RERUN: S04.38: These Books Bang: The Sexiest Romance Novels
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Headphones in, y’all. We have sixty-nine (that’s right, 69, by pure unplanned luck!) recommendations for you this week — everything from bonkers to bloody to blazing hot…naughty bits that we believe deliver the whole banana (and sometimes no banana at all, if you know what we mean). Pencils ready…your time starts…now.
This week’s episode is thanks to Julie Block, the Fated Mates listener who won an episode of the podcast in the Romance for Reproductive Justice auction sponsored by The Meet Cute Romance Bookshop and Fizzery in La Mesa, CA. Julie made a generous donation to the Collective Power Fund at the National Network of Abortion Funds, and in doing so, got to pick the episode topic — Books that Bang!
Show Notes
- Thanks to Julie Block for suggesting this episode and donating to abortion funds for the Romancing for Reproductive Justice Auction, sponsored by The Meet Cute Romance Bookshop & Fizzery, opening fall of 2022 in La Mesa, CA. It is not too late to donate to the Collective Power Fund at the National Network of Abortion Funds.
- While we name checked some Fated Mates classic recommendations like Tessa Bailey, Jessa Kane, and London Hale, somehow we recorded this episode without once mentioning the name of Charlotte Stein. So raise a glass to her and all the other authors writing super hot books that we forgot to mention.
- Probably you want to see Jen Porter's illustrations of the drilldo. (PS. Protip: you might put "drilldo" in the search field of twitter thinking that Jen's tweets will come up, and that would be a mistake unless you want to see it real and in action. Ask me how I know.)
Sponsors
- Melissa McTernan, author of Married to the Fae Queen, the second book in the Fairy Realm series, available in print and through Kindle Unlimited.
- Lumi Labs, creators of Microdose Gummies. Visit microdose.com and use the code FATEDMATES for 30% off and free shipping on your order
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| 0:00.0 | Well, this is going to be fun. |
| 0:01.5 | It is going to be fun. |
| 0:03.1 | I was surprised at how hard it was, though. |
| 0:05.9 | Me too. |
| 0:07.4 | All right. |
| 0:07.7 | It was hard. |
| 0:08.9 | Let's explain. |
| 0:10.1 | So, headphones in, everybody. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:12.5 | God, yes. |
| 0:12.9 | Like, turn off your Bluetooth. |
| 0:14.8 | Very important. |
| 0:16.1 | If you're at the car wash or the, you know, I love so they're my favorite tweets and Instagrams where it's like |
| 0:22.3 | well I took my car to be detailed and like I was listening to the pegging episode it happens |
| 0:29.9 | you're you walk away from the car with your phone but it's still in range just be careful |
| 0:35.6 | you guys don't you know let them fall out on an airplane. I'm reading, |
| 0:40.0 | I'm reading Julia Whalen, an arc of Julia Whalen's book, which comes out in August. It's called |
| 0:47.2 | Thank You for Listening, and it's about two audiobook narrators who are, like, trading off, like, |
| 0:53.6 | chapters in an audiobook, and they fall in love. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, and she the, she's in the very beginning, she's on a plane and her headphones come |
| 1:03.3 | unplugged from her like iPod and she's listening to a book on audio and there's like a small |
| 1:09.0 | child sitting next to her and it's exactly where you |
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