Paperback Pleasures

Annabel walks us through the wild world of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , from the original manuscript to the latest movie adaptation on Netflix. Romy learns the full story and is shook. Join our Patreon page to hear the full episode! --- Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠  for exclusive bonus conte...

Author Chelsey Ann Tompkins joins the girls to talk spicy fairytale retellings and not-so-sexy nursery rhymes. Find Chelsey's Books Here: Curse & Spindle (Realm of Revelry #1) Straw & Gold (Realm of Revelry #2) PREORDER: Beast & Thorn (Realm of Revelry #3) A Conduit of Light A Baron of Bonds A Blightress of Wrath --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to Paperbac...

Romy reviews House of Salt & Sorrows by Erin A. Craig. Annabel swoons. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠  for exclusive bonus conte...

Annabel reviews Thérèse & Isabelle , a critical piece of historical queer literature only recently translated into English and published in the US. Romy still finds ways to bring up Wuthering Heights. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ !...

Content Warning: This episode contains in-depth discussions of roles and kinks that fall within BDSM dynamics, including but not limited to Daddy kink, dubious consent, and consensual non-consent role-play. --- Romy reviews the first book in Katee Robert's Wicked Villains series, Desperate Measures : a dark Aladdin retelling where the villain gets the girl. Annabel reflects on her first dark r...

The girls are together again! Annabel serenades us with her inconceivable review of The Princess Bride . Romy needs to touch grass. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠...

We're wrapping up spooky season! Romy reviews Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks. Annabel judges Romy's choices. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on ...

Spooky season continues as Annabel reviews Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. Romy taps into her vocab vault. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon...

You've heard the synopsis. It's time to talk romance. Romy finishes up her review of  Wuthering Heights  by Emily Brontë. Annabel (re)introduces us to Kate Bush. --- Today's episode is part two of two, we highly suggest listening to part one where we flesh out the synopsis and themes of Wuthering Heights and learn more about the author. --- Find the audiobook Romy recommends  here . Re...

It's that time of year again! The girls dive back into the world of classic gothic literature as Romy reviews Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Annabel taps back into her undergrad studies. --- Today's episode is part one of two, comprising of a gothic history lesson and a fleshed out synopsis! We'll put Wuthering Heights through our usual episode format in part two! --- Find the audi...

Author Cortney Winn graces Paperback Pleasures with her presence once again to celebrate her second publication date for the same book: Vesselless is officially on shelves today as a traditionally published novel. Support us & Cortney and buy your own copy of the dark romantasy Vesselless here . --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or...

We are in the running for Listener's Choice for Best Indie Podcast! VOTE FOR US HERE ! Voting is open through October 9. --- Annabel rounds out Sapphic September with a review of Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey. Romy discovers a new way to role play. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media an...

Romy reviews The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Annabel trusts the powers of a re-read. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠  for exclu...

Annabel reviews And They Were Roommates by Page Powars. Romy gets pastry-splained. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Join us on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠  for exclusive bon...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for all five books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs Series: Powerless, Flawless, Heartless, Reckless & Hopeless + the H opeless Bonus Epilogue! --- Annabel & Romy take their final jaunt in Chestnut Springs (until the holidays!), tune in for Beau & Bailey's wedding! And don't miss reviews of the bonus Harvey Chapters for each book on th...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for the entirety of Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- Hopeless bids farewell to Chestnut Springs, and the girls aren't mad... they're just disappointed. Okay, Annabel is a little mad. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for the first four books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs Series: Powerless, Flawless, Heartless, & Reckless + t he Reckless Bonus Scene . --- The girls unpack Winter & Theo's infamous "Morning After" with a TikTok live audience weighing in! --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com,...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Powerless, Heartless, and Flawless, and Reckless the first four books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- Elsie Silver breaks all the rules in Reckless , and the girls learn a lesson about not judging a book by its tropes. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompt...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Powerless, Flawless, and Heartless +  the bonus epilogue,  the first three books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- Free falls & so many kids! --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ !...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Powerless, Heartless, and Flawless, the first three books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- Cowboys take a back seat as the girls review Powerless , and discover a new Literary Lover (or two). --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Flawless & Heartless +  the bonus epilogue,  the first two books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- The girls talk Cade Kink and Romy finally comes around. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Heartless & Flawless, the first two books in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- The girls review Heartless by Elsie Silver, the most popular book in the Chestnut Springs series, only to end up on opposite sides of the rating system! --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our w...

The girls reflect on one year in business and on the airwaves. This minisode is part business meeting, part roast, part walk down memory lane, and 100% us . Thank you for a year of listens, downloads, reviews, and endless support. We wouldn't be here without you. Heartless will be released next Tuesday. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail....

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Flawless + the bonus epilogue, the first book in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- The girls swoon over Rhett + Summer 7 years later --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord  ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ ! Follow us on  ⁠⁠...

ATTN: This episode contains spoilers for Flawless, the first book in Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs series. --- Join us in our cowboy era - we're going to Chestnut Springs reviewing Flawless by Elsie Silver. --- Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com, or find our weekly prompts on our social media and/or discord channel! Join our discord...