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Welcome to SEASON 3 - we're chatting current reads, book to screen adaptations, and HUGE news 👀 · Gorls Unplugged

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  2 girls, a whole lot of books, and even more to say about them.
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  I'm Tor. And I'm Bronte.
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  And this is Girls Unplugged. We're here for all things
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  bookish, from recommendations and book to screen adaptations.
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  To spilling the tea on all the latest community drama and news.
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  Don't forget to subscribe and follow along.
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  We are. Back, we're back.
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  Welcome to season 3 guys. As you can tell as well, we have
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  brand new sparkly logo and things very exciting, yes.
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  We, So we took a plan and Easter break because we knew we wanted
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  to make sure we had some time off during the podcast.
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  But we decided to extend the break because we decided to
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  rebrand and really think about where the podcast is going, what
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  we want from it. And because of that, some very
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  exciting things came up for this season.
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  Yeah, you're going to want to make sure that you follow us as
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  well in all the places because we have tons of exciting things
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  coming up, including author interviews this season, which
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  will tease more about later in this episode.
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  Today. We're going to be doing a bit of
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  a first episode back wrap up, sort of talking about what we've
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  been reading, what's going on in the bookish community, and bits
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  and bobs like that. So much news.
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  The reading wrap up is not going to be that far because brunting
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  has been slumpity slumping so bad this year and I actually did
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  not read that much while we were on the break.
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  So yeah, that bit might be a bit short, but there is a lot of
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  bookish Goss to fill you in on. Yeah, so before we get into the
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  video, make sure you like and comment on this one.
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  Tell us what you've been reading across Easter as well.
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  So while we were off, although we didn't do much reading, you
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  must have done some reading during my action April.
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  So what did you read? So the main thing I read was the
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  Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. That took me the whole of April.
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  Guys that took me literally a full month to read, which is
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  insane. The 1st 20% I actually read
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  really quickly, like a few days and then I just sort of got a
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  bit stuck with it. And I also just was really busy
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  over April, but it just, I thought this was going to be a
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  five star book and it wasn't. I've ended up settling on a 3.5.
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  I fear for what The Hunger Games girlies are going to do to our
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  podcast episode. No, you've said that.
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  Do you know? What?
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  When I went on Goodreads after though, a lot of the reviews
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  were very similar to. OK, interesting.
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  And a lot of people say that Sunrise on the Reaping, which is
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  the one after and the other prequel book that came out last
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  year, that one's a lot better. So I am still going to do that
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  and I'm very excited for that. But songbirds and snakes I just
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  found a bit boring. It was a bit slow.
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  I didn't like his villain origin story.
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  I didn't really think there was enough rationale of how he
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  became a villain because it kind of was like nought to 100 in the
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  book. Like for 90% he actually is not
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  that villainous at all. And then like for 10% at the
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  end, it's like. I.
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  It's not really like a gradual process.
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  I mean I don't understand because I don't watch Hunger
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  Games or read Hunger Games but. Yeah, I forgot you'd not really
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  even seen the films where it's basically like if it was an
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  origin story about Voldemort, for example, but then Voldemort
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  only became bad in the last 10% of the book.
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  That's kind of how it felt reading it.
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  OK, so yeah, I didn't love it. And then honestly, I didn't read
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  a lot else at all. And I've have so I did read 20%
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  of oh gosh, what's it called? A Sky in the Storm, which is
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  book 4 of Ember in the Ashes. And I love that series and I
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  love this. But because I'm doing it on
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  audio, I'm getting through it really slowly.
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  OK, because unlike tour, I don't do audio that often.
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  So it takes me a while, but I do really enjoy it.
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  I'm very excited to see where it goes.
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  I think I'm going to be happy with the ending from what I know
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  from a friend that's read them so I.
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  Really need to read that series. I got the first book recently
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  because everyone always tells me that I will love it.
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  I think everyone should read this series.
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  I don't think if you like fantasy in any capacity it's a
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  must read. I brought my cousin the first
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  book for Christmas and she messaged me the other day saying
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  she was addicted to the series and she'd almost finished it.
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  Oh my God, Don't you just love that when you buy someone a book
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  that you're reading and then they, like, storm past you?
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  Yeah. I know.
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  And that's what happened with my friend Jamie.
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  She, she read it, she started them when I was on book 2 and
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  then she finished them way, way, way, way, way before me.
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  She is Alfred. Jamie.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. She is one of the fastest
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  readers I've ever known in my life.
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  She's wild. She she will literally pick up a
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  book and then two hours later you'll have a text saying she's
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  finished it and it's crazy wild. Absolutely mental.
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  Yeah. So, yeah, that's all I read
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  really not the most exciting or you know, biggest update.
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  I will, when we talk about what I'm currently reading, have a
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  very kind of exciting update though and recommendation.
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  Oh yeah, I feel like I know what you're going to talk about.
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  Yeah. So for me, I also didn't read
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  too much. One of the reasons we chose the
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  break when we did is obviously because of my kids being on
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  school holidays. So that took up a good like 2
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  1/2 weeks worth of my dime where I basically read nothing or read
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  stuff very slowly. But since the last break I did,
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  I finished Wrath of the Dragons, which is the second book in
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  Olivia Rose Darling series. And I have to say it actually
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  really disappointed me, which was really, really sad because
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  Fear the Flames was one of my top books of 2025.
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  So that was a little bit disappointing.
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  It just had that typical second book in a series like Syndrome.
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  Do you know what I mean? Where things, the pacing kind of
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  like fluctuated a bit and the romance got a little bit lost,
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  like the chemistry didn't feel was great.
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  So that was a little bit disappointing.
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  I also read Love Song by Elle Kennedy, which was just one of
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  the fucking best things I've ever done.
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  It was so, so funny. It is like a, it's not part of
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  the campus diary series, but it's spin off from off campus
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  because it's the kids of some of the original characters.
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  So the fucking dad chat vibes in this bag.
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  Oh my God. I was crying with laughter.
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  It was so, so funny. And but you know what?
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  One of the things I actually really liked about this book, I
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  was doing a review on it the other day and there's a lot of
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  mental health and neurodiversity wrapped within this book without
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  specifically calling it out. Like it's not like, oh, this
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  person has ADHD and this person has anxiety and this person, you
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  know, has suffered with depression.
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  It wasn't like that. It was very naturally embedded
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  into the story. So if you are someone that
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  struggles with those types things, you just naturally felt,
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  felt or feel very seen while you're reading it.
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  And I really liked that it's just becoming like a natural
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  thing rather than being like, oh, I'm going to put I'm going
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  to very specifically call out constantly that this person has
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  ADHD in but do you know what I mean?
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  Like I'm sure you probably feel the same when it's chronic
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  illness, when it's not like so blaringly called out that it
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  feels like it's there as a trope.
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  Do you know what you mean? It's just naturally in there
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  because that is part of the characters.
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  And I really like that about Love Song.
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  I think she's quite good in that general because she did it in
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  Summer's story in the Chase, right?
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  I mean, she did specifically call that ADHD and reference the
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  fact it was ADHD. But I felt like that book was
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  really well done representation as well.
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  And also just that series in general, I think like Brenna's
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  story, like some of the kind of themes in it are really quite
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  deep. She's quite good at that.
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  I think that's one of the things that Elle Kennedy can do quite
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  well is that they are fluffy, lovely, like spicy romances, but
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  most of them do have, like, a deeper undertone, which makes it
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  more relatable in a lot of ways as opposed to, you know, the
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  perfect romance. So yeah, that book was
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  fantastic. I also started a new cowboy
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  romance series. It's called the Diamondback
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  Ranch. The first book is called Untamed
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  Heart by Gemma Moore. Oh.
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  Yeah, I've heard those. It was just a really good time.
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  I just really, really enjoyed it.
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  Very easy to read. The romance was cute and it was
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  like, and it was a London girl who she gets, she gets sacked
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  from her job, she finds that her boyfriend's cheating on her and
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  she goes over to her family's ranch in Wyoming and obviously
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  falls in love with a cowboy. So it is like super cheesy, but
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  it was a very nice, easy summary, kind of like romance,
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  red, blue Chestnut Springs type of vibe.
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  So whether or not you like it, I don't know.
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  Have you read? I think it's the Lucky Ranch
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  series, which is the first book's cash, the second book's
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  wire. No.
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  I see. I read book one of that and I
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  really really liked it and I keep meaning to go into book 2.
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  So I think you should read them as.
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  Well, because I fucking love a cowboy romance, Yeah.
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  I feel like I was born to live on a ranch even though I don't
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  like I. Don't really.
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  Like animals that much either. Yeah.
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  But I'm supposed to be like, one of those people that, like, runs
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  the branch. Yeah.
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  Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Like, like Beth in Yellowstone, she just runs the shit and
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  everyone scared her. She looks really fucking cool
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  and good while she does it. Like that's what I should be
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  like. Maybe with less alcohol
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  involved. And cigarettes.
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  Yeah. And then finally I read.
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  Well, I actually listened to Cinder Vale by the Twisted
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  Sisters. Oh my fucking good God.
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  This book, when I tell you I was like chronically on the edge of
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  my seat the entire time. There was so much stuff going
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  on, typical like Twisted Sisters fashion, and I just have really
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  started to enjoy where the series is going.
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  A bit like Zodiac Academy, the first book, it takes some real
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  getting used to because it's like new characters and there's
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  lots of people, like most of their books are.
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  So you're trying to connect with lots of different characters at
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  the same time. But now by book three, you're
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  invested in every single person. You form some type of emotional
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  attachment to every single person and there's just so much
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  wild shit going on. And the last five minutes of the
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  book film, I'm going to cry just talking about it.
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  It was so good. I did a live reaction video to
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  it on my TikTok because it was like the wildest ride and
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  everyone needs to read that series.
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  There's nothing like some tears to really sell bookers there,
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  guys Like, Oh my goodness. I just get so excited.
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  And it's making me want to read it.
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  I need to. I need to catch up on their
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  books. Yes, you do ASAP.
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  You do A$AP Rocky ASAP rookie. Dookie.
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  Yeah. So that's everything I've read
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  during the break. What are you reading now?
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  Are you? Are you reading now?
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  I know you. I'm.
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  Back. But baby, she's back.
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  I'm back, and it's all thanks to our pal Amy.
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  I was sick of the slump and I asked everyone on Instagram for
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  slump recommendations specifically for smutty romance
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  or like unhinged romance. Because in the past when I've
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  been in really really bad slumps there's like 2 specific things
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  that have broken it. One is mafia romance and one is
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  something crazy like ice planet Barbarians.
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  Or monster romance. Just something totally out of
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  the norm. Totally out the norm and just
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  something that's so sort of like addictive because you want to be
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  like what like what is going on. So Amy recommended to me the
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  edge of darkness series by Lee Rivers.
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  If you know me, if you've been listening to this podcast for a
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  wow, you'll know that I don't really read dark romance well.
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  You're not a dark romance girly I wouldn't say, but you do
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  randomly pop up with these like random like the mafia romance
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  you're sinners marrow. You do do them in between and
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  typically, actually it usually is when you're a little bit
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  slumpy. It's when I'm in a slump.
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  That's the only time I normally do it.
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  It's basically happens like once a year.
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  But yeah, in terms of like a go to genre, it's not one of my
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  sort of top ones. And I would say that as well.
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  I never really liked Haunting and hunting Adeline.
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  They were just to me. But this series is very similar
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  to them in a way. Yeah, it's I described it to Amy
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  if you haven't read it, as Haunting Adeline meets
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  Nightshade meets a mafia romance.
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  So it's very dark. The only thing is I wouldn't
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  personally recommend it to Tor because it has a topic she would
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  find very trigger triggering and it's there's a very heavy
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  emphasis on that topic. Oh God, I nearly picked them up
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  the other day because you're enjoying them so much and Meg
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  also read them. I saw on her reading wrap up so
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  I was like, oh, maybe I'll read them.
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  Everybody loves them, but Tor would find it super triggering.
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  And in general, if you're someone that is quite heavily
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  affected by triggers, pretty much every trigger possible is
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  in this series. But I had never considered them,
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  didn't really ever think they were going to be my thing.
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  And then Amy Afrin loved them, recommended them as my slump.
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  I started book one about 11:00 PM.
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  I'd finished it by 4:00 AM. And then three days later I am.
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  Now bearing in mind this was on a week night, she had to get up
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  and work the next morning. And I regretted that decision a
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  lot. But now three days later, I am
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  about 40% of the way into Book 3.
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  So I've done Insatiable Voracious, which is book 2, and
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  now I'm on Restitution, which is the final book in the trilogy.
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  It is a completed series as well and there's like a spin off
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  novella about one of the characters in it.
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  So if you want is it? Like an interconnected series?
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  Or it's all about like one set of characters?
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  Yeah, it's following one specific couple.
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  OK. And then the spin off is about a
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  different character. The novella, Sorry, is about a
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  different character, but yeah, it's like, and it's it's so many
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  tropes in it as well, where it like shouldn't work because
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  there's that many, but it does. So it's like second chance.
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  Sometimes trophy does work. Yeah, and it's just so
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  addictive. I can't tell you why, but it's
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  so addictive. The writing's not even great.
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  It's not like it's funny or anything.
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  It's just. Really addictive.
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  Wild. Yeah, I know.
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  And I'm also still reading. I'm Sadaqam.
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  I know because the first book I was like, oh, I think Tor would
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  really like this. And then the whole second book
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  is basically, I mean, I don't think it's a spoiler to say, but
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  there's a lot of flashbacks to something about pregnancy loss.
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  It's like heavy as a big focus on it.
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  So if that's anything that's triggering for you at home or
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  Tor, no no no. I'm not going to read it.
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  No, I think it will make you. Sad.
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  Oh my God. Okay, fine, I'm not going to.
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  Read that. Yeah, no, but she maybe has some
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  other books I don't know that are like similar vibe, but.
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  Yeah, maybe I listened to her. Yeah, because it was really
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  good. I think you would have liked it.
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  Other than that, it's a shame, but yeah, what about you?
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  What are you up to? What are you reading?
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  What am I reading? I have three books on the Kurt
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  and then. Yes, you do.
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  Always always a three book girly.
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  So I am listening to Half City by Kate Gold on an audio and it
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  is. Sensational.
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  So many five stars of that. I'm really, really enjoying it.
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  It is like a bit like if Shadowhunters and Nightshade had
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  a baby with like a little bit of like sprinkling of like Buffy
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  sass. Like it's got that kind of like
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  90s naughties, like gritty, do you know what I mean?
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  It's just, it's just really enjoyable.
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  The chemistry between the FMC and the MMC is really good.
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  Really like tangible, like you're really like invested,
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  even though I wouldn't say it's particularly, I normally only
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  kind of feel that type of chemistry if it's really good
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  slow burn and enemies to lovers. Not always, but I usually need
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  that kind of like tension. But it isn't even particularly
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  like that. There's just like a very good
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  like natural chemistry between these characters.
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  Interesting story, kind of mysterious.
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  I'm really, really enjoying it, and bonus that it only actually
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  recently released, but we're already getting the second book
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  in October, so that's great. I'm also reading Reckless Vow, I
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  think it's called, which is the second book in that Diamondback
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  Ranch series that I've been reading really good.
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  She actually a bit like Elle Kennedy.
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  There's like a deeper undertone to things, which is nice, even
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  though they're cheesy, fluffy, spicy.
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  And the proof that I'm reading is called If Books Could Kill by
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  Kate Ebel. I never know how to pronounce
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  her last name. It's her debut novel and it's
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  this like weird blend of genres because it's like a romance book
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  mixed with a thriller with like this kind of like sprinkling of
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  magical realism in it. So basically it's about this
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  woman who accidentally makes a wish to become the like female
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  lead or the main character in her favorite or romance authors
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  next book. And she obviously doesn't know
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  she's making an actual wish. The wish gets granted, but the
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  author is actually writing a thriller.
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  Oh no. So it's really good.
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  It's really fast-paced, like it jumps in so quickly into the
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  story, which is really cool. Like I said, very, very
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  fast-paced. And it's actually really funny
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  as well. I've really been laughing out
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  loud in bed, which is really an annoying Kyle, why he's trying
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  to read his deck. So that's really singing June.
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  I obviously haven't finished it yet so it might end up not being
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  as good as what I think it is right now, but at the minute I'm
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  about 40% of the way through. I feel physical books take me
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  longer because I don't read them in bed as much, which is my main
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  reading time, but so far I'm really really enjoying it.
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  Sounds for my current reads. It sounds good.
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  It sounds very original and different.
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  Yeah, Which? We all.
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  It's a good time. Yeah, yeah.
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  So obviously that's what we've been reading, what we're
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  currently reading, but there's also been a lot of stuff going
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  on in the general bookish space while we've been away.
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  There's so much like new news almost like constantly.
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  I feel like every time we do videos for you guys, there's
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  further stuff to update you on, so we're going to go through
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  some of that now. So first of all, we'll probably
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  have a little bit of old news by now, but we got the teaser
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  trailer for the next season of Bridgeton and we pretty now sure
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  it's going to be Francesca's season, obviously.
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  Yeah. How do you feel about that?
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  I I'm not that asked about Francesca as a character.
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  Yeah, like I do like her, but I feel like I'm not.
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  I'm so intrigued by Eloise this season.
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  I wanted it to be Eloise this season.
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  However, in saying that Francesca season has Francesca
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  Story has already been kind of arching over two seasons anyway,
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  so it makes sense for it to be her season next.
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  But I think just because I want it to be Eloise this season so
• 19:46
  badly, I was a little bit disappointed.
• 19:49
  Yeah. But I am excited for Francesca
• 19:52
  season. I think it's gonna be good.
• 19:53
  I'm very curious to see how they're gonna manage it between
• 19:58
  Scotland and London, like how the other characters are gonna
• 20:01
  kind of stay in it. Yeah, I'm intrigued by this
• 20:05
  because I've never read the books.
• 20:07
  You've read some of the books. Some of them, but not up to this
• 20:10
  point. Yeah, and a lot of the girls in
• 20:11
  our friendship group have read the book, so they kind of know
• 20:14
  what's coming. Whereas I really go into these
• 20:16
  seasons blind. And I'm excited for Francesca in
• 20:20
  the sense that I really love her as a character.
• 20:23
  I think she's so relatable. But I also was really hoping for
• 20:27
  Eloise because Eloise is my favorite character in the whole
• 20:30
  show. And I just do feel like we've
• 20:32
  had we've had so much of her as a side character.
• 20:35
  I really want to see her as the main character now, but I am
• 20:40
  intrigued to see how they actually how much they do with
• 20:44
  Francesca in this season versus Eloise.
• 20:46
  I feel like we may get the start of Eloise's story in this.
• 20:49
  Season. I mean, we always do, don't we?
• 20:52
  So especially because like you said, we've already had two
• 20:54
  seasons basically of Francesca, like how much are they going to
• 20:58
  kind of drag out the next phase versus maybe it'll be like a 75%
• 21:04
  Francesca, 25% Eloise sort of thing.
• 21:06
  I am also intrigued by how they're going to approach her
• 21:10
  romance, like Francesca's romance, knowing that in the
• 21:13
  books it is a man and obviously in the show they have made her
• 21:19
  lesbian, which is great. But there's a there's an element
• 21:22
  of her story. And I won't give spoilers for
• 21:24
  anyone who doesn't know anything at all and doesn't want to know
• 21:26
  anything for all for anything at all.
• 21:28
  There's an element of her story that is quite specific to a male
• 21:32
  and female relationship, let's say.
• 21:35
  So I'm intrigued to see where they take this.
• 21:37
  I do. I'm really hit and miss with
• 21:39
  Bridgeton in general. I would say like I either love
• 21:42
  the seasons. You're really hard to please
• 21:44
  with TV and film though. I don't think I am, but do you
• 21:48
  think I am? I'm just really easily pleased
• 21:50
  by. That to be fair I do I do love
• 21:55
  season 2 now on rewatch. I didn't love season 2 at the
• 21:58
  time but season 1 and the latest season which was.
• 22:04
  I just have the biggest girl crush on the actress that plays
• 22:07
  Kate Sharma. Like I am so obsessive.
• 22:10
  When I found out she's going to be in The Devil Wears Prada too,
• 22:12
  I was like frothing at the mouth.
• 22:14
  That's so funny. Like that kind of stuff doesn't?
• 22:17
  I would swing sides for her. Interesting.
• 22:20
  And actually I feel like that about Zendaya.
• 22:23
  Like if Zendaya is in something, I know I'm going to like it.
• 22:25
  Yeah. But anyway, so there's like two
• 22:28
  seasons that I love, one season that I like, and then one season
• 22:32
  I didn't like at all, which is Penelope and calling.
• 22:34
  Sorry guys. Just don't get.
• 22:35
  It I know I didn't get that so it could go either way.
• 22:39
  Yeah, I think regardless, with Bridgeton, whether you like or
• 22:45
  don't like the season, you love watching it.
• 22:48
  Yeah. Do you know what I mean?
• 22:49
  Well. It's just also, it's like not
• 22:50
  even just the actual romance story, it's the dynamics of the
• 22:54
  family and like the visuals and the music.
• 22:57
  Yeah, exactly. It's just an experience.
• 23:00
  Like when I think of Penelope and Colin's season, I think of
• 23:03
  the like orchestral version of the Pitbull song.
• 23:05
  Like I just play something here in my head.
• 23:08
  Even now I love it. Yeah, literally.
• 23:10
  And obviously, like for me last season, we got a Paramour cover.
• 23:13
  Yeah. So I was like, in my element.
• 23:15
  That's all I think of now. So yeah, it's it's just an
• 23:18
  experience as a whole. And then, sticking with
• 23:21
  trailers, we they dropped the trailer of A Practical Magic
• 23:26
  too. I think this looks really good.
• 23:30
  So do I, I think it's gonna be amazing.
• 23:33
  It definitely raised a few questions for us, didn't it?
• 23:35
  Yeah, about, but none of us have ever read the books, have we?
• 23:38
  No, I don't think anyone in our book club has No I.
• 23:41
  Think like most people don't even realize they are books.
• 23:44
  Yeah. And there's like four or five, I
• 23:46
  think. Yeah, I think there is a lot of
• 23:48
  them. Yeah.
• 23:49
  So we don't know. Maybe we should read them.
• 23:51
  Maybe we should. I don't know where the story's
• 23:53
  gonna go, and the trailer made it seem like the character
• 23:57
  wasn't in it anymore. I know which is so sad but do
• 24:00
  not love the actress choices for the daughters.
• 24:05
  I was like, I see it, I. Can't remember who it is now.
• 24:08
  It's the girl that played Are you Stark, isn't it?
• 24:13
  And who's the other guy? Is it?
• 24:17
  Get it up. I'm going to get it up.
• 24:19
  Get the deets. I thought one of them was Joey
• 24:21
  King. Oh, maybe it is.
• 24:24
  Who are the actresses playing the daughters in Practical Magic
• 24:26
  to? Yeah, Joey King and Maisie
• 24:28
  Williams. OK, so Maisie Williams.
• 24:31
  Fine, yes, Joey King. I was a bit like Oh dear when
• 24:34
  they cast her because all I can think of is the kissing booth.
• 24:39
  I so and I don't feel I don't really know about their act.
• 24:42
  I mean, Maisie Williams is a phenomenal actress and I and I
• 24:45
  really, really like her. But I just seeing them visually,
• 24:49
  I was like, it just made sense to me that they were playing
• 24:51
  Sandra Bullock's daughters. Do you know what I mean?
• 24:53
  Like visually was my was more where I was going with it.
• 24:56
  And they made Nicole a redhead again.
• 25:00
  I do you know what Nicole Kidman is one of those women's life
• 25:03
  such a girl crush on her. I love her.
• 25:05
  I watch anything, everything. I literally watch if I see her
• 25:09
  in something I go click. I'm like that with Julia Roberts
• 25:12
  as well. You're going so off topic right
• 25:14
  now. Julia Roberts goes platinum in
• 25:16
  my household. I love her.
• 25:18
  We love her. Yeah, she's Whitney's favorite
• 25:20
  actress ever. Really.
• 25:21
  Yeah, and Sandra is that was actually mine until a few years
• 25:24
  ago. I really like Sandra Bullock,
• 25:26
  but everyone always used to say I look like her and one of the
• 25:30
  places I work they used to call me.
• 25:33
  They used to call me Tall Bullock.
• 25:36
  I mean, that's better than what I got from an Uber driver once.
• 25:38
  Once, which was Latoya Jackson. But going back to the actual
• 25:44
  trailer itself, I think we can safely say or we will be
• 25:47
  watching that. One 100%.
• 25:49
  In other bookish and film news, The Summer I Turn Pretty has
• 25:54
  finally started filming. It's wild to me that everyone's
• 25:57
  been watching this show for years and I literally found it
• 25:59
  last summer when everyone started season 3 and I like
• 26:02
  binge the whole thing in like a week.
• 26:04
  But that was good for you, because you meant you didn't
• 26:06
  have to wait. It was so good.
• 26:07
  I watched it season by season. Obviously I've read the books
• 26:10
  when I was younger, so I'm really intrigued by the film
• 26:14
  because it didn't end the same way the books end.
• 26:16
  Now we get like an alternate or sort of added ending from this
• 26:21
  movie, whatever it is, so. Is it then that the film is
• 26:25
  likely going to be all new content?
• 26:28
  Like not from the books? Because there isn't the books
• 26:32
  vaguely kind of end where the show ends.
• 26:34
  No, not the same, but kind of in the same kind of space.
• 26:37
  Kind of, but the books allude to a few things after.
• 26:41
  OK, if I remember correctly, because it's been a long time
• 26:45
  since I read them, like 15 years.
• 26:48
  But I think the movie potentially is going to feel
• 26:51
  like an epilogue. Yes.
• 26:54
  Like bonus content. Yeah, wrapping it up nicely.
• 26:58
  Yeah, so it's going to be like a nice cheesy film.
• 27:01
  I think so, but dependent sprinkling of drama, Yeah, maybe
• 27:04
  they'll change it and they'll add drama in for the for the
• 27:08
  attention. But I'm just happy as a Conrad
• 27:11
  girl. Yeah, that it should.
• 27:13
  Give us more, Conrad Belly. Listen, anyone that is a
• 27:17
  Jeremiah girl has serious issues in that opinion.
• 27:22
  Yeah, I can't, guys. It should have put you off him
• 27:24
  when he did that dance in Season 1, to be honest.
• 27:27
  That should have been the turning point where you were
• 27:28
  like. They're just not made for each
• 27:30
  other. He's I don't know if he that
• 27:32
  character. I could kind of understand,
• 27:36
  here's my thing with this kind of thing, I can understand if
• 27:39
  it's coming from a book and they read the book and you connect
• 27:43
  more with a, with a character in a book because you're kind of
• 27:47
  creating the chemistry in your mind.
• 27:49
  Whereas with the TV series, anyone that ever just watched
• 27:53
  the TV series. What I can't understand is there
• 27:57
  was no chemistry between those characters as the as actors kind
• 28:01
  of thing. Like you just couldn't.
• 28:03
  There was nothing there between them in my opinion.
• 28:05
  Whereas with her and Conrad, it was like, Oh my God, this is
• 28:09
  phenomenal. Yeah, and I will say in the
• 28:12
  books, I don't remember Jeremiah being that annoying and that
• 28:16
  cringe. Yeah, I was firmly Team Conrad
• 28:19
  the whole way through the books and was fuming like when I
• 28:23
  thought they weren't going to end up together.
• 28:25
  Yeah, but I did still like Jeremiah as well, whereas I feel
• 28:29
  like in the show they really kind of hammed up his like,
• 28:32
  cringe. Yeah, and they made him a bit of
• 28:34
  a villain, whereas I think you don't really see that in the
• 28:37
  books until the 3rd book where the conflict starts.
• 28:39
  But yeah, I'm just excited to have more more, hopefully more
• 28:44
  Belly and Conrad scenes. I know it's gonna be so good.
• 28:47
  So he's sticking with more book to screen adaptation news?
• 28:50
  Yeah, we had two new announcement in recent weeks.
• 28:54
  Neither of us have read this series but the Kindred Kerr saga
• 29:00
  which is Spark of the Ever Flame.
• 29:03
  That's had a fourth and final book announcement, which is
• 29:07
  coming in September, but it's also getting a book screen
• 29:10
  adaptation. And I hadn't heard this until
• 29:13
  Tor mentioned it. And like she said, we've not
• 29:15
  read the books. So let us know in the comments
• 29:17
  if it is something that you think we should read.
• 29:19
  Everyone tells me to read this series.
• 29:22
  Everyone. A lot of mixed comments.
• 29:24
  I've seen not a single negative review about it.
• 29:27
  A. Lot of people say the female
• 29:28
  main character is the most I've. Seen that actually.
• 29:31
  Yeah, apparently she's like a lot of people say, like the
• 29:34
  worst ever which could. Ruin it for me because like that
• 29:37
  ruined. I'm looking it up at it because
• 29:39
  I know it's there, but the Scarlett Sinclair look, Greek, A
• 29:43
  Touch of Darkness series. Persephone is horre.
• 29:45
  Yeah. Like I loved all of the Hades
• 29:47
  perspective books because that was so interesting.
• 29:50
  But her as a character, I found her really frustrating.
• 29:54
  However, in saying that, I don't judge before I read because I
• 29:58
  would say most of Book Talk and Bookstogram don't like Nestor,
• 30:03
  but I really felt like a deep connection with Nestor's
• 30:07
  character. Like she's got a lot of trauma
• 30:09
  and a lot of issues, and I think I've really connected with that
• 30:11
  about her. So everyone that found her
• 30:14
  annoying and a bit like, well, you just don't get her as a
• 30:17
  character. So I definitely don't judge
• 30:20
  before we read and we don't judge I do.
• 30:25
  So I feel like I would definitely read it myself before
• 30:27
  being like, I'm not going to read it because everyone thinks
• 30:29
  she's annoying. Yeah, I can't lie, those
• 30:31
  comments have put me off just because they've come from like
• 30:34
  mutuals as well, whose book tastes I have very similar to.
• 30:37
  And like, I've never really seen core characters annoying or
• 30:39
  anything before, so that just put me off a little bit.
• 30:43
  But in general, I probably still will give it a go at some point,
• 30:46
  especially if it's being made into an adult.
• 30:47
  I'm going to read it this summer.
• 30:49
  Well, you let me know what you think.
• 30:51
  Yeah, though if tall who loves it, I'll probably hate it.
• 30:53
  That's not true with fantasy. I feel like we had one recently
• 30:57
  with fantasy but I can't think what it was now.
• 30:59
  Like maybe the end of last. Year or I feel like it's a bit
• 31:01
  more like will she won't she but we'll see yeah obviously you
• 31:06
  know yeah what I think of. It and we'll keep you guys
• 31:09
  updated as well on that reading journey, but I can't say it's a
• 31:12
  priority for me this year. Yeah.
• 31:14
  The other series that we got news about screen adaptation is
• 31:19
  TL Swans Mile High series. I know that you haven't read
• 31:22
  this and to be honest with you, I don't actually think that you
• 31:24
  would like the books, but I love this series.
• 31:29
  You might actually like them, to be fair.
• 31:33
  So nice. Aren't they building?
• 31:34
  Yeah, they are. I love a billionaire romance.
• 31:37
  It's just like I just love to live in that La La land.
• 31:40
  That not that I'll meet a billion next and very happily
• 31:42
  married, but I don't know, maybe some distant uncle will die in
• 31:46
  Kyle will become a millionaire. Like, that would be really cool.
• 31:51
  But no, it's a really, it's a really great series if you like
• 31:54
  that kind of thing. And it's she as an author, her
• 31:57
  writing is really funny. Like laugh out loud, crying with
• 32:01
  laughter at some of the things that happened in these books
• 32:03
  funny. And it's being made into a TV
• 32:06
  show, so it will be like a season per couple, so.
• 32:10
  And it's about four brothers. So that's very exciting news for
• 32:13
  me. That is very exciting.
• 32:14
  Do we know who's adapting that? Like is it Amazon?
• 32:17
  I cannot remember. OK, for the life of me I cannot
• 32:19
  remember. Because I feel like I.
• 32:20
  Should start writing those things down when I plan this out
• 32:23
  for us. I was just going to say the
• 32:24
  reason I was asking because I feel like Amazon are doing a.
• 32:26
  Lot of Amazon as doing loads, but also so is Netflix.
• 32:30
  You know, they're doing all the LC silvers and so there's there
• 32:34
  is so much good TV coming over the next.
• 32:37
  The next couple of years, yeah, they're finally getting really
• 32:39
  good. The idea of like, we want to see
• 32:41
  these stories on screen instead of the same old things rehashed
• 32:45
  a million times. What did they remake recently
• 32:47
  that was like, not again, surely?
• 32:49
  I think it might have been Willy Wonka.
• 32:50
  And I was like, come on, it's been done.
• 32:51
  Three times as well the Timothy 1.
• 32:54
  Not cool. Not cool at all.
• 32:57
  OK, so this one, I know that you've got strong feelings on
• 33:00
  this, so we're going to take this lightly, ease her into it
• 33:03
  because she's very stressed about this situation.
• 33:06
  Oh my God, I know what it is. So they have made their castings
• 33:11
  for Emily Henry's Beach Read adaptation and they have cast
• 33:17
  what's their names? Daphne, so and so.
• 33:20
  Phoebe. Oh, Daphne is that character
• 33:23
  which? Is Phoebe Divina and Patrick
• 33:27
  Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger?
• 33:30
  Schwarzenegger. Yeah, I'm not happy about it
• 33:33
  guys, I can't lie. Have I gone in an off campus
• 33:35
  style rant criticizing their looks?
• 33:37
  No, but do I now understand the way some of those people felt at
• 33:41
  the time? Maybe.
• 33:42
  Do you know what Phoebe, when she was cast I was like, oh
• 33:45
  she's not really visually how I imagine the character, but she's
• 33:48
  a great actress. I'm intrigued to see what she
• 33:51
  does. I'm sure it will be great.
• 33:53
  I'm sure she'll bring the character to life in a great
• 33:55
  way. I personally saw her funnily
• 33:57
  enough more as Daphne from Funny Story, which is Emily Henry's
• 34:02
  other book. Like I would have put her as
• 34:04
  that character based on just her visuals.
• 34:08
  Patrick he he could not be further away from how I imagined
• 34:14
  Gus and Beach Read is one of my top romances of all time.
• 34:19
  It made me sob. The only thing that beats it is
• 34:21
  Emily Henry's other book Happy Place.
• 34:23
  So I feel passionately about Gus effort and just everything about
• 34:28
  them doesn't really match to me. Like the visuals, the
• 34:31
  personality, Patrick's style of acting.
• 34:34
  So I've seen him in a couple of things.
• 34:36
  I don't think I've seen him in anything.
• 34:38
  Yeah, I can't think of the things I've seen him in.
• 34:41
  You won't have seen him in White Lotus season 3 if you know you
• 34:45
  know in that he is literally the biggest like frat guy just
• 34:50
  cringy American like Republican style college like just slimy.
• 34:57
  But he is acting. He is acting, but we'll come to
• 35:00
  that. And obviously Gus is like this
• 35:04
  sweet. Yeah, emo, kind of introverted,
• 35:08
  a little bit nerdy. I imagined him like, like, tall,
• 35:12
  broad, rugged, a little bit broody, like, yeah, Do you know
• 35:16
  what I mean? That's basically I imagined him
• 35:18
  to be a little bit older than what Patrick looks in the
• 35:21
  pictures that I've seen of him during the casting news.
• 35:24
  I. Actually imagined both of them
• 35:26
  to be slightly older given that it said like it'd been years
• 35:29
  since they'd seen each other at college.
• 35:31
  They now had these successful best selling author careers.
• 35:34
  I'm sorry. They both are like late 20s
• 35:36
  early 30s at the most so I would have preferred actors in their
• 35:40
  like mid to late 30s. I was thinking mid 30s, yeah.
• 35:43
  I feel like in romance particularly, they like to age
• 35:46
  people down quite a lot. I don't know if it's something
• 35:48
  to do with they think older people are less desirable.
• 35:50
  I don't know but I feel like most people don't feel that way.
• 35:55
  But yes, I imagined him the same.
• 35:57
  Rugged he's described as dark hair, olive skin.
• 36:03
  A lot of people wanted to see a person of colour.
• 36:06
  I would have loved to have seen a person of colour.
• 36:08
  I don't think he's explicitly described that way.
• 36:10
  So it I had some fan casts that weren't people of colour like I
• 36:14
  thought. Did you watch Ransom Canyon?
• 36:16
  Yes. You know the the guy, what's his
• 36:19
  name? Like the fit cowboy.
• 36:22
  That's not Josh. What's his name?
• 36:25
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The dark haired one.
• 36:27
  Yeah. I imagine like him, someone like
• 36:29
  him. OK, interesting and not how I
• 36:31
  imagined him, but yeah. Also interesting, he was one of
• 36:35
  the people I had written down for him.
• 36:37
  And then also, how else did I have, oh, when a lot of people
• 36:42
  like Logan Lerman and I also had the guy that was from
• 36:46
  Shadowhunters that people find cast as Azrael.
• 36:50
  Oh yeah, I know who. Didario yeah, something like
• 36:53
  that. Is that his name?
• 36:54
  Something like that. You guys know who we mean.
• 36:56
  But Patrick, he's a nice looking man.
• 37:00
  You can't deny it, but he's not that character.
• 37:04
  He's so all American looking. I do sometimes wonder though
• 37:07
  that is it because they've put 2, they cast her and then
• 37:11
  they're shortlisting for him and actually their chemistry
• 37:15
  together. Well, that's what they said, is
• 37:17
  it? Oh, is it?
• 37:18
  Exactly what they said is it. Yeah, I swear to God, I did.
• 37:20
  Not know that that's what they've said in a statement
• 37:22
  because I feel they did basically a statement because I
• 37:25
  feel like they knew people were going to be unhappy.
• 37:27
  Yeah. And one of the things as well is
• 37:29
  that Fabian Frankel, who is from House of the Dragon, he had had,
• 37:35
  like, an Instagram story with the script.
• 37:37
  So people thought he was going to be Gus.
• 37:39
  And he's, again, that same sort of dark hair, tan skin, like,
• 37:43
  very fit, the vibe. And people were very excited
• 37:45
  about that. And then it's not him.
• 37:47
  But the biggest thing that a lot of people are annoyed at,
• 37:51
  probably including myself. Yeah, I can't lie.
• 37:52
  I am annoyed at this. Patrick is MAGA right wing.
• 37:58
  I know. He's had some controversies as
• 38:01
  well. That's not who I want playing
• 38:05
  Gus because Gus is like, to me, the opposite of that.
• 38:08
  Yeah. So it's just like, I wish they'd
• 38:11
  picked someone who more embodied the character.
• 38:14
  I know that in an ideal world, maybe this was like 15 years
• 38:18
  ago, politics wouldn't come into it because politics was less
• 38:21
  extreme than right. Like you could have, whether
• 38:24
  it's in the UK and it'd be laboratory or the US and it'd be
• 38:27
  Republican, Democrat, you could get along with people from
• 38:31
  different political opinions. But I feel like now it's past.
• 38:33
  There's so much more of a divide, yeah.
• 38:36
  So now I'm like, I'm not too happy about that so.
• 38:40
  Reading and watching is political.
• 38:42
  It is we take that stance. We do.
• 38:45
  I also look like brother and sister.
• 38:46
  I can't lie. Do you think?
• 38:48
  Yeah, they look really simple, I mean.
• 38:49
  I don't find him to look at him. I can see that he's not
• 38:52
  obviously ugly, but I don't see him as attractive at all.
• 38:55
  And in my head, like Gus was really attractive and a lot more
• 38:59
  rugged looking. I mean, I'm intrigued.
• 39:01
  Obviously we're all going to watch it anyway, but we're not
• 39:03
  happy. You're not happy with the cast?
• 39:04
  I actually might not watch it because I kind of.
• 39:06
  Want to stop? You have to.
• 39:08
  No, because I also didn't like people we meet on vacation and
• 39:12
  so I'm also just at the point now.
• 39:13
  Wait until you see the trailer at least.
• 39:15
  Yeah, I'll make the decision on the trailer, but I I don't think
• 39:18
  I'm going to like it. And guys, I found out that
• 39:20
  Jennifer Lopez is producing Happy Place.
• 39:24
  I'm not happy about that. I'm not.
• 39:27
  I'm switching off from the Emily Henry adaptations.
• 39:29
  They're going to stay sacred books in my mind.
• 39:31
  Oh no, Oh my God. OK right.
• 39:33
  Swiftly moving on before she has an aneurysm and sports very
• 39:38
  months news. We've got the full trailer for
• 39:41
  Off Campus, which is very, very, very exciting.
• 39:44
  Yeah, that does look good. Yes it does.
• 39:46
  It looks really good. Insane.
• 39:48
  And we got season 2 renewed before it even aired.
• 39:52
  Yes, which I'm very excited. But, and since probably you've
• 39:55
  planned this, I don't know if you've seen this, they've cast
• 39:57
  Grace. Have.
• 39:59
  They they've cast Grace literally saw this last night
• 40:02
  and she's perfect. She's really perfect.
• 40:06
  Oh my God, I'm going to need to. I'm going to need to look that.
• 40:08
  Up and I'm pretty sure she's British.
• 40:10
  British. British, Why are we putting on
• 40:12
  British accents? We are.
• 40:13
  British. I just have to say it how the
• 40:15
  Americans say it. But yeah, I'm pretty sure she
• 40:18
  was British and she looks visually very close to how I
• 40:21
  imagine the character. Oh amazing, that's very
• 40:23
  exciting. And we're getting all 8 episodes
• 40:26
  at once. See, I do love a weekly release
• 40:30
  where you have something to look forward to.
• 40:31
  Like, you know, somewhere I turn.
• 40:33
  Pretty, yeah, I know what you mean.
• 40:35
  But I do feel like it's going to be so good to binge this.
• 40:38
  Yeah, but I've got no willpower. I'll get through it in 2-2 days
• 40:42
  and then I'll be like, what do I watch now?
• 40:44
  Well, we're actually Brunty and I are getting together the day
• 40:48
  after release for something very exciting, and she's actually
• 40:57
  gonna have a sleepover and we're gonna watch some Yeah on the
• 40:59
  Thursday night, aren't we? Which?
• 41:00
  Is very exciting, will be very. Forget to experience it
• 41:02
  together. Yeah, so let's hope I don't hate
• 41:05
  it guys, but no, I don't think I will cause the trailer looks
• 41:07
  very good. Yeah, we've also got Heated
• 41:10
  rivalry Season 2 confirmed. I think they might have actually
• 41:13
  started filming now too. I don't know if I saw that or
• 41:16
  not. I think I have.
• 41:17
  I think what I saw is that they are they are starting filming
• 41:22
  this summer. Yeah, and it should be coming
• 41:23
  out in early 2027, right? That's what I've seen.
• 41:26
  I'm so excited for this. Season 1 was like 6 stars for
• 41:30
  me. Like I absolutely loved it.
• 41:32
  You've still not seen it, have you?
• 41:34
  I watched the first episode and I didn't really get into it but
• 41:36
  everyone has said to me you need to give it at least 2 episodes.
• 41:39
  Yeah, it's a slow burn. Yeah, it is.
• 41:41
  And it's quite different to other things.
• 41:43
  But then you will love it. I think episode is it episode 3?
• 41:47
  I think it's episode 3 that will make you sob.
• 41:51
  Oh God. My problem is is like I don't
• 41:53
  watch much TV. Like TV that I have to like
• 41:55
  actually sit and watch. I don't watch much of it.
• 41:58
  Like typically the tvi have on at home is reality TV as
• 42:03
  background noise while I'm podcast planning or I'm doing
• 42:07
  admin for the kids. Like so I don't watch that much
• 42:10
  TV but I will at some point sit and watch it.
• 42:14
  Yeah. Do you not watch TV while you
• 42:15
  work? No.
• 42:17
  Oh see, I watch a lot of TV. If I have something on in the
• 42:20
  background because I'm doing like administrative work, then
• 42:24
  it's reality TV because it needs to be stuff that I can zone out
• 42:27
  of. Yeah.
• 42:28
  But I would say 80% of my work is being in meetings.
• 42:32
  Oh I could never guys. I could absolutely never.
• 42:35
  I had a full day of meetings on Monday.
• 42:36
  This is so off topic, but I had a full day of meetings on
• 42:39
  Monday. That rarely happened to me.
• 42:40
  I want to die by the end of the day.
• 42:42
  That is my life. Yeah, that is my life.
• 42:45
  OK, so some book news. We also saw that Rebecca Yaros
• 42:51
  has officially announced that she is writing the next book in
• 42:55
  the Imperium. So she well she started book 4
• 42:57
  is what she announced. Since then, some very eagle eyed
• 43:01
  people have noticed on Amazon, I think it was on Amazon, that
• 43:07
  there is an Empyrean potential novella set for release this
• 43:12
  September. So that's, that's quite
• 43:14
  interesting, very exciting for some of us.
• 43:17
  There has also been a big announcement from the Twisted
• 43:20
  Sisters. There has yes, we are getting a
• 43:24
  Christmas Zodiac Academy book, right Yeah.
• 43:27
  So it's going to be like in the style of an advent calendar as
• 43:30
  well, 25 chapters, so you can read like a chapter a day over
• 43:34
  Christmas or December specifically, which I think it's
• 43:36
  such a cute idea. Yeah, but it's coming out in
• 43:38
  October. Who's waiting that long?
• 43:40
  Is it? I think it's coming out in
• 43:41
  October. I'm sure that's what I saw on
• 43:43
  the Amazon post. I will not be waiting that.
• 43:45
  Long. There is no way I can wait that
• 43:47
  long to read that. It's gonna be really nice to be
• 43:49
  back with those characters again because.
• 43:51
  Seems to be talking about them a lot.
• 43:52
  Yeah, we do seem to be talking about them a lot.
• 43:54
  It's a lot of Twisted Sisters talk going on weird.
• 44:00
  I'm very excited to be back those characters because I
• 44:02
  actually feel like it feels like ages since Zodiac finished.
• 44:06
  Ages and it is. They have confirmed it is.
• 44:09
  It's not like a random Christmas thing like during the stories.
• 44:13
  It is set after the events of Restless Stars.
• 44:18
  I'm really excited and I always love it in general in their
• 44:21
  series when they do like seasonal things.
• 44:26
  So, you know, like in Ruthless Boys, there's a Christmas scene
• 44:30
  in Zodiac Academy. Well, they do the snowball
• 44:32
  fight. It's just good vibes.
• 44:34
  It's always funny when they do like events.
• 44:36
  So if Christmas is in it, it will be cute.
• 44:38
  Yeah, 100% and we'll love it. I mean, if I can hold off
• 44:41
  reading it until December, I'll be absolutely amazed.
• 44:44
  Yeah, So final bit of news, we have some actual sort of bookish
• 44:47
  event news for people who are in the UK next year.
• 44:51
  There's going to be a huge event called Readers and Rebels.
• 44:54
  So we're going to tell you a little bit about that.
• 44:56
  Yeah, it's going to be based in Wales.
• 44:59
  It's being hosted by some amazing people from within the
• 45:03
  bookish community, which is amazing because then we know
• 45:07
  that it's really coming from a place of genuine bookish
• 45:09
  interest. And we have also already been
• 45:13
  privileged to have heard some very exciting whispers about
• 45:16
  who's going to be attending. So make sure that you go and
• 45:19
  check them out, follow them on their socials for all the latest
• 45:22
  updates. There is a form for interest for
• 45:26
  vendors and authors available to sign up.
• 45:28
  So we'll see you in Wales 2027 and we'll.
• 45:32
  Put the link to their socials in the description so you can find
• 45:35
  it below. Yeah, so you might have noticed
• 45:37
  in this episode that we've been a little bit suspicious.
• 45:41
  We've been. Teasing a few Easter eggs.
• 45:44
  Much like 2 authors who also love an Easter egg, we have a
• 45:49
  very, very special surprise for you coming up.
• 45:52
  We're actually going to be interviewing.
• 45:54
  Drum roll please. The.
• 45:56
  Twisted Sister, also known as Caroline Peckham and Suzanne
• 46:01
  Valenti, the authors of Zodiac Academy.
• 46:05
  Obviously, if you've been here for a while, you know that that
• 46:07
  is the book series that basically made us friends and
• 46:10
  started our whole book top journey, so we're really excited
• 46:13
  for. That this is absolutely like
• 46:16
  huge mega for us. I know I'm an emotional girl,
• 46:19
  but I genuinely get emotional to the man because it just feels
• 46:21
  like for us, and we're going to, we'll talk about this a bit more
• 46:24
  in next week's episode, but this feels like a very full circle
• 46:27
  moment for us as people and creators.
• 46:30
  So we're so, so, so excited. So again, please make sure that
• 46:34
  you remember to follow and subscribe to our channels to be
• 46:38
  in with the first bit of knowledge to know when the next
• 46:41
  episodes have dropped. We've also got a bonus episode
• 46:44
  planned for next week. So you're going to get extra
• 46:47
  doses of us in May because before we interview them, we
• 46:50
  want to do a full roundup of our love of Soda Academy, the Solari
• 46:54
  universe, all the other books. We'll go into a bit more of our
• 46:57
  origin story as creators and podcasters and how this series
• 47:02
  has impacted us as people. So again, please make sure to
• 47:06
  follow, subscribe, like join us. We're so excited for this and we
• 47:11
  cannot wait for you to see this interview.
• 47:13
  So we hope you enjoyed today's episode and the little bit of
• 47:16
  news that we've shared, and we'll see you next week for
• 47:19
  another episode. Bye.