everyone else was kind of high
56:04
because he's like this newer guy who's come in
56:07
and taken a management position and even though
56:10
finch really trusted him hudson was really worried
56:13
that that he was gonna lose that trust it's a
56:16
lot of drama but it was so fun it really feels
56:18
like one of those like those dinner party murder
56:21
mysteries but like yeah in a book it was so fun
56:25
i didn't want to stop reading it i read it in
56:27
a day yeah so that was what i read this week
56:31
nice um okay so let's move on to book radar um
56:37
i have a couple this week one is portrait of
56:43
a killer by k a american It is in a multi author
56:49
series and it's going to be coming out April
56:53
10th. It's about a twisted painter and like a
57:05
famous painter who's kind of like a recluse and
57:09
like another painter whose career was ruined.
57:15
I don't know if it was from. the famous one or
57:18
not but his career was ruined and so he's like
57:21
out to prove that this other like this famous
57:24
painter isn't all that basically so he like breaks
57:31
into his house and is like trying to find proof
57:35
that he's lame i don't know and but in doing
57:40
so he ends up captured oh this famous painter
57:47
is apparently like a pretty evil dude and so
57:51
yeah i'm i'm i couldn't find anywhere if it said
57:55
if it was stockholm syndrome but i think it might
57:57
be um and it is a size difference touch starved
58:04
there is dacrophilia there is bondage and Foot
58:10
jobs. Oh. Wait, I'm sorry. Did you say necrophilia?
58:18
Necrophilia. I knew you would love that, Katie.
58:23
Oh, I'm excited for the foot jobs. I got scared
58:26
about the possible necrophilia. No, no, not necrophilia,
58:30
dacrophilia. No, I mean... Get clarified. It's
58:35
like a crying pain. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so one
58:42
of the, like, kind of quotes... advertising this
58:45
book was think home alone but the intruders end
58:49
up impaled on spikes hidden in the floor and
58:52
the mysterious reclusive homeowner has exquisite
58:55
taste in who he keeps oh my god i'm so here for
58:59
that yeah so that one i'm excited about comes
59:02
out april 10th um which might already have happened
59:07
by the time this airs i can't remember no this
59:09
is um april 9th okay tomorrow no tomorrow yeah
59:14
no this one no it's 23rd yeah oh not tomorrow
59:19
so it's already out right yes yeah yes okay so
59:24
this book is out now um uh so yeah i'll be reading
59:31
that soon um it sounds really fun the next one
59:36
that i have is it's called poof my life And it's
59:42
by D .G. Carruthers. It is book four in the Twilight
59:48
Temptations series. And I have read the other
59:50
three books and enjoyed them. It's about, it's
59:55
fated mates, but they're brought together by
59:58
an organization that kind of like works for the
1:00:03
cosmic fate. Oh, that's pretty cool. yeah so
1:00:08
it's it's kind of like an outside force that
1:00:11
like decides to bring fated mates together via
1:00:16
certain situations so which is a really weird
1:00:18
way to say that but um but in in this one we
1:00:25
have a neurodivergent portal mage who is a half
1:00:31
elf half like a deep dwarf so The name of this
1:00:38
race is really hard for me to say. And then the
1:00:45
other person is a bear shifter described as gentle
1:00:52
but bratty. It is an insta -love fated mate story.
1:00:59
It's two introverts. Also is described as like
1:01:04
a preening bear and like praise. And then snuggles
1:01:12
and cuddles. There's a tickle fight. Okay, I'm
1:01:21
in. Let's go. And then body worship is one of
1:01:28
the other ones. I love that. yes it's it's it
1:01:33
looks like it's going to be really cute and they're
1:01:35
these are all like pretty short books usually
1:01:37
they're like novella sized um the actually the
1:01:40
book before this one one of the characters was
1:01:42
a pygmy hippo shifter oh my gosh oh my god it
1:01:46
was actually kind of a really sad book but only
1:01:50
for the first half but the last half was great
1:01:52
and that character was super cute um but yeah
1:01:55
i i like this series it's it's like an interesting
1:01:59
take on Kind of like a, it's a little bit of
1:02:03
an Omegaverse -ish world, but magic -y and yeah,
1:02:09
it's fun. So that's the newest one. It is out
1:02:12
now. And yeah, it looks super cute. I think,
1:02:17
I haven't been able to like 100 % confirm yet,
1:02:20
but I think that the bear shifter is either like
1:02:26
a little or little coated. I'm not sure. Exciting.
1:02:33
Yeah, it just looks really cute. So I'm excited
1:02:36
for that. Yeah, so Kit, what's on your radar?
1:02:40
Okay, I've got one for today. I've got Muse by
1:02:44
N. Slater. It's an MM Omegaverse. Okay, right.
1:02:49
So it's dark -ish. Right. Inexperienced Alpha
1:02:53
is obsessed with his sassy camboy Omega neighbor.
1:02:57
Oh, yes. yes right so he he watches him in secret
1:03:03
he watches all of his videos he gets a little
1:03:05
bit stalkery but here's the thing right our omega
1:03:08
knows about this and is waiting for him to crack
1:03:11
so he can get the omega so he can get the alpha
1:03:14
on his knees and make him the omega's good boy
1:03:18
yes because this my friends is a power bottom
1:03:23
dom omega with a submissive alpha yes i am very
1:03:27
excited yeah let's go yeah so there's a couple
1:03:33
of quotes um at the moment on nick's instagram
1:03:37
if you want to go and have a look at those um
1:03:39
and uh there'll be a lot more near the top well
1:03:42
by the time this episode goes live i'm sure there
1:03:45
will be some more and there's some art already
1:03:47
as well so yeah uh definitely i'm very excited
1:03:50
and uh check it out if contemporary omegaverse
1:03:54
with a slightly dark twist, is your thing. Heck
1:03:57
yeah. That sounds great. Hell yes. Yeah. Megan,
1:04:02
what about you? Okay, I have... Well, I have
1:04:05
two that I'm going to talk about, but one of
1:04:06
them is a lot. So the first one I'm going to
1:04:09
talk about is Brie Soleil. It's her debut book
1:04:13
that's coming out in spring. It's called Veil's
1:04:16
Edge in Mahogany. And so it is... mythic and
1:04:21
modern southern gothic romance um yeah and Dante
1:04:26
who is like a soft boy poet yeah and then Rome
1:04:30
who is like a he he cries easily and he likes
1:04:35
wearing like mesh and lace um and the end it's
1:04:40
like a moody sunny um dynamic and it's got like
1:04:45
mental illness rap and it takes place in like
1:04:48
an eerie cozy town with hidden secrets and so
1:04:52
yeah so it's got magic and it's got spice because
1:04:55
brie's been posting some of the excerpts of her
1:04:57
spice on her page and she also posts non -spicy
1:05:00
excerpts but but i'm very excited about it yeah
1:05:03
so am rose are spearheading a multi -author series
1:05:08
called because canon sucks and basically they
1:05:13
wrote a short that you can get for free from
1:05:17
multiple people's instagrams but mainly go to
1:05:21
am rose's instagram you can get it for free and
1:05:23
it's the ending of it it's not great it's not
1:05:25
it's not a it's not a great ending on purpose
1:05:28
it was written yeah it was written like that
1:05:30
on purpose they didn't you know uh i'm not i'm
1:05:33
not you know saying hateful things about them
1:05:35
because i love them um so they they wrote this
1:05:38
short and then they've given this short to several
1:05:41
different authors and it said okay change it
1:05:44
for us and so it's kind of like a an a tribute
1:05:47
to fanfic because there's a lot of authors in
1:05:51
our space that like got started writing fanfic
1:05:54
um it's a really really fun concept it really
1:05:58
is i'm excited for it and they're also doing
1:06:01
an alternative version themselves yes they theirs
1:06:04
is the first one that comes out i believe i think
1:06:07
so and yeah so it's it's the two mcs are milo
1:06:10
and rowan and so all these authors i didn't i
1:06:13
didn't write down all the authors because it's
1:06:15
a lot but uh but you can find it out by going
1:06:18
to am rose's instagram again um and so yeah they
1:06:22
handed this off to all these authors and now
1:06:25
these authors get the chance to kind of write
1:06:27
fanfic style an alternative canon for these two
1:06:31
characters um and i wrote down what you can expect
1:06:35
um so we've got dragon that one i believe is
1:06:39
am roses um we have robot we have a football
1:06:43
dark romance idol shifter omegaverse coffee shop
1:06:49
monster um warrior and mage hellhound which that's
1:06:56
shannon yeah um selkie uh werewolf and witches
1:07:01
so that's so fun yeah yeah and so the werewolf
1:07:06
and witches one sorry is is sam northman they've
1:07:08
posted a lot of uh snippets on their instagram
1:07:12
looks so good yes but yeah and it so they start
1:07:16
releasing them in june and i think the last one
1:07:19
gets released in August. So I'm assuming it'll
1:07:23
be once a week until they're all released. So
1:07:28
I'm excited for that. That'll be good. Yeah,
1:07:31
that's going to be really fun. That's my summer
1:07:34
sorted. Yeah. I was going to say, I feel like
1:07:39
there's so many multi -author series to look
1:07:41
forward to right now. At least the two. Yes.
1:07:45
What about you, Katie? What do you have? The
1:07:49
first book I have is Gemma Croft's Worth a Try.
1:07:54
That is book three. Yay. I'm so excited for it.
1:07:58
Book three in the Try for Love series. And this
1:08:00
one covers Aiden and Flynn. They've been best
1:08:03
friends since they were teens. And they've been
1:08:06
made co -captains of the Bath Centurions. So
1:08:09
they're trying to figure out how to like kind
1:08:11
of play as team captains together. But they have
1:08:15
very different like styles, very different like
1:08:17
leadership. And so they're just trying to make
1:08:21
it all work and also hooking up in secret. So
1:08:24
there's a little bit of drama. So there is some
1:08:29
cheating in this book so that they can be together.
1:08:32
So I know that can be like a big no -no for a
1:08:34
lot of people. So if that is something, just
1:08:36
make sure you take a look at the content warnings
1:08:39
for the book. But it's got idiots in love, autism
1:08:42
rep, tons of banter because it's written by Gemma.
1:08:45
So, of course. There's Dog. Apparently it's going
1:08:49
to be a lot spicier than the others in the series.
1:08:52
The other two books haven't been that spicy,
1:08:55
but apparently this is the spiciest. So that's
1:08:57
something to look forward to. It looks amazing.
1:09:01
The cover makes me laugh because you've all seen
1:09:04
those reels of the sports teams doing the awkward
1:09:09
photo shoots. It's exactly that. And you've got
1:09:14
a mullet and a little slutty mustache. A slutty
1:09:17
mustache. Yeah. So I'm really excited for that.
1:09:22
So you can expect that May 20th. Yay. Great.
1:09:26
Nice. Awesome. I think we've got a wide selection
1:09:30
of very good things. Yes. Lots to look forward
1:09:36
to. Okay. Well, that's all for this week, Bratz.
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