Murdered in the Pants with Kenya Goree-Bell

Murdered in the Pants with Kenya Goree-Bell

Author: Katee Robert, Melody Carlisle, & Jenny Nordbak February 3, 2022 Duration: 1:31:45

We’re joined by Kenya Goree-Bell to recap Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux!

It’s the first horror romance we’ve covered and we bow down before the magnificence of Harley Laroux’s kinky, sexy, slightly scary, deeply satisfying story of a human who falls for a demon! Also be sure not to miss Kenya’s brand new release, The Kronic, out now on KU!

Our After Care suggestions were:

-The Road to Rose Bend by Naima Simone and His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak

-Edin by Lily Mayne

-The Last Kingdom (on Netflix)

For links to all the books we mentioned, check the show notes on our website!

If you’re reading ahead, here are some of the books we’ll be reading in upcoming episodes (though the schedule isn’t set yet):

The Initiation by Nikki Sloane

A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton

We’ll be back next week to recap A Kiss of Shadows (the first Merry Gentry book) by Laurell K. Hamilton with Monica Corwin! If you want more bonkers in the meantime, there’s a ton of bonus content in The Temple of Defiant Joy!

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Join before 2/6 to receive the two February books as part of the Bonkers Book Club!

Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma features a love-phobic doctor who has to convince a love obsessed homebody that they’re meant for each other (for romance reasons) to save his clinic. It’s the sexy, witty, rom com we deserve.

The Astronaut and the Star is a sparkling debut from Jen Comfort featuring a focused and driven female astronaut who’s forced to agree to “astronaut training” a movie star in order to rehab her image.

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Pirates are waiting for you!

Six brand new bonkers pirate books you can read THIS MONTH from Katee Robert, CM Nascosta, Naima Simone, Andie J. Christopher, Jenny Nordbak, and Nina Saxena! Plus, foiled special editions with sprayed edges, gorgeous art, and so much more! Don't miss it!

Dangerous Tides!

September in the Temple!

- This month we're back with Katee regaling us with more Fertile in My Ex-Boyfriend’s Dungeon (and we discover an actual hard limit for Katee!), and Hannah Whitten is going to stop by to give us all her best spooky season recs. - In Book Club news, everyone in the Joy Bringer and Celebrant tiers can download their ebooks of MY WICKED PRINCE by Molly O’Keefe and the entire audiobook collection of COURT OF THE VAMPIRE QUEEN by Katee Robert! - And finally, Joy Bringers and...


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