Two fired lawyers walk into a bar, each carrying a chicken and a cucumber. Inside, a double arranged marriage and an unplanned, spontaneous wedding are in full swing. If the fired lawyers are also normal-sized brats, how many…queer romance…podcast hosts…are in attendance? If your answer was four, then you must be ready for your next weekly dose of MM romance book recs!

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 latest reading recommendations with you, and as always on a Rat Chat episode of our queer podcast, we'll be discussing how our week went, how great the lgbtq romance books we read this week were, and what's on our book radar of new and upcoming queer romance.

JD stumbles into a demon bar of debauchery while talking about The Alpha Demons series by Ivan Axelson, afterward, they gush over the newest Extra Credit book, High Achiever by Grae Bryan, with the other BRats. Kit brings us along to a ranch with no animals but one very lonely Daddy while discussing Dear Daddy, Please Love Me by Gianni Holmes, and then contemplates the joy of curling up for a nice long nap with Violent Devotion by L. Norell. Megan’s searching for favors under bricks as they recount Covenant and Deviant by Cora Rose & Lark Taylor, and Caity keeps the butter in the holster while telling us about Screwed by KM Nehold.

Check out episode 17 for extra discussion on book two of the Extra Credit series: Hot For Teacher by Grae Bryan, and episode 7 for more discussion on Caulky by KM Neuhold!

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CWs for things mentioned in this episode include:

Alcohol use & Intoxication

Gun violence

Stalking

Queerphobia

Murder

Hate Crime

Police violence

Harassment

Car accident

Medical debt

Kidnapping

Trope highlights:

Forced/Arranged marriage

MPreg

Stalking as a love language

Friends to enemies to lovers

Caretaking

Books Mentioned:

The Alpha Demons by Ivan Axelson

High Achiever by Grae Bryan

Dear Daddy, Please Love Me by Gianni Holmes

Violent Devotion by L. Norell

Covenant by Cora Rose & Lark Taylor

Deviant by Cora Rose & Lark Taylor

Screwed by KM Neuhold

Hunt Me by E.M. Lindsey & Cora Rose

Tossing the Caber by Jem Zero

Change of Plans by Merry Farmer

We Are Just Us by Jude Bradley

Slow Brew by D.G. Holloway

Unnecessary Roughness by Cheryl Terra

Starlight: Their Fates Collided…Twice by TJ Nichols