Second Hand Smut

Happy Halloween Secondhand Smutters 🎃 This week we we’re cozying up with Lyla Sage’s Free Falling. Join us for some ghostly shenanigans, small town vibes and leading man Leith Wilkes who certainly caters to our competency kink.

This week we’re dipping our toes in the Underworld with A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair. This is a spicy retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s been on Angela’s TBR for far too long. Persephone was a touch insufferable at times and the God of The Dead melted our hearts. Join us while we dish on the divine.

We’ve got a very special episode this week! We’re kicking off spooky season with a sneak preview of Vengefully Matched by Audrey Goldberg Ruoff releasing October 6th. The small town, cozy, witchy vibes are just what we’re looking for to move into our favorite season of the year.

We’re exploring another alien world this week with The Aquarian King’s Prize by Ivy Sparks. Between the plot holes and “wait… WHATTT…HOW?” moments, this one flops more than it slaps. Paul is offended, but nothing brings friends together like hating on something so, be a friend, and hate with us!

Angela COULD NOT hold herself back after teaching Paul about the Omegaverse a few weeks ago. This week we get some classic MMMM Omegaverse smut. Age gaps, younger alphas, an older omega, power dynamics. This book was smutty, dumb, and fast. Have some fun with Teach Me by Alisha Williams and Jenn Bullard

Paul and Angela sink their teeth into Dark Lover by J.R. Ward this week. This book made us feel like we were in the good ole days of early 2000s vampire movies. We got lost in the world. More plot than smut but a classic vampire romance that we yearned for nonetheless.

Class is in session!! Get your notebooks out and join Paul in a lesson on Omegaverse... Angela’s favorite guilty pleasure. We’re talkin scent-matching, perfuming, heats and ruts…Alpha BARKS. We go on a journey this week as we read Game Over by L.E. Eldridge & Bex Deveau.

This week we’re flying into Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle. We’ve got beefcakes and bi-awakenings. Yes, Daddy’s and some…rule-following, law-abiding villains and heroes?? Campy vibes with some plot lead to a fun time with this one. Come join us while we find out how Butch and Xander can end up together in a world full of normies and supes.

This week Angela loses her cool and shares her favorite smut book of all time. We meet the most perfect book boyfriend to ever exist and read some serious smutty smut. Will Paul hate Angela’s favorite book? Find out with us while we read Sloane St. James’ Stand and Defend.

This week join us donning a mask and jumping into a rendition of the Phantom of the Opera. Did we love it? No. Did we hate it? Maybe. There were moments that made us laugh, moments that made us cringe, and several that had us pause. It was dramatic, horny, and exhausting. Phantom by Greer Rivers.

This week, Paul GUSHES over the delicious enemies-to-lovers tension in Garron Park by Nordika Night. Between the trash talk, the emotional baggage, and the steamy romance, this one delivered exactly what we wanted. Join us at the dirt tracks as we swoon over rival motocross racers, Devon and Maddox.

Calling all the cheese girls…this is for those cheese girls. This week Paul and Angela bear witness to Why cheese? By Ellen Mint. A truly bewildering tale of four sentient cheese wheels who turn into hard bodied men at night and seduce the new cheese shop owner. Cheesus Christ, join us on the journey…

***DISCLAIMER*** Themes of SA ahead**** Happy Mothers Day! This ones goes out to all the Moms out there. This week, we take it back to a book considered the first open door smut book, The Flame and The Flower by Kathleen E Woodiwiss. The mother of modern smut, if you will... And lets just say this mother's got issues. Written in the 50's, set in the 1700's, this books is DATED. Buckle...

And we're back with the exciting conclusion of Dopplebänger by W.H. Lockwood. As it says in the bible, "To know thyself is to bottom for thyself" and we really get to see this come to life here. When we left our self banging protags, their cosmic self-love making had begun to herald the end of days. Join us for this wild ride to an HEA, we can all pretend we understand the science of...

Get ready for trouble and make it DOUBLE in part one of this two part, multi dimensional steamy romance, Doppelbänger by W.H. Lockwood. And I go to tell you, this one is a treat! We really get into the nuts and bolts of quantum physics this week and ask the important questions. Like would you bone down with a you from a different dimension? Is that narcism or self love? And if I'm a top in my...

The boys are in love in this week's very special Paul take over episode. In a special Birthday switch up, Paul tells Angela all about the Yaoi hit The Dangerous Convenience Store. Come along for the ride as a whole new world of smut, romance, and love enters the SHS universe!

Well the title really spells it out on this weeks book, Accidental Doctor Daddy by Mira Mara.... Consider this a pallet cleanser as we get back to our smut roots. When you get impregnated by your ex boyfriend's rich, surgeon dad while on a vacation with twins, what do you do!? Let's find out together in this tale of coincidences, secrets, and hot dads!

There must have been an angel by our side this week in The House of Rayne by Harley Laroux. This spooky, frightful, bloody book hits in all the right spots AND has a hot sapphic love story to boot! I hate to say it, but the smut falls to the side as Paul and Angela are sucked into the mystery of this HorroRomance that keeps you leaning in from start to finish.

The Monsters are Mashing this week in Doves and Demons by Cleo Evans. We are so back with this dark, monster romance! Its fun, its cheeky, and its really freaky. Come take a ride in a blimp and lust after a Mothman with the SHS crew this week!

Like the high and low of the tides, we too have high and lows at Second Hand Smut..... The tide is out on this stinker of a book, Chasing Riddick by Alexandra St. Pierre. I'm not sure whats worse, the AI art or knowing how much water was used to make it in this episodes book. Thank god we love to hate here at SHS, or this one may not have been such a good time!

a HO y mateys! We take it to the high seas on this episode with Pam Godwin's Sea of Ruin... Boy oh boy, this is a good one. The shocks keep coming on this adventure of a voyage. But be warned, its DARK in the sea of ruin....

New Year, New Smut! In the first SHS of 2026 Angela takes us on a wild ride with Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter. Paul's guesses can't keep up with the twists and turns of this cello playing assassin's story. Who set up who? Who's the bad guy? and most importantly, Who's banging WHO!?

Sleigh bells are jingling this week on SHS. Join us for a Yuletide treat this week with Can I Tell You Something by Holy June Smith. This feel good, Hallmark movie of a novel set in a French Chalet is what wintertime dreams are made of. Grab a hot cup of drinking chocolate and a slice of meat pie and get into the steamy spirit of Christmas with us! Ho Ho Ho

G-I-D-D-Y UP! This week SHS goes to the rodeo with Saving The Raine by Elliot Rose. Let me tell you cowpoke, this ones got everything. Gay, Bareback Bucking Broncos, and STEPBROTHERS? My little heart can hardly take it! Saddle up, buckle up, and cowboy up with us this week and enjoy!

Oceanside views, a cluttered book store, and a gorgeous model all converge in Bohemian by Kathryn Nolan. Now this is ROMANCE! Angela takes us on the journey of two attractive people falling in love over the pages of their favorite poems. Can Paul stomach the level of pure romance? Or will he long for the dirtier tales of books past. Tune in to find out.