Bookalicious Pod

This is part 1 of 2 for the Rachel Reid’s latest hit Heated Rivalry. Heated Rivalry is a 5 chili pepper book and we will have some minimal cursing so no kids allowed!!! Chrissy is moving back to Texas to re-evangelize Bookalicious Pod so she will be out for this book recap. Luckily for us we have friend of the pod and besty Lexi who will be filling in! This was a listener request from Tiffany (tha...

**THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK** The sisters conclude the thrilling experience of The Secret History! They deep dive all the plot theories and source crowd the compelling 'big cat theory' Thanks for joining and tune in next week where Chrissy moves to Texas and Candice gets friend-of-the-pod Lexi to cover the hottest book of summer, Heated Rivalry! Thanks for joining our club, make sure to ra...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In the penultimate episode the sisters have different takes on what happened - Chrissy thinks it was not a lot of action, meanwhile Candice believes this section was a cringeworthy as The Office iconic Dinner Party episode. The gang is starting to unravel - Henry fulfilling his destiny as cult-overlord, Charles falling into alcoholism, Francis developing anxiety, and Cami...

In Part 2 of The Secret History the sisters forgot to record their best episode yet, and you’ll have to take our word for it. Even with the dry-run, this re-discussion took 90 minutes to get through. Candice has cooked up an evil cult theory that hinges on what is NOT in the book. Chrissy concludes Bun will be cooked by the start of the next chapter. Thanks for joining our club, make sure to rate....

The sisters start their journey to Hampden College in Vermont. As the title and book cover would suggest, the story starts off a little slow. However, Candice has cooked up a theory that 1) everyone is gay and 2) the students are in a cult. Chrissy has cooked up an alternative theory that Bunny will be dead by Chapter 4 and Henry is not a demon but an upstanding young man. Tune in next time as the...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK After a quick reprieve from the depressing throws of Babel, the sisters journey back into the abyss of dark academia with The Secret History. In an attempt to build up as many rations as possible, today is only the Author Recap. We will be covering Ch 1 - 4 in next weeks episode - see you there :) Thanks for joining our club, make sure to rate.review.subscribe Want to sup...

You asked for it and now you have it - a full read story by the Bookalicious Sisters! This is a F R E E book in the public domain (so no asking for actively copywritten books) The sisters travel to Czech to uncover a new-to-us fairytale, Katcha & the Devil. This story has twists and turns and an unexpected part ii. Enjoy this palette cleanse. Next week we are go back into Dark Academia with Th...

**THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK** RF Kuang took a page out of Brandon Sanderson's book and decided everything will happen in the final 10% of Robin's story. The sisters are deeply disappointed by Letty, who they thought was similar to Hermione but turned out to be Lord Voldemort. Overall we enjoyed the first 3/4 of the read but the ending fell a little flat for us. We appreciated the lessons learned a...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Life is humming along at Oxford. The group of 4 study and pass finals and Robin is officially OUT of Hermes. Letty convinces the crew to go to the once in a life-time University College Ball, even though the rest of the cohort are certain they will be treated like waitstaff and experience nonstop microaggressions. Letty says, no way! We are all Babel students in polite so...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Robin starts his subterfuge as a Hermes associate. During the day he is mild manner student, at night he is helping Griffin steal school supplies from the Babel Tower. Why? We aren't sure and Griffin won't say. As the semesters tick by, we watch the group of 4 go through the waves of cohort friendship - honeymoon bliss where everything is new, jealousy as members...

The sisters journey back-in-time to a not so different past of 1800's England. This listener recommended book is complex, deep, and full of important discussion topics! Disclaimer, we are self-identified Letty's and do our best to navigate important topics on racism, classism, and colonialism. We aren't experts but these are our thoughts and we are open to hear your thoughts as well. Thanks to our...

Hi bookalicious girlies! We get off to a slow start with our Babel recap, which is fitting as this is a meandering novel, as we only cover our Author recap + a 15 minute detour into my (Candice's) Lasik eye surgery story. You may say, wow we wanted a recap of the book not your medical mysteries. To that I say, you're welcome. You will need the extra time to read and work through the episod...

In this EMERGENCY episode, Bookalicious Pod has you covered on everything you need to know about our Queen, Freida McFadden's, REAL identity as Dr. Sara Cohen!! In this much needed author recap, news anchor Candice fights her way through the crowds to gather all of the important details on our favorite thriller writer. Covered in this episode: Dr. Freida in Braintree What is a physiatrist? Ope...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK! The sisters have once again been outfoxed by Freida McFadden. How did the not guess that Daisy was only spiritually dead to Tom & not physically dead and has been masquerading as Gretchen? How were they dumb enough to think that there are two weirdo men in this book obsessed with bugs that were unrelated? The sisters break down all the plot points and add a new metri...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In Part 2 of The Boyfriend, the closeted Allison/Miranda of our Sex & the City gang is killed. Why? Because Tom stabbed his deadbeat dad and Allison saw Tom & Slug rolling the dead deadbeat dad’s body into their sedan.  Slug rises the ranks as the most likely serial killer as he knew right away how to clean up a dead body, how many garbage bags were needed to line...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The sisters journey back to the voice-to-text queen of thrillers, Freida McFadden (said with the utmost respect) The book oscillates between some time in the past that feels like the 50s and present day. The past section follows four teenage students - Daisy, Tom, Allison, & Slug. It is clear Tom is a psychopath in training who is only outweirded by his brofriend Slug...

Before the sisters can close the book on The Silent Patient, they attempt to do a quick 15 minute chat on the morality of novel. As usual, this takes 40 minutes to cover Aussie Correspondent asks the important question on Theo's character arc - Theo appeared to be a rehabilitated person from abuse. However, by the end of the book we find that he is unable to escape his past and becomes an abus...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The sisters wrap up the Silent Patient and give it a perfect 5 stars! The twist was twisty and most importantly a careful eye would have been able to solve the psycho the whole time was……*****!  The sisters wonder what drove Gabe to cheat on Alicia - did he feel trapped into a caretaker role he didn’t want? Was he after Alicia’s money? Or was he an insecure man who was je...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The sisters pick up with Part 2 of Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient, and Chrissy gets her last guesses before they wrap up the book in Part 3. Chrissy starts & ends the pod by saying, “everyone looks suspicious.” Candice does her best to ask questions without spoiling Thanks for joining our club, make sure to rate.review.subscribe Want to support? Patreon ⁠⁠⁠ http...

The sisters travel back to the isle of the UK & Greece as they pick up Alex Michaelides best selling thriller, The Silent Patient. Before opening the novel, Candice reviews the harrowing life of Alex Michaelides; full of opportunity and disappointment. Alex’s personal history blends seamlessly into The Silent Patient, making the sisters wonder if this is somewhat a memoire. Thanks for joining...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK While Part 2 left the sisters thinking Reese Witherspoon’s debut novel would land between a 4 & a 5, the final third of the book goes off the rails into pure chaos resulting in a 3.2 star rating.  Where things went wrong: Nadia’s tattoo was FAKE! Turns out Nadia employed Maggie to, ‘mess with her mind’ Oleg is stabbed in the middle of a mosh pit and his body is crowd-...

Things have picked up in Reese's debut novel - Maggie has performed a first-of-a-kind nose job using a 3D printed nose, Nadia’s unexpected tattoo, Maggie’s Fast & the Furious style car crash and more! Where our theories land: Marc is aliiiiiiive Trace is a turn coat Nadia is the big bad Oleg is the Gomez to Nadia’s Morticia Pig Pen (AKA Pork Chop) will fly his motorcycle to the secret lab...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK After loving Reese Witherspoon's book club pick - Broken Country (please read & listen if you haven't already; it's great!), the sisters put on their detective hats for Gone Before Goodbye (co written by Harlen Coben & Reese Witherspoon) We spend the first 20 minutes going through Reese's wildly successful resume, including a first place medal for...

The ladies wrap up The Sweetest Getaway and detail all (2? 5? 7??) heists that happen in part two. We talk about all the characters we distrust (pretty much everyone except Lorinda), moral ambiguity, and who we wanted to get caught in the end. We were big fans of this adventure and hope you were too! Join us next week for Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben! Thanks for joinin...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK **SPOILERS FOR NOT QUITE DEAD YET ** In what may be our shambliest episode EVER, we have costume changes, technical difficulties, special guest appearance by aggressive Chrissy, and we get the main character's name wrong almost the entire time!!!!! Despite all that, we have a great time discussing The Sweetest Getaway by Sasha Preston and hope you do too! Some topics incl...