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Episode 126: This Trope's For You — "A Highlander For Hanukkah" by Lori Ann Bailey

This week, yr grls discuss the show's first Hanukkah story from an anthology of shorts titled "Eight Kisses: Eight All-New Tales of Holiday Romance". Specifically we are back in bonnie Scotland for "A Highlander for Hanukkah" by Lori Ann Bailey (who also edited the anthology!)

Shoshana likes James, and James likes Shoshana even though she's Jewish and he's Catholic. But then a series of B'n'E's start cropping up, her dad goes out of town on business, and Hanukkah all coincide to help them discover they can and DO still want to make it.

Is all oppression equal? Is all comfort equal? And what makes a trope slap?

You're not going to wait for THIS Hot Pocket to cool before consuming.

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Episode 125: Medieval Midwifery — "The Secret" By Julie Garwood

Secrets, secrets are no fun. But THE Secret? By Julie Garwood? Well…

Judith leaves her dysfunctional behind in England to use her DIY doula skills to help her friend deliver a baby in the highlands. You know what they have in the highlands, don’t you? That’s right - HIGHLANDERS. Big, hunky, aloof-yet-communicative, laird-y ones named Ian.

Does the context a book was published in really matter? Is the appeal of highlanders just innocent plaid fun? Did you know Ian is Gaelic for John?

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Episode 124: Werewolf Baseball — "Mating the Huntress" by Talia Hibbert

Baby, yr grls are HOWLING for (and about) "Mating the Huntress" by Talia Hibbert this Halloween.

Chastity feels anything but chaste around local werewolf/fated mate/homeschooled-only-child Luke. The only problem? She comes from a family of huntresses--as in werewolf huntresses!

What's Halloween's whole deal? Are white people really ignorant about race, or is it just all getting channeled into metaphor? Are you cosplaying The Midwest right now?

We'd ask if Talia Hibbert is John Williams, but we already know the answer--and soon you will, too! TuuUUuune in, if you daaaare.

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Episode 123: Tasty Squeeze — A Man of Taste by Shira Glassman

This week yr girls are keeping it short’n’sweet as carrots with A MAN OF TASTE by SHIRA GLASSMAN. Milly the Vampire decides to treat herself and make herself a snack of a snack (wink). Little does she know she just found the everlasting gobstopper of boyfriends/dinners.

Can women consume anything without it being a moral conundrum? Is camp essential to vampire horror? Why is romance so good at genre mashing?

Lick. It. Up.

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Episode 122: Pumpkin Spice Lay - Pumpkin Pounder by Laura Lovely

Halloween isn't all about spookies, sometimes it is about parties. This week, yr grls explore the latter with PUMPKIN POUNDER by LAURA LOVELY.

Titular Daisy pursues her preference for those with the MC1R gene into a rom-com cum softcore Halloween evening with a guy from Ireland. But guess what? He's different from the other pumpkins she's pounded, and her passion for pounding pumpkins could just be another costume.

Are fetishes romantic? Is Halloween romantic? Is New York romantic? Is The Nightmare Before Christmas romantic?

Be home before midnight, lest ye be pounded by this week's episode.

This episode was edited by Ellie Gordon-Moershel.


Episode 121: Autumnal Femininity - For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten

Awoooooooooooo-tmespheric season is upon us, and this week yr grls are bundling up in the wooly caress of FOR THE WOLF by HANNAH WHITTEN.

Red was born to be a sacrifice to the enigmatic Wolf in the Woods, bound long before her time by a curse that is a lot like a marriage. But it turns out, he's more puppy than predator. And the woods aren't quite the bloodsucking borderlands they appear. But that doesn't mean there aren't bloodsucking predators afoot....

If a fantasy is a fantasy and a romance is romance--why is that? What is romance's unique place in the genre pool? What is the particular appeal of Fall for femmes? Is that blood or sap?

Lick it and see!