Episode 5: Throttled by Lauren Asher
Get excited because this week we’re reading the first book in Lauren Asher’s Dirty Air Series, Throttled.
Would you classify yourself as a problematic reader? Do you love drama and bad dads and crashes? (And murderers?) Tell us about it!
This book uses the term F1 and has a Big Huge Italian team with an iconic red car. It’s a nice mix of real and unreal, and maybe a good way to avoid copyright infringement!
Some favorite vlogs for those of us on Youtube: Canadian van-lifers who now live in a cabin and a 23-yo influencer living in NYC
How many years between the characters makes an age gap romance? We’re not sure! But we think it’s important that the characters be at different places in their lives.
“Is this what a slow burn feels like?” is a strange question to ask for someone who maybe just published a slow burn.
There were some fun jokes at Haas’s expense and it felt good to be on the inside.
We were very impressed that Noah went to therapy twice a week during summer break. Turns out summer break is a fourteen-day shut down. . . but we’re still proud.
We determined the point of an F1 romance is the moment the driver says, “Being with you is better than winning.”
KATE WATCH THESE TWO SCENES SO YOU GET MY REFERENCES:
The waterfall scene in Last of the Mohicans
The same scene but in Mission Impossible Two
STAY ALIVE.
Here are a ton of links to Real Things that have happened in F1 that also happened in this book:
Vex has the fastest pit stop. (And Bottas has the slowest pit stop.)
Noah had trouble with “the drink” just like Kimi.
A moment between drivers at a press conference that maybe inspired the author?
This is a pro-Steve Harrington podcast.
Here’s the playlist from the front matter of the book, you are welcome. (This podcast is at the center of a Venn diagram for fans of Taylor Swift, F1, and romance novels.)
Proof that Noah could have done better than P8.
We agree:
James Mitchell is Christian Horner and Bobo Fox is Toto Wolff.
Jax Kingston is Lewis Hamilton and Santiago Alatorre is Carlos Sainz.
We disagree:
Liam Zander? Is he Seb; is he Bottas? We’ll have to read the rest of the series to figure it out.
Noah Slade is the American Max Verstappen, gold shoes and all. I mean.
