Kim & Aimee

Trash or Treasure? Find your next (most likely romantic) read!

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Love romance novels and looking for your next read, but don't have time to waste on terrible books? Let us do the pre-read for you! Kim and Aimee have got your backs! Two girls who read way too many novels, mostly romance novels, talk about what they love, what they like and what they can't stand about what they've read each fortnight. First half provides SPOILER FREE recommendations (with spoilers in the second half) to make choosing your next read that much easier! Episodes released fortnightly, Sundays at noon (GMT +10), in time for a peaceful cup of tea while you choose your afternoon read...

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Kim & Aimee

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Episode 102: Anne Gracie’s ‘The Christmas Bride’ 18.12.2022 15:58

Tis the season not to waste time on terrible 🎄❤️ books! Kim and Aimee save you time by pre-reading a Christmas novella, ‘The Christmas Bride’ by Anne Gracie (with some familiar characters from the Chance sisters’ series ). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or...

Episode 101: ‘Mischief and Mistletoe’ by Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Joanna Bourne, Patricia Rice, Nicola Cornick, Cara Elliott, Anne Gracie and Susan King 11.12.2022 13:29

Tis the season not to waste time on terrible🎄❤️ books! Kim and Aimee help you out by with their review of ‘Mischief in Mistletoe’, a festive, romantic, happily-ever-after anthology by Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Joanna Bourne, Patricia Rice, Nicola Cornick, Cara Elliott, podcast favourite Anne Gracie and Susan King. (With copious reference to Episode 57: ‘The Last Chance Christmas Ball’ by the s...

Episode 100: Terry Pratchett’s ‘Monstrous Regiment’ 04.12.2022 24:29

Don’t have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee have taken a leap into Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with ‘Monstrous Regiment’. Could this be your next read? Listen in to find out! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 99: Richard Osman’s ‘The Bullet That Missed’ 27.11.2022 16:34

Don’t have time to waste on terrible 🕵️‍♀️ books? Kim and Aimee have pre-read ‘The Bullet that Missed’, the next novel in Richard Osman’s ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series. (This review assumes you’ve read the preceding novels - see Episode 87 for book 2, ‘The Man Who Died Twice ’, and Episode 36 for book 1, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. ) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our l...

Episode 98: Anne Gracie’s ‘The Rake’s Daughter’ (Brides of Bellaire Gardens series) 20.11.2022 18:01

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Anne Gracie’s latest, ‘The Rake’s Daughter’, the second instalment in the ‘Brides of Bellaire Gardens’ series. (See Episode 43: The Scoundrel’s Daughter for our review of the first novel) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggest...

Episode 97: Ashley Weaver’s ‘Murder at the Brightwell’ (Amory Ames series) 13.11.2022 16:16

Don’t have time to waste on terrible 🕵️‍♀️ books? Wanting a strong female protagonist and a 1930s mystery? Kim and Aimee explore the first book in Ashley Weaver’s Amory Ames series, ‘Murder at the Brightwell’. (Sorry… it’s STILL raining 🌧 ) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.trea...

Episode 96: Beth O’Leary’s ‘The No Show’ 06.11.2022 15:05

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee are here to help, with their short and sharp review of Beth O’Leary’s latest, ‘The No Show’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 95: Sally Boythrod’s ‘Brunswick St Blues’ 30.10.2022 21:45

Don’t have time to waste on terrible 🕵️‍♀️ books? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Melbourne-set ‘Brunswick Street Blues’, by Sally Bothroyd. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 94: Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ 23.10.2022 20:14

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Daphne Du Maurier’s classic gothic-thriller-maybe-romance ‘Rebecca’. You might have seen the Hitchcock film, or the recent Netflix version… Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or e...

Episode 93: Eloisa James’s ‘Winning the Wallflower’ 16.10.2022 17:49

Still extremely short on time and don’t want to waste it on terrible ❤️ romance books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a review of Eloisa James’s novella ‘Winning the Wallflower’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 92: Anne Gracie’s ‘The Virtuous Widow’ 09.10.2022 16:51

Extremely time poor this week and don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee have a solution for you: Anne Gracie’s ‘The Virtuous Widow’ - a novella! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 91: Agatha Christie’s ‘Hercule Poirot’s Christmas‘ 02.10.2022 21:32

Don’t have time for terrible🕵️‍♂️ books? Kim and Aimee review Agatha Christie’s locked-room classic bloody-murder non-Christmasy mystery ‘Hercule Poirot’s Christmas’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 90: Beth O’Leary’s ‘The Flat Share’ 25.09.2022 24:40

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? To help you make life choices Kim and Aimee review rom-com ‘The Flat Share’ by Beth O’Leary and the ways reading experiences are impacted by audiobook vs hard copy. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trasho...

Episode 89: M.J. Tjia ‘She Be Damned’ 18.09.2022 16:30

Don’t have time to waste on terrible 🕵️‍♀️ books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a review of M.J. Tjia’s ‘She Be Damned’, a Victorian London-set mystery with a fascinating female protagonist. (With reference to Episode 26 about Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Inst...

Episode 88: Lisa Kleypas’s ‘Hello Stranger’ 11.09.2022 25:26

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? Listen to Kim and Aimee’s review of ‘Hello Stranger’ by Lisa Kleypas, a book in the Ravenels series. (With references to Episode 71: Forever and a Duke, and Episode 59: Bombshell) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast,...

Episode 87: Richard Osman’s ‘The Man Who Died Twice’ 04.09.2022 18:18

Don’t have time to waste on terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee help out with a quick review of book 2 in the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman, ‘The Man Who Died Twice’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 86: Ann Aguirre’s ‘Witch Please’ 28.08.2022 24:51

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee make choosing your next book easier by reviewing ‘Witch Please’, the first in Ann Aguirre’s ‘Fix It Witches’ series. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 85: Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Foundling’ 21.08.2022 15:46

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Need help picking your next Georgette Heyer book? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Heyer’s ‘The Foundling’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 84: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ 14.08.2022 24:26

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Join Kim and Aimee as they review the audiobook of sex-drugs-rock-n-roll “documentary” ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 83: Jennifer Cruisie and Bob Mayer’s ‘Wild Ride’ 07.08.2022 16:55

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a review of ‘Wild Ride’, a paranormal-romance-mystery-comedy (ish?) set in an amusement park, by Jennifer Cruisie and Bob Mayer. (With reference to Episode 73, Jennifer Cruisie’s ‘Maybe This Time’ ) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggest...

Episode 82: Eloisa James’s ‘Potent Pleasures’ 31.07.2022 19:20

Don’t have time to waste on terrible ❤️ romance books? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Eloisa James’s ‘Potent Pleasures’ (just the first novel in the series). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 81: Sherry Thomas’s ‘A Study in Scarlet Women’ (Lady Sherlock series) 24.07.2022 27:23

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing the first novel in Sherry Thomas’s ‘Lady Sherlock’ mystery series, ‘A Study in Scarlet Women’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Episode 80: Mary Stewart’s ‘The Ivy Tree’ 17.07.2022 17:52

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Join Kim and Aimee as they review Mary Stewart’s romantic suspense novel, ‘The Ivy Tree’ (with reference to our pivotal episode 18: Mary Stewart’s ‘My Brother Michael’). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email tras...

Episode 79: Agatha Christie’s ‘The Moving Finger’ 10.07.2022 14:10

Don't have time to waste on terrible (audio) books? Kim and Aimee help by reviewing Agatha Christie’s much-adapted village mystery 'The Moving Finger’, read as an audiobook by Richard E. Grant. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasure...

Episode 78: Helen Hoang’s ‘The Kiss Quotient’ 03.07.2022 25:26

Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Well, WE’RE BACK! Kim and Aimee help you out by reviewing Helen Hoang’s hit ‘The Kiss Quotient’ - a contemporary romance leaning more towards erotica - and the benefits (or not) of having an audiobook read it all to you… Want to recommend a book? Send us a text! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via I...