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Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains spicy language, spoilers, and discussion of US politics! Jessicunt and Kay discuss the unintentional science-fiction romance novel, Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. In an alternative timeline where Trump never tries to stomp out the last vestigates of US democracy, two cuties are gay for each other and fall in love. You might not want to love this book, but the reviews are in, and it's actually pretty good. DNC, please take note. The Democratic Party needs more anal sex!

Money Shot by Seeley, Beattie, Isaacs, and Crank

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains spicy language, spoilers, and references to Nazis. At DTS, we've read stories featuring cute sex, fantasy sex, hard sex, and everything in-between. Volumes 1 and 2 of Money Shot make our previous reads seem chaste. Read these comics to laugh, cringe, and have a jolly ol' time watching a group of scientists try to make a buck by participating in and selling tons of alien group sex. ...and you thought your relationships with your coworkers were complicated...

Our Infinite Fates: A Novel by Laura Stevens

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains spicy language, spoilers, and discussion of violence and death. As far as the smut scale is concerned, Our Infinite Fates: A Novel's score is abysmal. Nevertheless, your hosts chose to read it and at least one of them had a good time! The story follows fates-crossed lovers through their many lives and grizzly deaths. This episode follows your hosts through their thorough discussion of the novel's plot and several debates on what should or could have actually happened in the story. Join us for this not-very-sexy time warped book talk!

Zodiac Academy: Awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains spicy language and spoilers! This may not be the romance novel you want, but it is the romance novel you read. It's time for class at the Zodiac Academy. And Awakening is, like, full of every fantasy trope you can think of: vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, nymphs, elemental magic, tarot, and astrology for some reason. Sexy, rich white men do a lot of bad things. If you read this book, please note that hat boy's name is DIEGO. He MIGHT be evil, but we don't know yet. Let's ask the authors so we don't have to read 9 books to find out.

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains spicy language and spoilers! This book is about women in STEM: Sexy Titty-blessed Emergency-room-going Man-hating. (Sorry for that.) We meet Bee, tiny, manic-millennial dream girl, and Levi, stoic and emotionally stunted science-jock. They're enemies, but wait! They're also in love. There are cats. There are outside feuds. There is a MURDER PLOT with an astronaut named Thomas. Copious diseases and mental illnesses abound. No one in this book communicates, but that's ok, because that's what makes it good story telling, baby! There, we read it. Toyota.