Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books

Remington is a Duke and he doesn’t want to get married because he’s seen how awful men can be to women, including his dad, and doesn’t want to be like them. Lady Olivia is having her debut this season. Although she comes from a loving family, she is sheltered and naive when it comes to relationships and love. When the two first meet at a ball, they are met with immediate sparks and unwavering attraction to one another. You all know...

After being the only survivor from an attack on her dark forces squad, Nell is recruited into a special ops team two years later. She has to prove herself again and these men aren’t making it easy. Especially Bones, whom she met on the flight to her secret mission, along with his brother Aaron. If she knew he’d be on her new squad, she never would have slept with him that same night they met. Truth and lies and betrayal emerge as N...

S. E. is back on the show! We are excited to welcome Sarah back to discuss her book “No Words After I Love You.” This week’s book is a sweet romance and we meet Meg and Charlie, the bestest and oldest of friends who bicker, laugh, and love throughout this story. When they learn they are going to lose Gina, Charlie’s wife to cancer, they are overcome with grief and the weight of losing someone they love most. On her deathbed, Gina m...

Who wants to go on a game show to find their true love (or at least the person they’re supposed to marry due to tradition)? Captain Ryker Waterborn and Brynleigh do! While Ryker is actually seeking marriage, companionship, and love, Brynleigh is there for revenge against Ryker. Believing that he is the reason her entire family is dead, Brynleigh devotes her time in the dating games to make sure Ryker falls in love and chooses her t...

Guys. This is when we call a friends-off episode. One of us loves this book, the other hates it. Can you guess which one of us was like, “Hell yeah! Drama, angst, hot lonely-dad, birthday cake, and gut clenching suspense!” And who said, “What the fuck is this book?” Well, join us to find out as we dive into the lives of Verity, a renowned author who has become vegetated due to an accident but needs to finish her last novel; Lowen, ...

Cora and her sisters are American heiresses to a generous dowry that they can’t quite acquire until they’ve each met one specific requirement: marry a suitable husband. But since their legitimacy is questioned among New Yorkers and accents are more fun, Cora decides she and her sisters will go across the pond to search for their matches - but only long enough to obtain their dowries, of course. When Cora meets the money-stricken Ea...

Going to the devil himself for forgiveness - what a delightful, delectable idea. Only Charlotte has no sins to forgive and it’s driving Lucifer fucking mad. Charlotte is trying to escape the horrors of her past of an overtly religious, abusive father and the scars that he and his people have given her in God’s name. Thinking that no one will follow her because she now works for the devil, she takes a job at his firm. Lucifer has hi...

Renowned writer Dot Voline, aka Lady Death, isn’t dead - yet. But journalist Nadine jumped the gun by publishing a plagiarized obit stating so and all hell broke loose. Rival journalist, and old classmate Wes, is also following this story and more so since Dot isn’t actually dead. As competitors then and now, Nadine and Wes are only allowed to spend a very limited time with Dot, who has become invested in their real-life-enemies-to...

Sydney needs a break. Sure she killed off the main character and super beloved hero in her bestselling romance series but who would have thought that it would cause uproar and complete chaos amongst her fans? Just the die-hard ones who were in love with Vance… and now she’s getting harassed and death-threats. What does she do to escape the madness and to find some peace and quiet to write her final book of this series? Wisdom, WY, ...

No kink shaming here. It doesn’t matter what you do for a living, sometimes you need to get your socks rocked by something out of the norm. In this week’s book, we meet ER nurse Aly and her social media crush/stalker/cat-daddy/ex’s bff/circle yes or no boyfriend, Josh. After long, hard, horrendous days at work, Aly is always tired and nothing makes her feel better than to watch her favorite videos starring a super hot, masked man w...

This week we are, again, joined by the amazing and talented, Jena Doyle - author of the Midsummer series and we are excited to be discussing the last three of this series, wrapping it all up. There are so many things to say about Samhain, Solstice, and Beltane but not enough time in a podcast episode so we hope you all read along. Here we’ll discuss the lives, love, adventures, and trials of Lex, Ivy, Carter, and Miri, as well as t...

Aaaaand we have done it. How did we actually get here?! We’ll tell you how - with the help of our new friend Cecilia Rene and the amazing conversation we had about our two final books: Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross and Althea’s Awakening by Maggie Sims. It was hard but we got deep into each book and even into our own feelings and made a final decision. Congratulations to… 

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Guys, we are down to our four books after battling it out in our last episode with 8 of our favorite dirty books. Join us here and on YouTube, if you want to see our smiling faces, as we enter the ring for round three of this dirty books face-off. Plus we have a very special guest to help us make this final decision! We hope you have been following along and making your votes. Which two books will make it to the final Head Two Head...

We are down to our explicit 8 for round two of our face-off. It was tough getting through our lists of 16 and facing off against all these amazing titles but we must move forward. Join us as we continue to battle until there is only one. In the episode, we narrow it down to four! Yikes! Check out our video of this face-off on our YouTube Channel: Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books.

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We are excited to announce our first ever Dirty Books Face-Off! For the month of March we will be running a bracket-style tournament and pitting our 16 favorite books from the past 7 years against each other. Only one can emerge victorious! Join us weekly as Calina's 8 favorite books take on Saylet's 8 favorites. These episodes will also be posted on YouTube!

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We’ve read fake-dating stories before but this one is between two best friends. Here we meet Laniah, a small-business owner who craves privacy and being homebound, and her BFF, Isaac, who is a sensational influencer and artist, living his best life in the limelight. When Laniah’s small-business, co-owned with her mother, begins to struggle and is close to shutting down, Isaac springs an idea that he knows would guarantee a turn-aro...

Sydney is going back home to Rose Bend - pregnant and divorced - hoping to settle back into her roots and find stability in a life she once knew in this small town. Although her relationship with her parents are rocky, after the death of sister many years ago, Sydney wants to raise her baby in a familiar, warm place. But even her ex-husband doesn’t make her move easy by threatening to take their baby away by suing for full-custody....

Friends! MMF ftw. Holy moly - before you listen to this episode, please read/listen to this book first - it was so good. This is our first MMF and different from other why-choose stories we’ve reviewed because there is hot-ass MM action! Here we meet Nathan, who’s on his way to be with his family for the holidays until the snowy mountains of California makes him crash his car. But no need to worry - he is rescued by a logger-couple...

Oh how we love the fake dating trope and this one did not disappoint. Paisley’s family sucks. She’s not only been invited to her little sister’s wedding but she’s also the maid of honor. The catch: little sister is marrying Paisely’s ex. During the bachelorette party, dazzled with light-up penis party favors, she runs into an old college frenemy, whom she once shared a steamy, hot kiss with, Klein. Aspiring writer Klein is smart an...