Raging Romantics
Your favorite local librarians break down romance books. Keep an ear out for four+ episodes a month, with two guaranteed full-length episodes diving into romancelandia, plus bonus minisodes too, featuring book recommendations, reviews, and mini interviews! We can always be contacted at [email protected].
Rage on!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 191
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#14 Mad, Bad, and Scantily Clad in Regency Romances
TW: discussions of racism and racial slurs, violence against women, erotic romance, BDSM, language use, and really annoying "heroes"
These proud smut readers are happy to bring you a discussion of so…
#13 Bridgerton's or Bust
If you loved Regency romance novels before 82 million households tuned into Bridgerton's on Netflix, or if you're new to the regency game, then this episode is dedicated to you. Here Jen and Jackie a…
#12 Is Christian Grey a Narcissist?
TW: Talk about grooming, disordered eating, drug abuse and addiction, stalking, physical abuse, physical abuse of children, teacher-student relationships, statutory rape, abortion, some discussion of…
#11 The Cult of Snowqueens Icedragon and 50 Shades
Raise your hand if you've ever read 50 Shades of Grey. Now raise your other hand if you've ever seen the movie(s). If your hands remain by yours sides, then don't worry, we're here to introduce you …
#10: Adventures on an Ice Planet
Welcome back to Not-Hoth, dear humans! You sparkly thing you, thanks for giving us a listen! In this episode, we, Jen and Jackie, follow up on our discussion of the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ru…
#9 Fifty Shades of Blue with Ruby Dixon
Hey there sparkly blue romance nerds, are you ready for an out-of-this-world discussion? No...literally. We're talking about sci-fi romance! Even better, we're talking in this episode about our favor…
#8: Billionaires, Hot or Not?
Hello again sparkly romance nerds! We're back with Jen's favorite heroes to hate, billionaires. In our last episode we discussed the billionaire trope as a whole and had an open discussion of whether…
#7: Diamonds are a Billionaire's Best Friends
Bear with us on the audio for this one, folks. We're sorry...we had some technical difficulties with having to record remotely.
Why are we so obsessed with billionaires as romance heroes? In real lif…
#6: On the Prowl With Cougars
"...[D]ear reader, everyone knows that romance for women ends at 30. Doesn’t it?”(Jones, 2017)
Be warned y'all, JACKIE GETS VERY RAGEY IN THIS EPISODE. Why, you may ask? Because herein Jen and Jackie…
#5: Silver foxes and romance heroes, oh my!
"Mr. Rochester was about forty, and this governess not twenty; and you see, when gentlemen of his age fall in love with girls, they are often like as if they were bewitched." (Jane Eyre, chapter XXXV…
0.5: Meet the Biggest Romance Nerds Out There
Welcome to Raging Romantics! In this episode, librarians Jackie and Jen introduce themselves and their history with the romance genre. Curious how we got into reading these books, and the sorts of ti…