Sports romance? Check. Historical romance? Check. Queer romance? Check, check, check. This week's pick is doing everything at once and somehow still manages to keep it under 400 pages. We love.

Come with us on a time machine straight to the 1960s with You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian and two of the sweetest green flags we've read all year.

📖 This Week’s Book: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

💞 Tropes: MM, sports romance, historical romance

⚠️ Triggers: Death (off page), grief

🔖 Episode Chapters

• 00:00:00 - Catching Up and Introducing You Should Be So Lucky

• 00:06:00 - Book Ratings and Review

• 00:19:45 - Deep Dive: You Should Be So Lucky

• 00:51:20 - Final Thoughts and Next Week’s Book

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This week BookTok finally got to us and we picked up Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube. Is it actually that good or did we just get played by the algorithm? We discuss: whether gold teeth are hot, the exact rules for when it's fine to hook up with someone's dad, and if there's a ceiling on how much smut one book should hold (there is). Come lose your mind with us.

📖 This Week’s Book: Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube

💞 Tropes: MFM, romantasy, dark romance

⚠️ Triggers: Sexual assault, torture, violence

🔖 Episode Chapters

• 00:00:00 - Catching Up and Introducing Kiss of the Basilisk

• 00:14:57 - Book Ratings and Review

• 00:32:35 - Deep Dive: Kiss of the Basilisk

• 01:25:55 - Final Thoughts and Next Week’s Book

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Swordheart by T. Kingfisher had us TALKING. We debate what romantasy really means, spiral into the intricacies of borrowing against your mortgage, and get real serious about the legality of marrying a sword…who is also a man. It’s fine.

📖 This Week’s Book: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

💞 Tropes: MF, romantasy, found family, grumpy/sunshine

⚠️ Triggers: Discussion of past abuse, attempted assault, violence

🔖 Episode Chapters

• 00:00:00 - Catching Up and Introducing Swordheart

• 00:08:30 - Book Ratings and Review

• 00:23:10 - Deep Dive: Swordheart

• 01:05:57 - Final Thoughts and Next Week’s Book

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