{"id":6453,"date":"2025-10-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:34:02","slug":"readers-advisory-episode-276-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-276-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Advisory: Episode 276 &#8211; Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we suggest instead of\/in addition to reading\u00a0<i>Mate<\/i>\u00a0by Ali Hazelwood.\u00a0Listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-276-mate\/\">the podcast<\/a>\u00a0to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ipb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ipb-147x220.jpeg\" alt=\"Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon\" width=\"147\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ipb-147x220.jpeg 147w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ipb-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ipb.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leopard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leopard-138x220.jpg\" alt=\"The Leopard King by Ann Aguirre\" width=\"138\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leopard-138x220.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leopard-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/leopard.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating-147x220.jpg\" alt=\"Mating the Huntress by Talia Hibbert\" width=\"147\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating-147x220.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mating.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780593546024\"><em>Ice Planet Barbarians<\/em>\u00a0by Ruby Dixon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781537711904\"><em>The Leopard King<\/em> by Ann Aguirre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/470ucUA\"><em>Mating the Huntress<\/em> by Talia Hibbert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave-143x220.webp\" alt=\"Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh\" width=\"143\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave-143x220.webp 143w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave-195x300.webp 195w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave-664x1024.webp 664w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slave.webp 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warriors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warriors-150x216.jpg\" alt=\"A Warriors Fate by Melissa Kieran\" width=\"153\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warriors-150x216.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warriors-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warriors.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wolfsong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wolfsong-142x220.jpg\" alt=\"Wolfsong by TJ Klune\" width=\"142\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wolfsong-142x220.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wolfsong-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wolfsong.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780593952474\"><em>Slave to Sensation<\/em> by Nalini Singh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781966091004\"><em>A Warrior&#8217;s Fate<\/em> by Melissa Kieran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781250890337\"><em>Wolfsong<\/em> by T. J. Klune<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we suggest instead of\/in addition to reading\u00a0Mate\u00a0by Ali Hazelwood.\u00a0Listen to\u00a0the podcast\u00a0to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2216,2631,2628,2630,2629,48,30,2435,2372,1870],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ra","tag-ali-hazelwood","tag-ann-aguirre","tag-mate","tag-melissa-kieran","tag-nalini-singh","tag-readalikes","tag-readers-advisory","tag-ruby-dixon","tag-t-j-klune","tag-talia-hibbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}