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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

S07.40: Hot 2025 Summer Reads

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.9 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We're both staying very still in front of air conditioners this week, so that means we're very very happy to have a pile of summer reads at the ready! We're teeing up your piles of summer reads this week with our quarterly romance roundup! As a reminder, we haven't read most of these books -- but they're the ones toppling our TBR! As a reminder, preorders mean a lot more than they should these days, so if there's anything on this list that makes you go "oh, yes. that's for me," and you're able to preorder from your local bookstore (or from Pocket Books Bookshop with the code PREORDER) or reserve at your local library. The authors on this list thank you.

As a reminder, Sarah has a new book out on July 8th -- go see her on tour in NYC, Chicago, Winston-Salem, NC, Newport, RI, Cambridge, MA, Decatur, GA, or Franklin, IN. There are a handful of tickets still available for Fated Mates Live in St. Louis, MO on July 8th! Join us!

If you can't make the tour, you can preorder These Summer Storms signed with a special romance dust jacket from The Ripped Bodice.

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.

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0:00.0

Sarah.

0:00.3

Everyone.

0:01.4

No time for banner.

0:03.6

Jen and I just had like a full banner session.

0:06.8

And then at the end I was like, oh shit, we should have been recording that because it was funny.

0:10.6

And then she said, no time for banter.

0:12.9

This is, I, no, you know what I am right now?

0:15.6

I am the fireman out opening the hydrant.

0:20.0

For the block party? For the the block party and a zillion

0:24.0

books are about to shoot out of it everyone I know that in film this happens like the fire you see

0:29.9

this you see the fireman come and they open or you don't see it but you see like a party in

0:35.2

New York City or Chicago or like L.A., like a big party in a big city and

0:39.5

like a block party and they open the hydrant and the hydrant shoots water out and the kids

0:43.6

run around in it. And I'm here to tell you that is in fact true. And for many years before I got to

0:50.1

New York, I thought like, oh, is it like people know how to open the hydrant?

0:54.6

Like, in my head, I was like, this must just be like a thing people in cities know how to do,

0:58.9

which is insane, by the way.

1:00.4

Like, I'm now thinking back on it, that would be mayhem if everyone knew how to do this.

1:05.6

But no, you literally get like a block party, a permit from the city.

1:09.9

And the fire department comes to your block

1:13.1

in the morning and they open it up and they put sprinkler covers on them. So it's like, instead of

1:19.9

shooting it out so that a toddler just get shot across the street, it's like a like more like a

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