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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

07.23: Long Live Historicals!

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Historicals are dead! Long live historicals! This week, we're talking about fourteen (and change) historical romances that we've never talked about before -- all published recently, some already this year. Every book we talk about is available right now for download and reading pleasure--and we have a stack of them ready to talk about in future episodes! We're so excited to be your discoverabilibuddies on this one!

If you want more Fated Mates in your life, please join our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

Enter the Macmillan Audio sweepsteakes to win one of five free copies of the audiobook of Stephanie Burgis's Wooing the Witch Queen.

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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0:00.0

I'm excited for today.

0:01.5

Well, we've been planning and plotting.

0:04.7

Tell everybody what you keep texting.

0:06.3

Oh, my God.

0:07.5

Okay.

0:07.9

So we have talked about this several times, but I continue to feel so angry that it's accurate and true and valid.

0:18.3

Wait, before you tell, I'm going to, I'm going to lead you, give you a tee up for your story

0:23.9

because Eric said that he was looking at something, something came across his feed about

0:29.6

Fated Mates and so he like clicked through or like, I forgot, he was like, I was somewhere

0:34.8

and I was reading and somebody who was very complimentary about the podcast apparently was like, I was somewhere and I was reading. And somebody who was very complimentary about the podcast, apparently, was like, but yes, we have read that Lorraine Heath book, you guys.

0:45.3

See? God, terrible. Eric was like, you guys are constantly talking about the same books. And I was like, okay, what's your fucking

0:56.4

point? No, I did not feel that way. I believe, though, I was like, you need to not give me this

1:02.9

kind of feedback the first week of school. That's not a good time. This is not a time where I'm

1:09.5

going to be able to take that in. So we didn't.

1:11.5

So we didn't.

1:12.1

We put that feedback away, but then we came back to it.

1:14.5

So what we're trying to do is like when we have big episodes where we're like, okay,

1:18.3

everything we're going to talk about is new.

1:21.9

And I regret to inform you that I have been having a nice time.

1:28.1

She keeps texting me. I'm so angry that Eric is right. I'm so angry that Eric's right.

1:32.4

And I'm like, how do you think I feel an absolute insults? Terrible that my husband is

1:37.9

sometimes right. Terrible. Cannot be born. So in this scenario, he is not my husband. He's

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