Episode Summary

USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling author Pippa Grant is joining us today to talk about unlikable heroines and why they need love too. Plus, we get to hear a little about her romantic comedies! (Fair warning: this talk is more PG-13 than some of our others so don’t listen with kiddos in the car.)

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Highlights:

Unlikable heroines need love too
Not all things marketed as romantic comedy are true comedy
Pippa’s got a new release coming called Irresistible Trouble
Dawn and Roni have their RAD Reading After Dark voices going because when we recorded, we were both recovering from COVID
Unlikable heroine does not mean a badly written heroine
The double standard for heroines
Types of unlikable heroines - the b**ch, the achiever, the sexually liberated heroine, the messy heroine, true female villains
Why authors try not to read their own reviews
Roni has feelings about Fatal Attraction
“Cool motive. Still murder.” – Dawn
Roni’s meanest heroine
Our reading recs for books with unlikable heroines
Our RAD recs of the week

**episode spoilers below**

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Books recommended by Roni:

Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan
The One You Can’t Forget by Roni Loren
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Books recommended by Dawn:

By the Hour by Roni Loren
In Death series by J.D. Robb
Make Me Shiver by Marie Johnston

Books recommended by Pippa:

Always Only You by Chloe Liese
After Hours by Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
The One Who Loves You by Pippa Grant

RAD Reading Recs of the Week:

Paper Ghosts by Julie Heaberlin (Dawn’s rec)
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Roni’s Rec)

Other books mentioned:

Stud in the Stacks by Pippa Grant
Flirting with the Frenemy by Pippa Grant
Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant
Mr. McHottie by Pippa Grant
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Other things mentioned:

The Proposal (movie)
Vampire Academy TV show (Peacock)

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Another note: Because we are both in the publishing industry, sometimes the books we recommend might be by an author we know personally, an author who shares a publisher, editor, or agent with Roni, or an author whom Dawn has edited. Publishing is a small world, so that will happen from time to time. However, we guarantee that we only recommend books we love. We have not been asked to promote any of these books and none are paid ads. However, some books we review may be ARCs (advanced reading copies provided by publishers to reviewers for honest reviews.)