Don't forget to give Jen a birthday shoutout! Email us at [email protected].

And tune in on December 22 for our interview with Jennifer Lyn Armentrout!

Books Jackie recommends:

• Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
• A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair
• Gwen and Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher
• Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake

Make a list and check it twice, we're looking at Krampus this holiday season!

Questions/Comments/Concerns/Recommendations? Email us at [email protected].

Other episodes to listen to:

• #51 Jillian Graves interview
• #52 Monsters!

Books/authors we mention:

• Krampus: The Yule Lord (by Brom)
• The Naughty List by Ellie Mae MacGregor
• Her Night With Santa by Adriana Herrera
• Krampus and the Crone by Honey Phillips
• Kissed by the Krampus by L. Eveland
• Kidnapped by Krampus by Emily Shore
• I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yaros
• Midsummer Bride by Kati Wilde

Short and sweet and to the point, here are some books and authors we're thankful for!

• Sherrilyn Kenyon (esp. Fantasy Lover)
• Tessa Bailey
• Same Time Next Year
• Nisha Sharma
• Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
• Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Ruby Dixon

*Edit: Fourth Wing came out May, 2023, not June like Jackie kept saying in the episode...*

The release of one of the internet's most anticipate fantasy books of this year, the follow up to blockbluster Fourth Wing, has been wrought with issue and controversy. Let's talk about it!

Books we mention:

• Fourth Wing
• Iron Flame
• Legends and Lattes

Articles worth reading:

• "‘Fourth Wing’ Publisher Vows to ‘Swiftly’ Resolve ‘Frustrating’ Misprint Issues With Sequel ‘Iron Flame’: ‘We Are Committed to Making This Right’" (Maas, 2023)
• "Information About Sprayed Edges for Iron Flame" (Barnesandnoble.com, 2023)
• "The release of Rebecca Yarros' much-anticipated sequel to 'Fourth Wing' has been messy," (Grindell, 2023)
• "Booktok discussion>>Miscellaneous > Fourth Wing Conspiracy Theory," (goodreads.com forums, 2023)

Books we mention/recommend:

• The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy
• The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
• The Luxe series by Anna Godberson
• The Gilded Age Heiresses by Harper St. George
• The Four Hundred series by Joanna Schupe
• Uptown Girls series by Schupe
• Fifth Avenue Rebels by Schupe
• Bareknuckle Bastards by Sarah MacLean

References:

• Possibly source of the Spanish Influenza- Fort Riley in Kansas
• "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
• American dollar princess (wikipedia, n.d.)
• “Amy Henderson: “Downton Abbey” and the Dollar Princesses” (Henderson, 2012)
• “How American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Invaded British High Society” (Blakemore, 2023)
• “Why Did the Gilded Age End?” (Rotondi, 2022)
• “Gilded Age” (History.com, 2023)
• Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker" (wikipedia, n.d.)
• "Our Notable Knicks" (The Knickerbocker Historical Society)
• The Fabulous Leonard Jerome: Churchill's "Fierce" American Roots (Taylor, 2017)
• “The American Duchesses: A Tale of Two Consuelos” (American Duchess, 2017)
• “Inside Alva Vanderbilt's Party Of The Century” (Grimm, 2022)
• “The ‘Dollar Princess’ and the Duke” (Christies.com, 2016)
• “The Lost Wm. K. Vanderbilt Mansion -- 660 5th Avenue” (Miller, 2014)
• “Vanderbilt Ball” (Broyles, 2013)
• “The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels” (Robehmed, 2014)
• “A who’s who of the Gilded Age, ahead of the Met Gala” (Cope, 2022)

Sip, turn the page, savor, add it to the book cave!

• Fireblood Dragons by Ruby Dixon
• Dark Water Daughter by HM Long
• Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean
• Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan

We're so happy to welcome Nisha Sharma onto Raging Romantics! Let's talk good books, bad bookish practices, book bans, and what we get out of romance, ❤️

Questions/comments/concerns/excitement? Email us at [email protected]

Find Nisha on her website, or on social media under Nisha

You can find Nisha on most social media under @nishawrites!

Books we mention:

• Dating Dr. Dil
• Tastes Like Shakkar
• My So-Called Bollywood Life
• The Karma Map
• Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts
• Long Tall Texans by Diana Palmer
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh
• Inheritance by Nora Roberts

Scholastic fiasco (NPR/Treisman, 2023)

"Scholastic backtracks, saying it will stop separating diverse books for fairs in 2024" (Treisman, 2023)

"Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over book bans" (Sullivan/Ulaby)

Halloween + Romance + Spice? YES PLEASE.

And hey, happy Halloween!

• The Demon's Bargain by Katee Robert
• When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke
• Blood Moon by Jillian Graves
• The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
• My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

Go listen to our interview with Jillian Graves here!

Content warning: this is a discussion that involves aspects of true crime involving serial killers and hybristophilia and paraphilias.

Books we mention:

• My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey
• Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
• Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
• Urgent Vows by Lucy Monroe
• Demanding Mob Boss by Lucy Monroe

Podcasts we mention:

• Redhanded
• My Favorite Murder
• Dateline
• Unladylike
• Serial
• Sinisterhood

Resources:

• "There's Actually A Reason Why So Many Women Were Obsessed With Ted Bundy" (Canning, 2019)
• "Is Attraction to Crime a Mental Disorder?" (Restore Mental Health 2023)

We finally get Jen's take on the hockey X booktok drama! Go listen to our original discussion in episode #73. Do you have your own take? Give us a shout at [email protected]...

Books we mention

Articles to read

• "The Smutty Hockey Drama Melting Down BookTok" (Gonzalez-Ramirex, 2023)
• "The Messy Relationship Between Romance Novels and Ice Hockey" (Holpuch, 2023)