Sampling The Scared Sexy Anthology | Book Chat - Shelf Addiction Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Scared Sexy, two of the six Kindle short stories with
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(01:04):
welcome back, Casey.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hello, Hello, I'm so excited to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, it feels like so long since my last saw you.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's been forever.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
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The links for everything are in the show notes, so
click around and do all the things. We appreciate you
for doing that. But before we begin, I want to
remind you that we talk full spoilers here with book chats,
so spoiler alert you've been born. Today we are discussing Scared, Sexy,
Fall for Something Wicked, and anthology of novellas from six

(01:37):
contemporary romance authors. Today we are specifically reviewing JT. Guysingser
story Spicy Little Curses. I know that sounded weird saying
that last name. It just came up the weird. I'm
not re recording it, and Kimberly Lemming's story My Boyfriends
Are All Monsters. The audiobook is narrated by eleven narrators,

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So guess who's not saying all eleven narrators because I
don't know who did what. It was published September twenty third,
twenty twenty five. The book and the audiobook is Amazon
Original Stories. It is three hundred and sixty eight pages
in ebook and about two ish hours of the eleven

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hours and six minutes total runtime. Let's just start with
one read one of the synopsis. You pick which one
we'll start with.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I have my boyfriends are all monsters. Open first, so
tossing a coin in a mysterious well seems like a
harmless way to cope with being ditched on a mountain,
until every impossibly hot man in town starts competing for
one woman's intention. In this steamy short story by USA
Today best selling author Kimberly Lemming, Lucy Sawyer's wish for

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true love lands her in an enchanted town where men
are supernatural. The chemistry is off the charts, and everyone
wants to date her, but they say that things that
seem too good to be true you usually are, and
soon Lucy may need to decide if she's willing to
pay the cost of her happily ever after. There's another paragraph,
but it just like describes the whole the whole anthology.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, so I did look up this amount for this,
and this one is technically fifty two pages long. So
short and sweet or short and something high level. What
did you think when you finished this high level.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I thought it was cute. It made me laugh a
little bit. I one thousand percent wish there was another
one hundred pages of anything, plot, world building, character development,
more just I think it was a very cute concept,
but I just wish there was a lot more to it, because,

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like we've talked about Kimberly Lumbing on the podcast a lot,
we love her. We love her full length books that
are three hundred pages. This had all of her hallmarks
to it, but it was way too short.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, I actually I think I liked what you said.
This was a good concept, and it should have stayed
a concept. I think if she flushed it out, it
could have been better. I would agree with that, but
I'm not even sure. I don't know. It's like it's
not there, so I can't even guess if this would

(04:25):
have been better full length. It was not what I
was expecting from her. Oh yes, it did have the
things that we expect from her, like the comedy. I
think when I finished it, I said the best thing
about that were her little friends texting her and calling.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Her yes and honestly accurate. How many books have we
read where the friends just like, don't even call the
check on you or they're like, oh, yeah, you were
doing something last week, but I was busy with my
own life. These friends were like, hey, are you alive?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Call me. They're like, hey, are you okay? And she's
like wait, there's just like hot doctor and this other
guy and they're like, oh my god, do the doctor
do the doctor? Did your boyfriend do the doctor? Yeah,
let's know what happens. They're like invested fully, yes, thinking
she's in a cult or something like where are you?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Which the town did seem very much like a Hallmark cult.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, it was very weird. I probably would have high
tailed it out of there, but you know, that's why
I'm not in a ficious story. The stuff look crazy,
so I guess you know, it was cute. It was,
like you said, too short. I think Lucy was a
fun character. I don't know why she had that trash

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boyfriend though, Like he was trash.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, he was the worst of the worst, and I
think Kimberly just made him that bad to show why
Lucy's so desperate to have anybody else, because he literally
didged her on the side of a mountain to go
be with the woman who he said he didn't have
feelings for, but clearly wanted her more than his actual girlfriend's. Yeah,

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life like he was just cartoonishly evil bad boyfriend. If
he had the little chorly mustache, she'd be twirling it
and glaring out of a monocle and laughing maniacally as
he tied her up to a railroad.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
I mean, honestly, if I were Lucy, she was too
kind to even dump him. Yeah, No, but he did
what he would have been on mute never to hear
from me again. He just would just talk to the hand.
He never spoke to me again. That's it.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
But I mean, honestly, if you're that petty, you could
have your friends start calling him being like, is she alive?
Did you kill her? We're gonna send you to the
police because you were the last person to see her alive.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Actually, that would be a really good prank.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Right, and he would deserve it because he was fucking awful.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and just to have an awful boyfriend for the
sake of being awful gave Lucy an excuse to go
off and just be wild with these this dude or
entity he waits, Yeah, and not have any concern about
doing anything wrong, or she just could have been a

(07:34):
single girl on a camping trip as well. But whatever,
whatever works, I guess it's fine. What'd you think about
the entity?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I honestly needed to know a lot more, just to
have some sort of description and context, like he was
kind of a god but also just not like just
a being that lives in the mountains. But also you know,
he's like, she's worshiping me, so she's my priestess, so

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now I have to worship her back, and I'm in everything,
but also in just one thing. And it was really
cute that he was reading romance novels that people left
on the mountain and like using that as his basis
to create this cult.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now that what's funny. So this god guy, what do
we call him, what's his name? Hemlock? He creates like
literally several men who are all fine as hell because
they are from covers of books.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Really Jenkins cover model and another one that that particular
scene was really cute.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
She's looking at him and he's like what are you
looking at? Basically like get out of my grill, and
she's like, do anybody ever tell you you look just
like his cover model? Everly, Jin's book. I'm my girl.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hilarious. God that made this book so cute? Or the story,
I'm like, I wish it had been even another fifty
pages and like one hundred pages total, just like kind
of fleshing out all of it so it wasn't just Okay,
cute story, cute story, cute story. Chapter five is We're

(09:24):
all banging now?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, it went by all.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I mean, it's the same entity, but in multiple bodies
because apparently he can't fit into one body, so he
needs to have multiple bodies. And she's like, let me
pull out my kindle and show you the demon and
the vampire and the other thing I want, Like, I
just I get it. It was cute, but I wanted

(09:49):
a little more build up to that and a little
more context and more world building. So I wanted to say, now,
did you have to explain well all these characters could
do and what they look like, or this guy couldn't
have read that many women weren't leaving that many books
where he just knew all these characters. I mean, she
probably said, here's my Kendall, hear the books. He just

(10:09):
like touched it and incorporated it into his mind because
he's magic.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't know. I guess maybe, but I guess that's
a fun way to spice things up, just depending on
who you want to deal with that day or you know.
It was kind of strange how he's in many bodies
but then one big, odd tentacle like body and then
you know, but yeah, yeah I cales, but oh god, yeah,

(10:46):
not cute. I don't know, but I think she also
tossed the coin into a fountain, right, mm hmm, that's
where that's where it all started. Yeah, that kicked it off.
So I guess it's fine. It's a little day dream.
I guess absolutely.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Like this was such a like an homage to romance readers.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, this was okay, every.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Romance girlie who has the Kindle with all of the
monsters and the paranormal books and the Harlequins and the
Hallmark and Beverly Jenkins who has the shitty boyfriend and
wants to be whisked off her feet. But it was
just it was too fast, Yeah, complaint like, Okay, So

(11:37):
the cover art for this particular story had green tentacles
coming out of like a piece of paper, a pink cover.
I kind of wish we had got a more traditional
Lemmon cover, so we can have seen what Lucy looks like.
But based on the description, obviously she's probably a mid
sized girl bordering plus size because she show got a

(11:58):
who this guy just picking her up and walking off
with her like she was a bag of flower or something.
I mean, he just huffed her up and just you know,
all these guys are just picking her up.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm like, wow, I understand. Cute. I'm like that that
part is cute. So there are things to like. But yeah,
that's about it. There were things to like, and that's
as nice as I can be.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I don't I ask you a question and we can
cut this out if you don't want to answer her. Sure,
if you were in Lucy's position, what three paranormal creatures
would you want to sleep with?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Hmm? Okay mmm, I'll leave this in for Patreon and
cut it out from Yeah, yeah, yes, I guess it's
fun that you get to have your fantasies come true
literally for someone, and someone who's like literally willing to
do basically whatever you say, like this entity has. He

(13:03):
just seems like he's just there to please her, and
that's it.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, And that's what he said, point blank, he was like,
I'm here for you, don't ever leave me. And that
was the one thing where I was like, she should
be able to go off the mountain at some point
and maybe like go shopping or go to the grocery store,
go visit her friends.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Like I was thinking that same thing. Do you have food?
Do you have real food here? Like you have real food?
Like what does this look like when you're not pretending
to be an old lady and a dog and you
know several old ladies, several dogs, and several hot men.
You know, what does it look like? Am I buy
myself up here? What's going on? He's cooking this food?

(13:42):
Who's cleaning this? Uh in? Who's doing all that? Exactly?
Not me? Hell no, Yeah, I'd neat off that mountain.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'll be back when I want some, but I'll leave
her a day or two, come back, leave for a
couple of days, stay for a week, you know, live
my life, but not just I'm stuck here for the
rest of my life kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, I don't know. It seemed weird. It was very weird.
So let's rate that story one to five as we do.
What would you rate that story?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Okay, so I keep calling it cute, but I just
want so much more out of it, so I think
I have to give it a three star.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh that's so nice and generous. I know. Oh yeah,
I did say some parts are cute, but I'm giving
it a two star. I was kind of like, m
it's the first disappointing thing I've read by Kimberly Lemming. Yeah.
I didn't love it. And if this is your first
introduction to her, I think you're gonna be short changed.

(14:57):
You don't really know how good she can be. So
I think that is where she failed, because here is
a great opportunity to get in front of new faces. Yes,
and I think she could have brought it a little better. Yes.
So sorry, Kimberly. Still love your writing, girl, not this one. Same. Yeah,

(15:21):
love her.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I will keep recommending her books, but not the short story.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
M yep. Okay, let's take a quick break. When we
come back, we will talk about our second of the
sixth and we'll talk about if we're gonna read any
more of these or whatever whatever. Whatever. We will be
right back. Okay, welcome back. Let's talk about our second book.

(15:53):
Our second book is titled Spicy Little Curses. It's let's see,
it's a hundred and twenty six minute read. Let's see
how many pages that converts to on the kindle? Oh
where'd that go? I was just looking at its BLUs
Oh here it is ninety page. Ninety pages. Okay, so

(16:14):
also short and a little sweeter, I think, mm hm,
you want to read The Little Legs? Yeah? Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
A reporter's disbelief in the supernatural is tested when she
uncovers a tattoo artists Sinister Family Secrets, an enthralling short
story by New York Times best selling author J. T. Geisinger.
That's how I said it, Okay. Petra is skeptical when
it comes to the French quarters creepy urban legends, until

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she meets Dax Rousseau, the proprietor of House of Ink
and Blood. The eldritch markings on his flesh tell more
than the tale of a doomed bloodline. They come slithering alive,
and the nearer Petra gets to the maddeningly sexy Dax,
the closest to being the next victim of his ancient
family curse. Okay, so this one, this one felt like

(17:09):
a fully fleshed out story.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I agree. It felt there was a beginning, a middle,
and end.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
There was tension, there was sexy times, there was evil
demons popping up left and right.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
There was self discovery going on, growth, character growth. She
packed a lot into ninety pages. She did, and in
contrast to the other story, this is very much improved
in my opinion. It had the snark that I like,
you know, the couple had banter. I love New Orleans.

(17:48):
It like really makes me feel like, you know, the
whole story that she was using had it feeling very
like the Originals minus the vampires. Very witchy, which the
fog plated really big role. Like she was able to
use the setting as another character, which is wonderful. It
felt very spooky, but you know, not in a scary way,

(18:11):
but just kind of like, hey, there's something odd going
on here. But the ghosts kind of added a little
extra something. You know, she saw the ghosts behind him
and I was like, ooh, what is that so creepy? Motherfucker? Yeah.
So I enjoyed overall high level. I enjoyed this one
same same.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I sat down and read this in an hour and
it was great. Yeah, And it also what I appreciated
about this was like, well, it wrapped up the main problem.
There were several threads that were left, and she addressed
all of them in the epilogue, and I was like,
this is still a problem, and this is still a problem,

(18:52):
and this is still a problem, but that's a future
US problem. And I'm like, oh, so you're gonna write
like a full length novel of this.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
I would read them. I think they're a fun couple.
I like that she is a reporter, so she's asking
questions and she's like, oh my got some which is
in my history. I got like all these things going
on now, you know. I love it and it was
a fun time. I actually liked Petro as a character.

(19:21):
I like Dax too. He is definitely brooding. Yeah, he's
that grumpy kind of guy, which you know works being
that you know, anybody that falls in love with the
men and his family die and one person did die.
So question about that.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, he kept saying that she loved him, but he
never said that he loved her, but he did not.
Do you think he loved emmy? I think that was
her name. No, I don't same, Sorry, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
That was my thing. I was like, Okay, this feels
very one sided.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
It feels very weird that he's like, yeah, she loved me, yeah,
and I'm like, but did you love her?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Did she die for nothing? Like this is she did
die for nothing?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
She died for nothing, Okay, yeah, And then the timeline
with all the women's death didn't make sense because like
his mom was fully alive and he was old enough
to remember his own mother dying, so she was with
his father for years, whereas Emmy died before he even

(20:29):
loved her. And they did say that, like but you know,
they didn't say that you would die immediately.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
No, they didn't.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Every it was just every woman who falls in love
with one of these men is going to die. And
I guess they lived long enough to keep procreating, except
for Emmy, which doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
It doesn't fit the pattern.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Even Petra was like super early, they're like definitely not
in love, starts coming after her.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
It seems like once that tattoo kind of showed up
on the woman, that's when it was Curtains like, Okay,
hurry up, because you got to die. I don't know when,
but any minute now or something. That's what it felt like,
Like you said, she definitely was not in love with him.
Not at this point in the story. I think she
liked him, and of course obviously they were hooking up,

(21:23):
but she was not in love with him.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, she didn't love him. The first time she walked
into the room or his studio, I kept trying to
say bar, and it was not a bar. It was
a tattoo studio, but like when it first started working,
and like, obviously I think this was just my biggest

(21:47):
annoyance with the book, that was that the women's desks
were not consistent with a timeline. It was just like, oh,
if she loves him, then she's gonna die it some point,
and it might be passed, it might be slow, it
might be after she has.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
A couple of children, or Yeah, it would have been
nice to catch it, like maybe if there was a
trigger for it or something, because you're right, like they
literally just met and now it's just race to figure
out how to break this curse. Before I died. But
yet his mother was at least around for I don't

(22:27):
know long died before she died.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, if he remembers it, he'd have to be at
least five years old to see his mother's tattoo and
remember that, because you really don't remember anything before five.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
So this is the one twist that could have played
into that. And I don't remember if his dad, if
this curse came from his maternal line or paternal line,
maternal the men. Okay, so you're saying every time that
the guy gets with a woman, they always have a boy. Probably, uh,

(23:03):
because I'm like, it could have been from his paternal line,
but his grandfather had a daughter and that's his mother.
I mean, that's true. And then it cast to him
because he's a boy. So it came back maybe, but
all the men in his line.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
So he was talking about how his dad died and
his grandfather died great great great great grandfather.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I don't know, it seems weird. That doesn't quite connect.
That was just not Yeah, I'm trying to make it
make sense. Yeah, and it just didn't that yeah mm
hmm hmm. Yeah. She could clean that up a little bit.
But I mean, honestly, it was an easy quick read.

(23:49):
The audio for this was spectacular. The two narrators for
this this were really good. Yeah. I just yeah, I
really liked it. I'm trying to think what other issues
I had, if any.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I mean the fact that she's a reporter and they're
doing news on urban legends and bad mouthing BuzzFeed when
they are also probably like a BuzzFeed type of online
reporting studio.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
That's not the right word. Like it was just I
feel like from Vultra dot com or something, yeah, something
like it was one of those things.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I was like, Yeah, I appreciate that you're a news reporter,
but also why are you so insistent on this type
of news?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Like what was the origin of that? Was it? Yeah?
What was it? Why would you go from Chicago to
New Orleans? I don't know. Well, I guess it was
because of him. He's the one that she was hearing
that had like, yeah, no, she was here in the

(25:02):
urban My thing is like, why as a reporter was
she studying urban legends? Yeah? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
And then in the epilogue, her boss is like, you
need to come home. Why are you're still down there?
I'm being suspicious, you need to come back. And I
was like, Oh, I'm glad we're going to address this
in whatever future book because I have questions, right, and
I do think there will be another book. Hopefully there is,

(25:30):
because I would want to continue reading and the author
could probably connect those additional dots, and who knows, maybe
this was a one stop.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
In a long list of places she was investigating for
paranormal or supernatural things and this was just you know
what I mean, Like maybe she was doing something like
a series or something on it and this is just
one of the stops, you know, I don't know, something

(26:00):
like that. Yeah, we don't know. But it wasn't enough
pages to give us all of that.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Ninety pages was way more than fifty two. And I'm
glad we got the extra fight scene and all of
the stuff, but it was still like this could have
been a three hundred page book, and it would have
been a fantastic three hundred page book.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yes, I think so, And I think that is what
Guysinger is. That what I think So that is what
she set out to do. Is what I think that
Kimberly Lemming missed. She just drew in a new reader.
I've never read her before, but I will now after
reading this, if I see something that has Petra and

(26:47):
Dax on it, I will say, oh, you know what
that is, I'm going to read this story. Yep. And
that was a perfect cook in my opinion to pull
me in and be in interested in what else she's writing,
So she understood the assignment.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I think the stark difference between them was that JT
was writing the introduction to a story, right, like the
epilogue set up a lot of future problems, but they
solved their main issue right now, so it's like a
prologue story, so to speak, whereas Kimberly Lemming tried to

(27:28):
write like an entire story, sum it up, have everything
all hunky dory, happy, And I don't think she could
necessarily write a full page book for Lucy.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
The only rule for this type of thing is probably
what keep it under one hundred pages?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Right?

Speaker 1 (27:44):
That's probably the rule for like novellas like this, right, probably,
So why not take another forty pages and flush it
out a little more? Why not? Why? That's what I'm saying,
Like she should have done that.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, But I feel like Kimberly Lemming was trying to
write and just get it on the page and get
it complete and be like, Okay, So she has she
makes the wish, she meets the entities, we have the
cute romance moments, then they have sex and they're happily
ever after, like she's skipping a lot of the tension.

(28:21):
There was that tension moment with the weird possum skeleton
dude who turned into a skeleton man who was like,
walk away with me, But that's minimal tension. JT had
so much tension because one or both of them were
going to die and it looked like it right up
until the last second until she was like, oh wait,

(28:43):
let me kill the faceless man instead, right, So yeah, No,
JT definitely had a lot more tension, a lot more
issues that they dealt with, and a good like they're
overcoming something, whereas Lucy never had to overcome anything. She
just had to like accept her god lover yes and

(29:07):
be like yes, now'll be three men for me.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
And I think that this guy for the love interest
dex was just written better. I mean, come on, a
hot tattoo artist, Oh yeah, no, being sacky, broody.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, they were bitching at each other, but that was
their love language. Whereas the god the One who waits
Hemlock whatever his name, was just kind of like I
had and I love you and I'll do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, he had no individual personality about him, exactly each
part of him was literally copy paste out of a
book he read. So we don't even know what the real,
you know, version of him is.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
And I don't think he knows either, because he's been
like nothing for thousands of years. He's just been at
the bottom of the well, waiting and reading romance novels.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like a weirdo. But so anow the reason why Spicy
Little Curses delivered something that was wholly enjoyable. Was it perfect? No,
but it was enjoyable for what it was, and it
was a good hook for me to want to read more.
So yeah, good for her. I think that was exceptional.

(30:25):
And what was missing. Let's see what was missing from
Spicy Little Curses.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
A very spicy sex scene. Mm hmmm that sex scene.
There was the phrase then they kissed passionately during the
sex scene, and I rolled my eyes so hard they
almost popped out of my head.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
I was like, okay, you needed a little help here. Yeah,
then they kissed passionately. No, that that's not how you
write a good sex scene.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
No, that was not good at all. I would agree
with you, but I don't know. I'm looking at the
covers of the other stuff, and some of this stuff
looks very like it could be very juicy. So maybe
this was just her trying to not creep people out
before they had a chance to read more. I don't know.

(31:20):
Oh what is this this guy? Oh? Okay, I'm okay
to cover art, Like, what is going on here? Okay?
It looks like she writes a lot of contemporary, darker romance,
I guess. Looks like some millionaire stuff going on in here.
Burned for You as one of the titles. Looks like
she's got some paranormal stuff. Queens and Monsters as the series. Okay,

(31:43):
so she has it labeled Queens and Monsters. There's a
slow burn, morally gray, beautifully cruel, dangerous beauty. Okay, She's
got a lot of things going on here, wicked games. See,
I haven't heard any of this stuff, but all right,
I think my pick something to read by her. Not
right away, but I'm gonna pick something. I'm gonna wait.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
And see if dax S and Tetra have another story
come up. You might be waiting a long time, probably,
but yeah, I might fix pick one of these something
that looks paranormal and give it a try and see
let me know. Yeah, because I'm definitely interested. Now I'm
curious to see what her whole book would look like.

(32:26):
All right, So should we go ahead and give a
rating to I think so this one?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Okay? Would you like to go first again?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Sure, honestly if I really want to give it three
point five stars, but I'm going to round up to
four because I gave Kimberly Lemming three and this one
is better than Kimberly is so, but like in my
Heart of Hearts, is a three point five, But.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Since you won't let me do that, it's a four.
Yes'm same, I'm gonna give it a four. Wow. Yeah,
I'm gonna give it a four. And I was probably
in the middle as well at the three point five.
But I'm a round up because I actually had a
good time with it, and the fact that I actually
want to pick up another book by her is see
what she's really about. Let let me see a whole

(33:14):
book and we'll see if this is a fluke or not. So, yeah,
you're not a fluke, hopefully not. Yeah, this was a
good little sampling. What do you think? Do you think
you'll read more of these novellas? I think there's what
four more? Yes, four more?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
The only author I'm genuinely curious about is Alie Hazel
would mm hmm, because I've well, we've read what's the
name of her wolf book mate. Oh, but her other
book is out too, We're gonna read that soon. One,
Like She's the only one I'm genuinely curious about. I

(33:50):
don't really like Katie Robert's style of writing. I've never
read Ruby Dixon or Christina Lauren, so.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I think Ellie Hazel what I might check out,
Like she's on my I'll put her on my TBR
and if I get to it, I get to it.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
If I don't, I don't. Yeah, I think hot FS Slayer.
That's the game of her story. It's another It's ninety
four pages, so it's great because that means it might
be a little more fleshed out. I'll probably get to it,
maybe if I can see the thing is though, I'm
always moving on to the next thing, and I know

(34:33):
I can't do it right now because I have two
other things that I need to move on to. Yeah,
so if I can remember to come back to it,
I probably will do the Allie hazel Wood one, and
I might try Ruby Dixon, but I'm not sure. After
her little Blue Alien thing, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I feel like this would have to be in that
blue alien world, like, yeah, can't.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I've read two of those books and I was like,
I still haven't read them. I want to someday just
to read them. But like it's jarring, it's jarring. So
this was called Space Vampire. That's the story. So she
does with aliens. But I guess we have a vampire
in space. Oh, abandoned human in a vampire clone. I

(35:23):
discover a unexpected connection. Hmm. Interesting, very interesting. So yeah,
there's stuff to definitely check out if I ever get
around to it. I guess I'll check it out as
long as I have Kindle Unlimited, which I'm supposed to
cancel any day now. I'm on my little free trial

(35:44):
and I don't read enough Kindle Unlimited stuff not to
cancel it. So I don't know, maybe not, maybe not,
I don't know. Anyway, this was a fun little one
off thing. Yeah, although I really do like what we're
doing over on book Colotes right now. We are doing
something over there with thirty first Trick or Treater, Okay,

(36:05):
and by the time this airs will still be in
the middle of it because it's like a advance style
spooky story, so you literally read one chapter every night.
So we have a little discussion board going and every
night we all kind of hop on there. Some of
us are finished reading, some of us are not. I

(36:27):
like reading it at night, so I'm not commenting until
like ten o'clock at night, And these chapters go pretty quickly,
so I'm able to read it in like ten minutes
or less. Like it's perfect. Yeah, it's really bite sized,
it's really interesting. It's a really interesting story. I'm really
liking it. So if you're curious in that at all,
come on over to book clubs and then get access

(36:48):
to the discord because that's been on social media lately.
The author did a good job of kind of happening
that up. I think it's a anie book. Actually, I've
seen that all over my TikTok, which you know, it
just happened to be perfect timing, because perfectly all right
before October one, so yeah, like a few days before.
So we're doing that and our regulars are participating, so

(37:11):
it's fun time. So if you want to hop on
over and read something else spooky, absolutely, Yeah, I know
that sounds great. Yes, And our buddy read for this
month is also spooky, and that is giving me the chills. Y'all.
It's a ghost story, so crazy. Like, see, the thing
is with spooky season, it takes a lot to scare me.

(37:34):
I think ghosts are the sweet spot for me, like
slash your stuff. I don't care, serial killers, I don't care.
Nothing scares me. But get a fucking ghost staring out
the closet, I'd be, oh, what, oh god.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Is because you can't fight a ghost, like if you
pune it your head goost.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yeah, I mean let ghost me in my face, talking
to me, looking crazy. I want to lose it. I
will run away, scam. And it's written from the kid's
point of view, so it's really really scary. What's the
name is dang on book? Oh my gosh, incidents around
the house. No, that sounds scary. It kind of is.

(38:13):
I'm like, this thing is creeping men. We keep reading
Reject Reject. No. I love it though. It's like this,
it's perfect for this time of year. It's just enough.
It's not. I mean, it doesn't stop me from going
to sleep, but I definitely get the chill up my
spine like, ooh, so y'all come over and join us.

(38:35):
And also, so we're starting our new fantasy series if
you haven't heard, that's also starting Heartless Hunter. What do
you think? Do you think that is fall vibes on
that book?

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Not?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
No, really, I mean it's witchy, witchy vibes like it is.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I kept a picturing Summer while I read it back
in January. I'm gonna have to I remember most of it,
but I was getting summary vibes, not fall vibes.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
But it is a witch so okay, maybe.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Other people will get the fall witchy vibes.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
It still feels like summer in Michigan, so I guess
that works too. I mean, it's still summer here in Tennessee.
It's eighty five degrees outside.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's how warm it is. Here's eighty three right now. Ugh,
It's like, wtf it is fall in Michigan. Do where
is my sixty five degrees flooble warming? Oh? I know,
I want my sweater weather. I'm like, no, I want
my sweater weather too. I have sets, I need matching sets.
I gottaware. All right, I guess we're done we're chat Yeah,

(39:40):
all right, thanks for the conversation, Casey of course anytime. Yes,
thanks for listening. Everyone. We appreciate you for listening to
the entire episode, and we'll catch you in the next one.
Until then, take care of yourselves.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Bye guys, Bye everybody.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
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