Plot Twist: I Forgot

Today we’re talking about bookish hot takes for over hyped and under hyped books.  Do we hate one of your favorites?  We’re sorry.  We have our reasons.  Let us explain.

Over Hyped
Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak
Behind Closed Doors - B. A. Paris
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
The Only One Left - Riley Sagar
The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica
Kill Creek - Scott Thomas
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V.E. Schwab
House of Flame and Shadow - Sarah J Maas

Under Hyped
City of Dusk - Tara Sim
The Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart
King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo
Where Dream Descend - Janella Angeles
A Tribute of Fire - Sariah Wilson
Dear Child - Romy Hausmen
The Mountains Wild - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir


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This episode contains graphic and explicit content.  Listener discretion is advised. 

We wish we would have used podcaster discretion, because we will never be the same.  Today, we’re describing some unhinged romance reads to each other.  Have you ever given a sexually explicit book report?  It gets very weird.

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Today we’re talking about our favorite or not favorite Romance books and listener discretion is advised.  Romcoms,  somewhat unhinged Romance series, and Fanfiction, we’ve got it all.  Hit us up if you know the plural for synopsis because we…do not.


It Happened One Summer/Hook, Line, and Sinker - Tessa Bailey
The Boyfriend Project - Farrah Rochon 
The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
The Ravenhood Series - Kate Stewart
Remain Nameless - HeyJude19. (AO3)
Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love - isthisselfcare becoming The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy - Brigitte Knightley 
Manacled - SenYinLu becoming Alchemised


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Today we’re discussing The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard.  There will be spoilers, so if you haven’t read it yet, come back later! Let’s chat True Crime, Crime Fiction, and if we think we could catch a serial killer.


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Do you know The Nothing Man?  Who lives on Drury Lane?  Join us this week as we discuss our favorite Serial Killer Thrillers in preparation for this month’s reread, The Nothing Man.  Other topics include: why we’re okay with Denmark buying the U.S. and New Year’s resolutions.


*The Chestnut Man - Søren Sveistrup 
*The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson
*The Whisper Man - Alex North
*Please See Us - Caitlin Mullin
*I’ll be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara
*The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
* You Shouldn’t Have Come Here Jeneva Rose 
* Children’s House Series Yrsa Sigurdardóttir 
* Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka
* The Butcher Jennifer hillier 
* Unsub Series Meg Gardiner 
* The Island Ragnar Jónasson
* Creep and Freak Jennifer Hillier

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Looking forward to 2025?  So are we.  Today we’re talking our most anticipated reads of 2025.  Join us as we mind meld to go through the most exciting books coming next year.  There may be a few rants and digressions along the way.


Davyn’s Most Anticipated:
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix 
The Manor of Dreams - Christina Li
This Book Will Bury Me - Ashley 
The Library at Hellbore - Cassandra Khaw
The Ash Fire King - Chelsea Abdullah
The Favorites -  Layne Fargo 
Overgrowth - Mira Grant
The Unworthy Agustina Bazterrica
Oathbound - Tracy Deonn
When the Wolf Comes Home - Nat Cassidy
Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones


Lora’s Most Anticipated: 
Something in the Walls - Daisy Pearce
The Inheritance - Trisha Sakhlecha
When They Burned the Butterfly - Wen-yi Lee
What Hunger - Catherine Dang
Blood Moon - Britney S. Lewis 
Cold Eternity - S.A. Barnes
The Possession of Alba Díaz - Isabel Cañas
Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collin’s
Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros

Pretend we haven’t spent the last six months shoving these books in your face and join us on reminiscing about some of the best books we read in 2024.

Davyn’s Top 5 of 2024:
 ⁃ Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
 ⁃ The Angel of Indian Lake By Stephen Graham Jones
 ⁃ Fever House by Keith Rosson
 ⁃ Flesh and False Gods Series by Chloe Gong
 ⁃ What The River Knows by Isabel Ibañez 

Lora’s Top 5 of 2024:
- I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
- Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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*Disclaimer the sequel of The Phoenix King is not out until August 2025.

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It’s time to discuss our reread of Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.  Have you been screaming internally about how much we misremembered last episode?  We’re putting it right today.  Sort of.  We’re also deciding once and for all: Team Peeta, Team Gale, or Team Katniss Dies Alone.

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What makes a good sequel or series?  Today we’re talking sequels and what keeps us coming back for more emotional damage.  We’re also discussing what we remember from Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins before we reread them.  Welcome back to a fantasy episode.


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Happy Halloween!  Just when you thought things couldn’t get any spookier, Lora and Davyn are back with horror reads fit for any level of reader. And, as the cherry on top, one of them continues to be haunted by a malevolent spirit hellbent on being invited to the party.

Sit down, buckle up, and forgive us for this audio.