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Summer wrapped 🌞 | Books we loved, reads that disappointed us, and more! 📚 · Gorls Unplugged

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  Guys, we are back. It is season 2 of Girls
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  Unplugged. Your favorite girls are here.
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  We have taken a little break over summer, which we'll get
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  more into in a minute. But we just want to say please
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  don't forget to like, share and subscribe.
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  We're on YouTube and Instagram, TikTok and Spotify, but let's
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  get into today's episodes. I do.
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  You know what? I really wish I could say that
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  we well that I was feeling recharged after the summer
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  break, but I am not. I spent six weeks at home, seven
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  weeks at home with children and I feel fried.
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  Devils at you. Yeah, I mean, also my summer was
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  kind of chaotic towards the end as well.
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  But I guess despite our chaos, we did do fun stuff.
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  And the main reason for me, or like what I was doing in summer
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  was it was my 30th birthday, obviously a pretty big birthday.
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  I'm also a Leo so I do like to celebrate.
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  A lot. And I have family and friends
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  here, there and everywhere. So I always do like multiple
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  celebrations. So that was really fun.
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  All the stuff. I was just working really, to be
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  honest, like a lot of my summer was just working.
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  And then towards the end of the summer, we do have a few like
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  family crisises, but things are much better now, which is great.
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  So I'm good to go. But yeah, tell us about.
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  Stuff together. We went to headline.
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  We went to the headline Eternal Meet Cute fest which was great
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  fun. Gosh, that feels like so long
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  ago. Literally feels like month.
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  Well, it was months ago now. Yeah, it was July, I guess,
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  right? Yeah, yeah.
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  But the Meet Cute Fest, if you guys haven't seen it before on
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  TikTok, it's like a publisher event.
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  It's all to do with romance books, headline romance books.
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  It's such a fun time. They always have like loads of
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  cute snacks and activities and like they invite loads of
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  people. So it's nice to see mutuals as
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  well and meet new people. We met new people this year,
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  didn't we? We met.
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  Kids we. Met friends.
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  So yeah, it was a nice time. But yeah, that was way back in
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  July. That was my first time going,
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  actually. But just going into his chef's
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  head office, I was like. Oh yeah, the year before.
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  I did not go the year before Carmen Boy.
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  I had to pull out last minute. But yeah, I the the the thrill
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  in me at seeing like, do you remember when we were in the
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  waiting room and I could see that Quercus and I was like,
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  there are copies of Soul Searching waiting.
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  In. Office to be read.
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  Yeah, yeah, it was. That was so much fun.
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  And I also went to the Siren summer party for Penguin Michael
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  Joseph, and that was also so much fun.
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  Got to make a cowboy hat, guys. That was pretty epic, actually.
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  That was a great thing I did this year.
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  I'm jealous. Of that one, That one looked so
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  fun. It was, it was really good.
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  But for me summer was very much obviously childcare.
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  Zola, it was her first, first proper summer holidays.
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  So we were here there and everywhere.
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  Different holiday clubs, she tried, dance camps and all sorts
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  of different things, all while trying to juggle work.
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  So it was a lot of craziness. We went away, we went Centre
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  Parks, which was lovely. And yeah, we just, I think we
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  just decided didn't we like trying to film between
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  everything going on was not going to be feasible.
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  But we are back and so excited to be back coming, excited for
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  what's to come for the year for us.
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  We've actually been talking this morning about different things
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  that we want to do and we're really excited to share it with
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  all of you. Yeah, we have so much fun stuff
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  coming. But also though, if you guys
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  have ideas of what you would like us to film or things that
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  you're interested in that we've done before that you'd like to
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  see more of, let us know in the comments because we're always
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  open to your guys ideas as well and we.
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  Have noticed that you like our episodes on drama, so we're
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  going to we're going to bring more of book top drama to Girls
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  Unplugged. But anyway, aside from what we
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  got up to, obviously we're readers, we still love to read
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  even in summer when we're busy. So we're going to do like a
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  little mini catch up of what we've been reading as well and
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  tell you guys some of the things that we love, some of the things
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  that were disappointments. Love to hear as well your
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  favorite and least favorite reads.
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  Because I'm always looking to bump up my TBR, although it is
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  pretty crazy actually. At the moment the physical TBR
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  is out of control. But Tor, why don't you start
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  with a book that disappointed you?
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  A book that unfortunately disappointed me this summer was
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  Rein Me In by Caleb Gross. Gross.
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  I don't know how to pronounce her last name.
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  Obviously, we all know I love a cowboy romance.
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  It just didn't. I could couldn't even tell you
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  what about it it was. It just didn't hit the nail on
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  the head for me, but I was so excited for it.
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  So yeah, I felt, I felt a bit disappointed by that one, which
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  was a shame. Yeah, mine is also similar, like
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  not cowboy romance, but small town romance.
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  And that was book 4. Or was it book three, book book
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  four and five. I think of Sparrow Falls series,
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  like both me and Tor have been reading these and in one way
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  they're really good and in another way they're just quite
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  frustrating. They're very addictive and
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  fast-paced because each book has this like suspense thriller
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  subplot which makes you page turn.
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  And so they're super quick and easy to read, especially when
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  you're having like a busy chaotic time and you just kind
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  of want something mindless. But each book is so similar to
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  the last. It kind of follow this very set
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  formula and only the characters change and and there's there was
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  one book in particular, which was I think is it book three
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  that's. Cope.
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  Yes. Whichever book is the is the one
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  about the brother Cope and he's the hockey player.
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  That one was just a little too far cringe for me.
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  And so I did start to get a bit disappointed with this series
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  and I actually had another big disappointment actually, which
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  was Fairy Dale. I had been, yeah, I had been so
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  looking forward to this because a lot of my mutuals love it and
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  a lot of people that like gothic romanticy or dark fantasy
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  recommend it, which is my shit. So I was like, Oh my God, I'm
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  going to love this book, guys. I should have DNF to that book.
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  I didn't DNF, but I should have. It was so long.
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  For what reason? Like it could have been halved
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  that it was so slow. And I feel like sometimes that's
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  fine, like we let the Twisted sisters get away with that all
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  the time because we love them. But when it's especially like
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  for a first book in a series, some some people just get away
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  with it and some people don't, unfortunately.
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  Yeah, well, it's a stand alone, but it's like 900 pages, which
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  so you could have done multiple books really.
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  But also like say for example with the Twisted sisters, they
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  have filler, but that filler is often funny or it's romance,
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  it's spice. But this was just like nothing.
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  That was just like nothing. And the the main characters, all
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  three of them. So annoying.
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  Oh I feel like I'm just going to strike this off my physical TBR
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  then. I didn't know.
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  And yeah, I don't know if you'll like it.
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  I mean. So hard to tell with us, isn't
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  it? Because we can think sometimes
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  that we're both going to love the same book, or both?
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  Or one of us is going to hate it and it ends up being completely
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  the opposite. Yeah, it's really hard to
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  predict. And it did have certain things
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  in it that were good, like the gothic atmosphere was great, the
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  setting was great. I'm not.
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  Typically like a gothic lover, though, to be fair.
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  Anyway, am I like realistically like most of the gothic books I
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  tried to read, I don't end up loving like the only like gothic
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  fantasy romance kind of book that off the top of my head I'm
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  like, I love that was the Belladonna Hollow heathens like
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  oh, hollow heathens. Yeah.
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  I feel like that's different though, because it's a bit
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  that's more like and that's more like supernatural kind of it
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  gives because it's like real world.
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  It's it's. This is similar to.
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  That I think, OK. Because it's set in like, I
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  won't give too much away. It's set in the real world,
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  Southern America. It is in the, IT is in the 50s,
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  but it's it's. Real world, OK.
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  And it's like she moves away. Though at some point then isn't
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  your view. I don't know, probably I think,
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  and you're quicker at reading than me, so you might not.
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  Because like, part of the reason I begrudge when I finish a book
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  that's 900 pages and loads of it could have been caught is the
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  fact it takes me so long to get through.
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  Yeah. Whereas it's like if you're
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  reading it quickly you won't have maybe that issue.
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  Yeah, OK. It won't be top of the TBO, no.
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  If you've read if you've read Fairydale, let us know what you
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  think because I feel like I am. I see people on TikTok
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  constantly raving about it but then when I reviewed it on my
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  Goodreads like when I crossed it off, I saw so many bad reviews.
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  So all I've. Seen on socials is people really
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  liking it. Yeah, it's interesting, but.
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  Never. There's never been anything
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  about it that has had me like chomping out the bit to pick it
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  up. Even though people have enjoyed
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  it. Nothing that I've seen about it
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  has made me think I need to read that.
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  Yeah, yeah, I I also don't think you'll love the love interest,
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  so there's that. Is he blonde?
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  Yeah, you know me so well. Yeah, because I was like,
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  really? There's not many blonde love
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  interests that I like and normally when they're only ones
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  that I do and normally twisted Sisters characters.
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  For me, it's either like they actually have silver hair and
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  their Faye or Dusty Tucker. That's really the only ones I
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  can think of. Leon Knight.
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  Yeah, but I no, not really. I love him as a character, but I
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  don't he's not like a book boyfriend.
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  Like I would want to be with him if he was real.
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  Oh. My God he that if he was a real
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  life person he could definitely like laugh me into bed 100.
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  Percent. He would drive me up the wall.
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  Not those kinds of. People.
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  No, a crime would be committed. Oh, wait until you read.
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  Wait till you read Dartmore. Anyway, we digress.
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  We digress. So two books that you love to
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  this summer. Yeah, I actually so the first
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  one I only just read so it's technically kind of an autumn
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  read ish, but it's still so hot guys, it's 26° today are.
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  We going to are we going to allow this?
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  I'm not sure I'm going to allow this if you just finished it.
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  Please I say just finish. It was technically in August.
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  Fine, fine, fine, we are in autumn so you might as well be
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  recommending it to people now anyway.
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  Technically I read it in August actually, so it's fine, but this
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  is A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandana.
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  You might have. Heard of her?
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  Or the book The Very Secret Society of a Regular Witches.
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  If you like romance, if you like romancey, you have to read these
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  books. They are perfect.
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  It's like so cozy and whimsical and funny.
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  This one was really actually quite funny.
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  But it also had like a lot of stuff about depression in this
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  one and it was really well done and it made me quite emotional.
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  Tons of fun family. Yeah, this was a five star for
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  me. So that was one.
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  And then I, yeah. And I've also actually started
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  properly reading a series that tall loves, which is The Crowns
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  of Nyaxia. So I had read, I think either
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  last year or the year before I'd read Serpent in the Wings of
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  Night. But now I've gone on to books
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  two and three and the novellas. Loving this series.
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  Really, really like it. Which is funny because I did not
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  like Daughter. No words, but I really like
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  this. Oh, I love that.
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  I love this journey for you and. It's all influenced by you.
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  So my favourites of the summer have got to be, I say
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  favourites. I've got 3 and I'm really
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  struggling to pick so I might actually just give 3 because
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  they're three that I just I've really enjoyed over summer.
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  The first one is Rewind it Back by Liz Tom 4D.
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  It's the last in the Windy City series, although we are going to
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  get like a spin off, stand alone and a spin off series.
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  I believe from the last book. I know one is confirmed I don't
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  know about the other. Just like second chance the
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  found family dynamics in Windy City if you love the playing for
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  keep series because that found family dynamic like Windy City
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  is amazing and rewind it back was like emotional and wholesome
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  and just adorable. I loved it.
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  And then fantasy books, I read the second book.
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  We've already talked about Twisters.
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  This is so much that I'm in the Twisters binge at the moment
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  because of this book. Book 2 in the Sins of the Zodiac
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  series, E4. It was just so much fun, so
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  chaotic and interesting. And I am dying for Cinder Vale.
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  I don't know, I think it doesn't come out till like April maybe
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  but that was really good and I'm loving this new twisted sisters
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  like world. And I also read a book that
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  people have been screaming at me to read.
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  Honestly I can't even tell you for like 2 years and that is
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  Secrets of the Dead by Laura Carter.
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  Oh, yes, yeah. I really really enjoyed it and I
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  actually jumped straight into book 2 as soon as I finished it.
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  I had to pause because of proofs that I was reading, which was
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  actually E4 and then that send me on this Twisted Sisters binge
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  that I haven't got off since. It's really good, a very unique
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  world. It's I don't even know how to
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  describe it. It has like romantic elements,
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  but I would definitely put it more in it's more plot driven
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  than romance driven for sure, even though there are lots of
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  kind of like romantic plots going on all over the place.
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  But it is like an adult fantasy with romantic subplots, really
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  interesting plot. And it's just, it's it's
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  original. Like I didn't pick it up and
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  then go. I wasn't instantly comparing it
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  to this book or that book. Whereas my brain almost
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  instantly goes into this book is the love child of this and this.
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  Do you know what? Yeah, where my brain always
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  goes. And of course it has similar.
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  There's it's impossible to write something completely unique in
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  this day and age, but I do 100% recommend it to anyone wanting
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  to pick up a a new fancy series where you're just going to feel
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  like it's new. Yeah, it knew 100 million times
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  in that sent those sentences, but it just it's really, really.
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  Enjoyable. Yeah, I need to read this.
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  So for those that don't know, it was actually our book club pick
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  of the month, which was what led Tor to finally read it.
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  And I was supposed to read it too, but at the time I was not
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  buying Kindle books. That ban is now over, so I will
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  be reading it and maybe once I've read it we can do like a
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  full review and tell people all about it.
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  But I think I remember, maybe I dreamt this, but I think you
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  said at the time like the balance of romance to fantasy
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  felt a bit like thrown glass. Yeah.
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  And I don't know what happens later in the series.
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  I can imagine the romantic looks because there is there is a
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  romantic element in there. That's the tension.
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  Brewing like. Brewing and palpable by the end
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  of the book and you're like Oh my God it's like a true there's
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  like this like true like enemies to lovers kind of like plot
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  waving through and I just think the way that it starts is so
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  good. Literally in the 1st, 1st
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  chapter, all there's like 4 kingdoms and all of the rulers
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  from all of these kingdoms go to one meeting in this like central
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  place and they all die. That's the start of the book.
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  So like all these like spare heirs become the rulers of their
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  Kingdom and that's the start of the book.
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  And so it just instantly you're like what the fuck is going on?
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  Like, yeah, really, really fantastic read for me this
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  summer. I actually had a book that was a
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  really pleasant surprise over summer as well.
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  Like you know when something's not on your TBR and then don't
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  reason it for whatever reason with like no expectations.
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  Yeah. Really pleasantly surprising you
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  that happened to me. So my one of my best friends,
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  Kaz, she's a massive reader. We grew up reading together, but
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  she's recently like the last couple of years got back into
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  romantic specifically got a Kindle Unlimited subscription
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  and she was like, oh, like I've got nothing to read.
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  Like I've read all these books, like all the big KU romances.
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  Girl has read them. OK.
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  I cannot keep up with her. So I was like looking through my
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  read list or want to read list on Goodreads.
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  Like what can I help her with when she's someone that's read
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  more than me? And I saw Oz doc few and I was
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  like, Oh my gosh, I've seen this book like a few people have
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  talked about it and elite reading Laura on TikTok.
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  She talks about it quite a lot. Have you read Or's Dark View?
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  And she was like, no, but that sounds really good.
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  I'll read it. And then she read it and she was
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  like, Oh my God, that was so good.
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  You have to read it. So I was like, OK, let me read
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  it. And it's like dystopian romance,
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  but it is so good that I think even fantasy and romancey lovers
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  will love it because it's like enough dystopian to like scratch
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  that itch. But it's not too much where it's
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  like just completely sci-fi or dark.
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  It's not that dark or anything really.
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  It really reminded me of Divergent.
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  OK. Mixed with Savage Lands, which
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  is a series that I read back in like 2021 and really enjoyed,
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  It's essentially about this girl who wrongly gets sent to this
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  prison in this dystopian world and the prison's underground.
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  And it's like properly brutal. So she manages to persuade the
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  captain of the guard to teach her to fight so she can defend
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  herself. Obviously you know where this is
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  going, you know. I love that he trains her trope
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  as well. It's like one of my absolute
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  faves. Fame and he's so good like he
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  has a great love interest he yeah yeah you just I.
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  Know start of a series. Start of a series.
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  There's two books out right now, so I don't know if it's a
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  completed duology or if that's ongoing.
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  I haven't gone on to book 2 yet, but I gave it 4.5 stars, which
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  is quite high for me and and it's super short.
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  It's like barely just 300 pages. It's So if you want something
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  that's like going to get you out of a slump and it's on KU, this
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  is a really good what about you? I will say in August I did read
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  the Autumn book of 2025 and that is Soul Searching by Lila Sage
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  for all our rebel Blue Ranch stands that we know watch this
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  because basically just our friends watch this and they all
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  love her. I read Soul Searching in August.
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  I was super lucky enough to get a proof from Quercus and it was
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  just everything I wanted it to be.
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  It was like all the amazing like romantic plot that we get from a
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  Lila Sage book. But it has, if you don't know,
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  it's still like a Western romance.
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  So it's not Cowboys, but it is still like small town and it's
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  set in a ghost town. And the lead character, she can
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  see and speak to ghosts. So it was a cozy romance, but
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  there were some bits in it that were actually like really
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  creepy. Like there was this one bit
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  where I literally was like as I was reading it.
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  So it was just, it was such a fun read and I want everybody to
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  read it this autumn because I've got loads of people I want to
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  talk to about it with everyone. And I think it comes out like
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  30th September end. Of this month, very soon.
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  It's my next read. I have a copy as well.
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  I'm dying to get to it. That pun wasn't intended, but it
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  kind of worked. I will say I don't necessarily
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  trust Tor when she says it's spooky.
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  Suddenly had her gasping because with peace and love, she's a bit
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  of a wimp. I'm such a Pansy.
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  I will be the judge of that, yeah.
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  No, there was a bit that was genuinely crew fit.
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  I was like. We need to talk to our friend
• 21:45
  Amy about this because she's read it too and she's seasoned
• 21:49
  horror fans. So I'm going to ask Amy if it
• 21:51
  was spooky. It was.
• 21:54
  She was saying, I think we actually might have spoken about
• 21:55
  it. And she was like, no.
• 21:59
  Yeah, I told. When you get there, trust me,
• 22:02
  you'll know it is creepy. OK, OK, I'll, I'll let you guys
• 22:05
  know. I'll keep you updated.
• 22:09
  OK, Speaking of cozy season, we here we've made it.
• 22:15
  I mean, I am not so much of A cozy season die hard as Bronte
• 22:20
  is like I do love autumn, but I have this like love, hate
• 22:24
  relationship with it because I love the aesthetic.
• 22:28
  I love the food, I love being cosy and warm, but I am a
• 22:32
  sufferer of SAD like dark mornings, the changing seasons,
• 22:38
  cold temperatures, like shorter days.
• 22:40
  Mentally I struggle at this part of the year.
• 22:43
  So I kind of have this really weird love hate relationship
• 22:46
  with autumn and I do just love the vibes of of summer.
• 22:49
  But there are lots of things that you get excited for.
• 22:53
  All the like good cosy season books are coming out.
• 22:57
  What are you excited for over the next couple of months?
• 23:01
  I feel like the simple question would be, what am I not excited
• 23:04
  for? Because like Tor says, she has a
• 23:07
  bit of a love hate relationship with Autumn.
• 23:09
  Mine is a love love relationship.
• 23:12
  I absolutely love. From September to Christmas is
• 23:16
  when I thrive. I just love everything about
• 23:20
  this time of year, from Halloween to just like General
• 23:23
  Autumn. Yeah, absolutely obsessed.
• 23:26
  One of my favorite things about it is the books obviously, but
• 23:30
  also movies as well feel like we get a lot of like darker,
• 23:35
  grittier, like horror based things which don't feel
• 23:39
  appropriate to read in the summer or watch in the summer
• 23:43
  seasons. Almost like for that, I also
• 23:46
  love autumnal food, you know, like everything is just like
• 23:50
  cinnamon Chai. Which I love.
• 23:53
  Part of my love hate with it for sure.
• 23:55
  Yeah, we both love those kinds of things, like Chai latte from
• 23:59
  Gale Gales, like so good. And then books, obviously I
• 24:05
  really like turn into sort of witchy and vampiry things at
• 24:10
  this time of year. So I get really excited to do
• 24:12
  those. It's typically when my reading
• 24:15
  turns from like romance based to fantasy based for the
• 24:18
  second-half of the year. So I'm very excited for that.
• 24:21
  I'm really excited for all of it.
• 24:24
  I am excited for all those things.
• 24:26
  I just, for me, the love hate comes with like the love is like
• 24:30
  the whole like aesthetic, the food, the books, the clothes,
• 24:34
  like I love all of that stuff. I love like Ultimates.
• 24:37
  I love it when it's a bit crisper in the morning and like
• 24:39
  just like the scenery when you're outside and in nature.
• 24:43
  I absolutely love that. The hate just comes from more of
• 24:47
  like a, I'm a morning person. So like waking up to the dark in
• 24:51
  the morning, I really struggle. It is just one of those times of
• 24:54
  the year for me, like this transitional time where like my
• 24:56
  mental health normally dips a little bit while I'm getting
• 24:59
  used to it. Like the kids routines kind of
• 25:01
  fall out of a bit of whack. And so it all gets a little bit
• 25:04
  much at this time of year, but there is like at least a nice
• 25:07
  offset. And obviously this year I get to
• 25:09
  go to Mexico for two months. I mean two weeks or two months.
• 25:13
  Imagine. You kept that one quiet.
• 25:16
  Two weeks, so at least I get to like top up on my vitamin D like
• 25:20
  a part of the way through autumn.
• 25:22
  Sad that I'm missing Halloween and the kids are missing
• 25:24
  Halloween. But yeah, a hoe.
• 25:27
  But I am, I am super excited. All things, you know, pumpkin
• 25:30
  spice in my head. I want to do loads of baking
• 25:32
  this autumn. I don't know why I'm not or even
• 25:34
  a Baker, but I'm like this year I'm like, I'm going to do it.
• 25:37
  Like I'm going to bake. I'm going to watch Gilmore
• 25:38
  Girls. It's going to happen.
• 25:39
  I'm going to least try and at least do season 1 and see how I
• 25:44
  feel about it. But yeah, I'm, I'm so I'm so
• 25:47
  excited for spooky season. So what is coming for us towards
• 25:53
  the end of the year? Bronte tell people well.
• 25:55
  We have loads of episodes planned.
• 25:58
  Obviously we hope to get more content creators on, like we had
• 26:02
  Smitty before. We're hoping to get more of
• 26:04
  them. We have one potentially come in
• 26:07
  like lined up to interview who is someone I absolutely adore.
• 26:12
  It's like. We did realize that for Girls
• 26:15
  Unplugged, the both interviews we've done so far have been with
• 26:18
  men. So we're bringing a girl on this
• 26:19
  time. Guys, we're bringing a girl.
• 26:20
  Otherwise, we're going to have to change our name to men.
• 26:23
  Unplugged. We're not.
• 26:26
  We're not about the men around here.
• 26:27
  No girls. Yeah.
• 26:30
  So, yeah. So that's one thing.
• 26:32
  And then we also have some fun episodes coming up.
• 26:34
  We definitely want to do 1 expanding on autumn even further
• 26:38
  and give you our favorite autumn book recommendations.
• 26:42
  And then we also want to kind of dive back into current topics
• 26:46
  that are on book talk and like trending topics and dive more
• 26:49
  into those as well. You guys seem to really enjoy
• 26:52
  the off campus video and the video we did about that.
• 26:56
  So stuff like that would be fun for us to keep doing, and I
• 27:00
  think we're going to try and do some buddy reads as well and
• 27:03
  like dive into those. Yeah, 100%.
• 27:06
  I think there are we like we're still hashing out like exactly
• 27:09
  what everything looks like. Obviously this is still new to
• 27:12
  us and we're finding a rhythm, especially being back after the
• 27:15
  summer. But like we said, you know,
• 27:17
  there's been, of course there's been book talk drama over
• 27:20
  summer. So we'll we'll dive into that
• 27:23
  and hopefully like more content over on our like social media
• 27:27
  platforms. So you just get to bit see a bit
• 27:29
  more like snapshots of us, maybe some like Christmassy plans
• 27:32
  together. And we were going to try and
• 27:34
  keep this one short today. God knows how long we've been
• 27:37
  doing it now, but we should probably wrap it up.
• 27:41
  Yeah, 100%. But we are, we're loving being
• 27:44
  back. We hope that you enjoy
• 27:47
  everything that is to come for the rest of the year.
• 27:50
  I think we mentioned at the beginning, but don't forget to
• 27:53
  share like subscribe, let us know what else you want to see.
• 27:56
  We've only got like maybe 3 episodes fully planned out for
• 28:00
  the end of the year. We've got other ideas.
• 28:02
  But if there are things that you do want to see and hear from us,
• 28:05
  you know, points of contention in books or of course, specific
• 28:08
  book recommendations that you want, make sure that you drop in
• 28:11
  the comments or send us Adm. We absolutely love to hear from
• 28:14
  you guys. And yeah, we'll see you in a
• 28:17
  couple of weeks.