S07.33: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today we're headed back in the time machine to before the pandemic when everyone but us read this one m/m hockey book and lost their collective minds! Heated Rivalry is one of those books that romance lovers place high up on their keeper shelf, and we're talking about why, about how it really knocks sports romance out of the park (yes, we're aware that there is no knocking out of parks in hockey), and how it might be one of the books that launched a thousand hockey ships.

We're talking about erotica vs. erotic romance vs. romance, about sexy secrets, about first names and about why it's always sexy when people say "I love you" in a foreign language.

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.

The Books

Notes

Visit the Fated Mates Collections Department for great romance recommendations organized by micro tropes, characteristics, subgenres, or things like Virgin Heroes. Check out Jen’s collection Hoop! (There It Is) and listen to the 1993 hit song, Whoomp! (There It Is) by Tag Team.
Barnes & Noble and Amazon holding sales during Independent Bookstore day felt super icky. If you missed it this year, maybe you can find a great indie to visit next year. It’s always the last Saturday in April.
Alan Ritchson is Jack Reacher, Alan Rickman is not.
On the road to the NHL, the World Juniors is pretty important.

are notably homophobic

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Right before I walked into my office, Jen, Eric said to me, don't forget to talk about the collections.
0:06.4	Bring up Virgin Heroes. That'll set Jen off.
0:09.1	Oh, my God.
0:11.6	Okay, so first of all, I am obsessed with collections.
0:16.0	Okay, tell everybody what they've won with collections.
0:18.7	So Eric had this great idea, which is that we should
0:22.7	essential, like, you know, like our, we have pages that are like, okay, it's enemies to lovers. You can
0:27.2	look at these books. But we really, there's so many people who have great ideas about like
0:32.0	microtropes, right? Like smaller, like, right, a smaller way to organize or collect a series of books.
0:37.4	And one of the reasons that
0:38.9	this becomes, I think, especially important now. And this was, I think, Eric's idea, too, is that it is
0:43.9	harder and harder to find good lists of romances on the internet. Right. When you and I started,
0:49.4	you could easily be like, all right, give me, you know, blah, blah, blah romance. And you could
0:53.7	easily find people's lists. But now, oh, blah, blah, romance, and you could easily find
0:54.4	people's list.
0:55.2	But now, oh, the internet is just slop.
0:57.9	It's so hard.
0:58.6	It's too big.
0:59.5	There's impossible to discover things.
1:01.1	Right.
1:01.4	It's, right.
1:02.3	And so he was like, let's get, you know, people essentially like, our listeners, authors,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fated Mates, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Fated Mates and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.