Episode 188 – Brazen Virtue
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
We’re once again starting the year with a visit from our Nora Roberts expert, Christine. This time we read Brazen Virtue, a murder mystery-romance novel from 1988 that has been mystifyingly adapted into a 2022 Netflix original movie. This episode costs $1.99 per minute to listen to via long-distance phone call.
Content warning: This book and our discussion of it includes rape and murder.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: A Statement from Nora Roberts Re: Alyssa Milano
“Nora Roberts defends Alyssa Milano’s casting in adaptation of Brazen Virtue” by Maureen Lee Lenker
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Finale Fails to Reckon with Its Pro-cop Legacy” by s.e. smith
Coming up next: Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about phone, sex, and deaths so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.3 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.6 | And for this episode, we read Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts. |
| 0:22.1 | Joining us to discuss this copaganda romance novel is phonephobic Christine, our resident |
| 0:27.9 | Nora Roberts expert. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello, Christine. |
| 0:30.8 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome back also to all our listeners from our little break that we took. |
| 0:40.4 | It's 2022, starting a new year with same old Nora Robber's Energy with the book from |
| 0:47.1 | 1988 to really like get us moving. And right at the top, I want to do the content warning for the book. It discusses |
| 0:56.7 | rape, murder. There's a lot of fat phobia. In our discussion, we probably won't get deep |
| 1:02.3 | into the first two, but we'll probably get pretty deep into the fat phobia. That sounds like us. |
| 1:08.3 | Yes. I did, I wrote, here's what I wrote in the Yes. I did. |
| 1:12.3 | I wrote, here's what I wrote in the document. |
| 1:15.9 | I 99% unironically loved this book. |
| 1:20.1 | The 1% is the unnecessary but unsurprising fat phobia. |
| 1:29.8 | It is, as I've mentioned many times on this podcast, all cops are bastards, yes, but I love a crime procedural. I love a murder show. I love anything of that vein. And that is very much what this is. It was the perfect |
| 1:38.2 | ratio of like 70% mystery solving to about 30% romance. Really, aside from like the really ridiculous and unnecessary fat phobia, it did, |
| 1:48.6 | it felt like a good way to bring in 2022 for me personally. |
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