Melody Carlisle and Sabrina Bradley love romance and they do it out loud! Every Monday, these long-distance best friends recap romance novels from a comedic, intersectional feminist, sex-positive perspective. If you're itching for a BFF book club or just love raucous slumber party vibes, this is the show for you! Whether you've read the book or not, all are welcome! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound.
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Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN by Talia Hibbert! Bonus content: first kiss PSA, CPTSD reactions, and so much more! Lady Loves Sabrina: Pattern Keeper! It's an android app and it will change your crafting game. Mel: it's hot pot season! Having friends over for a night of good food in the cold weather is wonderful! We’ll b…
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Part 1) | 360.1
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Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here to recap GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN by Talia Hibbert! It's one of their favorite contemporary romance series, so get ready for a lot of cackling and swooning! Bonus Content: is Sabrina a MapQuest person now? (down with the "fancy sky computers!"), having someone up your email game just by being incredibly clever charm…
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Hot Frosty (Part 2) | 359.2
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The pals are here to finish up Hot Frosty! Is there a murder? Yes. Is there still an HEA? Allegedly!! Bonus Content: eggs in nog, and so much more! Lady Love The whole group: do the dumb, or low priority thing when you need to!!! Content warning for discussions of possible child predation, racial dynamics, police brutality, and immigration. Want to…
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Hot Frosty (Part 1) | 359.1
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Hey HBs! Nic is here to chat with Mel and Sabrina about the new Netflix sensation Hot Frosty! In this heartwarming film, a very chiseled baby snowman eludes the police while teaching a local widow how to love again. Bonus Content: V saying "alright, big boy" to her swimming instructor, Nic is our Christmas movie consultant, this movie was made in t…
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Part two of our Thanksgiving book, BOYFRIEND by Sarina Bowen, gets HOT AND HEAVY! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners. Want more of us? Check out our PATREON! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about…
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Boyfriend by Sarina Bowen (Part 1) | 358.1
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Happy Thanksgiving, American HBs! Get stoked for part 1 of BOYFRIEND by Sarina Bowen! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners. Want more of us? Check out our PATREON! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask a…
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Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon (Part 2) | 357.2
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Hey y'all! We're here for part 2 of BULL MOON RISING by Ruby Dixon! Aspeth has been discovered by her dastardly ex-fiancée and it's ALL HANDS ON DECK to save her home! The found family in this book really made our hearts soar just as much as the rutting in this book made our eyes bulge. Awoooga! Lady Loves: Sabrina: a heated mattress topper! It's s…
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Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon (Part 1) | 357.1
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Hey HBs! We're recapping BULL MOON RISING by Ruby Dixon and we couldn't be happier! This is part one of our foray into a new corner of the Dixonverse where magic is outlawed and Conquest Moons disrupt everything. We've got a determined heroine who's undercover to save her life and home and a minotaur hero who cannot catch a break in the run up to t…
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Hey HBs! This is part 2 of FRISCO'S KID by Suzanne Brockmann, the third book in the Tall, Dark, and Dangerous series! We hope you're ready for a little bit of action and more emotional growth! Bonus Content: getting nakie in the living room, "then I'll choose you," the miscommunication trope done with excellent communication, future purveyors of to…
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356.1 - Frisco's Kid by Suzanne Brockmann (Part 1)
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Happy Veteran's Day to all our American Listeners! It’s our annual Veterans Day episode and we decided to continue our journey through the Tall, Dark, and Dangerous series. Today is part 1 of FRISCO'S KID by Suzanne Brockmann! We were hoping for similar ridiculous antics to the first two books, but we got a very sincere recovery story with the foll…
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355.2 - Impromptu Match by Lily Mayne! (Part 2)
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HBs, we get to spend more time in the zany universe of Lily Mayne's Goliaths of Wrestling! Hot dad bod human Taylor and unabashed perv + style icon monster Holt can't get enough of each other and we can't get enough of them! When you add addictive side characters and truly hilarious drunken shenanigans, you get a masterpiece. Bonus content: Sabrina…
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355.1 - Impromptu Match by Lily Mayne! (Part 1)
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HBs! We have discovered IMPROMPTU MATCH by Lily Mayne and we'll never be the same again! This is part one, in which we meet depressed and unfulfilled human Taylor Hough. He works a job he hates, he's given up everything he loves for a boyfriend who left him for a hippie, and there's no end in sight to his dearth of contentment. Until he accidentall…
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354.2 - Bewitching the Boss by Jessa Kane
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It's Halloween week and the characters in BEWITCHING THE BOSS by Jessa Kane were entirely too unafraid! Their fear bones are broken, but other important bones aren't! We've got a party-planning stalker and a virgin who has taken a vow of misery, but is DELIGHTED when he realizes he's being stalked. Our jaws where on the floor the whole time and we …
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354.1 - Knot Today Satan by Calliope Stewart
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Happy Halloween week, HBs! We're celebrating with an accidental omegaverse summoning with KNOT TODAY SATAN by Calliope Stewart! Turns out, the devil is an alpha and the secret ingredient is slick.... goddess bless romance. Bonus Content: assuming your niche interest is common knowledge, Mel was reading signs that weren't there, coordinating scents …
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353.2 - 7th Podiversary (Part 2)
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We're wrapping up our 7th Podiversary with a torturous session of Would You Rather and we round out the episode with two Quickies for you! Mel recaps MARROW by Trisha Wolfe and Brynn Weaver and Sabrina recaps SEXTING THE SILVERFOX by K.C. Crowne! Thank you, Listener! For 7 years we've shared books, squees, tears, hard limits, giggles, and we wouldn…
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353.1 - 7th Podiversary Celebration! (Part 1)
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Hey HBs! It’s time to pat ourselves on the back, update our various watches, and figure out some would you rathers. It’s our 7th podiversary celebration!!! Get ready for our annual State of the Podcast, HB Authors, Hard Limits Watch, Kink Watch, HB Etiquette, Rabbit Hole Watch, and more! Tomorrow we'll be back to torture each other with more Would …
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Hey HBs! We're here to finish up Nikolai and Myst's tale with fated hostage-taking, forced orgasms, and misunderstandings of unfinished memories! Get stoked! Lady Loves: Sabrina: 360 degree rolling suitcases. What a revelation! Mel: #plantdad instagram (also #plantdaddy). And specifically @theplantpapi. Such a good follow! Want to support the show?…
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352.1 - The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole (Part 1)
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Hey HBs! We're doing our first re-release since Sabrina became Mel's full-time partner-in-crime! This is part 1 of THE WARLORD WANTS FOREVER by Kresley Cole! Since we announced that our next Patreon Deep Dive is going to be the first 10ish books in the Immortals After Dark series, starting at book 3, we've had a bunch of Listener saying "but what a…
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We're back with the second half of THE KING by Nana Malone! Our plucky secret agents are on their very first field mission and (bom chicka wow wooow) they're posing as newlyweds! Don't worry, they commit to the bit. Bonus Content: Georg and Dreorg, forehead kisses, red hot narration, and so much more! Lady Loves: Sabrina: Having an endless pile of …
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351.1 - The King by Nana Malone (Part 1)
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Hey HBs! It's our first Nana Malone book! THE KING is book 1 of the Gentleman Rogue series and we were stoked to jump into contemporary spy times. What we didn't prep ourselves for? AN AMNESIA PLOT!!!! Bonus Content: Mel has a yuck that goes ow, Mel DID manage to swerve a little Mikey after our Magic Mike XXL watch party, Sabrina read the prequel T…
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350.2 - How the Marquess Was Won by Julie Anne Long (Part 2)
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Hey HBs!! The pals are back with HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON by Julie Anne Long! When we left off, Jules had asked Phoebe to become his mistress and she turned him down HARD. Now these two crazy kids are, unbeknownst to either of them, both heading to London for more balls and other EnglandTimes ish. While Phoebe basks in the glow of being the crowd f…
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350.1 - How the Marquess Was Won by Julie Anne Long (Part 1)
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Hey HBs!! Mel and Sabrina are recapping HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON by Julie Anne Long! We've got a lowly school teacher who is drafted to be the paid companion of a former pupil and a Marquess who has a plan, gosh darnit! And it does NOT include becoming enamored of his hopeful fiancée's pal! But there's a country party, an opera singer, a forest ram…
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349.2 - Triple Sec by TJ Alexander (Part 2)
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Hey HBs!! We're back with part two of TRIPLE SEC by TJ Alexander! We jump right back in with a snowed-in vacation with only one fireplace! And that fireplace is utilized BEAUTIFULLY! Bonus Content: rich people shit, useless Tops, gendered vs. neutral terms, a not-so-survival trope, and so much more! Lady Loves: Mel: checking out movies from the lib…
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349.1 - Triple Sec by TJ Alexander (Part 1)
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Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here recapping TRIPLE SEC by TJ Alexander! It's a contemporary, queer, polyamorous romance that had them chatting for more than 3 hours (seriously, Mel cut over an hour of their nonsense. You're WELCOME.). We've got a polyamorous married couple, a certified and embittered lesbian, and a whole bunch of amazing queer and …
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348.2 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynn Weaver (Part 2)
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Hey HBs! It's time to get to the spicy scenes in BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD by Brynn Weaver!! And whooweee did they deliver. In this second half, we've got a corpse puppet show (is that a tag now?), some excellent hurt/comfort into schmecksy times, and the most romantic proposal in the universe.... if you're a serial unaliver loves an empty eye socket. Wh…
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