S06.49 Mafia Romance Reasons

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're back to Mafia books, because it's been a few years since we've tackled this one and the landscape has changed drastically. We're talking about the appeal of the organized criminal, the way the genre is the direct descendant of the Medieval romance, and the fact that it underscores some of the deepest seeded patriarchy in the genre--for good and bad. Sarah shows off the Italian and the Italian American in her past, and tells a few stories about people and places she doesn't name because did she see anything? No she didn't.

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The Books

Deviant Hearts by Jagger Cole
Mafia Virgin by Mila Finelli
Bound in Honor by Cora Reilly
Scorned Vows by Victoria Paige
Because You’re Mine by Claire Contreras
Going Rogue by Amelia Shea
Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks
Her Dark Salvation by Katelyn Brehm
Vow of Revenge by P. Rayne
7th Circle by Tate James
Ruthless People by JJ MacAvoy
Nero and Hans by SJ Tilly

The Notes

Back in 2020, we recorded our first mafia romance interstitial with author Nisha Sharma, that season we also had a dark romance interstitial, and those two genres have only become more popular over time.

Providence RI

season one of the Crimetown Podcast

Al Capone

John Gotti

Transcript

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0:00.0	So now I was like, Jen, let's do something really fun this week.
0:05.4	And it has been fun for me.
0:06.6	It has been really a fun time.
0:08.4	So we're talking about the mafia today.
0:10.4	Sure.
0:11.4	Which we've done once before.
0:13.8	Yeah, I actually looked it up everybody because, you know, time has no meaning and I was like, yeah,
0:18.4	we did that like pretty recently, I guess.
0:20.8	We did not do it pretty recently.
0:22.1	It was October of 2020 and in fact many
0:26.7	of the things that happened in that episode are about to happen in this episode too
0:29.6	like we're gonna talk to you about phone-making. We're going to talk to you about the importance of saving our democracy.
0:36.0	The only thing that isn't going to happen today is, sadly, Nisha Sharma is not.
0:40.0	That is correct.
0:41.0	The last time we did this, we had a guest.
0:42.0	And I'll, you know, the other thing is I would say is so isn't is season
0:46.8	three that we did a mafia romance episode and also are like kind of dark romance episode and that
0:52.1	landscape has changed dramatically.
0:54.5	So much. Yeah and so even the books that like we recommended are I was like oh I
1:00.9	I you know they were great they're bangers or whatever but they're
1:04.5	different now the books are different now everybody they really really are and I
1:08.2	got to say like that was part of well I mean we'll get into it welcome everyone
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