Intro: A Wolf Without A Foot

Welcome to Fated Mates! Author Sarah MacLean and critic Jen Prokop launch their fan podcast about Kresley Cole’s Internationally bestselling paranormal romance series, Immortals After Dark. Sarah and Jen introduce themselves and the series, and talk about its place in the romance genre. Topics include feminism, patriarchy, modernity and Moonstruck. Yes, the one with Cher. Also included, an introduction to the first book in the series, A Hunger Like No Other…the book they’ll be rereading for Episode 1.

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Show Notes

• Jen wrote about A Hunger Like No Other twice: a Throwback Thursday review, and a look at how the book covers changed over time.
• A definition of the Fated Mates trope.
• Sarah wrote about fated mates and Kresley Cole on twitter.
• What is paranormal romance?
• A big overview of PNR
• A thoughtful academic definition
• Superhero movies after 9/11
• Superhero Movies have become an endless attempt to rewrite 9/11 from Vox
• On Superheroes and the Myths of American Power from LitHub
• Monster Mash. And cuter Monster Mash.
• The Immortals after Dark on Audio
• Lots and lots of tweets from us about the audio.
• Robert Petkoff, audiobook narrator of our hearts.
• Kresley Cole’s Pocket Books page
• Moonstruck, 30 years old and still amazing.
• Sarah wrote about the Alpha Male in Romance after the 2016 election.
• What is Urban Fantasy?
• Have we mentioned that we talk about this series a lot on twitter
• A Google folder with PDFs of articles above that still exist online as of 8/2023)

The Rest

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