Episode 36 – The Mistletoe Promise
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their returning guest Caitlin read The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans and unanimously agreed: it’s not nearly as bad as The Christmas Sweater was! In fact we actually… kinda liked The Mistletoe Promise? We liked it almost as much as the heroine of this book likes sweet pork salads, which is a lot. Listen now to hear us learn what exactly a sweet pork salad is, plus an important moral lesson (but not the lesson we were expecting to learn).
Content warning: This book contains infant death, and so does our discussion of it.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Fatal Distraction by Gene Weingarten
Special note: We’re having a contest and the grand prize is a signed copy of The Mistletoe Promise. Click here for details on how to enter!
Candy pairing: Caitlin says Necco wafers, Kait says peppermint bark, Renata says kettle korn.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about non-legally binding Christmas paperwork |
| 0:15.7 | so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.0 | And for this episode, we read The Missile Toe Promise by |
| 0:21.7 | Richard Paul Evans. Joining us to discuss this festive Christmas romance is Caitlin, a dedicated |
| 0:27.7 | sweater enthusiast. Hello. Hello, Caitlin. Welcome back. You guys are cruel, |
| 0:34.2 | cruel beasts. Longtime listeners may remember Caitlin from the Christmas sweater, which we read last year, |
| 0:41.9 | which was previously, previous to Dionetics, the worst book we ever read. |
| 0:46.4 | You know what? I'm honestly still on the fence about, I kind of still think Christmas |
| 0:51.2 | sweater was worse than Dionetics. I feel like they were different in bad in different ways. |
| 0:56.8 | And it's not necessarily easy to compare them. |
| 0:59.4 | And I feel like the length of Dianetics is what really tip Dianetics over for me. |
| 1:04.5 | Is that at least the Christmas sweater, as soul crushing as it was, |
| 1:08.9 | was only like 200, you know know fancy ruffled edge pages while |
| 1:14.7 | dionetics was like 500 Bible-sized pages okay but like last week I was describing the |
| 1:22.5 | Christmas letter to a co-worker and I legit teared up with like rage. |
| 1:28.1 | I've never had that |
| 1:29.2 | physical response to Dianetics. |
| 1:32.5 | So. |
| 1:33.6 | I think one is a brain rage. |
| 1:35.1 | One's a heart rage. |
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