Booktrospective

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Booktrospective episodes

  • Episode 61: Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas

    This week we are back with SJM for Book 3 of Throne of Glass: Heir of Fire! New characters, new scenery, still same bad energy brewing. Celaena must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. What will come of this journey?

    Triggers:

    • Depression
    • Trauma & nightmares
    • Suicidal ideation
    • Alcohol consumption
    • Blood & gore depiction
    • Physical injury
    • Grief & loss depiction
    • Death of a friend
    • Death of an mother & father recounted
    • Murder & attempted murder
    • Knife violence & stabbing
    • Torture
    • Home invasion
    • War themes
    • 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.
      2 hr 24 min
    • Episode 60: Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

      This week we are reviewing Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda. When Hazel Sharp unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, the town begins to find long-hidden secrets of father's previous wife and her mother.. who has been missing since she was a child.

      Triggers:

      • Death of a parent
      • Abandonment
      • Secrets
      • Hostility
      • Creepy atmosphere
      • Drought
      • 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.
        1 hr 26 min
      • Episode 59: The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

        This week we are reviewing The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey. Tallulah is twenty-six and broke; recovering from past trauma and when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity. Burgess needs to get back on the dating scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him but their insane chemistry mixed with their personal baggage causes this to go sideways.

        Triggers:

        Verbal abuse

        Stalking

        Kidnapping

        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.

        1 hr 29 min
      • Episode 58: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
        This week's episode covers Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, and the last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike and Derek’s father Buddy Lee were ashamed of the boys for being gay. Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge.
        Triggers:
        Ableism
        Abusive relationship (side characters, mainly off-page)
        Alcohol
        Alcoholism
        Assault
        Attempted murder
        Blood
        Cancer
        Car accident
        Cheating (side characters, mainly off-page)
        Child abuse
        Deadnaming
        Death
        Divorce (mentioned)
        Drugs
        Emesis
        Fire
        Gore
        Gun violence
        Homophobia
        Hospitalization
        Hostages
        Kidnapping
        Misgendering
        Murder
        Physical abuse
        Profanity
        Queerphobia
        Racism
        Slurs (including the n-word and f-word)
        Transphobia
        Violence
         
        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.
        1 hr 31 min
      • Episode 57: Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
        This week's episode covers Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. One July night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife Ethan was sharing with his best friend Billy, and took Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan and all of the neighbors are back home, and it seems that so is Billy. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?
        Triggers:
        Child Death
        Sexual Identity 
        Grief
        Car accident
        Death of parent
        Death of a spouse
        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.
        1 hr 15 min
      • Episode 56: The Pink Dress - A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin
        This week's episode covers The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin. Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin had no plans on becoming a beauty queen but after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty". A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane’s time imagined but its near destruction exposes reality.
        Triggers:
        Child Abuse
        Child Molestation
        Domestic abuse
        Emotional abuse
        Eating Disorder
        Infidelity
        Car accident
        Addiction
        Animal cruelty
        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.
        52 min
      • Episode 55: Keep It In the Family by John Marrs
        This week's episode covers Keep it in the Family by John Marrs. Mia and Finn are trying to rehab their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant and discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC. The baby arrives and Mia is haunted by the terrible things she saw and desperate to find answers.
        Triggers:
        Alcoholism
        Cancer
        Child Abuse
        Confinement
        Cursing
        Death
        Domestic abuse
        Emotional abuse
        Infidelity
        Forced institutionalization
        Kidnapping
        Grief
        Car accident
        Death of parent
        Pregnancy
        Postpartum depression
        Addiction
        Animal cruelty
        Miscarriage
        Gaslighting
        Pandemic/Epidemic
        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.
        1 hr 40 min
      • Episode 54: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas
        This week we are covering Crown of Midnight, the second novel in the Throne of Glass series. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion but she hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.
        Triggers:
        Blood
        Death
        Gore
        Profanity
        Violence
        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.
        1 hr 27 min
      • Episode 53: The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez
        Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend Ben for years—and his brother Theo Young, an ex-NFL player plans to confess his feelings for Ben's fiancée at their engagement party. She stops him but now everyone believes she is with Theo and in an attempt to help Theo and find her first fling, the pair lean into the rumors. There are no boundaries for the rebound relationship they form—just a host of complicated feelings, messy familial dynamics, and uncovered secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can even admit to themselves that their rebound is working. 
        Triggers:
        Parental abandonment
        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.
        1 hr 4 min
      • Episode 52: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
        Celaena Sardothien is an assassin - now slave - forced to fight for her freedom by becoming the King's champion. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass—and it's there to kill. 
        Triggers:
        Alcohol consumption
        Blood
        Death
        Gore
        Profanity
        Violence
        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.
        1 hr 20 min

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