The Post Holiday Reading DeeBrief Nobody Asked For & the Adaptations We're All Talking About — The Spicy Librarian Podcast

Dark romance, romantasy and everything in between. The Spicy Librarian Podcast is back with a post-holiday reading debrief nobody asked for and every book adaptation we are all having big feelings about. Dee and Katie read an unreasonable amount of books. We are not sorry.

We planned an episode. We did not do that episode. What we did instead was sit down, debrief everything we read over the summer, and spiral into a very passionate conversation about the book adaptations that need to happen immediately and the ones that are already in the works.

Katie brings us dark romance, contemporary and romantasy reads including Grave Matter by Karina Halle, Nightshade & Daybreak by Autumn Woods, and Twisted Hate by Ana Huang — enemies to lovers, slow burn, and a slow creeping dread that we absolutely did not see coming.

Dee went everywhere — from dark romance to fantasy to literary fiction — covering Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, Body Count by Codie Crowley, First Flight Final Fall by C.W. Farnsworth, and Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke among many others.

Then, we get into adaptations — Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton, the MindFck Series* by S.T. Abby, Verity by Colleen Hoover, Boys of Tommen by Chloe Walsh and Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. Which ones are happening, which ones need to happen, and which ones we would personally executive produce given half a chance.

Timestamps:

03:12 — Katie's Post Holiday Reading Debrief13:40 — Dee's Post Holiday Reading DeeBrief40:30 — Book Adaptations In The Works...

Books Discussed:

Katie's Reads:Grave Matter — Karina Halle (dark romance, paranormal)Nightshade & Daybreak — Autumn Woods (dark academia, slow burn)RoofBoy — Jess Blatchley (contemporary)The Mad Wife — Megan Church (dark fiction)Twisted Hate — Ana Huang (enemies to lovers, contemporary romance)

Dee's Reads:Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman (fantasy, LitRPG)You Girls Play Nice — K.D. AldynTied — Carian Cole (dark romance)To Cage a Wild Bird — Brooke Fast (romantasy)First Flight Final Fall — C.W. Farnsworth (contemporary romance, sports romance)A Bargain So Bloody — Vasilisa Drake (dark romance)Slip Stream — Madge Maril (indie contemporary)Body Count — Codie Crowley (dark romance)The Lure of Wolves and Whispers — Amanda Connolly (romantasy)The Ghost Writer — Julie Clark (thriller)Us Dark Few & Us Deadly Few — Alexis Patten (dark romance)So I Met This Guy — Alexandra Potter (contemporary romance)Just Another Dead Boy — Kelly McCaughrain (contemporary)Thirst Trap — Gráinne O'Hare (contemporary romance)Yesteryear — Caro Claire Burke (literary fiction)Around the World in 80 Dates — Jasmine Burke (contemporary)

Adaptations Discussed:Haunting Adeline & Hunting Adeline — H.D. Carlton (dark romance)MindF*ck Series — S.T. Abby (dark romance, psychological thriller)Yesteryear — Caro Claire Burke (literary fiction)Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (literary fiction)Boys of Tommen — Chloe Walsh (contemporary romance)Verity — Colleen Hoover (dark romance, thriller)Incidents Around the House — Josh Malerman (horror)

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