Strictly Friction

This week on Strictly Friction , we're inviting you into the depraved corners of our minds by talking all things tropes, including the🌶️ spicy scenes🌶️ we long for in romance books that don't exactly translate to real life. From Scent Marking🐺 and Forced Proximity🛏️ to Billionaire Bad Boys, Love Triangles and Why Choose, we unpack why the best romance and romantasy tropes are made for rea...

In today’s episode, we unpack the 12 biggest differences between ‘Every Summer After’ and the brand new Prime Video adaptation, ‘Every Year After’, as the fandom asks: was it worth it? This episode includes spoilers for both the book and screen adaptation.

Welcome to Strictly Friction , a book club dedicated to all things spice, smut, romantasy and raunchy reads, or as we like to call it, our safe space to yap about our fictional boyfriends. In today’s episode, we’re recapping and unpacking Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen, the highly anticipated sequel to Dire Bound (you can listen to our episode on this book here ). We're recapping and unpacking t...

A week on from Off Campus dropping on Prime Video, we sat down to discuss the finale episode and what it might mean for season two (which was also officially greenlit this week). In this week's episode, we're unpacking every moment from the finale, including that locker room scene, all the similarities (and differences) from Elle Kennedy's book, Hannah and Garrett's sweet reunion,...

All eight episodes of ‘Off Campus' just dropped on Prime Video and we have THOUGHTS. This week we're putting the adaptation in the penalty box and giving episodes 1-7 the debrief they deserve — including what they got right, what they got wrong, whether Belmont Cameli can carry the weight of our Garrett Graham expectations, and most importantly: does Stephen Kalyn's Dean live up to the...

In this episode, we’re recapping and unpacking 'The Deal' and wider 'Off Campus' series by Elle Kennedy with everything you need to know before the TV adaptation takes over your life. To give you the highlighted bits, we’ll be starting with a quick rundown of our favourite Briar U boyfriends and main characters before we dive into what we loved, loathed, and longed for - plus our h...

A short but oh-so-sweet debrief on *that* brand-new 'Dire Bound' bonus chapter, including what we learnt, what it means for 'The Wolves of Ruin' series by Sable Sorensen, and why Stark's POV has us all hot and bothered in the lead up to 'Fury Bound'.

Welcome to Strictly Friction , a book club dedicated to all things spice, smut, romantasy and raunchy reads, or as we like to call it, our safe space to yap about our fictional boyfriends. In today’s episode, we’re recapping and unpacking 'Dire Bound' by Sable Sorensen ahead of the sequel 'Fury Bound'. So you’re fully prepared, we’ll be running through everything you need to rememb...