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Trash or Treasure? Find your next (most likely romantic) read!
Trash or Treasure? Find your next (most likely romantic) read!
Author: Kim & Aimee
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Love romance novels and looking for your next read, but don't have time to waste on terrible books? Let us do the pre-read for you! Kim and Aimee have got your backs! Two girls who read way too many novels, mostly romance novels, talk about what they love, what they like and what they can't stand about what they've read each fortnight. First half provides SPOILER FREE recommendations (with spoilers in the second half) to make choosing your next read that much easier! Episodes released fortnightly, Sundays at noon (GMT +10), in time for a peaceful cup of tea while you choose your afternoon read. You can contact us via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
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Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And the Blurb, for the 👻 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Are you ready for some ghosts?? Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible adventure/romance books? This week Kim and Aimee review spoiler-free, then spoiler-full, ‘Empire of Shadows’ by Jacqueline Benson (book 1 in the ‘Raiders of the Arcane’ series). Includes bonus movie trivia about ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ (and reference to our review of Amelia Peabody book 1, ‘Crocodile on the Sandbank’). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestio...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the (single-emoji-defying) book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review ‘Emma of 83rd St’’ by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding (a contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’) and discuss what makes an adaptation of Jane Austen novels great, and why ‘Clueless’ might be the best one ever. (With reference to our reviews of: ‘Emma’, ‘Longbourn’, ‘The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett’, and the ‘Bridgerton’ novels: Daphne and Anthony and Colin’s stories.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! W...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️ book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free then spoiler-full, the fifth book in Richard Osman’s ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series, ‘The Impossible Fortune’. WARNING: ‼️ This review WILL spoil the other books, so if you haven’t read the previous 4, do not listen until you have finished them! (Here is our spoiler-free review of Book 1, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’; Book 2 ‘The Man Who Died Twice’ ; Book 3 ‘The Bullet That Missed’; Book 4 ‘The Last Devil to Die’. With ref...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible 🪄🔎 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed decisions by reviewing ‘Rivers of London’ by Ben Aaronovitch (first book in the series). Apologies for the suburban summer sounds in the background (kids playing, cicadas, birds, water splashing…) - it’s VERY hot, so we are sitting with our legs in the pool again. (With reference to our review of Jasper Fforde’s ‘Eyre Affair’ and ‘Early Riser’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🪄🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️🏀 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed reading decisions with a spoiler-free, then spoiler-full review of sports romance, ‘The Right Move’ by Liz Tomforde - and struggle to discuss how sport works. (With reference to our 16th, not 3rd, episode, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s ‘It Had To Be You’; and our review of Beth O’Leary’s ‘The Flat Share’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with yo...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️ 🏀 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee bring Christmas novella season to a close with their spoiler-free review of Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan and Joanna Shupe’s romance anthology ‘How the Dukes Stole Christmas’. (With reference to ‘The Last Chance Christmas Ball’). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasure...
Don’t have time this festive season for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review spoiler-free Tessa Dare’s short Christmas romance, ‘When She Was Naughty’. (With reference to our reviews of ‘The Wallflower Wager’ and ‘Mary Christmas’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Too busy at Christmas to have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free, Christmas novella ‘Miss Barton’s Mysterious Husband’ by Anna Campbell. (With reference to our review of Anna Campbell’s ‘Her Christmas Earl’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee kick off Christmas novella season with Diana Biller’s short Christmas romance, ‘A Christmas Spark’. (With reference, as per usual in Christmas novella season, to our review of ‘The Christmas Cuckoo’; as well as Mia Vincy’s ‘A Christmas Affair to Remember’; ‘The Last Chance Christmas Ball’; and ‘Diana Biller’s ‘The Widow of Rose House’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Plea...
Don’t have time for terrible ❄️ books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free then spoiler-full, Jasper Fforde’s standalone speculative winter fantasy novel ‘Early Riser’. (With reference to our review of Fforde’s Thursday Next novel, ‘The Eyre Affair’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❄️ book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee make your decisions easier with their review of ‘Hardly a Gentleman’ by Eloisa James. (This is the second book in the ‘Accidental Brides’ series; listen to our review of book 1, ‘Viscount in Love’. Also mentioned is ‘A Scandalous Kind of Duke’ by Mia Vincy.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or em...
Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️👻 books? Kim and Aimee help you pick your next read by reviewing Diana Biller’s gothic romance ‘The Widow of Rose House’ - and debate the nature of what a “spoiler” actually is. (With reference to our recent review of ‘The Third Wife of Faraday House’ and Simone St James novels like ‘The Haunting of Maddy Clare’ , ‘An Inquiry into Love and Death’ and ‘The Book of Cold Cases’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read...























