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Jess and Trisha discuss hot consensual sex in romance, puzzle over the scarcity of movies based on romance novels, and shrug at an announcement from
The New York Times.
This episode is sponsored by
Your One And Only by Adrianne Finlay and
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann.
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News:
“We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed” by Jennifer Weiner in the New York Times
“
#MeToo Has Forced Me to Admit I’m a Romance Novelist Who’s Having Bad Sex” by Andie J Christopher in Cosmopolitan
“
3 Tips for Great (Fictional) Sex” by Trisha, right here on Book Riot
Check out
Passionflix,
Forever My Girl, and
50 Shades Freed.
Feel free to support
the Go Fund Me to get Deadly Sexy by Beverly Jenkins on a screen near you.
The
NYT announced Tina Jordan is joining the team in the books department, and Jordan
put out a call for romance galleys.
Amanda’s
Book Riot piece from last fall nicely encapsulates some of the reasons we did the eye-rolling we did in the podcast. Trisha
had some other concerns too, to be honest.
Books discussed:
Stroke of Midnight by Andie J. Christopher
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Deadly Sexy by Beverly Jenkins
Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
Between a Rock and a Hot Mess by Phyllis Bourne
The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
Truth or Beard by Penny Reid
Playing the Part by Robin Covington
