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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

07.46: Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We're back with a deep dive episode on one of our favorite Susan Elizabeth Phillips books, Natural Born Charmer. Jen thinks this one marks SEP's Imperial Period, and Sarah looks askance at the term romcom to describe romance novels. We're back on our bullsh*t, is what we're saying. We're talking plot, character, risk-taking, and how romances can feel wildly expansive.

This is our last deep dive of Season 7 -- more in Season 8, which begins in September. If you want to talk in depth about specific books, though, maybe you'd enjoy being a member of 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.

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0:00.0

Jen, I think I'm giving myself brain damage.

0:04.2

What an opening, Sarah.

0:05.8

Tell me more.

0:07.0

Okay, so there are so many mosquitoes in my back.

0:09.6

Oh, that seems terrible.

0:11.2

And I, like, refuse to, like, I like to sit at my back.

0:15.3

I have, like, a picnic table back there, and I like to sit there, and I've been reading a book.

0:19.7

Seems nice.

0:20.5

For today. And I have been working reading a book. Seems nice. For today and I have been

0:22.5

working on a book and I like, you know, in New York City, you get like 10 days a year where the

0:29.2

weather is like sunny and perfect and you can sit at your picnic table and work on your book.

0:34.3

Sure. And so I've been like really working. I've been doing this. Except there are so many mosquitoes back there.

0:39.4

And I think it's because my neighbors.

0:42.2

They have like standing water back there.

0:44.0

What are they doing?

0:44.4

They have like a kitty pool back there.

0:47.7

Breeding ground.

0:48.3

You're just like you're just breeding West Nile virus back here.

0:52.7

Like I don't know what's going on here. But and so there are so many mosquitoes. So I have these like green coil things. You know the things I mean? Yeah, sure. Some of the mosquito abatement situation. In Ohio, they had them when you were small. Sure. Like light them on fire and they smoke and they actually according to wirecutter are

1:11.3

like the thing that works so i have one of them and it's been sitting like three feet from my

1:17.0

head for a couple days and now i have like a headache and i'm pretty sure i'm like fumigating my brain

1:22.1

which you know maybe that's a good thing who can say say? Who can say? You know, wire cutter, I, we had to get a new, or washer died last week. And, you know, the tariffs are coming. So I was kind of like, all right. Well, get it now. Get it now. And just do like washer and dryer, right? And so I, it, I was home. My husband, it was a very stressful long, you know, my husband had a lot going on at work last week, Mr. Reed's romance. And so I was kind of like, all right, I'm just going to, you know, I told you, we texted and I was kind of like, I think we should just get new ones. Because, you know, by the time you get someone out to look at it, you're paying, you know what I mean? Like, you're paying a couple hundred bucks for that. And then they're like, okay, it's, you know, you're just like, whatever. I'm already, let's just go for the new ones. And then he's like, well, do you just order the same ones? And I was like, no, I just ordered whatever wirecutter or something.

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