{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/678abf8916bc7a854524e06f/68cda0e588c516d26e3e8e98?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"196: NOThic: The Ruin of Evangeline Jones by Julia Bennet","description":"<p>Don't be scared! That is just the loud cracking of our ankles over a totally normally recording of Whoa!mance's discussion of THE RUIN OF EVANGELINE JONES by JULIA BENNET.</p><p>The titular Evie is a psychic medium scammer under the control/support of a Svengali type. Harcastle is a Due under the oppression of his dead father. Plus his hobby is busting fake spiritualists in Victorian London. But, Evie is tempting in that mysterious buttoned-up-but-secret-nudie-photo-past that maybe...just maybe...he'll be doing bustin' of a different kind. Please don't tell anyone that I wrote that.</p><p>What isn't a gothic romance (shoutout to Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights trailer)? Why would you include a plucky child and/or dog in your novel? What IS good pacing anyway?</p><p>Touch pinkies and tuck winkies - this seance we're summoning a big ol' Whoa.</p>","author_name":"Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves"}