S05.43: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer with Christina and Lauren

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

We go back to the OG DNA of the contemporary boom of the early 2010s today, with a read along of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, with fabulous fan fic writers turned brilliant romance novelists, Christina Lauren. Christina and Lauren talk about the way the books inspired them to write, helped them find a community, and their fated mates (each other). Jen talks about reading Twilight as a middle school teacher, and Sarah talks about never reading it at all…until now. Within, we’ll talk about characters feeling big feelings, about how Twilight inspired romance novelists across the board, about third acts that go hard, and about how Alice is unquestionably the best character in the whole thing.

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm gonna, I, you guys, okay everybody, welcome to Fated mates.
0:08.1	We're just gonna start, because that it's gonna just be,
0:10.8	it's just gonna be like, insane.
0:13.0	So I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader, and critic.
0:16.9	And I'm Sarah McClain, a romance.
0:19.3	Shit, I can never do it in this order.
0:21.6	I'm Sarah McClain, I read read romance novels and I write them.
0:24.3	Fine I'm sorry and then we are with two amazing guests so introduce yourselves
0:28.9	and then we're going to talk about what we're doing here.
0:31.6	Okay hello I'm Christina.
0:35.0	Hi, I am Lauren and together we write is Christina Lauren.
0:39.0	It's so exciting.
0:41.0	Christina and Lauren have a new book out called The True Love Experiment but we are not here to talk about that terrific homage to romance novels. Why would we do that?
0:50.0	You're just going to have to trust us and go get it and everything else they've ever written.
0:55.0	What we're here today to do ostensibly is to have a read-along episode of Twilight only with a bit of a...
1:02.0	Well, I think it'll be hilarious. only one of us has read twilight recently that's Sarah she did it for the first
1:09.6	hello I've never read twilight so I'm still doing until today I was going to say you can't say
1:16.9	that I've never I don't think I've ever said that before yeah no why would you that's like yeah the rest of us have read twilight and
1:26.5	experienced the whole twilight thing through various ways right and
1:30.6	none of us have reread it so it's just vibes for us.
1:34.0	And we're going to kind of see basically like what's real from our memories to the text
1:38.0	and what isn't a lump other hilarity, I think.
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