Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a human wear hybrid who doesn't know how electricity works so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Mait by Allie Hazelwood. George. so you don't have to. I'm Kate. And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Mait by Allie Hazelwood.

Joining us to discuss this follow-up to Bride, a romantician novel that we liked, maybe, is Ariel Slamit Reese, an Australia-based Igna's winning cartoonist and author of the comics Witchie, Cry Wolf Girl, and the newly released Strange Bedfellows. Thank you for joining us,

Ariel. Thank you so much for having me.

We are invited to have you.

At the top of the program, would you like to state your pronouns for our listeners?

Yes, I use they, them pronouns. Thank you.

Excellent.

And as a reminder, Renata and I use she, her.

And, yeah. D'Oarte uses he him but also little guy um me too i'm also a little

guy fantastic uh okay so this is a sequel.

I had to re-listen to our episode about mate to like remind myself what the fuck this was.

It didn't really help.

It doesn't matter.

But similar, like when we read in mate, we were like, I guess.

Right. Fuck. Yeah.

Yeah. Bride. Bride was last year. This year's May. It's totally different, but kind of the same thing. Bride on that episode, we were like, like, technically there's a lot of really bad content warnings, but it just doesn't like feel that way. Like technically there's like kidnapping and like child endangerment and like abusive

parenting.

But it doesn't really like feel that way.

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