S02.05: James Malory Gets Bangs: Gentle Rogue

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Sarah picked this week’s read without having read it recently, and she shockingly doesn’t regret it! We’re talking Johanna Lindsey’s Gentle Rogue—arguably one of the most beloved texts of the genre, complete with a reformed pirate and a heroine who is having absolutely none of his nonsense. We’ll talk about heroines who are sex positive, about obvious references to the slave trade that are problematic and somehow utterly glossed over, archetypal brothers, and about the shocking lack of plot in this book (which we don’t mind a bit).

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0:00.0	Um, okay.
0:02.3	You picked this one, so I think...
0:04.2	I did.
0:06.2	And I don't regret it.
0:07.8	I don't either.
0:08.9	I, I love...
0:10.6	I don't think I'd ever read it.
0:11.8	Remember?
0:12.3	I was like, I'm sure I read it.
0:13.5	Do you really think you didn't?
0:14.6	I don't know how that's possible, but I feel like when I read a really old romance,
0:19.7	sometimes there's that moment where you're like,
0:21.8	oh, I remember this.
0:23.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:23.8	And I did not ever have that moment.
0:26.6	How is that possible?
0:27.8	Interesting.
0:29.9	Yeah, okay.
0:31.1	So, welcome everybody to Fate of Mates.
0:36.3	I also realize we never introduce ourselves anymore.
0:38.9	I'm Sarah McLean.
0:40.3	I write romance novels and I read romance novels.
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