This week, we’re tackling Romantic Suspense and reading one of our favorite books of 2020, Adriana Anders’s Whiteout! We talk about all the things romantic suspense has to nail (ha!) to knock it out of the park, why we would literally never be characters in a book set in Antarctica, and the wild feeling of reading a romantic suspense about a virus during a pandemic. Also Sarah talks about how much she loves Adriana Anders’s writing and recommends lots of backlist.

Next week, we’re back with an interstitial, and in two weeks, we’re reading Sarah’s favorite Sherry Thomas book —Ravishing the Heiress. Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo.

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Show Notes

It’s tenterhooks, not tenderhooks.

Apparently Jen needs more sleep, or else it’s gonna be a real drag on future seasons of Fated Mates.

Jen tweeted about Whiteout a lot, put it on our Best of 2020 list, and even made a meme about it last week.

Reading a book about a virus during a pandemic is kind of wild!

Jen and Sarah are not campers, but we support you. We do like reading books about people doing extremely cold outside things: Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, and a new book on Jen’s TBR is The Next Everest by Jim Davidson.

Let Sandra Brown explain romantic suspense to you, and maybe you’d like to read Jack Reacher if you’re into that sort of thing.

We learned some things about Antarctica and staying warm while reading this book:

How cold did you say it was again?

Why are frostbite and hypothermia so dangerous?