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Welcome back to episode 9 of Flip the Page. Today, we're going to be digging through a Black sapphic romance book and the best friends to lovers trope.

Rosewater by Liv Little is a Black sapphic romance that tells the story of Elsie, a 28-year-old aspiring poet, living in London, who has struggled finding a stable home ever since she was sixteen and left her house. At the beginning of the story, she is evicted from her apartment and reaches out to her best friend, Juliet, who she has not spoken to in 3 months, to ask to stay with her while she finds a way to get back on her feet. As the story progresses after she moves into Juliet’s apartment, you see Elsie struggling with finding and defining “home”, regulating and expressing her emotions, her relationship with Juliet, and coming to terms with her feelings for Juliet.

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Welcome back to episode 8 of Flip the Page. I’m your host Zo and today we’re going to be talking about a popular trope in romance: Fated Mates.

The book I’m going to be submitting in as evidence to frame my breakdown of this trope around is A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams.

Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.

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Welcome back to episode 7 of Flip the Page!

In today's episode, I'll be diving into one of my least favorite mystery book genres in Rachel Howzell Hall's, "They All Fall Down".

Miriam Macy sails off with six strangers to a private island off the coast of Mexico, believing she’s about to partake in a reality competition show, in a remote island paradise, with a hefty monetary prize set for the winner to take home. It isn’t long, however, before she realizes she, and the others on the island were played. When people start dropping like flies, Miriam realizes the game she was brought onto this island to play, is a lethal one. With each person harboring dark secrets and suspicion running rampant on the remote island, Miriam can only trust herself as she works to uncover who on the island is behind these murders, before she is the next one to drop.

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Welcome back to another episode of Flip the Page! In today's episode, we'll be discussing "D'Vaughn and Kris Plan A Wedding" by Chencia H. Higgins. 

'Instant I Do'. The hit reality show where strangers are paired together and must convince their families they're getting married in six weeks, in hopes to win $100,000. D'Vaughn Miller knows her relationship with Kris Zavala is fake. But each week, she finds herself falling deeper and deeper. Suddenly, the prize money isn't the only thing at stake.

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Welcome back to episode 5 of the podcast! Our book for today's episode is "Outdrawn" by Deanna Grey; a slow burn, sapphic, rivals to lovers centered around two webcomic artists, Noah Blue and Sage Montgomery. As the Sage and Noah are forced to work together on a classic comic set to relaunch, they find themselves struggling to work together and struggling to deal with the feelings they are developing for each other.

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In today's episode, we'll be discussing Brendan Slocumb's, "The Violin Conspiracy". A riveting mystery thriller novel, centered around a Black classical musician prodigy and the theft of his violin. 

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In today's episode of the podcast, I'll be reviewing a contemporary romance novel by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, "Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?". 

The novel follows Yinka, a 32-year-old Black woman living in the UK, as she faces the compounding pressures of the patriarchy, an overbearing mother and aunties, and colorism, in her quest to secure herself a man. 

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Bridgerton fans! COME. GET. Y'ALL. JUICE!

Welcome back to another episode of Flip the Page! Since it's Bridgerton season, I have a special treat for all my Bridgerton babes and regency romance lovers. In this episode of the podcast, I'll be discussing Aphrodite and the Duke, a steamy historical romance with a dash of revenge plot, written by James McAvoy. The story is a second chance romance centered around a noble, Aphrodite Du Bell, and the man who jilted her several years ago, Evander Eagleman. Come with me as we read through the journey of the two ex-lovers!

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Plug into the first episode of Flip the Page, where I'll be deep diving into the contemporary adult fiction novel, "Queenie" by Candace Carty-Williams. 

In this episode, we'll unravel Queenie's self-journey through a case study on low self-esteem; examining how childhood trauma impacts Queenie's relationships and self-worth.

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