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Besties and the Books Podcast

Besties and the Books

We’re Ashley and Liz, two real-life besties who’ve loved books since we first learned to read, so naturally, we started a podcast! We would say the rest is history but in actuality, it"s just the beginning. So come join us in the next chapter of our lives as we introduce ourselves, and laugh our way through the world of books with a focus on Fantasy, Romantasy, and Dark Romance. Of course we have love for all book genres, but those are our absolute favorites!Don"t be shy, subscribe! New Podcasts

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39:11

WUTHERING HEIGHTS FOR DUMB DUMBS! | A Beginner’s...

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2026/02/13

Send a text Have you officially jumped on the Wuthering Heights bandwagon yet? If you’re anything like us, reading this classic novel by Emily Brontë for the first time, you may find yourself thinking “WTF!?” on every other page, confused about the point of view, the narrator, the timelines, and the ghosts…? And we get it! So do not fret; we’ve got you! Welcome to our newest bonus series where we’re taking deep dives into some of the most beloved classics of our time, kicking it off wit...

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Ep 97 Glint by Raven Kennedy Review, Summary, Deep...

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2026/02/10

Send a text Today we’re diving right into book two in The Plated Prisoner Series by Raven Kennedy: Glint. This book is the perfect journey story (both literal and figurative), and follow up to the polarizing book one. If you weren’t hooked by the end of Gild, we hope you’re hooked now, because these books have A LOT of important things to say. We give you our spoiler free star and spice ratings and faves and fails, then dive into the five sentence summary, the tea on the audiobook and a...

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Ep 96 "WE DID IT!!" 100+ Books RAPID REVIEWS! Year...

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2026/02/03

Send us a text Our 2025 Reading Wrap Up 2.0 is here in all of its spoiler free glory! We’re giving you our one sentence star and spice rating for every book we read from July to December of last year, so get your pad and pencil out to add to your TBR… or to cross some things off… depending on how you look at it. We’re bringing you over 100 book reviews and then going over our yearly bookish goal recap from 2025 and reset for 2026. First and foremost, we want to thank each and every one of you...

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Ep 95 Rhysand, Kingfisher, Slade: The Man Behind the...

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2026/01/27

Send us a text Do you love Audiobooks? Well, hold onto your buttz! Today we have a very special completely spoiler free interview episode for you. We’re bringing you something (someone?) new and exciting to go along with our deep dive series for the Plated Prisoner books by Raven Kenneny, going on now! We’re chatting with none other than the man behind our favorite voices…including THE Slade Ravinger… Anthony Palmini! Yes, you heard that right: he’s the voice of some of our most treasur...

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Ep 94 Gild by Raven Kennedy Review, Summary, Deep...

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2026/01/20

Send us a text Just in case you haven’t heard… our first full length deep dive series for 2026 is none other than THE Plated Prisoner by Raven Kennedy! Today we’re kicking off this (at least) six-book, and seven-part journey with book one: Gild. We know that this series can be triggering, controversial, or even so slow to start (for some 😉) that it gets a “dnf.” We’re here to convince you to read it because in our not so humble opinion, it’s one of the most well-written, soul-crushing

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Ep 93 The Housemaid Book VS Movie Showdown! "Why the...

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2026/01/13

Send us a text We’re baaaaAAAk! And we’re bringing you a very special episode to kick off the new year! Something we’ve never done in a standalone episode before… it’s a book versus movie showdown with a deep dive into The Housemaid by Freida McFadden and a comparison deep dive into the 2025 movie adaptation starring Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney. Which was better the book or the movie? Thrillers are a genre that we historically haven’t covered much here on the podcast, but the hype surr...

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Ep 92 “Am I The A Hole? I Won’t Go To Christmas...

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2025/12/23

Send us a text It’s the most wonderful time… of the year? Happy Holidays from us to you! We hope you’re surviving the chaos, insanity, and general family drama. So in true Besties & the Books fashion, we’re here to bring you some distraction and laughs to help carry you through the madness, and to remind you that you’re not alone… because “It’s Christmas and we’re all in misery!” (As the famous Clark Griswold would say.) In our last episode of the year, we’ve got everything from stripper ...

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ENTIRE Wicked Universe Wrap Up & Ranking 💚🩷 Unpopular...

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2025/12/19

Send us a text Today we FINISH our coverage of the entire Wicked universe and close our bonus “Are Books Political” series! And is Wicked Worth Reading? Wicked: For Good has officially been out for three weeks, and we are ready to yap about it with all of you. Which is better? The movies? The book series? Or the Broadway musical? We rank everything in the universe, give you our number one overall pick, and talk about all of the movie moments we thought were faves, and the ones that were fails...

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Ep 91 BRIMSTONE (by Callie Hart) Is a Romantasy...

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2025/12/16

Send us a text Listen…Brimstone is here. Are we obsessed with the Fae & Alchemy series by Callie Hart? GUILTY. AS. CHARGED. Not to give anything away (including our spoiler free star and spice ratings) but we think it’s safe to say that there’s nothing better than Kingfisher in our eyes and ears, Onyx the perfect animal sidekick companion, and a one horse scene starring none other than Carrion… our favorite scoundrel. Take a deep dive into book two: Brimstone as we follow up our Qui...

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Ep 90 Answering the MOST UNHINGED Questions from...

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2025/12/09

Send us a text Literally what in the actual heck is this episode? It’s all of us having a great time at the water cooler of the future, that’s what! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted unhinged bookish (and random!) questions for us to answer. It was truly a blast, and we hope you got to know us a little bit better. We got to know ourselves better, that’s for sure! 😭😂 We answer all of the important questions like: what’s the most unhinged book we’ve ever read? Are we team “we were on

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Ep 89 A Very Cringy Christmas! 🎄💋 Reading Viral...

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2025/12/02

Send us a text This episode is chalk full of all the magical things we hope to receive this holiday season, including but not limited to: revenge on abusive fiances via honeyed ham cleaver, several foot long Krampus tongues, monster cages, Christmas tree farms, skiing sessions, and double penetration involving a college hottie and his… step dad? 😳 It’s our unhinged, cringy Christmas novella episode, second annual! We picked two popular holiday smutty books under 150 pages and gave them a try

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Is ELPHIE Worth Reading? Wicked Prequel Review and...

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2025/11/28

Send us a text Today we FINISH our coverage of the Wicked book universe by Gregory Maguire with the newest installation, released an entire fourteen years after Out of Oz: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, the prequel to the original book! Told from Elphaba Thropp’s perspective as she navigates her early childhood and adolescence before starting her education at Shiz University, we watch as she discovers her magic and the injustices in larger society outside of her small village. We get an inside l...

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Ep 88 “AM I THE A HOLE? I DONT WANT TO HOST...

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2025/11/25

Send us a text It’s that time again, where we ask and answer “Am I The A Hole” but this time its Thanksgiving Reddit Stories! In yet another installation of our fan fave series “Am I the A hole?!” holiday edition, we’re tackling Thanksgiving Day and all the completely unhinged problems that arise when friends and family get together to “give thanks.” And then as a bonus, we’re sharing our most favorite fall book recommendations and some hopefuls! If nothing else, we hope that listening ...

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(we actually want) OUT OF OZ!! | Wicked Book 4 Review...

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2025/11/21

Send us a text Today we FINISH our coverage of the original Wicked Years 4-book series by Gregory Maguire with the finale: Out of Oz, told from the perspective of Elphaba’s granddaughter Rain as she navigates the world as a stowaway during a politically tumultuous turnover of power. Was the grand finale everything we hoped it would be after the blood, sweat, and tears we put in analyzing this extremely political fantasy journey? Stick around to find out! Check out our kickoff “Are...

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Ep 87 We Read the Most UNHINGED Thanksgiving Smut on...

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2025/11/18

Send us a text Today we’re bringing you our reviews and unhinged deeeep dives on two of the most “cringy” sounding Thanksgiving themed romance novellas we could find on Kindle Unlimited. As we continue this time honored tradition of bringing you the holiday smut, we want you to know that even if we don’t love it (but hey, we might though…) we’re happy if you do. Because there truly is something for everyone, even if that something is three turkey basters with the capability to impregnat...

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A (COWARDLY?) Lion Among Men | Wicked Book 3 Review...

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2025/11/14

Send us a text Today we continue our coverage of the Wicked 5-book universe by Gregory Maguire with book three: A Lion Among Men, the only book in the series primarily told through the point of view and perspective of an Animal. The “Wicked Years” move forward with spinoff stories covering all the major players in the political upheaval of Oz, and we’re diving into the “real” story of “the cowardly lion.” Check out our kickoff “Are Books Political" episode all about why books and readin...

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Ep 86 Between Two Kings Power, Passion, and the Price...

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2025/11/11

Send us a text Just in case you haven’t noticed… we are completely OBSESSED with the Split or Swallow universe, created by the amazingly talented and hilarious Lindsay Straube. Last year we did a deep dive and our very first author interview with Lindsay covering all things Kiss of the Basilisk, and now we’re back to yap about the highly anticipated sequel Between Two Kings! Out today! Last week we had Lindsay on for a spoiler free interview picking her brain on what it’s like to ...

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Ep 85 Between TWO Kings?! What’s that all about?!...

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2025/11/04

Send us a text First EXCLUSIVE Author Interview with Lindsay Straube for Between to Kings is here! Just a short year ago Kiss of the Basilisk (or Split or Swallow for those of you who’ve been here since the beginning 🙌) took the romance literature world by storm! Lindsay Straube, known to many as @oxfordlemon on Instagram went from a hilarious meme account to self published bestselling author of one of the most unique monster romances to date, to a bestselling traditionally published author

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Son OF A Witch!!! Wicked Book 2 Review and Summary |...

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2025/11/01

Send us a text Today we continue our coverage of the Wicked 5-book universe by Gregory Maguire with book two: Son of a Witch! We’re diving into political fantasy like we never have before, just in time to watch Wicked for Good with all of you! Check out our kickoff “Are Books Political" episode all about why books and reading are inherently political and why it’s not only important to acknowledge this, but to read our favorite books through this lens. We concluded during our subse...

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Ep 84 "AM I THE A HOLE?!" 👻 🎃 HALLOWEEN Edition +...

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2025/10/28

Send us a text It’s that time of year again! Time to react to AITA Halloween Stories, time to put on our special surprise wigs, try not to laugh at literally everything we say, and give you guys the spoiler free Halloween rundown! We’ve got a spooky season fave and fail including a holiday meet cute, and the official Scream House, a smash or pass (fictional) serial killer / monster edition, and a whole lot of hilarious Am I the A Hole scenarios with one thing in common: Halloween. ...

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