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

Whoa!mance is a part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

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

We mentioned Rose Lerner's Audible Original, here it is: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Wife-in-the-Attic-Audiobook/B08W2P8GZN

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Episode 115: Structural Villainy — Ties That Bind by Brenda Jackaon
Episode 115: Structural Villainy — Ties That Bind by Brenda Jackaon

This week, I & M tackle the multi-decade family saga slash love story “The Ties That Bind” by Brenda Jackson. When Rand meets Jenna at a college party in 1965, they kick off a romance (or twelve) that overcomes the ravages of time, distance, the Vietnam War, the fight for Civil Rights, classism, colorism, and a woman named Angela.

Is there such a thing as bad girl, or are they all just drawn that way? Is a villain’s relatability a form of carbon dating? Speaking of dating, does anyone date outside their family anymore in these books or are we just sensitive?

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Whoa!nus — Smart Bitches Trashy Books ft. Whoa!mance: Awakened by the CEO's Kiss by Therese Beharrie
Whoa!nus — Smart Bitches Trashy Books ft. Whoa!mance: Awakened by the CEO's Kiss by Therese Beharrie

Mama, we made it!

This week we are so excited to share our conversation with Sarah — she of ICONIC Smart Bitches Trashy Books fame. We discussed a brand spankin' new category romance. She got us an ARC and everything. Notes below!

And if you don't know about SBTB yet, check out the pod and go to https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ to consume all of the delicious romance content they just let you have for free!

Also be sure to dip into our recent "Category Is..." series for some classic category content.

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I’m joined by Morgan and Isabeau from the Whoa!Mance podcast! They are celebrating three years of podcasting, and their latest exploration of romance has been to look at category romances. I thought it would be fun to take a deep dive into a brand new contemporary romance, so we all read Awakened by the CEO’s Kiss by Therese Baharrie.

This episode is a low-spoiler discussion of the book, and of all the interesting and subversive things that it does. We cover kiss tension, books that give you chest tingles, and more. You can listen if you’ve read it, or if you haven’t, but you might really like this book so we recommend it either way!

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