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Episode 120: Heyer and Heyer, Baby - Venetia by Georgette Heyer pt. 2

It's a livin' thing.

This week, yr grls conclude their discussion Georgette Heyer's seminal novel of VENETIA!

This time we get into the sexiest part, the weirdest part, and the final verdict on whether or not we Whoa! or No! Venny. We may not stroke your ego, but we will get you in your feels.

Is the romance vibe, on the whole, more Georgette or Jane? Who is the Emma in your friend group? If you can't answer that, you might be the Emma. But look on the sunny side! At least you're not the Venetia.

This episode is brought to you by Kensington’s newest title from Shelly Laurenston, Breaking Badger.


Episode 119: Georgie Girl - Venetia by Georgette Heyer pt. 1

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

A return to the canon means a return to the big questions in romance. We know Heyer is a bad person, but is Venetia? How extricable is perspective from heroine? Is a man who is good at reading romance aloud necessarily a feminist? How do we talk about the problematic hands that mold the objects we love?

Put down that dentist office People Magazine and pick up your earbuds, this one is spicy.


Episode 118: The Cupcake/Tattoo Problem — Hurts To Love You by Alisha Rai

Is he hot or is he just from the wrong side of the tracks? This week on Whoa!mance we answer "YES" to both while discussing HURTS TO LOVE YOU by ALISHA RAI.

Fancy pants Evangeline has been secretly crushing cum app-enabled stalking flannel pants Gabe for years. And now at her family's wedding weekend *cough*regency house party*cough* she is ready to make a move.

Is slow burn > sudden burn? How have we landed in the current tattoo vs. cupcake shop spectrum? Is the only difference between historicals and contemporaries how close to the sun we feel reading them? Whats that musty chemical smell in your luxury chalet?

Better dye your shoes to match, we're fully committed to this one.

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Episode 117 Pt 2: Only in New York! — Evening Star by Catherine Coulter

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

Is erasure preferable to hero/ines who acknowledge the problems of their time but don't make act against it? Why do historical romances, especially from the late 19th Century, feel so much hornier? When was the last time your adult body felt worshipped? Does this book punch through the membrane of genre?

Do you hear Harry Connick Jr. over this autumnal New York love story? NO! You hear Whoa!mance. Tune in now.

Part 1 ovah here! ----> https://bit.ly/2WzoHeb

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Episode 117 Pt 1: When in Rome — Evening Star by Catherine Coulter

This week your girls disembark on a two parter on Catherine Coulter’s EVENING STAR aka SWEET SURRENDER.

We delve into the kinky, sweaty bordellos and just sweaty dinner parties of 19th Century Rome where young Giana is getting a pretty shallow lesson in womanhood from her uncle and meets an American, i.e. tall, businessman who is equal parts well-meaning and ruthlessly horny. I & M answer the questions Coulter has posed to her erstwhile reader and discover some Rome Truths along the way.

Why start with shock? Can we girlboss our way out of ideology? Does anyone have good intentions or are we just negotiating different ways to live with our selfish choices?

Sidle up to the velvet curtain and behold the one-way mirror to our conversation, we promise we don’t mind if you listen. ;)

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Episode 116: Purse'a'phone and Hayds — Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Is that a bottle of Pom Wonderful in your pocket or are you just excited for another modern retelling of Hades and Persephone? Either way you came to the right podcast! This week yr kores spring into “Neon Gods” by Katee Robert.

Modern It Girl Persephone runs away to the mysterious Under City (see what they did there?) to wait out her trust fund to move to Berkeley (pardon???). In order to stave off the unwanted amorous notions of Zeus she gets publicly f*ng’d by cinnamon roll in a black on black suit Hades. And then guess what happens!

Are we ever done reaping what 50 Shades of Grey has sown? Do you like bad boys or do you just like a project? Is world building the world of Romance?

Take a bite. We’d like you to stay a while.

This episode of Whoa!mance is sponsored by “Sweet Talking Rancher” by Kate Pearce from Kensington Books.

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You can find Neon Gods on GoodReads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54659771-neon-gods

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