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Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

Melody Carlisle and Sabrina Bradley love romance and they do it out loud! Every Monday, these long-distance best friends recap romance novels from a comedic, intersectional feminist, sex-positive perspective. If you"re itching for a BFF book club or just love raucous slumber party vibes, this is the show for you! Whether you"ve read the book or not, all are welcome! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound.

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01:12:25

347.2 - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan...

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/09/10

Hey HBs! Here is part 2 of THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen! These enemies become lovers and then a third act death makes us lose our ever-loving minds. Buckle up! Bonus Content: Sabrina is a #SherlockHolmes, Mel has to slow down on a beautiful parenting moment, and so much more! Lady Loves: Sabrina: share those pictures! Doesn't matter how long ago the event was! There's no statute of limitations on sharing joy. Mel: are you in a sartorial rut? Restart your rotation! Mel

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01:29:33

347.1 - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan...

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/09/09

Hey HBs! Today we're bringing you part 1 of THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen! Mercy is trying to save her family's undertaking business and things would be a lot easier if a certain surly marshal would just leave her alone. Meanwhile, Hart is a demigod just trying to do his job and this bright and shiny undertaker has nothing but rain clouds for him. But a letter addressed by the heart brings these enemies together in the most unexpected way! Bonus Content: Mel flails at Sabrina via

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00:10:18

Big News from HBHQ!

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/09/08

Hey y’all! We’re popping into your feed with an exciting announcement: Heaving Bosoms is joining the BLEAV Network! (pronounced “believe”) First, HBs: THANK YOU for all your support! We got on their radar because you listen; without you, we’re shouting into the void. Y’all are so badass. We’re really excited about this next phase of Heaving Bosoms because there’s so much that happens behind the scenes and having the support of a network can be incredibly helpful. We want to grow the HB reader

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02:35:26

It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (346)

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/09/02

Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are mad and they are recapping IT HAD TO BE YOU by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. This is a doozy! Good news, though, Mel's bringing back the custom intros... so that's fun!Content Warnings: episode includes discussions of sexual assault, including in young childhood, on-page violent rape, statutory rape, rampant misogyny, malicious thinness, kink shaming, slut shaming, fat shaming, Madonna/Whore Complex, racism, and more. Lady Loves: Sabrina: having a group of badass, wonderful

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02:02:21

Ep. 345 - A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/08/26

HBs, we're back with more Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole! The second (first?) book in the series, A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER, did not disappoint! This book starts at 11 and then refuses to simmer down. Get ready for big feelings, incredulity, and enthusiastic cackling (though, you should be used to that by now). There were so many times when Mel thought the hero could not be redeemed and somehow Kresley Cole pulls it off beautifully. She's a wizard! TW: short mention of suicidal ideation and brief

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02:12:53

Ep. 344 - Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/08/19

Hey y'all! Mel and Sabrina are here with SORRY, BRO by Taleen Voskuni! It's a gorgeous sapphic contemporary between two Armenian-American women, one of whom is on a serious journey to self-discovery. This book weaves a beautiful love story within a rich tapestry of Armenian history and culture. It was GORGEOUS. Bonus Content: Mel's son is the Pitbull of Baby Taming, it was a little hard for Mel to be in this heroine's brain, holy proposal from hell Batman!, the responsibility of a white person in an

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01:50:28

Ep. 343 - Avaritia by Colette Rhodes

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/08/12

Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here with AVARITIA by Colette Rhodes! This series is much beloved by both of them and this book didn't disappoint. Plus, we've got a heroine that is 100% HMHB (Hot Mess HB). It's a grumpy and adorably delusional Shadow Daddy plus a sunshine, go-with-the-flow, sex-positive maximalist. We went into this book with the promise of tentacle restraints, somnophilia, and primal and, in the words of Sabrina, "EVERY! CHECK! WAS CASHED!"Bonus Content: Mel has poison ivy on her

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01:56:45

Ep. 342 - Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/08/05

Hey HBs! We're here with a brand new historical era: Dickens' Times! Elizabeth Hoyt came out swinging with WICKED INTENTIONS, the first book in her Maiden Lane series. We've got a do-gooding heroine who needs cash for her orphanage, a bad boy aristocrat who needs entree into London's worst neighborhood, a murder mystery, a vigilante hero clown, and some BIG SWOONS. We're super into it.Bonus Content: Mel is having legal dreams because we're in Dickens' Times and Bleak House left it's mark on her

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01:36:40

Ep. 341 - Artek by Honey Phillips

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/07/29

It's been a minute since we've recapped an alien romance, and HERE WE ARE, HBs! ARTEK by Honey Phillips manages to be both Western Times and alien, which is hard to pull off. This slice-of-life Seven Brides for Seven Brothers retelling was a romp from beginning to end! Bonus Content: Sabrina's Libby nemesis is still abusing her with book 2 of the Spymaster series, Mel can't remember alien names, NIMBYs try to ruin everything again (but fail!), we need this to be a smutty animated series, and so much

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02:26:21

Ep. 340 - Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/07/22

Hey HBs! Mel and Sabrina are here with LOVE & OTHER DISASTERS by Anita Kelly! This queer contemporary romance is set on an amateur cooking show. Dahlia is a divorcee who quit her job to be there and doesn't quite know how she'll pay rent if she doesn't win the $100k prize. Meanwhile, London is the show's first non-binary contestant, this is their national coming out declaration, and they want to use the money to start a non-profit to support queer kids where they live. They may be competitors,

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01:48:11

Ep. 339 - The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne (Part 2)

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/07/15

Hey HBs! We're here with the second half of THE SPYMASTER'S LADY by Joanna Bourne! Our couple is on a fall-in-love trek on foot all the way to London and boy does Annique feel guilty about being attracted to boy Grey and Robert... little does she know, they're the same bloke! Come with us as we finish our journey through spy times!Bonus Content: Mel gets recognized by a mom at her school, the gals ruminate on tips of icebergs, Sabrina is an angry boomer about JUST GOOGLING IT, and so much

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01:41:20

Ep. 338 - The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne (Part 1)

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/07/08

Hey HBs! We're here with THE SPYMASTER'S LADY by Joanna Bourne! It's great to be back in France Times with an extra dose of intrigue and nefarious plots! We meet Annique, a 19 year old lifelong spy and Grey, the second in command of all the British spies right after the French Revolution. They are undoubtedly enemies who can't trust each other, unless they find out they've got way more in common than either of them think. Except for killing. She doesn't kill on purpose, he'll kill anything no

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01:56:58

Ep. 337 - The Villa by Nora Roberts

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/07/01

Hey HBs! We're here with our first Nora Roberts book, THE VILLA! It's winerytimes and the Giambelli matriarch is here to shake up with corporate structure! But also intrigue and murder with no less than 3,000 characters. And in this head-hopping 3rd person book, everyone (and we mean EVERYONE) gets a POV moment. Plus, not one but two romances!Bonus Content: Pebbling as a love language, Treat Lifestyle, whimsying math, and so much more!A note on audio: Mel's audio is wonky in the first 40 mins of

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01:58:00

Ep. 336 - Challengers with Jenny and Katee! (Movie)

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/06/24

Hey HBs! Mel's here with gueesstttssss! BFFs of Mel and the pod Jenny Nordbak and Katee Robert (of Bonkers Romance) are here to recap the movie Challengers, starring the one and only Zendaya. Jenny and Mel had no idea what they were in for and BOY did this romantic psychological thriller deliver. It's so sexy! And messy! And mean! And baffling! And we loved it.Just a quick note: Mel had some ridiculous audio and recording issues, so (even with a lot of intervention) the sound quality isn't up to our

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02:11:04

Ep. 335 - Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/06/17

Hey HBs! We're here with masterpiece of sorcery! Emma Hamm's WHISPERS OF THE DEEP took every single one of Sabrina's phobias and said we shall overcome with seggsy swooniness! It's a monster romance between a merman and a human deep, DEEP under the sea. Like, in the vast deep. He kidnaps her to get information that his people will use to destroy hers, he thinks every part of her body is disgusting, and this can only end in one of their deaths... unless she teaches him how to kiss! Get stoked, y'all

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02:12:19

Ep. 334 - Just For Show by Jae

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/06/10

Hey HBs! We're here with a contemporary sapphic romance! It's a fake relationship extravaganza with a buttoned-up couple's counselor and a cool, alt actor. CW: Mel got really triggered by this book, so look out for discussions of disordered eating, diet culture, rampant fatphobia, and more. Bonus Content: Mel cut her own hair!, where is all the roller skating the cover promised?, moaning in front of strangers in the workplace, and more!Lady Loves: Mel: Cut your own hair and liberate your neck if

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01:42:29

Ep. 333 - Beneath Black Sails by Clare Sager

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/06/03

Hey HBs! We're back with another book we didn't know was part 1 of a 4 part series with the same couple. WHOOPS, but no regrets. BENEATH BLACK SAILS by Clare Sager is a historical fantasy pirate adventure with a famous pirate queen and the pirate hunter sent to take her down. This heroine is brash and fun and we can't get enough of her. Bonus Content: we're hot messes who got suckered!, this dedication slayed us, this took Mel back to Dangerous Tides, he's the epitome and she's the definition,

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01:52:33

Ep. 332 - D'Vaughn & Kriss Plan A Wedding by Chencia...

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/05/27

Hey HBs! This week we've got a delicious contemporary lesbian romance: D'Vaughn and Kriss Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins! This perfect morsel has so many things we love! Reality TV, fat rep, queer rep, overcoming religious trauma, loving and eccentric families, and WOWZA the spicy times are faaaantastic. This is a hard recommend from us! Bonus Content: Mel just like her drinks dry, Sabrina can't handle a mid-recording puck of Mexican hot chocolate, Mel fancast this book: D'Vaughn is Susie Dahl

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02:07:00

Ep. 331 - On Dublin St. by Samantha Young

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/05/20

Hey HBs! We're here with the contemporary Scottish romance ON DUBLIN STREET by Samantha Young! It's Edinburgh, it's family tragedy, it's basing life decisions on great bathtubs. There's an emotionally skittish heroine, an alpha hero who's eight years older, a friends-with-benefits arrangement, and a little too much boundary pushing for Mel's complete comfort. And we knew this before, but we pinpoint one of the ways subgenre impacts reader expectations! Bonus Content: eyeball cupcakes, trip planning,

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02:15:52

Ep. 330 - The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne

Heaving Bosoms ·

2024/05/13

Wooo! HBs we're here with book 1 of the Victorian Rebels series, THE HIGHWAYMAN by Kerrigan Byrne. We loooooved this book! As Sabrina is a longtime Kerrigan Byrne fangirl, it's not a shock. We've got a childhood-spouses-to-lovers book that knocked our socks off! But yikes, it gets dark. Lady Loves: Sabrina: if you're lonely, but don't have anyone around physically, get on a video call and play video games parallel to each other! Mel: find the light in the dark when you can! Turns out, the best way

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