Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of Muriel's Wedding! Content Warnings: Cancer diagnosis and treatment, suicide of a parent. Check out Jaime's spicy contemporary books! https://jaimepbradley.com/the-books/ and follow her on Tiktok and Instagram ! Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons and Apple Podcast subscribers are getting a squeepisode on the last book in The Games We Play in Granville series, SEVEN MINUTES IN KEVIN by DJ Jamison! Thank you for keeping Mel sane, fluffy M...
Jun 24, 2025•40 min•Ep. 480
Hey HBs! The wonderful Jaime P. Bradley is here to help Mel recap the movie Muriel's Wedding! It may not be a romance, but it's got a stupidly-talented Toni Collette, wild coming-of-age antics, and lots of LADY LOVE!!!! Content Warnings: Cancer diagnosis and treatment, suicide of a parent. Check out Jaime's books! https://jaimepbradley.com/the-books/ and follow her on Tiktok and Instagram ! Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons and Apple Podcast subscribers are getting a s...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 479
Hey HBs! We're back with Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books to recap A SOUL TO KEEP by Opal Reyne! Our duskwalker and captive (?) are just homesteading while they get to know each other, complete with growing their own food, crafting protection charms, and dyeing their own clothes. Is this actually the dream, or what? Except for all the demons who want to eat her. That's not ideal. Since this is a crossover episode, you'll get parts 1 and 2 here like normal and then part 3 will be on...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 478
Hey HBs! It's high time for a monster romance! Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is here to help Mel recap A SOUL TO KEEP by Opal Reyne! We've got a lonely duskwalker, an ostracized and sacrificed heroine, and daily sexy baths! This one is delicious. Since this is a crossover episode, you'll get parts 1 and 2 here like normal and then part 3 will be on Smart Podcast, Trashy Books this Friday! Subscribe to the show it on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , etc. Episode Sponsor: A DEAL WITH TH...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 477
Hey HBs! Naima Simone is back with Mel for part 2 of the movie Your Fault ! When we left off yesterday, Nick has an internship with a super hot smart lawyer lady who their parents want to marry off to each other, Noah is roommates with a mysterious woman who scares the absolute stuffing out of Nick, Jenna and Lion are still navigating class issues, and Noah doesn’t want a pity suggestion to live with Nick. That’s where we jump back in! Make sure to pre-order Naima's new release HUNTSMAN . It's a...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 476
Hey HBs! Naima Simone is back with Mel to recap the movie Your Fault ! It's based on book 2 (with the same name) of the Culpable series by Mercedes Ron. We recapped the first movie in episodes 284 and 285, so go check that out if you missed it! This Spanish franchise has quickly become an HB classic and we can't get enough of these messy step siblings. Make sure to pre-order Naima's new release HUNTSMAN . It's a dark mafia romance based on the Snow White and the Huntsman fairytale! Want more of ...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 475
Hey HBs! It's time for part 2 of ETERNAL CRAVING ! They may have banged on a room-sized bed, but it's super casual! Unless it isn't? Maybe it's forever? Saving the world should give them some clarity! Check out Margaret's podcast Otherlands Editing ! Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons and Apple Podcast subscribers are getting a recap of the first book in this series ETERNAL PLEASURE ! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ...
Jun 03, 2025•52 min•Ep. 474
Hey HBs! I hope you're ready for some prehistoric action! Nina Bangs is serving up book 2 in her Gods of the Night series, ETERNAL CRAVING ! What should an allosaurus do when he has to babysit a sexy human woman? KISS HER OBVIOUSLY, saving the world is STRESSFUL. Check out Margaret's podcast Otherlands Editing ! Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons and Apple Podcast subscribers are getting a recap of the first book in this series ETERNAL PLEASURE ! Credits: Theme Music: B...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 473
It's part 2 with these idiots. We still don't like them. Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons are getting a squeepisode on the Rules We Break in Granville series by DJ Jamison! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heavingbosomspodcast (at) gmail Follow our socials: Instagram @heavingbosoms Tiktok @heaving_bosoms Facebook group: the Heaving Bosoms Geriatric Friendship Cult The ...
May 27, 2025•57 min•Ep. 472
Buckle up, HBs! We didn't love this one. There's some CW in the episode, including transphobia. Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday Patrons are getting a squeepisode on the Rules We Break in Granville series by DJ Jamison! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heavingbosomspodcast (at) gmail Follow our socials: Instagram @heavingbosoms Tiktok @heaving_bosoms Facebook group: the Heavin...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 471
We're back with part 2 of PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! When we left off yesterday, Stephen and Grace had just had the sweetest, hottest make out and then this bonehead APOLOGIZED to her, making her feel like a dirty mistake. Then! She stepped on a severed head! It’s a rough day for our ol’ pal Grace. That’s where we’re jumping back in. Lady Loves: Mel: getting the best DMV clerk who not only offered to redo her license photo, but coached her to showing only one chin! Sabrina: her physical v...
May 20, 2025•54 min•Ep. 470
Hey HBs! Remember how we said we weren't going to do book 1 in this series? We fibbed! After a series of unfortunate events, we needed to do a book we both recently read (and bonus: loved!). So! You get PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher! Book one about a survivor perfume artisan and a big ol' sebastian hero... who knits! Y'all, Sabrina and her morals almost didn't make it. Bonus Content: Mel's kids are shit at charades, Sabrina doesn't recognize non-marriage-romantic-relationship as valid and fro...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 469
We're back with part 2 of PALADIN'S STRENGTH by T. Kingfisher. These mature characters are solving mysteries, saving nuns, and falling in love along the way! Lady Loves: Sabrina: don't let your imposter syndrome get you and push yourself to bask in the compliment! She was recently told that her coding "worked flawlessly" and she's been on a high ever since! Mel: this might be obvious to some of you, but you can make ANYTHING that plugs in turn on and off on a timer! There are outlet add-ons and ...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 468
Hey HBs! We've got a charming, broken Paladin and a nun with SECRETS!!!! We LOVED the World of the White Rat and couldn't get enough! This is book 2 of the Saint of Steel series. Bonus Content: questionable Sherlock Holmesing, Mel gets into the FAQs on T. Kingfisher's website searching for information on book 5 and beyond, and so much more! Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anyt...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 467
Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy , a post-apocalyptic romance that we had a blast with! Mel even did Quickies on the next two books for Sabrina in a Patreon episode . Lady Loves: Sabrina: see your friends as much as possible! Especially if they live far away. Mel: I've been noodling on some wisdom from a fictional yoga class written by Sarina Bowen. The idea "never give up and always surrender." Work hard and follow your dreams, but allow for things to evolve along the ...
May 06, 2025•40 min•Ep. 446
Hey HBs! It's still Laryngitis Times over at Mel's house, so we're doing another Embrace Category rerelease!! We're recapping CLAIMED by Elle Kennedy , and wow is Outlaw Country sex and kink positive! We've got a heroine with a BIG secret, a hero with a vendetta, and a whole passel of boys we can't get enough of! Bonus Content: Michael's angry bird artistic debut, that potent post-apocalyptic pussy, sexy hit point increases, the confusing commerce of outlaw country, flower favors, outlaw jail, a...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 445
Hey HBs! It's part 2 of LOVE FOR THE COLD-BLOODED, OR THE PART-TIME EVIL MINION'S GUIDE TO ACCIDENTALLY DATING A SUPERHERO by Alex Gabriel! There are greased-up snakes on this metaphorical plane! Lady Loves: Mel: Do you have an upgrade available from your cellular company? Even if you don't have a black melting dick spot on your screen that makes your life incredibly inconvenient, see if you can upgrade to a better phone for free!!! Sabrina: Microwave Popcorn! Good goddess microwave popcorn real...
Apr 29, 2025•45 min•Ep. 444
Hey HBs! We're here part 1 of with LOVE FOR THE COLD-BLOODED, OR THE PART-TIME EVIL MINION'S GUIDE TO ACCIDENTALLY DATING A SUPERHERO by Alex Gabriel! Boy, oh boy, this MM superhero fantasy novel is fan-damn-tastic; the voice is SO UNIQUE, the world-building is incredible, and the romance is SMOKING HOT. There's accidental sex work, it highlights the power of perspective, and someone puts quail eggs on pizza. Plus, FORCE FIELD S*X! Bonus Content: rich boy pizzas, force field condoms, telling you...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 443
Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of LICK by Kylie Scott ! Lady Loves: Sabrina: finally getting your car fixed for long drives! Mel: using walks as a time killer. Get your steps in when the DMV tells you that your appointment isn't your appointment time, it's your check in time to wait until you can join the first of 3 different lines before you finally get the nicest DMV photo lady who coaches you so you only have 1 chin in your photo. Episode Sponsor: MARIN IN THE MOONLIGHT by AE Merriweather! I...
Apr 22, 2025•56 min•Ep. 442
Hey HBs! It's time for a rockstar romance! And we're doing it right with one of the most rec'd series when it comes to this subgenre: LICK by Kylie Scott ! Is it unhinged? Perfectly yes. Is it great advice IRL? For sure not. Was it COMPULSIVELY READABLE? Oh golly, we couldn't put it down. Episode Sponsor: MARIN IN THE MOONLIGHT by AE Merriweather! Imagine Succession as a Little Mermaid retelling and set the whole thing in a theme park. AE is a group of THREE BFFs who all write together. What's m...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 441
Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of RIV'S SANCTUARY by AG Wilde! Our reluctant host and very hard-working guest are getting closer and closer! Lady Loves: Mel: sharing book obsessions with friends! Sabrina: I'm back on a relaxing YouTube kick! (Hey, y'all, this is Melody jumping in. I don't know which youtube channels right now. Sorry! But you can probably ask on social media or our Discord!) Want more of us? Check out our PATREON ! This Friday, we're doing a Quickie on the next two books in the ...
Apr 15, 2025•37 min•Ep. 440
Hey HBs! We're here with part 1 of a Sabrina alien special! It was theydies choice and S chose RIV'S SANCTUARY by AG Wilde! He's a grumpy refugee who just wants to care for the animals at his sanctuary, until he's saddled with a creature he's never encountered before. And does it speak an actual language? And why does it give him pants-feelings? She's an abducted human who's being sold from a zoo, but the wife of her most recent purchaser is VERY DISPLEASED by her lack of limbs, so she can't be ...
Apr 14, 2025•51 min•Ep. 439
HBs, it's the fourth and final part of DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas! Gabriel, the next St. Vincent is married to his neurodivergent queen Pandora, but they've been pulled into a big intrigue and Pandora might not make it! Bonus Content: don't call HBHQ for bomb disposal and so much more! Lady Loves: Sabrina: Be a little extra. She and Haley made a video to announce that the whole TBR crew are going to a Hozier show and it was THE BEST! Mel: Be a little extra!!! Have a whole truckload of dirt ...
Apr 08, 2025•41 min•Ep. 438
Hey HBs! It's time to finish up our St. Vincent Day celebration with part 3 of DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas! We jump in in the middle of their illicit rendezvous and it doesn't slow down from there! Bonus content: It's been two weeks since we recorded the last episode, Mel has now read almost all the books in the Ravenels series, the Duke who takes your silly nickname because YOU started it, all the swoony quotes, and so much more! Episode Sponsor: MARIN IN THE MOONLIGHT by AE Merriweather! I...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 437
HAPPY ST. VINCENT DAY!!!!! This year, we're celebrating Sebastian and Evie's first-born, the next St. Vincent, Gabriel and his neurodivergent QUEEN Pandora Ravenel!! This is part 2 of 4 in our recap of DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas, so come back next week! Make sure you're following @romancingthedata for her Lisa Kleypas tournament, and so much more to come! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners. Want...
Apr 01, 2025•52 min•Ep. 436
It's time to celebrate St. Vincent Day, HBs! And this year, we're going all in with Sebastian and Evie's first-born, the current St. Vincent, Gabriel and his neurodivergent QUEEN Pandora Ravenel in DEVIL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas!! Make sure you're following @romancingthedata for her Lisa Kleypas tournament, and so much more to come! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners. Want more of us? Check out our ...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 435
Hey HBs! We're back with part 2 of NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks! Lady Loves: Sabrina: jumping into Highlander romance! Send recs! Mel: the movie Pitch Perfect! What a banger! She totally forgot how great and feel-good that movie is! This week we're sponsored by MARIN IN THE MOONLIGHT by AE Merriweather! Imagine Succession as a Little Mermaid retelling and set the whole thing in a theme park. There's fake dating, chosen family, a reformed bad boy.... Get your copy now!! B&N , Amazon ...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 434
Hey HBs! We've got NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks for you this week! It's Highlander Times with a feminist icon heroine and the damaged guy who can't help his fascination with her. But he's only marrying her to do his brother a solid. Really! It has nothing to do with her fiery hair and even more fiery personality. Seriously, believe him! This week we're sponsored by MARIN IN THE MOONLIGHT by AE Merriweather! Imagine Succession as a Little Mermaid retelling and set the whole thing in a th...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 433
We're back and these two hot parents are making ago of it! Enjoy the conclusion of GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas! Lady Loves: Sabrina: living her best gender queer life at a wedding this weekend! Plus, suspenders over belts EVERY TIME!!!! SUSPENDERS FOREVER. Mel: Life hack - making up silly songs to get your kids to do hard things and then using them on yourself, too! If you need teeth-brushing motivation, sing the following lyrics to the tune of Dancing Queen by ABBA: "Brushing Queen, teeth ...
Mar 18, 2025•59 min•Ep. 432
OOOooooooohhhh it's time to head down to the Big Easy in GOING DOWN EASY by Erin Nicholas! It's Single Parent Times in this spicy contemporary. This book was simultaneously the least realistic and MOST REAL book and we had a blast the whole time. Bonus Content: we changed the schedule to accommodate Mel's dirt delivery, both pals will overlook A LOT for a partner that gets us flowers semi-regularly, ghosting after moving to the same city, how to treat a lady at her WORK JOB, and so much more! Th...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 431
