EPISODE 18

All Your Foreskin (All Your Perfects)  

Another episode, another book providing us the emotional trauma we didn’t know we were missing.  This week hosts Briony, Georgia and Ellie cover All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover. 

We take a ride through the relationship of Graham and Quinn and their struggles with infertility.   While we definitely discuss some sensitive topics throughout, foreskin is also somehow referred to - which is not surprising if you’ve listened to any previous episodes; but you’ve been warned.  

Music Reference: 

- Little Do You Know - Alex & Sierra  

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Hosts Georgia, Briony, and Ellie cover the heartbreaking book, A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole as recommended by a listener!  

We follow Poppy and Rune's story of young love and terminal cancer and discover that Georgia will do nearly anything for Brad Pitt and Ellie doesn't deal well with trauma. Like at all. Briony holds space to feel all the feelings despite the general sense of chaos in this episode.  

Forewarning: parts of this book will make you cry, and parts of this episode will make you inappropriately laugh. We make no apologies!  

Music references: 

- I Love You; Billy Eilish 

- Dare You to Move; Switchfoot 

- Only Hope; Mandy Moore  

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Assassins, demon cats & death? Say less. This week your hosts Briony, Ellie & Georgia get stuck into one of Briony’s all time favourites - Jay Kristoffs’, Nevernight.

This is a long and chaotic episode, and to be honest there’s more mention of incest and pink eye than initially anticipated but nonetheless we follow the life of Mia; a young assassin and her fear-drinking demon cat and their journey to becoming a Blade.

Ellie’s T-Swift moment:

* Daylight

* Renegade

Fan Art:

* @monolimeart

* @gonzalom.art

* @nanfe1789

* @morgana0anagrom

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This week the girls are covering Danielle L Jensen’s Bridge Kingdom. With sexy assassins, an island made entirely of snakes and an epic slow burn romance this episode well and truly has it all.

Hosts Briony, Georgia & Ellie fan girl over the epicness that is Lara while touching on the intricacies of jungle life, the hierarchy of hair colours and an interesting discussion of the world's most dangerous sea creature - the dolphin. But don’t worry, the plot is also discussed as well as Georgia’s favourite smut talk.

Music References:

War of Hearts by Ruelle

Fan Art:

@dominiquewesson

@thebeautifuldarknessart

@angelaanimates

@bxromance

@meliescribbles

@nataliebernardart

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Your hosts Briony, Ellie and Georgia are back this week with the second book in Kerri Maniscalo's Kingdom of the Wicked series, Kingdom of the Cursed! 

We are officially balls deep in Hell, following Emilia and Wrath through their tension filled, slow burn romance. We've got foodie moments, amazing scenery and a whole lotta Prince of Hell DICK. Thank you Kerri. The question is.. will Briony fall head over heels in love with Wrath even more? Will Emilia drive Georgia to the brink of insanity? Will Ellie ever actually have ANY questions answered? Tune in to find out! 

Check out the references from the episode below:

Ellie's T Swift moment:

* State of Grace

Fan Art:

* @windbyfire

* @rosiethorns88 

* @Jemlin_c

* @Morgana0anagro

EPISODE 13

Kingdom of the Cornetto

Your hosts Briony, Ellie & Georgia are getting hungry and horny this week while covering Kerri Maniscalo’s Kingdom of the Wicked.   

We follow Emilia - a young witch who, in the heat of losing someone close to her, summons a Demon Prince of Hell… The charming, hot-headed and SEXY AS HELL Prince of Wrath. When a mysterious string of deaths occur, Emilia ends up needing the assistance of the Prince of Hell to answer a long list of questions that are arising.. Will we ever actually get ANY answers though? Tune in to find out.   

Check out the references from the episode below:  

Ellie’s T Swift moment: 

* I Did Something Bad  

Fan Art: 

* @Morgana0anagrom 

* @Gabriella.bujdoso 

* @Monolimeart 

* @Jemlin_c 

* @Salteas 

* @Bxromance 

* @talia.nobel

Episode 12  

Church with Daddy Bell   

Strap in your titties we’re in for a wild ride. Your hosts Briony, Ellie & Georgia participate in their own kind of Holy Blessings while reading Sierra Simone’s saucy book, Priest.   

Father Tyler Bell (or Daddy Bell as we call him) faces off with temptation when he meets Poppy Danforth in his confessional booth. Will he be able to resist temptation and be the pure, holy priest he thought he was destined to be?   We’re discussing Religious trauma & holy oil being used for unholy things. 

To our families, please skip this episode & come back next week. This one’s not for the faint hearted. 😇

  Ellie’s T-Swift moment:  

* Don’t Blame Me   

References:  

* THE AUDIOBOOK 🤯

EPISODE 11 

Q & A / Introduction of the Fishbowl   

The poddy is 10 episodes in and we’ve decided to change things up with a Q&A and future book recommendations.  

This week Briony, Georgia & Ellie chat about their favourite books, characters who they resonate with (one of whom being daddy Az??) as well as books they want to cover on the pod.  We put all our listeners' recommendations into a fishbowl and draw out future eps! 

Stay tuned to find out what’s coming next!  

If you have any books that aren’t mentioned in this ep, please DM us on instagram! @abookandabev

In this week's episode the girls cover the Booktok famous, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. We journey through Evelyn's life discussing her (mostly trash) husbands; and of course the love of her life, Celia.  

Hosts Briony, Georgia, Ellie and Claire get emotional with their discussion on the representation of bisexuality; but they also keep it light with renditions of a Jojo classic, and Summer Heights High reference.  

Ellie's Taylor Swift Moment:

 - Reputation Prologue letter  

Fan Art:

 - @arda.arts

- @sunshineart29

- @barb.arts

- @shirogussi

EPISODE 9

A Trove of Rough Sex

We’ve taken a sharp turn away from YA with this SJM number - there’s smut for daysss. Nesta & Cassian take centre stage in Silver Flames and we unpack whether Nesta can overcome her issues and become less of a surly arsehole to everyone she encounters.

Georgia, Briony, Ellie & Claire raise issues with the swapping/placement of bodily fluids, discuss our mutual love for all things daddy Cas and and Az and tell interesting theories about the future of the beloved ACTOR series.

Check out the references from the show below:

Ellie’s Taylor Swift moment:

Fan Art: