Hey everyone you're listening to Heaving Bozoms the podcast were two best friends, recap romance novels, while giggling, snorting,

gaffawing, and philosophizing about humanity? Sometimes. We're starting off 2020 spooky season with a love story set in the

biblical apocalypse because if there's anything you've come to expect it's that we here at

HB HQ are super chill. On a serious note though, while I didn't find this book personally triggering, I need to give you content

warnings, especially in these pandemic times.

The hero of this story is Pilence, the embodiment of plagues and pandemics.

There's a lot of on-the-page, sickness, and death, and we discuss that in this episode. There's also a lot of physical

and mental abuse the heroin experiences at the hands of the hero and violence overall.

We try to handle it with our usual brand of levity and thoughtfulness, but if those topics aren't going to be good for your mental

health or general well-being, I encourage you to turn this off. I just

uploaded our recap of a little book called Pumpkin Pounder on Patreon and that's an

excellent alternative for your mental health.

Take care of yourself, listener.

With that, let's jump into pestilence by Laura Falassa. She's gonna sneeze.

gonna sneeze.

You may have gotten me out of it.

It's gonna happen.

She is gonna...

Stop singing at me.

Okay.

All right.

All right. It's allergy season. It's okay. It's all right. Hello, Erin. That's not one of the

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