You're listening to Heaving Buzums, the podcast where two best friends recap romance novels,

while, in the words of Sabrina, getting our trust aggressively curb stomped.

Go to love what we love, do what I love.

Stack our shells with the crutches out. Shout it best life out. Hi, HB's

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple podcast subscription, I'm telling Sabrina all about the newest and repeated MMBinge I've been on most recently.

In the episode, I eat some crow about book four in the Game Changer series. I crow about a new to me author and their rendition of BFF's

becoming lovers, and all the hockey-related smut that's come along with my fixation.

We all self-soothe in our own ways, and this has been a big component in my life.

Speaking of self-soothing, we needed a little bit of that after reading the book.

We are continuing today.

As a reminder, this episode contains discussions of sexual assault, including in young childhood, on-page violent rape, statutory rape, kink shaming, slut shaming, fat shaming, and more that I probably wiped from my brain before doing this intro.

All right, when we left you yesterday, this unfortunate to-sum had just kissed for the first time.

You know, if you recall, he accidentally sexually assaulted her,

then he goaded her into kissing him, and then shouted at her

that if she regrets anything, he's not apologizing again.

What romance, you know what I mean?

That's where we're jumping in. Love it out of love. And so. And so she leaves, thank goodness now.

Then we zip-z-zippy zap because she does leave.

The next day, we hear all about how guilty she feels.

Can I please read it to them?

Absolutely.

It's one of the worst things I've ever read in my life.

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