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It’s our mid-year one sentence spoiler free book review episode! How is it the middle of 2025? We have no idea how we got here but we know we only did it through a healthy amount of disassociation and yapping… courtesy of books.

Stick around if you want to hear 85+ rapid reviews on every single book we’ve read for the podcast, for personal enjoyment, and for science! A bit of a Mid-year book freakout tag, if you will. Get your pen and paper out to start adding to your TBR. Or maybe cross some of those off the list because we read it so you didn’t have to. 

We cover our top three reads of the first half of the year, our bottom three (some might surprise you 👀), and talk about our reading goals and how close we are to achieving them. 

And of course we have a fave or fail involving Labubus, date nights, and a popular dystopian series. And a smash or pass, extraterrestrial edition.

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Check out these author interviews? ⬇️

Penn Cole talks with us about Strong Female Characters, Feminist Themes, and her debut bestselling Spark of the Everflame Series! https://youtu.be/7ukNImyoObw?si=7C3Y9kOUMN4hfcKb

We interviewed Callie Hart all about her NYT Bestseller Quicksilver! Watch it here! https://youtu.be/CED5s7qDBdQ?si=8xtIRO1IzX6Rsld4

Check the official Author Interview with Lindsay Straube of Split or Swallow! Now a Barnes & Noble & Amazon best seller titled: Kiss of the Basilisk!  https://youtu.be/fknhocSNIKM

Need more ACOTAR in your life? Cook your way through Velaris with the help of Chelsea Cole and her cookbook A Feast of Thorns & Roses. Check out our author interview here! https://youtu.be/fjzmqd-x3OA?si=kNJ4D9cxvUjhp-Ik

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