Coffee & Co-Read

It's week 2 with Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco and this week we're reading chapters 18-37! This week, we have all the questions because Camilla has secrets and we just want to know what they are.....Envy also has secrets but CAMILLA'S ARE WORSE! We also get some saucy moments where Envy and Camilla get closer but it just leaves us with the question...who is Camilla, and what...

It's week 1 with our first book of 2026, and we're reading Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco! This week we're reading chapters 1-17. In this week's episode, we reconnect with the Prince of Envy and his quest to play a game....but first, we had to read the rules. Then we meet the one in his way, Camilla - who legit has soooo many secrets it's ridiculous. She's an arti...

It's our annual New Year's countdown! Where we rank the books we read this year and discuss our top 10! What books have we ranked the same? Which ones are different? We don't know!!! But we do know that this is gonna be fun!

It's our last week with A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 23 to the end! This week, we get love declarations all around! But the way Louisa reacts to hers doesn't have us swooning. Clara also has a brush with death, but it goes away? And the person we least expect to come in and save the day makes an appearance! Why? Plot reasons!

It's week 3 with A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 14-22. This week, the house gets attacked, so the group needs to venture out into the wild! It's repeated a million times that Finias is super powerful, so essentially, if he's around, it's a guaranteed win! He and Clara get closer, and she divulges certain fantasies that he is...

It's week 2 with the novel A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 8-14! This week, the eyerolls continue! Louisa is a straight-up horn dog, while Clara turns out to be freakier than we thought, and the Prince is a bit of a prude! Our intrepid heroines find their way into situations where kissing is the only way to survive.....and that happens a...

It's week one with our holiday-themed book, A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney, and this week we're reading chapters 1-7! This week, we meet our two main characters, Clara and Louisa and their unfortunate circumstances now that their father is dead and they have to move into their Godfather's house! We meet the (smuldering?) nutcracker, and Kristen tries to point out all o...

It's our last week with Gild by Raven Kennedy, and we're finishing off with chapters 24 to the end! This week, we meet the pirates who attacked Auren's party, and they are terrible people....definitely not the hot pirates we know and love. The goal is for them to sell Auren and the other saddles off, but they are stopped by the hot commander from the 4th Kingdom. He's a fae warrior...

It's our third week with Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 14-23. This week, we see the aftermath of Midas' betrayal, and he's just as psychotic as we thought! Then we have the longest carriage ride in history, with topless saddles and nice soldier boys. Auren makes a friend, but then we get the greatest twist in literary history.....SNOW PIRATES!

It's week 2 with Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 9-13. This week, we see Auren get ready for her night with the gross King Fulke. She needs to come to terms with her relationship with Midas and how it's changed in the 10 years they've been together.....back when she was 15 and he was 22 (vomit....). She goes to the ball and is treated like an object, and...

It's time to dive into a new book! This month we're reading Gild by Raven Kennedy and this week we're reading chapters 1-8. This week we meet our main character, Auren, who has a very particular circumstance - she's completely dusted in gold, and lives in a gilded cage with the man who put her there, King Midas. But here's the twist - she loves him and apparently he loves her t...

It's our last week with When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A Parker, and this week we're finishing it off with chapters 74 to the epilogue! In this thrilling conclusion, we get some spice as Raeve and Kaan finally get close, but then he forces her to make some hard choices. We FINALLY figure out who the Other is....we think.....and we momentarily actually have the hots for Rekk Zharos............

It's week 4 with When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker and we're discussing chapters 51 to 73. This week, Raeve sees another side of the Burn - mainly that they like Kaan. Kaan takes things fast and furious with her then ghosts for 30 days. Veya is going on a scary mission that seems insane. Kaan comes back and takes things 2 fast 2 furious again.

It's week 3 with our novel, When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker, and this week we're reading chapters 35-50. In this episode, we finally get a bit of spice! However, it doesn't go as far as we want it to go. We also get a weird ritual where 2 dudes fight for Raeve's hand, but she doesn't like it and wants to fight for her own instead. We go to Khan's kingdom and meet h...

It's week 2 of reading "When the Moon Hatched" by Sarah A. Parker, and we're reading chapters 17-34. This week, Raeve deals with the consequences of the "others'" actions and is sentenced to death by dragon. She is also confused when the nice-smelling guy heals her and eventually saves her! She keeps trying to convince him to let her go, but he doesn't want to a...

It's week one with our new book, When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker, and this week we're reading chapters 1-16. This week, we meet our main character, Raeve, who lives on the wrong side of the tracks and fights against the oppression that poor ppl face in her kingdom. She kills men and has fun with it - but she meets one guy and she can smell him...so you know what that means! An orp...

It's our last week reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, and this week we're finishing off the book with chapters 34 to the end! This week we finally get what we've been after the whole book...spice! Mischa finally knows what love feels like but it is almost immediately ruined by Atroxus. In order to save her loved ones she has to make an impossible bargain,...

It's week 3 with The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, and this week we're reading chapters 24-33. This week, Mische gets in trouble in the Underworld when she finds out who Chandra is and why she was in Morthryn. Elias is a sneaky boy, and Mische comes face to ghost face with her maker, and it isn't pretty. Plus....we have strong questions about how ghosts bathe wi...

It's week 2 reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent and this week we're reading chapters 10-23. This week, Mische and the crew get attacked by a skeleton fire bird and Asar and Mische get closer.....apparently he smells special and she doesn't get it *eyeroll*. They keep going through the descent to get more relics and they keep running into dead people they kn...

It's a new month, so we have a new book! This month, we're reading The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, the third book in the Crowns of Nyaxia series. This week we're reading chapters 1-9. In this episode, we get reacquainted with Mische, the plucky, bubbly vampire who has a dark past. She is captured by the Shadowborn vampire royals after she killed their Prince -...

It's our last week reading Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and we're finishing off with chapters 44 to the end. This week, we finally find out what OOphelia's biggest fear is...and it isn't at all what we expected. Of course, Blackwell saved her from herself. They have some more hot times, and Ophelia finally finds her sister and then sends her away immediately, which makes us question,...

It's week 4 reading Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and this week we're reading chapters 33-43. In this week's episode, Ophelia and Blackwell continue their hot physical relationship....but they both have some moments where they try to pull away from each other....which is not hot.....on top of all that, Ophelia is still trying to survive the trials of Phantasma where Cade is all up in her...

It's week 3 with Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and this week we're reading chapters 23-32! This week, Ophelia deals with the ramifications of her deal with Blackwell......aka sexy times! She goes through a couple more trials and makes it out with injuries but more suspicions from Cade that she's not human (she is but has more power than expected) and she also learns why her sister was sea...

It's week 2 with Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and we're reading chapters 13-22. This week, Ophelia gets closer to Blackwell in more ways than one. She goes through two levels of Phantasma and has a super embarrassing moment during one of them. She also has to deal with the house itself and all the dangers it wants to let loose on her, in addition to her fellow housemates, who also seem hellb...

It's week one with our new read, Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, and we're reading chapters 1-12! This week, we meet our FMC Ophelia, who has a unique family legacy....she's a necromancer, and it's up to her now to carry on in her mother's footsteps since she died. The only problem is, her mother left Ophelia and her sister in debt, and they are going to lose their house! If only there were a magical h...