We Read It One Night

Hi friends! We're so excited to bring you an oldie but a goodie: our episode on PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry. This is the friends to lovers so many of us know and love. It's a book we read over and over, and we hope that you'll feel the same way about this episode. We'll be back in your ears soon!   Hey pals! Today, we’re raving over PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry. Alex and...

Hi pals! Welcome to the first of our hiatus rereleases, TWISTED LOVE by Ana Huang. This is one of our most popular episodes and it was also one of the most fun (at least for Alison) to record. Don't forget to check Part 2 when you're finished here, and we will be back in your earholes with fresh content before you know it.    Hey pals! Today, we’re raving over TWISTED LOVE by Ana Huang. This is Ra...

Hey pals! In case you missed last week's announcement, we're on hiatus! We can't to see you in two months, but in the meantime please enjoy this special hiatus goodbye-for-now treat: over two minutes of our cat, Addy, purring. Subscribe! Follow! Rate! Review! Tell your friends and family all about us! WRION merch ! Our feminist, cat-loving, bookish Etsy shop ! Instagram: @wereaditonenight Twitter:...

Hey pals! Today, we’re chatting about NEVER FALL FOR YOUR FIANCEE by Virginia Heath. This delightful historical romcom has been on Rachel's wish list for a long time, so we're so excited to bring it you today! It's all got all the classic historical romance novel tropes but without all the misogyny—the perfect combo!  On a slightly bittersweet note, we announce the start of our two month hiatus. W...

Hey pals! We're officially halfway through BRIDGERTON season 1 with episode 4, aka the episode where Simon and Daphne have literally the most awkward makeout in a garden ever before rich people try to shoot each other for *honor* reasons. Our audiobook speed listening habits have not officially crossed over to Netflix shows; something probably everyone but Alison saw coming. Enjoy the show! S1E1 ;...

Hey pals! Today, we’re obsessed with PART OF YOUR WORLD by Abby Jimenez. In this age gap (where the heroine is the older one!), small town, opposites attract romance, Alexis (hot doctor extraordinaire) and Daniel (sexy carpenter) fall in love under the nurturing and meddling eye of a sentient small town. This book is all warm and fuzzies and big hugs. Abby Jimenez is absolutely a must read contemp...

Hey pals! We're bringing you episode 3 of our BRIDGERTON season 1 Watch Along! Listen to us fill this (arguably) filler episode with tons of delicious filler tangents, including yet another discussion of the evil of gas stoves and more analysis of Daphne's silly bangs. We demand justice for Prince Frederick and we oddly feel sympathy for Cressida? A truly wild ride! S1E1 ;  E2 ; E4 ;  E5 ;  E6 ; E...

Hey pals! Today, we're back on our ACOTAR bullshit with part 2 of the seminal book in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling universe. This episode involves Feyre finally living up to her name, Tamlin living his best troubadour life, Nesta getting character growth, Elaine getting character withering, and Rhysand being an absolute freak. While you're listening, make sure to check out our Etsy store, which has...

Hey pals! Happy Valentine's Day, but more importantly Alison's conception day! Today, we're kicking off the YA romance deep dive you've all been waiting for with A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Follow human badass/archer Feyre as she gets sucked into the dangerous and super sexy world of faeries, where she meets this feral blond hunk, Tamlin, and reenacts Beauty and Beast pretty much...

Hey pals! Welcome to our second Watch Along, where we're chatting about BRIDGERTON season 1, episode 2. In this episode, we learned about Simon's tragic backstory™/mommy issues and Daphne displays her complete lack of critical thinking skills. Alison gives you a bunch of random history knowledge you never asked for, Rachel demands more loyalty at first sight, and we talk about the total lack of ca...

Hey pals! Today, we’re raving over SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE by Tia Williams. Eva and Shane are two authors doing the absolute most, writing each other into their books for the over a decade since they spent a week together in June in high school. This book is absolutely dramatic and absolutely one of the most romantic contemporaries we've read. We adored this book and we also got pretty silly with it. E...

Hey pals! Today, we’re introducing a brand new series here on the podcast: Watch Alongs! Every other week we'll discuss one episode of a romance TV show until we finish the season, and we're starting with BRIDGERTON, Season 1! So jump into the first episode of Simon and Daphne's love story with us, where we fawn over Daphne's horns, defend Anthony's feral energy, and introduce you to our new merch...

Hey pals! Today, we’re raving over listener suggestion ISN'T IT BROMANTIC? by Lyssa Kay Adams. We've got a modern day, friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, sports romance starring cinnamon roll hero and IBS king, Vlad, and hard-hitting reporter, only-wears-one-sweater heroine, Elena. It's the fourth book in the Bromance Book Club series and it's filled with pro-cheese propaganda and a bonke...

Hey pals! We're welcoming in the new year with one of the most iconic historical romances of all time, LORD OF SCOUNDRELS by Loretta Chase. And we're super excited to welcome Jessen and Juliette from the Smart Women Read Romance podcast, fellow family podcasters and Twilight fans. Our hero, Dain, is the ultimate bad boy with a gooey center--and he looks like Adam Driver to boot! Our heroine Jessic...

Hi folks and Happy New Year! We're on a break this week, so enjoy this rerelease of part 1 of our chat on THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang. We'll see you next week with a new episode! Hey pals! Today, we’re raving over THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang. Stella is an autistic econometrician who hires sex worker Michael to give her sex lessons. Things quickly head down the fake dating route and sudde...

Happy holidays, comrades! We're on a break for the end of the year, so here's a rerelease of our most popular episode so far, written by the woman who outsold the Bible this year. Enjoy this relisten and we'll see you in the new year. Hey pals! Today, we put our serotonin levels in the hands of contemporary queen Colleen Hoover with listener suggestion UGLY LOVE. Meet Miles, a broody airplane pilo...

Happy holidays, pals! Welcome to our last book of the year, A HOLLY JOLLY DIWALI by Sonya Lalli. Our heroine Niki has a lot of generational trauma and a (possible too much?) horny imagination. Niki bops around the world, briefly loses her mind and considers moving to a whole new country for a man she's known for two weeks, and gets a grand gesture just in time for Christmas.  As of the release of...

Hey pals! Today, we're joined by Aaron and Bree from The Categorically Romance Podcast to swoon over this delicious treat of a category romance, SANTA, BABY by Lisa Renee Jones! We cackle our way through this book that is wildly hot and wildly bonkers. It features Caron, a bookstore owner/good girl™, and Baxter, the CEO of fictional Starbucks. There's also not one but two FBI agents, some white co...

We have *limited edition* holiday merch up in our store, including ugly Christmas sweater designs, Hanukkah puns, and winter gags! It's only available for the month of December. Today, we’re kicking off our holiday episodes with SEASON OF LOVE by Helena Greer, a sapphic, Jewish, Hallmark Christmas movie of a romance that ticked all the boxes we didn't even know we had. Miriam and Noelle spend the...

Hey pals! Today, we're celebrating the end of our journey through the Twilight Saga with part 2 of BREAKING DAWN by Stephenie Meyer. Edward and Bella finally have to face the biggest villain of all: Jacob Black, who wants to marry their infant daughter. Just kidding (kinda). They're gathering all their friends for a final face off against the Volturi. And Horny Bella takes the reigns! Watch the mo...

Hey pals! Today, we're bringing it back to the grand finale of the series that introduced us to romance with BREAKING DAWN by Stephenie Meyer. In part 1, Bella and Edward finally get married and do the nasty. Jacob sinks to new lows. And Leah and Seth Clearwater continue to be the best characters in this entire franchise. We also ask the important questions like: can vampires run at the speed of l...

Hey pals! We're kicking off year 2 of the pod with our long awaited, very first mafia romance: RUN POSY RUN by Cate C. Wells. Meet Dario Volpe, the numbers guy behind the mafia operation and also a psychopath (literally), and Posy, our heroine who is genuinely a whole-ass badass. These two dweebs love to play games and speak in chess metaphors. Dario kills a whole lot of people for Posy before lea...

IT'S OUR FIRST BIRTHDAY!!! Thanks for sticking with us for a whole year! If we were cats, we'd be 15. So we're doing what the horniest teenagers do and getting tipsy while playing some rousing rounds of fuck, marry, kill. We also celebrate all the wonderful things that have happened this year, reveal behind the scenes info, and say hello to all of our listeners around the world. We love you all to...

Hey pals! We're celebrating The Day of the Dead, All Saints' Day, and the end of spooky season with the one, the only sleep paralysis demon book: SING ME TO SLEEP by R.M. Virtues. After over a year of book edging this novella, we've finally read it, and we have to admit--it's an 11/10. Our heroine Penelope and her sleep paralysis demon, Acheron, get freaky, nasty, and sexy together as they take re...

Hey pals! Today, we're reigniting our childhood crushes on Casper with THE DEAD ROMANTICS by Ashley Poston. This book stars Florence Day, our heroine who's a romance novel ghostwriter who just so happens to be able to talk to ghosts, and Benji Andor, her hunky and allegedly dead editor. This book is filled with ghost puns and jokes, a dog mayor, and a surprising number of sexy scenes considering o...