S05.09: Hold by Claire Kent: There is Nothing Soft in this Book

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We’ve talked about this week’s read along so much it’s kind of impossible to imagine that we haven’t read it with y’all, yet! But here we are, finally cracking open Claire Kent’s brilliant novella, Hold. Set on a prison planet, this one dials forced proximity up to 11, and does the excellent job of answering just how horrifying a world can you write a romance in? The answer is very. Very horrifying. We talk about sex and consent and strength and humanity and how love blooms in even the darkest of places. Is it possible we needed this book this week? It sure is. Content warnings for the book and headphones in for the episode, magnificent firebirds!

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0:00.0	Well, Jen, yesterday was election day.
0:02.9	We're recording this in the past, everyone.
0:06.2	Oh, you know what?
0:07.5	I think it's probably very likely that we don't know the outcomes of some races.
0:11.4	So just calm down everybody and with that now America we
0:15.8	just it's we're just in a constant state of waiting terrible yeah anyway
0:21.4	thanks everyone for voting if you voted.
0:24.5	Thanks everyone for phone banking if you phone banked.
0:27.0	Yep. We had our final phone bank on Saturday.
0:29.9	It was John Fetterman.
0:31.5	If there are runoffs, we're going to be phone banking again just now.
0:35.0	Oh yeah, we are.
0:36.0	Look at Jen, committing us already to this long haul of saving the world.
0:41.0	Is what we do now. Listen now listen you guys we will have probably
0:45.0	posted to our Twitter slash Instagram feed the the races that we
0:50.0	participated in where we won and we hopefully won all of them, I'm putting it into the
0:54.3	universe, Gen.
0:55.3	I like it.
0:56.3	I was in LA this weekend, or this week, this past week, and there is a lot of magic in LA a lot of crystals a lot of candles a lot of
1:07.4	people just doing doing the new age bullshit.
1:13.0	And I was like, give me that Chris.
1:14.6	I bought a bunch of crystals.
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