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This Episode is Cursed · Rainbow Book Rats: A Queer Romance Podcast

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I wouldn't be able to take that seriously. I
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know you're about to murder me, but can you please
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put your penis away? Hello, brats, and welcome
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back to another episode of Rainbow Book Rats,
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a queer romance podcast where four feral rats
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nerd out about their favorite reads. As always,
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we're going to be talking about the books we
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read recently, what's on our book radar at the
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moment, and then if anybody has any tea to spill,
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we'll be spilling a little bit of tea. So let's
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get yappin'. I'm JD, my pronouns are they them,
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and I have a tattoo of my favorite donuts. The
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worst donuts. I'm Kit, he they, and call me James
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Bond, because I once signed the Official Secrets
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Act. Can you tell us about it, or are you going
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to have to kill us first? I don't know what that
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means. Well, I can't tell you about it on air.
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Secrets in the dark. I'm Megan. My pronouns are
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she, her, they, them. And I know way too much
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about cryptids to the point where it's kind of
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embarrassing. No such thing. I love that. I'm
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Katie. He, her. and i learned that rats can laugh
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we can oh yeah wow little baby little rats and
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it's so high pitched that like humans can't hear
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it like with our bare ears oh my god that's adorable
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that's the cutest yeah ever that makes me want
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to kind of cry yes rats can also cry yes as we
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learned in episode two oh my gosh all right well
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Usually in this slot we do a how was your week,
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but since we're coming clean on this episode.
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We're coming clean. This is the 6 ,000th time
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we've tried recording this. We're coming dirty.
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Megan's coming dirty. The rest of us are coming
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clean. We tried recording this episode and Megan's
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track didn't record. Fucking Steve. yeah it's
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fucking steve's fault um we're sure of that and
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we just decided that we didn't want to lose the
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books that we talked about so we're gonna do
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it again but we didn't want to lie and pretend
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like it was the first time so also we're not
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we're not super good at pretending or at least
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i'm not yeah yeah me either yeah no i'm not we
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kind of we kind of forgot what happened to us
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yeah yeah we don't remember what happened when
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we recorded this the first time it was so long
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ago yeah we only record every two weeks and we
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record two episodes a day like when we do record
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so so yeah it's been almost two weeks since we
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recorded yeah um and our our memories aren't
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that good yeah i don't remember what i did two
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days ago so instead of doing a how was our week
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and what did we do uh we've just decided to vomit
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our gratitude into this section instead i love
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the way you put that yes because two days ago
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on the 26th our podcast went live for the first
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time yay and we were all very nervous um oh my
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god right yeah but very excited and yeah it just
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i don't want to say it went better than we thought
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it would but we're pleased we're just very pleased
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that anyone listened at all so thank you Katie
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and I were up till 2am like messaging each other
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being like it's like the night before Christmas
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like yeah I was there too but it wasn't too anthony
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yeah Katie was sleeping soundly in her bed but
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yeah I think I was awake until 3 30 or something
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same here that night isn't that unusual for me
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if i'm being honest but i have been going to
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bed early lately because i've had to get up early
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to drive my broken husband to work but but yeah
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um yeah so we just want to say thank you to everybody
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for listening for throwing us your congratulations
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and yeah for commenting and sharing and listening
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and like super shout out to everybody who who
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posted specifically about it like we sent a handful
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of authors and other instagramers an early version
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of the podcast of the episode and um so like
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you have to help me with names because again
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i'm not great at remembering but there was carly
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yes carly and mel Renly. Adrienne. Adrienne.
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Amrose. Amrose. And Lance as well. Yes, Lance.
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So thank you everyone for sharing and posting
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for us. And yeah, it was really, really sweet
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of you to want to do so. And it helped a lot.
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It really did help a lot. It really did, yes.
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And everybody that commented and everybody that
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messaged us and like even just people who shared
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it. You know, it was just so grateful. Yeah.
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Watching my stories and just seeing people that
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we hadn't contacted sharing the stuff just because
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they're excited made me excited and happy. Yeah.
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And anyone who just gave us a chance and is giving
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us a chance now and listening, like, thank you
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so much. Yes. I don't know about you guys, but
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for me, it was one of the busiest days in a long
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time, but it was one of the best I've had. So
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yeah, it meant a lot. I know it was it was really
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fun because it was like it felt like a community
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event right even though like that kind of sounds
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egotistical for me to be like we were an event
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it was an event to us yeah a lot of work went
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in time went into this whole process like it
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was just an hour recording but like that hour
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recording was months of planning and weeks of
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of discord calls and so many late nights and
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like so much work into doing this and and it
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was finally here and like it's so surreal it's
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really exciting like we're glad it's out but
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it was an event yeah yeah and also each recording
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is more like four hours for us yeah yeah laughing
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we laugh and yap way too much but yeah Thanks
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for enjoying. Thanks for loving the worm to penis
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pipeline. That was a fan favorite. and then when
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his ass got murdered was the other one that was
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yeah number two favorite so yeah we loved yeah
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if you guys have any other favorite quotes where
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uh we love to hear them so let us know yeah let
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us know that was our week so it really was it
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really was yes uh let's get into the books that
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we read several weeks ago several weeks ago since
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our recordings of what we read did survive episode
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three curse we're going to use those in this
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next section and then we will be coming back
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to the present to re -record our book radar section
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because that part was affected by Megan's internet
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refusing to let her talk so yeah i guess that's
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all yeah so that was my week and it was fun what
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did you read this week jd well that is the question
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isn't it i've been in a little bit of a book
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slump it's a book slump realness moment um i
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i know i know but um i don't know whenever i'm
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in a book slump i these days i just tend to fall
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back on my favorite book junk food in i say that
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in a very affectionate way um which is becca
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vale yes It's just comforting. And they're just
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like short and easy reads. And they're usually
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at least a four star. And the spice. Yes, very
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spicy. Yeah, it's my junk food. So whenever I
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can't think of what I should read next, I just
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toss a couple of Becca Vale books in there. So
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I read the other two that I didn't already own.
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That one was in -flight entertainment. I've read
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that one. Oh, you did? The in -flight entertainment,
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yeah. That one was about Wiley and Ferris, and
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they were on a flight to go back home for the
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holidays from college, and Ferris is terrified
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of flying, and he gets sat next to this super
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creeper on the flight instead of sitting next
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to his brother, and so he's not only freaking
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out about the fact that he has to be on a plane,
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but he also got separated and can't sit next
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to his brother oh no and uh yeah there was like
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crazy turbulence on the flight too but his brother
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ended up uh charming one of the flight attendants
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by telling her that they were a couple and that
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they were on their anniversary and is there any
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way that she could you know get their seats swapped
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because he just hated to see his uh boyfriend
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freaking out up there with nothing that he could
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do and this flight attendant was just like eating
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it up oh yeah oh my goodness of course i'll help
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so she ends up switching their seats so that
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they can sit next to each other and you know
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to distract ferris from the turbulence and being
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afraid things happen under the blanket can i
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just say i've never been on a plane where i was
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offered a same i think i think it's because it
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was an overnight flight and because he had that
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flight attendant eating out of the palm of his
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hand that she just like brought them one but
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yeah so wiley is just like very kind of arrogant
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and self -assured and ferris is just kind of
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like a little anxious bean um yeah so wiley is
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like well i have to do you know what i can to
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make him comfortable and i think i know what
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he needs and ferris is like oh my god what is
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happening oh my god why do i like that so much
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i love it Yeah, there's very little angst in
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this one. There's like just a little bit. So
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Wiley ends up telling him what happens at 30
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,000 feet stays at 30 ,000 feet. And so Ferris
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is like kind of angsting over the fact that he
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doesn't think that anything can happen between
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them like in the real world because it like just
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on the plane, like this is just happening on
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the plane. So that's like the only bit of drama
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in that book. But it was really cute. I enjoyed
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that one. so the third one that i read was morally
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gray and that one is about twins and one of the
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twins is a psychopath yes and he is very very
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possessive of the other twin i love it even like
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towards their parents so this one it's not one
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where they get together because they realize
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they have feelings they've been together their
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entire life from the moment that they were born
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they were just inseparable so gray is the psychopath
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and wyatt is the other twin this is very much
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a free use situation i love for you basically
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like wyatt to him like he exists to please gray
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like that's pretty much yes oh my god yeah so
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like when you say free use is that just to just
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to gray yes so he's just like ready at all times
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to do whatever gray wants i love them yes yes
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there's not enough free use there needs to be
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more good for you yeah i agree yes please there's
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cock cage involved as well so like yes yeah and
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he he is barely ever unlocked which is an interesting
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point because he exists to please gray that is
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it so he doesn't get to come like hardly ever
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and is he enjoying this oh yeah okay Oh, he's
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very much enjoying it. That's all that matters.
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Yeah, he's very much enjoying it. It's very,
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very consensual. All he wants is to please Gray.
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And he does. So this story is basically about
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Wyatt getting notes from a stalker. The stalker
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works at a coffee shop that Wyatt goes to frequently.
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and he has like been putting notes under the
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door and like sneaking them into like his stuff
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and they say like i love watching the way you
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like lick that whipped cream or whatever they're
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just like really creepy note about a guy who's
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just like watching him drink coffee sexually
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telling Gray about it. Oh no. Because he knows
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that Gray is not going to be happy. And not with
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him, but with the stalker. And in their past,
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any person who has kind of dared to do anything
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against Wyatt has disappeared. Oh my God. He's
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murdering them. I went to the farm in the sky.
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Yes. And Wyatt has never really questioned it.
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He's never really asked Gray about it because
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he knows. He knows. And so he is aware that people
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tend to disappear when they upset him. Oh, my
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gosh. trying not to tell gray about the stalker
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because he doesn't want gray to get caught like
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his whole thing is that he doesn't want gray
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to get caught because he like won't survive without
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him and if he goes to jail like he just can't
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handle what about the murders what murder he
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doesn't care it's called morally gray not i feel
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bad about the murder yeah Yeah, so he's trying
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to keep the knowledge of this away from Gray
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because he doesn't want Gray to continue killing
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people for him because he's just afraid that
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eventually he's going to slip up and get caught.
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And so he's trying to, you know, not tell him
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about it. But eventually Gray does find out because
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he like walks into the room when he's supposed
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to be in a lecture. They're at college, by the
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way. I don't know if I said that. But he walks
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into the room when he's supposed to be in a lecture
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and sees Wyatt kind of stuffing one of the notes
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under his notebook. So he does find out about
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it. Then he takes Wyatt out for coffee the next
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day at the coffee shop. Because when he reads
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the note, he can tell that it's from someone
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who works there because they're like saying about
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how he like eats whipped cream or whatever. So
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they go to the coffee shop and they get drinks,
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sit down and Wyatt knows too. He can tell right
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away that he's like, and he's like, shit, because
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Gray hasn't told him that he found the note,
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but he knows. And so they sit down and the barista
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brings over like a. a little dish that has like
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an eclair on it and a little note tucked underneath
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it and she's like oh this is from your secret
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admirer it's a note from the stalker that says
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you should be with me you know like your your
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brother is an overpowering presence in your life
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and you should be mine and blah blah blah you
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know just like delusional yeah stalker being
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here gray sees the note and he's furious he's
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seething and so he automatically kind of figures
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out who it is just based on the fact that the
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barista brought it over to the table and he noticed
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like a guy looking at them from the back so he's
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like i see you i know it's you what whatever
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so he's like okay well knowledge collected so
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he's like we're leaving so he grabs wyatt and
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basically drags him out of there and then they
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they go into the alley behind the coffee shop
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And Wyatt's like, I'm sorry, Gray. I'm sorry.
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Like, I know that you saw the night. He's like,
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yeah, I did see it. He's like, I'm sorry. I just
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don't want you to. I don't want you to kill him.
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I don't want you to get caught. And so they're
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like having this moment in the alley. And then
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it leads to Wyatt giving Gray a blowjob in the
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alley. As one does. As one does. And right at
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the end of said blowjob. the stalker comes around
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the corner and he doesn't know that they're together
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yeah he sees them and he's like thinks that gray
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is like forcing wyatt to do that and he's like
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oh how could you do that to your own brother
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blah blah and he just like starts going off on
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them and then why it's like still on his knees
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in this like dirty alley and gray like pulls
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back from him and then why it basically like
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blinks and then when he like opens his eyes the
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guy is dead what the gray just snapped his neck
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oh my god wait this whole time though why it's
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on his knees yeah oh my gosh yeah wait okay i
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have a question is his penis still out That's
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a really valid question, Katie. Thank you for
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asking. This is the important shit. I think murder
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would be more difficult to do with your penis
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out, but not impossible. I neither have murdered
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nor do I have a penis, so I don't know. Clapping
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around while he murders? Yeah, same. But I can
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see the complication, you know? But it wasn't
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out anymore. Yeah, yeah. After he finished, he
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put himself back in his pants while the stalker
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was yelling at him. i don't know that might be
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like a power move though to have your dick out
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while you're killing someone yeah that's true
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do the helicopter beforehand i'm thinking about
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what it would sound like it would be like yeah
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have you ever heard a helicopter oh my god um
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I wouldn't be able to take that seriously. I
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know you're about to murder me, but can you please
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put your penis away? Well, okay. That would have
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been really funny, I guess, but it wasn't like
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that. It's not that kind of book. I'm sorry.
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It's not that kind of book. Anyway, he kills
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the stalker in the alley. stops him in the dumpster
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to come back for later and takes Wyatt back home
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because Wyatt he always knew that that Gray was
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killing people but he's never seen him actually
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do it so he was pretty shaken by it so Gray brings
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Wyatt back to their place and puts him in bed
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and and then he goes back for the body but and
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gets rid of it and you know he doesn't get caught
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of course yeah He doesn't get caught. But yeah,
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so that ends with them fucking. Them fucking.
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Yeah. Oh, and Wyatt gets unlocked for that. Oh,
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what a treat. Well, that was nice of him. Oh,
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I'm glad they unlocked him. Lucky him. Yeah,
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just a little treat for him. Yeah, so yeah, that
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was another one of those Becca Vale books that
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kind of have more plot than you would expect.
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What a wild ride. It was like a nice jaunty good
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time. Jaunty good time. Yeah. Yeah, it was a
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jaunty good time. Yeah, so my little junk food
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reads got me through the week. Yeah. What did
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you read, Kit? Yeah, I also had a bit of a book
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slump week. No. But I did read one book that
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really helped. It was called My Everything by
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Jada Marks. It's another daddy boy book. My favorite.
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We love. Yes. We love. yes it was one of those
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low angst books where the daddy just gives the
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boy all of the love that he never got before
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okay so the meet cute they actually have two
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right so daddy whose name is titus is a bouncer
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at a nightclub and he's like really you know
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big tall thick um i think he's like six foot
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four daddy yeah yeah exactly i think he's like
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shaved head um bearded basically he looks terrifying
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he looks mean but he's not right teddy bear yeah
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there's a quote in it where it's like i know
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i'm a fighter but if people just give me the
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chance i could be a lover too damn it so like
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he's yeah he's been really unlucky in love and
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the boy owen has also been quite unlucky in love
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um he very much likes to wear the makeup and
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he likes crop tops and sparkly things and people
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have just very much judged him for it and also
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the fact that he does like like the daddy boy
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relationship thing people just haven't given
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him what he needs yeah so the dates have not
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gone well for either of them beforehand so the
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first meet you that they have is at the club
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and owen the boy is quite a homebody But his
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friends have dragged him out. And then he's on
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the dance floor and these two guys decide to
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fight over him. Oh no. Over who gets to dance
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with him. Right? Like, who does that? So Titus,
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Daddy Titus, goes to break it up. When he breaks
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the two eyes up, he finds Owen huddled on the
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floor between them. so he like he gets him up
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and he makes sure he's okay he kind of he has
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to escort the the two men out and while he does
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that he loses sight of owen but when he turns
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back around owen is there and he's like i just
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want to thank you and also here's some water
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because i want to make sure you're drinking it's
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like oh that's so cute but there's no time to
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like get each other's numbers and stuff so they
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think they're never going to see each other again
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and then the next week owen is in the supermarket
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trying to top up his makeup and get his favorite
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hair gel and stuff and someone's moved his hair
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gel to like the top shelf and No, I hate that.
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Right? So rude. It's hard to be short. Exactly.
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Owen is like 5 '4", I think it was. He's tiny.
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That's not short. It's okay, Katie. I'm 5 '3".
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I have an idea for bag tongs. So you just put...
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the tongs in your bag and then you go to the
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store you can't reach out the top you know what
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hell yeah we're all pretty short around here
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so we could all benefit from some bag tongs i
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need these our first merch idea if you don't
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if you don't carry a bag that you just wear them
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on your belt like in the holster yes oh my god
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i need that on a carabiner here we go wow awesome
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okay sorry go on so he was like oh god am i gonna
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have to climb the shelves um and then this hand
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just like reached up and grabbed it and and it
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was titus daddy daddy yeah daddy um so they were
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like really happy to see each other and titus
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was like i'm not letting you leave without asking
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you on a date yeah and like just the whole thing
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was really cute they go on loads of different
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dates like they go to dinner but also they have
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a day out on the river on a boat that Titus owns
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and that's really fun they take some sexy pictures
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of each other yeah they go swimming for a bit
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there's a lot of like teasing each other and
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like getting each other a bit horny through the
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whole book and they go on this picnic um like
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a treat that titus gives owen whenever he does
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his chores, Titus rewards Owen with a treat and
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it's usually like a date. So yeah, so this one's
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a picnic. He gets Owen to choose the spot and
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like Owen's running around going, oh, we could
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go by the tree, but ew, ants. And he's like,
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oh, we could go by the river, but ew, goose shit.
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Which like, frankly, yeah, especially because
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like where there's goose shit, there's usually
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geese. Oh yeah, you don't want to mess with that.
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Oh, and they're mean. No, geese are terrifying.
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Like, geese have a vendetta against me, so I
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get it. They have a vendetta against humanity.
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They really do. As a whole. Yep. Do not fuck
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with a goose. No, do not fuck with geese. And
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then he finds a place which, personally, I would
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have gone to people. But he was like, there are
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people, so this is perfect. So they had this
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lovely picnic, and they got to know each other,
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and they cuddled, and there were blankets. It
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was very cute. Yay, cuddling! And then my personal
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favorite date they had. Owen was really sad.
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There'd been like some family drama. So Titus
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was like, why don't you make over daddy? Yeah.
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So he painted Titus's toenails and then he put
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makeup on Titus. Oh my God. It was just so cute.
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I need to read this. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's just, it was a really great book all about
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like accepting all of each other because they've
28:58
never found anybody who does that for, you know,
29:01
before. Yeah. Like the spice, funny enough, it
29:04
was kind of vanilla. It's very much like, it's
29:07
not particularly detailed or kinky in the spice.
29:09
It's more like the relationship itself is the
29:12
daddy thing. There's a lot of like rules and
29:14
stuff. And he really wants like his daddy to
29:16
be making decisions for him. So like when they
29:19
go out to eat and stuff. Hard relate. And just
29:20
decisions in life. So, but yeah, it was. incredibly
29:24
sweet book and it's really what i needed yeah
29:26
yeah so i i thoroughly recommend so i know it's
29:30
the first book in the series and i believe the
29:32
second book is also about them oh yeah maybe
29:36
it'll be a little spicier yeah but it ends on
29:38
a happily ever after but yes it does end on a
29:41
happily ever after okay so yeah that's what i
29:42
read this week uh what about you megan i also
29:45
had a hate slumpy week. Doing so well. Continuing
29:52
the trend. But I did two rereads this week that
29:56
I want to talk about because I love them. And
29:59
I couldn't choose between the two. That's all
30:02
the reason you need. Exactly. So the first book
30:06
that I reread was Cold Hard Cash by K .L. Hears.
30:12
This was a book that JD recommended to me months
30:14
and months ago. And I recommend it to all of
30:16
you as well. Oh my God. It's so good. Sorry,
30:20
go on. It's so good. Yes. Especially if you love
30:23
mafia romances. Yes. It is amazing. And I was
30:26
so surprised because when I posted about it last
30:28
week, they responded and they said that this
30:30
was like their first book they published. Really?
30:33
Really? Yeah. And so I was like, dang. I did
30:36
not know that. Yeah. Great for a debut. No kidding.
30:40
Yeah. said they want to get back and write more
30:43
of their story and i'm like yes please yes please
30:46
i will eat it up i will eat it up please we are
30:50
here for it feed me It's a mafia romance, like
30:57
I said. Age Gap, which we love. And basically
31:00
it stars Jimmy Poe, who is another sad boy. And
31:04
as everybody knows, we love a sad boy. We love
31:07
a sad boy around here, okay? Yes, sad boys forever.
31:11
Sad boys. Yes. So Jimmy Poe's a sad boy. And
31:16
his mom was murdered when he was younger. And
31:19
he witnessed the murder. And his dad was arrested
31:23
for it and sent to prison. Since he witnessed
31:26
it, he knows that his dad didn't actually do
31:28
the murder. Nope. So an attempt to try to get
31:32
his dad out. So he knows who did. Well, he saw
31:33
the person, but he doesn't know who that person
31:36
was. And he was a child. But he knows it wasn't
31:39
his dad. yeah but he knows it wasn't his dad
31:41
yeah he was a child and and the police like didn't
31:44
take him seriously because they were like oh
31:46
you're just traumatized because of you saw your
31:48
mom get killed and yeah rude but also like the
31:51
murderer was wearing a white coat and his dad
31:53
is a doctor so you know a white coat white coat
31:57
you know after his dad goes to prison he ends
32:00
up getting pseudo adopted i guess adopted by
32:02
a police detective who is also convinced that
32:06
his dad was the one that that did the murder.
32:09
And so even though Jimmy's like trying to convince
32:12
him that it wasn't his dad, the cop just doesn't
32:14
really believe him. He does not believe him.
32:17
Yeah. And so in order to try to get his dad out
32:19
of prison, he borrows money from the mafia to
32:22
be able to pay the legal fees. That all happened
32:25
before the book starts. So the book starts with
32:27
Jimmy's like pseudo, I don't know. He's a little
32:31
bit of a father figure, but he was really good
32:34
friends with Jimmy's dad. His name's Maury. yeah
32:37
so the book starts with maury telling jimmy your
32:40
debt has been sold and now it's owned by boss
32:44
cold who is like the new head of the mafia and
32:48
he's not gonna let you kind of skate by without
32:50
paying him he's gonna like demand the money now
32:52
and jimmy's just got fired from his job at the
32:54
grocery store and he's like i have $19 to my
32:59
name or something like that. I know. Well, he's
33:04
already pawned all of his possessions to Mari.
33:07
And so he's like, it's fine. I'll talk to him.
33:08
And Mari is like, listen, I heard he's gay. Just,
33:13
you know, offer to work off your debts with him.
33:20
i heard uh i already let somebody do that one
33:22
time maybe you could try oh my god exactly and
33:26
jamie's like no i'm not gonna do that then he
33:29
gets home and boss cold is at his house in his
33:32
living room in his living room lounging on his
33:36
couch and he's like hey you owe me money and
33:39
jamie's kind of like oh he's he's kind of fucking
33:41
hot like oh god i think i will do it he's like
33:46
well actually maybe i will and his enforcer um
33:52
Jules Jules yes so Jules is there too and Jules
33:55
literally grabs Jimmy and is taking his hand
33:58
about to burn it on like the stove and then like
34:01
Jimmy yells out something like I'll I'll let
34:03
you fuck me well all right yeah so he like stops
34:09
Jules and holds like asking like well is that
34:12
what you want he's like well it's what you want
34:16
right and it doesn't really matter what i want
34:18
at this point i want to keep my fingers exactly
34:21
then boss cold or um roderick legrand is his
34:26
real name wow Love that. Cold is basically like,
34:34
we'll do a trial run. Not going to buy the cow
34:36
without tasting the milk. Oh God, I hate that.
34:41
So he tells Jimmy like, be here tonight at this
34:44
address and we'll do a test run or whatever.
34:46
Yeah, so Jimmy shows up and Cold's sitting there
34:49
behind the desk, can't be bothered. He's just
34:51
like, okay, take a shower and then sit on the
34:52
bed. So Jimmy does that. He like takes a shower
34:55
and he sits on the bed and he's waiting and waiting
34:57
and then really dirty stuff happens. cold warns
35:02
him he's like you don't know what you're about
35:03
to get into yeah yeah exactly there's i'll just
35:06
say like there's a toy involved boss is what
35:09
what's up what kind of toy i just a dildo okay
35:13
well he said he tells jimmy to pick out a dildo
35:16
from the side drawer or whatever he picks the
35:18
smallest one but the smallest one still seven
35:20
inches and cold like laughs at it he's like yeah
35:24
okay you know so that's when you find out like
35:27
boss is hung huge hog huge hog tag incoming and
35:32
like he doesn't get in dress at all he literally
35:40
just like opens his pants and then is like look
35:42
at it here it is you know and then basically
35:53
like proceeds to fuck him into the mattress excellent
35:56
yes and then zips up and it tells jimmy to like
35:59
take a shower and jimmy's like getting ready
36:01
to go home and he's like no i have you until
36:04
5 a .m you're staying longer in case i want to
36:07
use you again oh my god and then tells jimmy
36:11
that he's hired and then proceeds to say like
36:13
i'm giving you a tip and then to like literally
36:16
throw dollar bills onto his body make it rain
36:20
jimmy's this whole time is just what he's like
36:24
he's so fucked out he doesn't even register what's
36:27
happening and then he's in the shower and he's
36:28
like he didn't even kiss me Poor Jimmy's just
36:32
getting feelings. And then Boss Cold's just like,
36:35
very cold. Very cold. Yes, he's very. He lives
36:38
up to his name. The whole book is just told from
36:41
Jimmy's POV. So you don't really get to see Cold's
36:44
point of view. I think that it wouldn't be my
36:46
cup of tea because for most of the book, like
36:48
maybe what, 60 or 70 % of the book, Cold is kind
36:51
of. cold to jimmy jimmy you could tell starts
36:56
falling for him fast and cold does little things
36:59
for him that kind of blur the lines between like
37:02
having a contract and being boyfriends like cold
37:05
sister shows up and she takes jimmy shopping
37:07
and gets him a new wardrobe which we love a shopping
37:10
scene you know yeah i do desperately needed it
37:14
he desperately needed it he needs a day job because
37:18
the sleeping with cold is just to pay off his
37:20
debt to the mafia but he's like i still need
37:22
to pay my rent and everything and to keep the
37:24
lawyers and stuff yeah exactly so he gets a job
37:27
singing at one of cold's clubs and that becomes
37:30
a whole fun thing because then he's up there
37:32
singing and he's singing to cold when cold's
37:34
watching he's just entranced oh my god it's so
37:39
good yeah you can tell he's totally falling for
37:44
jimmy but because surprise surprise he's got
37:46
trauma in his past no way I was owned once and
37:52
no one's going to own me again. But towards the
37:55
end, you know, he softens up. And then book two
37:57
is just so good. It's just like it's finally
38:01
seeing him be completely gone for Jimmy. But
38:04
also still, they have a very dom -sub relationship
38:06
in the bedroom. Jimmy calls him sir. And then
38:10
Colt calls Jimmy Mr. Poe. Fucking hot. It is.
38:18
It's really hot. Here are my kink tags for the
38:21
book. Come play, dirty talk, breath play, degradation.
38:25
Dub con, face fucking, fingering, impact play,
38:27
out control, objectification, power exchange,
38:30
rough fuck, sex contracts, banking, free use,
38:33
toys, restraints, cock ring, desk sex, biting,
38:37
bondage, edging, marking. Oh my everything. Yum,
38:41
yum, yum, yum, yum. Hand collar, hands free.
38:45
He puts a gag in at one point. He's got handcuffs.
38:49
There's whimpering. There's belching. Oh, I love
38:51
whimpering. Oh my gosh. Yes. Baby. Your favorite.
38:59
Mentioned. Yes. Yes. It was like, well, this
39:05
is my first. I'm just going to, I'm just going
39:07
to put it all in there for you. Oh my God. And
39:11
they did. And it was glorious. I have a question.
39:14
So I know you said he's very cold, but is there
39:17
aftercare? First two scenes. He doesn't, but
39:19
see, he always spends the night. He never kicks
39:21
Jimmy out. And he always sleeps in the bed with
39:23
him. so there is a little bit of that it's not
39:26
like he's just like fucks him and then kicks
39:28
him out and then ignores him like i think even
39:31
the first night that they're together jimmy points
39:33
out that he has a memory of feeling like his
39:37
arm around cold as they sleep yeah and then and
39:40
then he orders jimmy breakfast in the morning
39:42
he literally orders breakfast yeah orders like
39:45
everything off of the menu to be delivered to
39:47
the hotel room so there's aftercare in that sense
39:50
but not in the cold is touch averse he doesn't
39:56
like people touching him without permission when
39:58
they get deeper into the relationship do they
40:01
or or no what is that is that sort of a constant
40:03
for him that he's not much of a as long as he
40:06
feels comfortable with you and you have asked
40:08
permission he's fine with it they don't have
40:10
their first kiss though until like 75 into the
40:13
book oh my gosh yeah but it's epic but it is
40:17
epic yeah It's just it's so like I said, he's
40:20
not cruel. He's cold, but he's not cruel. Like
40:23
basically is what it is. Yeah. And like he does
40:25
start doing more aftercare. Like I think the
40:27
third time they sleep together, he like cleans
40:29
up Jimmy. And then like there is a scene where
40:31
they take a bath together. Yes, I love that scene.
40:34
Yes, it's so good. He hadn't even seen cold naked
40:37
yet. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. And that scene you
40:39
find out. Yeah, because he always left his clothes
40:41
on. Yeah. Was that like a power thing or? It's
40:44
a trauma thing. Yeah. But he's covered in scars.
40:48
i have this on my tbr it has a scene where literally
40:52
cold goes on a rampage to save jimmy yes i love
40:55
that i always eat that up yes i know so good
40:59
yes and even though it's got all this like sex
41:03
and kink they do a great job of balancing the
41:07
plot with the kink very cohesive exactly i feel
41:12
like that's true of all of kl here's his books
41:15
yes yes i agree i agree yeah they do so good
41:19
at that their writing is just like Yeah, it's
41:22
just perfect. I don't know. They're one of my
41:23
favorite authors to read. I'm never disappointed
41:25
with any of their books. Yeah, auto -read. That
41:29
was my week. Katie, what about you? So I only
41:33
read two books and I literally finished the second
41:37
book last night at like 11 p .m. I'm like, I
41:39
gotta finish for tomorrow. I didn't want to disappoint.
41:44
You could never. The last books I read, Married
41:48
to the Mobster by Leighton Green. Yes. Not outside
41:52
my normal, but like a little bit because I'm
41:54
very much like a cozy, sweet, kinky, like soft
41:59
book. I'm not a dark mafia kind of reader. Three
42:02
guesses who got Katie to read that one. It was
42:08
so fun, though. Like when I was reading it, I
42:11
would be like up just messaging JD like, oh,
42:13
my God. Oh, my God. I loved it. I loved it so
42:17
much. I love making people read that book. book
42:20
it was a great time so the book is about luca
42:23
and finch and like it starts off with finch like
42:26
at a club and he comes off as just like a young
42:28
party boy clubbing you know drinking drugs drugs
42:31
big time yeah and he loves just to go and like
42:35
hook up move on no worries no strings no nothing
42:38
but then he meets luca at like a club and he's
42:41
like immediately like really drawn to him and
42:43
they're kind of like you know flirt or whatever
42:45
but then luca just like fucks off and he finds
42:49
him in an alley later that night having been
42:51
beaten and like shot i think right yeah stab
42:54
he ends up saving luca's life he takes him back
42:56
to his hotel his fancy like new york hotel stitches
42:59
his arm up and then just by having just been
43:03
like on the brink of death, Luca's like, you
43:05
know what? Let's have sex. So they do. Let's
43:10
fucking go. I haven't lost enough blood. It's
43:12
fine. I have just enough for an erection. They
43:17
end up having a one night stand and it's like,
43:20
immediately Finch is just like, you know what?
43:22
This man. I'm obsessed. He rocks Finch's world.
43:27
I don't remember. I didn't use the huge hog tag
43:31
for this book, but I could be wrong. I don't
43:34
think it's big, but it's not huge hog worthy.
43:36
I don't think. Okay. It's pretty normal. Okay.
43:38
That's fine. But then like immediately we get
43:42
a time jump five years later. And like one thing
43:44
you find out is so Finch's dad, who's super absent,
43:48
not in his life, really just kind of sent him
43:50
off to like boarding schools. And it's kind of
43:52
a jerk. He's head of the Irish Mafia, but when
43:54
Finch was a kid, he witnessed his mother's murder.
43:58
And ever since his mom passed, his dad was like,
44:02
I don't want anything to do with this kid. And
44:04
kind of also really stepped back from the whole
44:06
mob stuff. So as far as Finch knows, his family's
44:09
not really in the mob anymore. And his family's
44:12
just rich. That's how it seemed to me. I could
44:13
be wrong. They kind of pulled back from it and
44:17
were trying not to really be in it anymore. But
44:20
the fingers were... still a little bit dipped
44:23
in yeah i mean once you're in i feel like it's
44:26
kind of like yeah that's not one of those things
44:28
you're just like all right well i'm done with
44:29
this for now bye bye mafia yeah so luca is now
44:34
not a capo but he's just like a he's like an
44:36
enforcer i guess in the mafia for this for a
44:39
family he does not like the family he works for
44:41
though like the overall family so there's like
44:44
the head family and then there's like the smaller
44:46
groups within listen don't don't come to me for
44:49
knowledge on how mafia these work sounds like
44:53
something a mafia would say so he's like he's
44:59
not a fan of the dude he works for he's he doesn't
45:02
respect him but he loves well not loves but he
45:04
respects like the big honcho the bomb daddy big
45:07
daddy big daddy the big mafia daddy so he's like
45:16
ordered to kidnap this kid and like essentially
45:19
kill him to send a message to this irish mob
45:22
family and they kidnap the kid shows up at a
45:25
warehouse and who is it it's freaking finch and
45:28
he's like oh my god he's like oh my gosh i can't
45:31
i can't kill this kid and so sure you can they
45:35
end up going to like the big big mafia daddy
45:39
and It's like a marriage of convenience or arranged
45:43
marriage, I guess, kind of like a forced marriage.
45:45
I was going to say Luca was just as taken with
45:48
Finch as Finch was with Luca all those years
45:51
before. And when he sees him, like when they
45:54
pull the bag off and it's Finch, he's like, I
45:57
can't do this. And so when they go to the boss,
46:01
Luca basically tells him that like he has a life
46:03
debt towards Finch because Finch saved his life
46:06
those years ago. And so he can't kill him because
46:09
he has a life. debt for him and so then tina's
46:12
like okay well we can't let him go either because
46:14
yeah now he knows stuff so you're gonna you're
46:19
gonna marry him and you're gonna treat him well
46:21
um so but the thing is luca even though he does
46:25
have feelings for finch and he cares about him
46:28
he's like I can't let anyone know how I feel.
46:31
I can't even let him know how I feel because
46:33
the second people know that I really care for
46:35
him, he's a target. He's going to be killed.
46:37
I can't have that happen. And so it's just really
46:40
frustrating, like kind of push and pull because
46:42
he cares. But then obviously they're married.
46:44
They go on a honeymoon. Tino, big mafia daddy,
46:47
sends them on like a cruise for like a month
46:50
or something or a couple of weeks. And they get
46:52
to go on this like fancy cruise. And while they're
46:53
on the cruise. He like makes them sleep in separate
46:56
beds and he's like, we're not going to be touching.
46:58
And that doesn't last. So I had started reading
47:02
this before JD and I became friends and I DNF'd
47:07
it at this part because I was like, nah, fuck
47:08
this. He was being a shithead. and also because
47:14
you find out that Finch was lusting after him
47:17
the entire time too yeah and I was like this
47:20
is so mean but then JD was like nah Megan you're
47:23
you're almost there just keep going you know
47:27
yeah I was like please get back in there get
47:30
back in there soldier come on I will say yeah
47:32
if you're reading this book and you get to the
47:34
if you get to the honeymoon part and you're like
47:36
what the hell like why are you being such a dick
47:39
yeah keep on reading it is going please keep
47:42
going it is really frustrating because there
47:44
is so much of that luca likes him and luca's
47:46
sleeping with him but then luca kind of pushes
47:48
him away and isn't mean but isn't super nice
47:51
yeah it's push and pull yeah he has those possessive
47:53
moments of that's my husband kind of thing and
47:56
i really like that i'm a big fan and it is sort
47:59
of slow burn and obviously they're together but
48:01
the slow burn is for once the feelings are out
48:04
yeah if that makes sense emotional slow burn
48:06
emotional slow burn yes but so there's like a
48:09
lot that happens i don't want to ruin the whole
48:11
plot because there's a lot of drama going on
48:13
in the mafia family and there's going to be like
48:16
an uprising and it gets wild kind of a mystery
48:19
which i was I was so proud of myself. I get a
48:22
gold star. I guessed what was going to happen.
48:25
I was messaging JD. I'm like, oh, I know what's
48:28
happening. And I didn't think I was right. And
48:30
then JD's like, yep, you called it. Good job.
48:33
Got it. Nailed it. Oh, I so did not. Me either.
48:36
I messaged them and I was like, oh my God, I
48:40
love this person. And then like 10 minutes later,
48:44
I was like, what the fuck just happened? That
48:46
didn't happen. No. Like... oh my gosh it's it's
48:55
funny there's a lot that goes on it does end
48:57
with them together and having like an open like
49:00
not open relationship like open communication
49:01
between the two of them finally one thing i love
49:04
though is so luca was raised really poor not
49:07
fancy he's coming from nothing where finch is
49:10
the opposite like he was raised finest things
49:13
money could buy fancy cars drinking like he's
49:16
used to luxury and so when they reconnect five
49:20
years later luca's wearing like just the worst
49:22
outfits like men's warehouse or yeah just like
49:26
really like a cheap suit that he's trying to
49:28
like make look expensive but Finch sees right
49:31
through it and he's like nah nah nah nah not
49:33
my game yeah he's like oh it's Armani he's like
49:36
no it's not Finch is like it's for sure not it
49:39
is I love how often that Finch is just like that
49:43
suit's horrible that suit's terrible oh yeah
49:46
Finch has like a one person campaign against
49:49
every suit And rightfully so, because he just
49:54
wants his man to look at the part, you know,
49:57
he wants him to be king of the city and you got
50:00
to look like you are. I do love that. So the
50:03
whole time Finch is like trying to uplift, like
50:05
really trying to help him be the best mobster
50:08
that he can be. Like he's really standing by
50:11
his man. Yeah. I'm just hearing Michael Ferriolo's
50:15
like Finch voice in my head saying like, you
50:18
can rule the city, baby. like with that accent
50:22
i do love the audio yes um it's so good the audio
50:27
is so good i'm gonna i actually checked out the
50:30
second book so it's a it's a series the morelli
50:32
family series and books one and two and then
50:35
i think six are this couple and then the other
50:38
books are other couples connect and they're all
50:40
so good But Married to the Mobster was really
50:44
fun. I loved the spice because, so Finch is like
50:47
super bratty, bossy, like, but also kind of like
50:51
a pillow princess. I don't know how to explain.
50:53
Yeah, a little bit. A little bit of a mix. But
50:55
there's this part where he's just like, they
50:58
were like arguing or something. And Finch is
51:00
just like, eat my ass to make up for it or whatever.
51:05
It's so funny. And Luca does. There's a lot of
51:11
eating in this book. It was so good. Hidden feelings,
51:18
miscommunication, mobster. You get all of it.
51:22
It was a wild ride and I loved it. I'm so glad
51:26
that you enjoyed it. Hey lovelies. Editing Megan
51:31
here. How you guys doing? You okay? enjoying
51:36
that audible sale getting lots of good good audiobooks
51:40
I know I am anyway as you have heard by now this
51:45
is the cursed episode and what that means is
51:48
it was a pain in the ass to edit and put together
51:52
and record and just generally just to get it
51:56
out to you guys but the authors and the books
52:00
that we talked about in this episode were so
52:02
important to us that we didn't abandon it so
52:05
that being said there are a number of audio issues
52:08
that normally wouldn't pass my scrutiny but I
52:12
did my best I could with this and sometimes you're
52:15
going to hear echoes and sometimes you're going
52:17
to hear beeping and sometimes you're going to
52:18
hear I don't know just stuff in the background
52:21
and I tried my best to get it out and you know
52:25
wasn't able to every time um just wanted to let
52:28
you guys know that this is not going to be our
52:29
standard for episodes moving forward obviously
52:32
we're going to do better about everything like
52:35
that so if you don't notice them thank you if
52:39
you do notice them sorry uh thank you thank you
52:43
thank you thank you how do i end this wait wait
52:49
wait wait wait um so katie just told me that
52:52
the audible sale ends before this episode goes
52:56
live so i i hope that you did enjoy that audible
53:03
sale Okay, bye. Okay, so moving on to our book
53:12
radars. I have a couple today. The first one
53:18
that I have is a book that's actually out already.
53:23
So you can go read it if you want to. This one
53:27
is Dead Nights by Kriya Raytan. It is an MMMM.
53:43
It's a poly romance. Yes, it's a poly romance.
53:47
Some of the things that were on the graphics
53:50
that I've seen were broken boys. Yeah, I love.
53:55
We love the broken boys. I don't know why I sang
54:00
that. Some things need to be sung. One of the
54:06
things on there was secret society. It has ghosts.
54:14
Hell yes. Ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost. There was
54:17
also a quote that said more dead than living.
54:21
It's on like a remote island. Remote. Yes. Thank
54:26
you. It's on. Like a remote island. I think it's
54:31
like a haunted island. Oh. Yeah. It sounds super
54:36
intriguing. Forced proximity. Stormed in was
54:40
the reason for that. And then it's like a hookups
54:43
to lovers. And then one of the other quotes that
54:46
I found intriguing was intruders with knives.
54:50
Oh. Yeah. So I don't really. I don't know. It's
54:55
giving good vibes. I don't know what's up with
55:00
that one, but it's giving good vibes. So I think
55:02
I'm going to have to read that. Oh, yeah. Is
55:06
that going to be too scary? I don't know. I don't
55:09
think so. Good. I don't think Kreia writes really
55:14
scary things. I think it's going to be more of
55:17
a mystery. um but maybe i'll i'll read some reviews
55:22
before i go because i'm just a baby i'll read
55:26
it with you and then okay and you read faster
55:30
than me so you can warn me yeah so that one sounds
55:36
really good and then the other one that i have
55:40
is very exciting for me and i mean i guess for
55:45
you guys too probably for everyone but i'm very
55:48
very excited it's a new chloe archer book and
55:53
a new series that just got announced that is
55:57
about ghost hunters and it has so many authors
56:02
involved that we all love I'm so excited. I love
56:07
ghosts and I love these authors. Megan loves
56:10
ghosts. Entirely for them. They wrote it all
56:17
for me. It's all for you. Yeah. So I'm just going
56:20
to talk about Chloe Archers today. And then I'm
56:23
assuming that we're going to talk about the other
56:27
books. in more episodes for sure I don't think
56:31
we'll be able to help ourselves it's just too
56:34
exciting so the series is starting like from
56:38
September through October I think through like
56:42
Halloween is like the last release yeah this
56:45
one is coming out October 15th according to Goodreads
56:50
and it's called shake your boo thang Great name.
56:56
Yes. It is about a haunted former underground
57:01
gay nightclub that burned down. Oh my gosh. There
57:07
is a gym that was built on top of it, I guess.
57:10
And the customers are complaining about flickering
57:15
lights. music that they can't stop and it's like
57:19
abba and like the bgs disco music oh my god at
57:23
really really loud volumes i'm so here for this
57:27
yeah and then one of one of the things that it
57:30
also said customers were complaining about was
57:33
ectoplasm facials so well yeah we all know that
57:39
ectoplasm is basically ghost cum so yeah yeah
57:43
exactly yeah it's about a former detective turned
57:48
ghost hunter and a podcaster and it's located
57:52
in west end london excellent i don't know where
57:56
that is what's that it's like the the broadway
57:58
okay yeah of london i think i knew that yeah
58:02
because we just talked about it because yeah
58:04
we literally i was like wait wait now that you're
58:07
saying bringing it back around goldfish memory
58:12
It all connects. I'm so excited because I think
58:15
it's going to be, I don't know, Chloe does such
58:17
a good job. We love Chloe. Yes, love Chloe so
58:21
much. She just does such a good job with pop
58:23
culture references. Even in books that I've read
58:26
of hers in the past, even pop culture references
58:29
that I didn't really get because I didn't watch
58:32
those things. I thought they were really funny.
58:35
I'm sure if you had watched them, you would have
58:37
loved it even more. I don't know. She just does
58:39
a really good job of that. I did watch. Yeah,
58:41
I watched everything that she talked about. Is
58:43
it Tentacular Tales? Tentacular Tales. Yeah,
58:46
there were so many there. Oh, I've got that on
58:48
my TBR. Yeah, all of those references were like
58:51
hit home for me. It was like Doctor Who, Star
58:54
Trek, Star Wars. Princess Bride. Princess Bride.
58:57
Everything. Yeah. Okay, so the important question.
59:02
Do we think there are going to be ghost tentacles?
59:05
Oh. You know. I want to say no, because I don't
59:12
think this detective or this podcaster are in
59:15
any way tentacled. Maybe some of the jokes would
59:19
have tentacles, but I don't think we're going
59:21
to get sexy tentacles from Chloe this time. But
59:23
hey, I'll be happy to be wrong. yeah and we'll
59:28
be happy whatever yes i'll be happy to be wrong
59:32
happy to be right just happy to be reading another
59:35
chloe archer book yes exactly i've only read
59:39
the two chloe archer books the ones you recommended
59:41
oh the monster hollow series yes yeah i really
59:45
like those books they're so like low angst and
59:48
just cozy they're so good i love them too i'm
59:52
so excited for the new one yes the little town
59:55
and like i'm just yeah i'm gonna go back monster
59:58
hollow and greg rudrow shout out to the audio
1:00:01
narrator i need to listen to the audios they're
1:00:05
good i feel like every episode is me saying oh
1:00:07
i should listen to those in audio Somebody make
1:00:13
me do it, please. Now I need to listen to Vampire's
1:00:17
Mates and Monsters Hollow. Oh, my pile is getting
1:00:21
high. But yeah, anyway, those are mine. I'm very
1:00:24
excited for both of them. What do you have, Kit?
1:00:28
I've got two that I'm really excited about as
1:00:30
well. The first one is called Violent Devotion
1:00:32
by Elle Norell. It's a debut. So congratulations.
1:00:37
This is a Mafia book. Yay! I know, right? We
1:00:42
do love our Mafia. We've got the ruthless Russian
1:00:46
Mafia enforcer who is completely numb to all
1:00:49
of his feelings. But he's almost killed one night,
1:00:52
except he's saved by the guarded veterinarian.
1:00:57
I love MCs who work with animals, so I'm really
1:01:01
excited about this. So, like, obviously, this
1:01:06
random guy saved his life. So the mafia guy just
1:01:08
becomes obsessed with him. And, you know, just
1:01:11
a little bit of stalking. I love a little, like,
1:01:14
light stalking. Right? I love a lot of little,
1:01:17
little stalking. Nothing wrong with a little
1:01:19
light stalking. What about a lot of heavy stalking,
1:01:23
too? Yeah, we could also do that. We could also
1:01:26
do that. It seems like the vet, he doesn't mind
1:01:29
too much, from what I can gather. He basically
1:01:32
goes, a red flag parade? For me? Let me get my
1:01:37
chair. Yeah. They're both touch starved. Love
1:01:42
a touch starved boy. So it's soft. only for you,
1:01:45
but it's also, and this was like specifically
1:01:47
in the marketing, it's adorable only for you.
1:01:50
Oh, stop it. It doesn't even matter who it is,
1:01:54
which one it is. It's going to be good. Yeah.
1:01:58
Right? And there's like breaking in to nap in
1:02:01
his bed. Oh, it's going to be so cute. Stop it
1:02:04
right now. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. So it's
1:02:07
going to be really good. There's going to be
1:02:08
dark humor in it. Yes. Breathe in his direction
1:02:11
wrong and die. It's going to be fantastic, I
1:02:13
think. Sign me up. yeah that's coming out the
1:02:17
24th of april cannot wait and then the other
1:02:20
one that i've got is shadow prince by s rodman
1:02:23
yeah yeah this is the start of a new series it's
1:02:26
probably going to be quite a low angst series
1:02:28
which is different for them uh different from
1:02:31
what yeah uh says normally writes quite dark
1:02:34
subcon kind of stuff really good though like
1:02:37
yes says his spice is usually off the charts
1:02:40
oh it's top tier but this right i've got to read
1:02:43
you the tagline okay and the first bit of the
1:02:45
blurb because it's just oh yeah right okay ready
1:02:48
let's go nightmare to love a romance what if
1:02:51
your childhood bogeyman turned out to be real
1:02:54
and a real pain in the ass literally apparently
1:02:59
the monster under my bed imprinted on me as a
1:03:02
child like a baby duck a six foot insufferably
1:03:06
hot made of shadow baby duck oh my god all right
1:03:11
give me right i need this now i'm crying it's
1:03:15
so good right so like from what i can gather
1:03:20
the Monster used to feed on nightmares, but now
1:03:25
he needs to feed on sexual energy. It's like
1:03:28
a sexy Monsters, Inc. Right? I mean, isn't Monsters,
1:03:32
Inc. already kind of sexy? Oh my god. I'm so
1:03:35
sorry for the image that invoked. Sexy -er Monsters,
1:03:39
Inc. So yeah, and apparently the bogeyman has
1:03:43
a filthy mouth, so I can't wait for that. What
1:03:47
is this book called? Shadow Prince. Oh, I need
1:03:50
it. Katie's got her notebook out. Yeah. Writing
1:03:54
it down. I'm on Goodreads right now. Don't worry
1:03:59
to anyone who's listening and doesn't have a
1:04:01
notebook. We will be putting all of these in
1:04:04
our post. Don't worry. We will have it for you
1:04:07
on a platter. So yes, this is April 14th. It
1:04:10
should be really good. There's going to be six
1:04:12
books in total in the series, but each one gets
1:04:14
an HEA. So I think they're going to be interconnected
1:04:16
standalones. oh this is gonna be so good yeah
1:04:20
i'm so ready yeah i'm so excited um so yeah that's
1:04:24
me basically megan what about you okay i have
1:04:28
a few the first one that i have on my list is
1:04:30
one of my i'm currently art reading it's called
1:04:32
wish we were here by risa cruz and it will be
1:04:35
out on 420 blaze it other drugs are available
1:04:44
and so it's a 90s nostalgia road trip romance
1:04:48
with uh caretaking and a bi reawakening obviously
1:04:53
forced proximity because they're it's a road
1:04:55
trip strangers to lovers only one bed and so
1:04:58
basically it's ash basically he's running from
1:05:01
his past he has epilepsy he's never left his
1:05:05
home of providence rhode island shout out to
1:05:08
rhode island and he he's a sex worker ash overhears
1:05:12
sam at a bar telling the bartender like that
1:05:15
he's got to drive back to miami because poor
1:05:18
old sam got dumped by his girlfriend and that
1:05:21
he drove all the way up north to meet and surprise
1:05:25
oh she dumped him so i know right that's a bummer
1:05:29
So, yeah, he's basically telling the bartender
1:05:31
he's got to drive back home to Miami. Ash over
1:05:33
here is like, if you take me with you, I will
1:05:35
pay your way. Oh, that's sweet. yeah yeah so
1:05:39
you know sam is like you know what yeah i was
1:05:42
gonna have to just sleep in my car sure i'll
1:05:44
bring this kid with me but then like shortly
1:05:46
after he agrees he starts noticing ash is kind
1:05:48
of withdrawn and he suspects that ash has been
1:05:51
unhoused and going through some stuff so it's
1:05:54
gonna be like caretaky like got lots of cuddles
1:05:56
got high heat so it's got like roadhead and skinny
1:05:59
dipping i love a road trip book me too right
1:06:04
just do There's so many good ones. Exactly. And
1:06:08
as soon as I saw the arcs open for this, I was
1:06:10
like, fuck, I'm going to sign up for this one
1:06:13
too. Your pile grows and grows. God, it's so
1:06:18
out of control. That one comes out on 420. Highly
1:06:22
recommend. And then the next one I have is another
1:06:27
arc reading one. It's Lockstep by C .T. Whistle,
1:06:31
which we all know I love this Omegaverse Case
1:06:34
Files series coming out on April 16th. And this
1:06:38
is book three in the series. This one is an Alpha
1:06:41
Alpha pairing. yes and like one of the tags for
1:06:48
the promotions was like oops they touch knots
1:06:51
during a threesome oh i'm so here for that yeah
1:06:55
so it's taylor and johnny and they have been
1:06:59
best friends like their entire lives and they
1:07:01
both went to school together went to academy
1:07:04
together they worked together they're just like
1:07:06
their entire lives are just intertwined and so
1:07:09
i have a feeling it's going to have a touch of
1:07:10
like idiots to lovers because one of them has
1:07:13
been in love with the other one for like 14 years
1:07:15
oh no yeah so it's gonna be it's gonna be pining
1:07:19
and oh but they're they're really codependent
1:07:24
on each other and um there was like a scene at
1:07:28
the beginning that was really sweet where um
1:07:30
taylor who is uh one of the who was i think he's
1:07:35
okay so it's taylor so taylor seems like the
1:07:41
more unhinged one he's got adhd and he um undiagnosed
1:07:44
adhd and he has trouble kind of regulating his
1:07:47
emotions sometimes so in the beginning of the
1:07:49
book there's something that happens that kind
1:07:50
of causes him to have trouble regulating his
1:07:53
emotions and so he's about to basically shift
1:07:56
because it's a shifter omegaverse so he's about
1:07:58
to shift in the um In the police place. Station.
1:08:05
Yeah. Thank you. At the police station. And Johnny
1:08:09
kind of starts to notice the sign. Johnny then
1:08:11
pulls out a handful of. nail polish and some
1:08:14
beads and he's like okay are we doing nail polish
1:08:16
or are we making bracelets oh my god so it's
1:08:19
really cute because yeah they'll either paint
1:08:21
nails or they'll make bracelets to kind of help
1:08:23
regulate Taylor's emotions that way I love that
1:08:26
yeah it is a slow burn but you got a lot of cute
1:08:30
moments leading up to it and along the way they're
1:08:33
solving a mystery of this small town and then
1:08:35
knitting needles which comes out on June 1st,
1:08:38
and this is by Ezra Wren. It's a tea for tea,
1:08:40
found family romance, kind of cozy. It stars
1:08:43
Oscar and Aaron, and they meet at a gender clinic
1:08:48
the morning of their top surgeries. Ooh. Yes.
1:08:52
I don't think I've ever read one that has that
1:08:54
kind of meet cute. No. So they meet at the clinic,
1:08:57
and then... kind of loose touch over a few weeks
1:09:00
but then erin's managed to track down oscar on
1:09:04
a gaming server and then they start texting and
1:09:06
it kind of becomes like a cozy going on dates
1:09:08
obviously so excited for this one it looks so
1:09:13
cozy and cute it does yeah you were the one that
1:09:16
showed me this and i was like oh yes please right
1:09:19
now yeah i absolutely have to read this it sounds
1:09:22
so good do they have knitting dates because of
1:09:24
the name of the book yes and yeah they're both
1:09:31
cinnamon rolls so we love that we love a cinnamon
1:09:34
roll Mostly there's like a lot of healing and
1:09:39
then they've got like a found family full of
1:09:42
queer friends. Yes. You know, I love a queer
1:09:45
found family. So, yeah, that's June 1st. And
1:09:48
then the last one I'm going to talk about is
1:09:49
Suck by E .M. Lindsay and Cora Rose. Yes. As
1:09:56
you guys know, we love this pairing. Love so
1:09:58
much. So this is a smutty monster romance. Yeah.
1:10:02
And it's coming out May 8th. I guess it started
1:10:04
off as a novella and now they're like kind of
1:10:06
turning it into. to a full -fledged book according
1:10:07
to what i've read in the reviews our star is
1:10:10
everest who is kind of a clueless human and in
1:10:13
the world these portals appear and monsters are
1:10:16
coming through and like you know the world is
1:10:18
like oh we gotta attack we're gonna go to war
1:10:20
but really they just are looking for humans to
1:10:22
do um sex sex things with it's like horny monstrous
1:10:28
like they're just up front about the horny from
1:10:34
the beginning one of the things about this book
1:10:38
though is like i'm doing it to save humanity
1:10:41
or something yeah that's literally one of the
1:10:44
taglines okay good for you some of the tropes
1:10:52
are obviously monster romance sucking and swooning
1:10:56
peddling body piercings yes yes yeah uh secret
1:11:00
romance monster peen yes we love the monster
1:11:05
pain antagonist to lovers and then it's got banter
1:11:09
and it's supposedly kinky as hell so i'm so excited
1:11:13
excellent yes i'm so excited that's all for me
1:11:17
but yeah that one comes out april 8th also so
1:11:20
soon what about you katie the books i have on
1:11:23
my radar are all technically out already i just
1:11:26
sort of wanted to like remind people and just
1:11:29
give them extra shout outs because i really like
1:11:31
them So Enchanted by Envy by Nick Knight came
1:11:35
out March 12th. It came out some time ago. It's
1:11:39
Zeph and Bryce and Zeph works at the cafe and
1:11:45
Bryce is coming to Purgatory through like a work
1:11:47
program so he can work with like animals and
1:11:50
stuff in the Hell dimension. It is so sweet and
1:11:56
soft and you've got like queer found family.
1:11:59
And lots of, there is like cuddling in this book.
1:12:03
So Zeph is touch averse. They're also aroace
1:12:07
and they don't have sex at all. There's no sex
1:12:10
in this book. But it is so, oh my gosh. So it's
1:12:13
just their romance and first their friendship.
1:12:16
And then their very slow burn, very sweet romance.
1:12:21
But it's also. so funny like i don't it's not
1:12:25
all sweet and soft and stuff like it's a hilarious
1:12:28
book well nick writes humor really well yeah
1:12:31
oh my gosh yeah bryce comes to stay in purgatory
1:12:33
and he moves in with zeff as zeff's new roommate
1:12:36
um and it's them like navigating one like having
1:12:39
a new a new roommate um zeff's a little particular
1:12:42
and like likes things um the way that they like
1:12:46
things like they have a mug system which i just
1:12:48
love oh my god i mean i relate i would tell you
1:12:53
guys about my glass right i have a very specific
1:12:55
way i put mugs away in the cabinet and i get
1:12:58
really annoyed when other people put mugs away
1:13:00
because they'll be like there's not enough space
1:13:01
but there oh my god do it right You put the ones
1:13:05
on the top shelf and you put the smaller ones
1:13:08
on the bottom shelf and stack them. Everything
1:13:10
has a place. And if you're not doing it right,
1:13:13
just don't do it at all. Exactly. I have a mug
1:13:16
tree for my larger ones and the larger ones go
1:13:18
on that mug tree. Anyway, so it's a really sweet
1:13:22
book. I really love it. Go read it. And then
1:13:24
the other book I wanted to mention is A Daddy
1:13:27
for Cooper, which came out March 18th. Yes! Yay!
1:13:31
I am very normal about this book. That's by Emery
1:13:36
Winters. It's technically book two in the series.
1:13:39
So the first book is A Dead Mate for Dylan. And
1:13:42
Dylan is Cooper's brother, younger brother. But
1:13:45
so this book, it picks up, yeah, I guess in the
1:13:47
middle. They're still getting together in A Dead
1:13:49
Mate for Dylan. But anyway, so Cooper and Patrick.
1:13:52
Daddy. Daddy. He owns the local cafe diner. Waffles.
1:13:57
Yes, waffles. He meets, he goes to like a kink
1:14:00
club because Cooper's an alpha and he's only
1:14:03
attracted to alphas, which in this universe,
1:14:06
that's sort of the equivalent of like being gay.
1:14:09
And he hasn't really, he's not out to anyone.
1:14:11
He hasn't told his family, his friend, no one.
1:14:14
And so he goes to like a club and you get like
1:14:16
the bracelets, like alpha seeking alpha. And
1:14:18
he runs into Patrick who kind of saves him from
1:14:21
an unpleasant person. Creepy guy. i love that
1:14:25
trope yes oh yeah the savior yeah well the dom
1:14:30
savior specifically at like a game club like
1:14:32
when that happens it's like oh yes yeah um but
1:14:37
so he he saves him and he agrees to do one scene
1:14:40
with cooper because you can kind of see that
1:14:42
like he needs somebody he needs he needs a daddy
1:14:45
also because patrick is like really attracted
1:14:48
to cooper but he's oh yeah really heartbroken
1:14:51
so he doesn't want a natural relationship. Yeah,
1:14:53
there's a lot of heartbreak. Patrick had a really
1:14:56
devastating relationship end. He had his own
1:14:59
partner and was cheated on and it was just like
1:15:03
really a huge emotional blow for him and he hasn't
1:15:07
recovered. Broken daddy. Yeah, so he's like,
1:15:09
I'm not dating but I'll do a scene with you and
1:15:11
that's it. There's no strings, we're not anything.
1:15:15
We can't do this again. Yeah, one and done. And
1:15:18
then proceeds to have the hottest scene. Oh my
1:15:21
god, yes. It's like the second chapter. My Kindle
1:15:25
lit on fire. It was insane. It was so good. Their
1:15:30
chemistry immediately is perfect. And Patrick
1:15:34
is able to read Cooper so well. He knows exactly
1:15:36
what he needs. Everything was really good. The
1:15:40
communication. There isn't a lot of... aftercare
1:15:43
in the very beginning like because they do a
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scene like he does check in with him but then
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they're nothing like they're not together they
1:15:49
go their separate ways cooper is just like he's
1:15:51
a sweet meaty boy like he just he needs a daddy
1:15:54
so bad i'm so scared to read this because that
1:15:57
dynamic in books makes me cry like when it's
1:16:00
oh but it's so good it's so worth it i know i
1:16:04
know let me tell you he he's lonely he's so lonely
1:16:07
and it breaks my heart because like his best
1:16:09
friend is axel um and axel is who who dylan is
1:16:13
with um and so now his best friend is dating
1:16:15
his brother and he he feels like he doesn't really
1:16:18
have his person anymore because like axel was
1:16:20
his person and so one thing he does he's not
1:16:24
an omega but he likes building nests to comfort
1:16:26
himself oh my god i know i love it so much i'm
1:16:31
not gonna spoil the whole book but a lot of stuff
1:16:34
happens at one point in the book he is really
1:16:37
upset over his relationship with Patrick and
1:16:39
um he's finally kind of confessed to being into
1:16:43
alphas to his friend Axel and he has Axel come
1:16:46
over and like Axel his best friend like comforts
1:16:49
him and like and lays in the nest with him and
1:16:51
just like is such a good friend and like gives
1:16:54
him cuddles but it's like very platonic there's
1:16:57
no like cheating or anything like that one of
1:16:59
my favorite things in a book is when there's
1:17:00
scenes like that with friends platonic when you
1:17:02
cuddle with your friends or affectionate with
1:17:04
your friends platonic yeah platonic affection
1:17:06
I loved it. I thought it was so sweet. Cuddle
1:17:08
more with your friends, people. Yes. But it was
1:17:11
such a good show of support. Axel never was like,
1:17:14
oh, that's really weird. I don't want to cuddle
1:17:16
you or anything like that. He was just like,
1:17:17
my friend needs support and I'm going to be there
1:17:19
for them. It was just really sweet. I loved every
1:17:21
moment of that book. I already want to read it
1:17:23
again. Go check him out. Maybe I'll have you
1:17:26
read it with me so you can be my emotional support.
1:17:28
So it'll make you cry. You're going to cry, Megan.
1:17:31
I'll cry at everything, but yeah. I know the
1:17:33
specific triggers I have for crying. Yeah. And
1:17:36
I hope we get a third book in this series because
1:17:39
Patrick has a friend and I want his friend to
1:17:41
get a book. I just like this town. I love the
1:17:44
dynamics of the characters. I like the way Emery
1:17:47
write Omegaverse. I want a thousand more. And
1:17:53
that's all I have. So that's all for this week,
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Bratz. We are going to be scurrying back to our
1:18:05
book nests now, you know. Until next time, you
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