In Bed With Books

Rule of Wolves — second in the King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo. 🖤 The ending we’ve all been waiting for. Melissa and I dive into Hanne and Nina’s relationship in Fjerda, the politics of a Grisha war, the amazing ending battle, and the way Nikolai talks about Zoya..swoon!

Book one from Leigh Bardugo's latest Grishaverse installment has everything: court intrigue, sexy power dynamics, and immortal, deified witches who haven't successfully done small talk in centuries.

Bethany & Melissa each bring a list of three books, in hopes of convincing the other to add even more books to their TBR.

In which your hosts get drunk and talk about top sex scenes, MCs, Romance pairings of the season's reads of Blood & Ash, Serpent & Dove, and Darker Shades series. Oh, and play their favorite game: Fuck, Marry, Kill with all the characters.

Taylin joins us for the final book in the Darker Shades trilogy where we unpack each character's backstory, dissect the sexual tension of Kell and Lila, share our most cryable moments, and play our very favorite game, Fuck Marry Kill, with the cast of Darker Shades.

Melissa & Bethany are joined again by lovely guest, Taylin to uncover more from our Londons. We're swept away by a new storm-eyed captain, Alucard, we get wrapped up in the heat of action during the magical tournament, the Essen Tasch, and are left with a massive cliffhanger!

Your hosts have on a special guest, Taylin, to talk about the first in the Darker Shades trilogy by V.E. Schwab. Listen now to THREE opinions on who we think the main character is, the correct pronunciation of Rhy, and what Black London is really like.

Welcome to part 2, in which Melissa & Bethany finish off the last in the Serpent & Dove trilogy. They work through Reid's torturous sexual urge to fu–I mean kill Lou, process the most vulnerable sex scene they've ever read, and perform a close reading of what could possibly be the most frustratingly vague sentence in the whole of romance novels. Oh yes, and they talk about EVERYTHING else.

It can only look up, and we have hit several heights in the final book in the Serpent & Dove series. Lou finds some light in the darkness, We go under the sea–Yikes! Reid floats out of the moldy city–vertically or horizontally?–and wakes up with no memory of Lou! Join us as we unpack the first half of Gods & Monsters.

Shit gets real dark. Lou grows distant while Reid fumbles amidst thieves as an outlaw. It feels a bit hopeless but we are falling in love with the gang: Lou, Reid, Coco, Ansel & Beau find werewolves, learn more about the Blood Coven, and we get to meet everyone's favorite whiskey burner, Grandaddy Devereaux.

Melissa and Bethany tackle the next series, Serpent & Dove, a tantalizing and brutal world of witches and witch hunters. But what we find in Lou and Reid is a love born out of acceptance of who one is, not what one is. Join us as we unravel the threads of love and survival.

Will Poppy take the Crown? Will she find out if she's a god or not? Will Casteel finally get head? All will be revealed in this episode when we discuss Poppy's transformation into a Queen who takes no shit. Thank you Miss Willa for everything you've given us, and for being a real person.

The world has been flipped on its head and Poppy is regaining her wits in this new world with Casteel. We add more and more to our "Fuck Alastir" list. And WTF was that almost-threesome?

Bethany and Melissa talk through Poppy's transformation out of being the Maiden, Hawke's role in finding her self-identity, and all the moments that made us feel like a teenager again. Let's go, Princess.

Bethany and Melissa discuss falling back into YA and Romance reads. Including how YA books have become more explicit and sophisticated than ever and their role in legitimizing the romance genre. Find out what they are currently reading and what to expect from future episodes!