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Spicy Romance Book Recs: Q3 Reading Guide · Two Girls, One TBR

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  Hey book babes, welcome back to 2 Girls 1 TBR, your chaotic book
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  besties. Here to wreck your reading list.
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  1 morally Gray man at a time. Now, before we dive into all the
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  spicy goodness and dark goodness we have planned for quarter
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  three, we have some bittersweet but super exciting updates about
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  the show's lineup. As we step into season 4, you're
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  going to notice the main rotation looks a little
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  different. Our absolute favorites, Heather
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  and Chelsea are stepping back from their weekly main episodes,
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  but they are absolutely not gone.
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  They are officially our bonus chapter besties for right now.
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  They'll still be popping up for special segments and guest
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  appearances, so you'll definitely haven't seen the end
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  of them. But for this new chapter comes
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  brand new era for the show. I am so incredibly thrilled to
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  introduce my permanent partners on this podcast, making their
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  very first appearance today. Katie, Kirstie and Jess, they
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  are here to help me tackle this massive TBR list and I cannot
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  wait for you all to get to know them.
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  Girls, welcome to the main rotation.
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  So why don't you all take a second and say hello and let
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  everybody know you know a little bit about you or what you're
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  currently reading? I'll go first.
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  So yes, my name is Katie. I absolutely love where I read a
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  little too much. My mom thinks I have a little
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  bit of an obsession. I have 6 kids and I adore them
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  and they drive me crazy. I started something really fun
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  with reading this month. For the month of June I am doing
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  nothing but rereads trying to figure out how I got to the like
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  the books and the genres that I read now.
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  So I'm I'm calling at my origins of a reader journey.
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  So I went, I went way back to where like literally on on
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  Kindle Unlimited, you can find this by the way, it's actually a
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  fun thing to do if you're a KU user.
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  But and went back to like the first books that I purchased and
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  borrowed and started rereading them.
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  And then I realized there's no way I can get through all of
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  these books. So I started skipping ahead and
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  like genres. So when I, I would read one book
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  from a genre and then, you know, move on and and so on and so
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  forth. So I've DNF Ed a lot of things
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  that I loved and I have gotten into things more that since I've
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  started this. So it's been it's been a fun
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  thing. So that's what I'm doing for the
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  whole month of June. Well.
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  That's neat. What book did you find that you
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  thought you absolutely loved that you did DNF?
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  What was something that you that you thought was the greatest
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  thing? And now looking at it different
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  eyes, what do you what would you say?
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  OK so I didn't absolutely love it but OK.
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  Honestly the the witching hour that series by Anne Rice.
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  So at the time I loved it and it was fantastic and really enjoyed
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  it. Then like this time I DN napped
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  it because I have forgotten just how weird it gets.
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  If anybody's read it like Anne Ryan still like she is out
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  there, she is an out there reader and I read Sleeping
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  Beauty's Punishment. I read it the first time and
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  read it all the way through the second time.
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  I was like I can't believe I actually read this and had a
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  anything positive to say about it because it is freaking
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  horrible. So isn't that weird?
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  You know how like you'll read something and then in hindsight
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  and you go back and it's it's not the same feeling and the
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  same vibe you had the first time around.
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  Oh my gosh, yes. It's it's been crazy, but it's
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  super fun. And I have rediscovered like my
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  love of vampire romance. So that's been fun.
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  Oh I do love a good vamp. Well right now I'm reading
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  Kingdoms of Silent Sorrows by AG Harris and that has vampires in
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  it and it's very good so you might want to try that one out.
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  Yeah, if it's got vampires or monsters or anything paranormal
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  or like Academy based, I'm so here for it.
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  This one's good and she has book 2 done and it's at the editor,
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  Book 3 she's working on right now and it's going to be, I
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  think she, I'm from remembering what she told me the other day,
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  five books. So it's really good.
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  So that's fantastic. All right, Kirsty, let's hear
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  about you now. So what are you doing?
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  Hi, I'm Kirsty, if you want to find me on Instagram, I go by BK
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  dot reads under score. I'm currently OK.
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  So I'm currently in Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
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  I do have a funny accent. I'm from Australia.
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  My accent is a little bit different for everyone else's,
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  however. Each week I'll probably be
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  popping in from a different location because my husband and
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  I are about to drive the Pan American Highway.
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  So that goes all the way from Alaska to Argentina, which is
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  pretty cool. That's a little bit about me.
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  I read anything and everything in all honesty, and you'll
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  probably see that when I come with you from what I read each
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  week to week. Today I actually just finished
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  this one, which is the lighting is terrible. close to You by
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  Anissa Renzo, which I know Rebecca will hate because it's
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  classified as YA. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Yes, absolutely. However.
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  Nothing against, I'm not yuking you're young but.
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  I know, yeah. Not.
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  Normally no, no, not normally can I either.
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  However, I don't know if I'd classify it as YA it's it's
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  definitely clean. There's no.
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  But it was. It was.
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  Your sound effect that was so. I'm sorry, Kirsty, could you do
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  that one more time? I didn't hear it very well.
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  I don't know if I could do it again, I'll try anyway.
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  I love. That you did it again, that's
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  amazing. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry. Yes.
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  So it's clean, but there's no it's very deep and emotional and
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  I've don't think I've ever cried as much in a book as I did in
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  this. It's very traumatic.
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  A little bit dark if you will, but contemporary dark.
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  Not dark like Fucked up. Not dark like.
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  OK. But yes, so.
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  She did you. Finish it or are you still?
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  No, I no, I finished it today. I haven't yet picked up another
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  book because I'm too distressed from this one.
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  Is it a stand alone or is it a series?
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  It will be a series. She's just finished writing it,
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  but this is so she indie published it in March and then
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  it pretty much automatically it straight away got picked up to
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  be tried published. So it's going to be
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  traditionally published to be released at the end of this
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  month. But we'll already be so probably
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  about when this comes out, it will be out in the world.
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  For everyone to read. The mark of a very good book,
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  though, is, you know, if you get that emotional moment, if you
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  cry for a book, that I've had books that have done that to me
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  and they have been absolute five stars for me.
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  If a book can draw that kind of emotion from you, you know it's
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  a good one. Yeah, 100%.
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  And I've never like at 6% of the way through this book.
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  I was crying like, that's to me. That's wild.
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  So she got me good. Would recommend if you need
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  something to destroy your soul a little bit.
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  All right, OK, Jess. So now let's see what what is
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  happening in your world. OK, hi guys, I'm Jess on
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  socials. I'm at turn the page with Jess.
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  I am reading. I have a small problem where I
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  read too many books at one time. So for my physical book I have
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  two physical books that I'm reading. 1 is the Blood Kingdom
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  by Kate Cunningham. It's like vampires first in a
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  trilogy. She's local to where I am in DC
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  so that was a really cool book to pick up.
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  I'm loving it so far. And then I also picked up a ROM
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  com by Amy Dawes called Wait With Me, which is really cute.
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  OK, for my Kindle I'm reading an arc called The Wild born by
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  Perry Torani. It's like sci-fi, dark romance,
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  paranormal. It's got hot aliens.
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  I'm here for it and I'm eating it up.
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  I know we had talked to Rebecca about me wanting to start
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  Crescent City because of the upcoming release and all that
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  jazz. I don't know if any of you guys
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  have also read Crescent City, but like what the fuck?
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  What the fuck has not all I have to say?
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  Are you beyond? You're beyond chapter 5 I'm
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  assuming? Yes.
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  Yes. OK, this is not.
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  Making me this is not making me want to read this.
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  No, no, in a good in a good way. It's it's the event that happens
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  in in the first book, and you're going to be chasing the fallout
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  from this event through the entire series through so, so, so
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  like all basically, like Bryce thinks she knows something or
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  she thought she knew something and she never really truly did.
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  And so she's chasing these answers all the way through, and
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  it is so good. It is so it's really good.
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  It's really good and I'm listening to the Graphic Audio
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  version and highly recommend. Highly recommend but.
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  I loved it. That's all I'm reading.
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  That's the moment. You do a lot.
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  I know I can't do that. I can focus my, I guess my mind
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  as I can focus on one book and one book now.
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  Right now I am doing something different than I or I I normally
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  read everything that's in a series all the way through
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  before I go to something different.
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  But I read Your Path is Sorrow by Parker A Garner, and then I
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  started reading AG Harris's book They're Kingdoms of Silent
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  sorrows before I got to what is it?
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  Your path is sacrifice because I have book 2 sitting here.
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  I just haven't gotten to it. But normally I do that.
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  I I can't do what you do. I can't I my mind?
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  Can't I have to follow the same thing now?
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  I mean, can you now? Is that like how all you are or
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  are you all besides Jess, as we know?
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  Are you just a one book person? I I can have a physical copy or
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  like a, a book of physically reading and an audio book.
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  I can do that, but I don't bounce around.
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  But I read to like I have like ADD for readers.
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  I read to turn my brain off. Like I don't like it when
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  something is emotionally compelling me in a book.
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  I'm like, why did you make me feel?
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  I didn't want to think about anything, you know?
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  Like I get pissed. So I could do 2 but they have to
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  be on different formats. OK.
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  Yeah, I did the same thing. So I have one for my eye holes
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  and one for my ear. Holes for sure.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Well, we're going to get you to read.
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  Well, you still have to finish Acatar.
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  You haven't finished it. Did your daughter, did she
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  convince you to read the next two?
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  Now this, Now the Christmas 1 doesn't sound.
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  I love that one. It's just.
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  A. Sweet little.
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  Book. So on on this since I'm doing a
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  rereading thing, OK and I read the first three AC guitar books.
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  I just didn't read anymore because I didn't love them.
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  But since it's June and I'm rereading after I finished this
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  Anita Blake series that is going on for freaking ever.
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  I can't believe I got through this many books the first time.
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  But after I finished that, which I'm going to be done with it
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  this weekend, I will read Acatar.
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  I'm excited. For you to get the silver
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  flames. Oh, you know.
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  That's the. So good.
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  It is the spiciest and Cassian and always just so good.
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  And the headboard, you, you will enjoy it, yeah.
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  Why is every every male character in a book named
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  Cassian is hot? Like there's like it's a good,
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  it's a good book name. It is a good book.
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  I noticed there's that name is popular and then Rune and a lot
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  of books I've read here lately. Rune Oh, wait till you meet Rune
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  Dannon, Prince of the Valbar and Faye.
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  Wait till you meet him. Oh my God, he's oh, he's so
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  delicious. I, I, I, I love him.
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  He's my favorite. Like a lot of people when they
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  read Crescent City, they love Hunt.
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  A lot of a lot of girls love him.
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  I'm I'm, I'm liking me some hunt right now, yeah.
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  I like how do you get to? Oh room Dannon though, girls.
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  Room, Damon. Oh.
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  Yeah, when he's in that altered state, we'll go with that where
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  he do have to. Oh, I know.
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  Do you know what? That is, and if there's A2 form
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  thing, I'm here for it. There it, there is he, there's
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  something that occurs that he does that he is in a different
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  state and he is cloaked. We're just going to go with
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  that. He's cloaked and someone else is
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  going to be cloaked. But I can't tell because she
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  hasn't read it. Neither of you.
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  But it's good. You need to read.
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  But but now wait till you get to Silver Flames.
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  It's going to give you more questions and more answers, as
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  the ACOTAR storyline goes. Then you have to read Crescent
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  City because if you don't read Crescent City when Book 6 comes
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  out, if you continue the journey because things happen in Book
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  3IN Crescent City, that gives you answers to Acatar but gives
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  you more questions in Acatar. Yeah.
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  Yeah. And so and I think a lot that's
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  going to come to play in Book 6. What do you think, Christy?
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  It's a big overlap as well. I remember when people like you
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  hear about it before you read the books, right?
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  Like it's hard to not hear about it.
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  And so many people were like, oh, there's a crossover, but
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  it's huge. Like it's not a tiny crossover.
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  It's a huge crossover. Like you can't ignore that fact
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  at our six. So many people are saying, oh,
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  you don't need to read it. Read Crescent City.
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  And I'm like, you're going to be missing so much information if
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  you read Crescent City. Oh, the things that happen in
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  Book 3, the crossover thing, it is such a huge thing that
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  happens. It's not like a little blib or
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  like a couple pages in the book. It's it's a very big.
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  To continue in six. Oh, I think so.
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  I definitely think it's going to play into Avatar 60.
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  Yeah, I have my theories, so prepare for that.
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  That's why you need to read this, so we can discuss these
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  things with you. Because I can discuss these
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  things now with Jess because she'll know what I'm talking
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  about and you don't know yet. And I can't spoil things for you
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  because they're such. Oh my God.
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  I mean, I don't know why, like some people, they either love
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  Crescent City or they don't like Crescent City Now.
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  It's very different than ACOTAR. It's, you know, you're in an
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  urban setting, you're in a modern setting.
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  You know, people have cell phones and guns and stuff, and
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  there's a lot of a lot more. It's not just human and Faye, in
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  this one, you have humans, you have Faye, you have shifters
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  that could be all kinds of shifters, you know, like lion
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  shifters and whatever. There's mermaids.
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  What else is there? Angels.
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  There's vampires. We'll see.
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  You should have started with that and then I would have read
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  it a long time ago. But it's good I but fin it you
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  have but you have to finish silver flames because the events
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  that happened in silver flames, you have to get context of that.
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  So it'll make it'll make sense in the crossover, if that makes
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  sense. Spoil.
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  Silver Flames if you haven't read.
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  OK, all right, well, my, I guess that's my daughter.
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  My son will be thrilled too. But here's, OK, here's the
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  caveat. If I read this book when I start
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  having a freak out at 10:30, somebody better be available for
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  me to talk to about it, OK? I, I can tell you well, Jess can
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  attest to this. When you read the first book in
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  Crescent City, you don't get very far in and it will alter
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  you, your thoughts because it's not you don't see it coming.
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  So just prepare yourself more. Not even a little bit.
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  So that's see, we have got her on board.
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  I'm so excited. Your daughter is going to be so
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  excited. I know, I know.
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  She, yeah, she was in here earlier and I was on the phone
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  or whatever and I'm and she's like, oh, are you doing your
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  podcast thing? I said yeah.
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  And because I told her, I said I think I'll read it.
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  She's like, Oh yeah, because she wants to do a reread too, so
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  I'll do it with her. Oh yes, I think you will enjoy,
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  I'm telling you. And then if you, because she
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  hasn't read Crescent City, she hasn't tried to read Crescent
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  City yet, tell her once you get done with your reread, then you
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  guys can both have that moment with Chris to say, because I'd
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  like to see how you both how you feel after you read that, that
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  part. Because we can tell Jess, we can
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  tell by Jess's face. Great, I say.
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  I will stock up the you know my emotional battery to have it all
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  drain out from. Yeah, I was shocked.
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  Yeah, it's a shocking thing because it's not something you
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  see coming. That's what I'm just saying.
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  And it and it's not what you what you'll see, You'll see.
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  So now before we get into the next part here because this is
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  quarter three, because today is our kick off to season 4.
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  So we are going to be talking about all the books that come
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  out for July, August and September.
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  And girls, there is a tremendous amount of good books coming out.
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  But first thing we're going to talk about though, even though
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  this is going to be, I'm not going to go through the whole
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  recipe, but as I always tell everybody, go to our Instagram
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  page and go to SIPS. This is our drinks that we are
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  having today. Now, Jess, you made one correct.
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  I did. I made the mocktail.
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  I made the mocktail OK. My God, look at the umbrella.
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  I'm a oh how. Cute.
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  I like that. This is so exciting.
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  It's a delicious, by the way, yes, it's very tart and just
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  it's perfect. It's perfection, so and.
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  The one that Jess is drinking, that is called the Midnight
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  Solace. So it is, it is very good.
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  And then now if you want the alcohol version or the alcoholic
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  drink that we have, because we always do both, because we know
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  not everybody drinks. There's the Crimson Crown, but
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  those will be available upon our up on the sips, on our
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  highlights. So this is awesome.
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  I'm so excited that you made it and.
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  I love the glitter. The glitter.
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  It's like I've never put edible glitter in anything and I want
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  to put it in everything now, to be honest.
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  Like I made my coffee and I was like, could I put glitter in
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  this? Maybe.
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  I probably. Will what color glitter did you
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  put in your drink? Did you match it with the drink?
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  So they had like silver, gold, pink and clear.
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  So I chose pink because it kind of like went with the colors
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  that were already happening. So yeah.
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  On Amazon now I've seen this, they have it, it's edible
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  glitter and it's either 799 or 999 a container and they have
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  like 20 some different colors that you can get.
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  Really. So you can be really fancy.
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  I need some so I can be fancy too.
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  Next thing y'all eating glitter roast beef and, you know,
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  glitter corn on the cob. My husband.
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  'S going to be like why is there glitter everywhere?
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  You're dazzling your vegetables. And we and we always have to
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  mention this though, because because people you have to make
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  sure it's edible food grade glitter.
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  Don't just put craft glitter in. This is not that kind.
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  This is edible food grade kind. So make sure you check that
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  before you put it I. I have AI have a question.
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  All right. What is your question?
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  It's a gross question but I'm going to ask it anyway for it
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  can't help it. Does it bedazzle your shit?
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  I'll let you know. It's.
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  Interesting. I will let you know.
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  I couldn't help. I mean, I gotta know like I'm.
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  That isn't very interesting because like like if.
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  You eat. Icing.
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  Like colored icing and stuff. It changes things so you might
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  have some sparkly poop. Great.
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  I mean, it'll be a. Magical experience.
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  Yeah, it will in so many ways. So thank you for starting this
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  journey for me. This is really not where.
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  I'm from. I'm here for you.
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  Conversation was going to go. Yeah, say I listen, I, I do live
• 22:46
  for a good awkward moment, like I will create them because I
• 22:50
  find them amusing. So, and it popped in my head and
• 22:52
  so I was like, I, I don't know. That is interesting, I hadn't
• 22:56
  thought about that, but Jess is going to have to let us all.
• 22:59
  I'll let you know and about. Firing minds A.
• 23:04
  Few hours. This is holy hosted.
• 23:10
  But no, so now you go. So now everybody go, you can go
• 23:12
  out and then and again we'll have an update and let just know
• 23:17
  when this cuz this will post this episode will be live two
• 23:21
  weeks after we've recorded here. So we will have the knowledge
• 23:26
  for everyone to let everyone to know.
• 23:28
  We'll put it in the, in the in the we'll.
• 23:31
  Put it in that it'll be in the in the the caption so everybody
• 23:34
  can know. We'll just say sparkles, yes or
• 23:38
  no? That's all we'll say.
• 23:39
  And then, and then. If you've listened to this,
• 23:42
  you'll understand what that means.
• 23:44
  Yeah, I would love to make a reel of this.
• 23:49
  Just this information. It's great.
• 23:52
  Oh God, the girls crack my heart inside and I love it so.
• 23:57
  Now and Kersey's. Now when years ago here, because
• 24:06
  we've been in our house for four years, we had lived in an
• 24:09
  apartment prior to that for five years and we were on the ground
• 24:13
  floor. So we had an upstairs neighbor
• 24:15
  and they were young. There were two two guys and they
• 24:19
  were step brothers. So one was in the front, one was
• 24:22
  in the backroom where the bedrooms were separated.
• 24:25
  The one the and he was, he was in, he was again, they were both
• 24:31
  very nice young men, very nice. They were always very nice to be
• 24:34
  all that kind of thing. Well, the one he, he has his
• 24:36
  girlfriend and she moved in for like the last year that they
• 24:40
  lived there and we would hear the motion in the ocean and it
• 24:45
  was and it was loud. And I don't know if they
• 24:52
  realized how loud the the springs were.
• 24:56
  And so I seen his stepbrother and I, I was talking to him and
• 25:00
  I'm like, I'm like, honey, can you, can you tell him that their
• 25:04
  their motion in the ocean? We all can hear it every single
• 25:08
  time they do this. Oh.
• 25:10
  My. God, yeah, I don't think they
• 25:12
  cared because then the ocean and the motion, it continued for up
• 25:17
  until when they moved out. You should, man.
• 25:21
  Oh, better you than me, because if it was like a normal thing,
• 25:26
  I'd either be like, I would applaud or Boo afterwards.
• 25:31
  I mean, just to make sure that they knew well.
• 25:35
  I I wonder something. I mean, because if we could hear
• 25:38
  them, I'm assuming they could hear us anything we were saying
• 25:43
  and stuff because we would say because we would hear them or
• 25:46
  different times. Like I had to go up and talk to
• 25:48
  him because like they had not the common sense button.
• 25:51
  You know how some people lack that?
• 25:53
  Like he would start playing his video game right above our head
• 25:58
  and he had this, we called it the Titanic chair and he would
• 26:02
  turn like this and go and it would like do this real loud
• 26:06
  sound. And I had to go up and talk to
• 26:07
  him multiple times. And I'm like, honey, I will buy
• 26:10
  you a new computer chair. I will buy some WD40 for you.
• 26:14
  I said, we're trying to sleep. They said you have to.
• 26:18
  And but thank God they, they were from Eastern Kentucky.
• 26:22
  So they were, they were very naive in many, many ways because
• 26:28
  like when they moved there, they went and looked at apartments,
• 26:31
  the one and he saw that like they were horrible areas.
• 26:35
  He took the keys and just threw them like out in a parking lot
• 26:39
  somewhere. He's like, nobody should be
• 26:40
  living here. I said, you know, they have your
• 26:42
  driver's license and stuff. They will charge you for
• 26:46
  throwing their keys away. He didn't care.
• 26:48
  But they went home every weekend.
• 26:50
  They drove from Louisville all the way to Eastern Kentucky.
• 26:53
  It was like a four and a half hour drive every weekend because
• 26:56
  that was before his girlfriend lived there because he had to
• 27:00
  get home to her. But they were interesting
• 27:03
  people. I had interesting neighbors.
• 27:05
  I have to tell you my Ear Hole book at the moment is it's
• 27:12
  called For the Fans. Has anyone read it?
• 27:14
  Oh. Yes, and it's about Step
• 27:19
  Brothers making money on only fans because they need some
• 27:26
  money and then we don't have. Money.
• 27:29
  Together, you know. OK.
• 27:32
  So I haven't I so I haven't read only fans.
• 27:36
  My son did. Yes.
• 27:38
  I know it's probably not appropriate topic with your
• 27:40
  children, but my son read it and he said, mom, have you read only
• 27:44
  fans? I said no and he tells me what's
• 27:46
  about. I said, oh, I got a wreck for
• 27:47
  you, so I have a wreck for you. Kersey.
• 27:49
  If you like only fans, it's called Pay Per Heart.
• 27:55
  Oh, OK. And I can't remember who wrote
• 27:57
  it, but it's a it's so why choose?
• 28:01
  And there are three, three or four guys.
• 28:05
  She ends up being there like social media manager and content
• 28:09
  manager and all of them are on like and only fans version but
• 28:13
  they have different things like one guy.
• 28:15
  Cooks. Another guy does like pottery
• 28:18
  and like woodworking and the other guy does a lot of other
• 28:24
  very unusual things with additional items, you could say.
• 28:30
  But of course they all do it naked and it's a fantastic.
• 28:36
  It's a good read. It's like a quick good read.
• 28:39
  It's not as like emotionally devastating as I heard only fans
• 28:42
  in, but it's a fun read. Yes, this book, it's it's
• 28:47
  interesting, but yes, I thought step siblings and motion in the
• 28:51
  ocean, but they're doing it together.
• 28:56
  So, you know, I'm having a great.
• 28:58
  Time I love a good taboo. I love a good taboo.
• 29:05
  Right. Very different from the clean YA
• 29:07
  that I've just consumed. You know.
• 29:10
  Yes. You had to go purify yourself
• 29:12
  and smut. It did I.
• 29:14
  Really. Yeah, that's.
• 29:17
  Right. Like how you're like pottery,
• 29:19
  woodworking, What I mean, because it would be wood and he
• 29:23
  was working his wood. Is that what you're saying?
• 29:27
  Yeah, well, like so they they do so each each thing has a or each
• 29:33
  guy has a thing that they do, but they do it naked, of course.
• 29:38
  And it's very like they insinuate things like the guy
• 29:42
  that cooks, he's like, I mean, he's making food erotic, if that
• 29:48
  makes sense. And the guy, the woodworking and
• 29:53
  clay guy, the pottery guy, obviously that could be very
• 29:56
  erotic in and of itself. Yeah.
• 29:59
  And then the other guy is just, he's just wild.
• 30:03
  He's just kinky as I'll get out so.
• 30:06
  But it's a good one. Very spicy.
• 30:10
  Well, have you guys ever seen the guy?
• 30:11
  Now, of course it's not. You can't see him.
• 30:13
  He doesn't. He's not naked, but he does
• 30:16
  videos on Instagram and he is cooking and that and he smacks
• 30:20
  the bread and the stuff like that.
• 30:22
  Have you ever seen him? Yeah, there's a guy on TikTok
• 30:26
  that does it not like you and you can see him and he does it
• 30:29
  shirtless. Well, yeah.
• 30:31
  Oh, no, no, no. You can see this guy.
• 30:32
  I'm just saying his Dick's not out, you know, because we can't
• 30:35
  see that on Instagram, You know, I think they would, they would
• 30:38
  ban him if his Dick was out. Dang it.
• 30:46
  Well, there's that, Well, did you see that?
• 30:47
  There's this, this one couple, they, they have been on
• 30:51
  Instagram on TikTok for a while. And they, they kind of portray
• 30:56
  themselves like very wholesome. Not I, I don't want to say that
• 30:59
  they're wholesome, but they do a lot of wholesome kind of content
• 31:02
  kind of stuff. And it just came out that a few
• 31:05
  years ago they had an only fans account and yeah, and it got
• 31:11
  leaked. And so all kinds of people got
• 31:13
  to to watch their videos for free online.
• 31:17
  Oh, free is not OK, Pay for that.
• 31:22
  But I said, why didn't they make money off of it?
• 31:26
  Well, they did on their only fan.
• 31:27
  That's why they were able to buy their new house.
• 31:29
  They got she's driving a Mercedes.
• 31:32
  You know, he's got trucks. They have all kinds of like toy
• 31:35
  vehicles, you know, like, you know, side by sides and stuff.
• 31:38
  And I never thought about it. I guess in my pure mind, I never
• 31:44
  thought about it. I just figured they were making
• 31:46
  a lot of money from TikTok or from, you know, being on
• 31:48
  Instagram. But no, that was they, they did
• 31:51
  it for a couple years. They made their money and then
• 31:54
  they stopped and they never said anything to anybody about it.
• 31:59
  And then somebody realized it was them and was posting it all
• 32:04
  over and they made a video and talked about it and said, well,
• 32:08
  you know, we did this. This was our thing.
• 32:10
  But they're not ashamed of it or anything like that.
• 32:13
  It's just what they did. My husband always says that we
• 32:17
  should have the book world. We should have our only fans
• 32:21
  book world and and read and things like that and have
• 32:24
  discussions and being with everything hanging out, I said.
• 32:28
  He said you'd probably make a lot of money, I said.
• 32:33
  Like we should just like, do like a podcast naked.
• 32:36
  Yes, he said. All men would love it.
• 32:39
  That's what he told me. I was like, I think all men, all
• 32:42
  men love anything where women are naked for the most part.
• 32:46
  I mean, we could be cleaning the toilet and they'd like that too,
• 32:50
  like. There's a girl if you have to
• 32:52
  look at she's up on Instagram. I, I think she's, she's
• 32:55
  fantastic. But she, she does read.
• 32:58
  She does read. She talks every now and then
• 33:00
  about books, but that's not her main niche.
• 33:04
  And it's it's your mom, your friend's mom, something like
• 33:08
  that is her name. She's based out of like
• 33:10
  Pittsburgh area and she hasn't only fans and she does naked
• 33:14
  yoga every Wednesday and stuff like that.
• 33:17
  And she always, you, you'll know it's her when you'll see her
• 33:20
  video. She's always walking down the
• 33:22
  steps in the morning. And now I have a whole lot.
• 33:25
  She has more than I have here and it they're they're, they're
• 33:30
  free ranging. So there's a whole lot of
• 33:32
  movement happening. So that's why she comes down the
• 33:35
  steps. So they're, they're moving
• 33:36
  everywhere. And her nightgown is always
• 33:38
  stuck in her butt crack. Yeah, what a dilemma.
• 33:43
  But she makes a lot of money. I'm sure she.
• 33:46
  Does what she does. You know, I've never even been
• 33:50
  on only fans. Like I've never even looked at
• 33:53
  it. I've seen some.
• 33:56
  I've never paid for any of it, but I've seen the people that
• 33:58
  haven't. I'm amazed by it.
• 33:59
  I'm like, good for them. I don't know if I could do it.
• 34:03
  We could do things. I could.
• 34:06
  Do feed things. I could do feed things.
• 34:09
  Smash. They like it.
• 34:10
  Like if you smash cupcakes and things like that I've heard.
• 34:13
  I think I could. I could sell my underwear.
• 34:17
  People buy your dirty underwear. I could do that.
• 34:20
  They like to buy your dirty socks too.
• 34:23
  That's like. Sparkly farts.
• 34:25
  Maybe I should look into that. Yeah.
• 34:29
  Well that one girl, she was an an influencer.
• 34:32
  She was doing the farts in the jar so much that she got
• 34:35
  hospitalized because she was trying to fart too much.
• 34:39
  I don't know how can you fart too much is my question.
• 34:43
  Maybe because she was forcing it?
• 34:45
  I mean, how high was that supply and demand to be like hospital?
• 34:49
  Must have been high or. No, I mean, think about that
• 34:54
  girls. There's a lot of options that we
• 34:56
  have that we just didn't realize.
• 34:58
  We just have to lower our bar, some baby in our minds and we
• 35:03
  could make bank. And now ethics.
• 35:10
  Oh my God. But Jess has now she has the new
• 35:12
  market now with the her daughter.
• 35:15
  She's good to go. Oh Lord, so oh God, that made me
• 35:23
  laugh so hard. So now, like as I said, we were
• 35:26
  talking about quarter three, but now these are the books that
• 35:31
  that we now we each have our own list because again, each of us
• 35:36
  are very different than each other.
• 35:37
  We do all love similar things and there is probably crossover
• 35:42
  a book set we're all excited about.
• 35:46
  I have a lot I have. I think I have 18 books that are
• 35:50
  coming out between now and September that I'm excited
• 35:54
  about. How many do you guys have on
• 35:55
  your list? I have 3.
• 36:00
  You have 33. I have 12512, seven of them, No
• 36:14
  5 of them contemporary. So then the you know 7 on this.
• 36:24
  Level. Oh, OK.
• 36:26
  All right. And how about you, Katie?
• 36:27
  How many do you have on your list?
• 36:29
  And that time frame I have a nine.
• 36:34
  Yes. Well, I'm going to tell you guys
• 36:37
  mine and let's see if if we have any crossover or none at all.
• 36:42
  It's possible now. Now I'm going to go by in order
• 36:47
  of what when they all come out now in July.
• 36:50
  July is a is an amazing month. The first one that comes out is
• 36:54
  the Daughter of the Night that is with author Gemma Vale.
• 36:58
  She was on the podcast this past week.
• 37:01
  Her book comes out July 10th. But I did see that 'cause she
• 37:06
  recorded the audio book herself, she went in the studio, did it.
• 37:11
  Audible released her book yesterday.
• 37:13
  I saw that. How rude.
• 37:14
  She did, she didn't know it was coming and she started getting
• 37:20
  messages and stuff from people and they're like you're oh, I'm
• 37:22
  on this chapter, I'm on that chapter and she's like, what do
• 37:26
  you mean? And yeah, yes, they didn't tell
• 37:28
  her that they were releasing it. But I guess it's because she
• 37:31
  didn't do one of the, the contracts where they have have
• 37:37
  her for like 7 years. She did it this way so she could
• 37:40
  put it on all the different platforms, you know, like Apple
• 37:43
  books, all that kind of thing. So everyone, no matter where you
• 37:46
  are in the world, you can enjoy her book.
• 37:49
  So Audible just they uploaded and that was it.
• 37:53
  So she's super excited about that.
• 37:54
  But she is fantastic. But that is the daughter of the
• 37:57
  night that is going to this is book one in her series that
• 38:01
  comes out July 10th. The next one I have is The
• 38:03
  Forsaken Prophecy that is book 2.
• 38:08
  Do you have that one? Aha.
• 38:09
  Now I have not read book one, but I do own it because again,
• 38:13
  you know how I am with my books. I I'm a curator.
• 38:19
  I have it here on my I have it in my pat.
• 38:22
  Look at look at my stack. I have to get to it.
• 38:25
  OK, This is book one. This is book 1, Forbidden
• 38:30
  Alchemy. And this is this is by Stacey
• 38:32
  McEwen, my fellow. Aussie.
• 38:35
  She is very funny by the way, she's.
• 38:38
  Hilarious. If you haven't seen her socials
• 38:40
  you need to look at them. She is so funny.
• 38:43
  Oh she is funny. And this.
• 38:44
  And look how pretty. Now this is the first the first
• 38:48
  one I ever got that had sprayed edges, but look how pretty.
• 38:50
  That is. That's pretty.
• 38:53
  Book 2 that comes out July 21st. It's called A Forsaken Prophecy
• 38:59
  now. Oh, it says that.
• 39:01
  I have it marked that it is a trilogy, so I guess there will
• 39:04
  be one more. I believe so.
• 39:06
  Book so again, that is July 21st, the next one.
• 39:12
  Now I haven't read these series. I have.
• 39:17
  I think it's her. I think that's who it is up
• 39:20
  there. But she the author KF Breen, she
• 39:23
  writes the deliciously dark fairy tales.
• 39:27
  I don't know if this is a re release or if these or if this
• 39:33
  is a continuation of the series that I'm not 100% but book 5 and
• 39:38
  book 6 are coming out both on July 21st.
• 39:41
  It's a cage of Crimson and a cage of kingdoms.
• 39:44
  But I do have the whole series on my on my TBR list.
• 39:47
  I just I haven't made it that far have either.
• 39:51
  Have you any of you read Deliciously Dark Fairy Tales by
• 39:55
  her? I haven't, I've read a lot of KF
• 39:58
  Breen from like. I mean, gosh, probably 5 or 6
• 40:01
  years ago, maybe longer, but no, I haven't read that.
• 40:06
  Is that the is she? Is that Obsidian?
• 40:09
  Is that is that KF Breen? Because I have them up on my up
• 40:13
  on my shelf. I just haven't read them yet.
• 40:16
  And there's another series that she wrote that was that was
• 40:21
  based in San Francisco. She had like a tea and chocolate
• 40:26
  shop. I can't remember.
• 40:30
  That's all I remember. I have the worst memory in the
• 40:31
  world. But those are two more books
• 40:35
  that she does it. They're either re releases or
• 40:38
  they're brand new. So you'll have to figure that
• 40:41
  one out. But that is July 21st.
• 40:43
  Now the next one is I have it. And now this is book one in the
• 40:49
  series because I have been buying these.
• 40:50
  Now these are all this is a brand new book, but they had
• 40:55
  their the original books, they were traditional or I'm sorry,
• 40:59
  they were indie and then traditionally got picked up.
• 41:02
  This is Elizabeth Helen, by the way.
• 41:04
  Elizabeth Helen is 2 people. They're sisters.
• 41:07
  They have the beast of the briar.
• 41:09
  This is book 1. So if anybody you know, wants to
• 41:13
  know that's bonded by thorns and see when it got redone, they are
• 41:17
  all sprayed edges. I don't know if you can still
• 41:21
  get these yet with the sprayed edges if they still are
• 41:24
  available. I know they were getting down
• 41:25
  limited stock with them. So get this the I have a I'm a
• 41:31
  member of like the bookish shop. I don't know if you guys have
• 41:34
  heard that. OK, so I get there, you know,
• 41:38
  monthly darkly box, but they had this members day sale and the
• 41:43
  prequel and in in the beast the briar series.
• 41:48
  So I got some sort of special edition.
• 41:50
  It's actually still in the box. I haven't opened to get, but I
• 41:54
  got that. So I'm super excited about it.
• 41:56
  So I know there are still more special editions coming out
• 41:59
  about that series. And if I remember correctly,
• 42:02
  this is a why choose kind of situation to the series as well.
• 42:06
  I'm very excited to read that. Now book 6 comes out.
• 42:10
  Now this is brand new because there was a brand new one that
• 42:12
  released in April that was book 5.
• 42:14
  And then book 6 comes out July 21st.
• 42:17
  It is called Stolen by Shadows. There is another one coming out
• 42:21
  in October and the final one I believe is in January.
• 42:25
  So there will be 8 books in it. But again, they're very pretty
• 42:29
  and this isn't even and they're thick and this isn't even the
• 42:32
  thickest 1. So I I love a thick book and
• 42:35
  just for anybody who likes paperback, it has the good flop
• 42:38
  to it. That.
• 42:41
  A good flop, yeah. Crescent City has a good flop,
• 42:45
  just just to let you know. So it.
• 42:47
  Does I do have? Yeah.
• 42:50
  Oh. Absolutely good flop.
• 42:51
  Now this next one here I now I have seen it that I do have her
• 42:56
  other series. Have I read it yet?
• 42:58
  No, it is sitting on my shelf, but it's Sophia Saint Germain,
• 43:02
  she wrote. Oh, what is this series?
• 43:06
  I have to move my light. I'm sorry, this is her series
• 43:11
  that she had that just went traditional.
• 43:13
  I read So Sweet and Deadly because I have all the indie
• 43:18
  copies of it because I want to get them before they went
• 43:22
  traditional. But she has a new book coming
• 43:25
  out on the 22nd of July and it is Who Hears the Waters Call and
• 43:30
  it's The Zeal of the North. It's Book 1, so it's going to be
• 43:34
  a series, so it's supposed to be good.
• 43:36
  It's a brutal Viking War Academy setting.
• 43:39
  You might like that. Looks good.
• 43:42
  OK, what's it called? One more.
• 43:44
  Time this is this is who hears the waters call it says here
• 43:49
  it's a brutal Viking war Academy setting, accidental tethers and
• 43:54
  fierce trials. The heroine takes her brother's
• 43:57
  place to save her village. Ends up being bound to a giant
• 44:02
  Viking warrior who would rather kill her than see her succeed.
• 44:09
  No, I'm here for that. I mean, doesn't that sound good?
• 44:13
  Yeah. So, but again, that's Sophia
• 44:17
  Saint Germain and that comes out July 22nd, which isn't that far
• 44:20
  away. Now this one here I am super
• 44:23
  excited about because Kirsty and I got to meet her is The Lion
• 44:28
  and the Deathless Dark by Carissa Broadbent that comes out
• 44:32
  August 4th. That is book that would be book
• 44:37
  5 in the series. Even though it's it's 2 duets, 2
• 44:44
  duets. This is the final duet, but this
• 44:46
  is the first book of the last duet, if that makes sense
• 44:49
  duology. But that comes out August 4th.
• 44:53
  That's epic gothic high fantasy atmosphere with the deeply
• 44:56
  complex core is going to be happening.
• 44:59
  So. Vampire human.
• 45:02
  Oh yes. For Katie.
• 45:06
  Oh yeah, it's vampire. Oh yeah, Because the whole crown
• 45:08
  of Niaxia, the whole series, it's vampires.
• 45:11
  If have you, have you read? Have you?
• 45:14
  I'm bumping things. Have you read?
• 45:15
  No, the first one, but yeah, it was not finished, so I haven't
• 45:20
  started it yet. Well, there's.
• 45:23
  One read the duet and then the duet.
• 45:26
  They're quiet. Yeah, each.
• 45:28
  Duet is a different couple, yeah.
• 45:31
  OK. All right.
• 45:33
  Yes, I, I, I like to annotate this one.
• 45:36
  Here is The Serpent in the Wings of Night.
• 45:40
  This is book 1. Then you read 6 Scorch Roses.
• 45:45
  That is a novella and it is so good.
• 45:48
  Have you read it yet, Kirsty? I'm getting Kirsty.
• 45:51
  I just. I just finished the second duet
• 45:54
  because the that book, just before we spoke to Carissa, it
• 45:59
  finished on a cliffhanger, so then I had to read the next 10.
• 46:03
  OK, I have them all. They're just.
• 46:08
  Yeah, don't. Read.
• 46:09
  Don't read books free and then wait.
• 46:11
  You need to get. Into Oh no, I have 3 and 4
• 46:13
  sitting here. There I have them.
• 46:15
  And then and then you read The Ashes of the Star Cursed King.
• 46:18
  That's the first duet and the reason you read the duology,
• 46:22
  even though it's not the couple that are in these books, but
• 46:26
  they play a part in the second book, if that makes sense.
• 46:31
  And it is such an absolute beautiful love story.
• 46:35
  It is my favorite novella that I've ever read.
• 46:38
  I keep having that like shine in my.
• 46:40
  Owl, same thing. Really.
• 46:42
  Same favorite novella. Is that your favorite too?
• 46:46
  And Chris, when we were talking to her, she said that's actually
• 46:50
  one of her lowest selling books, is that one?
• 46:53
  And she did not realize how much people love it until she went to
• 46:59
  book con not long ago and people were coming up to her and
• 47:03
  telling her how much they love 6 Gorge Roses.
• 47:06
  I love it. And you only can get it.
• 47:08
  I think you can only get it in hardback and it's very pretty
• 47:11
  and it's only like 160 pages. So you will like it.
• 47:15
  But that's. But her book comes out August
• 47:17
  4th. And that's the line of the
• 47:19
  Deathless Dark again. That is the first book of the
• 47:22
  last duology, the now this one here now this one has been out.
• 47:26
  Now you all may have already read it.
• 47:28
  I have not read it because I'm excited to get it since it's
• 47:31
  gone traditional and the book is absolutely gorgeous.
• 47:34
  From what I've seen that it is at the poison daughter.
• 47:37
  That's the one where she. Kisses.
• 47:39
  That's on my list, people. Die.
• 47:41
  It's supposed to be very good. It says that comes out August
• 47:46
  18th is the since it's gone traditional, that's when it
• 47:49
  comes out. So it's basically a deadly touch
• 47:52
  magic system where a kiss on the lives her targets.
• 47:56
  And then I believe the guy that is the main male character.
• 48:00
  She tries to do this multiple times to him, tries to kill him.
• 48:04
  So it's but it's supposed to be very, very, very good.
• 48:07
  Now this one here now this one I have been waiting a year for.
• 48:11
  I am so excited. This is the end of this series.
• 48:15
  I don't know if you girls have read it.
• 48:16
  If you have met. This is my second book husband.
• 48:20
  His name is Memnom. He is part of the Bewitched
• 48:23
  series from Laura Thalassa. The book that comes out is
• 48:27
  Bedeviled. It comes out August 18th.
• 48:29
  But this is the first book in the series which is Bewitched.
• 48:32
  Have you guys read this one? Not yet.
• 48:36
  Not yet on the. List.
• 48:39
  It's witchy so so it's a good fall read.
• 48:43
  But I like a good witchy book so.
• 48:47
  What what is happening here? OK, so please read this one
• 48:50
  first. Now there is bewitched be
• 48:53
  spelled and then she wrote last year that came out The curse
• 48:57
  that binds. The curse that binds is a
• 48:59
  prequel to these first two books, but don't read it because
• 49:04
  then it'll take the mystery away.
• 49:07
  That's that is happening in these ones.
• 49:09
  So basically you have this girl and she has joined this like
• 49:15
  witch's school, like witch's college kind of thing and she
• 49:19
  has to have an event happen to her so that she can continue on
• 49:26
  with her her witch school. OK and but the problem is every
• 49:32
  time she uses her magic and stuff she loses memories and she
• 49:37
  doesn't understand why. So she goes and she decides to
• 49:42
  get on a plane because she feels that this is going to help her
• 49:46
  and maybe trigger the event that she has to have happen for her
• 49:50
  to continue on with her witch's school.
• 49:53
  And something does happen and she gets gets to meet this man
• 49:58
  named Memnom and he is 2000 years old and he is delicious
• 50:04
  and I can't wait for you all to meet him.
• 50:07
  What is Memnom? He's a sorcerer.
• 50:11
  OK. But ancient and he's just so oh,
• 50:15
  he's so good and and he's and he's he's very dirty.
• 50:19
  And then just the way he he talks to her and the stuff he
• 50:22
  says to her, you will see. But it's so good.
• 50:27
  So you meet him in here and bewitched and then be spelled
• 50:31
  again. Cursive binds.
• 50:33
  That's a prequel to this book, but you'll understand when you
• 50:38
  get there because I can't tell you anything because I don't
• 50:40
  want to ruin anything. And then Bedeviled comes out on
• 50:45
  July or on August 18th, which is the final book in the series.
• 50:49
  And I am super excited to see what happens with Memnom because
• 50:55
  I love that man so much. He is my book husband now.
• 51:00
  September. But that's my August now
• 51:01
  September. I have.
• 51:03
  September is a really popular month too.
• 51:05
  Now this book I have not read yet again.
• 51:09
  I curate now I have this, It's the night and the Moth.
• 51:14
  I don't know if any of you's have read that one by Rachel
• 51:17
  Gillig. I have it.
• 51:19
  I have it. But you have already.
• 51:22
  So you're like me. But now I didn't realize this
• 51:25
  was only going to be a duet. It's or a duology.
• 51:29
  But the then is it the nave? Do we pronounce it the nave
• 51:33
  because it's KNAVE? So we're like knife K, nave A.
• 51:38
  Scurvy nave like a Romeo and Juliet insult scurvy nave It's.
• 51:44
  The nave and the moon. So that's book 2 and I guess
• 51:47
  that's the completion of this series.
• 51:49
  But I have been told, even though I have this, that this is
• 51:52
  not like super spicy kind of deal, but I've heard it's really
• 51:58
  good. So that's why I got it.
• 52:00
  But that comes out September 1st for all of you that are waiting
• 52:04
  on that one now this one here. Now I I can't remember the first
• 52:10
  book right now at the moment off because I don't own it.
• 52:13
  But this is book 2. It's sorrow in strangers.
• 52:17
  It's the Avalon University book 2.
• 52:21
  It comes. It's by Janet Rose and Alexis
• 52:23
  Rune. Do you know it's a dark academia
• 52:26
  one, Katie? I'm I'm writing it down.
• 52:30
  It's forced proximity, high angst, intense collegiate
• 52:34
  secrets. It says it leans into into that
• 52:38
  Moody, gothic university setting with plenty of tension between
• 52:42
  the characters. Have you read No.
• 52:46
  No, I did not I. Long it's 1000 pages.
• 52:52
  I knew it was a big book. I don't own it yet.
• 52:54
  Took me a long time. Well, I think it was just it's
• 52:58
  either right now or it just came out because it got picked up
• 53:02
  traditionally and it got re released in June.
• 53:06
  I indie read. It.
• 53:08
  OK, so last. Year, I think it's a while ago.
• 53:12
  Oh yeah, it's been a while waiting because you haven't been
• 53:15
  able to buy it for a very long time because it went
• 53:18
  traditional. So it gets it's getting re
• 53:20
  released sometime this month. It is or it might have already
• 53:25
  re released and then this is book 2, but I don't know.
• 53:27
  Is it just a duology or is it a series?
• 53:31
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 53:33
  You covered up on the first one, so.
• 53:36
  Well, I wonder how if you said it's 1000 pages, I wonder how
• 53:39
  big this one is. Hey, I'm not sure I can see what
• 53:43
  it says. Because Amazon it would say on
• 53:46
  their thing. Because that's crazy. 1000
• 53:51
  pages. Well, I can't.
• 53:52
  Say 1000 Kindle. Pages.
• 53:57
  I don't know what it would be on Amazon.
• 53:59
  Like a physical copy? Yeah, or even on Goodreads it
• 54:03
  still says 1026 pages, but it doesn't have a page count yet
• 54:09
  for this one. I have to wait.
• 54:11
  Let me see. Let me.
• 54:12
  See if it's almost very good ratings for its arc.
• 54:16
  I mean, I know they're ARC readers, but it's got very good
• 54:19
  ratings so far. 200 reviews. What was it called?
• 54:23
  What did I just tell you the name of that book is?
• 54:26
  The second one. Yeah.
• 54:28
  Sorrow and strangers. Was so rude and strangers.
• 54:34
  I don't know. I want to see what Let's see
• 54:37
  what it says on Amazon. Y'all do use Goodreads or do you
• 54:42
  use? Yes, I use Goodreads.
• 54:44
  Yeah. Oh, this one's not as bad. 752
• 54:47
  pages. Walk in the park.
• 54:51
  Let me see what it says for the first one for blood and
• 54:54
  betrayals it is. Let's see what it says on here.
• 54:59
  It says 816 pages is what it is in physical form, physical copy.
• 55:05
  Nice, so about the same length then?
• 55:09
  But now would you say how spicy would you say the first book was
• 55:13
  in your opinion? Pepperwise, I know Peppers are
• 55:16
  subjective, but. Because you think so subjective,
• 55:19
  so many people are like, Oh my God, this is 4 Chili Peppers.
• 55:22
  And I'm like, were we reading the same book?
• 55:24
  I would say like 2 to three. OK.
• 55:27
  And I'm on my I'm harsh on my chili pepper rating.
• 55:32
  Like people might say, it's more than that.
• 55:34
  Well I always consider like 5 Chili Peppers for me.
• 55:38
  The kiss of the basilisk. Yeah, that would be 5.
• 55:41
  That's a 5 chili, I would agree with that.
• 55:44
  That's a 5 chili pepper. I consider Blood and Steel for
• 55:47
  Chili Peppers because it's not so much like how much of it is
• 55:52
  going. It's just the frequency of it
• 55:54
  because they're out on a on side quest, but they're getting it on
• 55:58
  a lot in Blood and Steel and I didn't have it.
• 56:02
  Have you, have you met Wilder half?
• 56:04
  Is it Wilder Hawthorne? I think that's the main, main
• 56:06
  character. Have you met him yet?
• 56:09
  Oh girls, welcome to my world. I am going to bring you some of
• 56:13
  the hottest men in the entire world.
• 56:16
  I would give it like maybe like wings and ruin like a war, maybe
• 56:27
  that level like 2 to three also I said.
• 56:31
  To that like a three for. Yeah.
• 56:34
  Well, my my Peppers is different that because remember, I'm going
• 56:37
  from kissabasculus at 5. Blood and steel is a four.
• 56:43
  I consider it any open door or whatever.
• 56:45
  If they give me a good scene, even if it's it's not the
• 56:48
  frequency of it, it's how hot it is of the scene.
• 56:51
  If it's written really well, I'd consider it a three.
• 56:54
  Yeah, yeah, I I don't do, as you know, I don't do any of that
• 56:58
  fade to black shit. No, no, yeah, I, I was going
• 57:05
  through my list like some of my followers, like people, you
• 57:08
  know, the followers that follow to unfollow kind of thing.
• 57:12
  And I was just going through, I found one lady that I was
• 57:16
  following that I must have followed her at some point and
• 57:19
  she was writing on there that she is only into clean books.
• 57:22
  And I'm like why am I following you unfollow Like what am I
• 57:27
  doing now? Now the next one out.
• 57:29
  You girls may have read this one but I know Heather has been
• 57:32
  waiting forever in a lifetime on this.
• 57:34
  I forget how many years now it's 2 1/2 years I believe.
• 57:37
  It's Burn of the Ever Flame, the Kindred cursed saga that comes
• 57:42
  out September 8th. So excited.
• 57:45
  I haven't read them yet. I haven't I.
• 57:48
  Haven't either. I haven't read them either
• 57:50
  because I, I've been burned so many times on books like do like
• 57:56
  I, I, I read Outlander, I got burned.
• 57:59
  I'm like, I'm if it's something that I know I'm going to love or
• 58:03
  that thing I'm going to love, I'm not starting that shit until
• 58:05
  it's finished. I have learned my lesson.
• 58:08
  Yeah, the cliffhanger was. Yeah, that's what Heather had
• 58:13
  said. And I'm like, and she's like,
• 58:14
  you need to read it. I'm like, I am not going to be
• 58:18
  on the boat with you waiting for it.
• 58:19
  But now it is coming. But it is, it is going to be
• 58:23
  released on September 8th. And that is the conclusion I
• 58:26
  believe of the the series. I'm so excited for her that she
• 58:30
  got traditionally picked up, but it's been the world's longest
• 58:33
  wait because they then traditionally released one and
• 58:37
  then two and then three, which I get because, you know, make of
• 58:42
  the money. I understand now, yeah.
• 58:47
  I mean, it's exciting. Yeah.
• 58:50
  I know she's excited and I think they pushed the the audio book
• 58:53
  back to past that date or something like that.
• 58:56
  I. Think she just announced that it
• 58:58
  was going to be delayed and now it's not?
• 59:01
  Oh, now it's not. Oh, well, that's a good thing
• 59:02
  then. Which is good.
• 59:04
  I pre-ordered the audio book but don't judge it on the first
• 59:10
  book. OK give it same.
• 59:12
  Give it the same respect you give Acatar.
• 59:14
  You don't judge it by the first book, you judge it by the 2nd
• 59:16
  book. That's the that's the same thing
• 59:19
  I say in plated prisoner with Guild.
• 59:22
  There's a lot of people they they start Guild and they get
• 59:27
  about halfway through and people have DNF D it now.
• 59:30
  Myself personally, I enjoyed it. I love the opening scene because
• 59:34
  it's so good. But you meet my book husband in
• 59:38
  book 2 and he is so, oh, he's so dirty and he's so good.
• 59:43
  And I just, I 'cause I can't say who he is because he's a
• 59:47
  surprise, but he is so good. So if you, Katie, have you not
• 59:52
  read The Plated Prisoner? Did you stop?
• 59:54
  I have the. Nope, I have them all.
• 59:56
  Right, so that you know what I'm talking about.
• 1:00:00
  Yes, I loved the first three. I did not love the last three.
• 1:00:04
  That's right, you didn't like that.
• 1:00:06
  I still I loved him. I will take that mint.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah, I also love your book husband.
• 1:00:12
  He's one of mine too. He the way he talks and the
• 1:00:16
  things he says, he's so dirty because my own husband is bad
• 1:00:22
  like that as well. And so it's just like A and
• 1:00:27
  because I think my own husband would burn the world for me as
• 1:00:30
  well and do the things that he did so and, and be as ruthless
• 1:00:35
  and everything as this person is.
• 1:00:37
  But if you girls have not read it, please go out and get the
• 1:00:40
  play to Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy, because it's and you
• 1:00:44
  will meet the best what husband you ever will find.
• 1:00:48
  He he is he is higher up on the list than resand he's higher up
• 1:00:52
  on the I mean, I love Memnom. Don't get me wrong, I love him
• 1:00:55
  dearly. I love Kingfisher.
• 1:00:57
  He's so dirty. But this individual, he's top
• 1:01:02
  tier. He has a book coming out soon as
• 1:01:05
  well. Hey.
• 1:01:07
  Yes, she does. But I don't think it's this
• 1:01:09
  quarter, I think it's. Next.
• 1:01:10
  Yes, it is. It's later on my list.
• 1:01:13
  Oh, so get ready, it's later on. No, but no.
• 1:01:16
  Galley the other day. Oh yeah, I'm super excited for
• 1:01:19
  that one. I love how she writes.
• 1:01:22
  That's me. But now the the next one here is
• 1:01:24
  the Incendiary. Cindiary.
• 1:01:26
  Incendiary. I think I'm pronouncing that
• 1:01:28
  right. It's by LJ Claren.
• 1:01:30
  This is book 2. I forget what the Oh, it's the
• 1:01:33
  silver. It's the book 2 after The
• 1:01:35
  Silversmith. Like everybody read that and
• 1:01:37
  everybody told me it's wonderful.
• 1:01:39
  I have it on my TBR list. Have you read The Silversmith?
• 1:01:43
  Not yet I've. Seen it?
• 1:01:45
  Haven't haven't read it. Now, I don't know.
• 1:01:48
  Is it a is it only a duology? I don't know.
• 1:01:53
  Is it a series? I don't know.
• 1:01:54
  But they said it's a searing sequel to The Silversmith.
• 1:01:58
  It's heavy slow burn romanticity packed with absolute yearning
• 1:02:02
  heartbreak and non-stop action and devastating plot twists that
• 1:02:08
  comes out on September 8th, book 2.
• 1:02:13
  Now this one here. I don't.
• 1:02:14
  I have it on my list because I have the blood of Hercules and I
• 1:02:20
  have psycho shifters and so again, I have not read them.
• 1:02:23
  Are they on my show? Yes, but she does have a new
• 1:02:26
  book. Jasmine.
• 1:02:27
  Is it? Does she pronounce it Moss or
• 1:02:29
  does she pronounce it mass? I call it Moss.
• 1:02:34
  I don't know if that's right, if that's what I say.
• 1:02:37
  One thing you will learn as being part of my little family
• 1:02:40
  here, we do not pronounce anything correctly, so we go
• 1:02:44
  with it. But it's the the Emperor's
• 1:02:48
  enemy. It is the unsurvivable love.
• 1:02:51
  Do it book one. It comes out September 15th.
• 1:02:55
  It's a high heat enemies to lovers with massive betrayals,
• 1:02:59
  plot lines and fierce power struggles.
• 1:03:02
  Perfect for listeners who like their romance dark, sharp and
• 1:03:07
  full of chaotic energy. So is it good?
• 1:03:11
  I don't know. We'll find out now, but again,
• 1:03:14
  that comes out September 15th. The next one I now, I've had
• 1:03:17
  this one on my list for a while because I thought it sounded
• 1:03:19
  interesting. It's called 6 Bullets and a
• 1:03:22
  Crown. It's by Alex Calder.
• 1:03:25
  I love. Her.
• 1:03:26
  OK, you know, then you know who she is.
• 1:03:28
  I have no idea who she is, but this book comes out September
• 1:03:31
  22nd. It's high stakes, dangerous
• 1:03:35
  secrets, royal royal power dynamics, dark fantasy court
• 1:03:40
  intrigue. Perfect for the fans of gritty
• 1:03:43
  royalty tropes and sharp plot twists.
• 1:03:47
  She wrote a book series called like the Power of 5.
• 1:03:54
  I mean, like, I read it probably 7-8 years ago and it's hot.
• 1:04:04
  It's not. She writes a lot, a lot of white
• 1:04:08
  shoes that are actually good stories.
• 1:04:11
  Like very seamy, good good stories.
• 1:04:14
  How so? Then this might be very good,
• 1:04:16
  but that comes out September 22nd, so I'm super excited about
• 1:04:20
  that. Now this one here.
• 1:04:21
  Now, I never pronounced this lady's name right, but we're
• 1:04:25
  going to go with it. But it's the kiss of the black
• 1:04:27
  flame and it's Helen. Sure.
• 1:04:29
  That's how I say her last name. Kind of great you are Kirsty.
• 1:04:35
  Am I pronouncing it correctly Because isn't?
• 1:04:37
  Is she from Australia or is she from New Zealand?
• 1:04:40
  I have no idea who you're talking about.
• 1:04:41
  I'm not going to lie you. Don't you don't know Helen?
• 1:04:44
  Sure. She's the one that wrote Blood
• 1:04:46
  and Steel. That's how I pronounce her last
• 1:04:48
  name. It's it's SI love.
• 1:04:51
  You're. Pronouncing it, I know AW.
• 1:04:56
  It though it's SCHEUERER. Sure, that's how I was sick.
• 1:05:02
  Oh yeah, OK, I've just found it. Sure.
• 1:05:06
  Sure, sure. Sure.
• 1:05:09
  OK, I now understand the confusion.
• 1:05:12
  Heather and I, whenever we always talked about her, that's,
• 1:05:16
  that's how we say it. We say Helen, sure, but she
• 1:05:19
  wrote Blood and Steel, you know, the legends of Thezmar, the
• 1:05:23
  ashes of Thezmar. And this is her new series.
• 1:05:26
  It is the book binder's bargain. I think it might be a duet,
• 1:05:31
  maybe a duology, I don't know but I could be wrong on that.
• 1:05:34
  But yes, I have it pre-ordered. It's stunning.
• 1:05:40
  And it says here it's visually stunning dark magic, deadly
• 1:05:43
  bargains, high heat snippets. It's perfectly blends lush
• 1:05:47
  fantasy landscape with a dark, intense romantic pairing.
• 1:05:52
  And it comes out September 22nd. I, I love her.
• 1:05:55
  I love everything that she has. Well, at least what I've read of
• 1:05:59
  hers. I loved the legends of Thezmar.
• 1:06:02
  That's where I was telling you guys have to meet Wilder
• 1:06:05
  Hawthorne. He is a very wonderful main male
• 1:06:10
  character and he has a man bun, but he has a very large sword.
• 1:06:16
  Yeah, I. Feel terrible she is Australian.
• 1:06:19
  I don't know. For some reason, that's where I
• 1:06:20
  think she's from. She's from I could.
• 1:06:24
  Oh, am I correct? All right, all right, Because I
• 1:06:27
  have contacted her to see if she would like to be on the podcast.
• 1:06:30
  But her husband, her husband is her person that writes back and
• 1:06:34
  stuff. And he said, Oh, I know his
• 1:06:37
  name's, I think he's Gary. I think, I think for some reason
• 1:06:40
  in my mind, I'm thinking his name's Gary.
• 1:06:41
  And but she's touring a whole bunch of, so hopefully, maybe at
• 1:06:46
  the beginning of this coming year, she'll be able to come
• 1:06:49
  visit us on the podcast and then she can tell us the correct
• 1:06:53
  pronunciation of her last name. You should have asked her
• 1:06:56
  husband. Maybe he would have known.
• 1:07:01
  I mean like. Sure in this Jimmy via voice
• 1:07:04
  text. Thanks.
• 1:07:07
  I mean, I mean, Heather, I, as long as Heather and I have been
• 1:07:10
  talking about her, that's how we, we always say and we always
• 1:07:13
  go sure. And that's how we say it
• 1:07:14
  together and you all can join in as well.
• 1:07:18
  And then again, like I said, that comes out September 22nd.
• 1:07:21
  A beautiful book. I'm super excited.
• 1:07:24
  Now, the one that Kirstie was talking about that she just
• 1:07:27
  mentioned a moment ago from Raven Kennedy, The sweetest
• 1:07:29
  Fiend comes out. That is a duology.
• 1:07:32
  It's the played by the Piper duology.
• 1:07:36
  It comes out September 22nd as well.
• 1:07:38
  That is a monster demon romance elements mixed with a
• 1:07:44
  fascinating psychological push and pull.
• 1:07:46
  It's a masterful balance, incredible dark fantasy themes
• 1:07:49
  with genuine high heat romance. So I am super excited.
• 1:07:54
  I have that's another one. I have pre-ordered.
• 1:07:56
  I have a lot of pre-orders coming because my husband said
• 1:08:00
  to me, he said you haven't gotten a lot of books here
• 1:08:02
  lately. I said, oh, we'll just wait.
• 1:08:05
  I have pre-orders, they just, there was a lull there for a
• 1:08:08
  while. Now.
• 1:08:10
  The next one that's coming out the OR is the last one I have.
• 1:08:13
  Well, I have two, but this is the last one that I have a
• 1:08:15
  guaranteed date with is Curse City.
• 1:08:18
  That is by Kate Golden. It's an academic.
• 1:08:24
  What is it? Said my list and your list are
• 1:08:27
  just the same. Oh, we have the same.
• 1:08:28
  Oh, we're fantastic. Well, this one.
• 1:08:31
  But now this one comes out September 29th.
• 1:08:33
  But this is the gritty urban fantasy mixed with high stakes
• 1:08:37
  magic. Expect deeply immersive
• 1:08:39
  atmosphere, heavy setting where danger lurks around every
• 1:08:44
  corner. I can't remember what the first
• 1:08:46
  book is called. I have half.
• 1:08:48
  They just can't. Half city.
• 1:08:49
  OK, and then this one's cursed city.
• 1:08:52
  Is it, is it just a duology or is it a trilogy?
• 1:08:57
  Maybe I'm not. Sure.
• 1:09:00
  Because she is the author that did the Sacred Stones trilogy.
• 1:09:04
  That's the one with dragon shifters and that I have it on
• 1:09:08
  my shelf. I haven't read it yet.
• 1:09:11
  Have you read Harsany or you haven't read Harsany?
• 1:09:14
  It's sitting over there. It's waiting on me.
• 1:09:16
  It's good. I it's, but it's, I have it and
• 1:09:20
  it has sprayed edges. I got that.
• 1:09:21
  But that releases September 29th.
• 1:09:24
  Nice. Yeah, Now the one that I have is
• 1:09:26
  my wild card because I've seen like there's a placeholder for
• 1:09:30
  it. It says September.
• 1:09:32
  I've seen this author talk about it because she's like, she was
• 1:09:35
  talking and I'm like, is it coming out in September?
• 1:09:38
  Is it coming out in October? So this is my one that I'm not
• 1:09:41
  sure on, but I cannot, absolutely cannot wait for this
• 1:09:44
  book to come out. It's Daemonica by Kaylee Smith.
• 1:09:47
  Now, have you guys read Phantasma and Enchantra?
• 1:09:51
  Have you read those ones? I.
• 1:09:52
  Read Phantasma. You haven't read Enchantra yet?
• 1:09:57
  I didn't like Phantasma. Enchantress.
• 1:10:02
  Now I love Phantasma. I love it.
• 1:10:06
  But Enchantra is is so good because you're not.
• 1:10:12
  Because when you read Phantasma, you're following Ophelia.
• 1:10:16
  Ophelia is a little bit more very kind.
• 1:10:20
  I don't want to call her stick in the bud kind of person, but
• 1:10:22
  she's just a little bit more serious kind of person.
• 1:10:25
  Genevieve is not. Yeah.
• 1:10:29
  And. Found reasons to like just
• 1:10:33
  randomly fuck what's his face for no reason whatsoever like
• 1:10:37
  that's what I didn't understand. Yeah, it was like delicious.
• 1:10:41
  It was like, OK, we're going through this horrible thing
• 1:10:43
  wait, let me bang you up against the wall.
• 1:10:46
  But there was no but there was no reason.
• 1:10:50
  And it didn't. It didn't fit.
• 1:10:51
  It was like, here was the storyline I'm throwing in smut.
• 1:10:55
  I think she was like, well, she could die at any moment and she
• 1:10:58
  was going to have Blackwell's Dick whenever she wanted her,
• 1:11:01
  when she could have it. And she?
• 1:11:04
  Said that I would understand that.
• 1:11:07
  Well, now, now if you now, if you do decide to read Enchantra,
• 1:11:11
  you're following Genevieve. Now Genevieve is much more of a
• 1:11:15
  wild card. Yes, wouldn't you say?
• 1:11:17
  She's much more of a free spirit and that and she goes to, she
• 1:11:22
  finds this in her mother's things, this place, it's called
• 1:11:27
  Enchantra. And she goes to Italy because
• 1:11:30
  this is where this book is based in.
• 1:11:33
  And she shows up at this villa and that's what it's called,
• 1:11:36
  it's called Enchantra. And the guy that answers the
• 1:11:39
  door, he is basically tells her you, you need to leave, you have
• 1:11:44
  to go now, you're you can't be here.
• 1:11:47
  But Genevieve does not listen. If you knew anything of her from
• 1:11:52
  the first book, she does not listen.
• 1:11:55
  And she goes into the house. And once she's in the house, she
• 1:12:00
  is in the house because it again, remember the first book
• 1:12:03
  dealt with devils. This book deals with devils.
• 1:12:06
  But this is basically adult hide and go seek.
• 1:12:10
  And it is so good. And you get to meet Rowan
• 1:12:14
  rowing. Is it Rowan or Rowington?
• 1:12:17
  Rowington Rowan. It's and their last name is
• 1:12:20
  Silver. And you get to meet him and he's
• 1:12:22
  very and he's pierced, he has piercings, his lips, his lip is
• 1:12:27
  pierced, and other places are pierced and.
• 1:12:32
  I was thinking of. I'm about to say, you said his
• 1:12:34
  lip. I'm like, well, who cares about
• 1:12:36
  that? But I have he has some piercings
• 1:12:40
  and Genevieve, she has to go into this arrangement with him
• 1:12:47
  because they don't want anything to happen to her because of this
• 1:12:52
  adult hide and go seek kind of thing.
• 1:12:54
  But this is it is very good. So I'm excited to see what
• 1:12:58
  happens in Daemonica because Daemonica, it is one of the
• 1:13:02
  characters that you meet in Enchantra that that one and that
• 1:13:06
  one is going to be, I think it's a dark society kind of thing.
• 1:13:11
  Secret society is what they have to go into it because I don't
• 1:13:13
  think it's academia. I think it's a society.
• 1:13:16
  So it's supposed to be, again, it's devils.
• 1:13:19
  It's supposed to be really good. Nice SO.
• 1:13:22
  That is my list, ladies. As I told you, I have a very
• 1:13:25
  long list. I'm very excited for a lot of
• 1:13:26
  books. So now let's hear, let's see
• 1:13:30
  what what do you have? What are you excited about
• 1:13:33
  coming out in quarter 3? I can't like contain myself a
• 1:13:39
  little bit. So all right, I I love 4th wing.
• 1:13:44
  I got severed into reading it before it was finished and so
• 1:13:48
  I'm a glutton for punishment. So, you know, Rebecca Yarrow
• 1:13:50
  started writing book 4 and it was like this huge deal.
• 1:13:54
  There is a mystery book coming out September 29th.
• 1:13:59
  So excited. We have no name for this book.
• 1:14:03
  The only thing it says is not book 4.
• 1:14:07
  That's all that says. It's a period world, yeah.
• 1:14:11
  There's No title. We don't know who it's about.
• 1:14:13
  Like I know nothing unless there's like other stuff on the
• 1:14:16
  Internet because I literally just came across it today on my
• 1:14:18
  Kindle. Did you see her Instagram post
• 1:14:22
  yesterday or the day before? Yes, Rebecca Morris loves loves
• 1:14:27
  a twisty Instagram post. Anyway, she posted a picture of
• 1:14:30
  her, I think it was her niece or something.
• 1:14:32
  Reading the book, Oh yes, I did see.
• 1:14:34
  That on her laptop and she goes something about like, don't
• 1:14:39
  worry, my niece just got to the part where should she say
• 1:14:43
  Riddick she and she's like Riddick and then doesn't write
• 1:14:47
  anything else. I haven't read it.
• 1:14:51
  I have not read the series because I refuse to be on the
• 1:14:54
  cliffhanger thing that all you are on because everyone has told
• 1:14:59
  me that every book ends with the cliffhanger.
• 1:15:02
  So I'm waiting until is it 5 books are out.
• 1:15:06
  So there's, yeah. So this is like a.
• 1:15:11
  Yeah, she's going to be 125, but this one doesn't count.
• 1:15:15
  Yeah. No, it's like a novella kind of
• 1:15:17
  thing. Yeah.
• 1:15:18
  Yeah, what I'm upset about is like this was I say I'm upset
• 1:15:22
  about it like, you know, people listen to me like authors do
• 1:15:25
  exactly what I tell them, right? I she I really hope this didn't
• 1:15:30
  take away time of her writing book for because I want that as
• 1:15:35
  fast as humanly possible. Yeah, we're going to be waiting
• 1:15:39
  a while. She's so.
• 1:15:41
  Dirty. She likes a generally January
• 1:15:45
  release for her. Yeah, yes.
• 1:15:49
  And it's even worse, like when she comes out, when she comes
• 1:15:53
  out with a different book that's like her.
• 1:15:55
  Contemporary. Some contemporary romance.
• 1:15:58
  I'm like, why, you know. But anyways.
• 1:16:02
  Contracts to fulfill, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:05
  But that's number that jumped up to my number one spot of just
• 1:16:11
  because I'm like, yeah, I can't contain myself and I don't know
• 1:16:16
  anything about it. If I knew more about it, maybe
• 1:16:17
  I'd be less excited about it, but the mysterious factor bumps
• 1:16:22
  it up. Yeah, OK, so I also added a
• 1:16:28
  couple things that coming out this month that haven't came out
• 1:16:31
  yet, just because I can't help myself.
• 1:16:35
  One of them is it's a series from Sam Soon.
• 1:16:39
  It's just a Scarlet 4 series. I love Sam Soon It she is one of
• 1:16:44
  my favorite authors and she's 100% indie and she's written
• 1:16:48
  over 100 books. She's amazing.
• 1:16:51
  Yeah, she writes a lot of it's well, she writes everything,
• 1:16:55
  which is so great about her. Like if you like, she has a
• 1:16:59
  couple like I think two or three contemporaries, but she writes a
• 1:17:03
  lot of white shoes. She there's a rock band, there's
• 1:17:06
  an MC, there's Academy, there's sci-fi alien, there's, you know,
• 1:17:12
  magic and romanticy and fantasy and paranormal and I mean like
• 1:17:17
  literally all the things. She even does fairy tale
• 1:17:20
  retellings like she did an Alice in Wonderland series that is,
• 1:17:24
  but they're super high spice, usually very meaty, thick books.
• 1:17:32
  But she's finally finishing the series called the Scarlet 4
• 1:17:37
  series. And she's famous for rapid
• 1:17:40
  releases. So when she starts to write a
• 1:17:43
  book series, she will go through and write the entire thing in
• 1:17:47
  one go and then divide them up in books, which yeah, I
• 1:17:53
  absolutely love because they, like you're usually getting, you
• 1:17:56
  don't have to wait. You get a book, a book, a book,
• 1:17:58
  a book, a book. But this particular series she
• 1:18:01
  didn't do that with. So she released rapid release 3
• 1:18:05
  books in 2022. Oh, oh, you've been waiting a
• 1:18:11
  while then. Yes and it's freaking horrible.
• 1:18:15
  So books four and five, which is the end of it 4 is already out
• 1:18:19
  Five comes out June 30th and I am thrilled, but it's a Scarlet
• 1:18:23
  4 series. I cannot wait and they are it's
• 1:18:26
  a why choose. It's very dark.
• 1:18:32
  There's a lot of unalibers in this.
• 1:18:36
  One of the MMCS is these bones, and I mean, I feel like it's
• 1:18:41
  kind of obvious and they race like classic cars, like that's
• 1:18:48
  kind of what they're famous for. But it's totally badass.
• 1:18:50
  It's in the same world as the Her Havoc series, which is also
• 1:18:56
  amazing. If you can ignore their ages,
• 1:18:59
  ignore their ages and it's awesome.
• 1:19:02
  So very excited about that. Ruby Vincent is coming out with
• 1:19:06
  a new series. Have you all seen this?
• 1:19:09
  It's the Hellboy series. The first one is called Deal
• 1:19:13
  With the Devil. It comes out July 9th and I'm
• 1:19:17
  very excited. I usually love Ruby Vincent,
• 1:19:20
  like a lot of her Dark Academy stuff.
• 1:19:24
  I love her like male, female, NY 2 stuff are really great.
• 1:19:29
  She does gangs and like mobsters very, very well.
• 1:19:34
  This is going to be a little bit of I think.
• 1:19:36
  I think it's going to be paranormal esque, so it would
• 1:19:42
  fall into that romanticity division, but I'm excited about
• 1:19:45
  that. Another one of my favorite
• 1:19:47
  authors who I've literally never heard anybody talk about, but I
• 1:19:51
  had to wear everything she writes.
• 1:19:53
  Her name is Meg Shuimei X and it's impossible to like.
• 1:20:01
  Her last name is XUEMEI. X How would one pronounce that
• 1:20:11
  Shwayme? That's how they pronounced Oh,
• 1:20:14
  hey, I would oh, think how I would have pronounced that one.
• 1:20:16
  Yeah, and the only reason I know that audiobooks, OK, the only
• 1:20:23
  reason I know that. So she's coming out with or she
• 1:20:29
  hit book 2 is coming out of the series.
• 1:20:32
  It's called the Blood and Bound series and that comes out July
• 1:20:34
  28th. But all of her stuff is great.
• 1:20:37
  She usually writes white shoes and usually very heavy
• 1:20:41
  paranormal, supernatural. She has this, it's called the
• 1:20:47
  Half Blood Academy. It's a little bit of a Greek
• 1:20:51
  mythology twist, which that series is great.
• 1:20:56
  Kate Corbin, who was another one that I love.
• 1:21:01
  She has a new series that two books are out and they'll be
• 1:21:06
  more, but they are interconnected standalones.
• 1:21:09
  The series is called A Vow of Blood and Tears and they are
• 1:21:13
  dark fairy tale retellings with the vampires.
• 1:21:19
  I love vampires. So I'm excited about that.
• 1:21:27
  That's pretty much it. Oh, have y'all heard of Casey
• 1:21:32
  Keane? No, who's that?
• 1:21:34
  I think so. OK, she's one of my favorite
• 1:21:37
  authors. Also, she's British, she's
• 1:21:41
  written, she's written a lot of stuff, and she will also do
• 1:21:45
  rapid releases. Do you see a theme here?
• 1:21:47
  Like I really like the authors that do rapid releases and don't
• 1:21:50
  leave me hanging, but she has a series come out.
• 1:21:53
  Book 1 is out. Book 2 comes out July 21st.
• 1:21:58
  It's called the Neverbound Academy, and that's going to be
• 1:22:02
  a really good one too. But yeah, that's my most of my
• 1:22:08
  list for this quarter. I.
• 1:22:10
  Feel like my list was really long.
• 1:22:16
  Yeah, well. I have a lot of stuff for like
• 1:22:20
  the rest of the year and even into next year.
• 1:22:24
  I do have a few things. Well, I have stuff that's coming
• 1:22:27
  out in October and stuff. So will we do this again in, in
• 1:22:31
  at the beginning of October? I do have quite a few things.
• 1:22:36
  Well, I shouldn't say that. It seems like October seems to
• 1:22:39
  be my big month. I don't know so much in November
• 1:22:43
  and December. Well, no, I know there's a
• 1:22:45
  couple. I think in November, December, I
• 1:22:47
  don't think there's anything. So you might be the the giant
• 1:22:50
  list then, Kevin. So is that the end of your list
• 1:22:54
  then, Katie? That's the end of mine, all
• 1:22:56
  right. Kirsty, let's see what your list
• 1:22:58
  is now. OK, I don't have much left to be
• 1:23:02
  honest and everyone's already talked about them, but I have a
• 1:23:06
  couple. Was Indie published now being
• 1:23:11
  traditionally published on July 28th is Daggermouth.
• 1:23:17
  Oh. Yes.
• 1:23:18
  Yeah, read this. I haven't read it, but it's on
• 1:23:22
  my list. She's good.
• 1:23:26
  You know how you guys did that episode?
• 1:23:29
  Rebecca, Albert and Heather, your enemies to lovers episode.
• 1:23:33
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:23:35
  She said that is a very true enemies to lovers.
• 1:23:38
  Yes. Wow, never been more correct
• 1:23:41
  about anything in her life. Very good, loved.
• 1:23:48
  If you don't like a cliffhanger though, probably not a good
• 1:23:51
  idea. And then do you guys know Emily
• 1:23:59
  Rath? Yes.
• 1:24:02
  Nope. The the pucking series.
• 1:24:05
  The Jacksonville race. Yeah, yes, she writes normally
• 1:24:12
  writes that genre contemporary romance like she does cool.
• 1:24:18
  Like why choose sort of the first one is MMFM very good.
• 1:24:25
  Anyway, she has written a book which comes out on August 4th
• 1:24:30
  and it's called Devour Me and it is.
• 1:24:36
  I can't remember but it is rumored.
• 1:24:41
  Oh, really? Yeah, so it's oh, sorry, it's
• 1:24:44
  paranormal MMS paranormal romance which entangles the
• 1:24:49
  fates of witches, race and mortals.
• 1:24:53
  What's? It called.
• 1:24:55
  Devour me. Devour me.
• 1:24:59
  Comes out in the. Front.
• 1:24:59
  Do you know if it's interesting? Is it Why choose?
• 1:25:03
  Don't it just says MMF I'm assuming?
• 1:25:07
  MMS, OK, I'll take it sounds. Like it?
• 1:25:11
  Well, it sounds good. Yeah, I have to add that one.
• 1:25:15
  Yes to my list. I do have an arc, but I haven't
• 1:25:17
  read it yet, so that's exciting. When I've read it, I'll let you
• 1:25:21
  know. Yeah.
• 1:25:24
  Oh, and then I do have a couple others quick mentions.
• 1:25:30
  Not quite dark romance, but romantic suspense.
• 1:25:36
  OK. Stay with me.
• 1:25:38
  It's called Into the Fading Twilight by Catherine cows.
• 1:25:43
  Anyone know Catherine cows? She's a big name in my world.
• 1:25:49
  Anyway, that comes out July 21st, which is super exciting.
• 1:25:54
  It's her second book in a series.
• 1:25:55
  She writes about small towns where there's lots of stabby and
• 1:25:59
  alive in people. Oh, fun.
• 1:26:01
  Still contempt. Like still still kind of fluffy.
• 1:26:07
  Interesting. That is an interesting.
• 1:26:10
  It's so fluffiness with with unalighing.
• 1:26:14
  Different sort of noises. It's more.
• 1:26:20
  It is a little bit more anyway, she's great.
• 1:26:28
  She's. OK, and then the last one, I
• 1:26:32
  have to mention it. It is contemporary, but she's my
• 1:26:35
  favorite author of all time. Chelsea Kurto is releasing her.
• 1:26:40
  It's her first book that is solely traditionally published.
• 1:26:44
  So now she's got a series that she's traditionally publishing,
• 1:26:47
  but this one is the first one that is traditionally published
• 1:26:50
  from the get go. It's called In Stormy Weather.
• 1:26:52
  It's about two meteorologists. It comes out on July 14th.
• 1:27:01
  I have already read it. It's phenomenal.
• 1:27:04
  If you like fluffy. So much yearning, you know, the
• 1:27:09
  yearning brings me joy. If you like that sort of thing.
• 1:27:13
  But maybe too fluffy for Rebecca.
• 1:27:16
  I did tell Rebecca that she's going to have to read something
• 1:27:18
  of mine though, so maybe I'll put that one.
• 1:27:22
  We're going to. I'll pick.
• 1:27:23
  Something else for you. We're going to have a great
• 1:27:24
  time. You might, you might change my
• 1:27:29
  whole trajectory. You never know.
• 1:27:30
  You never know, maybe I'll make you read Pucking Around that's
• 1:27:35
  we were talking about earlier. Yeah, it's it's hot.
• 1:27:39
  It's hot. It's a lot of a lot of penises
• 1:27:45
  in not a lot of holes. Interesting.
• 1:27:49
  Yeah, wait, the perks of being a physical therapist.
• 1:27:56
  She's a she's a physio for the hockey team.
• 1:27:59
  Does does the penises spring like we had talked about the
• 1:28:03
  other day? Did they do they spring out?
• 1:28:05
  I do, they do. They do.
• 1:28:07
  Yes, that might be so. One of them is pierced.
• 1:28:10
  Yes. One of the three, he's my
• 1:28:13
  favorite. Interesting.
• 1:28:16
  This was interesting. So it's based on or it's set in
• 1:28:22
  Jacksonville, FL, like where I live.
• 1:28:24
  So I found that very ironic. And I also think it's hilarious
• 1:28:28
  that they put a professional hockey team in Jacksonville, FL
• 1:28:31
  because it's hot as balls here. But you know, I recommended that
• 1:28:40
  book. I recommended that book to my
• 1:28:42
  sister because like, I'm, so I have one sister who will read
• 1:28:46
  the dark smutty stuff. I have another sister who I
• 1:28:50
  don't know, I guess she wants to consider herself cultured.
• 1:28:52
  So she reads like shit, like memoirs and whatever.
• 1:28:55
  She's one of those people, OK, but she's really.
• 1:28:58
  Not that cultured. She's also the sister that loves
• 1:29:00
  ACOTAR. So anyways, I told her I was
• 1:29:04
  like, she asked me what I was reading and I was reading that
• 1:29:07
  book and I said, oh I'm reading this.
• 1:29:10
  She's like, oh, it's free on Hoopla, I can just borrow it.
• 1:29:12
  I said yes, borrow it from Hoopla and listen to that
• 1:29:16
  audiobook. Oh, the listening is next level.
• 1:29:20
  She texts me, she's like what the fuck?
• 1:29:24
  And I just said you're welcome, You're welcome.
• 1:29:28
  She's like, this is hot. This is so hot.
• 1:29:31
  You read this stuff all the time.
• 1:29:32
  Absolutely, yes, absolutely. Have you converted her?
• 1:29:37
  To start doing this a lot more often than her other books that
• 1:29:42
  she typically reads. Yes, so I got her to start
• 1:29:46
  reading the Bonsa Thai series by Jay Bree.
• 1:29:49
  Oh. Love.
• 1:29:50
  So because I absolutely adore that series, there are also
• 1:29:53
  special editions from the book of shop coming out on those.
• 1:29:56
  You can still order them now. So FYI.
• 1:30:00
  But I, I got her, I got her into that because it's, it's slow
• 1:30:04
  burn, so it doesn't like smack you in the face with smut.
• 1:30:07
  So I figured she'd like it a little bit more.
• 1:30:10
  And she's read book 1 and she's liked it so far.
• 1:30:14
  So I'm hoping that you know she'll keep reading it.
• 1:30:18
  Yeah, but once you're in it, you're in it, right?
• 1:30:21
  Yeah, Oh yeah. My daughter just read that
• 1:30:24
  series for the first time and she was like, Oh my God, it's so
• 1:30:26
  good, I said. I know it's amazing.
• 1:30:29
  It's very, I'm still, I'm very much in my villain era.
• 1:30:34
  That is where I'm at. So maybe you can get your sister
• 1:30:37
  to to join me in her in my villain era.
• 1:30:39
  Do you think you could get her to read those kind of things?
• 1:30:42
  Well, the Bonds that tie is very much a villain then.
• 1:30:47
  She will fit right in. Yeah, say, it's very much the
• 1:30:50
  villain thing. So yeah, I mean, we haven't
• 1:30:52
  tried her on like the Lord series or anything like that
• 1:30:55
  yet, but. My 1 friend, she read that
• 1:30:58
  series and she would write me and tell me and she would send
• 1:31:01
  me hot faces and stuff like that when she was reading that Yeah,
• 1:31:06
  I have not that was not I don't have that one on my TBR, but she
• 1:31:10
  did read that and that's which she would send me Yeah it's.
• 1:31:15
  But then I got. Her very hot series.
• 1:31:17
  Then I think I got her to read. Oh, she was reading.
• 1:31:21
  Was it Scarlett St. What's her?
• 1:31:25
  Name oh St. Clair.
• 1:31:26
  Saint Clair, What is it? Her Hades and Persephone.
• 1:31:30
  Persephone, she was reading that and she was telling me what book
• 1:31:35
  she was reading. And then she told me the next
• 1:31:37
  one she was reading. And I'm like, I'm like, I think
• 1:31:40
  something happened here because she was saying that something
• 1:31:41
  wasn't making sense or something.
• 1:31:43
  I told her I said you skipped the whole book and she was
• 1:31:45
  reading it and she missed the whole book and she had to go
• 1:31:47
  back and, and read it. But.
• 1:31:50
  But that. Yeah.
• 1:31:51
  But that's the same girl that was reading that one you were
• 1:31:53
  just talking about. So.
• 1:31:56
  All right. Is that all your stuff, Kirsty?
• 1:31:59
  I think. That's not anymore.
• 1:32:00
  I'm just you, you reminded me. I'm just checking the just
• 1:32:07
  checking the release date. Oh, a little early.
• 1:32:09
  It comes out in three days. OK.
• 1:32:12
  How do we feel about Rena Kent? I like Rena Kent.
• 1:32:16
  I love her actually. I don't know who that is.
• 1:32:22
  Nope. What what what?
• 1:32:24
  What does she write? Dark.
• 1:32:26
  Hot, hot, hot. Yeah.
• 1:32:30
  Interesting. It's pretty dark as well I
• 1:32:33
  think. Yeah, dark.
• 1:32:35
  It's very spicy. A lot of like you talk about
• 1:32:40
  morally Gray, morally black. Morally black.
• 1:32:44
  Yeah. So I just read.
• 1:32:46
  I just finished today. Big day for books for Kirsty,
• 1:32:51
  God of War. Yeah, I missed it today.
• 1:32:55
  Oh. That's a good one.
• 1:32:58
  And yes, again, she writes all, but they're all.
• 1:33:02
  So it's this massive. It's called the Reina verse.
• 1:33:04
  It's going to be like sturdy books now, and they're all
• 1:33:07
  interconnected. Oh, interesting.
• 1:33:10
  Oh, that's a big series. Yeah, or like so it's like
• 1:33:14
  generational. So like the the I would call
• 1:33:19
  this main, I would call that the main series.
• 1:33:21
  Would you agree with me, Katie? Those.
• 1:33:22
  Yes. And but then the books off of
• 1:33:26
  that are like, you learn about like the main characters in
• 1:33:30
  these six books. You learn about their parents
• 1:33:32
  and how their parents got together.
• 1:33:35
  So it becomes too interactional. It's very good.
• 1:33:38
  I just did the Heart of my Monster trilogy.
• 1:33:42
  Oh I love that. Was so good.
• 1:33:44
  So good. Yes, that was so good.
• 1:33:48
  Anyway, we've gotten off track. In three days, Tempting Venom
• 1:33:53
  comes out, which is the third one in the Vipers trilogy.
• 1:33:56
  So it was beautiful vibe, beautiful venom, sweet venom,
• 1:34:02
  and now tempting venom. I think that's correct.
• 1:34:05
  So would you put them in the category of like a dark romance
• 1:34:08
  kind of thing? Yeah, yeah, very dark.
• 1:34:10
  Yeah, I like dark romance. Dark romance.
• 1:34:13
  No, I think you'd like it. Yeah.
• 1:34:16
  There's just no. Magic.
• 1:34:23
  But very dark I. Do like dark romance?
• 1:34:25
  I mean, I do enjoy it. I think you would very much
• 1:34:28
  enjoy it. I'm not saying you wouldn't.
• 1:34:30
  Yeah, 'cause look at my friends for mere mortals.
• 1:34:35
  I love Nico. Interesting.
• 1:34:41
  What have you said? 30 books.
• 1:34:44
  Are they all big thick books or are they like little books that
• 1:34:48
  you can read real quick? They're.
• 1:34:50
  Three, 5400, maybe 500 pages at most.
• 1:34:54
  Like they're. Huge.
• 1:34:55
  Yeah, some of them are quite short and some of them are
• 1:34:57
  quite, I think, like. Do I have any?
• 1:35:02
  Oh my God, have any her physical copy?
• 1:35:06
  So the Legacy of God series is the main 10 OK and the first
• 1:35:11
  book is 576 pages. OK, OK, so but.
• 1:35:15
  It's quick. It goes by quick.
• 1:35:17
  How quick do I reckon? They're all pretty dark.
• 1:35:22
  Yeah. That one's a bit like fucked up
• 1:35:27
  in the beginning, but I think my second one is Landon and Mia
• 1:35:35
  that's got ruin. Yeah, she's mute.
• 1:35:39
  Which I Yes, very. I read those so long ago that
• 1:35:45
  wasn't out yet. Wow, yeah OK fair.
• 1:35:48
  I only just picked her up this year and I've read, I reckon
• 1:35:53
  I've read at least 15. Yeah, I read God of War and God
• 1:35:57
  of Malice. Yeah, nice.
• 1:36:00
  Yeah, there's six of them in that series.
• 1:36:04
  Yeah. But yeah, would recommend
• 1:36:06
  anyway. Sweet Venom is coming out in
• 1:36:10
  three days. It's.
• 1:36:12
  Exciting for three days for me because it's the 27th year.
• 1:36:17
  Oh, yeah, because you're in. Yes, you're in tomorrow.
• 1:36:20
  Were in yesterday for you. Yes.
• 1:36:23
  I always find it so weird right now while you're over there, but
• 1:36:27
  soon you'll be behind us. You'll not be.
• 1:36:29
  Behind you so you know it's fine.
• 1:36:31
  Yeah, because all three of us are East Coast.
• 1:36:33
  Yes, yeah, I did. Ask and then you're going to be
• 1:36:36
  well, when you're in Alaska. What is?
• 1:36:38
  Because that's that's not West Coast.
• 1:36:41
  Isn't Alaska its own thing? Alaska does whatever Alaska
• 1:36:44
  wants. I.
• 1:36:45
  Feel I can see. I don't even know if they follow
• 1:36:49
  I think. What well, see, my brother lived
• 1:36:51
  in Alaska, but, but he was when he lived in Alaska, he's down.
• 1:36:56
  He was down in the tail part of Alaska.
• 1:36:59
  I think he was Pacific Time there, if I remember correctly,
• 1:37:04
  because it's been a number of years since he had lived there.
• 1:37:06
  But I think Alaska, there's there's another time zone or
• 1:37:11
  something happening up there. They have two.
• 1:37:14
  They have the Alaska time zone and they also follow the Hawaii
• 1:37:17
  time zone. So you'll be probably you could
• 1:37:23
  be like 6 hours behind us because I think, I think Hawaii
• 1:37:25
  is 6 hours behind us. Hawaii is it's nearly 9:00 AM
• 1:37:30
  and Alaska, the Alaska one, it's nearly 10 AM.
• 1:37:35
  OK. 10 AM, So it's almost 2 here.
• 1:37:37
  So OK, so you'll be that many hours and then as you go on your
• 1:37:41
  adventure and as you drive South, then that'll change.
• 1:37:46
  By the time you get to now, when you get to Argentina, what time
• 1:37:50
  zone are they on? It'll be similar to Lai believe.
• 1:37:56
  OK, interesting. Yes, we're going to follow
• 1:37:59
  Kirsty on her journey and live vicariously through her while
• 1:38:03
  she does this. What time did you say it is
• 1:38:05
  there? Oh, no, they're an hour ahead.
• 1:38:07
  They're an hour ahead of you. Argentina, OK, so it's so it's
• 1:38:11
  252 there. Interesting.
• 1:38:15
  So then you'll be ahead of us by an hour.
• 1:38:16
  That's it's going to be interesting over time I think.
• 1:38:20
  But I think it'll be better though.
• 1:38:22
  Everyone is. Yes, but I think it'll be better
• 1:38:24
  than what's happening right now because you're right now at
• 1:38:28
  almost 2:00 in the morning where you are.
• 1:38:30
  I did nap. Oh, but say bless you.
• 1:38:33
  Yeah. She's brave.
• 1:38:36
  She is brave person. From like yeah and not for like
• 1:38:41
  an hour was fine. So that that's all, that's all
• 1:38:46
  of your books. So now.
• 1:38:48
  Yes, sorry, I'm finally done when I said I had nothing to
• 1:38:51
  talk about. OK, OK.
• 1:38:57
  I've only got well, OK, I've got a like a extra.
• 1:39:00
  I got 4 because it comes out the 28th, but I didn't realize that.
• 1:39:06
  But I'm going to talk about it anyway because I'm very excited
• 1:39:08
  about it. And that is the arc that I'm
• 1:39:11
  reading the wild born by Oops, oops by her name, Perry Tarani.
• 1:39:23
  And just a shout out because I'm wearing the do we see?
• 1:39:29
  Can we see that that? Was cute, yeah.
• 1:39:32
  You're snazzy. You've got these.
• 1:39:34
  You got a fancy shirt? Where am I?
• 1:39:38
  Hot alien man chick from Earth gets stranded there together on
• 1:39:43
  a planet and got to figure shit out.
• 1:39:46
  So it's really good. I have not finished it but I'm
• 1:39:51
  excited for the world to get to read it because it's really
• 1:39:55
  good. So OK, let's see.
• 1:40:00
  Another alien paranormal romanticy book by Kimberly
• 1:40:07
  Lemming. She does kind of like alien
• 1:40:11
  smut. That's really funny.
• 1:40:13
  This one is called I Punched an Alien and now we're in couples
• 1:40:18
  therapy. That is the entire name of the
• 1:40:20
  book. Interesting.
• 1:40:23
  I'm here for it. Yes, and that is number 2 in her
• 1:40:26
  Cosmic Chaos series. So literally anything she writes
• 1:40:32
  I'm excited for. I haven't read the first book in
• 1:40:35
  that particular series, but I have read several other books
• 1:40:38
  from her and my God, like there's a perfect palate
• 1:40:43
  cleanser for me if I've read like a really heavy book 'cause
• 1:40:46
  it's just like monsters and aliens and smut and just a great
• 1:40:50
  time every every time. And they're ridiculous titles
• 1:40:54
  every time also. OK, and then let me see that one
• 1:40:59
  is August 18th. And then Hannah Nicole Mirror.
• 1:41:08
  Mirror, I think is how we say her last name.
• 1:41:11
  She did the Assistant to the Villain series.
• 1:41:15
  Oh, I know what that is. I've seen that before.
• 1:41:17
  Yes, so book #4 which is adversary to the villain.
• 1:41:22
  It comes out August 4th and that's like cozy romanticy.
• 1:41:28
  I I've only read the first book in the series but I loved it so
• 1:41:32
  much that I bought like 3 special editions and it's just
• 1:41:36
  like that book alone. There is not really any spice to
• 1:41:42
  the first book but but so so freaking good.
• 1:41:47
  Like it is so hilarious and I just could not recommend it
• 1:41:51
  enough. Love that.
• 1:41:54
  OK last book is the Iron Hex by Victoria Walsh.
• 1:41:59
  That's also August 4th. She this is going to be her
• 1:42:03
  debut novel. It's romanticy, has witches in
• 1:42:06
  it. I just see her a lot on
• 1:42:09
  Instagram and the vibes she's given are vibing and I'm really
• 1:42:14
  excited for it. So yeah.
• 1:42:17
  And that's all. Fantastic.
• 1:42:20
  Have you read the Dark The Dark Lords guide to?
• 1:42:25
  Oh, I have it. I already know.
• 1:42:27
  Yeah, but I have not yet. I love that one.
• 1:42:30
  It's so like, it's so campy and hilarious.
• 1:42:34
  Like, I love it. Yeah, I love, I love like
• 1:42:38
  serious books, but I love humor. Like if a book has humor, I'm
• 1:42:44
  going to get probably give it five stars regardless of if it's
• 1:42:48
  actually, you know, good or whatever.
• 1:42:51
  Like I love humor in a book. Love it.
• 1:42:54
  Have you read any of the Twisted Sisters?
• 1:42:57
  Oh. I love the twisted sisters.
• 1:42:59
  OK. I Caroline Peckham and Suzanne
• 1:43:03
  Valenti. Oh.
• 1:43:04
  OK, well I've read. I have fun I DNF them I they are
• 1:43:10
  not my but now again like you guys use use love them.
• 1:43:14
  I just could not get into Zodiac Academy.
• 1:43:19
  I have it sitting on my. Shelf.
• 1:43:21
  Have you tried the? Do you?
• 1:43:23
  Do I don't ever do I don't ever do audio now I just I just
• 1:43:28
  couldn't get into it. It's just, yeah, it just it, it
• 1:43:31
  drug for me and I got to, it took me like over a week just to
• 1:43:36
  get to chapter 8 and it was just and it was one of those kind of
• 1:43:40
  feelings, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:43:41
  And so IDNFD it. Their other series, Zodiac
• 1:43:46
  Academy is actually one of my least favorite series.
• 1:43:49
  So I've written yes, but I do not like to be emotionally
• 1:43:53
  damaged by books. Oh my God.
• 1:43:55
  And they it's like their goal to like make you bleed through your
• 1:44:02
  eyeballs. It's like it's marble.
• 1:44:05
  OK, so this series is amazing. I only like the 4th book hasn't
• 1:44:12
  come out yet, but this series is so funny and very it's dark too.
• 1:44:20
  It's absolutely hilarious. But it's set in Academy setting.
• 1:44:26
  It's called the brutal boys of ever like prep series.
• 1:44:29
  And yes, yeah, so the first one is called Kings of Quarantine.
• 1:44:33
  It's set during like a pandemic that happens.
• 1:44:36
  So it's like there's people fighting over toilet paper and
• 1:44:41
  you know, like stuff like that. So there's a lot of humor and
• 1:44:46
  things and a lot of the characters like one of the it's
• 1:44:49
  why choose and one of the main male characters like you can't
• 1:44:53
  if you wake him up, like he wakes up very violently and
• 1:44:57
  before he's about to wake, he always says the most ridiculous
• 1:45:00
  things and he'll be like, die fucked a watermelon with your
• 1:45:04
  grandmother's ballerina or something, like just the most
• 1:45:07
  random shit. And you're just like, Oh my God,
• 1:45:09
  I just love him. It's so funny and there there is
• 1:45:14
  a Internet wide joke of the squid emoji based off of this
• 1:45:19
  book series. Really.
• 1:45:21
  OK, you can literally look up the squid emoji like Google it
• 1:45:26
  on squid emoji Twisted Sisters. And yeah, but it's also a thing.
• 1:45:33
  Like you can't tell people what the squid emoji means because
• 1:45:36
  they have to read the book series.
• 1:45:38
  When you read this, is it, is it the same kind of thing where
• 1:45:41
  like one sister's writing 1 chapter or the other sisters
• 1:45:44
  writing the same chapter? Is it that same kind of writing?
• 1:45:48
  Because see, I just didn't like how they for me, I didn't like
• 1:45:51
  how they wrote. Is it a different kind of vibe
• 1:45:55
  do you get? When you're reading it, this is
• 1:45:57
  way, no, this is way different because it's not.
• 1:46:02
  There's one female main character, so it's not as
• 1:46:07
  segregated. You know, it's a lot more fluid
• 1:46:11
  now and, and the characters in it, the male characters in it
• 1:46:15
  are different enough to where if one sister wrote 1 male
• 1:46:19
  character and one sister wrote another male male character,
• 1:46:22
  like you wouldn't really be able to tell just because the
• 1:46:24
  characters are so. Different, so different.
• 1:46:26
  OK, maybe I'll give them another try.
• 1:46:30
  It's beautiful. And the audio books by Bridget
• 1:46:32
  and Jake Bordeaux are? Say less amazing.
• 1:46:36
  Say less Now I have a question for you guys now.
• 1:46:40
  Have any of you ever went to any of the big book conferences?
• 1:46:44
  You know, when they have them like like book con, romantic
• 1:46:47
  con, monster con Have you have you?
• 1:46:50
  I would love to go to one of them someday.
• 1:46:52
  I would love it if they had like they came to Louisville because
• 1:46:55
  I'm so, you know, I'm really close.
• 1:46:58
  I would love it if they did. I would love to go to romantic
• 1:47:01
  con. That would be my, I think that
• 1:47:04
  it's only in LA or Orlando. You're close.
• 1:47:06
  You could probably go to Orlando.
• 1:47:09
  But have but have you, any of you gone to any of those?
• 1:47:12
  I went to Outlander Con years and years ago.
• 1:47:17
  That was fun. And I've gone to like Comic Con
• 1:47:20
  in New York, which also had some authors and stuff there.
• 1:47:24
  I haven't done the book things yet because I haven't found
• 1:47:30
  usually. Honestly, I don't find out about
• 1:47:32
  them until. After the tickets are long sold,
• 1:47:35
  yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:37
  Like there was one in like New Orleans I really wanted to go
• 1:47:40
  to. And I found, I found out like
• 1:47:41
  the weekend before there was one in Texas I really wanted to go
• 1:47:44
  to. Same thing I was like.
• 1:47:47
  Well, they have like where Jess is that they have a Polycon
• 1:47:50
  there that's close to you, I think.
• 1:47:53
  I think that would be a really neat one to go to.
• 1:47:56
  Yeah. Oh, what was the one?
• 1:47:59
  But romantic econ? Because Chelsea went to romantic
• 1:48:02
  econ and she got to meet a lot of the different authors and
• 1:48:05
  stuff and she went around and she gave all the ones that she
• 1:48:09
  met because she does, she has a 3D printer.
• 1:48:11
  And she did Little Wolves because she had read the was it
• 1:48:16
  the The Wolf King? Is that what it is on the wolf?
• 1:48:19
  What is it? Yeah, what is it?
• 1:48:21
  The wolf King? The Wolf.
• 1:48:22
  King, the Night Prince and very good.
• 1:48:25
  And so she was handing those out, you know, so people would
• 1:48:28
  remember, like remember, because Chelsea does narration and
• 1:48:32
  stuff. So so she was handing out her
• 1:48:34
  stuff and that, but she loved it.
• 1:48:36
  She absolutely loved Romana Secon and I, and she was there
• 1:48:39
  the whole because I think it's like a whole weekend thing and
• 1:48:42
  stuff like that. But I would love to do that.
• 1:48:44
  I think that was super fun and you get to dress up and stuff.
• 1:48:48
  I think that would be fun. I want to do one of the about
• 1:48:52
  the fairy ball things, you know, where they have all that.
• 1:48:55
  I would love to do that. Yeah.
• 1:48:57
  I want to wear one of those big dresses and I want to wear and
• 1:49:00
  push this all up and have overflowing and big gown and
• 1:49:05
  something I don't know. I could never get my husband to
• 1:49:08
  go with me. He would never.
• 1:49:09
  He would, he would come with me to the hotel.
• 1:49:12
  He would not partake in the events because he'd rather he
• 1:49:17
  would bring his his gaming system with it and he would do
• 1:49:19
  that. I did, again, little left field.
• 1:49:25
  I did sports romance con this year, which is in Minnesota, in
• 1:49:33
  Minneapolis. That was pretty good.
• 1:49:36
  Yeah, but I didn't know anyone. So Jared came with me to
• 1:49:39
  Minnesota. We were there for four days, I
• 1:49:41
  think, and it was a 2 1/2 day convention and I made some great
• 1:49:45
  friends. It's like 5 or 6 of us in a
• 1:49:47
  little group chat, which is cute.
• 1:49:49
  But yeah, again, I met some really cool authors.
• 1:49:52
  And yeah, I, I really only went because I wanted to meet Chelsea
• 1:49:58
  Kerto, the author I was talking about before, because she was
• 1:50:02
  there, so I met her. But then I also met some other
• 1:50:04
  really cool authors and now I like Arc Reed and I'm on their
• 1:50:07
  St. teams and. Stuff which is very cool.
• 1:50:09
  So it's a great way to make connections.
• 1:50:13
  Oh, absolutely. Well, when you were saying
• 1:50:15
  Outlander Con Heidi Adams, that was on the podcast in May
• 1:50:21
  because she's doing her audio book for her Rose Moon book and
• 1:50:25
  the one guy that is going to do the voice from it, he was on
• 1:50:28
  Outlander. Yes.
• 1:50:30
  And I can't remember, I don't know his name now.
• 1:50:32
  I can't remember what she said. But but yeah, she went down to
• 1:50:36
  the Outlander thing because that's I think like in North or
• 1:50:39
  South Carolina. She went, she met him, she
• 1:50:42
  showed her book. This was before it was published
• 1:50:45
  or anything. And she gave it to him in a
• 1:50:46
  spiral bound that she had printed.
• 1:50:48
  Like it, like it. Office Depot or whatever.
• 1:50:52
  Yeah. And.
• 1:50:53
  And she told him, well, she said someday, if this ever gets made
• 1:50:56
  into a movie, she said, I love you, you know, for you to play
• 1:51:00
  this character. And he took it.
• 1:51:03
  But she just was like, he'll never Remember Me, whatever.
• 1:51:05
  Then she went back after her book got published, she went
• 1:51:09
  back down because he was going to be there again.
• 1:51:11
  And she asked him if he would voice the the main character in
• 1:51:16
  her book. And he said, oh, yeah, he's
• 1:51:18
  like, here's my agent's name. But she said she didn't think,
• 1:51:22
  you know, you know, because sometimes, you know, they'll
• 1:51:23
  just be nice to you when they meet you.
• 1:51:25
  And she said within minutes, his agent called back and said, oh,
• 1:51:28
  yeah, that's so cool. Yep.
• 1:51:30
  So he's doing the narration for. I'm so happy for her and she's
• 1:51:33
  so excited. But Rose Moon is another very,
• 1:51:36
  very good book as well. So if you guys are interested in
• 1:51:39
  little or little Heidi Adams and she's so cute.
• 1:51:42
  Was that the same guy that's doing the Quinn app?
• 1:51:46
  I don't know. Have you heard of the Quinn app?
• 1:51:49
  No, yes. Nope.
• 1:51:54
  So it's an application on your phone that you you have to like,
• 1:51:58
  you have a subscription. And they do like, they're not
• 1:52:03
  books, they're like short stories or stories and they do
• 1:52:06
  like episodes in audio, but they're just, they're just
• 1:52:11
  fails. Pure filth.
• 1:52:13
  Pretty. Much.
• 1:52:14
  Yeah. They're great.
• 1:52:15
  Interesting, the interesting things we're finding out from
• 1:52:18
  Kirsty here today. So they've got, I think they
• 1:52:22
  got, yeah, I'm bringing the vibe they got.
• 1:52:29
  Have you heard of heated rivalry?
• 1:52:31
  Yeah, of course I'd be. Like man, you're under a rock if
• 1:52:34
  you didn't know. That's the Hockey 1, correct?
• 1:52:37
  Yes, yes, yes. OK.
• 1:52:38
  The gay hockey. Male male.
• 1:52:40
  Yeah, male. Male hockey and.
• 1:52:42
  Now there's and they do TV. Yes.
• 1:52:44
  Yes, yeah. So that became ATV show.
• 1:52:46
  Yeah. And then Quinn picked them up.
• 1:52:49
  So Quinn are very good at their marketing and they picked them
• 1:52:51
  up to narrate a book or an episode or whatever they call
• 1:52:55
  it. So they did it and then they
• 1:52:58
  just had. So then there was Off Campus,
• 1:53:01
  which is the TV show that just came out.
• 1:53:03
  Also hockey. The couple, a couple from that,
• 1:53:09
  not the main couple, but a different couple that will be
• 1:53:11
  the main couple. Long story short, they're doing
• 1:53:14
  it, which is super exciting. But one of the guys from
• 1:53:17
  Outlander is doing long story. The guy from Outlander is doing
• 1:53:22
  a book on. Oh, Quinn.
• 1:53:25
  Interesting. Interesting.
• 1:53:26
  Yeah. Pure filth.
• 1:53:27
  No storyline. Applied.
• 1:53:30
  No. So it's one of those ones that's
• 1:53:32
  like 90% smart, 10% story. OK, what?
• 1:53:37
  OK, interesting. Oh, now just something random
• 1:53:42
  though, we are going to have in August, I'm hoping to have some
• 1:53:47
  couple authors that are going to be coming on that are going to
• 1:53:49
  be a little bit more spicy than than our regular stuff.
• 1:53:53
  So, so just some just random information there.
• 1:53:57
  This has been exciting girls today.
• 1:53:59
  Have you had fun for your debut? Yes.
• 1:54:03
  Yes. Absolutely.
• 1:54:05
  I've had so much fun, but now I think we have a lot to look
• 1:54:09
  forward to, you know, one with, you know, besides ourselves.
• 1:54:12
  But, you know, we have a lot to look forward to just in this
• 1:54:15
  next quarter of all the books releasing.
• 1:54:18
  And, you know, like anybody who listens to us now, I mean, you
• 1:54:22
  know, it's just not just my wheelhouse of, you know, spicy
• 1:54:25
  romanticy, dark fantasy, dark romance.
• 1:54:27
  These girls all bring a lot of other things to the podcast.
• 1:54:32
  All right now. Now, if you left what we're
• 1:54:34
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• 1:54:37
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• 1:54:55
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• 1:54:58
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• 1:55:13
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• 1:55:16
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• 1:55:19
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• 1:55:22
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• 1:55:30
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• 1:55:33
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• 1:55:37
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• 1:55:42
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• 1:55:49
  Did you drink all of yours, Jess?
• 1:55:51
  Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, what's going on down the
• 1:55:55
  we'll know about? We'll know about the Sparkle
• 1:55:57
  information soon. Yeah, I'll give you all an
• 1:55:59
  update about the Sparkle. Goodnight, buck babes.
• 1:56:03
  Bye, bye, bye.