In the Mood For: A Bookish Podcast

The Gang's back together! Mary is back from her wedding hiatus, Shani bookishly embarrassed herself at said wedding and Bonnie can't get out from the hockey romance era but is gonna try with Gothikana. 

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Bonnie and Shani run down the wild list of October releases while Mary honeymoons. We also chat specifically about Hannah Grace's Wildfire and Sara Cate's Madame.

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Books mentioned:

• Collide - Bal Khabra 
• Consider Me and Play With Me - Becka Mack
• Wreck the Halls - Tessa Bailey
• Wildfire - Hannnah Grace
• A Holly Jolly Ever After - Sierra Simone
• Hopeless - Elsie Silver
• Watch Your Mouth - Kandi Steiner
• Better Hate Than Never - Chloe Liese
• Lore Olympus Vol 5 - Rachel Smythe
• Madame - Sara Cate
• King of Greed - Ana Huang
• Woke Up Like This - Amy Lea
• A Curse for True Love - Stephanie Garber
• King of Country - CW Farnsworth
• When It Burns - Holly Lucky
• Tame the Heart - Ava Hunter
• Shadows of You - Catherine Cowles
• Cottonwood Cove series - Laura Pavlov
• Iris Kelly Doesn't Date - Ashley Herring Blake
• One Chance - Lena Hendrix
• Princes of Ash - Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue
  
   

@bookish.teresa joins us again, this time to talk about Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) and the whole wide world of reviewing books online, and demands we all get a little praise for the work we do!

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This week we get into books we haven't read but have FOMO about, Mary starts rumors, Shani cracks the code in naming Rina Kent books and Bonnie gets sucked into yet another Twisted Sisters series. 

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Books mentioned: 

• 1 Last Shot - Nikki Castle
• Foxglove - Adalyn Grace
• The Kingmaker - Kennedy Ryan
• Things We Left Behind - Lucy Score
• Brutal boys of Everlake Prep - Caroline Peckham and Suzanne Valenti
• Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas
• Fallen Men Series - Giana Darling
• Filthy Rich Americans Series - Nikki Sloane
• Legacy of Gods Series - Rina Kent
• Brutal Birthright series, The Bully - Sophie Lark
• Devil's Night Series - Penelope Douglas
• Mindf*ck Series - S.T. Abby
• Gothikana, The Darkverse - RuNyX
• JT Geissinger - Pen Pal
• ACOTAR - Sarah J. Maas
• Hunting Adeline - HD Carlton

We can explain... No we can't. Sometimes you just need a raunchy novella. We also chat about fall TBRs, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty and reading while traveling.

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Books mentioned: 

• C*msl*t - B. Sobjakken
• Sugar Daddies, Strangers in My Bed, Poison - Jade West
• Foxglove - Adalyn Grace
• Milking My Sister - B. Sobjakken
• A Taste of Wicked Series - Andi Simms
• Fate at Fault - Andi Simms
• Was I Ever Free - Naomi Loud
• You Again - Kate Goldbeck
• Shucked - Kate Canterbary
• Assitant to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi
• Secret History, Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
• Souls Trilogy - Harley LaRoux  
• A Merry Little Meet Cute - Sierra Simone, Julie Murphy
• Snow Place Like LA - Sierra Simone, Julie Murphy 

This week Teresa of @bookish.teresa joins us for a slightly chaotic chat about SteamyLit 2023, awkward moments meeting other readers, special editions and taboo books.  

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Books mentioned:

• Hush Hush - Lucia Franco
• Reckless - Elsie Silver
• Out on a Limb - Hannah Bonham-Young
• Accidentally Ours - Erin Hawkins
• Babymoon or Bust - Ava Hunter
• The Devils series - Elizabeth O'Roark
• Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep - Caroline Peckham and Suzanne Valenti
• Iron Flame and Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
• Once Upon a Broken Heart - Stephanie Garber
• Kingmaker - Kennedy Ryan
• Longshot - Kennedy Ryan
• Don't You Dare - CE Ricci
• Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid
• Wild and Free - K. Webster
• F*cked - Natalie Knight
• C*mslut - B Sobjakken
• Salt Kiss - Sierra Simone
• Morbidly Yours - Ivy Fairbanks

This week author Naomi Loud @naomiloud joins for a chat about our icks in books, romance that straddles multiple genres and find out Bonnie has never read fanfic!

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Books mentioned:

• Losers by Harley LaRoux
• Dirty Broken Savages series - Eva Ashwood
• Hades series by Tate James
• Belladonna - Adalyn Grace
• That Sik Luv - Jescie Hall
• Hideaway Heart - Melanie Harlow
• Butcher & Blackbird - Brynne Weaver
• Wildfire - Hannah Grace
• Forget Me Not - Julie Soto
• The Auction - LovesBitca8
• Finn Rhodes Forever - Stephanie Archer
• Breath Mints and Battle Scars - Onyx_and_Elm
• Manacled - SenLinYu
• Pucked - Helena Hunting
• Emerald Lakes series - Britt Andrews
• Double Pucked - Lauren Blakely
• Thornchapel series - Sierra Simone
• Sinner - Sierra Simone
• Naga Brides series - Naomi Lucas

This week we are joined by the amazing Muftiat of @moof_outdaway. We go deep in on books that really aren't great but how sometimes, you just can't help but love them for their craziness. 

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Books mentioned in the episode:

• Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
• Underworld University - Bex Deveau
• Lawyer’s Daffodil - ChaSiree
• Was I Ever Free - Naomi Loud
• Revive Me - JL SeegarsUnravel Me - Becka Mack
• Book Lovers - Emily Henry
• Entangled - R. Philips
• Wildfire - Hannah Grace
• Stephanie Archer - Queen’s Cove Series
• Wicked Beauty - Katee Robert
• Hitched - Lauren Biel
• The Ritual, Sabotage - Shantel Tessier
• Room 22, Hunt - Mila Crawford
• True Love Experiment, Beautiful Series, Wild Seasons Series- Christina Lauren
• Harlequin Crew, Zodiac Academy, Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac - Suzanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham
• Montana Mountain Man Series - Gemma Weir
• Wolf Hotel - K.A Tucker
• Lion and the Mouse Series - Kenya Wright

This week we are joined by the lovely and hilarious Alexandra of @literaryalexandra. We chat about paranormal romance, creative burnout and the changes we've seen in the bookish online community over the past couple of years. 

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Books mentioned in the episode:

• Inked in Lies / Fallen Men series by Giana Darling
• Dating Dr. Dil / Tastes like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma
• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
• Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
• Was I Ever Free by Naomi Loud
• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
• Entangled by R. Philips
• Growl by AC Arthur, Kate Douglas
• Montana Mountain Men series by Gemma Weir
• Harlequin Crew Series by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• The Beast by Jenika Snow
• Chuck Tingle by Space Raptor Butt Trilogy / Turned Gay by the Alpha Living Diner
• Unhinged by Vera Valentine
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Shani, Bonnie & Mary introduce themselves in this pilot episode and talk about how they joined the communities of Booktok and Bookstagram. They touch on what they love (and don’t love) about romance books and the dynamic community surrounding them, as well as what listeners can expect from the podcast in future episodes.

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