Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms

Melody Carlisle and Sabrina Bradley love romance and they do it out loud! Every Monday, these long-distance best friends recap romance novels from a comedic, intersectional feminist, sex-positive perspective. If you're itching for a BFF book club or just love raucous slumber party vibes, this is the show for you! Whether you've read the book or not, all are welcome! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound.

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October 14, 2025 84 mins

Hey HBs! We get to see the rest of the Daddylicious journey, heavily featuring a goddess named Rapunzel! Sabrina couldn't stop drooling. It's getting tumultuous in the second half of ACT YOUR AGE by Eve Dangerfield!

Lady Loves:

Mel: Clack fans! Like my Nana's bamboo fan from my childhood, my clack fans have saved my peri-menopausal life! These random hot flashes have me carrying a fan everywhere.

Sabrina: be spontaneous and seize t...

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Hey HBs! We hope you're ready for a workplace age gap book with Daddy kink! It's ACT YOUR AGE by Eve Dangerfield! Plus, ADHD rep, grinding gears, buttered bread, and so much more!

But seriously, this book has such good kink in it.

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple Podcast subscription, Mel's telling Sabrina all about the follow up novella to this book, NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE by Eve Dangerfield! It's 5 years after their HEA and goes ...

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October 7, 2025 85 mins

Hey HBs! Welcome to day 2 of our podiversary celebration! We're doing Kink Watch, Rabbit Hole Watch, and WOULD YOU RATHER!!!!!!!

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple Podcast subscription, Sabrina is telling us all about their most recent EJ Russell rabbit hole! They were on the lookout for less common monster romance and couldn't stop once they found EJ's cozy MM monster romance.

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HAPPY EIGHT YEARS OF HEAVING BOSOMS, HBs!!!! It's our 8th podiversary episode and WE! ARE! PUMPED! We also have someone special to introduce to you!

Then we've got successes, things to improve, lessons learned, HB Authors, and Hard Limits Watch!! Get excited!

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple Podcast subscription, Sabrina is telling us all about their most recent EJ Russell rabbit hole! They were on the lookout for less common m...

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September 30, 2025 65 mins

Hey HBs! It's part two of HIGHER by Roz Alexander! There's a 4th of July surprise, a HOT galley kitchen schminger schmang, and their Rosh Hashanah art display to benefit pollinators! Yes, Mel is DELIGHTED.

Bonus Content: foie gras AKA fat miserable (not Canada) geese, harbingers of doom, and more!

Lady Loves:

Mel: the Chappell Roan song The Giver! It's the country music anthem for service tops I didn't know I needed! And then there...

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September 29, 2025 68 mins

Hey HBs! We're here with a sapphic Rosh Hashanah book by a bona fide HB Author: HIGHER by Roz Alexander. It's a steamy, grumpy/sunshine, butch-for-butch romance with art, pollinators, and super sticky drives.

Bonus Content: great authors notes, tops and bottoms, being Stone, girlfriend stipends, and more!

This Friday on the bonus feed, we're recapping GARDENS & GHOSTS by Maz Maddox, the 5th book in the Relic series.

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Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of THE WOLF AND THE WILDFLOWER by Stacy Reid!

Lady Loves:

Sabrina: If you haven't experienced the Lord of the Rings movies, make sure you do it with someone whose special interest is LOR and everything JRR Tolkien.

Mel: Go get the book I narrated! It's THE ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY by Penny Reid! You can find it on her website. Enjoy!

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Hey HBs! We're here with part 1 of THE WOLF AND THE WILDFLOWER by Stacy Reid! This bonkers historical has an AMAZING premise and this author sticks the landing!! This might just be Mel's favorite read of 2025.

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THE SPITE DATE by Pippa Grant! The Spite Date is a riotously fun opposites attract romance featuring a golden retriever celebrity who needs to get out of his own way, a woman trying to live her best life even...

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Hey HBs! It's time for part 2 of Semi-Charmed by Isabel Jordan. When we left off Harper had just taken Riddick to be surreptitiously examined by her super empath mom and.... he didn’t get attacked with cutlery, so he’s got that sweet, sweet approval! Now they’re at a bar and while he confirmed that he’s attracted to her, he absolutely doesn’t want to talk about it. That’s where we’re jumping in!

Bonus Content: Riddick ...

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Hey HBs! Today Sabrina and Mel are wrapping themselves in nostalgia blankets and recapping Semi-Charmed by Isabel Jordan. We're in a universe in which vamps have gone public and now our two MCs aren't allowed to hunt them anymore! She's a psychic, he's a slayer, and getting jobs that aren't "hunt vampires" has proven to be a bumpy road. If she can convince him to team up with her, maybe sparks will fly!

Bonus Content: kid's ideas o...

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Hey HBs! We're here with part 2 of HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers! We get a little more about Yuki, an impressive Houdini, and an HFN?

Content warning for undiagnosed and untreated mental illness, depression/anxiety, and self harm.

Lady Loves:

Mel: Skipping segments!

Sabrina: this instant pot primavera pasta recipe!

Curious about the ridiculous faces we make? Subscribe and watch us on YOUTUBE!

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Hey HBs! Sabrina and Mel are here to recap HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers! This is part 1. Alas, while it's a good book, it's not a romance and we will die on that hill.

Curious about the ridiculous faces we make? Subscribe and watch us on YOUTUBE!

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple Podcasts sub, we’re squeeing about the 4th book in the Relic series LOST IN AMBER by Maz Maddox.

Wan...

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Hey HBs! It's part two of SMASH & GRAB by Maz Maddox. We got our first kiss in yesterday's episode and today we're going A LOT further! This dino boy is SMITTEN!

Lady Loves:

Mel: After much sweat and sore muscles, I now have a pink garage! Dalton would LOVE IT.

Sabrina: knittingfool.com! It's a glossary of THOUSANDS of knitting stitches and Sabrina's magnum opus is going to be knitting swatches of every one and making MANY blan...

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Hey HBs! Ooooh baby, it's dino time again!!!!! And this time it's MM! We're here with SMASH & GRAB by Maz Maddox. We've got an introverted paleontologist, a rambunctious dinosaur shifter, a thwarted heist, and a road trip!

Bonus Content: WV on a Northeast tour?, dinosaur parks, and so much more!

This Friday on Patreon and our Apple Podcasts bonus feed, Sabrina and I are screaming about SINK OR SWIM and KING & QUEEN, the second ...

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Hey HBs! We're back with the 4th and final part of RECEIVER OF MANY by Rachel Alexander! It's time for a road trip to Tartarus and a Titanic confrontation.

Bonus Content: those hundred handed boys, ziplining angels and devils, and momentous trips to Claire's! (But really, if you want to get a piercing go to an accredited piercer.)

Lady Loves:
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Hey HBs! We're back with part 3 of RECEIVER OF MANY by Rachel Alexander! Hades and Persephone are on the cusp of solidifying into a real couple while Persephone ascends to her fated throne.

Bonus Content: is there anything better than a super competent character simping over their love interest while watching them come into their power?? We think not.

If you're interested in the book Sabrina mentioned, it's THE SONG OF ACHILLES by ...

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Happy Tuesday, HBs! We're back for part 2 of RECEIVER OF MANY by Rachel Alexander! They make up and then it's a big adventure story!

TW for brief mentions of sexual assault.

Bonus Content: butchered tree metaphors, Melody Fanfic, and so much more!

Joint Lady Love: do it for the bit! Whether it's a set of bags or a pink garage, if it makes you happy, go for it! And abandon bits that don't serve you IMMEDIATELY.

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Hey HBs! We've got a classic retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth AND WE SUPER LOVED IT. This is part 1 of 4 of RECEIVER OF MANY by Rachel Alexander (a 2 week event).

Bonus Content: 007 Hades, friends who will make fools of themselves for you, things you SHOULD NOT GOOGLE, centipedes vs cenTIpedees, and so much more!

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Hey HBs! It's time for part 2 of our recap of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffeneggar.

CW: In this series we talk about grooming, death of a parent, and a short discussion of a lethal car accident. In this episode, we get into the details of the plot's suicide, violence, gun violence, loss of limbs, cheating, fertility issues, pregnancy, and miscarriage. Mel (fairly uncharacteristically) got mega-triggered at the discussion ...

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Hey HBs! Boy is Mel bittersauce about this. We're here with part 1 of our recap of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffeneggar. We brought our pal Kristen along for the ride to balance out all the shade Mel would inevitably be throwing throughout the episode.

CW: In this series we talk about grooming, death of a parent, a short discussion of a lethal car accident, suicide, violence, gun violence, loss of limbs, cheating, fertili...
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