We read. We judged. We added approximately 47 more books to our TBRs. And apparently, we still haven't learned our lesson.

Welcome back to Spill the Book!

This week, Stace and Jace are wrapping up October with book recommendations, reading opinions, new Book of the Month picks and a courtroom battle over one of romance's most beloved tropes.

First, Stace is sharing three books that deserve some attention:

• The Wonder of One by Suzanne Redfearn — an immediate recommendation.

• The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey — the book that gave her THOUGHTS.

• Kinked by Ashe Grayson — an unexpected surprise and a dark Rapunzel reimagining.

Then we're looking ahead at four new additions to the reading pile from Book of the Month:

• Hollywood, Ending by John Green

• You're the One That I Haunt by Katie Jung

• When the Night Comes Knocking by Katherine Daniel

• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb

We've got Hollywood drama, a ghost romance, Appalachian folk horror and demon bargains. A perfectly balanced reading diet.

AND THEN WE GO TO COURT.

This week's Trope Court puts Friends to Lovers on trial.

Stace is prosecuting. Jace is defending. The charges include excessive pining, criminal levels of jealousy, unnecessary emotional suffering and two people who apparently need 400 pages to realise they're in love.

But will the jury find this trope guilty or innocent?

We need your verdict.

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Which of Stace's three books would you read first?

Are you Team Friends to Lovers or do you think this trope deserves to be locked up?

And what's your favourite Friends to Lovers book? We want the years of pining, the jealousy, the ridiculous misunderstandings and the eventual confession.

Drop your verdict in the comments!

Read it. Steep it. Spill it.

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James Voorhees returns to Litdulterous, and this time The Ambassador Chronicles is complete!

We're talking all three books: The Dragon Constellation, The Nine Circles and The Lost Champion.

From immortal vampires and the Jeweled Dragon to fractured worlds, character trauma and the challenges of writing an epic fantasy finale, we dig into what it takes to bring an entire series to a close.

Joey also joins us for a behind-the-scenes conversation about designing the covers and bringing the world of The Ambassador Chronicles to life visually.

We get into worldbuilding, character confessions, writing challenges, fantasy this-or-that and what's next for James.

I gave the series 4.25 stars, and now it's time to celebrate the finished trilogy.

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Is Tamlin from A Court of Thorns and Roses really the villain we've decided he is, or is there more to the Spring Court High Lord than we give him credit for?

After interviewing Henry Kramer, the GraphicAudio voice actor behind Tamlin, I found myself reconsidering the character. Not excusing his actions. Not campaigning for Feyre to return. Just asking whether understanding Tamlin's history, fears, and motivations might give us a more complete picture of who he is.

In this episode of Litdulterous, we're discussing Tamlin's stubbornness, the difference between protection and control, trauma, the manor scene, and why good intentions don't erase the harm someone causes. We're also getting into the Tamlin versus Rhysand debate, the way perspective shapes our opinions, the communication disasters of ACOTAR, and whether Tamlin deserves a healing arc that doesn't revolve around winning Feyre back.

And yes, Henry's suggestion about Tamlin and Lucien has given me additional questions.

Can you believe Feyre was right to leave while still wanting Tamlin to grow? Does he deserve a chance to become a better person? And are we sometimes more forgiving of fictional men we find attractive?

Join the conversation and tell me your verdict.

This is Litdulterous: books, bad decisions, and questionable acting.

The podcast ends. The poor decisions continue.

It's Halloween, Spill Squad, and we've invited four fictional men to our party. What could possibly go wrong?

This week on Spill the Book, Stace and Jace are hosting Damon Torrance from Punk 57, Peeta Mellark from The Hunger Games, Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows, and Howl Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle.

We're judging their red flags, assessing their survival skills, debating their costumes, investigating suspicious gifts, and deciding who we'd flirt with, trust with our lives, or throw out before the night is over.

We're also sharing three spooky reads: Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling, Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe, and The Chain House by J. H. Markert.

Expect creepy books, questionable fictional crushes, Halloween chaos, and the kind of decisions that make you grateful these people live safely between the pages.

The big question: which fictional character would you invite to your Halloween party, and who would you ban from your house forever?

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Follow the show, leave a rating, and share this episode with the friend who would absolutely invite the villain because he has nice hair.

Spill Squad… read it and steep. Stay spooky!

Morally grey or just hot? Slow burn or absolutely nothing happening? Enemies to lovers or two people who need to learn how to communicate?

This week on Litdulterous, we’re putting book tropes on trial. We’re talking romance tropes that overpromise, fictional men whose cheekbones are doing all the heavy lifting, romantic comedies that forgot to be funny, predictable thriller twists, and five-star reviews that tell us nothing except that someone finished a book.

From The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and The Hating Game to Six of Crows, Funny Story and Gone Girl, we’re asking one simple question: did the book deliver what it promised?

Love your fictional disasters. Defend your favourite morally grey man. Just try describing his personality without mentioning his face.

Join the conversation: Which book trope needs a stricter definition, and which book made you feel that way?

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• 00:00 — The Cheekbones Are Not Evidence

• 01:00 — Is the Slow Burn in the Room With Us?

• 05:00 — Enemies to Lovers or Just Annoyed?

• 08:00 — Morally Grey or Just Emotionally Unavailable?

• 11:00 — Dark Romance, Covers and Communication Issues

• 14:00 — The Book That Forgot to Be Funny

• 17:00 — Plot Twists I Saw Getting Off the Bus

• 20:00 — The Five-Star Review That Says Nothing

• 22:00 — The Verdict: Give Me the Book You Advertised

• 23:00 — Your Trope Is on Trial

What if you lived a hundred different lives, travelled through countless worlds, and then met the one person who made you want to stay?

We’re joined by author Sean W. Willson on Spill the Book to talk about his genre-bending novel, The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You, a love story that throws romance, alternate realities, pirates, planets, kingdoms, and some seriously complicated life choices into the same universe.

Meet Ren, a man who wakes up in different eras and realities without warning. He has no control over where he goes next, until he meets someone who makes him question everything.

We’re getting into the inspiration behind the book, building worlds that refuse to stay still, writing romance across alternate realities, creating emotional twists without spoiling the mystery, and deciding whether love really is worth risking everything for.

And because this is Spill the Book, we’re not letting Sean escape without a little chaos.

We put him through rapid-fire bookish questions, impossible Would You Rather dilemmas, fictional character confessions, and our Build-a-Romance challenge, where the ingredients for a romance novel get progressively more questionable.

Will Sean create a sweeping love story or a literary disaster involving an emotionally unavailable dragon? You'll have to watch to find out.

In this episode:

• The story behind The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You

• Writing romance across alternate realities

• The challenge of creating different worlds, timelines, and characters

• Love, fate, identity, and finding your place in the world

• Sean's writing process and life as an author

• Bookish confessions, fictional character red flags, and rapid-fire questions

• Build-a-Romance: author edition

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You by Sean W. Willson follows Ren as he navigates different worlds and realities, searching for answers about his condition and discovering what it means to find home, love, and the person worth risking everything for.

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Are you buying books to read them… or just to experience the happiness of having more books on the way? Welcome to the unhinged side of being a reader.

In this episode, we’re confessing the bookish habits we pretend are completely normal: buying books we know we won’t read anytime soon, collecting entire series before starting the first book, defending fictional men who desperately need professional help, and taking it personally when someone gives our favourite book three stars.

We’re getting into Book of the Month, Aardvark book boxes, unread TBR piles, trophy copies, reading goals that turn into unpaid jobs, and the very specific emotional damage of recommending a book to a friend who finishes it and says… it was okay.

Because apparently reading isn’t just a relaxing hobby anymore. It has an administrative department, a fictional legal team, and a surveillance unit monitoring our friends’ reading progress.

And yes, I have receipts. My unread books are officially part of the investigation.

In this episode:

• Why monthly book boxes make us happy, even when we haven’t read the books already on our shelves

• The unread books and entire series we keep buying anyway

• Why our TBR piles can turn into guilt instead of excitement

• Defending fictional men whose behaviour would be a real-life red flag

• Getting personally offended when someone dislikes our favourite book

• Recommending books with absolutely no pressure (except all the pressure)

• Monitoring our friends’ reading progress and waiting for the emotional breakdown

• Why a book recommendation is an invitation, not a legally binding contract

YOUR TURN: What is your most unhinged reading habit that you absolutely refuse to give up? Do you buy books faster than you read them, collect trophy copies, defend fictional red flags, or expect your friends to love every book you recommend?

Drop your confession in the comments. We promise not to put you on trial. Probably.

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Spooky season is here, the TBR is out of control, and apparently we thought the best solution was to invent an entire horror novel ourselves.

Welcome back to Stace & Jace Spill the Book, where we spill the tea on books, questionable reading decisions, and whatever literary nonsense happens when two book lovers get together.

In this spooky episode, we're talking about our most anticipated upcoming books for October, November, and December 2026. We're looking at witches, haunted houses, dark fantasy, magical creatures, mysterious family secrets, and romances that could go spectacularly wrong.

Books on our spooky season radar:

THE WITCH by Freida McFadden — A creepy seventeenth-century family estate, a clock that stops at 3:41 a.m., mysterious voices, and a possible connection to the Salem witch trials. What could possibly go wrong?

DEFY THE DUSK by Danielle L. Jensen — A post-apocalyptic fantasy filled with dangerous magic, nocturnal monsters, political intrigue, enemies-to-lovers tension, and a feral king who might be more trouble than he's worth.

MY UNFAMILIAR by Mara Rutherford — A grumpy mage, a magical matchmaking mishap, a mysterious familiar bond, and a cozy fantasy romance that might just get wonderfully chaotic.

But that's not all.

We're also building our own spooky novel from scratch. There's a ghost named Elias, a creepy Victorian house, photographs that shouldn't exist, a suspicious basement, and secrets that keep getting worse. We take turns adding to the story, and once something becomes canon, neither of us can take it back.

Will we create a genuinely terrifying thriller, a twisted supernatural mystery, or the most unhinged book never to see a publishing contract?

You decide.

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Would you rather move into a haunted Victorian mansion, survive a world full of nocturnal monsters, or become magically bonded to a grumpy mage?

And the most important question of all: if your boyfriend was a ghost, would you date him? Finally, a man with no baggage. Just a body bag.

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I have reached 78% of the book.

The couple is finally happy.

They have communicated. They have grown. The dog approves. We are THIS CLOSE to the happily ever after.

So naturally...

THEY BREAK UP.

Welcome to Litdulterous, where we love romance books, questionable fictional decisions, and occasionally need to drag two fictional adults into court for crimes against communication.

Today we're putting the third-act breakup on trial.

We're talking:
• The 78% breakup emergency
• Miscommunication that could be solved with ONE SENTENCE
• I’m leaving you for your own good
• The ex who mysteriously appears when everything is going well
• Characters suddenly forgetting everything they learned for 300 pages
• The grovel economy
• Grand gestures that do not equal accountability
• When a third-act breakup actually works
• And why sometimes I just want fictional adults to answer their damn phones

The verdict?

Not every third-act breakup is guilty.

But the cheap ones?

GUILTY.

Tell me in the comments: What third-act breakup made you want to walk directly into the book and chair an emergency meeting?

And tell me the opposite: Which book actually EARNED its breakup and gave you a reunion you believed?

Please use spoiler warnings when necessary. We are literary degenerates, but we still have procedures.

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If you have enough money to buy her a vineyard, you have enough battery to send a text.

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It's officially fall, and we're bringing ALL the cozy bookish chaos to Spill the Book!

We're talking fall romance books, cozy bookstores, autumn TBRs, pumpkin spice, apple picking, sweaters, fireplaces and everything that makes us want to cancel our plans, grab a blanket and read for twelve straight hours.

In this ultimate fall bookish episode, we're sharing our fall reads, building our autumn TBRs, playing fall bookish games and putting Pumpkin Spice on trial in a very serious case of The People vs. Pumpkin Spice.

🍂 FALL BOOKS WE'VE READ

We're diving into The Honey Crisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman and The Cozy Nook Bookshop by Jeannie Chin. From apple orchards and fall festivals to cozy independent bookstores and feel-good romance, we're talking about what makes these books feel like fall.

📚 OUR FALL TBR

We're adding some serious autumn vibes to our reading lists with:

• The Matchmaker's Cottage by Kat Sloane

• Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore by Brittanée Nicole

• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

• If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia

• The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

🎃 THE PEOPLE VS. PUMPKIN SPICE

Pumpkin spice is officially on trial! Is it the ultimate symbol of fall or has it invaded absolutely everything? We're bringing in witnesses, examining the evidence and delivering a very important verdict.

🍁 WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES A FALL BOOK?

Is it small towns, cozy coffee shops, haunted houses, apple picking, fall festivals, forced proximity, fireplaces or a ridiculously attractive book boyfriend? We're creating the ultimate fall book formula.

🔥 PLUS:

• Fall bookish This or That

• Spill the Line: Fall Edition

• Who Would? bookish edition

• A little friendly disagreement and plenty of bookish chaos

Whether you're a cozy romance reader, a romantasy lover, a fall TBR enthusiast or someone who just wants an excuse to buy more books, this episode is for you.

💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION

What is your ultimate fall book? What book trope or setting instantly gives you autumn vibes? And most importantly, is Pumpkin Spice guilty?

LIKE this video, SUBSCRIBE to Spill the Book, and tell us in the comments who won the Pumpkin Spice trial!

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PASS THE PUMPKIN SPICE!

When he calls her Little Bird after trying to behead her on Tuesday. SIR. THAT IS NOT FLIRTING.

 

BOOK MOTHER SCHMUCKER IS TAKING BOOK TROPES TO COURT. And nobody is getting off easy.

We love books. We love romance. We love our fictional men who are six-foot-seven, emotionally unavailable, and apparently allergic to therapy. BUT SOME TROPES HAVE GOT TO GO.

In this unhinged BookTok rant, Book Mother Schmucker puts five overused book tropes on trial, and the verdicts are NOT looking good.

⚖️ ENEMIES TO LOVERS — Since when did attempted murder become foreplay?

⚖️ MISCOMMUNICATION — Two hundred pages of drama that could have been solved with ONE TEXT MESSAGE.

⚖️ THE ALPHA MALE — Six-foot-seven, filthy rich, emotionally constipated, owns a helicopter, but somehow can't afford a therapist.

⚖️ FATED MATES — Apparently your wolf knows he's your soulmate before you've even learned his last name.

⚖️ THE PLAIN JANE FMC — Every man in a fifty-mile radius is obsessed with her, but somehow she still thinks she's average.

From shadow daddies and possessive billionaires to horny wolves and heroines who don't know they're hot, we're calling out the book tropes that have overstayed their welcome.

And before anyone comes for Book Mother Schmucker, YES, WE STILL LOVE OUR BOOKS. We just want characters who occasionally behave like functioning adults.

📚 LET'S TALK BOOK TROPES!

What book trope has officially overstayed its welcome? Which one makes you want to DNF a book before you've even finished the synopsis? Tell us in the comments!

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BOOK MOTHER SCHMUCKER IS ALWAYS WATCHING.

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PREPARE TO BE OFFENDED.

We have opinions.

Five stars does NOT mean perfect.
DNFing is NOT quitting.
Audiobooks absolutely COUNT.
Reading slowly still counts.
Your TBR is a lie.
BookTok hype can ruin a perfectly good reading experience.
You can hate a beloved bestseller.
You can love a book and still admit it is a complete fucking mess.
And no, you do NOT have to read an author's entire backlist.

In this episode of Litdulterous Whore, we're taking the safety scissors off and talking about the unpopular book opinions that apparently send BookTok into a full-scale meltdown.

We're talking reading goals, Goodreads pressure, special editions, book buying, book covers, romance, toxic fictional relationships, book adaptations, rereading, happy endings, overhyped books, and why reading does not need to become a fucking productivity competition.

Basically: we're judging books, defending our right to DNF them, and probably offending somebody along the way.

Listen now and tell us:

What's your most unpopular book opinion?

And if you disagree with us, that's okay.

We're probably going to DNF your comment.

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What happens when your five-year anniversary trip to Barcelona turns into a solo European adventure because your girlfriend dumps you right before the flight?

You go anyway.

In this episode of Spill the Book, we sit down with author Ian Ostroff to talk about Barcelona with Love — a story packed with heartbreak, solo travel, questionable hostel accommodations, accidental romance, European adventures, and one very unforgettable British entrepreneur.

We talk about Noah's disastrous breakup, Rachel's questionable life choices, Phoebe's fearless energy, solo travel, Barcelona, Sephardic heritage, food, writing, travel, and what happens when starting over takes you somewhere you never expected to go.

Plus, we get into Ian's writing process, the inspiration behind the characters, his travels, bookish habits, reviews, audiobook dream casting, and plenty of completely unnecessary but very important questions.

If you've ever wanted to run away after a breakup and reinvent your entire life somewhere in Europe, this one is for you.

BOOK: Barcelona with Love by Ian Ostroff

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What happens when loving someone slowly starts costing you pieces of yourself?

In this episode of Litdulterous Whore, Stacey sits down with author Hunter Snow to talk about her powerful 5-star novel, Between You, Me, and the Fence Post.

This isn't just a love story.

It's a raw conversation about addiction, toxic relationships, manipulation, emotional survival, enabling, red flags, and the complicated question of what happens when loving someone doesn't mean you can save them.

Between You, Me, and the Fence Post follows Claire Davis, an actress who has spent her life pretending, both on screen and off. When she meets Reed Hart, she finds herself caught in a relationship where love, addiction, hope, and self-preservation collide.

And we have questions.

We talk about Claire and Reed, the reality of addiction, the difference between supporting someone and enabling them, why people sometimes fall in love with potential instead of reality, and that dangerous little sentence so many people have heard:

But he's not always like this.

Then we make things considerably less serious.

Hunter takes on our Red Flag or Just Being an Idiot round, a rapid-fire This or That, the Fence Post Would You Rather, and our Bookish Dirt Round.

And yes...

We ask which fictional man she'd absolutely let ruin her life.

Because apparently that's journalism.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Between You, Me, and the Fence Post by Hunter Snow is an emotionally charged story about love, addiction, complicated relationships, and the painful process of learning that choosing yourself isn't selfish.

If you've ever stayed too long, ignored the red flags, believed the promises, or looked at a fictional relationship and screamed GIRL, RUN...

This episode is for you.

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Pick up Between You, Me, and the Fence Post and support Hunter Snow by adding her books to your TBR and buying her work.

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You probably couldn't.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT RIDOC'S VOICE BEHIND THE MICROPHONE… AND THEN START ASKING QUESTIONS?

Today on Spill the Book, we're joined by the incredibly talented Robb Moreira, the voice behind Ridoc—the character who somehow manages to make questionable decisions sound completely charming.

You know the guy.

The one who walks into a life-or-death situation and you immediately think:

“Oh good. He's going to make this worse.”

Yep.

That guy.

But today we're stepping away from the character and getting to know the person behind the microphone.

In this episode, we talk with Robb about voice acting, audiobook narration, bringing fictional characters to life, reading scripts, performance, and what it's actually like to become the voice listeners hear in their heads.

And because this is Spill the Book…

We couldn't possibly behave ourselves.

We're getting personal.

We're reading scripts together.

And we're bringing back one of our favourite games:

🔥 MAKE IT SPILL

Where we take a perfectly innocent sentence and make it hotter, more awkward, more dramatic, or significantly sadder than any human being should reasonably have to experience.

So will Robb maintain his dignity?

Absolutely not.

Probably.

Maybe.

We're very sorry in advance.

🎙️ Getting to know Robb Moreira beyond the microphone 🎧 What it's like to narrate audiobooks 📖 Bringing a fictional character to life through voice 🎭 Acting vs. audiobook narration 📝 Reading and performing scripts 🔥 The character behind the voice 😂 Our favourite Make It Spill challenge 💬 Personal questions and plenty of chaos 🎙️ What happens when an audiobook narrator gets put on the spot

If you're a fan of Ridoc, audiobooks, voice actors, audiobook narration, fantasy books, bookish interviews, or the people behind the voices that make fictional characters feel real, you're going to want to listen to this one.

What makes an audiobook narrator unforgettable to you?

Is it the character voices?

The emotion?

The ability to make you completely forget you're listening to someone read?

Or is there a particular audiobook narrator whose voice you would recognize ANYWHERE?

And be honest…

Who would you trust to narrate your life? 😂

Drop your answer in the comments!

LIKE the episode if you're an audiobook addict.

SAVE it for your next audiobook binge.

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SPILL THE BOOK is where we talk books, authors, narrators, actors, characters, and all the wonderfully unhinged people behind the stories we can't stop talking about.

Because sometimes…

the story is only half the fun.

The other half is finding out who brought it to life.

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Why do thriller protagonists have absolutely no survival instincts?

Today on Litdulterous Whore, we're conducting a HOSTILE AUDIT of thriller fiction.

Not a review.
Not literary criticism.
Not an analysis.

An AUDIT.

Because apparently every thriller protagonist has exactly one functioning brain cell — and they are determined to loan it to the villain by chapter twelve.

We're talking about the completely unhinged decisions thriller characters make:

🔪 Investigating mysterious noises in the basement
🏚️ Walking into houses with the front door mysteriously wide open
📱 Answering calls from unknown numbers
🚗 Walking through the woods after their car dies
🚨 Ignoring the police
👀 Following suspicious people ALONE
🔐 Opening the locked room they've been specifically told NOT to open
💀 Going BACK to the murder house
🧠 The eternal chaos of the unreliable narrator
🏠 The suspiciously perfect house where someone is obviously buried underneath it
🕵️ Neighbours who apparently witness an entire crime spree but tell absolutely nobody
📞 And the most dangerous phrase in thriller fiction: "I'll be right back."

Plus, we investigate the thriller villain's questionable work-life balance, the complete lack of communication between characters, and why apparently nobody in a thriller has ever heard of calling the fucking police.

And let's be honest...

We LOVE it.

Because if thriller protagonists behaved like reasonable adults, we'd have no suspense, no twists, no secret basements, no creepy neighbours, no suspicious husbands and absolutely no books.

This is Litdulterous Whore's official survival guide to thriller fiction.

And yes.

The basement is never worth it.

Unless you're the reader.

Because we're fucking nosy.

🔥 QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Which thriller protagonist decision would get YOU killed?

A) "I'll just check the basement."
B) "My phone died, I'll walk."
C) "He seems suspicious, I'll marry him."
D) "I'll be right back."
E) "The detective told me not to investigate, but..."

Tell me your answer in the comments — and defend yourself.

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BOOK OF THE MONTH WRAP-UP 📚☕ | Fake Marriage, Vampires, Assassins & TROPE COURT

Ever make your Book of the Month picks and then realize the next month is going to have to suffer the consequences?

Same.

Welcome back, Spill Squad! Today we’re wrapping up our latest reads with the books we immediately recommend, have VERY strong thoughts about, and absolutely did not see coming.

And this month?

We’ve got fake marriage. Vampires. Assassins. Academic rivals. An immortal warrior trapped in a sword. Alternate realities. Death. And somehow… shampoo.

So clearly, we’re fine.

Our TBRs are not.

We’re talking about the books that owned us, surprised us, frustrated us, and had us screaming “YOU NEED TO READ THIS.”

Plus, we’re taking our romance tropes to TROPE COURT, because apparently reading a romance means we also need to put fictional relationships on trial.

📚 IN THIS EPISODE:

☕ Our Book of the Month picks and whether we actually got around to reading them
📖 The book we’d immediately recommend
👀 The book we have… thoughts about
😱 The unexpected book that completely surprised us
🧛 Vampires, assassins, fake marriage & academic rivals
⚔️ Immortal warriors and alternate realities
🧴 Yes… somehow shampoo enters the conversation
⚖️ TROPE COURT: because some romance tropes need to answer for their crimes

Because apparently finishing a book means you now need a support group.

Grab your tea, your current obsession, and that book you swore you’d finish before buying another one.

Let’s read it and steep. ☕📚

💬 SPILL SQUAD QUESTION:

What’s the last book that completely surprised you — either because you LOVED it way more than expected or because you absolutely did NOT understand the hype?

And be honest…

What book trope would YOU put on trial? ⚖️

Drop your verdict in the comments!

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READING SLUMP? OH, BABY. YOU'RE NOT ALONE.

You have 900 unread books.

Seven books currently marked “currently reading.”

A Kindle full of books you swear you're going to finish.

An audiobook queue that could outlive several generations.

And somehow… YOU ARE READING NONE OF THEM.

Welcome to the crime scene.

In this episode of Litdulterous Whore, we're putting the dreaded reading slump on trial—and I'm bringing EVIDENCE.

Because a reading slump isn't just “I haven't felt like reading lately.”

It's staring at the same paragraph six times and absorbing absolutely nothing.

It's abandoning Book One for Book Two… then Book Three… then Book Four… until you've somehow started seven books and finished ZERO.

It's buying four MORE books because obviously purchasing additional books will cure your inability to read the books you already own.

It's blaming the author.

Blaming BookTok.

Blaming capitalism.

Blaming Mercury retrograde.

And absolutely refusing to consider the possibility that you're just freaking exhausted.

We're getting into:

📚 The Reading Slump Crime Scene
📚 Why We Start Seven Books and Finish None
📚 Serial Book-Hopping & TBR Chaos
📚 The Author Lawsuit
📚 Signs You're in a Serious Reading Slump
📚 DNF Confessions
📚 Why DNFing a book is NOT a personal failure
📚 The CPR Books That Can Rescue a Reading Slump
📚 Reading slumps vs. reading burnout
📚 How to get yourself reading again without turning reading into homework
📚 The official Book Mother Schmucker Emergency Slump Protocol

And yes, we're discussing the sacred art of abandoning a book at 82% because if you haven't cared for 300 pages, suddenly finishing it isn't going to make you a better person.

The final verdict?

THE READING SLUMP IS GUILTY.

But reading?

INNOCENT.

Reading is supposed to be fun. You don't have to finish every book you start. You don't have to force yourself through a book because everyone else gave it five stars. And sometimes the best thing you can do for your reading life is put the damn book down and pick up something that actually makes you want to read again.

💬 YOUR TURN — I WANT YOUR CONFESSIONS:

What is your worst DNF?

What book did EVERYONE ELSE love that you wanted to launch directly into the sun?

And most importantly…

What was your CPR book—the book that dragged you kicking and screaming out of your last reading slump?

Tell me in the comments, on social media, or send me your confession.

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LIKE this episode if your TBR is currently judging you.

SAVE it for your next reading slump.

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And for the love of all things literary…

PUT THE EIGHTH BOOK DOWN, STACEY.

 

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Some books get five stars. Some books get one star. And some one-star reviews deserve their own damn podcast. 😂

Welcome back to Spill the Book, where books become entertainment, our TBRs make terrible financial decisions, and apparently we are here to read the most absolutely UNHINGED one-star book reviews the internet has to offer.

Today, we're spilling a little bit of everything.

🔥 FIRST: THE ONE-STAR REVIEWS

We’re reading some of the funniest, most savage and completely unhinged one-star reviews we could find.

From Yesteryear to Daggermouth, Dungeon Crawler Carl and Where the Crawdads Sing, these reviewers did NOT come to play.

Some are critiques.

Some are personal attacks.

And some make us question whether the reviewer—or the book—will ever recover. 😂

📚 THEN: BOOKISH GAMES

Because apparently reading books isn't enough chaos, we're playing a couple of bookish games and giving ourselves even more opportunities to embarrass ourselves.

📬 THEN IT'S TIME FOR THE SPILL THE BOOK MAIL & MAYHEM AFTERSPILL

Remember those indie books we unwrapped?

We're finally giving you the afterthoughts, introducing you to the authors, talking about their books and telling you where you can find them.

We’re spilling the bookish tea on indie authors including:

📖 Nomi J. Avery — small-town romance
📖 Rodger E. Carty — science fiction
📖 Ciel Essel — dark fantasy, dark romance & romantasy
📖 Kimberly D. Tait — fantasy & historical magical realism
📖 Stoney Brooks — horror

And then we get to the really good stuff…

❤️ TWO AUGUST INDIE RELEASES WE ACTUALLY READ AND LOVED

We're talking about Tessa Brookfield's Who's Fixing Who, a chaotic rom-com packed with chemistry, mystery and plot twists…

…and The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You, a genre-bending speculative romance about a man who wakes up in different lives, eras and worlds—and finally finds someone worth staying for.

Basically: your TBR is about to get longer.

Again.

You're welcome.

📚 BOOKS & AUTHORS MENTIONED

Before I Deserved You — Nomi J. Avery
Small-town romantic suspense | Friends to lovers | He falls first | Hidden love

Falling Up / Zero I — Rodger E. Carty
Science fiction | Post-apocalyptic adventure | Gravity powers

Bonds Beyond Blood — Ciel Essel
Dark romantasy | Enemies to lovers | Forced proximity | Slow burn

A History of Lightning — Kimberly D. Tait
Historical magical realism | 1933 Oklahoma | Dust Bowl | Secret identity

What Digs Itself Free — Stoney Brooks
Paranormal horror | Found footage | Media horror | Dark comedy

Who's Fixing Who — Tessa Brookfield
Rom-com | Grumpy sunshine | Forced proximity | Partner in crime

The Hundred Lives I Lived Before You
Speculative romance | Genre-bending | Slow burn | Friends to lovers

💬 SPILL IT IN THE COMMENTS

What's the funniest or most savage one-star book review you've ever read?

And we need to know:

📚 What's an indie book you think EVERYONE should know about?

⭐ Have you ever given a book one star—and what did it do to deserve it?

❤️ Which of today's indie recommendations are going straight onto your TBR?

❤️ SUPPORT SPILL THE BOOK

If you enjoyed the chaos:

👍 LIKE this episode
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⭐ LEAVE US A REVIEW wherever you listen to podcasts
💬 COMMENT with your hottest bookish opinion

And if you're an indie author and want us to Spill Your Book Mail…

📬 Send us your book.

We want the cover.

We want the blurb.

We want to make wildly inaccurate guesses.

And then we want to read it and come back with the receipts.

🎙️ Spill the Book — where we read the books, spill the tea and occasionally make questionable decisions about our TBRs.

Keep reading. Keep spilling.

And for the love of books…

STOP ADDING BOOKS TO YOUR TBR.

Actually…

Don't do that.

We would never ask you to do something so unreasonable. 😂

 

📚 At what point does being a reader stop being a cute hobby and become a diagnosable lifestyle?

Asking for… me.

Because apparently owning 47 books in one month is perfectly normal. Having 400 unread books? Options. Buying the same book in paperback, hardcover, audiobook, Kindle AND a special edition with sprayed edges? A collection.

And spending $114 at a bookstore because you needed $54 more to qualify for free shipping?

Financial literacy. Obviously.

In this episode of The Litdulterous Whore, we're filing an official Reader Crime Report and putting some of our worst literary offenses on trial:

🔪 Buying books while on a book-buying ban
🔪 Having a TBR pile that could qualify as structural engineering
🔪 Reader Math and the psychological warfare of “FREE SHIPPING OVER $75”
🔪 Buying special editions of books we already own
🔪 Using a Kindle to commit literary crimes in public
🔪 Staying up until 3 AM because “one more chapter”
🔪 Letting BookTok convince us that emotional devastation is a selling point
🔪 Pretending reading is self-care when sometimes it's just hiding with paperwork

But underneath all the chaos, there's a reason we keep doing it.

Because sometimes real life is loud, exhausting and demanding—and a book gives you somewhere else to be for a while.

So tell me:

👇 What's the most ridiculous real-life responsibility you've ignored because you were reading?

Did dinner burn?
Did you ignore a phone call?
Did you pretend you couldn't hear someone calling your name?
Did you hide in the bathroom with a book just to get five minutes of peace?

CONFESS YOUR READER CRIMES. 👇

❤️ LIKE this episode if your TBR is also out of control.
📚 FOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE to The Litdulterous Whore for more bookish chaos, reader problems, reviews, rants and literary crimes.
🔪 SHARE this episode with the friend who has 400 unread books and STILL says, “I don't have anything to read.”
⭐ Leave a 5-star review—or leave a 3-star review and tell me why. I respect honesty.

🎤 AND DON'T MISS ME LIVE THIS FRIDAY!

I'm taking Book Mother Schmucker from the podcast to the comedy stage for Bookish Stand-Up!

Come watch me turn my reader problems, book-buying crimes, TBR chaos and questionable literary decisions into stand-up comedy.

Watch Book Mother Schmucker LIVE this Friday!

Because apparently podcasting about my reading problems wasn't enough. Now I'm putting them on a stage.

📚🔪🍷

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