What in the Smut? Podcast

Welcome back WITS listeners! In celebration of Kay's birthday this month, we read Wrapped by Nicole Parker! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle discuss delayed gratification when it comes to birthday gifts, how quickly your 30's turn into aches and pains in the morning especially after a bottle of wine, and that men need to realize that girls dress for compliments from other girls- not for the ma...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Bagged by the Groceries by Fannie Tucker. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙, maybe 🐙🐙🐙 We're good with weird, but we think even this exceeded our expectations. Kay and Elle discuss whether or not our FMC was set up to have a redemption arc, only for her to have absolutely no real punishment or lesson throughout. Our idea of the direc...

Welcome back WITS listeners. This week, Elle and Kay discuss a doozy of a why choose with Nailed by Ames B. Winterbourne WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 Have you ever asked yourself, what would it look like for 5 alien hammer men and one mostly human woman to get it on? Neither did we. We did read about it though, and Kay even brought out a hammer from her tool bag as a reference when we were a...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss That One Time with the Margarita by Alex LaBruyere WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week's episode has some heavier trigger warnings in the book, with some dub con/CNC themes throughout the book. If blood magic isn't your thing either, we get it. Sonny, a 30 something bartender who has just about given up on dating gets...

Welcome back WITS Listeners!! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Washed Up (with a Kraken) by L. E. Eldridge. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 and 1/2 This week is a long one! Elle and Kay have some deep discussions about gender identity and how we need to work hard and hold each other accountable to undo some of our own conditioning when it comes to gender and romance novels. We discuss how Qu...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay as they kick off summer and discuss SPF Me by Holly Wilde. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 There truly is no plot- even the author said so! This book took us on a "WILDE" ride. Sentient sunscreen bottles that come alive but don't get to be full sized men? As always, we question many of the logistics. Both Kay and Elle each have their own soap box m...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Whoreiffying by Piper CJ Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 1/2 In this episode, Elle and Kay discuss the whirlwind romance of a snarky ghost and a clairvoyant witch. The plot twist toward the end, and the vigilante justice left us with some questions, and overall there were some ethical dilemma's throughout the story that had us really...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Handle Me by Unfortunate Reads Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙/🐙🐙🐙 For another very quick book, we had a LOT to say. This is a MM sentient object story, and we were delighted to see that the author has ties to some of our favorites, Vera Valentine and Sylvia Morrow. We were disappointed, however that unlike those other two authors...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Have you ever wondered what it might be like to get it on with the Kool-Aid man? Vera Valentine certainly thought long and hard about it when she wrote this week's book, Cold Sweat. Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 This episode has lots of giggles with healthy doses of "OHHHH YEAHHHH" sprinkled in. We're still not sure if we're totally on board for the step-sibling trope, but w...

Welcome back WITS listeners! We got right back into the good stuff with part two! In Part Two, we meet some new key characters, get one of Elle's favorite type of friendships in a romance novel, and really get to see "if he wanted to, he would" in Violet and Roark's relationship. Overall, we got close to a 5 star- Kay gives this ⭐⭐⭐⭐ .5 and Elle was almost there, with ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kay's fan cast c...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we dig in (albeit a little late to the party) to Morning Glory Milking Farm. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 Another long book means another two part episode (because we honestly can't stop ourselves from digging in much deeper than necessary on, well, everything)! Today, we discuss the MUCH more practical onboarding process for this company...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Happy Easter to those who celebrate! Today we're discussing Railed by the Easter Bunny by Dalia Davies WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙 Both Kay and Elle thought that a story about the Easter Bunny was going to be silly and lighthearted, but were surprised at the darker tone throughout. That doesn't mean this episode is without laughs, however. As always, we learned a li...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! Today, we are discussing a staple in the smut world, Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (You're going to want to read the trigger warnings on this one!) In this episode, Kay and Elle discuss how the first 30 pages of this novel could have been the start to a much darker, very different book, and could have been replaced with 30 pages givin...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! In today's episode, we discuss Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner by Chuck Tingle WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle have a lot to say for a story that was only 14 pages. We get far too in depth about the hiring practices at this T-Rex Law firm, what the world may actually look like had dinosaurs gone through evolution and were still with us today, and whether...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Listen as we discuss Her Donut Shifters by Mia Harlan WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 Elle loves a good supernatural town, but still isn't a fan of the food as characters trope, and Kay is reminded that she loves a why choose storyline. We go into some serious depth about donuts, fated mates, and where NOT to put food. Overall, Kay rated this 1.5 ⭐, and Elle's love o...

Welcome back WITS listeners! On today's episode, we discuss Pounded by Poseidon, written by Thea Masen and Holly Wilde. WITS Smut Scale Rating: This one could fall anywhere between 3.5 and 5 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 In this episode, we discuss how difficult it must be to write a book with two authors, and how in some cases we could really tell there were two very different people writing. As always, we learn a...

Welcome back WITS Listeners!! In this episode, we discuss What to do with a Naked Leprechaun by Tianna Xavier. Smut Scale Rating: 🐙 Truly, St. Patrick's Day seems to be a missed opportunity for the Smut community, as there were not a lot of options to choose from. Kay and Elle found themselves much more amusing than the book itself, but still had a LOT to say. Both agreed that there could have be...

Welcome back WITS listeners! We sincerely apologize for the cliffhanger earlier in the week. We know you want to hear the rest and here it is!! In part two of our deep dive into Deep End, Kay and Elle break down Scarlett and Lukas' relationship, discuss some aspects of the relationship that we deem problematic (and honestly, its not the parts you'd think), and Kay still hates Pen, but we find out...

Welcome back WITS Listeners!! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Deep End by Ali Hazelwood WITS Smut Scale Rating for Deep End: 🐙🐙/🐙🐙🐙 We had a LOT to say about this novel, so SURPRISE- you're going to get it in 2 parts. In Part One, we discuss some of our own biases that were uncovered as we read, Elle's disappointment in the lack of a strong female friendship, and Ali Hazelwood's a...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as we discuss Stuffed by Sylvia Morrow. WITS Smut Scale Rating for Stuffed: 🐙🐙🐙 (a bit of a jumpscare 3 if you ask Elle) Kay argues that this one could be a 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 for lack of a real plotline. We start off with some more updates from the Smutverse, a few funny reviews from Goodreads and Amazon, and then get right into our breakdown of the novel...

Welcome to the pod! In our very first episode, Elle and Kay review Unhinged by Vera Valentine. We start off with some news from the smutverse, some reviews from Goodreads and Amazon, and introduce our own Smut Scale Rubric. Smut Scale Rating for Unhinged: 🐙🐙 If you're not looking for spoilers- read before you listen! Elle and Kay go chapter by chapter through Unhinged. We ask some hard-hitting q...