S06.07: Happy Halloween: Devils in Romance Novels

Jen’s been asking for this for six literal years, and we’re finally doing it! It’s Halloween and we’re talking Devils! Sure, we’ll touch on demons, but aren’t the scariest Devils the granite-jawed feelingless scoundrels who are definitely never going to fall in love? We’re talking Wicked Cynsters in Winter, Scoundrels of Downtown, Deals in Bed with Hades. You’re going to love it. All trick, no treat.

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Notes

• The Las Vegas Aces won the WNBA championship for the second year in a row, and twitter was actually fun for a few days.
• Jen ranted about this dumb Washington Post article about Lee and Andrew Child.
• We have some documentaries to recommend: Sarah liked Beckham on Netflix and Jen liked The Supermodels on Apple Plus. Linda Evangalista’s “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day” has aged better than Kate Moss’s, “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” Either way, GenX has some body issues.
• Devils are just morality chain when you think about it.
• There actually is a place in VA called the Devil’s Bathtub! I wonder if there are any camps nearby.
• Here’s a handy explainer on the difference between homophones, homographs, and homonyms from the good people at Merriam-Webster. Looks like Cynster and Sinister would be homophones.
• Speaking of Cynsters, listen to our deep dive of Devil's Bride.
• Here’s the video about the audiobook of Unhinged.
• Are you in Florida? Sarah will be at the Off the Page Book Festival in Sarasota in November.

Books

• Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean
• The Devil's Doorbell
• Devil's Bride by Stephanie Laurens
• Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
• Blue-Eyed Devil
• Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe
• In Bed with the Devil by Lorraine Heath
• To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt
• Devil's Rock Series by Sophie Jordan
• Gridiron Bad Boy by Melissa Blue
• Deal with the Devil by Meghan March
• Devil's Game by Joanna Wylde
• Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole
• Hot as Hades by Alisha Rai
• Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione
• The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon

The Rest

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00:00 Intro

03:06 Ranting Bantr+

05:32 Beckham Watching Bantr+

08:50 Supermodels Bantr+

18:01 SPONSOR: Megan Montgomery

19:59 Wicked & The Wallflower

29:39 Harlequin Presents: The Devil's Bathtub

31:47 SPONSOR: Alyxandra Harvey

34:18 Devil's Bride

40:02 Devil in Winter

43:07 Blue-Eyed Devil

44:44 The Devil of Downtown

47:42 SPONSOR: Monique Fisher

49:26 In Bed with the Devil

53:40 To Desire a Devil

56:41 The Devil's Rock Series

1:00:46 Gridiron Badboy

1:03:29 Deal with the Devil

1:05:43 Devil's Game

1:07:03 Wicked Abyss

1:09:37 Hot as Hades

1:11:19 Pleasure Unbound

1:12:23 The Hell You Say

1:15:29 Downtown Devil

1:16:03 Outro