Death by a Thousand Books

Now entering the Rep era of Death by a Thousand Books podcast. Four episodes of fun, light hearted romance novels - now here we are giving you our take on an incredibly dark & twisted book called Verity by Colleen Hoover. It’s a perfect example of how there’s a Taylor Swift song for any book you throw in our direction. You’d think it’d be hard to find a song for a murder/mystery/thriller but there is a touch of romance in this book that fits in between the lines. If you haven’t read this book yet, make sure you don’t have plans the next day because you will stay up until 2am finishing it. 

This book is suspenseful, creepy and highly questionable. There are two sides to every story and in Verity, we are left in the end extremely confused. The writing comes off very surface level and one sided at times so we want to have an open mind when talking about all the different theories behind the climax. In this episode, we take a look into who we think Verity truly is as a character and who the real villain is in this story. Oh and let’s not forget to discuss the damn manuscript. So much to get into this episode but Don’t Blame Me… blame Colleen Hoover.  

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Okay lovers, this one is for you.💗Booktok made us read this one, and we are pretty damn glad they did. It’s always hard jumping into a book from booktok or bookstagram because the expectation is already set so high by so many other people. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace may have set a new high standard for romance novels in our world. Reading this book felt like listening to Lover (the album) for the first time - fun, romantic, adorable, peaceful.  Nate & Stassie are a couple that came together so naturally, and we loved the way their story was told. The book is written from a dual POV so we get to see their individuality as characters while seeing them fall in love simultaneously. Bonus trope: side characters!! Lola, Henry, JJ - every character in this book has their own little storyline.

You already know Lover is our favorite album, and Lover is our favorite song. Which brings us full circle back to this episode. We knew it had to be something special - sooooo, since we have a love story told from both Nate & Anastasia’s perspective, we chose a twist on our favorite song that does the same thing. Taylor Swift and Shawn Mendes in the SAME song?? What are you waiting for?? Press play!

Icebreaker is the debut novel by author Hannah Grace, and she did not disappoint; her second book Wildfire is in the works as we speak! Check out the book synopsis below for this episode:

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. A competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win. No exceptions.

Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders. When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one. 

The pair find themselves stuck together in more ways than one, but it’s fine, because Anastasia doesn’t even like hockey players…right?

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Continuing on the trend of our favorite Taylor Swift exes, this one’s for our Taylor Lautner girlies. If you dated Taylor Swift in her peak pop country years, you knew it was almost guaranteed she wrote a song about you. However, how you treated her in that relationship determined what kind of song you got in return. The song featured in this episode is an apology to a former lover, something that she has never done before. Despite the speculation, it was confirmed years later to be about our favorite werewolf boy.  "Guys get what they deserve in my songs, and if they deserve an apology, they should get one.” -Taylor Swift. For such a light, summer-y themed book, it may seem a little weird but we’re going to take a trip Back to December. 

Carley Fourtune’s Every Summer After features the same kind of Love & Other Words friendship plotline with a taste of second chance romance. Love is messy, and so are the good read reviews of this book, which brings us to a very controversial episode of really breaking down the contents of the relationship between Sam and Percy. Free preview in the book description below:

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. She spends her time in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. Until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

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Who’s your favorite Taylor Swift ex to hate? If the answer is John Mayer, you’re correct. However, if the answer is Jake Gylenhaal, then we have a book for you. This is the first book from Colleen Hoover’s collection that is up for discussion but it will certainly not be the last time you hear her name on this podcast. She has always said that It Ends with Us holds a special place in her heart. You can tell that it’s a personal story and because of that, it has a powerful message behind it. Ryle Kincaid is the Jake Gylenhaal of the Taylor Swift world: charismatic, lovable, but exposed for the poor decisions he made and the terrible truth behind him as a man. 

Contrary to what you may be thinking, this episode isn’t about All Too Well but it is from the Red era. It’s about the journey through the different colors and emotions of what it feels like to have and lose someone. The sad blues, the lonely grays, and the burning reds. It captures the overall feeling of this whirlwind of love and makes it perfect to compare to It Ends with Us in this episode. 

It Ends with Us went viral on TikTok in 2021 and quickly became the book of the summer, which was unheard of given that it was published in 2016. Selling less than twenty-thousand copies in its first year of publication, it now has an estimated number of over 500-thousand sold copies.  Check out the book summary written below:

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.  Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily.  As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

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If you’re a sucker for the Folklore love triangle between Betty, James & Augustine, then we have a book for you. Without giving any spoilers, this book is told from the future (like Cardigan) but also references past points in time (like Betty and August). So we are getting different glimpses of the same story from multiple perspectives that are all leading up to the same moment in the end. The simplicity in Christina Lauren’s writing style is comforting. It’s not flashy or extra; it tells a simple love story between a boy and a girl that fall in love and grow up together. In this episode, we go into emotions of young love, feeling like you don’t belong, and loss of a loved one. We talk about the character growth of both Macy and Elliot and how their love story is a reflection of Taylor Swift’s song from her Folklore album: Cardigan.

Love & Other Words is written by Christina Lauren. Other books in her anthology include: The Unhoneymooners, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Something Wilder. Check out the book summary written below:

“After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.”

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