In this episode, we dive into the dark romance book Bad Bishop by L.J. Shen. This is the first book in the Society of Villains series. The second book in the series, Twisted Pawn, releases in April 2026.

During this episode, we discuss how the first chapter immediately captured our attention, why Tiernan might be the grayest of morally gray characters, how this book has our longest list of content warnings, how much we loved seeing Lila’s character evolve and watching her become an Italian spitfire, why Tiernan and Lila are perfectly matched, our shock at the twist regarding the identity of Lila’s attacker, and how we cannot wait to learn more about Tierney and Achilles in the next book.

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In this episode, we dive into the romantasy novella A Crown of Ruin by Jennifer Armentrout. We highly recommend that you have read all of the books in the Blood and Ash series and all of the books in the Flesh and Fire series before reading this novella.

During this episode, we chat about how much we loved this surprise novella, how it answered some of our questions and created a lot more, how we’re here for Casteel’s chaos era and why the entire series has been building up to it, why we’re not loving the similarities between Kolis and Casteel and the implications for the future, the importance of chapter titles, the god we’re afraid might be coming back, how we’re thrilled Kieran finally came to his senses, why we want more Millie and Malik scenes, and our newest theories after reading this novella. Be warned…some of them are really unhinged.

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In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen. This is the second book in The Crucible series. The first book in the series is The Games Gods Play, and the third book, The Wrath Gods Reap, is slated for publication in November 2026. Our full deep dive episode on the first book is also available.

During this episode, we discuss the mindblowing twist that we never saw coming, why we fall more in love with Hades in this book, how Iapetus might be our least favorite Titan, how we continue to be convinced Lyra and Hades are fated mates, why we feel like Rhea knows more than she’s sharing, and why this cliffhanger left us with more questions than the first book. Plus, we delve into theories, including why we believe other realms exist, why we’re convinced there is something more to Isabel’s death in Poseidon’s Labor, the importance of the broken fate connections, and our top two candidates for the Deceiver.

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