S07:06 The Everything I Left Unsaid duology

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

We're starting our Season 7 read alongs off with a bang! M. O'Keefe's Everything I Left Unsaid duology is some of the best contemporary romance out there, and if you need proof, here it is: The first book ends on a cliffhanger and it holds a prime spot on Jen's keeper shelf. We're talking about all the ways this book works, the way O'Keefe wields tension and description and narrative voice and point of view like an absolute master and delivers a series that is not only deeply representative of the contemporary romance of the mid 2010s, but also a near perfect example of how contemporary can fire on all cylinders. Clear your calendar, you're going to want to read all four books in this series back to back.

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Also! We're back on the phonebanking train this election season! Join us Saturdays between now and Election Day to phonebank with fellow romance lovers. Jen & Sarah are joined by special guests who will knock your socks off! Learn more and register at fatedmates.net/fatedstates. If phonebanking isn't your thing, we're also raising money for downticket house and senate races, because state legislatures may not be sexy, but they sure hold all the power. Learn more, and give what you can at fatedmates.net/givingcircle.

The Books

Everything I Left Unsaid by M. O'Keefe
The Truth About Him by M. O'Keefe
Burn Down the Night by M. O'Keefe
Wait for It by M. O'Keefe

The Notes

Raise a glass to the Old School Romance Book Club on Facebook. They had their final zoom on October 14, 2024.
Problematic vs. Dated originated with a discussion of Rocky Horror Picture Show on Twitter, a conversation that has been ongoing for a long time.
Just to be clear, when Jen said “it’s 2015 so it’s in past” she’s referencing that although some books were written in present (like 50 Shades, published in 2011), the wholesale shift to present tense that we see in romance now hadn’t happened yet.
Researchers and law enforcement professionals have determined that nonfatal strangulation is a leading indicator of escalating violence in a relationship and an important risk factor for homicide in women, and the fact that choking is on the rise in teenage sexual encounters is especially troubling.

The Sponsors

1001 Dark Nights, publishers of Audrey Carlan's A Christmas Auction, available in print, ebook, and audiobook from Amazon.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Jennifer, yes Sarah. It's October. It's like deep into October. I know. You know what I realize? We have all these like lists, all these things we need to get done.
0:08.5	By the end of the year, we're like we got to, we got everything. For some reason the end of the year is like important in some way even though the beginning of the season is in October
0:15.8	So we don't what are we doing? But I was like we should have to do banter plus that's what's on the list. We do everyone
0:22.0	If you really like the beginnings of these episodes where we just
0:25.4	yammer at each other, Bantir Plus is a full hour and sometimes more available to you if you join the discord no if you join the
0:34.7	Patreon which is Patreon.com slash faded mates which we usually talk about at the end
0:39.4	but now we've done it at the beginning I got to tell you something though
0:42.4	something really
0:43.3	important is happening in my life right now. Tell me. The Old School
0:47.1	Romance Book Club, which is the Facebook group that I started 10.
0:53.3	It's got to be more than that because.
0:55.5	No, it's 10 and a half years ago.
0:57.7	My baby was a literal, I was holding her in arms.
1:01.9	When I started, I can see myself literally learning how to build a
1:05.8	group on Facebook right I started this group 10 and a half years ago to four people who wanted to reread like the romance
1:17.7	classics the old school romances with the understanding that like there be here there be
1:23.7	sure here be dragons right here there be dragons right here there be
1:27.0	dragons right like we don't know what's in these books but we're starting the
1:31.2	first book we read was Jude Devrose and Night in Shining Armor we read like bewitching by Jill Barnett we read I mean we read the gift we read like all of the class the big old classics right we would read one book a month and then it became a, it
1:45.2	became more, it started out with like, I don't know, a hundred readers of mine who had
1:49.0	said they wanted to join this like kind of book club experience and then it became more and more and
1:53.7	ultimately there were more than 10,000 members in this group and it really became like
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