1.5: Escort Romances
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We know you’re getting excited for No Rest for the Wicked, but before we talk about vampires and Valkyries, let’s talk about escort romances!
Show Notes
- Sarah and Jen have both loved The Kiss Quotient. Sarah reviewed at for The Washington Post. Jen's been turning her friend Ernie into an occasional romance reader, and live-tweeted his read of TQK.
- Escorted by Claire Kent, which is a pen name of Noelle Adams
- Virginity is a construct
- Romancing the Stone is an 80s movie classic. Kathleen Turner plays a romance writer on an adventure to retreive a missing emerald.
- Curio and the Curio Vignettes by Cara McKenna
- The Smart Bitches made a list of competence porn romances, where all the characters are just really good at their jobs.
- Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. Here's the Twitter thread where Jenny Nordbak alerts everyone to the sexiness factor.
- The Companion Contract by Solace Ames
- Burn Down the Night by Molly O'Keefe
- The Duke by Gaelen Foley
- Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell
- Journalist Melissa Gira Grant writes about sex workers and the politics of sex work. You should follow her on Twitter.
- The Master by Kresley Cole
- Get ready for No Rest for the Wicked
The Rest
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Uh, I know we have to start. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Fated Meets. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Sarah McLean. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Jen Reed's romance. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is interstitial number two. I love it. It's so star tricky. I'm like never I'm |
| 0:17.2 | never gonna get over it. I don't know maybe we'll decide not to do interstitial at some point maybe like we'll be reading |
| 0:24.9 | an Immortals After Dark Book and there will be some like wacky accession |
| 0:29.3 | No Sarah interstitial forever it's interstitials. I'm like I'm already printing |
| 0:33.8 | towbags for our many listeners. All right well then this is interstitial |
| 0:41.7 | number two and if you were with us for interstitial number one which is about rock star romances |
| 0:46.8 | you'll know why we chose our topic for this week which is escorts yes well and I would also like to say it's we |
| 0:56.6 | mentioned it but I think the kiss quotient we both loved this summer and so I think |
| 1:02.2 | it's also when a like a perfect book kind of bubbles up to the top, |
| 1:06.7 | it's then you're kind of you know re-evaluating what other books did I like that were similar |
| 1:12.0 | that had a similar trope or theme. So I think for me |
| 1:15.5 | the Kiss quotient put escort books back on my radar. Oh that's an interesting |
| 1:21.2 | that's interesting so I came back to escort books not long ago but it |
| 1:27.5 | would it predated the kiss quotient by a few months because I had really loved Claire Kent who I'll just jump right in. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm just going to jump right in. We only have 10 minutes. |
| 1:42.0 | I know. I know. |
| 1:43.0 | So I really love Claire Kent and maybe someday we'll do like a space romance or like a prison romance |
| 1:50.1 | uh... episode and we'll talk about Claire Kent a little more. |
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