The Bachelor but with a Phoenix and a Thunderbird catching feels in the South China Sea? This could actually be the most dramatic season yet.
Mythical creature shifter and Regional-alpha Xi Sing is so immediately smitten with The Shifter Bachelor lovetestant Monday, he threatens to make bad TV. Little does the viewing audience know she's running from a witch-hunter right onto their screens.
This week, yr girls are knockin' on Heaven's Door discussing "Bachelor in Paradise" by Shai August, Along the way, they reflect on the history of Bachelor Nation by looking at a multicultural shifter-take with plenty of political intrigue, character studies, and loose ends
Is reality television just another repository for our collective id? Are bouillon-stealing gargoyles worse than a guy selecting a Neil Lane engagement ring for the wrong reasons? Can the sum of parts be greater than the whole?
One thing is for sure - Chris Harrison could never.

Category Is: Kissing Cousins Pygmalion Cotillion
Answer: “The Prodigal Spinster” by Joan Overfieled
Question: What is relations wanting to make relations after a “makeover” (actually just proper nutrition) thanks to a Puppet Master/Aunt who makes them think it was the work of their Cool Jock Friend and their Bumbling Too-Masc-To-Live Pal?
This week, Morgan and Isabeau don their most fabulous orange formalwear for the exciting conclusion of the first round of their “Category Is” series, discussing a motherf*#!ing Golden Heart Winner from 1988.
Are Pygmalions for the boyzzzz? Can a family member be a liminal space? If you walk down the stairs and not a single Adam’s apple bobs, does it even count?
Kiss me beneath the milky twilight, this episode is about to lead you out on the moonlit floor.

Category Is: Regency in shades of avocado, mulberry and ochre
Answer: “The Golden Songbird” by Sheila Walsh
Question: What is the wager calling everyone’s bluff until she ends up a Marchioness after some gun play, a cock fight, and a really bad trip?
This week, Morgan and Isabeau are joined by a Dark Passenger for their “Category Is” series, discussing a not-plagiarizing-Georgette-Heyer Regency from 1975.
Are the seventies the True Sixties? Was Woodiwiss even a radical? Are disco balls just big mirrors?
Cards on the table, we’re all in.

Category Is: English Rose seeks personified Daddy Issue
Answer: “Tangled Threads” by Susanne McCarthy
Question: What is pretending to be the wife of the brother who raised you and ending up deflowered by the father of your brother’s child bride and everyone looks the same and all the villains are immigrants?
This week, Morgan and Isabeau follow their “Category Is” series down the recently expanded British motorway system of 1991.
Can a contemporary romance be a “bodice ripper”? Has anyone traced the Thatcher Feminism to Boris Johnson Misogynist pipeline? What’s a Tory? And can anyone stop the urban sprawl of the West Midlands?
Heat up the pan, this is the Full English, innit?

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Back at it again with the Shelf Love co-release! Isabeau and Morgan had a great time chatting with Andrea Martucci about what it means to problematize and what it means to fetishize. Especially when it comes to (what else?) Romance! Psyched to share this eppy of Shelf Love in our feed. Don’t forget your copy of Das Kapital—or the whips and giant cartoon fox head for that matter. This conversation is a hot commodity.

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Category Is: Posthumously Published Triangular Caper
Answer: “How Can The Heart Forgot” by: Emilie Loring
Question: What if Nancy Drew never left the suburbs and was also in love with sister’s fiancee?
This week, Morgan and Isabeau kick off our “Category Is” series with plenty of zip and dash all the way from 1961.
How does it feel to find out you’re on a political treadmill next to Donna Reed? Does depth of story require depth of character? Does choice feminism still count if the choice is a wool suit or a ball gown? Who IS going to the Country Club dance?
Button that dress that sets off your eyes to the neck. The weather for this triple wedding is bitingly cold.

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Answer: Announcing an exploration into the oft overlooked but undeniably pervasive works known as Category Romance.
Answer, but in the form of a question: What is the topic of this week's Whoa!nus?

Yr girls Isabeau & Morgan are excited to share their big summer plans: CATEGORY IS. Each week a new Category Romance (from Isabeau’s own random box of romance) published in a different post-war-pre-low-rise-jeans decade.

Monthly Doubles on the board, category is: Category Is.

This week’s episode of Whoa!mance is brought to you by An Earl, The Girl and a Toddler by Vanessa Riley. Available now from Kensington Books.

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As the wedding day draws closer, Jane is taking stock of her new identity: that of the amorphous Mrs. Rochester. This week, Jane revisits the now lightning scared chestnut tree, reveals to have been befallen by a series of disquieting dreams, and confronts an incredulous Mr. Rochester directly when her nightmares trip-trap into her waking life. Is it cold feet, Grace Pool, or something far more sinister?

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After a night of tumultuous emotions, Jane is now set to marry Mr. Rochester. This week, Mrs. Fairax gives our heroine some unsolicited relationship advice, Jane’s happiness wanes at the idea of a lavish future, and everyone is on edge as Jane navigates retaining her sexual purity. Red flags abound.

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Sometimes being a “family man” is less playing catch and more swinging. This week on Whoa!mance, Morgan and Isabeau dish on Briana Cole’s melodramatic romantic suspense The Marriage Pass.
Dr. Dorian Graham just wants to be a good husband—or at least a better husband than he was a boyfriend. When his prim and proper wife, Shantae, offers to make his life easier with a one-night-only freebie, Dorian complicates things by cashing in his Get-Out-Of-Monogamy Free card with his own sister-in-law, the very very sexy and intense Raegan. But exactly who is weaving the tangled web here becomes less and less clear. Why does it feel so good being bad? Is blood always thicker than bubble bath water? Is your body image ever entirely your own? And can you ever really know a person when they’re a woman and you don’t really see women as people? Give that amber liquid another swirl in the rocks glass ‘cause this one burns all the way down.

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