HAPPY TS12!!!🧡 I love myself for prewriting this description bc it’s currently 11:58 on October 3rd and I just finished editing 2.5 HOURS of footage for today’s episode. Today we’re celebrating The Life of a Showgirl together, we’re dusting off our eras tour outfits and heading to the movie theatre to celebrate a new album with a room full of screaming swifties. And most importantly, we’re listening to a new episode of DBATB podcast. For the first time ever, I’m live reacting to a brand...

Welcome back to DBATB podcast, holy crap! Is this real life? 🥹 You’re in for an exciting new season of podcasting and I’m so excited to share the first episode with you. There has never been a better time to be a book girl. We are being gifted with too many screen adaptations to count. The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 is officially OUT and wrapped, but that didn’t stop Jenny Han from announcing a finale MOVIE that’s going to let this era live on as long as possible. My Life with the Walter...

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: There are mentions and flashbacks throughout of rape and domestic violence, emotional abuse, like some really tough conversations. They are a big part of this book and I will be touching on these topics later in the episode, so please know that before reading this book or listening to this episode. I think as the years pass, I realize how much of Reputation girlie I am🖤 I wasn’t initially until I went into my Reputation era in real life and then as I went through phases of...

With this episode, Hannah Grace officially becomes the most talked about author on this podcast and she deserves it! Every time I read one of her books, I’m smiling & blushing the whole time. And I’ve been WAITING for Henry’s book since the day I finished Icebreaker. Henry Turner has a special place in my little heart and this song was made for Henry & Halle💜 Some say boring I say simple; this was my favorite book in the Maple Hills trilogy. We start this episode with the plotl...

Tis the season for a small town, enemies to lover holiday romance🎄 Despite the mixed reviews that I've seen, this book single-handely put me in the Christmas spirit. It put me in such a perfect mood for this time of year, and yes, it was a 5 star for me. I listened to the official audiobook on Audible, which was so easy to listen to and very entertaining, and the cast really brought the entire book to life so if you're looking for a good audiobook to try, this might just be the one. 🎧 This ep...

While I support anyone who already has their tree and decorations up, I live in a house where we wait and decorate on Black Friday. So it is not too late for a cutesy fall small town romance!!🧡 It’s still fall in my world, and it’s technically still fall in everyone’s world for a few more weeks. I wanted so badly to throw this episode in here bc the book we are about to talk about is just so cozy and adorable and something I really enjoyed reading for the vibes. Your episode breakdown i...

Halloween special!!!!👻 Getting into the spooky szn vibes with a vampire x werewolf romance🖤 Never would’ve guessed that I would like this book as much as I did, but I should’ve known better bc it’s @alihazelwood & I love anything she writes. I mean how could I not love an intelligent, witty fmc paired with a confident Alpha werewolf who will do anything to protect his pack? Not to mention their bed chem.🌶️🔥🥵 (Disclaimer: This episode and this book are both rated R.) The first song that a...

Welcome back, silly little love lovers to the sequel episode from last week - Nothing like the Movies by Lynn Painter 💜 I loved these books so much, and I hope someday in the lifetime of this podcast, we get the chance to talk about these books as movies but for now, we can at least admire their love story by reading it. One of my favorite things in a book is dual POV; you all know how much I looooove dual POV. Liz was the silly little love lover in Better than the Movies, but Wes Benne...

Petition to add Fearless to the soundtrack of Wes Bennett & Liz Buxbaum💛 A good old fashioned, rom com book that I loved so much I was running for the sequel when it hit the shelves! This is a double drop episode with Nothing Like the Movies next weekend!! Lynn Painter is not only a new favorite author of mine, but also one of my favorite humans. She writes a mix of adult and YA rom-com books, and it is very clear that she has a thorough appreciation for 90’s and 2000's rom coms which I c...

This is episode is for my Disney princess girlies.🙊👑 I love sneaking in little Easter eggs for the songs I choose, and why, and I had a fun little one to sneak into this episode. The title of our book, Part of Your World and the title of our song But Daddy I Love Him are both a song and a quote from a movie that we all grew up, listening to with the same hidden message. Go ahead take your guesses now. I’ll wait until you think of it... It’s the Little Mermaid. Ariel, Alexis and Taylor Swift a...

This episode is sponsored by the Night Court, Rhysand, Cassian and Azriel, and my new bat boys sweatshirt which you can see me wearing for this episode live on YouTube. 🌃 It is in fact the second episode in a double drop for the series, and is not surprisingly longer than the previous one. So if you press play, don't say you weren't warned... Instead of a summary of this book, bits & pieces of the plot will be sprinkled into this episode when we are talking about characters, lyrics, etc.I...

Who’s afraid of little old Feyre?? AMARANTHA SHOULD BE.⚔️ I am officially in my fantasy era by starting this series, but still living forever in my romance era because these books are still romance heavy (and breaking the spicy pepper scale).🌶️ I never expected to love this series so much. Now I'm 3 books deep, living in the magical world of Prythean and adding phrases like "by the Cauldron!" in my daily life. When I tell people how good this series is and they say, "oh I don’t read fantasy."...

I might be missing something bc i don’t understand where the lemons on the cover came from, but we’re going with it. I have to admit that this book got me! I enjoyed it so much more than I expected to. Most romance novels that I read, specifically second chance romance, end with the main couple getting back together. Previously, I would swoon over a guy in second chance romance that sees his ex after 10, 15, 20 years, whatever and immediately breaks up with whoever he’s with because he realiz...

This summer will NOT be different if there’s a cheating trope @carleyfortune 🤨 but there wasn’t so I’m happy and this book was my first and only 5 star read of the summer🌟💛 We are now entering our fall era - sweater weather, football, blankets, pumpkin spice, spooky season!👻 I am a very seasonal reader. I like my books to match the vibes, so I think this book is perfect to transition from our typical summer romances to that cozy kind of fall vibe. This episode features That’s When (ft....

Wildfire (ft. Cruel Summer)🐻 Let’s go back to Maple Hills! Soaking up the last few weeks of summer, this book fit every vibe I wanted it to, and gave me flashbacks to one of the best summers of my life being a camp counselor, so we’ll definitely be chatting about that in this episode - along with the entire UCMH gang, a forbidden romance trope & some REALLY cute golden retrievers😍 Warning the spice is HOT, like ghost chili pepper spicy hot. I’ve had this book on my tbr for WAY too long c...

Eras Tour London recap & I Can Do it with a Broken Heart music video (emergency episode) 🧡 Swiftieeeessss!!! Emergency episode!! A recap of the Eras Tour in London is ABSOLUTELY necessary so here we are. SO much to talk about, so much to clown over so here we go. Episode breakdown includes every surprise to happen in the London shows: from N1 back in June, Hayley Williams for Castles Crumbling, then Gracie Abrams for Us, then Travis Kelce on stage, then Ed Sheeran for End Game to last ni...

It Ends with Us (movie review)🌸 You knew it was coming… i couldn’t resist. Blake Lively was an amazing Lily Bloom, and I did enjoy this movie but I enjoyed even more talking about it in this episode. I’m calling it the redemption episode for It Ends with Us because I 💩 on this book (and the behind the scenes movie photos) in previous episodes so I have a new outlook that I’m excited to share with you! Your episode breakdown includes: a recap of my initial thoughts on the book 2 years ...

A beautifully written song from TTPD for an equally beautiful book in today’s episode.🤍The Prophecy is one of my personal favorites from The Anthology (second to The Black Dog). My overall interpretation of this song is feeling like you’re left behind and wondering when it’s your turn to be happy, whether that love or life, it’s about a sense of hopelessness that everything and everyone around you is happening without you. It’s so vulnerable and raw and a very complex song to break down in th...

Sarah Adams never lets me down.🩵 This book had all of my favorite things: second chance romance, enemies to lovers, fake dating, dual pov, spice, smut it's all there. It’s only lacking for me in very small elements of the book that as a reader, just dont work for me and I’ll get more into that with the spoilers. When I'm reading a book, I go into my own little world and I sometimes find it so difficult to separate book from real life. If you love Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, and are so smit...

The book that got me out of a reading slump💚 This is a debut novel for Grace Reilly and there will be a total of four books in her “Beyond the Play” series; all of which follow different sports and siblings of the Callahan family (all of which will be getting their own episodes as they come out). First Down is a college, fake dating romance that tells the story of James and Bex. They came together naturally as “friends” then quickly as a fake couple in a mutual arrangement to get Bex’s ex off...