Heaving Bosoms

We're back for part 2 of RECEIVER OF MANY by Rachel Alexander! They make up and then it's a big adventure story!

Published: 19 August 2025

Hey HBs! We've got a classic retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth AND WE SUPER LOVED IT. This is part 1 of 4 (2 week event).

Published: 18 August 2025

It's time for part 2 of our recap of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffeneggar. Mel is still mad about it.

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

Boy is Mel bittersauce about this. We're here with part 1 of our recap of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffeneggar. We brought our pal Kristen along for the ride to balance out all the shade Mel would inevitably be throwing throughout the episode. Check the trigger warnings!

Transcribed - Published: 11 August 2025

Get stoked for the final part of Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti! Sexy quill ASMR, trolling as a love language, and Mel STILL knows side-character's names!

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

Hey HBs! We've got part 3 (of 4) of Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti! When we stopped last week, Selene had announced their unexpected engagement after being caught making out on the floor, Peter having two big ol' handfulls of ass. Faaaaaantastic.

Transcribed - Published: 4 August 2025

She's trying to coach him on finding a wife in six weeks (NOT HER THO) and his hot mess is showing!

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2025

Come recap this ADORABLE historical romance with us! You also get spot-on impressions, creepy children stories, and so much more! This is part 1 of 4.

Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2025

We're back with Sabrina's favorite book of the trio: CAPTURED BY THE CTHULU! There are so many tentacles, y'all.

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2025

Sabrina is here to recap the Monster Mates series by Ivy Sparks!

Transcribed - Published: 21 July 2025

It's time to get to this rest stop oral and then ON TO THE WEDDING!

Transcribed - Published: 15 July 2025

Have you been craving a fluffy, enemies-to-lovers MM romance between a theater teacher and a football coach? OMG, US TOO!

Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025

We're jumping in right after our heroine does a little *self-care* exhibitionism to get back at the hero.

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

Hey HBs! We're recapping the dark stalker romcom LIGHTS OUT by Navessa Allen! And it's tangent city this episode, so if you want to skip straight to the book, fast forward to roughly the 20 minute mark.

Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025

Hey HBs! It's part 2 of THE BONE KING AND THE STARLING by Elizabeth Stephens! Ooooooh the gore ramps up to 11 in this half! Get stoked.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

Hey HBs! We're here with a recap of THE BONE KING AND THE STARLING by Elizabeth Stephens! We're in Viking Times and IT'S DELICOUS FROM START TO FINISH! We were high on recording for the first time in a while, so this week is a doozy!

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025

Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of Muriel's Wedding with Jaime P. Bradley!!

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

Hey HBs! The wonderful Jaime P. Bradley is here to help Mel recap the movie Muriel's Wedding! This campy Australian movie may not be a romance, but it's got a stupidly-talented Toni Collette, wild coming-of-age antics, and lots of LADY LOVE!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025

Our duskwalker and captive (?) are just homesteading while they get to know each other, complete with growing their own food, crafting protection charms, and dyeing their own clothes. Is this actually the dream, or what? Except for all the demons who want to eat her. That's not ideal.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Hey HBs! It's high time for a monster romance! Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is here to help Mel recap A SOUL TO KEEP by Opal Reyne!

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025

These messy step-siblings get messier!

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Hey HBs! Naima and Mel can't get enough of these messy step-siblings!

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

Hey HBs! It's time for part 2 of ETERNAL CRAVING! They may have banged on a room-sized bed, but it's super casual! Unless it isn't? Maybe it's forever? Saving the world should give them some clarity!

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Hey HBs! I hope you're ready for some prehistoric action! Nina Bangs is serving up book 2 in her Gods of the Night series, ETERNAL CRAVING!

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

It's part 2 with these idiots. We still don't like them.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

Buckle up, HBs! We didn't love this one.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

We're back with part 2 of PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! When we left off yesterday, Stephen and Grace had just had the sweetest, hottest make out and then this bonehead APOLOGIZED to her, making her feel like a dirty mistake. Then! She stepped on a severed head! It’s a rough day for our ol’ pal Grace. That’s where we’re jumping back in.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

The pals recap PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! Book one about a survivor perfume artisan and a big ol' sebastian hero... who knits! Y'all, Sabrina and her morals almost didn't make it.

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

We're back with part 2 of these mature characters solving mysteries, saving nuns, and falling in love along the way!

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

Hey HBs! We've got a charming, broken Paladin and a nun with SECRETS!!!! We LOVED the World of the White Rat and couldn't get enough!

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Hey HBs! We've got a charming, broken Paladin and a nun with SECRETS!!!! We LOVED the World of the White Rat and couldn't get enough!

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy, a post-apocalyptic romance that we had a blast with! Mel even did Quickies on the next two books for Sabrina in a Patreon episode.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

We're rereleasing CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy, and wow is Outlaw Country sex and kink positive! We've got a heroine with a BIG secret, a hero with a vendetta, and a whole passel of boys we can't get enough of!

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

There are greased-up snakes on this metaphorical plane!

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

Boy, oh boy, this MM superhero fantasy novel is fan-damn-tastic; the voice is SO UNIQUE, the world-building is incredible, and the romance is SMOKING HOT.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

We're here with part 2 of LICK by Kylie Scott!

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

It's a rockstar romance and WE'RE INTO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

It's an alien romance with a grumpy hero and very hard-working heroine!

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

We're here with part 1 of a Sabrina alien special! It was theydies choice and S chose RIV'S SANCTUARY by AG Wilde!

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

HBs, it's the fourth and final part of DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas! Gabriel, the next St. Vincent is married to his neurodivergent queen Pandora, but they've been pulled into a big intrigue and Pandora might not make it!

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Hey HBs! It's time to finish up our St. Vincent Day celebration!

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

Here's part 2 of our 4 part St. Vincent Day extravaganza!!

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

HAPPY ST. VINCENT DAY, HBs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

We're back with part 2 of NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks!

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

We've got NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks for you this week! It's Highlander Times with a feminist icon heroine and the damaged guy who can't help his fascination with her. But he's only marrying her to do his brother a solid. Really!

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2025

We're back and these two hot parents are making ago of it! Enjoy the conclusion of GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas!

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

OOOooooooohhhh it's time to head down to the Big Easy in GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nichols! It's Single Parent Times in this spicy contemporary.

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

OOOooooooohhhh it's time to head down to the Big Easy in GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas! It's Single Parent Times in this spicy contemporary.

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

It's part 2 of BARED TO YOU by Sylvia Day! These two are stubbornly committed to this courtship and we're all along for the ride. Wheeeeeeee!

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

The pals recap a truly bonkers book about an unhinged gazillionaire, a gal just trying to mind her own business, and an intsa-obsession that won't be ignored.

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025