S08.36: The Rain Fell in Torrents: Weather Is Genre
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Fated Mates
4.9 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
We’re celebrating the paperback release of These Summer Storms this week, and that means we’re talking about the weather! We talk about rain and snow and wind and tempests and tornadoes and monsoons, and we talk about why we all like weather in books so much (hint, it’s because it’s dialed up to 11).
Tell us all about your favorite weather in romance novels and find an endless list of books that are as wild and stormy as you like over at the Fated Mates Discord, accessible to our Patreon subscribers. By joining the Patreon, you meet other Fated Mates listeners and get an extra monthly episode from us. Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.
Our next read along is Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, wherever you get your books, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
Notes
- We are fans of Mayor Mamdani, texting Sarah about the weather. This lady didn’t get the memo, but we hope she’s okay. After this episode was recorded, the Knicks were headed to the MNBA finals, and the Mayor repealed bedtimes for all the kids in New York. Could we love him any more?
- Eric was camping, which Sarah and I imagine is like Ferngully, but it was real rainy.
- Half agony and half hope is from Persuasion, which just goes to show you that you can never read Jane Austen and still get the basics!
- Send Help is a movie with Rachel McAdams and it’s basically light horror, maybe? Idk, Jen covered her eyes a lot, but it was super fun.
- It was a dark and stormy night is from Snoopy, and also an 1830 novel called Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was an aristocrat! He was the first Baron Lytton! Paul Clifford is an example of a Newgate novel.
- Snowed-in is a subset of forced proximity, but the snowed-in is a symbol.
- You can watch People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix.
- Speaking of Crash Landing on You and weather.
- James Joyce was afraid of thunderstorms.
- Sophia Benoit will be with Sarah at Book Club Bar in Brooklyn on June 23rd, and with Jen at Women & Children First in Chicago on June 24th. Sarah will be with Mary Kay Andrews on Long Island on June 12th.
Sponsors
- Rachel Griffiths, author of Just for the Season, available for preorder in print, ebook, audiobook from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, signed from the Ripped Bodice, or wherever you get your books.
- Lulu Morris, author of The Dating Pact, available for preorder in print, ebook, audiobook from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo or wherever you get your books.
- W by Wattpad Books, publishers of Sabrina Blackburry’s Half Wylde. Available in print and ebook from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or wherever you get your books.
The Rest
- For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2026/6/1/s0836-weather-is-genre-these-summer-storms-paperback
- If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates.
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- If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I keep getting texts from Mr. Mom Donnie. |
| 0:02.4 | I've lived in New York City for 26 years, and I have never received a single text from the mayor. |
| 0:08.1 | And the moment this man started his job, I started getting texts on the reg from him. |
| 0:13.5 | I like this. |
| 0:14.6 | I like this. |
| 0:15.5 | Or sometimes are they just like, listen, have a nice day. |
| 0:20.5 | He rivalry is free at all New York Public Libraries. Love zo. |
| 0:24.1 | What a man. |
| 0:26.2 | No, well, he's been sending a lot of, like, very intense texts over the last couple of days, warning about basement flooding. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.8 | Because it's pouring rain here. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, I've seen some crazy-looking videos, although I'm always now like... |
| 0:38.0 | Did you see the video of the lady getting off the bus? Yes. She just got swept away. Swepped away? No one knows what happened to her. She's just living in New Jersey now. She's probably an alligator shifter, and it's fine. Yeah, exactly. That's the dream man. The problem with me now, of course, is these videos now I have to be like, is it AI? |
| 0:58.5 | Right, and then I have to investigate, like, who posted it. |
| 1:01.3 | I actually think this lady, that is real. |
| 1:03.7 | I think that poor lady wearing her pink lycra, she looked great. |
| 1:09.2 | And then she just got whooshed away. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:14.8 | Anyway, so it's raining here, which is the perfect thing for this episode. |
| 1:19.7 | Oh, yeah, it is. |
| 1:20.3 | This episode. |
| 1:21.5 | Vives. |
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