So I really am happy I'm happy Jen you know I'm happy to because I feel like this was a week where I

re-read a book I've read before and have I read once and enjoyed it but like reread it and was like what

I had a great time yeah it's a great book yeah welcome everybody to Fate of mates

we're starting right off. I'm so proud of us. I'm Sarah McLean.

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I write romance novels and I read romance novels and I'm Jen Pro Cub I am a romance

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three little mistakes.

Yes.

And I think, have we ever really talked about erotic romance before? I mean I guess priest but I don't think

we ever talked about priests through the lens of erotica like erotic romance

because we were so busy talking about a a thousand other ways.

And we had Sierra on to talk about Macreeve in season one,

and we talked about the fact then that we believe that Macreeve is the

closest Cressley gets to erotic romance. But this I think is our first

like real, like we picked this romance in part because it is erotic romance and we want to talk

about the genre, the sub-gena.

So I guess one of the things it's worth like doing, like erotica and erotic romance are kind of two

different things, I would say right

erotic romance like the promise is really that it's gonna follow like a relationship

build for the people involved as opposed to erotica which really some you know might just

really be the sexual relationship without any other promise of the H.E. A or whatever so

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