S02.5: 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	You picked this one so I think I did and I don't regret it. I don't either. I love I don't think I'd ever read it.
0:11.8	Remember I was like I'm sure I've read it.
0:13.5	I don't know how that's possible but I feel like when I read a really old romance
0:19.6	sometimes there's that moment where you're like oh I remember this yeah yeah and I did not
0:25.0	ever have that moment how is that possible interesting yeah okay so
0:31.6	welcome everybody to Fade of Mates.
0:35.0	I also realize we never introduce ourselves anymore.
0:39.0	I'm Sarah McClain.
0:40.0	I write romance novels and I read romance novels. I'm Jen Procop. I'm the romance, what's my title again? Oh, the romance
0:49.3	correspondence for Kirkus? Right. Fancy. You want to tell everybody what Kirkus? Right.
0:53.0	You want to tell everybody what Kirkus is?
0:55.0	Kirkus is a book review outlet and mostly it's pretty awesome.
0:59.0	I don't know, really, I don't understand how it works.
1:01.0	I had a dream last night that my editor called me
1:04.5	and was like, we have to change everything.
1:06.8	And I was like, okay, but do I just still
1:08.6	get to write about romance?
1:09.7	That's really all I care about.
1:11.3	Oh. You know, I've been having all these weird dreams for the last like six
1:15.5	or seven dip nights I have dreamt about celebrities. Like being friends with celebrities like
1:21.5	hanging out with celebrities last night I had this
1:23.5	dream that I was friends with Amy Schumer and it was great she just we just I was
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