In this episode, Freya & Jaime sit down and go through YOUR unpopular opinions about books.
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00:00 - intro & current reads
05:10 - I'm a fan of instalove
07:20 - smut is boring and ruins a book
10:03 - second chance romance is hard to get right
12:13 - Emily Henry is overrated
16:22 - I hate Lizzie (Boys of Tommen)
18:14 - Iron Flame was great, and gets too much hate
20:59 - cracking spines and folding corners is OK
23:39 - sprayed edges are so overdone
25:34 - romantasy is overrated
29:25 - people mostly down on romantasy because it's a genre women love
31:22 - there is no reason romance books need to be over 400 pages
34:15 - people who read only one or two genres, or only romance, need to be more diverse
36:52 - I hate colour coded bookshelves
39:16 - Silver Elite hate only started because people felt entitled to the author's identity
43:11 - Carley Fortune books have no substance
45:25 - listening to audiobooks is not reading
49:01 - big books are normally better
50:30 - every fairy/fae book is boring
