S05.20: Shifter Romance: Manimals!

You’ve been asking for a shifter interstitial, and we like to give you what you want. Today, we’re talking manimals! We go back to the beginning and touch on all the shifter/Lycae business that we dealt with in Season 1, and then we talk about all the ways werewolves have evolved into were-other things and then into DNA-splicing experiments. The recs get wild, the plots get weird, and there’s a lot happening!

Our next episode will drop Saturday in honor of the greatest of holidays, Derek Craven Day! To celebrate, we recommend rereading Lisa Kleypas’s Dreaming of You and then enjoying a full hour of our banter about our proudest achievement. In observance of DCD23, we will not be releasing a Wednesday episode next week, but we will be with you all the week after!

Our first read along of 2023 (in February) is Tracy MacNish’s Stealing Midnight—we’ve heard the calls from our gothic romance readers and we’re delivering with this truly bananas story, in which the hero is dug out of a grave and delivered, barely alive, to the heroine. Get ready. You can find Stealing Midnight (for $1.99!) at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, or Apple Books.

Notes

• Today’s show is apparently brought to you by 1983. The song She’s a Maniac was on the Flashback soundtrack, and Manimal was a television show.
• We talked so much about shifters in Season One, you just have to go back. I’m sorry.
• Derek Craven Day is coming this Saturday. Please celebrate responsibly.

The Rest

• For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2023/1/31/s0520-shifter-romance-interstitial
• If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates.
• Beyond your favorite podcast app, you can find us on Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, Tumblr, and probably some other places, too, if you look hard enough.
• If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.

Manimal Books

• A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
• Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole
• Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole
• Macrieve by Kresley Cole
• Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
• Desire Untamed by Pamela Palmer
• Perfect Mate by Mina Carter
• Wild Rain by Christine Feehan
• In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston
• Croc and the Fox by Eve Langlais
• Fury by Lauraan Dohner
• Releasing Rage by Cynthia Sax
• Forgotten Sins by Rebecca Zanetti
• Marked by Moonlight by Sharie Kohler
• Barista and the Bear by Rebel Carter
• Alpha's Warlock by Elliot Grayson

The Rest

• For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2023/1/31/s0520-shifter-romance-interstitial
• If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates.
• Beyond your favorite podcast app, you can find us on Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, Tumblr, and probably some other places, too, if you look hard enough.
• If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.

00:00 Bantr

03:51 Remember Immortals After Dark

11:13 The Appeal of the Shifter Romance

15:19 SPONSOR: Jess K Hardy

23:09 The Feral Warriors Series

31:15 The Project Rebellion Series

37:45 The Leopard People Series

43:25 SPONSOR: Lumi Labs

45:07 The Furry United Coalition

50:04 The New Species Series

55:29 Don't Forget About Cyborgs

58:33 Forgotten Sins

1:01:05 Moon Chasers Series

1:05:00 The Oak Fast Fated Mates Series

1:07:32 The Mismatched Mate Series

1:08:41 Outro