Plot Trysts

Ok look. We can't stay on topic to save our lives and we end up talking more about our platonic ideal of a romance novel. In short: this book is good. We want there to be a way to understand what open door means to each author so we have reasonable expectations.

Meg has fond feelings about this 90s-tastic Kleypas, and Laine read it for the first time. It brought us both joy, just in different ways.

Meg and Alex are joined by Sarah Wendell to discuss the final book in the Vorkosigan Saga.

Delphine Roy deals with some themes that are not our favorite, but does seem aware of the difficulty and makes some fun choices within a very not fun context. Mind the trigger warnings here for sure.

MacLean really nails the prose as she goes full medieval. We liked it.

Meg and Alex are joined by Kelsea Yu to spend most of the episode talking about the ending of this book.

Good news! This book was wayyyyy less problematic than the first in the series, in that it was not problematic at all.

There are many things to enjoy about this book and a ton of well developed B plots. Maybe too many, but we could have looked beyond that if all the talk of erotica had lived up to the hype. As such, we liked this, but didn't love it.

Meg loved this, Laine didn't, so maybe don't start here if you're new to SciFi?