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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

S03.38: Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas: She's Good

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Documentary, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.9965 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We’re talking Sherry Thomas’s beautiful, unrequited love/marriage of convenience story Ravishing the Heiress this week — we’ll talk about angst, about why we love yearning so much, about our feelings about heroes who are dummies, about homes vs. houses, and about Victorians being E X T R A.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sarah, I did one of my most hated chores, but with the highest impact this morning.

0:05.4

Tell me.

0:06.4

I watched a few windows.

0:08.4

Whoa.

0:09.4

Now, I've got to tell you, this is always one of those things where I'm like God fucking damn it like and then I wash a couple windows and I'm like boy that is a

0:17.7

real high-value housekeeping activity it is and you know what I bet you feel

0:21.3

very like accomplished afterward.

0:24.0

I don't window wash for hours. I watched three windows and felt okay about myself and then I'll do more later.

0:30.0

That's all that's how I roll.

0:31.0

Well you did great. Thank you. Now I can read romance novels for the rest of the day.

0:37.0

I have not done anything so productive today. I took the dog out for a walk and then I read this good book until it was time for us to record. So I have to say this. I'm not going to name this other book that I'm going to talk about but I got really excited and I downloaded

0:55.6

this book that somebody recommended to me the other day because it was a trope that I

0:59.7

really like and one that we've covered on the podcast before.

1:05.3

And I got like a third of the way through and I was really bombed.

1:10.8

It just didn't work for me on multiple levels and I felt like it didn't like hit any of the

1:16.8

promise of the trope that I want like all the kink of the trope that I want.

1:20.3

I mean now I'm really speaking in obscure terms.

1:22.3

Yes. I'm not going to get too deep into it but there's something really

1:25.8

disappointing about buying a book based exclusively on the trope that you love right and then

1:31.8

having the book just not deliver on any of the like joyful like

1:38.6

sticky bits of that

1:45.0

one of the reasons I love interstitials and I know our listeners do too is not just because I'm like okay if you love this

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