S04.40: Royalty Romance Interstitial #2

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We were going to do a deep dive this week, but then we read the book and decided that was a hard pass! So, we do a very shallow dive and then get to the good stuff this week…talking about Royal romances! We talk about the strange fascination the world has with royalty, about the way fake countries hit the spot, and about why it’s so rare to see a gender-swapped Cinderella story. Sarah also offers a peek at her newest research project, preliminarily titled—Alexbastian: Is Name, In Fact Destiny? It’s better than a deep dive, we promise.

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0:00.0	You've got something up your sleeve Sarah so I do but first of all I have to say mistakes were made
0:09.9	So I but I also feel like we should get points for like it's been almost five years
0:15.4	So we're almost in season five and we've only missed up this one time I think other times
0:22.0	we've discussed things and actually caught it before we are like yeah we're totally going to read this book from 1991 we haven't read in a while. I'm sure it's fine.
0:31.0	Listen, welcome everyone to Fated Mates.
0:34.2	I'm Sarah McClain.
0:35.8	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:38.5	And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor.
0:42.0	And listen. We, okay. All right, so we're talking about, we're talking
0:47.2	about the dragon and the jewel right now, everyone. We are not talking about the dragon
0:51.9	and the jewel today. Or ever ever but we need to talk about the
0:55.2	dragon and the jewel because we're not ever going to talk about the dragon and the
0:59.0	jewel. This is the most you're going to get about that book, which I will confess I chose because when I was in high school in 1992,
1:12.0	I read this book until the cover fell off.
1:16.7	And I am now somewhat embarrassed to admit that.
1:20.6	No, I mean, look, when you know better, you do better.
1:25.0	And so, I'm doing better as a reader.
1:28.0	And I'm just saying that about a third the way through this book I texted Jen and I was like change of
1:34.8	plans. At that point I was a lot farther and was like okay but then there's the
1:41.8	part where this happens and you were like, what?
1:46.6	So if you have already read Virginia Henley's The Dragon and the Jewel because for the last
1:51.8	four weeks, we've told you that was going to be the
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