Come on down to the Rainbow Book Rats menagerie! We’ve got giant mafia himbos! Cunning stepbrothers! Black cat omegas! Builders getting horny! We hope you’re prepared for the selection of delicious main characters we have available on our little Queer Romance podcast today, because it’s time to start listening and get ready to take one (or all!) of these bad boys home with you. Oh, you want the broken sad boy? What an excellent choice!

It’s a Rat Chat week here on Rainbow Book Rats: a Queer Romance Podcast. Brought to you by four feral besties who have left their book nests to nerd out about their favourite reads with you, and as always on a Rat Chat episode, we'll be discussing how our week went, how great the books we read this week were, and what's on our book radar of new and upcoming queer romance.

JD is dreaming about being kidnapped by giant himbo mafia guys in Blood and Lace by Brea Alepoú and Skyler Snow, Kit is getting caught up in the games being played in Taboo Caresses by N Slater, Megan is feeling the heat with Gone Wild by Jesse H Reign, and Caity is getting her downstairs caulked with Caulky by KM Neuhold.

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CWs for things mentioned in this episode include:

Serial killing, stalking, assassins, child molesters, forced marriage, kidnapping, violence, rape, murder, stepcest, romance scam, inappropriate touching, mating without consent, alcohol

Trope highlights:

Himbo, instalust, possessiveness, knotting, tail play, power bottom, mafia, size difference, forced marriage, black cat x golden retriever, obsession, omegaverse, mpreg, heat, snowed in, accidental mating, rut, hook up to forever, online dating.

Books Mentioned:

How to Flirt with a Hellhound by Shannon Mae

Blood and Lace by Brea Alepoú and Skyler Snow

Taboo Caresses by N Slater

Gone Wild by Jesse H Reign

Caulky by KM Neuhold

The Night the Sea Kept Me by A. Anderson

Match Made in Hell by RS McKenzie

Open Liner by Katherine McIntyre

Instant Bond by LA Lambert

Callback by Lee McCormick and RS McKenzie

I Accidentally Locked Down a Witch by Jessica Cage

Soul’s Hunt by Lee McCormick

Unalive on Air by Jemma Croft

High Achiever by Grae Bryan

Grifting the Griffin by Duckie Mack