AHHHHH!

It’s finally here 👀
People We Meet on Vacation went from page to screen — and we have opinions.

In this bonus episode, we’re breaking down the book vs. movie adaptation:🎬 What the movie changed 😬💘 Poppy & Alex’s chemistry — did it translate?? 😭 The moments that still emotionally destroyed us👀 What made us scream “the book did it better…”

Perfect for:✨ Emily Henry fans✨ Romance readers who love adaptation discourse✨ Anyone asking “should I read the book first?”

If you love Emily Henry, rom-com adaptations, and ranking every emotional beat like it’s a sport — this episode is for you 💕✈️

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🎸 Reads & Rants: Ranting about... Daisy Jones & The Six

This week we’re diving into the glitter-drenched chaos of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six , the book (and hit series!) that made all of us wish we were on tour in the ’70s.

We unpack the Daisy vs. Billy creative chemistry, the quiet power of Camila, addiction and fame in the LA rock scene, and how TJR’s oral-history format turns the band’s mythology into something that feels real. Plus: Book vs. show changes, the Aurora soundtrack, Fleetwood Mac parallels, and why BookTok + Gen Z are living for this ’70s revival.

Backstage drama, heartbreak, and a whole lot of glitter — it’s the fictional rock documentary of our dreams.

In This Episode:

🎤 Daisy + Billy’s tension🎶 ’70s rock culture & Fleetwood Mac inspo📀 The Aurora album📚 Book vs. show✨ TJR’s universe (Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising)

Call to Action:
💬 Tell us your favorite fictional band or chaotic creative duo!🎧 Follow Reads & Rants on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your bookish chaos.📸 Join the conversation on Instagram @ReadsAndRantsPod and tag us in your Daisy Jones aesthetic posts!

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🎙️ Ranting about… The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 💚✨

Step into the world of Old Hollywood glam, scandal, and sapphic love affairs as we unpack The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid! From iconic emerald gowns and tabloid-worthy secrets to heartbreak, ambition, and morally gray women, we’re diving deep into everything that makes this book a BookTok favorite.

Join us as we debate Evelyn’s true love, rank all seven husbands (the good, the bad, and the Don Adler), and spill our dream casting tea 🍸 — Ana de Armas? Jessica Chastain? You decide.

Grab your “Evelyn Hugo” cocktail and tune in for fame, feminism, and a little heartbreak on the side. 🥂

💚 Themes and Tropes: sapphic love, fame & fortune, morally gray women, found family, old Hollywood, ambition, reinvention, bisexual rep
💚 Buzz: BookTok favorite, Taylor Jenkins Reid universe, literary fiction, celebrity gossip, glamorous tragedy, classic Hollywood romance

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts — don’t forget to tell us: Who you would rather have a drink with? What Hollywood Scandal Era would you want to live in? Who had a more tragic love story Jack & Rose or Evelyn & Celia?

Grab your garlic and your popcorn because this week Reads & Rants teams up with our friends at Super Film Club for a fang-tastic crossover episode all about vampire fiction, folklore, and the film Sinners 🎬

From Dracula to Twilight, Carmilla to Sinners, we’re tracing how the undead evolved from gothic monsters to seductive immortals — and how Ryan Coogler’s Sinners gives the vampire myth a hauntingly fresh twist.

💬 We dive into:

• The first vampires in literature and how they shaped the genre

• Why Ryan Coogler chose Remmick’s Irish backstory — and what it says about race, power, and immortality

• The evolution of vampire tropes from gothic horror to BookTok romantasy

• Our favorite book and film vampires 🩸

• The eternal debate: Book Vampires vs. Movie Vampires — who reigns supreme?

• Pop culture check-in: the vampire renaissance and why we can’t stop falling for the undead

🕯️ Tropes & Buzzwords: dark romantasy • gothic horror • paranormal romance • morally gray characters • enemies to lovers • forbidden desire • immortal angst • found family covens • cinematic universe

🎧 Listener Question:
Would you want to live forever as a vampire — or is mortality the real magic?

Tell us your favorite vampire in the comments!

✨ Follow us @readsandrantspod and tag your favorite vampire-core aesthetic with #ReadsAndRants and #SinnersMovie

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🎉 One Year of Reads & Rants! 🎉

We’re celebrating our 1-year anniversary with a deep dive into Hannah Whitten’s For the Throne—a dark romantasy sequel full of shadowy magic, morally gray characters, and enemies-to-lovers tension that had us swooning and ranting.

That’s not all– we’re joined by a most specialist guest and fantasy superfan, Liz Kluge! 

This episode we’re breaking down:

• 🖤 Trope Talk: gothic fairy-tale retelling, spicy enemies-to-lovers, bonds of sisterhood, reluctant monsters, and “I’ll burn the world to save you” energy

• 🌲 Wilderwood vs. Shadowlands — light vs. dark, roots vs. shadows, love vs. sacrifice

• 😭 That bittersweet finale we’re still not over
  

If you’re searching for your next BookTok romantasy obsession, love a messy morally gray love interest, or can’t resist a little enemies-to-lovers banter, this one’s for you. Thanks for sticking with us for a whole year—here’s to many more episodes of books, banter, and rants 🥂

💌 Listener Questions: 

• Would you rather:

• Fight the leviathan or the seamstress

• Neve’s year abroad or red’s forest escape 

• Arranged marriage or face kiri and her priestesses

• Wine or beer

• Eammon or Solmir

  
  

Episode Title: 🌲✨ Ranting about… For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten ✨🌲

The Vibes:

• ​Gothic romantasy 💀🌹
• ​Beauty and the Beast meets Little Red Riding Hood
• ​Dark forests, blood magic, cursed traditions, and a broody Wolf you’ll definitely simp for
• ​Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses, Uprooted, and other fairy tale retellings

Tropes We’re Talking About:

• ​Slow burn romance 🔥
• ​Morally gray love interests 🖤
• ​Sentient, creepy woods 🌲
• ​Found family + sisterhood 💕
• ​Duty vs. desire ⚔️❤️

Why You’ll Love This Episode:

If you’re hunting for your next fantasy romance, dark fairytale retelling, or atmospheric romantasy series, this episode is for you. We’ll rant, rave, and swoon over Hannah Whitten’s For the Wolf—a must-read for fans of gothic fantasy, enemies-to-lovers vibes, and booktok favorites.

Listener Questions:

Would you rather…

• ​Red cloak or silver crown
• ​Tamlin (pre-ACOSAF) or Eammon 
• ​Control over nature or getting visions
• ​Forest keep vs Palace

Call to Action:Light a candle, grab your cloak, and join us in the Wilderwood 🌲 Don’t forget to follow, rate ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, and share with your fellow book lovers!

💕We laughed, we swooned, we ranted … and now we’re closing out our Emily Henry era in peak chaotic fashion — by ranking all our book boyfriends from the EH universe. From broody beach-house neighbors to our favorite sweethearts, no fictional man is safe from our very “official” madness bracket.

We’re also spilling our favorite romance tropes (forced proximity! rivals-to-lovers! small-town meet-cutes!) and giving shout-outs to the side characters who low-key stole the show. If you’ve ever debated who rules the EH multiverse — Augustus Everett, Charlie Lastra, Wyn Connor — this one’s for you.

Whether you’re a Beach Read babe, a Happy Place stan, or still daydreaming about People We Meet on Vacation, come giggle, swoon, and over-analyze with us as we send off the queen of contemporary romance herself.

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🎙️ Ranting about… A Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry 📚

✨This week, we’re spiraling (in the best way) over A Great Big Beautiful Life, the newest emotion filled, utterly glamorous novel by Emily Henry. If you thought she couldn't ruin us more than she did with Funny Story... think again.

We unpack the big feelings, the slow-burn romance, the love that you have to let go, and the moments that made us want to call our sisters, exes, and maybe our therapists. Plus, we talk about what makes this book such a shift in Henry’s usual rom-com style, and why it still completely works.

🎧 Whether you're deep in BookTok or just want to know if this one is worth the read (spoiler: yes), hit play.

✨ In this episode:

• A spoiler-filled love letter to Emily Henry and the evolution of her writing
• Favorite moments we can’t stop thinking about
• Why this book feels like a hug and a heartbreak
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🎙️ Ranting About... Funny Story by Emily Henry 💔🍒✨

In this episode of Reads & Rants, we’re unpacking Emily Henry’s 2024 rom-com Funny Story — a breakup book that’s equal parts soft, swoony, and chaotically healing? We’re talking fake-dating tropes, roommate hookups, and what happens when your life changes course. Yes, it’s messy. Yes, it’s healing. Yes, we’re obsessed.

💫 From revenge Instagram posts to emotionally intimate audiobooks, we break down:

• 🔑 Key scenes that had us screaming into the void
  

• 💘 Why Miles might be Emily Henry’s best book boyfriend yet
  

• 😭 Our favorite quotes and most gut-wrenching moments
  

• 🍒 Fun drinks to sip while you listen
  

• 🎶 Pop culture vibes from April 2024: Taylor Swift’s record-breaking album, the Spice Girls reunion, and more
  

This one’s for anyone who's ever had to rebuild their life from scratch... and accidentally fallen for their messy, emotionally intelligent roommate.

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🎧 Stream now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your fiction-fueled rants!

📸 Tag us with your favorite Funny Story quote or cocktail @readsandrantspod — we’re here for the chaos AND the healing.

🎙️ Episode Title: Ranting About… Happy Place by Emily Henry 💖

🌟 Summary: Grab your favorite cozy drink and join us as we dive into Happy Place by Emily Henry! In this episode, we’re unpacking all the feels, the friendships, and the unforgettable romance of this swoon-worthy summer read. 🌞 Follow Harriet and Wyn, who return to their “happy place” — a Maine cottage — to face their past, all while pretending to be a couple in front of their closest friends. 💕 It's a mix of laughter, heartache, and self-discovery that’ll have you questioning your own happy place!

🔍 What We’ll Talk About:

• Second chances at love 🥰: Can pretending to still be together ever work? We’ll discuss the complexities of fake dating and whether it ever leads to the real thing! 💘

• Friendship dynamics 💬: How do close-knit friend groups evolve, and what happens when secrets are kept? We’ll dive into the ups and downs of the friendships that help shape our characters’ lives. 🌱

🍹 Perfect Pairing: We’ve got a Maine-inspired cocktail for you — the Maine Blueberry Fizz! 🫐 Refreshing, effervescent, and just like the book, it’s sweet with a little zing!

💬 Key Discussion Points:

• Do you think second chances in love are always worth it?

• How do friendships evolve when facing life's toughest challenges?

• What does a "happy place" look like for you, and does it involve escaping to Maine?

• Is it possible to get over your past while staying connected to the people who know you best?
  

🌈 Join the Conversation: Let’s get into all the messy, beautiful layers of Happy Place! Whether you’ve read the book or are just looking for a good discussion, we’ve got you covered! Don’t forget to share your thoughts with us on Instagram or leave a review if you’re loving the podcast. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

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