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We weren’t ready to leave the hockey rink, so we read Face Off by Chelsea Curto! It’s been on our list forever and we just hadn’t gotten there, but we’re sooooo glad we did. Give us female hockey players and reformed rakes all day long, please and thank you. We also wax rhapsodic about Dolly Parton because we will always love her. SOS: Scizza Glizztas by Ryan J. Powell Up Next: Hispanic Heritage Month! Gabriella and His Grace by Liana De La Rosa What We’re Reading: Knots About You by Effie Raye The Grump Next Door by Effie Raye Gamble on a Gargoyle - Maggie Mayhem Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

To round out comfort reads month, we read Veronica’s pick: The Deal by Elle Kennedy. Thanks to Prime’s hit series Off Campus, we’re seeing a well-deserved resurgence of this book, and we’re totally stoked to talk about it. Hockey star Garrett Graham has a problem: he’s failing Ethics, which was supposed to be an easy class to round out his course load. Hannah Wells is sailing through class, and when Garrett begs her to tutor him, she shoots him down real fast. But when he finds out she has a crush on the star quarterback, he proposes a deal: he’ll help her land her crush via classic fake dating if she tutors him. One thing leads to another, and Hannah proposes her own deal. And suddenly, the fake-dating situation doesn’t feel so fake anymore. SOS: Taken by the Twister by Rebecca Massey and Adelyne Graves Up Next: Face Off by Chelsea Curto What We’re Reading: Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn (audio) Knot That High by Kara Kaminski The Differences Between Us by Rachel Higginson Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We pulled an audible and chose to do comfort reads for the month of August. Rae chose The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson, an enemies-to-lovers story about two chefs competing (or not) from across a parking lot. Vera has recently opened a food truck, aptly named Foodie, while trying to get back on her feet following a horrible breakup. Killian is the executive chef at swanky upscale restaurant, Lilou, right across the street. Can they put down the knives and call a truce? SOS: Phil and The File Cabinet by Katy Ipock Up Next: The Deal by Elle Kennedy What We’re Reading: Knot a Highland Romance by Sarah Blue Her Orc Healer by Etta Wild Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We’ve headed out west for this episode, covering West of Forever by Corinne Michaels. Michaels is a new-to-us author, even though she’s been on our radar for years and is quite prolific. This is a Hatfields-McCoys/Romeo and Juliet situation with two rival ranching families. The only thing is, there’s a heck of a lot of chemistry between the only sister in a family of four, Lark Gatlin, and single dad/widower Tristan Stone. And well…what the families don’t know won’t hurt them. Or do the families know? SOS: Howls and Home Runs by Biblio Barbie Up Next: Save a Horse, Ride a Cowman by Emily Antoinette What We’re Reading: Starbound by Adrien Blue The Orc’s Heart by Etta Wild Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We’re celebrating the World Cup *one more time* with Hard to Hold by K. Bromberg. When Liverpool star Rush McKenzie becomes embroiled in scandal, his agent advises him to retreat to L.A. while the heat dies down. Lennox Kincaid is fresh off a humiliating encounter at a professional conference and is running from her own demons. It’s only fitting that these two run smack dab into each other. What’s the harm in having some temporary fun? Certainly not the fact that they’re working together. SOS: Hosed by Nicole Parker Up Next: West of Forever by Corinne Michaels What We’re Reading: Upgraded by Abby Millsaps Working for the Widow by J.L. Beers Claimed by the Orc Captain by Etta Wild Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We’re rounding out Pride Month and celebrating the World Cup with Girlfriend Goals by Clare Lydon! A middle aged sapphic futbol romance? Sign us up. While ex best friends Jen and Amy reconnect after twenty years apart, will they let their current positions of managing their respective country’s women's futbol clubs get in the way of their happily ever after?  Note: Please excuse Veronica’s audio quality–she didn’t realize the wrong microphone was selected. Life is hard. SOS: My Date with a Mountain by Luna Cantrip Up Next: Hard to Hold by K. Bromberg What We’re Reading: The Score by Elle Kennedy  A Bear to Hold by Amy Pennza (mention new release) Bread by the Grim by Dakota Cockaday Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re kicking off Pride Month with a sapphic soccer (football, for everyone outside the U.S.) romance: Rowin’s Second Half by K.R. Lockling. Rowin is a soccer star and River is fresh off a breakup. The meet cute? River being embarrassed on the jumbotron at one of Rowin’s games. We have…a lot to say. SOS: Scrub Me, Daddy by April Showers Up Next: Girlfriend Goals by Clare Lydon What We’re Reading: Tempted by the Minotaur by Eva Brandt The Deal by Elle Kennedy (re-read) Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To conclude Mariana May, we read her latest tome, The Things We Water. Zapata’s longest book by far dives into romantasy/paranormal territory with magical beings, gods, and old country lore. We follow Nina as she travels to a compound where magical beings can live safely. Run by her friend’s (hot, werewolf) cousin, she finds she needs to follow a very specific set of rules in order to stay. It shouldn’t be any trouble finding someone to marry. Right? SOS: Banana Cream-Pied by Rosemary Bunny Up Next: Rowin’s Second Half by K.R. Lockling What We’re Reading: Aliens Chosen Mate by Emerald Cox The C**k Down the Block by Amy Award (audio) Playing for Keeps by Lainey Davis (audio) Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re hanging around the ice arena a little longer with a figure skating romance from Slow Burn Queen, Mariana Zapata: From Lukov with Love. This one is an enemies-to-lovers, two-most-stubborn-people-on-the-planet situation. He calls her Meatball. She calls him Satan. Even after they fall in love, they’re still telling each other they suck.  Up Next: The Things We Water by Mariana Zapata SOS: Filthy Strokes by Laura Victoria What We’re Reading: Sunshine’s Grumpy Alien by Mina Goodwin Bound to the Orc General by Raina Wilson Healer’s Debt by Lia Frost Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re getting back into hockey romance with Penalty Play by Julia Connors. The day after a steamy vacation one night stand, Aiden and Morgan find themselves in the same wedding–with their parents. When they get home, they realize they’re also working together. And their friends are friends. They can’t escape each other–but do they really want to?  SOS: Impasta Syndrome by Calla Myttie Up Next: From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata (for Mariana May) What We’re Reading: Bought by the Bogatyr by Lia Frost 700 Senses of Summer by Maggie Gates Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver Game On by Navessa Allen (audio) Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Buckle up, babes, we read 500 First Editions by Queen Maggie Gates this week! This is the final installment in the Romantics series and–spoiler alert–it might be her best book yet. Relationship coach Ryan Ford bets romance author Willow Winslet that he can make her fall in love with him in 12 weeks with his patented Ford Method. If he wins, she has to endorse his program. If she wins, he’ll stop podcasting. Any bets who who’ll win? SOS: Railed: A Why Cho-Cho-Choose Romance by Zane E. Stori Up Next: Penalty Play by Julia Connors What We’re Reading: Cursed with Benefits by Roxie Ray Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (re-Reid) Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We finally tackled Story of My Life by Lucy Score! Hazel, in a moment of desperation, impulse buys a house in an online auction. Her and her best friend/agent, Zoey, move to Story Lake, PA, where they promptly have a run-in with a bald eagle and a dead fish. When they finally arrive at their new home, they realize why Hazel got such a great deal on it… Perhaps the grumpy contractor who found them on the side of the road can help.  SOS: Pollinated by the Plant Monster by Holly Wilde Up Next: 500 First Editions by Maggie Gates What We’re Reading: Bewitched by the Fruit Bat King by Jamie Dalton Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver (audio) Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] #lucyscore #storyofmylife #romance novels Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re going back to Vancouver this week to read the newest book from Stephanie Archer, The Wild Card: Vancouver Storm Book 5. This book centers around surly bar owner Jordan and Vancouver Storm head coach Tate Ward. The two have to pair up to keep the team from being sold to someone who might tear it apart, and with a little help from a 9yo girl, a feral cat, and an entire team of hockey players, Jordan and Tate eventually warm up to each other. SOS: Wacky by Nicole Parker Up Next: Story of My Life by Lucy Score What We’re Reading: The Witch’s Wolf by Heather K. Carson Wrecked by Lauren Asher Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re talking about the second half of Bridgerton Season 4: Benedict and Sophie. And dearest gentle readers, we’ve never been more excited to be wrong about something. Rae is eating crow and Veronica is sobbing on the couch. Between Benedict, Sophie, Violet, and Francesca, this season might very well be the best one yet. SOS: Pounded by Produce by G.M. Fairy Up Next: The Wild Card: Vancouver Storm Book 5 by Stephanie Archer What We’re Reading: Just for the Cameras by Meghan Quinn (audio) Delivered by the Vyder by Ivy Sparks Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time to revisit manic pixie dream girl Poppy and Vacation Alex! In a rare example of the movie being better than the book, we watched People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix. Also, it’s the return of SOS, brought to all of us by Nicole Parker.   SOS: Licked by Nicole Parker Up Next: Bridgerton Season 4, Part 2 What We’re Reading Matched to the Alien Rancher at Christmas by Mina Carter That Time I Accidentally Became a Serial Killer by Rebekah Sinclair Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.