It's week 1 with our first book of 2026, and we're reading Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco! This week we're reading chapters 1-17. In this week's episode, we reconnect with the Prince of Envy and his quest to play a game....but first, we had to read the rules. Then we meet the one in his way, Camilla - who legit has soooo many secrets it's ridiculous. She's an artist who has a skeezy guy blackmailing her....it's much better when Envy helps her get away from this guy and blackmails her himself. We just want to know her secrets!
It's our annual New Year's countdown! Where we rank the books we read this year and discuss our top 10! What books have we ranked the same? Which ones are different? We don't know!!! But we do know that this is gonna be fun!
It's our last week with A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 23 to the end! This week, we get love declarations all around! But the way Louisa reacts to hers doesn't have us swooning. Clara also has a brush with death, but it goes away? And the person we least expect to come in and save the day makes an appearance! Why? Plot reasons!
It's week 3 with A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 14-22. This week, the house gets attacked, so the group needs to venture out into the wild! It's repeated a million times that Finias is super powerful, so essentially, if he's around, it's a guaranteed win! He and Clara get closer, and she divulges certain fantasies that he is keen to assist with. Meanwhile, Louisa and Lir continue to have all the red flags, and Louisa just continues making terrible decisions like dancing in her underwear around a stranger's house! They hate each other, then want each other, until Lir decides he doesn't hate her at all, and we don't know what to do with this confession......and neither does Louisa.
It's week 2 with the novel A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 8-14! This week, the eyerolls continue! Louisa is a straight-up horn dog, while Clara turns out to be freakier than we thought, and the Prince is a bit of a prude! Our intrepid heroines find their way into situations where kissing is the only way to survive.....and that happens a lot....meanwhile, the Sugarplum Fairy has been his normally charming self and shows interest in Clara (which she reciprocates!).
It's week one with our holiday-themed book, A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 1-7! This week, we meet our two main characters, Clara and Louisa and their unfortunate circumstances now that their father is dead and they have to move into their Godfather's house! We meet the (smuldering?) nutcracker, and Kristen tries to point out all of the differences between this Nutcracker retelling and the original ballet while Catherine deals with it!
It's our last week with Gild by Raven Kennedy, and we're finishing off with chapters 24 to the end! This week, we meet the pirates who attacked Auren's party, and they are terrible people....definitely not the hot pirates we know and love. The goal is for them to sell Auren and the other saddles off, but they are stopped by the hot commander from the 4th Kingdom. He's a fae warrior, so of course we love him. But before he can take Auren away, the captain wants to try her out, and we learn what truly happens when you cross Auren.
It's our third week with Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 14-23. This week, we see the aftermath of Midas' betrayal, and he's just as psychotic as we thought! Then we have the longest carriage ride in history, with topless saddles and nice soldier boys. Auren makes a friend, but then we get the greatest twist in literary history.....SNOW PIRATES!
It's week 2 with Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 9-13. This week, we see Auren get ready for her night with the gross King Fulke. She needs to come to terms with her relationship with Midas and how it's changed in the 10 years they've been together.....back when she was 15 and he was 22 (vomit....). She goes to the ball and is treated like an object, and then we find out Midas' true plan.....and boy is it a doozy!
It's time to dive into a new book! This month we're reading Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 1-8. This week we meet our main character, Auren, who has a very particular circumstance - she's completely dusted in gold, and lives in a gilded cage with the man who put her there, King Midas. But here's the twist - she loves him and apparently he loves her too, even though he's married to the Queen and even though he has a ton of servants whose sole responsibility is being available for sex whenever he wants. Yet for some reason, Auren loves him and wants to please him - but this week, Midas goes too far, and promises a night with Auren to a neighboring King to have access to his army. Auren has to rectify the man she loves with this King of ambition, and it sucks for her!
It's our last week with When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A Parker, and this week we're finishing it off with chapters 74 to the epilogue! In this thrilling conclusion, we get some spice as Raeve and Kaan finally get close, but then he forces her to make some hard choices. We FINALLY figure out who the Other is....we think.....and we momentarily actually have the hots for Rekk Zharos.............it's a problem......but bonus? We don't hate the ending, and there's no heartbreaking cliffhanger for us!
It's week 4 with When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker and we're discussing chapters 51 to 73. This week, Raeve sees another side of the Burn - mainly that they like Kaan. Kaan takes things fast and furious with her then ghosts for 30 days. Veya is going on a scary mission that seems insane. Kaan comes back and takes things 2 fast 2 furious again.
It's week 3 with our novel, When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker, and this week we're reading chapters 35-50. In this episode, we finally get a bit of spice! However, it doesn't go as far as we want it to go. We also get a weird ritual where 2 dudes fight for Raeve's hand, but she doesn't like it and wants to fight for her own instead. We go to Khan's kingdom and meet his buddies, and we also, finally, finally get some answers about Elluin and who Khan thinks Raeve really is (hint....it has to do with Elluin!!!!)
It's week 2 of reading "When the Moon Hatched" by Sarah A. Parker, and we're reading chapters 17-34. This week, Raeve deals with the consequences of the "others'" actions and is sentenced to death by dragon. She is also confused when the nice-smelling guy heals her and eventually saves her! She keeps trying to convince him to let her go, but he doesn't want to and is hell-bent on keeping her safe. What are his alternative motives? We have a lot of theories on that!
It's week one with our new book, When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker, and this week we're reading chapters 1-16. This week, we meet our main character, Raeve, who lives on the wrong side of the tracks and fights against the oppression that poor ppl face in her kingdom. She kills men and has fun with it - but she meets one guy and she can smell him...so you know what that means! An orphan she took in is collateral damage, and she lets her alter ego take over and kills a bunch more people for revenge before being apprehended by the king's guard. She's real mad about it, too!
It's our last week reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, and this week we're finishing off the book with chapters 34 to the end! This week we finally get what we've been after the whole book...spice! Mischa finally knows what love feels like but it is almost immediately ruined by Atroxus. In order to save her loved ones she has to make an impossible bargain, but Asar has his own deals to make. They find the last relic and have to complete the ritual, but do they have what it takes to do what needs to be done and possibly be separated forever? They do not....and we'll talk about it!
It's week 3 with The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, and this week we're reading chapters 24-33. This week, Mische gets in trouble in the Underworld when she finds out who Chandra is and why she was in Morthryn. Elias is a sneaky boy, and Mische comes face to ghost face with her maker, and it isn't pretty. Plus....we have strong questions about how ghosts bathe with real water, but they eat and drink fake food.......make it make sense!!! Oh, and there are more relics and ruins and stuff, too.
It's week 2 reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent and this week we're reading chapters 10-23. This week, Mische and the crew get attacked by a skeleton fire bird and Asar and Mische get closer.....apparently he smells special and she doesn't get it *eyeroll*. They keep going through the descent to get more relics and they keep running into dead people they know who hate them. They also keep getting hurt and it's a problem. Lastly....THEY KEEP FALLING OFF LEDGES....WHY????
It's a new month, so we have a new book! This month, we're reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, the third book in the Crowns of Nyaxia series. This week we're reading chapters 1-9. In this episode, we get reacquainted with Mische, the plucky, bubbly vampire who has a dark past. She is captured by the Shadowborn vampire royals after she killed their Prince - her maker, and instead of killing her, the unwanted son takes her on a perilous mission to the underworld instead. The issue, though, is that the God that she pledged her life to has just brought her back into his good graces, with the promise that she will fulfill a dangerous mission in the underworld - to kill a God. We also talk about a lot of stuff....
It's our last week reading Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and we're finishing off with chapters 44 to the end. This week, we finally find out what OOphelia's biggest fear is...and it isn't at all what we expected. Of course, Blackwell saved her from herself. They have some more hot times, and Ophelia finally finds her sister and then sends her away immediately, which makes us question, what was the point? Then Ophelia finally takes on the 8th level, and she comes face to face with the ruler of Phantasma and has to figure out how to save Blackwell and their relationship!