Book Bits & Chill

Our honest A Court of Splintered Harmony review is here. After five years, ACOTAR 6 is out and we’re answering your biggest question: do you need to read Crescent City (or all of the Maasverse) before the Valkyrie Cycle? We do not agree. We start spoiler free with our verdict on whether to read it now or wait for A Court of Forgotten Melody in January. Then we go full spoilers (starting around 15:...

ACOTAR 6 is almost here, the Fourth Wing casting has officially sent BookTok into a spiral, and the book community has a LOT to talk about. This week on Book Bits & Chill, we're catching up on all the latest bookish gossip. From Sarah J. Maas's massive ACOTAR 6 marketing campaign and the chaos of leaked book releases to Fourth Wing casting reactions, and the BookTok fandom drama that...

Imagine losing your son in one of the busiest train stations in the world, then searching for him for five years. That’s the opening of Little Wonder, the Oprah’s Book Club pick from Sophie Chen Keller, and we got to talk to her about all of it. Sophie tells us the story of getting the call from Jenna Bush Hager and Oprah while bouncing a sick baby on a yoga ball, and how her Love Island binge as...

September did NOT go according to plan...Emily got taken out by a book hangover, Cassie let Libby completely take over her reading life, and somehow we still finished 15 books between us. We’re catching up on everything we read in September, the 5 stars, the surprises, the books we kept putting off for absolutely no reason, and then attempting to build our October TBRs. And apparently October mean...

Should you read Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros now or wait for book 4? Spoiler free verdict first, then full spoilers. Threshing Day isn't book 4. It's a collection of 13 threshing stories from your favorite Empyrean series characters and their dragons. We break down what the point of a novella even is, why Rebecca released this one now, and whether you need it before Fourth Wing book 4...

The Love Hypothesis movie just dropped on Prime Video and we have one very important question: WHERE WAS THE YEARNING? This week Book Bits Club is breaking down the full adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, what the movie got right, what it completely changed from the book, and whether Adam Carlson survived the jump from BookTok boyfriend to on-screen boyfriend. We get into the missi...

Mafia boss, morally gray villain, or a beast in a mansion: why do we love book boyfriends we'd run from in real life? Cassie and Emily start with a real Reddit request for a mafia romance where the FMC has no idea the MMC is in the mob, and he refuses to let her walk away once she finds out. Then they get into what makes a love interest unhinged in a fun way versus too far. In this episode: T...

Remember when reading used to feel like the most exciting thing in the world? Staying up way too late for one more chapter, fighting for the next library book, and fully believing you might stumble into a magical world someday? So...when did we stop having that much fun? This week on Book Bits & Chill, we're doing a full READING RESET. We're talking about why so many adults fall out...

Is Rachel Gillig’s The Knave and the Moon a worthy finale to the Stonewater Kingdom duology? We’re breaking down the highly anticipated romantasy sequel to The Knight and the Moth, from Rory and Sybil’s romance and the infamous gargoyle to Benji’s villain era, the tournaments, the sprites, and that emotional ending. Plus, we compare The Knave and the Moon vs. The Knight and the Moth and decide whi...

August was one of our most chaotic reading months of the year...and somehow September is gearing up to be even crazier.  This month we're wrapping up everything we read in August, from literary fiction and fantasy to rock star romance, tiny Victorian journals, and the rarest Book Bits & Chill event of all: a book we BOTH gave 5 stars. Then it's time to build our September TBR, and th...

Anna McCallie, author of breakout sports romance debut Abby Offsides, joins us to talk soccer (football), found family, and falling for the wrong guy at the right time. Abby Offsides has taken over romance readers' shelves this year, pulling comparisons to Ted Lasso meets Off Campus, and this episode gets into all of it: the real footballers who inspired swoony Scottish football captain Lachl...

This week on Book Bits and Chill we are investigating the two types of readers who are reading This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me right now: ⭐ The “Five stars. One of my favorite books of the year. Ilona Andrews can do no wrong.” and 🫠 The “I’m 30% in and I genuinely do not know who anyone is.” And somehow...we get BOTH. By the end of this episode youll know if you should bump it up your TBR to get i...

Emma Brodie, author of Into the Blue, sits down with us to talk about writing a fictional fandom that feels completely real, the improv background behind AJ and Noah's connection, why she chose to market this as a love story instead of a novel, and THAT ending that we're still processing. Plus the origin of the hairdryer, her honest take on the romantasy crossover, and the TV adaptation...

It's time for another Monthly Reading Wrap Up! July gave us everything... new obsessions, unexpected disappointments, emotional damage, and a few books we already know we'll be recommending for a long time. This week we're sharing everything we read in July, including our biggest surprises, books that lived up to the hype (and ones that maybe didn't), before building our August...

Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey a faithful adaptation, or did he rewrite Homer for the algorithm?  We saw it opening weekend expecting a straightforward book to screen discussion and left with a full spoiler breakdown instead. In this episode we get into Matt Damon's performance, the Cyclops scene that had us covering our eyes, the sirens moment the internet cannot stop talking about,...

This week on Book Bits & Chill, we're sharing our ultimate spicy romance guide by ranking 12 of our favorite romance books from Entry , Intermediate , and Expert spice. From beach reads and vacation romances to cowboys, billionaires, romantasy, and books that will have you checking the trigger warnings twice, we're helping you find your perfect summer read. We're talking fake da...

Kalie Cassidy, author of the Siren Mage duology, joins us to talk sirens, sea monsters, and the morally gray heroine everyone in the romantasy space cannot stop talking about. We get into how Kalie built the world of In the Veins of the Drowning and In the Wake of the Ruined out of a lifelong obsession with Greek mythology, why she committed to telling Imogen's story in two books instead of s...

What if your favorite Romance or Romantasy books didn't have to end when you closed the cover? This week we're recommending the TV shows that give us the exact same feelings we chase in Romance and Romantasy books. Whether you're obsessed with yearning, slow burns, forced proximity, ballroom scenes, found family, medieval fantasy or unforgettable FMCs, these are the shows we think e...

We barely read this month and somehow had more to say than ever. This is our June wrap up and July TBR, and it got existential fast. Cassie went down a full Carly Fortune rabbit hole (Every Summer After, One Golden Summer, Our Perfect Storm) and has thoughts on where to actually start. We both got completely wrecked by The Midnight Train by Matt Haig, the companion to The Midnight Library. And we...

Do audiobooks count as reading? We have thoughts. This week we're getting into the best audiobooks we've ever listened to, the narrators we can't stop thinking about, and whether the right voice actor can actually make a book better (or completely ruin it). We cover our audiobook gateway drug, the books that hit harder on audio than on the page, graphic audio (and whether it's...

This week, we're sharing our 5-star reads of 2026 so far and helping you figure out which ones belong at the top of your TBR. From books that completely consumed our lives to stories that left us emotionally devastated, we're matching our favorite reads to the type of reader who will love them most. Looking for your next obsession? A reading slump cure? A book that will make you feel som...

She built one of the most passionate reader communities in romantasy right now and she did it by trusting her gut, staying off Goodreads, and planning that Vows and Ruins ending from day one. This week we're sitting down with Helen Scheuerer, the author behind the Legends of Thezmarr series, to talk all things Thea, Wilder, and the slow burn that has readers absolutely losing their minds. Hel...

In today’s episode of Book Bits & Chill we’re diving into our May reading wrap up and June TBRs, but somehow this episode also became a full existential crisis about reading moods, sequel fatigue, BookTok pressure, and whether we’ve all been forcing ourselves to read books like homework. We talk about: - the books that completely consumed our personalities - our newest 5 star reads - the most...

Off Campus just dropped on Prime Video and we spiraled so hard we had to make an episode about it. This week Cassie and Emily are breaking down the full Season 1 adaptation of Elle Kennedy's The Deal — what the show got exactly right, what they changed from the book, and whether you should read The Deal before or after watching. We get into the scenes that had us absolutely feral (THAT "...

Fury Bound is one of the most hyped romantasy sequels of 2026 and the internet keeps calling it “Fourth Wing with wolves”… so obviously we had to talk about it. In this episode of Book Bits & Chill, we review Dire Bound and Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen and answer the big question: should you actually read this viral romantasy series right now, or can it wait? We get into: • Fourth Wing compari...