We hope you're ready to get feral, because it's the first episode of the 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.

In this episode we'll be discussing how our week went (tragically), how great the books we read this week were (awesome) and what's on our book radar of new and upcoming queer romance releases - if we can survive the excitement (we cannot). JD takes us down the rabbit hole of Dark Trails, Kit gets feral over Once Bitten, it’s a great groundhog day for Megan in PAH! and Caity gets inducted into the horny weirdo family in F**k, Marry, Kill Me, Daddy.

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CWs for this episode include: mentions of CNC, murder, serial killing, emotional abuse, forced medical procedures, incest, parental death, death, suicide, torture, sexual assault, life as an unhoused person, violence by an animal, attempted murder of an animal (brief), unsupportive family while coming out, threats of violence, conversion therapy, ableism, stalking, internalised queerphobia, dubcon. As always please protect your own mental health and make sure you check all the CWs for any books you choose to read as necessary.

Books Mentioned:

• Dark Trails trilogy by Em Jae Black (11:57)
• Designation: Prey by Jamie Kassel (27:12)
• Touch Starved by Becca Vale (31:29)
• Once Bitten by AM Rose (33:26)
• How Not to Kill a Hellhound by Shannon Mae (37:23)
• IMMERSED by Gale Ian Tate (39:06)
• Ugly by Roe Horvat (41:45)
• Pretty Boy by Jett Masterson (43:34)
• PAH! By EM Lindsey and Cora Rose (44:04)
• Roman by Grae Bryan (48:22)
• Plaything by Colette Davison (50:04)
• F**k, Marry, Kill Me, Daddy by Lance Lansdale (53:07)
• Licked by Charlie Novak (57:39)
• Dipped by Charlie Novak (59:02)
• Topped by Charlie Novak (59:24)
• Under the Surface by NR Walker (59:50)
• The Handyman’s Howl by Duckie Mack (1:00:54)
• Den of Paradise by Eryn Hawk (1:02:36)
• Bruiser by Emmy Sanders (1:04:10)
• A Present Mistake by Alice Winters (1:04:36)
• Deathball by WH Lockwood and TJ Rose (1:06:10)
• Glitched Fates and Stolen Mates by TJ Rose (1:06:40)
• Caleb by Cora Rose (1:07:19)