Booktrospective

This week we are covering The Aftermyth Volume 1 by Tracy Wolff. When Penelope and her twin brother Paris arrive at Anaximander’s, it appears fate has other plans. Penelope isn’t placed with Athena but with students who are anything but practical and who prefer parties to rules. And that’s just the beginning. At Anaximander’s Academy, students learn how to bring to life the stories of Greek mythology as well as discover the Greek god whose principles they most embody.

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering Conform by Ariel Sullivan. Emeline has been waiting to be selected as a Mate for a procreation contract. When she is finally chosen, her Mate is revealed to be a member of the Illum named Collin, a man who seems to be harboring secrets of his own. Collin is confusing, both cold and protective, and worse, she finds herself drawn to the very last person she should be falling for: Hal, one of the resistance leaders. Emeline is questioning everything—most of all whether she’ll have to give up her heart and even her life to stop them.

Triggers:

• Classism
• Murder
• Sexism
• Sexual content
• Violence
• Death
• War
• Child abuse
• Drug use

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Happy 2026! We're back and this is our monthly chat! We plan for one episode each month to be a chit chat where we can sit down, recap last month, look at our goals for the upcoming month, and blab a little (mostly spoiler free!) This is also our 2025 recap.

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

We're wrapping up 2025! This is our monthly chat! We plan for one episode each month to be a chit chat where we can sit down, recap last month, look at our goals for the upcoming month, and blab a little (mostly spoiler free!)

We will be taking our winter break after this episode and will be back on January 12, 2026! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering Good Spirits by B.K. Borison. Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday season exactly like every other - haunting the terrible people of Annapolis in his aimless existence as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Harriet York is a good person – or, at least, she tries to be. So, when Nolan is assigned the sweeter-than-candy-canes antique shop owner for his holiday haunting, neither of them have any idea why.

Triggers:

• Sexual content
• Death
• Emotional abuse
• Grief
• Toxic relationship
• Abandonment
• Body shaming
• Injury/Injury detail
• Cursing

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering 25 Days by Per Jacosbsen, a chilling holiday advent book. Adam Gray arranges a vacation in a remote cabin on a snowy mountain hoping to bring his family closer. The family makes a spine-chilling they’ve been dragged into a deranged game of Secret Santa, and if they want to survive, they will have to fight. 

Triggers:

• Death
• Violence
• Torture
• Murder
• Animal death
• Animal cruelty
• Fire/Fire injury
• Gun violence
• Confinement
• Vomit

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana. Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library, but really she’s after the one thing the Fae covet above all: magic of her own. As Lore navigates the hostile world outside, she’s forced to rely on two Fae males to survive. Two very different, very dangerous, very attractive Fae males. When undeniable chemistry ignites, she’s not just in danger of losing her life, but her heart to the very creatures she can never trust. 

Triggers:

• Death
• Violence
• Sexual content
• Rape
• Kidnapping
• Injury/Injury detail
• Sexual assault
• Death of parent
• Pregnancy

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering An Embroidery of Souls by Ruby Martinez. Jade can manipulate souls with the tug of a thread-- she has the unique ability to stitch love, beauty, intelligence and to unravel even death. Lukas Keller is desperate to feed his family and makes a deal with a vicious gang leader. Jade and Lukas form a mistrustful alliance. But as Mérecal erupts into chaos and the killer closes in, they must cling to one another for survival--and perhaps . . . something more?

Triggers:

• Death
• Death of parent
• Child death
• Classism
• Violence
• Grief
• Animal cruelty
• Cursing
• Blood

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

BONUS EPISODE!

For this bonus episode, we sat down with Ruby Martinez to discuss her debut novel, An Embroidery of Souls, which released on September 9, 2025. Ruby Martinez is a Mexican American writer who stuffs her books full of magic, romance, and mental health rep. An Embroidery of Souls, her debut novel, was an Indies Introduce and Indies Next Pick. She works as a therapist by day and lives in New Mexico with her daughter, husband, and parrots.

Check out Ruby on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rubymartinezauthor/.

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

This week we are covering Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the same question, over and over . . . Bela understands that unless she says yes, soon her family must pay.  

Triggers:

• Confinement
• Cursing
• Death
• Drug use
• Infidelity
• Toxic relationship
• Violence
• Gaslighting
• Abandonment
• Alcohol
• Injury/Injury detail

As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.