Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Greek sex paperwork so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read The Greek Tycoons Blackmailed Mistress by Lynn Graham.

Joining us to discuss this Harlequin romance novel is Librarian and Romance fan Jenny.

Hello!

Yay! Welcome, Jenny.

Thank you so much for having me today.

Thank you for choosing this book for us.

No problem.

I know you had a detailed screening.

I did.

But, you know, with the title like this, it had to be pretty awful.

I mean, and this game is everything that was promised.

There was a Greek tycoon, blackmailed mistress. Really, what more do you need? A baby. It's like snakes on a plane.

Exactly. There are snakes on a plane. That's it. That's all you're good. Before we go too deep

into this, I'll make a little clarification, because sometimes people ask, like, okay, do you only read actual bestsellers?

Like, what's the rating here?

And so this, like we did when we did Need for Speed, the movie novelization, it's kind of standing in for the genre of the Harlequin romance novel because, you know,

this individual one probably was not on the New York Times list, but as a force in the publishing

industry, I think Harlequin romance novels in general are bestsellers as a whole.

And I just want to say, for the record at the outset, that I read a lot of Harlequin is like, it used to be a publishing house before it was bought by Harper Collins.

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