Hi Readers and Happy May!

We're still on a reading hiatus but found this rant of an episode in our 2025 library.

-----

Thank you Reddit for inspiring yet another H&B episode: this week we're getting judgy. What is your book? You know the one. If someone says it's their most favorite, artistic rendering of the genre, an utter masterpiece. and you just, can't? Every single recommendation they make is tainted by it.

Books and authors mentioned this episode:

Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49826643-daughter-of-no-worlds?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9pUDfXymEa&rank=1

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13928.Daughter_of_the_Forest?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6XPbWHXyby&rank=1

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25128811-ice-planet-barbarians?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=jPaU0ULUMi&rank=1

Zodiac Academy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46261182-the-awakening?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=JBiMKOnXaD&rank=1

Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664640.Blade_Dancer?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FfyIT0V8pY&rank=1

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892338-legendborn?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_9

Linnea Sinclair

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202269.Linnea_Sinclair?from_search=true&from_srp=true

As promised Readers, we present some of our older rant sessions on random book-adjacent topics. This episode was originally recorded in February 2025 and focused on Kindle Unlimited.

--------------

Is Kindle Unlimited unduly influencing the writing/editing game? Romantasy books keep getting longer, plot predictability is at an eye-rolling level, and if we meet one more shadow daddy on page 2 we're both going to convert to full-time hockey smut.

Readers,

We never want books to feel like a chore or for our episodes to be an endless nitpicking critique, but we've found ourselves drifting closer to that reality. We want to return to why we started Not Another Heroine in the first place: love of reading and the desire to share that excitement with another reader. Our first episodes on Sherwood Smith's "Crown Duel," while entirely too long, were exactly that.

On that note, we're taking a hiatus. All of our episodes will still be available on all platforms (except Patreon), and we'll start posting some of our back catalog that wasn't originally available on all the sites. We'll still be reading in the meantime, and when the book feels rights, we'll turn the mics back on for a new Monday episode.

Thank you for sticking with us through four seasons of readings. The book recs, the encouragement, and every like, subscribe, or follow gave us so much joy. To know that we're not alone in the library, that our shelf may look like your shelf, and that our silly episode titles made you giggle too, well, that's why we're still going.

Goodbye for now Readers, but we'll see you on the next page.

Katie & Jordan.

Books Mentioned In This Episode

Wicked, Ugly, Bad by Cassandra Gannon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201821045-wicked-ugly-bad?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15

Divergent by Veronica Rothe

goodreads.com/search?q=divergent&ref=nav_sb_noss_l_9

The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61431922-fourth-wing?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=8xcgHt8JZT&rank=1

Weavingshaw by Heba al-Wasity

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234943536-weavingshaw?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6bShtRni2g&rank=1