Episode 66 – Violets Are Blue
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Ryan Sandoval (author of The D.A.D.D.Y. Complex) read Violets Are Blue, the 7th book in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. Intrepid detective Alex Cross investigates vampire-themed murders, as well as the body of every female character in the book. Join us as we sort ourselves into the four fetish houses: leather, rubber, Goth, and Victorian.
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Footnotes: You Must Remember This podcast
How Did This Get Made? Vampire’s Kiss episode
James Patterson: How the Bestseller Factory Works
Candy pairing: Kait says Hershey’s kisses, Renata says a mixed bag of candy, Ryan says novelty wax fangs.
Coming up next: The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the vampire capital of America, so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.0 | And for this episode, we read Violets Are Blue by James Patterson. |
| 0:24.0 | Joining us to discuss this Alex Cross genre confusing thriller is Fangmaker and author of the |
| 0:30.6 | thriller parody novel The Daddy Complex, Ryan Sandoval. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, Ryan. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello, Kate. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, Renata. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you for having me. Hi. Thanks for joining us. Hi, Ryan. Hello, Kate. Hello, Renata. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:38.6 | Hi. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:40.8 | Oh, my pleasure. |
| 0:42.7 | When Ryan approached us to be on this episode and suggested James Patterson, |
| 0:47.5 | we sort of picked this book out of a list because, like, oh, vampires, that's kind of our brand. |
| 0:55.0 | But as it turns out, there were many things in this book that fit our brand pretty well. |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, my gosh, yes. |
| 1:01.8 | Also, this is the seventh book in the Alex Cross series. |
| 1:07.1 | I have previously read none of them, although I got a little confused and then read the Wikipedia entry about Alex Cross, which is very long. |
| 1:16.3 | He has done a lot of things. |
| 1:19.2 | The girlfriend's section alone is like longer than some books we've read for this podcast. |
| 1:25.5 | By the way, by the way, I don't know if you read the whole Wikipedia |
| 1:29.2 | thing or not. |
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