That Swoony Feeling
by Meghan Quinn · Hot-Lanta Publishing · 2020
A small-town romcom that engineers attachment through dual confessional first-person narration and a secret-pen-pal device, withholding the identity reveal to keep readers leaning into the gap between what the hero knows and what they do. Buildup dominates page-time, with crude banter substituting for graphic payoff until late releases.
Engineered signals
Six estimated signals for how hard this title works the immersion engine, each scored on the same 0–100 scale so books compare directly. Directional, not exact — see the methodology below.
What this book is tagged
The full tag set, grouped by dimension. Heat & Kink and Content Warnings are the explicit signals — surfaced, not buried in a flat trope list.
Genre & Setting
Structure & POV
Relationship Tropes
Hero Archetypes
Heroine Archetypes
Heat & Kink
Pairing & Orientation
Location
Estimated. These charts visualize the engineered signals — arc shape, trope weights, and the 0–100 profile are analytical estimates from automated text sampling, directional rather than exact.
Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.
Query the text itself
Beyond the scores: select a pre-determined query to read real keyword-in-context excerpts from the book’s text, located across its arc. Counts are first-pass lexical-pattern matches across the full text, refined as the analysis matures.
Excerpts are short keyword-in-context fragments from That Swoony Feeling by Meghan Quinn (2020), quoted for research and commentary under fair use — a bounded window around each match, not continuous text.
Acts
Anatomy
Dynamics & Kink
Buildup
Emotional
Mentions of Breasts
102 matches · showing 6
| Ch. | Page | Matched fragment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | … Orleans? Neither had I, but I’d heard great things about the place. Drinking in the streets and peekaboo boobs on every corner. Beignets and rice and beans. Scandalous fun. Sounded like a great time. But after doing … |
| 17 | 125 | … wearing a running bra this morning?” Okay, now I can feel my cheeks flame. “Umm, no.” “Did your boobs hurt while running?” Why do I want to shrivel up into nothing right now? “My boobs were fine.” … |
| 17 | 125 | … clasp. The gift to all men.” Evelyn props one hand on her lower back and looks at my breasts again. “She wouldn’t have jiggled out of it, she’s on the smaller side of breasts.” At that moment, … |
| 17 | 126 | … he says, and I just about die from total humiliation. “The perfect handful,” Evelyn says. “She has bigger boobs than me, my dream size—not too big, not too small—but definitely runners-bra worthy. Even now with my pregnant … |
| 17 | 126 | … let me live it down.” “Especially if you continue to wear those tank tops. We’re just playing with nipple fire.” He snaps his fingers. “Bra first, shoes second. I’ll be damned if my friend is made a … |
| 17 | 127 | … Not my place.” “How . . . why . . .?” She brings the measuring tape around my breasts and says, “The way you look at him. I noticed it right away, then again, I’m also very … |
Where the content lands
Not just how much, but where. Each content category is mapped across the chapter arc — buildup spread thin, explicit acts concentrated at the payoff chapters.
Acts
Anatomy
Dynamics & Kink
Buildup
Emotional
How explicit is this, really?
A single title means little in isolation. Set against the indexed catalog, the scale of this book's explicit content becomes legible.
More explicit than 9% of the indexed catalog · #162 of 180 · 0.7 scenes / 100 pp
How these metrics are derived
The book is a real published work; the signals below are produced by sampling its text and scoring each on a common 0–100 scale, so titles can be compared on the same axes.
Estimated. Every signal on this page is an analytical estimate from automated text sampling — directional, not an exact measurement — and the arc curves are illustrative shapes, not chapter-by-chapter readings.
- Anticipation Ratio
- Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
- Explicit Density
- Explicit scenes per 100 pages — how concentrated the payoff is across the length of the book.
- POV Immersion
- How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
- Parasocial Index
- The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
- Serialization
- Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
- Escalation Slope
- How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.