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Bring Your Own...Unpopular Bookish Opinion | S1Ep6
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This week we're sharing our unpopular bookish opinions. We're giving our thoughts on the pregnancy trope, love triangles, discreet covers and more! For more on our unpopular bookish opinions or to tell us your own, follow the pod on instagram @Bringyourownpod
Episode contains spoilers for Heartless by Elsie Silver.
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Transcript
Introduction and Teaser
00:00:04
Speaker
Hi, welcome to Bring Your Own, a catch-all bookish most of the time podcast. My name is Brandi. I'm Kendra. And I'm Kayla. And today... You always take so long to say your name. Do I? I end up with a pause every time. I thought it was on purpose. You did. No, it's funny now. I think it's like a gag. Oh, okay.
Current Reads and Drinks
00:00:30
Speaker
Um, today we are talking unpopular bookish opinions coming in hot. But before we do, what are you guys reading? What are you drinking? Brandy, why don't you go first this time? Oh my god. Yeah. I never get to go first. Okay. Okay, so I am drinking 11 LaCroix, as I always am. I love a seltzer. And reading right now, I am listening to the audio arc of Coach,
00:00:59
Speaker
by Daphne Perry. Yeah, it's Teddy Hamilton and Ava Erickson narrating, having a lot of fun so far. It's a single dad. And by the time that this podcast goes live, the book will be out. So I'm enjoying it so far. I'm only like 15%. But having a good time with that. I just finished Cemetery Boys last night by Aiden Thomas and it was so good. I loved the audio of that one as well. And I am reading
00:01:27
Speaker
angels, physically I'm reading angels before man, which again, I'm like only I have had barely any time to eyeball read lately. So I just started that one, but it's like a retelling of Lucifer falling from grace. So I'm really excited about that one. Oh my god, Cress. Yeah, Cress and King coded. Yeah, Cress. No, yeah, I'm reading that one because Gracie highly recommended it. So I'm excited about that one. Wait, who's that one by?
00:01:55
Speaker
Because I haven't heard of that one. It is by Raphael Nicolas. Nicolas, probably. There's an accent on the A in Nicolas. I believe that's how it's pronounced. Raphael Nicolas. It's this cover. I think you would recognize the cover probably. I haven't. I haven't seen that before. I don't think. It's a really good cover. No. I've only seen Gracie talk about it, but she was raving about it. Oh my god, it only has 820 Goodreads reviews. Wow. Yeah. I thought it was like big.
00:02:25
Speaker
Oh my God, yeah. No, it came out at the end of last year. I wonder how Gracie found this. Now I'm so curious. Um, but yeah, I'll report back. What about you, Kayla? Um, I am, I don't have a fun drink tonight. So I have good old water today. Um, I'm sorry. I apologize. I was not prepared. I could go make myself something, but, but my bartender, AKA,
00:02:54
Speaker
Jared is not here to make me anything. So what good is a husband for? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Like I could make it, but like, why would I make it myself? You know, anyway. Um, and I'm not physically reading anything right now. I just finished a couple of days ago, Jane and Edward by Melody Edwards, which Kendra and I both really love. It's a Jane Eyre retelling and I never read Jane Eyre.
00:03:20
Speaker
but I still really like the book. And I'm listening to Ruby Spencer's Whiskey Year by Rochelle Billo, I think is how you say your name. It's interesting. I don't know how I feel about it. Unfortunately for me, I actually very much dislike the female main character, but I really like the male main character. The narrator is great. She's fantastic.
00:03:54
Speaker
Casper told you to shut the fuck up. Casper said, I love that female main character. Actually, I love Ruby. She just does a couple of things that really annoy me. So I don't know, we'll see. How far into it are you? I'm gonna, I'm about 60%. Oh damn, okay. So I'm gonna finish it at this point, like I said, because I actually do really like the male main character, but
00:04:21
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, he's a Scott, so he's got a great accent. But that's really, that's it. It's interesting. Is it dual POV? It is not. See, I got to be in this girl's head all the time. The cover of Ruby Dixon is really cute. It's not Ruby Dixon. Ruby Dixon is Ice Planet. Bro, I did that earlier when I was talking to her. What is her name?
00:04:48
Speaker
Ruby Spencer. No, fair, fair, fair, fair, fair. How many people do you know named Ruby? Exactly. So we know four now a fictional character. Three people who are real. Yeah. Ruby Spencer. The cover is really cute. It is a good cover. It's cute.
00:05:16
Speaker
I told Kayla to DNF it, but she's gonna thug it out and finish it. Did you pay for it? No, I'm listening to it on Libby, so I got it through the library. You have to like twist my arm for me to DNF an audiobook that I've paid for. Oh yeah, oh. For me to DNF. If I use an audible credit, I'm finishing. Yeah.
00:05:38
Speaker
I DNF'd the Bergman Brothers series and I bought them all on audio. I forgot about that. I got through the first two, didn't like the first one. The second one I thought was like, it was good. Like not my favorite thing, but it was good. The third one, I could not get through it. I thought the characters were like so insufferable. I know a lot of people love that series. I tried so hard. And I would be interested to read like the next two books in those in the series because I own them, but like the motivation is just not there. But anyways, I am drinking.
00:06:07
Speaker
like, Kendra, you drunk. I am drinking Moscato for the second week in a row. It is Friday. It is after 5pm. It's been a very fun week in my world, but I wanted a drink. And what am I reading? I just finished a book last night called Wrong Mr. Right by Stephanie Archer, which is the second book in her Queens Cove series. The first one
00:06:33
Speaker
that kind of guy I really had like fun with I thought it was like silly goofy in a good way this one was like it was funny I think Stephanie Archer is like she must be like into comedy I feel her reels are really funny I follow her on Instagram and she's always making like funny little reels so like she she has really good jokes that like land but I don't know this one and I just like did not click
00:06:57
Speaker
at all and I really wanted to click with it because the cover is just like so so yeah and like I think the setup for it was like good I just like I don't know I didn't really vibe with like the male main character in it the girl I tolerate it actually really well but I am gonna continue on with the series I'm excited for books three and four so I finished out last night and then I started listening to life's too short by Abby Jimenez which is book three in her what's the what's the series called
00:07:26
Speaker
the friend zone series. I DNF the friend zone. I hated that book. I got like 80 pages in and I was like, this is awful. And then book two, I was like, okay, like this is, it was better. Like her writing got a lot better. I still didn't like vibe with it 100%. But this one, I'm 20% into it. It's narrated by Zachary Weber and some girl who like, I don't even know her name. But she's so good. I'm like obsessed with her. She's a new narrator to me.
00:07:54
Speaker
And I'm loving the story so much right now. I'm excited to see where things go. They're not even a couple in the book. They're just friends right now, or they just became friends. And I've ate up every single scene that they have had together so far. What are the tropes in that book? Because I don't actually know. I don't know. It follows a girl who's a popular YouTuber. She's a travel blogger.
00:08:23
Speaker
But she just became the guardian of her sister who struggles with addiction. Her sister just had a kid, like a newborn. So the sister like dropped the kid off. So she's like has a temporary guardianship. And she lives next door to this guy whose name I'm forgetting now, the guy that Zack whoever is voicing, who's like this hot shot lawyer, criminal defense attorney. And he like hears the baby crying at night and is like, I like need to help you because like I have to sleep.
00:08:53
Speaker
And so they strike up a friendship, but then you learn that the girl might have the gene for ALS. So she and everyone in her family who has had ALS has died at 30. So she's 28. So she's like, I only probably have like two years left to live. So she's trying to live life to the fullest.
00:09:10
Speaker
And I really like her. I vibe with her a lot. And in Party Your World, there's a mention of this popular YouTuber who is at this charity gala. And they're like, oh, she donates money to the ALS Foundation. So I'm assuming that is the girl. Nice little connection. Yeah. And you know, Daniel in Party Your World is actually cousins with Josh from the friend zone who connects all these people. So Abby Jimenez's universe is actually pretty
00:09:40
Speaker
broad. And then once I finished this, I would have finished her backlist just in time for yours truly to come out, which might be out by the time this episode comes out. So I can't believe how close it is. Yeah, read that in October. And it's already here. We were like, Oh, this book is gonna take forever for this book to get here. And now we're like, Oh my god, I can't wait for that audiobook. I'm like, chomping at the bit.
Unpopular Bookish Opinions Introduction
00:10:05
Speaker
All right, should we talk about our unpopular bookish opinions? Let's. Okay. Let's do it. We left this really broad when we were discussing the episode, but none of us picked a book. None of us were like, my unpopular opinion is that I fucking hate this book. It was all bookish ideas, things surrounding discourse surrounding, I mean not even discourse is the wrong word maybe,
00:10:35
Speaker
But yeah, so who wants to go first? I want to say I feel like I see this like on TikTok all the time. Like at least once every two weeks, there's like this really viral book talk video of like things in books I can't stand or things about the book community that I can't see. Yeah. And I, some of them are really good and I like agree with all of them. And some of them, I get like my feelings hurt when I see that it is something that I like thoroughly enjoy. So yeah, who wants to go first?
00:11:04
Speaker
I'll just go ahead. I'll come in strong. Well, actually, I guess I don't know if this is a strong. I think a lot of people think this about themselves or what they want. They hate this particular trope. But I think deep down, if you really look, if you really look in yourself, I think you will see the truth, which is that you actually don't hate this trope. So I think recently I've come to accept the fact that I actually think I like love triangles.
00:11:37
Speaker
Thank you, Kendra, for that appropriate reaction. You're welcome. If I think back to my high school days, right? When I was reading things like Twilight, like Hunger Games, right? I was eating that up, by the way. You were in high school when Hunger Games and Twilight came out? I was in high school when Hunger Games came out. I was reading Twilight in eighth grade.
00:12:02
Speaker
I was in middle school when Mocking Jay came out. Yeah, so Kayla's a year ahead of me. 2008 is when the first, yeah, 2008 is when the first Twilight movie came out. I was in eighth grade. Everybody's gonna know we're old as fuck. Damn! Damn! What was that audio? I was 36 years old. Damn! Damn! I was definitely in elementary school. Keep going.
00:12:26
Speaker
Oh, cool. And I think the, I think it was just like, I saw a tweet the other day that said that the hunger games came out, what is it like 12 years ago today, like a couple days ago or something. This is, this is a towards the end of March that I'm speaking, saying this. So yeah, that was when that was 2011. And I was in 10th grade. So that was the movie though. Um,
00:12:49
Speaker
That's the movie. Yeah, that was the movie. That's the movie. Right. And I read all the books before the movie came out. So back to the love triangle point. I was, unfortunately for me at the time, I was team Jacob in Twilight. Since I've gotten older. Since I've gotten older. We want that in here.
00:13:12
Speaker
Since I've gotten older, I have changed my mind because I recently watched the movies as an adult like a couple years ago. And I was like, what was I thinking? You know, anyway. But I was always team PETA in the Hunger Games like there was never, never a mistake about Kendra. Do you have anything you want to add about the love triangle? Yeah, do you want to tell the people what you've told us? Go ahead.
Love Triangles and Cheating: A Debate
00:13:35
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If you have been following my TikTok since
00:13:37
Speaker
the beginning back in 2021. I almost got bullied off of that app because I posted a video that was like, I was never team PETA like I didn't I never vibe with him. I was always team Gail but I never read book three when I tell you my the video got reported and taken down.
00:13:57
Speaker
I had to like make a response video being like I didn't know that Gail did that in book three like I'm so sorry like you can find the videos it's still up like I didn't know I didn't read book three listen how did you go that long not knowing though like that's a long time to not know that I feel like you know what it was I
00:14:16
Speaker
I think I like heard had a friend or saw something that in someone was like, book three was just like super depressing. And at the end, spoilers for the Hunger Games series, like someone told me that she was just like super unhappy, like her sister had died, and she was just unhappy. So I was like, well, I don't want to read that.
00:14:32
Speaker
And so then I just I never watched the last two movies. And then I just never read the last book. Catching Fire, though, was my favorite was my favorite. Yeah, I think it's everybody's favorite. It's it's universally the best one. I just thought, listen, I love friends to lovers. And I think in another universe, her and get like he they love they. Yeah, for sure. The universe where he didn't bomb her sister. Yeah, they probably could have been happy together. Oh, my God. Yeah.
00:14:59
Speaker
Look, rides for the flag. I said, every time I see a Gail slander video, I send it to Kendra. And she goes, well, he's fucking hot. What do you want me to do? He's hot. And you know what's even worse is that I can't even boast about Liam Hemsworth anymore, ever since everything that happened with Miley Cyrus, because he's been getting shredded. So a few years ago, when him and Miley were together and everyone was hyping them up, I could be like, yeah, Gail, look at him. He's so hot. OK, people would give me that. Now it's like, no, Kendra.
00:15:28
Speaker
stupid you're like yeah i always just thought pita was a little i'm gonna keep that to myself i don't want to get bullied they're gonna keep going well i won't we could talk a lot about that but i won't get more into that but anyway as i was saying i can trace it back
00:15:49
Speaker
to those days, okay? Because if I go back and think about it, I was obsessed with those, right? Everybody was obsessed with those. Even if you're like, oh my gosh, I need this left triangle to end. Did you though? Did you really? You know what I mean?
00:16:02
Speaker
And so I think the series that for me today really made me be solidified in this opinion is The Magnolia Parks universe. Yeah, and listen there is The the thing with this series is like is there a love triangle like because obviously I don't I I'm not gonna get too much into the
00:16:25
Speaker
the plot of this book so they don't want to spoil anything. You can make an argument that it's, I don't even know what you would call it. It's a love more than a love triangle. It's like a love. Yeah, there's a lot going on. There's a lot of different dynamics. It's very messy, right? There's a lot of things happening. But I loved it. And I remember when I first started the first book, right, I was like, there are so many tropes in this book that I hate.
00:16:53
Speaker
But I love that series. And I think that's when I was like, you know what? I actually really like love triangles. And I can give you a couple of examples, right? So Legendborn has a bit of a love triangle in it. There is a way that people want that love triangle to end, that the fandom is kind of begging the author for, but I don't know if that's actually gonna happen. I did read To All the Boys I've Loved Before, loved that series.
00:17:22
Speaker
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins-Reed. These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan, which is a fantasy series, it's a duology that I read last year. Did you read the second one? That was a love triangle. Yeah, I did. Is that the end of that series? It was two books? Yeah, it's a duology. Is the love triangle resolved? It is.
00:17:43
Speaker
Yes, it did resolve and it resolved how I wanted, so win for me. And then lastly, the beginning of the Throne of Glass series does have a love triangle. I think it's resolved pretty quickly, but those are like the biggest examples that I can think of from books that have love triangles.
00:18:03
Speaker
that I'm like, you know what? I like it. What can I say? Hands up. My head is like, Kayla, this is terrible. This is messy. This is horrible. But my heart is like, no, this is fun. I like the pain. Did you read the summer I turned pretty? I did not. But you gave me a play by play for all of them. So I know exactly what happens there. I like the TV show, though. Jenny Hong loves a love triangle. And the summer I turned pretty,
00:18:32
Speaker
Yeah, like she will always make you root for someone and then they lose. That's what I was gonna say. Like, how do you cope when the person that you're rooting for loses? Because like, that's why I hate love triangles. I don't hate the tension. I don't hate the like, like the conflicts that it creates because I love jealousy in books. It's not that it's how do you cope when the person you're rooting for doesn't get the girl or guy?
00:19:01
Speaker
How do I cope? Well, thankfully for me, I'm almost always on the winning team. So I've never really had to deal with, except for when my poor little middle school self was team Jacob. And if I'm being like dead honest with myself, if I, again, think back, that was, I started reading the toilet series, like
00:19:26
Speaker
a few months before the first movie came out, and I loved Taylor Lautner. And I truly think that that had to do entirely with the fact that I was Team Jacob. I never thought that Robert Pattinson back then was cute. I never thought that he was... Yeah, I know. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, yeah. You can say whatever you want, but I didn't think that he was cute back then, okay? And I thought Taylor Lautner was way hotter, and so that's why I was Team Jacob.
00:19:51
Speaker
And you know what, friends to lovers. That's a good truth. Thoughts on him marrying somebody also named Taylor Lautner. A little weird. Yeah, it's kind of weird. But anyway, so there's that. But yeah, I'm like trying to think if there's ever been like a book where it didn't end up how I wanted or I didn't end up liking it in the end other than Twilight. And I really don't think so. I mean, unless like Legendborn is different because I actually
00:20:21
Speaker
I like both of the options. I like both. So I don't really care too much about how that one ends because I like both. But yeah, you know, I can't like I read about it. But in real life, I can't fathom being caught between like two siblings.
00:20:41
Speaker
that's how it is in The Samurai Turn Pretty like she's caught between two brothers and Katie Katugno has this book called 99 Days where she's also caught between two brothers which I think is handled a lot better than The Samurai Turn Pretty.
00:20:53
Speaker
Um, but I'm like in no way in real life, am I going to fuck someone and then go fuck their brother? Like, how do you show up to family functions afterwards? That's what I think about with the summer. I turned pretty. I'm like every holiday with the person you chose is going to be so awkward. Like I can't, there's, there's, I'm not going to say it because it's a big spoiler. There is another book out there with that trope and I wanted to die.
00:21:22
Speaker
but you know it's so crazy you say you don't like you say that you do like love triangles but you hate cheating in books i do that's true do you really hate cheating i'm not saying it makes sense oh well here's you guys here's my stance on cheating in books okay i've said this before if there is cheating if there must be cheating in a book
00:21:48
Speaker
then I'm only okay with it when the person that is being cheated on is like a bad person. They're not good for the person that they're currently with.
00:21:58
Speaker
So if a girl is with a guy, she has a boyfriend, but she's flirting with this other dude, but this boyfriend is abusive in any way, emotionally, physically, verbally, whatever, then he's trash and I don't care. She can cheat on him all she wants, you know what I mean? So there's that. But if the person that they're with is just...
00:22:21
Speaker
They're just a good person. And like, maybe that they're not the right fit in the end. That's fine. But if they're just a good person, don't cheat on them. Just break up with them. You know what I mean? Like, I just have an issue with that. That's where cheating for me becomes the issue. Not gonna lie. Cheating in books doesn't really bother me all that much. Especially if it's like really angsty. Like, I love Jill Sansepolo. And in all three of her books that I've read so far,
00:22:50
Speaker
cheating trope happens. Oh my god. But it's like my blacklist. Her writing is just so good. Like I'm obsessed with like her work so much. But yeah, the cheating trope happens in each one of those books. And I just eat it up. It's fiction. Like, do I want to be cheated on in real life? No. But that's what's so confusing to me. Like, it's
00:23:16
Speaker
Like, why aren't we just dumping the fictional boyfriend? Yeah. I don't know. It's like, it's drama, you know? Like... Yeah. President Fitzgerald Grant III cheated on his wife. Okay. Okay. Not too much on Tony. And you ate it up because it was good. Like, I think... You have a belly sucked.
00:23:45
Speaker
Did she suck or was she just, were we only seeing her in one point of view? Yeah, that was like pretty fashionistic for me to say. I was like, she wanted her husband to not fuck Olivia Pope. What a, what a hag. Kayla's like, oh my God. We gotta get you to watch Scandal one day, Kayla. What? Yeah, she's never watched it. Kayla.
00:24:10
Speaker
Oh my god. I just watched over 120 episodes of Gossip Girl. I would have recovered. Brandi, in Jane and Edward, there's a line that I was like, oh, this line reminded me of something. And I was like texting it to Kayla. I was like, I don't remember. And she's like, oh, maybe it's something that like, I think you said like Daniel from Partier World said. I was wrong. Yeah. And I was like, no, oh my god. It's something that a character from Scandal says.
00:24:31
Speaker
Do you remember what the line is? Yeah, but I don't want to spoil it because I want you to like, I want you to read this book. I think you'll actually really like it. So then when you get to it, you'll be like, oh my God, so and so said this on scandal and it's really good. So is it though I was such a coward not to wait for you? Is that the line? No, no, no, no. Don't get your hopes up too high. But I'm liking everything Tony's ever said. I call him Tony because he and I are close like that. I just call him by the actor's name, you know.
00:24:59
Speaker
But anyway, sorry, back to love triangles, Kayla. No, that's my stance on love triangles. And I think if you're all to look deep down in yourself, you might agree just a little bit. If I'm going to be so honest with you, every time I'm reading a love triangle, not every time, most of the time reading a love triangle, I Google who wins.
00:25:22
Speaker
Interesting. Branding. I have to know, I need to manage my expectations. The like the love triangles that you're talking about in Magnolia Parks, the one that happens second, the big love triangle, I would say. Yeah. Like that is more prominent in the last two books. Yeah, that one. Okay. Yeah. Pure pain. I did not enjoy that at all. Ate it up. Oh my god, it was so good. I know you guys did. I wanted to continue.
00:25:50
Speaker
like that's the thing it's like but you know you know how that one ends though you know i know how that ends but i'm not having a good time like it just anyways oh i had a great time i was like let's let's just you know that audio that's like where are you from matter of fact where is everybody from that's everybody that's me with the love triangles plural and magnolia products like they're all just such hot people doing hot things yeah yeah the thing about the thing about kendernights we really we like
00:26:20
Speaker
pain in books, we like the feeling of angst that a book gives us. And so I maybe that's also a piece of it, a piece of why I like love triangles is because they can be so angsty. And I love and I love that I do love angst. But I like the kind of angst that like, for lack of a better example, that like Lillian Lowe go through with go through where they're like tackling it together, versus like,
00:26:45
Speaker
individual characters having individual pains. I don't know. Maybe that's a bad example. Like I love an angsty book as well here, but boy, you know, it's very, very angsty. Yeah. Maybe you don't like romantic angst. Oh, you know what? Yep, that's exactly what it is. I like romantic angst. Like I want the love to be painful.
00:27:09
Speaker
Honestly, I think I could probably trace that back to scandal like that's a very romantically angsty Show same with like Grey's Anatomy. Matter of fact, just all of Shonda Rhimes is just like romantic angst at its best. Yeah, like my some of my favorite TV shows one of my favorite TV shows of all time is Lost and That had a massive love triangle that went on for six seasons. That's crazy. You know what loved it. Yeah, so that that is my
00:27:35
Speaker
unpopular, I think, bookish opinion. Yeah, I would say like, as far as like the book communities online, I would definitely say it's unpopular. Yeah. Well, I've come out. Come out is love you. I meant to keep going in that sentence. And then I don't know what happened there.
00:28:06
Speaker
I can go next. Go
Tropes: Accidental Pregnancy in Romance
00:28:08
Speaker
for it. I'm ready. My unpopular bookish opinion.
00:28:12
Speaker
is that I love an accidental pregnancy in a romance book. Sam. Someone just immediately turned off this podcast. All those videos that are going on lately, I like people slamming books closed. It's like the more to slam. I love accidental pregnancy. Slam. I know who just turned off. Turn it off. Who? SB.reads, AKA Sam. We love you, Sam.
00:28:42
Speaker
Please keep listening. Thank you. Sam loves being a parent. That's so funny. That's so funny. Okay, so this is coming from somebody who has no intention of ever having children. I don't want kids. I do not see it happening in the future for me. I have a partner that I've been with for over six years. It's not like the lack of opportunity.
00:29:10
Speaker
I don't see myself having kids. I'm getting laid. You're like, I'm fucking all the time, guys. I feel like sometimes some people's quick arguments for that, like old people are just like, well, you just haven't met the one. That's why you don't think you want kids. Once you meet the love of your life, you're going to want to have kids together. I've met the love of my life. I don't want kids. That is an opinion for me. Period.
00:29:40
Speaker
I love single parent books. I love books where they're pregnant in the book. And I love accidental pregnancies. I love it when it's just randomly thrown in a book. And I love it when the entire book is centered around it. I don't know. I always say this because I get really defensive about it. I think it's slightly immature to think that that can never happen in these settings of romance books, right?
00:30:10
Speaker
Because obviously it's fiction, obviously, obviously, but how are we gonna read 400 pages of them just raw dogging all the time?
00:30:18
Speaker
And not have something like that happen sometimes? Like, that's crazy! Yeah, and like half of us are here because of an accident on a pregnancy anyways. It's like, like be honest, like how many of us were planned? I know for damn sure I was not planned. Really? I came seven years. Oh yeah, I came seven years after my sister. I was super super super planned. I was very planned. They were trying for like four years. Aw, congrats to your parents. Thanks mom!
00:30:47
Speaker
I don't know and I don't need to know. My mom and I drink too much white wine sometimes and overshare about this shit. But yeah, I don't know. I just really enjoy it. I enjoy it. I would even argue that I enjoy it most when it becomes a plot point, which I think is what some people hate.
00:31:07
Speaker
Because sometimes it's just like, oh, they get pregnant at the end of the book, the yada yada, whatever. But I love watching how a couple navigate something as big as this. I also really love to see all the different conversations that authors write surrounding accidental pregnancy, obviously, because they're writing a book, whatever. But like, obviously, we know that
00:31:28
Speaker
author's viewpoints and experiences will always bleed into their work. So when, when they get pregnant, what are the conversations that happen if it's an accident? Like, are they talking immediately about like, this kid is going to be born? And like, now what do we do? Are we going to get married? Or is it a conversation about like, let's talk about our choices? Like, what do you want to do? It's your body? Like, those kinds of things are always really interesting to read about. I just love when they like navigate through
00:31:53
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like this accident together and sometimes it's a really happy accident, other times it's not.
00:32:00
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Yeah. So is that what you would say then to like somebody who says that authors, they don't like it when authors use that trope to kind of force the people together? They think that it's like an unnecessary way to force them together. It's like the only reason that they're together as a couple. I think it's a pet. I feel like that's a really valid criticism of it because I can think of a couple books in my head. Like the first one that popped into my head where it's like, and I enjoyed this book. I'm not saying that don't read this book. Taste by Melanie Harlow.
00:32:30
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has an accidental pregnancy, which I don't think is a spoiler because I'm pretty sure it's all listed in the description. I don't know. We can double check that. But like that one, he was like about to move to the other side of the country for a job and she like, whatever. I don't know. And it kind of like changed their circumstances entirely.
00:32:51
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I feel like that's a valid criticism, but I think it's also slightly realistic for somebody who, for a couple that A, wants to have the child, and B, wants that both people to be a part of that child's life. And obviously, circumstances look different for everybody in these kinds of situations in real life. But I think it's realistic that people's lives and priorities would have to change if they're both interested in being part of the child's life.
00:33:18
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maybe some people will argue that they don't like reading about it in fiction because it's like something that they're scared of or something like that and like you know what fair like if you don't like it you don't like it but my unpopular book's opinion is that i do i like it too do you have any like favorite books with that trope and then do you have any ones that you actually think were not done well like you didn't like that book at least favorite accidental pregnancy
00:33:43
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Um, yes. So the ones that immediately pop into my head, Fallen Jester by... Love that one. Yeah, Devany Perry is the fifth book in the Clifton Forge series by Devany Perry. And that one, the entire plot, circulates around an accidental pregnancy. You find out in chapter one,
00:34:04
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that Cass is pregnant and it was an accident and it was with a playboy. So sorry, I know Kendra hasn't read this so it's not a crazy spoiler. Cass is pregnant. She is like, goody two shoes and Leo is like, town bad boy town player. And I think that's one that people would argue. That's what forces them together because it's not like they would have had a relationship.
00:34:28
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had they not been put in this situation. But I think it's just a really good opportunity to take two worlds and force them to be in one. It's almost like forced proximity, but you're forcing the proximity with a child, right? Because that's what happens, is Leo's like, I don't want any part of it. He's like, I'm not.
00:34:47
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built to be a father. And Cass is like, cool, I'll go do it by myself. And then eventually the whole book circulates around like, is that gonna be how it is? Is it not? What are they gonna do? How are they gonna co-parent? All that stuff. And then the other one that pops into my head, big... I can't even say the book and say like, oh, spoiler, because then obviously they know the spoilers for the accidental pregnancy.
00:35:11
Speaker
We'll put it. Oh, I know you're talking about. Yeah, we'll put it. I was gonna say Heartless by Elsie Silver. Oh, I always forget that she gets pregnant in that book. And that is the third act conflict is that she like panics that she's forcing him to like because his first son
00:35:29
Speaker
The kid in that single dad book, Luke, was an accident. And Cade kind of thought that he had to fit this mold of a perfect family when he got this girl pregnant. So he married her and stayed in a loveless marriage for years. And Willa, the main character in Heartless, is terrified that she's putting him in that same position again of forcing him to be with her because of his sense of duty. And I thought that was a great conflict. I don't know.
00:35:58
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Yeah, I really like it too. Yeah, I don't know. I just like, I love seeing them navigate it. And I also just like, there's a little bit of a breeder kink inside me because I just also just like love watching a man. That's not what I was going to say. I was going to say, I love like, like when a male named character becomes like obsessed with
00:36:28
Speaker
taking care of his like pregnant partner and like doting on them and taking care of them yeah I don't know I just like or like any time that in a romance book when one of the love interests is like you've never been more beautiful talking about the love other love interest is pregnant I'm like that's so hot I don't know I don't know what it is like again I don't want kids but it's just so hot oh
00:36:54
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Have you ever seen a movie knocked up with Seth Rogen and Katharine Heigl? I think you would really like it because it's an accidental pregnancy movie. I think it's so funny. And I would argue too that the only reason why they're together is because she ends up pregnant. But it's just, I don't know, it makes me smile every time I think of it. So it's a good one.
00:37:17
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I thought of another book I love, which is an example, another good example of the only reason they're together is because they're pregnant, but it was for the best. And that is Tragic, also by Demi Perry. Oh, yeah, I read that one. So to give a little bit of a rundown for Tragic, this is like another one where it's like, okay, maybe the only reason that they're actually together is because of the pregnancy, but it's for the better, is that Kane has like, some like trauma
00:37:44
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in his past concerning like pregnancy. And I won't go too much into that because I love this book. I think you should read it. So when an accidental pregnancy occurs, he's like very closed off from everybody in his life. Like he barely talks to his mom. He doesn't talk to his neighbors. He doesn't go out in town. Like he's just like very, very closed off socially and has been for years. And so he has this like no strings attached fling and
00:38:11
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by being forced to be in the same proximity as Piper. And yeah, maybe the only reason that they're together, the only reason that Kane has allowed himself to open up to Piper is because of the pregnancy. But it puts him on a healing journey. So face his past trauma and work through it and move through it so that he's not living this half life anymore. Yeah, that's a good one. I like that book too. Yeah.
00:38:40
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understand if you don't like it. I respect your opinion, kind of. But I love it. I love it too. You're like these people have most of the time. Do you love it? Or do you not care? Um, I like it a lot. Actually, I it is weird though to see the trend on tik tok, or just in bookish communities period where people are like this will absolutely make me DNF a book right away if she wakes up like not feeling good. And I'm like, okay,
00:39:09
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like respect, but I don't know, it's just so interesting to me. I think if I were to sit down with a person who doesn't like it and hear their reasons why, I'd probably have a better understanding. But a lot of times it's just like, I hate it. And then they don't explain why. And they just keep going. So I'm like, odd. Yeah, I would love to hear people's thoughts. Because similarly to what Kayla was saying, I feel like it's just a trend. It's a trend to hate love triangles. It's a trend to hate accidental pregnancy.
00:39:38
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But yeah, I think that's so true. I would love to like hear somebody's thoughts on like, why do you hate accidental pregnancy? Are you mad at the characters for not using protection? Because you were just whooping in the bathroom. Oh yeah, the breeding kink. If you have a breeding kink and you hate accidental pregnancy, Pimdas, like they cancel each other out. Like it doesn't make any sense.
00:40:03
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Because you're like actively, yeah, you're like actively wanting the act to happen and then you get mad when it happens. Yeah, you can't be a reader and hey, that's all I'm saying. Kendra, what is your unpopular approach? This was hard for me because I feel like my opinions like really align closely to y'all's like, oh my god, we have so much in common. So we're friends. I know, shocker. So I had to think and I was like, you know what?
00:40:30
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one thing i don't know if it's like an unpopular opinion or just something that i want to like stop is the direction that discrete covers are moving in if i see one more spicy romance book that is like a black background with these random ass flowers on it i'm gonna lose my mind if your book
00:40:55
Speaker
has something to do with flowers, okay?
Book Covers: Design and Misleading Elements
00:40:59
Speaker
Or like her name is Poppy or like he calls her sunflower and your book has a sunflower on it. I will excuse it. But if it's some random ass small town romance set in bum fuck nowhere and I click on your cover and it's a black cover with purple flowers, I'm thinking of a very specific book.
00:41:20
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I will go into that book with- Wait, what is it? It's some book by A.L. Jackson. I'm forgetting the name of it. I listened to it on audio because Jacob Morgan was a narrator, and I'm thinking it's gonna be some hot, spicy romance. No. It was a small-town, copaganda-type book. I was like, what is this? And that's another thing. If your book is
00:41:44
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black covers dark covers should only belong unless it's like a special edition cover because my special edition cover of throttled is black and it has like a race car on it it looks really good but if your cover is not a dark romance it there's no reason why the cover should be black because i think it's very misleading and i get this trend again of like oh my gosh like we need discrete covers we need discrete covers and we do but like i like discrete covers that match tone and theme
00:42:15
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If I see one more book with a flower on it, I'm gonna lose my mind. It's like a cop-out at this point. Like, just slap a flower on it and your book has nothing to do with flowers whatsoever.
00:42:26
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That's so interesting. Because like, why is flowers the go to? Is it just because they're pretty? Okay, so we know the pre-series by Sarah Simone is like what all of one of ours favorite series as a group. They just got new covers. And they all have flowers on them. For two of those books, it kind of makes sense. Because it like it's talked about heavily in the series. Like, well, in priests, her name is Poppy, there's a Poppy on the cover makes sense. And what's going on Saint
00:42:56
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There's like lavender on the cover. That's a very, that has significance in the story. In Sinner, there is a flower on the cover. And I guess people could argue that it's like he's like deflowering her because a big plot point of that book is like her losing her virginity. Is the flower on the Sinner discreet white? Let me look it up. Because now I'm like, okay, maybe maybe she kind of ate with the flowers.
00:43:19
Speaker
No, okay, then no. Nolan void. What does what does these flowers have to do with it? Granted, Sean does say like, Oh, Zini smells like roses. But when I think of those books, I think of religion, first and foremost. So I feel like those covers could have been discreetly done with some sort of religious, like, yeah,
00:43:40
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Metaphor on them and luckily miss brandy girl designed new covers for the entire series that will be out and That's what I want in a discrete cover and I think it's become like a joke not a joke or like I think it's become a trend where people are like look at this is look at this like cute cover discrete cover you don't know that this girl's being getting her back blown out and
00:44:03
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like ha ha like that's like a gag now on online and i'm like no but like i still want to at least know something about the book from the cover like i think the people that have like the best discreet covers um i love devani perry's covers her discreet ones i think they're done so well um well i don't even know if you can call them discreet covers because for like the edens for example like those are the only covers that exist right like she doesn't do two versions
00:44:30
Speaker
They're so good. Amazing. Yeah. Kendra and I met Devani at Love in Vegas, and we were like, these covers are so stunning. And she was like, I don't know what to tell my cover artists. How are they going to top that? Because she's like, I'm obsessed with these covers as well. She's like, I love them so much. How are they going to help themselves? They're really good. And then I also really love Lauren Asher's covers. I think she has the best discreet covers. She does. Because she does two covers. You have the KU cover, which will have The Man on it.
00:44:58
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and then the paperback covers will be discrete and they always like reveal something in the book and it's like something of significance which I love so like in what is it in the first book of Dreamland it's like the castle because they like work at an amusement park
00:45:18
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And then in terms and conditions, it's a greenhouse Iris. It's very significant in that book. And then in final offer, it's the house that Cal and Alana are like spending.
00:45:30
Speaker
the summer in this small town. So yeah, well, even even her her dirty air. Oh, the dirty air. There's so nice. There's so I love those covers. I guess they're not really spoilers. So like, I'm not going to like go through each one. But yeah, they have like each a little thing that if you haven't read the book, you look at it and you wonder like what the deal is. You like wouldn't understand it probably. But like once you finish it, you'll understand the significance of it.
00:45:55
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and those ones are so beautiful yeah they're beautiful i also like am kind of getting annoyed at cartoon covers because now they're like everywhere i believe that you should only your your book should only have a cartoon cover if your book is a romantic
00:46:11
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keyword coming up, comedy. You need to be averaging two jokes per page for this book to be considered a romantic comedy. Like the series that I'm reading right now, Queen's Cove by Stephanie Archer, the new covers that she had done are stunning. And they are cartoon, but they look so good. And they're like funny.
00:46:34
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I think it lends to it. I will say though, whoever does the art for the Delilah Green Doesn't Care series, that artist in particular, her cartoon covers though, she's excluded from this conversation. Hers every single time. But I think she takes such care to figure out what the characters look like.
00:46:55
Speaker
what like the tone is like I follow her on Instagram and she like was doing this she revealed some cover and I think it might have been I don't know but based off of the description that I read in the book I looked at that cover and I was like yeah that's exactly what I'm gonna get from that book you know what I agree with you like cart you know what cartoon covers I don't like it's the ones that don't have faces yeah like that kind of like silhouette kind of cartoon yeah it is bad icky
00:47:24
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I don't, yeah. Yeah. Can you think of any other examples where there is, it is a cartoon cover, but it's not necessarily a romantic comedy. Yes, you excuse.
00:47:35
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Yes, that's what I was going to say. It's done so well. It's and it's one of those where like you finish the book and you go back and you look at the cover and you're like, Oh, this artist like the positioning. Yeah, it's just so good. I like I'm just like looking at myself right now. I love the newest iteration of the Love Light Farms cartoon covers too. But I think that one is a little bit different. It's a romantic comedy like Kendra said, like I would consider those rom coms.
00:48:04
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they're very so goofy, but also like I love that their faces are covered. It's like yes and it like gives you like basic idea of the vibes like what are they wearing with their height like the season. Yes, but it still allows you to like imagine some of your own stuff too. Yeah. I
00:48:26
Speaker
cover that I really hate that I a book that I would want to get like a new cover because the book is so good is you deserve each other that cover I would see I would go into Barnes and Noble I would see that cover and I was like why would I ever want to read this like it like they look bad like they don't look good if it wasn't for like my friends liking it
00:48:46
Speaker
and then me seeing like really fun aesthetic videos for it that like made the characters look so hot. I wouldn't have never picked it up. I think that book deserves to have a new cover so bad. I think an author that has covers I really enjoyed and I wish more authors would adapt this style is what is her name? Carly Fortune who wrote Every Summer After and her new book Meet Me at the Lake is coming out. It almost looks like a painting.
00:49:14
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like or I don't know if it's like a photography and they like mess with it but I love that like it looks beautiful I would like want to display that it just looks really good I feel like obviously everybody's like you don't judge a book by its cover but but I do judge books by its cover everybody does like
00:49:38
Speaker
to an extent. But also, Kendra, when you started, when you were like, I, a book that I want a new cover for, I thought you were gonna say How to Fake it in Hollywood. Oh, no, 100%. That book needs a new cover so bad. That cover is so bad. I don't like it. It's so bad.
00:49:59
Speaker
If you don't follow Kayla, or excuse me, if you don't follow Kendra on TikTok, you might have missed this ridiculous exchange that happened on TikTok. Kendra got on, she was like raving about this book, and she very explicitly said, like in this video, she's like, do not let this cover fool you, do not let this fool you, like these are hot people, like they're hot, and they do hot things or whatever. And then in the comments, like she explicitly said these people on the cover are ugly. And then in the comments, somebody goes, oh my God, that guy looks just like the fan guy from
00:50:30
Speaker
And then the fan guy stitched Kendra and was like, is that me? He could just call him ugly. I forgot about that. I was like shook and I went to his account because Kayla was the one who pointed out. She's like, oh, he looks like this guy. And I was like, okay, whatever. And then I went to his account.
00:50:49
Speaker
And he has like a million plus followers. I was like, oh, shit. I forgot all about that exchange. What a long year it's been. Yeah, I'm so glad that somebody else thought the same thing, though, that I was not alone. No, you definitely weren't. Oh my god, when you pointed it out, Kayla, I was like, that is 100%. It's the nose and the sunglasses. Ethan on that cover looks just like you. It's actually kind of scary. Other covers I wish would be redone.
00:51:15
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Emily Henry's covers. I think Happy Places is my favorite cover and it's my least favorite book. Happy Place and then People would be my second favorite cover. Book Lovers, the cover is so misleading because it's like, oh, they're sitting on this suitcase. They're going to be exchanging books all summer. No. And then don't even get me started on the UK editions of Book Lovers. Name me one time in all of Book Lovers that they are sitting and fucking cutting news.
00:51:44
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I don't love the illustration as much as I love the colors. No, the colors are great. They're so pretty. They're so pretty. Like vibrant. But like, the depictions are always like off. And I'm like, what are we doing, babes? Like, when are just Gus and January laying on the beach together? Never. And I wish that like, they would move in the direction of what Carly Fortune's books are, which is like that painting type. Because I feel like it would speak to like the tone of Emily Henry's books a little better. Because
00:52:12
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That's already a big conversation on Emily Henry is like how her books are miss marketed a lot of the time. So people go and just completely wrong expectations. And I think the covers of her books lead given to that a lot. So I can't even get mad at some people sometime if they like pick up a book and like, Oh, this would be such a fun time. And then they're like, this was so depressing.
00:52:31
Speaker
I'm like, I'm so sorry. Tragically, I think unless they did a complete overhaul of Emily Henry's books, like she's pretty locked in. Oh yeah, that's her style. Yeah, forever. So I'm just going to have to deal with it. It's fine. You know what I'm absolutely not going to do is buy that hardcover copy of Happy Place. I already bought it. It's like $30. That's like not even because the book, which like whatever, we can talk about that more some other time, but like
00:52:59
Speaker
All the other ones are paperback. What do they want from us? I pre-ordered it because I wanted it signed and then I read it. I still want to sign coffee because I still I still am an Emily Henry Gurley. I think people are like oh Kendra must know I'm still an Emily Henry Gurley. I just won that book um but yeah but it's like a trend now in romance books because all of Christina Lauren's books are coming out now in hardcover first
00:53:20
Speaker
and then but they're following the trend that YA has that YA has been doing for years because YA does the exact same thing hardcover release first for like a year year and a half maybe unless it's like a mega seller and then it'll go as long as possible and then they'll drop the paperback because they want to squeeze as much money out of people as possible which is just really sad um especially because I feel like romance kind of like prided itself on being paperbacks like I love that it's like oh that's like romance paperback and now
00:53:49
Speaker
soon they'll be fucking hardcovers and then it'll just I think it'll backfire on them because people won't want to spend that amount of money on a hardback they'll just buy a Kindle and they'll just keep buying the ebooks and then Jeff Bezos continues to win so yeah so publishing you are the reason that the ozone is burning away so I don't know if like yeah my distaste of the trend of where discrete covers is going is like necessarily unpopular
00:54:19
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But yeah, I just I sometimes like and it's not even one author in particular or one series that I'm thinking of this has happened multiple times where like the discrete covers will like go live and I see so many people that are like oh my god stunning and I'm like This is are we are you sure? Yeah, you know what cover redo is terrible. I
00:54:44
Speaker
you want to say it's delicious players i am not but you can say that i was gonna say the like us series oh yeah oh which is like another good example of like cartoon coverage is not being accurate for the book whatsoever they're the type of they're the faceless kind but they're just they have faces no bad remember the lips yeah they do yeah they have faces okay they don't have do they have like
00:55:12
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Like, eyes and a nose? Yeah, you like see them. Maybe it's just their mouth. You see them. No, they do, right? Because I remember Jane and I was like, what's wrong with her? Big scary lips. Never mind yours. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah. Nope, it's bad. Yeah.
00:55:27
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And you know what's such a bummer about those like us books is that I love the naked hardback that they're coming out in. It has like cute little cartoon things not cartoon people like cartoon drawings of like significant places and things and objects from the books. It looks like the funny you should ask cover on the yeah that's what it reminds me of. I love that cover.
00:55:54
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You know also, I think that's a popular opinion. Someone who has good covers, or a cover that I think fits the book really well, and is cartoon, and is actually a rom-com. It's Tess of Ailies, It Happened One Summer, which we talked about a few episodes ago. But I think that cover, it sticks with me. It fits the book, I think, really well. Same with the second book in that series, too. I think it fits the tone and everything. And now I've noticed that with each new release of hers, she keeps full. She'd have one cover hiccup.
00:56:24
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if people remember with that whole. Happenstance? Yeah. No, was it Happenstance? Oh, no. My killer vacation. We're like, that was insane. Everything that happened with that. I still have not. I have not read Tess of Ailey since the Bellinger sister series. But I see her covers come out all the time. And they follow that style still of it happened one summer. So good for her. But wait, when you guys first saw the Magnolia Parks covers,
00:56:55
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What were your initial thoughts? Admittedly, I love them. Like from pre-reading them, you were like, this is great. Yes. I don't know why I saw them for the first time on TikTok. Somebody was talking about them. And I was like, these are, this is so interesting. Like I knew nothing about them, obviously. But I was like, I love how busy it is. I love like the color palette of the first book cover.
00:57:18
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I was so in but every I'm curious if I'm gonna hear you guys say this. I've heard so many people say it looks like a children. That's exactly what I said. I thought it was gonna be said to each other. I thought it was gonna be like a comedy because it was just so chaotic and like all over the place. And then you get in and you're like heart is being ripped to shreds. And then you finish the book. And I was like, Oh, this cover is brilliant. Like it's so good. And now I'm obsessed with them. I think I like the Daisy hates one cover the most. Me too.
00:57:50
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Yeah, that one and then Magnolia Parks one, Magnolia Parks two, Daisy hates two in that order. You know what's crazy is I found our chat. Oh really? From when we first started the books last August. It said, Brandy, you said, I am obsessed with the covers. And I said, I have to admit I wasn't a huge fan at first because I thought they looked like children's books, but they've grown on me a lot. That's what I said. And you said, I think they're so unique. Wow. Oh my God, that's so cute of us. She told the truth. We have proof.
00:58:19
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she did tell the truth we have i'm not like other girls also i just want to say that we have talked about behind the scenes of like wanting to do a very in-depth magnolia parks universe episode and i'm excited for when we do it um i'm so excited because we have different opinions oh yeah you guys you will see brandy and i reenact a fight that we have had since august and it's so funny i posted a fucking instagram story the other day
00:58:45
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saying that B.J. was like my fifth favorite character. I'm sorry to take up time with this. The amount of people DMing me, I was like, you should see Kendra and I be like this. It ruined our friendship. I was like, okay, you say that now. So when the next book comes out, I need you to like be silent. Like you can't say anything. I'm already, no, I'm already saying that I'm going to be eating my words. Being out of his POV for this long,
00:59:10
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The resentment is building, you know what I mean? Like once I'm back in his POV, I'll love him again. My favorite dumbass. You know what it was though? It was when you posted the story you put like everyone else like had like cute little like you just put their names and then you get to BJ and you put a sad face. So of course I'm gonna get defensive like not BJ getting a sad face out of everyone else here.
00:59:30
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Vic was in there too. And Vic was like, Christian at one. I was like, Vic, stop. Me and Vic with Christian. I'm gonna have to be the mediator in this. Yeah, stop us. We'll save it for the new episode. Which we're not doing that anytime soon, but we want to. We're not. Yeah. Prepare your arguments now. Yeah.
00:59:51
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I will be the mediator. I'll be like, all right, Brandi opening stage. And then Kendra. We're not on top. Because you have five minutes. Go.
01:00:02
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I'll make like a whole PowerPoint. I yield my time. Yeah, that's that's it'll be like, yeah, congressional hearing where you only have a certain amount of time. Yeah. Yeah. But I love those. I love the Magnolia covers. So and what a great way of being discreet. Not that the Magnolia Parks books are smutty by any means, but like, I wish you wouldn't know that you're reading like a really hard
01:00:23
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Yeah, but it book about like the relationship dynamics and stuff, but it still fits the book because everything on that cover ends up being an Easter egg, which I like. So, and then I'm looking at my books right now on my shelf. And the color palette like of all the spines lined up. It's just so good. Like Jessa Hastings kind of ate not gonna lie like she did she has to it's just it's so it's so possible to do discrete covers. Well,
01:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, yes, it is. Also, I feel like other genres, like, obviously tackle such heavy subject matter, like, insane, but they'll also have like really good covers, you know, so I'm like, why can't more romance books just kind of tomorrow and tomorrow cover is so, like, beautiful.
01:01:11
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And fantasy books tend to have beautiful covers. Right. So I feel like, I don't know, like romance cover artists, like take some notes, like, oh, like, let me expand on like a theme or, I don't know, but, but you know what, you know, what's funny is that I'll get attached to a cover that like, I don't like, or I think could definitely use improvement. And then they'll like, give me the improvement.
01:01:35
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And then I'll be like, this is so fucking ugly. Like with the Addicted series, like all the new redos that they're doing, because they got picked up. I'm like, these are awful. I still think the originals could use some work. Don't get me wrong. But like, I will take the originals over what is being produced right now. Yeah. Also take a shot every time I say awful. I realize it's my like, it's my word of the year. I say awful so much. I didn't know.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:02:00
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Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:03
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Well, but yeah, so let us know your unpopular bookish opinions. We're on Instagram. Make sure you follow us at at bring your own pod. Every week when we have the episodes, we'll try and like do little polls or open up our comments. Like we want to hear your thoughts about the topics that we covered.
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in the episode, so tell us your unpopular bookish opinion, even if it's disagreeing with us. We wanna hear it. Tell us why you think we're wrong, even though your opinion is wrong. I love to fight, so if you wanna go back and forth, you can do it. She's really good at it. Yeah, just know you guys, she's kind of scary. Yeah, you're gonna lose. Oh yeah, okay. This is fun. Good job, everybody. Bye, guys. Killed it. Bye, love you. Love you.