When In Romance
When In Romance is a biweekly show dedicated to romance novel news, gushing, and book recommendations. Hosted by Book Riot, it covers the latest in romance literature and offers enthusiastic discussions.
Episodes
An Emotionally Satisfying Ending
In this ultimate (final) episode of When in Romance, Jess and Trisha reminisce about the last 198 episodes, Trisha subjects Jess to one last WIR quiz, and they close with some final book recs and a little gratitude.
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The podcast may be ending, but the backlog of When In Romance will be here for you on the Book Riot site! (And Jess and Trisha will be there too, just in different ways.)
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The (Pen)Ultimate!
Jess and Trisha share some When In Romance news, reflect on the last eight years in romance, and talk about what they’ve read - and want to read - this year.
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Books Discussed
Shoot Your Shot by Lexi LaFleur Brown
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Still Obsessed with Beverly Jenkins
Jess and Trisha talk about continuing the story with long series, interlocking series, and series that feature the same couple in multiple books.
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Books Discussed
Cleat Chaser by Aimee Rivkin
Speak Now by Ash Perez (
Father Material by Alexis Hall
The Psy-Changling series by Nalini Si
The Case of Jess’s Tabs
Jess and Trisha talk about Harlequin and AI and then do a dive deep into fan fiction, discussing the who/what/where/why and some of the current discourse in the romance fanfic world.
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Here’s the “Why is Harlequin making weird AI movies?” piece by Maris Kreizman we talked about [Literary Hub]
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Coming Together Bits
Jess and Trisha talk about what they’ve been reading and then get into Book Club with Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa and sports romance broadly.
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No news this week because it’s a Book Club week!
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Books Discussed
The Starter Ex by Mia Sosa
Back and Forth From New York by alphalup
The Bonkers Vibes
Jess and Trisha discuss the end of Harlequin’s category romance line and offer some category romance recs (some of which are delightfully bananas).
Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us - send us your thoughts before we record on March 25 (episode goes live March 30)!
Get a bit of category romance background from Love In Panels and author Therese Beharrie.
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My Most Gandalfy Friend
Jess and Trisha talk about a new option for indie authors and talk about some of their favorite independently-published romances.
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Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us - send us your thoughts before we record on March 25 (ep goes live March 30)!
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The Best Romance Novels of the Century So Far
Jess and Trisha talk (very enthusiastically) about Book Riot’s list of the best romance novels of the century so far.
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Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us - send us your thoughts before we record on March 25 (episo
Fake Fated Mates
Jess and Trisha talk a LOT about adaptations - including their dream adaptations - and a little bit about other news and updates in romanceland.
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Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us - send us your thoughts before w
Duels That Are Also Flirting
Jess and Trisha finally get around to closing out some recommendations and backlist favorites from 2025 (it’s still January, so it’s fine!).
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Hooray for Book Club in 2026! Read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa with us!
Books Discussed:
The Wren in the
More Than One Kind of Heated Rivalry
Jess and Trisha talk about why Heated Rivalry is so much more successful than other Harlequin adaptations released at the same time and then share some of their most anticipated titles of 2026.
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens from Zero to Well-Read
When in Romance is taking a short holiday break, so we thought we'd share an episode from our newest Book Riot Podcast, Zero to Well-Read, in which Jeff and Rebecca revisit Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, a story so familiar it’s often mistaken for simple. They consider its moral stakes, its enduring influence on readers and society, and why Scrooge's redemption still resonates.
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Jess and Trisha’s Faves of 2025
Jess and Trisha talk about some of their favorite romance reads of 2025, including books that are light and fun, books that pack an emotional punch, books with mysteries, books with sports…and more!
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We’ve got the chops to match the book lover in your life wit
2025 Recommendations Requests: Part 2!
Jess and Trisha offer romance recommendations for characters with diabetes, characters who are immigrants, characters who are dinosaurs (or dinosaur adjacent) and more!
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2025 Recommendations Requests: Part 1!
'Tis the season! Jess and Trisha offer recommendations for paranormal romances that aren’t toxic, queernorm romance, epistolary romances, and more!
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Still No Beverly Jenkins Cinematic Universe…
Jess and Trisha share adaptation news, highlight books by Native and Indigenous romance authors, and remind listeners to send in their recommendation requests.
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Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorit
Suspending Disbelief: When In Romance Fall Book Club
Jess and Trisha talk about fall, The Enchanted Hacienda, and some magicky romance appropriate for this (or any) season.
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Grumpy to Happy Ratio: Recommendations for New Romance Readers
Jess and Trisha talk about your recommendations for first time romance readers before digging into theirs - from historical to contemporary, dramatic to comedic, and low heat to...The Dragon’s Bride.
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A Trifecta of Kellys
Jess and Trisha talk about the success of the Kickstarter model for book publishing and celebrate Sapphic September with some recs.
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Inserting Joy Into Your Day
Jess and Trisha talk through some updates (book club is back!!) and then turn the conversation to vacation/getaway-themed romances.
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Breaking the Podcast Timing Rules
Jess and Trisha talk about a TON of adaptations (or possible adaptations) and then get into the books they’re excited about for the second half of 2025.
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Lowercase “N” Nemesis
Jess and Trisha do a tiny bit of fun news and then get into the Dramione of it all before talking about favorite 2025 romance releases so far.
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A Bibliotherapy Session
Jess and Trisha do a little self-examination of their reading habits and then talk about their favorite backlist romance reads of the year so far.
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Jane Austen June Part 2: The Protagonist is Also the Antagonist
Jess and Trisha talk about Jane Austen feelings - yours and theirs! - and then get into Kamila Knows Best for book club.
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Jane Austen June Part 1: Landed Gentry with More Land
Jess and Trisha talk through updates and news before diving into part 1 of Jane Austen June, featuring adaptations and retellings (video and book versions).
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Spaceships Absolutely Count
Jess and Trisha talk through updates, the “Fyre Festival of Book Cons”, and - as promised - recommend some transportation-related romances.
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Someone With Binoculars
Jess and Trisha talk about WIR book club, why/if point of view matters in romance, and they have some recs for reverse adaptations.
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Interesting Things, Including Bears
Jess is back, and she and Trisha catch up on news and books — specifically, outdoorsy romance.
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A Podcast Most Actual with Special Guest Liberty Hardy
Trisha is joined by special guest Liberty Hardy to chat a bit about news and a lot about romance mysteries and mystery romances.
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International Space Crisis
Jess and Trisha talk through some romance news and then dive into our first book club book of the year.
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The Regency Version of a Stripper
Jess and Trisha talk about romance graphic novels, short stories, and novellas — just in case you’re already feeling behind on your 2025 reading goals.
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A Crime He’s Satisfied to Commit
Jess and Trisha talk about what they read when the real world is difficult and recommend some Black romance authors who might be new to you.
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading hor
May Justice Prevail
Jess and Trisha do a news roundup and recommend some great books with trans characters and trans authors.
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A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for e
Easter Bunny or Playboy Bunny?
Jess and Trisha discuss what might be coming in 2025, including book club, trends, and romances they can’t wait to read.
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2025: Still Astonished
Jess and Trisha talk about lists and roundups that closed out 2024, as well as their favorite backlist reads of the last year.
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(Still) Excited by the Shenanigans
We're on break for the holiday week, so we're rerunning an episode from earlier this year in which we reflect on the 2023 books we still want to get to and the books we were most excited about coming out in 2024.
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Discovering Each Other: Favorites of 2024
Jess and Trisha offer a few more gifting recommendations and then talk about some of their favorite new books of 2024.
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2024’s Recommendation Request Show!
Jess and Trisha respond to requests for recommendations for everything from romances with older couples to gentle reads to romcoms.
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Cared for in a Way Your Horse Deserves
It’s Book Club week! Jess and Trisha discuss The Siren of Sussex and similar historical romance books they recommend.
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A whole lotta drama no matter what
Jess and Trisha get ready to announce dates for the next WIR Book Club and recommendations episodes and then dive into a discussion about age gap romances.
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We Call Shenanigans
Jess and Trisha talk updates and seasonal reading and then offer some magical/paranormal/supernatural recs.
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Could Stand Alone But Shouldn’t
Jess and Trisha announce a new WIR Book Club book and then talk about the impact of book bans on romance authors and readers before offering some recs for Bisexual Awareness Week.
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Sweet and Murdery
Jess and Trisha get caught up on all of the news that's been happening and all of the books they’ve been reading while they’ve been away.
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Guest Post: We Saw IT ENDS WITH US So You Don't Have To
Jess and Trisha are off this week, so we're sharing an episode that went live on the Book Riot Podcast about the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni — notably not a romance novel, though as we've lamented on When in Romance, it often gets characterized as such.
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Was [Redacted] The Original Bachelor? With Guest Emily Martin
Jess is joined by All The Books co-host Emily Martin! They talk news around adaptations and recommend some reality TV romances worth checking out.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Adaptations
Jess and Trisha talk briefly about the possible romance world implications of Project 2025 and then discuss their many — MANY — feelings about The Idea of You (both the book and film).
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Favorites of 2024 So Far
Jess and Trisha discuss their favorite romance reads — frontlist and backlist — of the year so far.
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A Nice Fun Thing
Jess and Trisha discuss the marketability of historical romance and then jump into our When In Romance book club pick, Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha.
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Most Frequently Recurring Dumpster Fire
Jess and Trisha talk about what are — and are NOT — the reasons RWA filed for bankruptcy and then recommend some romances with good mental health rep.
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Needing the Beach to Cool Down
Jess and Trisha belatedly share listener emails and talk (again) about what makes a romance a romance. Plus! Romances to get you ready for the summer.
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Come for the Puns
Jess and Trisha talk about author identities and pen names, bookish events gone wrong, and road trip romances.
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Consent to Tell Me the Story
Trisha is joined by special guest Vanessa Diaz, Managing Editor for Book Riot, and they talk about reading habits, books they love, and why third person present narration is so weird.
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Low Stakes Bookish Pet Peeves
Jess and Trisha cover a few potpourri topics and updates before talking about romances that are worth the hype.
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Be the Jack Rourke of Your Book World
Jess and Trisha talk about the impact of AI and machine learning on books and then take a virtual visit to the Tucson Festival of Books.
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Immersed In That Angst
To celebrate February 29, Jess and Trisha go all in on books they love that were published in Leap Years.
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She Can’t Plot
Jess and Trisha reflect on the major theme of Valentine’s romance coverage and then recommend some romance short stories and novellas.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading ho
Read Harder in…Every Year
Jess and Trisha talk about romance covers, genre data (or lack thereof), and romance books that fit the 2024 Read Harder Challenge.
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horiz
Darling But Dangerous
Jess and Trisha kick off 2024 WIR Book Club by discussing The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich and then discuss other books with mistaken identities or disguises.
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Excited by the Shenanigans
Jess and Trisha talk about 2023 books they still want to get to and the books they’re most excited about coming out in 2024.
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We Love a Lady Blacksmith — Favorites of 2023
Jess and Trisha talk about their favorite romance reads of 2023. Prepare your TBR for many, many books — front list AND back list.
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It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcov
Having Affairs and Running a Hotel
It’s part two of our 2023 recommendation request episodes! Jess and Trisha talk about romances with tough female heroines, queer fantasy romance, immersive romance series, and more!
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Scathing Dislike, Scorching Chemistry
It’s part one of our 2023 recommendation request episodes! Jess and Trisha talk about diverse paranormal romances, romances with ace representation, holiday romances, and more!
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Continuing the Podcast Magic
Jess and Trisha talk about the current “steaminess” discourse in romance and new books with some of their favorite tropes.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's ro
Having a Moment in Costumes in the Library
Jess and Trisha talk about the popular practice of republishing previously self-published romances and offer a few of their recs for Bang in the Night BINGO.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version
Song Fails on a Book Podcast
Jess and Trisha dive deep into The Perfect Find, talking about both the novel and the Netflix adaptation.
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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy rea
Great Movie, Weird Faces
Jess and Trisha are reunited(!) and get caught up on romance news, adaptations, and their reading over the last couple of months.
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There’s Only One Dog
Special guest Jenn Northington joins Trisha to talk about anthologies and books to help you break a reading slump.
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The One With All The Witches with Liberty Hardy
Jess is joined by Book Riot's resident velocireader, Liberty Hardy, who listens patiently while Jess discusses news and then actually gets the chance to talk when the pair discuss witch romances (with many detours along the way).
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Our Favorite Romances of 2023 So Far
Jess and Trisha check in on the current state of romance publishing and then talk about some of their favorite romances of 2023 so far.
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Romances with Real People on Earth
Jess and Trisha talk about Regency romance and why so many romances are set in that 9 year(!) period and then share what romances they’re excited about in the second half of 2023.
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The Second Half of the Last Page
Jess and Trisha jump back into book club and then take a minute to pay tribute to Julie Garwood and the legacy and place of older romance books.
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A Benign Stalker
Jess and Trisha discuss how racism impacts sports romance publishing and talk about some basketball romances they love.
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Ranking the Most Impactful Romance of the Last Decade
Jess and Trisha do something a little different and spend the show ranking the most influential romance novels that have come out in the last decade (based on their very subjective opinions).
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Not As Much Eye Reading
Jess and Trisha announce a new book club book and get into why contemporary romance isn’t always the same as a romcom (which is different from a romantic comedy)…and where does “chick lit” fit into all of this?
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Normal People with Quirky Friends
Jess and Trisha do a bit of follow-up from last time, talk about why romance book adaptation news so often goes nowhere, and recommend some favorite romances with STEM characters.
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Somewhere In Between
Jess and Trisha talk about the jobs and activities we do and don’t see in romance (and what it means) and discuss and recommend second chance romances.
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The Body Falls for the Guard
Jess and Trisha talk about the trans rights readathon (starting March 20!) and then discuss comfort reads.
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Trading Off Words
Jess and Trisha discuss a social media situation impacting romance authors and why it matters more broadly and then dive into After Hours on Milagro Street for WIR Book Club.
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All of the Unfurling
Jess and Trisha talk about positive Valentine’s Day romance coverage, happy Harper Collins strike news, and romance mysteries.
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Book club is back!!! We’re reading After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez, and we’ll be talking about it Mar
Lying with Each Other
Jess and Trisha talk about some news and listener emails before getting real about fake relationships: why the trope works, why they like it, and some of the fake relationship romances they’ve been reading lately.
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Book club is back!!! We’re readin
