Late Night Reads

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Ever Queen by LJ Andrews . This is the second book in The Ever Seas series. The series also includes The Ever King, The Mist Thief, and The Stolen Crown (available in October 2026). We’re covering all books in the series on the podcast over the next few months. During this episode, we discuss how much we loved seeing Livia embrace her true power...

It’s the first anniversary of the Late Night Reads podcast! Time to look back on what we’ve accomplished in the past year and share more information about some of the new things we have planned. Plus, any idea how many books, authors, and theories we’ve covered on the show so far? We’re sharing all of it with you in this episode!  Connect with Late Night Reads: Website: https://www.latenightreads....

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book, King of Wrath by Ana Huang . This is the first book in the Kings of Sin series. This book contains some of our favorite tropes, including billionaire romance, arranged marriage, forced proximity, one bed, and found family. During this episode, we discuss how our fun and slightly scandalous nickname for Dante, why his behavior was so infu...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Wicked and the Damned by Rebecca Robinson . This is the second book in the Dark Inheritance Trilogy. Our full deep dive episode on the first book, The Serpent and the Wolf, is available now. During this episode, we discuss how we have extremely mixed feelings about Ozik, the new characters that we loved to hate, why it was rewarding to see one o...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book If You Only Knews by Ellie K. Wilde . This is the third book in her interconnected Oakwood Bay series, and we’ve been waiting patiently to read Summer and Parker’s story. This book contains some of our favorite tropes, including friends to lovers, one bed, and sports romance. During this episode, we discuss how our expectations for Parker...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book, Bewitched by Laura Thalassa . This is the first book in the Bewitched series. The series also includes Bespelled, The Curse That Binds, and Bedeviled (available in August 2026).  We’re covering all books in the series on the podcast over the next few months. During this episode, we discuss how we’re officially in our witchy era, how Selene really n...

We’re excited to share some BIG news with all of you…Steph wrote a book! Her debut spicy romance book, Practically Perfect, publishes on March 27. Enjoy a teaser episode of us chatting about Practically Perfect by Stephanie Riley and learn more about what else Steph has planned to publish this year!  📚 Practically Perfect by Stephanie Riley First book in the Unexpected Love series Releases March...

When we heard rumors that Sarah J. Maas was going to be a guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast, we knew ACOTAR news was coming, but we were NOT expecting to hear her announce TWO new books! We dive into all of the ACOTAR news shared during the podcast interview and what we’re theorizing based on Sarah’s commentary.  Connect with Late Night Reads: Website: https://www.latenightreads.com/ Instagram:...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book, Just for the Cameras, by Meghan Quinn . This is the first book in the Bay Area Players series. During this episode, we discuss how Graydon is the grumpiest of all romance book boyfriends that we’ve ever met, how much we love Maple ever since meeting her in Bridesmaid Undercover, the hilarious text conversations between the Gladdy Daddies...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Ever King by LJ Andrews . This is the first book in The Ever Seas series. The series also includes The Ever Queen, The Mist Thief, and The Stolen Crown (available in October 2026). We’re covering all books in the series on the podcast over the next few months. During this episode, we discuss how Erik Bloodsinger alone is reason enough to read th...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book Heir of Illusion by Madeline Taylor . This is the first book in the Verran Isles series. During this episode, we discuss how much we love a good Shadow Daddy, especially one named Thorne, the fesityness of Iverson’s character, our hatred of Baylor and Kaldar, why we think Darrow knows way more about the whisperer and what’s going on than he’s sharin...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book, The Marriage Bet by Olivia Hayle . This is the second book in The Billionaire Games series. During this episode, we discuss how a marriage of convenience that starts out with an email has us immediately intrigued, why the banter in this book is absolute perfection, how much we loved watching Paige and Rafe continually poke at each other,...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book, Worth the Try by Valerie Pepper . This is the first book in her Atlanta Granite rugby romance series. During this episode, we discuss how we’re now huge rugby fans after reading this book, why we’re always going to love a single dad and nanny trope, the extremely dirty mouth on Ansel, how authentic Elodie’s character development was thro...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark . This is the first book in the Empire of Blood series.  During this episode, we discuss how this book has us hooked from the very beginning with its kickass female main character, Arvelle, and gladiator-style competition. Not to mention, who doesn’t love a book with vampires, especially when they’re hot and would pot...

In this episode, we dive into the dark romance book Bad Bishop by L.J. Shen . This is the first book in the Society of Villains series. The second book in the series, Twisted Pawn, releases in April 2026. During this episode, we discuss how the first chapter immediately captured our attention, why Tiernan might be the grayest of morally gray characters, how this book has our longest list of conten...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy novella A Crown of Ruin by Jennifer Armentrout . We highly recommend that you have read all of the books in the Blood and Ash series and all of the books in the Flesh and Fire series before reading this novella. During this episode, we chat about how much we loved this surprise novella, how it answered some of our questions and created a lot more, how we...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen . This is the second book in The Crucible series. The first book in the series is The Games Gods Play, and the third book, The Wrath Gods Reap, is slated for publication in November 2026. Our full deep dive episode on the first book is also available. During this episode, we discuss the mindblowing twist that we...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book Pucking Strong by Emily Rath . This is the fourth book in the Jacksonville Rays series. We highly recommend reading this series in the following order: That One Night, Pucking Around, Pucking Ever After Volume 1, Pucking Wild, Pucking Ever After Volume 2, Pucking Sweet, and Pucking Strong. During this episode, we discuss how much we love...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book, Freed, by K.A. Riley . This is the sixth book in the dystopian romance Thrall series, continuing the story of Soleia and Bastian as well as scenes with Shara and Thorne. We were counting down the days until this book was released after learning that Soleia was somehow prophesied to change the Peaks, and the crazy demigod Sylvan was intent on taking...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book, Honeymoon Phase by Amy Daws . It’s the third book in the Mountain Men Matchmaker series and focuses on a friends-to-lovers relationship between Luke and Addison. This romcom book also has some of our favorite tropes, including marriage of convenience, he falls first, small town romance, slow burn, and found family. During this episode, w...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen . This is the first book in The Crucible series. The second book in the series is The Things Gods Break, and the third book, The Wrath Gods Reap, is slated for publication in November 2026. During this episode, we discuss how it didn’t take us long to fall for the quintessential bad boy called Hades, why we’re con...

In this episode, we dive into the contemporary romance book Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath . This is the third book in the Jacksonville Rays series. We highly recommend reading this series in the following order: That One Night, Pucking Around, Pucking Ever After Volume 1, Pucking Wild, Pucking Ever After Volume 2, Pucking Sweet, and Pucking Strong. During this episode, we discuss how much we love Po...

In this episode, we dive into the romantasy book The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson . This is the first book in the Dark Inheritance Trilogy. The second book in the series, The Wicked and the Damned, is scheduled for release in February 2026. During this episode, we discuss how we were hooked on this book from the first chapter, why Reid is climbing our book boyfriend list, how much we l...

In this episode, we dive into the romcom book Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn . It’s the second book in the How My Neighbor Stole Christmas series.  During this episode, we discuss why we’re never going to look at chocolate-covered cherries or popcorn garland the same way, how much we loved Max’s dramatic side, why Storee is the queen of plotting and meddling, how we would have...

It’s time to share our TBR schedule featuring the books we’re covering on the podcast in December. Each week, we deep dive into a new book, alternating between the contemporary romance and romantasy genres.  Here are the books on December’s TBR: December 3 - The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson December 10 - Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath December 17 - The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen Dece...