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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

S07.29: Spring 2025 New Releases: Teasing Your TBR

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.9 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

It's our quarterly discoverabilibuddy episode! Get your TBR piles structurally sound and exercise that preorder clicking finger, because here are nearly 50 books coming out in the next three months that we're excited to read! Eric said next time we have to split it into two if we're going to keep talking about what's coming for hours... In the meantime, we're ungovernable! Tell us about the books you're waiting for...and if you're a romance novelist and have a book coming this year, please head over and fill out our handy Google form to let us know!

If you want more Fated Mates in your life, please join our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

Our next read along is Rachel Reid's Heated Rivalry, which you can get in print, ebook, audiobook or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited. Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

The Books

MARCH


APRIL 


MAY


JUNE


Bits and Pieces

  • We’ve collected our 76 (and counting!) deep dives at fatedmates.net/bookclub, making it a fine place to discover your next great romance read.
  • And if you’re the type of person who’s always believed you deserve a medal for your reading prowess, you can visit our friends at Pagebound.co, where you can join our Fated Mates Book Club Challenge.
  • Don’t forget to tell us what you think of us in via our annual survey. We’re dying to know what you think.
  • The Arc browser is almost a religion for Eric, but you should feel comforted by the fact that a normie like Sarah likes, too.
  • We love these great indie bookstores: Montgomery & Taggert (in our new favorite small town, Chester CT) and Heartleaf Books in Providence, RI.
  • Nearly all of these titles are available at Bookshop.org. We created a collection to make it easy for you.
    • We shared the full...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, Sarah, spring is sprung. Yeah, I took the dog. I've been, you know, taking the dog for

0:05.6

walks in the morning. And I woke up this morning and I took the dog for a walk and it was already

0:10.4

like, like, what the fuck is happening? Two and a half miles later, he was like, no, he came in.

0:19.8

He just lay down on the wood floor.

0:24.0

So anyway, it's a perfect day for us to be recording our spring preview.

0:29.5

Just as like a reminder, like basically what we're going to do is we're going to talk about books that are coming out in April, May, and June.

0:36.8

And most of these books we have not read.

0:38.8

We just sort of blanket wreck.

0:41.0

Yeah, exactly.

0:41.5

If we have read something, we'll say it.

0:43.5

But also, we tend to not editorialize on this episode super a lot because we want to be able to save the books for future episodes where we can talk about them in depth related to a

0:55.1

trope or related to a read-along or whatever. But I'm excited because there are a couple

1:00.7

books on this list that I have already read. I'm not excited to discuss. Yeah. I know.

1:06.7

Here's my theory because, you know, these episodes can get real like wild and out of control is I think we're going to have to do. Here's my theory because, you know, these episodes can get real, like, wild and out of control is, I think we're going to have to do. Here's my theory. Ready?

1:15.6

Tell me.

1:16.3

Is like 30 minutes for each month.

1:19.9

Okay. Are you setting a timer? We just have to stop mid-sentence. That would be amazing.

1:25.1

Just because otherwise, I'm afraid we will like. No, it's too much. Yeah, it can get really long. So, wait, but can we talk about, I have a new

1:31.8

strategy for organizing things. Oh, okay. Let's hear. I think Eric made you do this too, but I don't know

1:37.8

that you did it, but he just came into my office and he put it on my computer. But, um, so I use a

1:43.4

new search. It's not a search engine, a new like internet browser,

1:49.9

like a many people use Safari or Chrome or whatever.

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