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Thanks to another great recommendation (this time courtesy of friend of the show Gwendolyn Harper), this week we're mixing two of our favorite tropes: gay hockey players and monstrous main characters! Join us as we revel in the sexy fun of Puck and Plume by Rhea Fox, the first book on the show to make Carl openly declare that he would eat one of the main characters.

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NATE

I could've done without falling asleep in the middle of a Bavarian forest and being startled awake by a massive dude with a mohawk and a beak. Seriously, why did he wait for me to wake up and free him from the stupid trap my teammates told me to set up? They said I'd catch a mythical creature that would take me to its treasure.

He introduces himself as Vee and says, now that I’ve caught him, he’s my mate. What the heck? I don't want a mate with a beak, no matter how awesome his butt is or how much I want to use his cushy pecs as pillows. When he brings me into the heart of the woods, I'm afraid he'll hurt me, but thank goodness for Vee, who takes care of me. Now I just need to make it through the night without getting frisky with the chicken dude who rescued me.

VITUS

I can't believe I got stuck in that dumb trap, especially when it's just a flimsy net on a dying branch. The guy snoozing against the oak across the way put it up. I didn't even need to see the Greek letters on his old shirt. He was the embodiment of an American frat boy. Tourists... They always underestimate the power of Bavarian beer.

I'm tempted to let him sleep. There's another part of me that's trying really hard to ignore how hot he is. I don't even like being around people and trying my best to avoid them. Taking Frat Boy home with me sucks, but I don't really have a choice. He's too drunk to get very far without freezing, and I can’t go against the oath I took as a Forest Ranger.

CONTENT WARNING: description of a fatal hockey accident and ensuing trauma of a witness.

TROPES: M/M romance, insta-lust, dubious consent.

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: "Good Luck, Babe!" by Chappell Roan

Carl: "Hind's Hall" by Macklemore

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Our listeners make the best recommendations! Listener Tia E. recommended Leigh Miller's Nora's Kraken to Katie, and it immediately checked all of her favorite boxes: monster smut, cozy vibes, and a sweet cinnamon roll of an MMC. Oh, and the opportunity to make Carl squirm with tentacle talk!

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CONTENT WARNINGS: Explicit sexual content, Tentacles used for sex, Strained parent/child relationship (historical) (Following triggers take place outside the relationship between MCs) Domestic abuse (historical), Emotional abuse (historical) , Stalking, Kidnapping, Threat made with a firearm.

TROPES: M/F Romance, Fated Mates, Monster Romance, Shifter Romance

TAGS: Found family; forced proximity; you’re a monster, but you're my monster; heroine with a shadowed past and a hero determined to protect her; reluctant mate; I called, you came; a kraken but also a wife guy; he looks like a pirate because he was a pirate; enthusiastic consent is the sexiest consent; soft monsters; hero falls first

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Solo Leveling

Carl: Stevie Wilson

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At the end of last week's episode, Katie refrained from giving us the name of this week's book, lest she spoil anything. In retrospect, she made the right call, because going blind into Holly Wilde's Earthed really is the best way to experience this absolutely bananas book! Hell, I'd even recommend blowing right past the book description below!

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CONTENT WARNING: ongoing discussion of the slowly dying planet, incredible liberties being taken with basically all scientific and physical truths of the universe and the planet itself.

TROPES: sci-fi romance, sentient object (??)

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Travelers

Carl: "It Feels Good to Write a Song" by Vulfmon

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Katie thought she'd just be able to dip her toe into Bjorn Wilde's Scared Stiff series, but she ended up getting hooked and reading all four books! We originally set out to just cover the first two books (which make up the bulk of the episode), but since the books were so breezy and fun, we opted to cover almost the entire series! (Can't spoil the ending!)

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Katie: Wicked Little Rabbit by Samantha Moran

Carl: Balatro

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Last October, we had the pleasure to discuss Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson before it was released; this month we had the pleasure of talking to them IRL! Join us as we discuss RE's peen design process, where they pull inspiration from, and what life is like when you're secretly three kobolds in a trench coat.

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Listener (can we call you "listener"?), when we tell you that neither of us were prepared for The Frog Prince, we are telling you that even in recounting this book to Carl, Katie was not ready to REVISIT it. With the fourth book of The Darvel Exploratory Systems series, SJ Sanders has crafted a smutty speculative sci-fi slice-of-life novella that is (sometimes almost literally) overflowing with originality!

Thank you to listener Seneca O. for this recommendation!

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CONTENT WARNING: lack of autonomy, sci-fi romance with monstrous aliens, graphic sex, strange anatomy, perilous circumstances, and sequences of body horror.

TROPES: alien romance, speculative science-fiction, found family, and what Katie calls "Diet 'Mars Needs Mates'."

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Stuff that smells good!

Carl: Hi-Fi Rush

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Looking for a spicy book that'll get your engine revving? Katie has just the book for you this week, 'cause she read Stripped Raw by Miss Merican, a tale full of bad boys, big bikes, and questionable choices!

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--- What’s left when you strip away the lies? ---
Sam. Loyal to the Coffin Nails MC. Lives by his own rules. Weakness: Damsels in distress.
Jolie. In a deeply ambiguous relationship with the Coffin Nails MC. Lives from paycheck to paycheck. Weakness: Bad boys.
As a patched member of the Coffin Nails MC, Sam is finally living the life he was destined for. A life of Harleys, guns, drugs, and eating pussy. A life of brotherhood above all.
When he goes to pick up some pot brownies for the club president’s old lady, he meets a girl so sweet, his inner wolf wants to eat her there and then. What is supposed to be a typical fling, gets damn more complicated when the Coffin Nails decide to involve the pretty blonde baker in their drugs operation.
Jolie has a knack for baking delicious cakes, but when it comes to her taste in men, she is a self-professed failure. After a disastrous relationship, she is still picking up the pieces and working three jobs to manage the financial carnage her ex left her with. The last thing she needs is a hot piece of tattooed hunk stomping into her life. Sam calls her ‘Candy’, but with a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jolie should be called ‘Trouble’.
To be with Jolie, Sam would have to disclose a secret he kept locked away for years. A secret so raw, that it might destroy his place in the brotherhood he’s fought so hard to be a part of.

CONTENT WARNINGS: transphobia and dead-naming (on-page).

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: "J Christ" by Lil Nas X

Carl: "Cowboys Are Secretly Frequently Fond of Each Other" by Orville Peck and Willie Nelson

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Listen...by now, you what this show is about. We're obviously going to do a book about railing the Easter Bunny for the holiday weekend, so why not cover a book whose title is literally that? This week, we're covering Railed By the Easter Bunny by Dalia Davies, and it made for a perfect quickie of an episode for this busy holiday weekend!

CONTENT WARNING: implied domestic abuse (off-page).

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Wildcat

Carl: The Barkley Marathons: the Race That Eats Its Young (link is for the full movie on YouTube)

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In honor of the start of baseball season, Carl takes the reins this week and tells Katie the tale of two ballplayers in love! Join us for One True Outcome by KD Casey and bask in the heat of summer days at the park and summer nights with one very sexy pair of teammates!

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A veteran player on a new team. The rookie who hero-worshiped him growing up. The unwritten rule they're about to break.

Everyone knows you don't fall for a teammate. Especially the rookie you're supposed to mentor. Tell that to Matt “Big Mack” Mackenzie though. Now at the tail end of his career, the one-time superstar takes an offer from the only team willing to give him a shot.

The hook? The job includes extra practice sessions with the team’s rookie catcher. The tempting, smart-mouthed Jamie DeLuca, who Mack really shouldn’t think about that way. And he definitely shouldn’t agree to after-hours video review sessions with.

The sky’s the limit for Jamie, if only he can keep his spot in the lineup. But the rookie’s on the verge of being cut. If he wants to stay on a big league roster that’ll mean extra work—and extra time with Big Mack. The guy he fantasized about playing like growing up. And then just fantasized about.

Mack’s nothing like Jamie’s fantasies. He’s better. If only Jamie could keep his attraction to the charming, generous veteran under wraps. Easier said than done, especially when the heat between them ignites.

But nothing in baseball comes with a guarantee—and the only outcome they can be certain of is the one they make for themselves.

CONTENT WARNINGS:  discussion of prior parental death due to cancer (off-page) and medical debt; on-page depictions of anxiety and chronic pain due to injury including ableism; casual drug use/drinking; power differential between characters (which is discussed and negotiated as part of the story); age gap; brief discussion of structural homophobia that does not involve slurs.

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Writing!

Carl: MLB The Show '24

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For this month's Author Profile, we chatted with the magnificent Shannon Elliot! Give us a listen as we dive into her latest release (Bound), the work she puts into writing queer, "quinky" books, and how her theatre background informs her approach to writing. She even drops some details from her works-in-progress!

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