Between the Covers Podcast

Second Chance Romance

The second chance romance. The love that makes your heart flutter when you think back on it. Everything that went wrong, and why it couldn't work. BUT THEN. Life gives you the opportunity to make it work for a second time... and maybe this time will be the last! 
 
DeAnn and Rachel share all the books that gave them the heart flutters of second chance romance. Have you had a second chance romance in your life?

The Charm Offensive

Happy Pride Month! Today's episode features the lovely Queer romance The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun. This book is perfect for people who love trashy ridiculous dating reality tv or those who just love romance! As always, we talk about spoilers in the book episodes. So if you haven't read it, and don't want spoilers, pick up the book and come back once you've finished! Or if you're like Rachel and enjoy spoilers, then keep on listening!
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Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.

Forced Proximity

Welcome back to  Between the Covers Pod where we talk about the trope forced proximity, and rom-coms with a reality tv influence. Don't you love when two former flames are forced into the same space possibly rekindling their love? Or what about the love of trashy reality tv where someone is searching for their "one true love" but the love comes from a different direction? That's just part of what DeAnn and Rachel talk about in today's episode!
This theme/trope is based off our next read The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun. Grab your copy and join us for when we discuss either in person, on social or just simply by listening to the podcast!
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Kamila Knows Best

This episode covers Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron. The Modern Jane Austen retelling of Emma takes on a fun South Asian experience and story. 
Kamila Hussain’s life might not be perfect, but, whew, it’s close. She lives a life of comfort, filled with her elaborate Bollywood movie parties, a dog with more Instagram followers than most reality stars, a job she loves, and an endless array of friends who clearly need her help finding love. In fact, Kamila is so busy with her friends’ love lives, she’s hardly given any thought to her own . . .Fortunately, Kamila has Rohan Nasser. A longtime friend of the family, he’s hugely successful, with the deliciously lean, firm body of a rock climber. Only lately, Kamila’s “harmless flirting” with Rohan is making her insides do a little bhangra dance.But between planning the local shelter’s puppy prom, throwing a huge work event, and proving to everyone that she’s got it all figured out, Kamila isn’t letting herself get distracted—until her secret nemesis returns to town with an eye for Rohan. Suddenly, it seems like the more Kamila tries to plan, the more things are starting to unravel—and her perfectly ordered life is about to be turned upside down.

Friends to Lovers

It's a trope episode and this week we're talking about the trop "friends to lovers". The ultimate will they won't they. Friends but could there be something more?
We are chatting about our favorite books that fall into this category and sharing our own experiences around friends to lovers moments we may or may not have had in our life.
Here are the books DeAnn mentioned she liked in this trope:"People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry"A Lot Like Adios" by Alexis Daria"The House Swap" by Jo Lovett"Adult Assembly Required" by Abbi Waxman"The Happy Ever After Playlist" by Abby Jimenez
Here are the books Rachel mentioned she liked in this trope: "Love and Other Words" by Christina Lauren"Hook Line and Sinker" by Tessa Bailey"Love Rosie" by Cecelia Ahren"Weather Girl" by Rachel Lynn Solomon"Dear Emmie Blue" by Lia Louis"The View is Exhausting" by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta"Payback's a Witch" by Lana Harper
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Hook, Line & Sinker

Tessa Bailey we love you and your books. This week your hosts DeAnn & Rachel are talking about Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey. The second book in the Bellinger sisters series. It was the March book club pick and was overall loved by the hosts and participants in the book club. Listen to the episodeto hear what they loved and didn't love. This episode may sound a bit echo-y, but that's because we're recording in DeAnn's new home! Let us know how much you loved this episode by commenting on our Instagram post or sharing to your social media stories. Thanks for listening!
When Rachel mentions the book Atlas Six she couldn't think of the author at the time, and it is Olivia Blake.
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Not Another Notch in the Bedpost

To be one of the many... or to be not one of the many we should say. This episode of Between the Covers Pod DeAnn and Rachel discuss the trope Not Another Notch in the Bedpost. Basically finding all the reasons why someone shouldn't be with someone and not just simply end up another number. They share books that they feel fit into this category and their own experiences.

Weather Girl

It's the episode where we chat about the February book club read Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon. DeAnn & Rachel share their thoughts, what the book club said and maybe a spoiler or too so beware! 

Workplace Romance

Have you ever had a workplace romance? Do you like to read about workplace romances and all the shenanigans that happen? Join DeAnn & Rachel as they discuss this rom-com trope and what books you can read!