Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about small towns, big cults, so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate. And for this episode, we read

Divine Evil by Nora Roberts. Joining us to discuss this. Oops, my dad joined a satanic cult out

of curiosity. Cautionary tale is internet recluse no longer. Christine. Hey. Hi, Christine. Welcome back to the podcast. You may remember

Christine as our resident Nora expert and has come. What is your fourth year in a row? This is number four.

Big four. Yeah. To talk about Nora with us because we're obsessed. I realize we made such an error just and partly it just kind of came down to this

external scheduling stuff.

But in years past, we kind of gotten this tradition of starting the New Year fresh with

like a Nora Roberts book in the, you know, in February or January to just like, you know,

we'd kind of take the winter to do

our best ofs and then have a little break from reading horrible garbage and then we read a Nora

Roberts like ease ourselves back in and this year we're like it's 2021 we're just going to jump

straight into full garbage and it was very jarring and now we have to you know circle back go do another little

loop around the roundabout and we're coming up on norah roberts and i just feel like like i can

let a little sigh of relief i'm coming home i feel safe in the hands of norah roberts i can say

i personally needed this uh i think this isn't going to come out to like April,

but the day we're recording this is like one day away for my one year quarantine anniversary.

And I have been out of my fucking mind. Like, I haven't slept in a month. So I like listening to this book,

which I fucking loved was such a nice way to spend my week.

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that. And if you should think about it as, you know, one year of quarantine,

so it's kind of like you're starting the year off with Nora. Yeah, you know, it's it's year or two of

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