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Thanks to another great recommendation (this time courtesy of friend of the show Gwendolyn Harper), this week we're mixing two of our favorite tropes: gay hockey players and monstrous main characters! Join us as we revel in the sexy fun of Puck and Plume by Rhea Fox, the first book on the show to make Carl openly declare that he would eat one of the main characters.

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NATE

I could've done without falling asleep in the middle of a Bavarian forest and being startled awake by a massive dude with a mohawk and a beak. Seriously, why did he wait for me to wake up and free him from the stupid trap my teammates told me to set up? They said I'd catch a mythical creature that would take me to its treasure.

He introduces himself as Vee and says, now that I’ve caught him, he’s my mate. What the heck? I don't want a mate with a beak, no matter how awesome his butt is or how much I want to use his cushy pecs as pillows. When he brings me into the heart of the woods, I'm afraid he'll hurt me, but thank goodness for Vee, who takes care of me. Now I just need to make it through the night without getting frisky with the chicken dude who rescued me.

VITUS

I can't believe I got stuck in that dumb trap, especially when it's just a flimsy net on a dying branch. The guy snoozing against the oak across the way put it up. I didn't even need to see the Greek letters on his old shirt. He was the embodiment of an American frat boy. Tourists... They always underestimate the power of Bavarian beer.

I'm tempted to let him sleep. There's another part of me that's trying really hard to ignore how hot he is. I don't even like being around people and trying my best to avoid them. Taking Frat Boy home with me sucks, but I don't really have a choice. He's too drunk to get very far without freezing, and I can’t go against the oath I took as a Forest Ranger.

CONTENT WARNING: description of a fatal hockey accident and ensuing trauma of a witness.

TROPES: M/M romance, insta-lust, dubious consent.



So...What Are You Into?

Katie: "Good Luck, Babe!" by Chappell Roan

Carl: "Hind's Hall" by Macklemore



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Our listeners make the best recommendations! Listener Tia E. recommended Leigh Miller's Nora's Kraken to Katie, and it immediately checked all of her favorite boxes: monster smut, cozy vibes, and a sweet cinnamon roll of an MMC. Oh, and the opportunity to make Carl squirm with tentacle talk!

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I didn’t flee one monster just to be claimed by another.When the Monster Relations Bureau tells me I've been identified as a kraken shifter's mate, my first instinct is to run. I learned the hard way what it means to be treated like someone’s possession, and I’m not about to make the same mistake twice.Only, Elias is… different. Patient and careful with me, willing to wait as long as it takes for me to let him in. The more I learn to trust him, and the more he draws me under with the dark temptation of his touch, the more the defenses I’ve held onto so long start to crumble.Still, he’s not the only monster I’ve dealt with. And when the human monster from my past finally catches up with me, I’ll have to decide if I trust Elias enough to let him help me, protect me, claim me as his, even though being possessed has only ever left me broken and afraid.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Explicit sexual content, Tentacles used for sex, Strained parent/child relationship (historical) (Following triggers take place outside the relationship between MCs) Domestic abuse (historical), Emotional abuse (historical) , Stalking, Kidnapping, Threat made with a firearm.

TROPES: M/F Romance, Fated Mates, Monster Romance, Shifter Romance

TAGS: Found family; forced proximity; you’re a monster, but you're my monster; heroine with a shadowed past and a hero determined to protect her; reluctant mate; I called, you came; a kraken but also a wife guy; he looks like a pirate because he was a pirate; enthusiastic consent is the sexiest consent; soft monsters; hero falls first

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Solo Leveling

Carl: Stevie Wilson



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At the end of last week's episode, Katie refrained from giving us the name of this week's book, lest she spoil anything. In retrospect, she made the right call, because going blind into Holly Wilde's Earthed really is the best way to experience this absolutely bananas book! Hell, I'd even recommend blowing right past the book description below!

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Meet Celeste, the brilliant anthropologist who discovers that our planet is in trouble. The world isn't what it seems, in fact, it's bigger and thicker than we could have ever imagined. Not to mention, it's about to explode. The only way to save our world is for Celeste to journey beyond the stars and transform into a giant woman. As she explores the vastness of space, she discovers a love as immense as the universe itself: a passionate bond with none other than the Earth. Prepare for an out of this world experience when you read "Earthed".


CONTENT WARNING: ongoing discussion of the slowly dying planet, incredible liberties being taken with basically all scientific and physical truths of the universe and the planet itself.

TROPES: sci-fi romance, sentient object (??)

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Travelers

Carl: "It Feels Good to Write a Song" by Vulfmon



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Katie thought she'd just be able to dip her toe into Bjorn Wilde's Scared Stiff series, but she ended up getting hooked and reading all four books! We originally set out to just cover the first two books (which make up the bulk of the episode), but since the books were so breezy and fun, we opted to cover almost the entire series! (Can't spoil the ending!)



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For a gay trio camping in the woods, an escaped ax murderer really kills the mood.It’s been years since best friends Nick, Levi, and Jamal have been camping at Devil’s Ridge, but a return to their old stomping grounds sounds like just the retreat they need.Burnt out by the rat race of the city, the three bros reunite for a weekend of getting back to nature. Just three dudes, the woods, and quality male bonding…what could go wrong?More than they expected, thanks to an escaped homicidal maniac straight out of an ’80s horror flick. Things are about to get campy in more ways than one.
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Katie: Wicked Little Rabbit by Samantha Moran

Carl: Balatro



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Last October, we had the pleasure to discuss Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson before it was released; this month we had the pleasure of talking to them IRL! Join us as we discuss RE's peen design process, where they pull inspiration from, and what life is like when you're secretly three kobolds in a trench coat.



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Listener (can we call you "listener"?), when we tell you that neither of us were prepared for The Frog Prince, we are telling you that even in recounting this book to Carl, Katie was not ready to REVISIT it. With the fourth book of The Darvel Exploratory Systems series, SJ Sanders has crafted a smutty speculative sci-fi slice-of-life novella that is (sometimes almost literally) overflowing with originality!

Thank you to listener Seneca O. for this recommendation!

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No one ever said that be a non-gratas was easy, but neither did they say that there was a possibility of becoming a genetic experiment to the benefit of Darvel Exploratory Corporation. When Gwen Brody woke up with amphibious genetic and surgical modifications to help her survival chances on Xal2614 it was bad enough, but living with it and having the pressure from her mission partner to fulfill more intimate parts of their mission to sustain data gathering beyond their lifetimes was another.Yet, when her partner mysteriously disappears into the swampy environment into which they were sent, Gwen has a new problem when an alien shows up at her door singing his courting songs and triggers a heat that she can’t escape or ignore.The Frog Prince is a 20k sci-fi romance novella set in the Darvel Exploratory systems universe and inspired by the fairytale The Frog Prince with graphic sex.

CONTENT WARNING: lack of autonomy, sci-fi romance with monstrous aliens, graphic sex, strange anatomy, perilous circumstances, and sequences of body horror.

TROPES: alien romance, speculative science-fiction, found family, and what Katie calls "Diet 'Mars Needs Mates'."

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Stuff that smells good!

Carl: Hi-Fi Rush



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