Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about tomato gates so you don't have to.

I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson.

Joining us to discuss this ambitious country music crossover act is Grace, a plucky young

girl with a heart of gold and a dark secret.

That's me.

Hooray.

Hi, Grace.

Welcome back to the podcast.

I am delighted to be here.

We are delighted to have you. I am delighted to be here. We are delighted to have you.

I'm excited to find out your dark secret by a chapter, like, 67 of this podcast. Oh, I was going to say 97, but a 67, I guess, is maybe when we can do a shared trauma dump.

So Grace is one of our book club and cult club sisters.

Welcome back to the podcast.

And Grace is also one of the biggest Dolly Parton fans that we know.

So we thought she should get to see what other things Dolly Parton does besides be a country music angel.

Yeah.

And I love me some Dolly.

I think that maybe she should have stuck to her roots.

And, oh, I guess before we get too deep into it, content warnings, I mean, nothing is really graphic, but it, there is like human trafficking and attempted assault and completely off page references to assault and murder.

Just like James Patterson shit.

Just like, you know, I feel like our conversation of it is going to be more focused on unraveling weird side details.

But it is technically a James Patterson thriller and there's some like violence in it.

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