Where Booktok meets Cringetok! Two friends give themselves a reason to read the books that make you go "WHY would somebody read that?!" And report back so you don't have to! They find some of the weirdest titles and the fuzziest feel-good books that the world can offer. Join them in their sometimes crazy, sometimes cozy book reviews!
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Chasity and Andréa delve into what seems to be a utopia where gender doesn't exist until you're 16... but is it? T.C. Morgan's "Gendered" explores what might happen if humans modified themselves to birth sexless "slates" who are then given a test that reveals their gender. And how it might all go terribly wrong. Find the book here or in bookstores! (also, buy the audiobook when it's available!)
Cthulhu-esque monsters, witchy scientists with portals, and a lot of screaming? Sounds like a sapphic romance to me! In the second installment of trying to read books based on their husbands' interests, Andréa ended up finding a book that was more to hers and Chasity's interests...whoops! This is also our first tipsy edition! Find this book here or in bookstores.
Chasity and Andréa are dragging their husbands into it! This week's surprise "make me read it" was Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. A combination of "The Boys" and "The Venture Brothers", Hench follows Anna, as she goes from office working temp for villains to master airer-of-dirty-laundry on the superheroes. Even though Chasity didn't finish (we were on a time crunch!), the first half of this massive book is action packed. Will the husbands want to read it? Let's try to convince them! You can find Hench here or anywhere books are sold.
Please note, we have some pretty bad mic issues. But there is no way we were recording this one again. This book was ROUGH. This week, the hostesses try to manage their way into their most..... complain-filled episode yet! Check them out discussing "Taken By Dinosaurs" by Whitney Fox.
This week Chasity and Andréa get a little bit too excited over more girl-girl love in A.M. Kelly's "Grave Robber Roses". Ashton realizes that her father has no intention of allowing her to study for a degree in necromancy, she disguises herself as a man and runs off to make a name for herself. Find this book here or in bookstores.