Our hearts take wing and our air mattress deflates in this installment of MONSTER MARCH featuring Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison.

Pia manages to steal from a dragon's - or rather THE Dragon's - hoard but doesn't manage to not leave highly incriminating personal evidence at the scene. Lucky for us, and lucky for her, that means one powerful man-dragon can seduce her! And also some stuff about corporate espionage between dragons and elves and fairies.

Is the miscommunication trope where our deepest insecurities hide? Can a fantasy novel be weird about race even in the absence of race? Who lied to us about the dragon dong?

Is that a single horn extruding from your small, stocky body, or are you just happy to listen this episode?

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Heeey listener, how's it going? Living the dream? Listen, we just wanted to touch base with you about "Love, Laugh, Lich" by Kate Prior? Yeah. Yeah. It is a romance novella about the executive assistant to a Lich who has office--you know--with her boss. Yeah, well the thing is, the Lich, has a real out-of-the-box...you know. Uh huh. I think we can circle back to that offline. And just to be clear, offline means online in this week's episode. Sound good? Well, some of the things we're thinking are...

Can comrades get turned on by billionaire boss boy romance with enough smoke and mirrors? Is your office Mount Doon wrapped in industrial carpet or is Mount Doon your office wrapped in mountain? How do you make ten bucks off a baby list?

Please advise.

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So he said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm a GOD(GOD!)
Searchin' for the killer of my acolyte
Tuckin' my tentacles in tight
Avoiding my family and Fallin' for a PI...

Monster March begins with the Cthulhu-adjacent, pun-apparent, politic-of-death-exploring, Acsquidentally in Love by K.L. Hiers.

Is it reasonable to approach a book with expectations as a reader? What is appealing about Urban Fantasy? What ISN'T appealing about tentacles?

Wake your darkly dreaming asses up! We're talking a lover with three appendages for sex and dozens for just hugs and holdin' hands and stuff.

This episode is brought to you by Kensington’s newest title, The Most Eligible Bride in London by Ella Quinn.

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We return to sweltering, medieval Spain for la segunda parte of our discussion on "The Flesh and the Devil" by Teresa Denys. And the climate is not the only thing making us sweat...join us as we turn over the sexiest and the weirdest parts of this book.

Are gloves the sexiest accessory? Is this the greatest title of any romance novel ever? Are you more willing to accept something for having things you love than disregard it for having the things you hate?

Paso the doble, please!

Trigger warnings: discussion of sexual assault, ableism, murder (not graphic).

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Isabeau and Morgan return to an almost forgotten realm in Whoa!mance, but one that still remains familiar - THE BODICE RIPPER. And not bodice ripper as in "their boobs are so big it is ripping the bodice". But somehow, the experience of reading Denys is very, very different. And the reasons why feel as elusive as a copy of the book itself.

Can a long book still have brevity? Is "bodice ripping" something that you can condition yourself through or is it just a result or contextual relativism? Is this thing worth 800 U.S. dollars?

Trigger warnings: Sexual assault and murder.

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Yr Grls are wrapping up the festive season with a read that had us tugging at our cable knit turtlenecks.

In "Twelve Drummers" Angelina M. Lopez introduces us to a jewel thief who gets much more than she (or the security guard she's been oBsEErViNNg) bargained for in a sleepy museum in middle America. About twelve more...actually.

Where is the line between a steamy romance and an erotic romance? Can you decolonize Christmas while getting turned on? Should you read this in your childhood bedroom while you're home for the holidays?

Join us in the war on Xmas, the drummer boy is very horny.

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