07.22: Adriana Herrera on the Power of Historical Romance: When We’re Up Against a Corner, Baby, Let’s Fight.

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Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

There's a new Adriana Herrera book out this month, so that means we get to have one of our very favorites back on the pod to talk about not only her banger of a book, A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, but also about historical in general! This week, we talk about historicals, in general, about why everyone seems to think they're dying (spoiler: they're not!), and do some myth busting on perceptions of the historical romance. We're extremely grateful to friend of the pod Alexandria Bellefleur for offering up her collected data on historical romance and readers -- check out her books (listed below), as well, and come back next week for more historical recs!

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Our next read along is Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, available in print, ebook, and audio at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

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The Books

A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera
Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
Proper English by KJ Charles
My Lady’s Lover by Nicola Davidson
The Duchess Hunt by Lorraine Heath
The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe
The Duke Gets Desperate by Diana Quincy
Love, Death, and Lanterns by Jeanne Lin
A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe
The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles
Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas
The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe
The Bride by Julie Garwood

Transcript

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0:00.0	The three of us back again.
0:02.4	Back together again.
0:05.0	Las Leonas.
0:07.2	I was going to say the three amigos and then that's not wrong.
0:10.7	No, but we have Las Leona.
0:12.7	Yeah, that's true.
0:14.1	On day 3,048 of January.
0:17.3	Oh, God.
0:17.9	It is over officially soon.
0:26.3	We have like five hours to go. So if it isn't over,
0:32.4	at least we were all together for it. Let's not count hours. The last time I counted hours was on my in-laws were over and I told my daughter, it's only eight hours. What could possibly go around?
0:39.6	Uh-huh.
0:43.0	Everyone, you know that voice.
0:45.4	You know that voice by now.
0:47.0	That is the dulcet voice of Adriana Herrera, one of our very, very favorites.
0:52.5	At this point, basically just like the third.
0:54.9	Our third, yeah, right.
0:57.1	The third.
0:58.5	It's Edna and Mr. Impossible and you, or it's you and me and Sarah, and I think those are the same.
1:06.7	Stated Mays or an Adjana Harrah sandwich, whatever we want to.
1:11.7	And Adria is with us because we are debunking the myths of historical romance today on Fated Mates.
1:18.8	And welcome everyone to Fated Mates.
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