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Next week, it’s the end! WHAT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! We’re talking Sian (HORNS HORNS HORNS HORNS HORNS HORNS HORNS) & Lila with Wicked Abyss, featuring the literal King of Hell, and the Queen who takes fully no shit from him. Get Wicked Abyss at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local indie!

Show Notes

• What is the appeal of the antihero?
• Fangirl Jeanne wrote a really interesting thread about why she ships villains and what it means to believe in an HEA for everyone.
• The Sierra Simone Scale seems relevant here.
• We here at Fated Mates love a grovel.
• Morality Chain is a very specific trope.
• Jen's goodreads search for books with criminal heroes versus criminal heroines.
• Take a minute to donate to RAICES because we do have concentration camps on our border, and it's so hard to know what to do about it.
• Jen and Sarah talked about female antiheroes in pop culture: Catherine Zeta Jones in Traffic and Mary Louise Parker in Weeds.
• Jen's Rita thread about how white guys get to be anitheores.
• Movie time references: Sarah is Italian, so since there are no Italian mafia guys anymore, watching The Godfather is the only choice. The "one armed man" reference is to The Fugitive.
• What are we talking about when we talk about billionaire money.
• A "diamond of the first water"
• Molly Fader, Molly O'Keefe, and M. O'Keefe are three pen names for one author who really knows her branding. #Blessed
• Wicked Abyss in next and then...we're done with season one. Commence mourning.

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