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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
We're finishing off season 3 and ringing in the New Year by talking about our best and worst reads of 2023. We thought it would be fun to chat about what we loved, what we hated, and what surprised us throughout our reading year.
So grab a drink, sit tight, and let us take you on a ride through our bookish journeys. See you next year... Cheers!Tiktok: @bringyourownbookpodcast
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
Celebrity book clubs. Whether you love them, hate them, or are indifferent about them, every celeb and their cousin seems to have their own book club nowadays! Getting a big name's stamp of approval on a book can help smaller authors sell more copies, but with the rise of BookTok and the growth of the online reading community, do people still care about what the ~elite~ are reading?
Inspired by booktuber Jack Edwards' video (linked below), in this episode, Kelly and Nikki take a quiz (also linked below) to see which celebrity book club they would most likely enjoy taking part in and discuss the age old question: are these celebrities actually reading all of these books?
Take the quiz here or, watch Jack in the Book's video that inspired this episode, here.
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
Burn. It. Down.
In today's episode, we are going all in on one of the most highly anticipated books of the year, Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.
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Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War CollegeâViolet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violetâs already wondering how sheâll get through. Itâs not just that itâs grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that itâs designed to stretch the ridersâ capacity for pain beyond endurance. Itâs the new vice commandant, whoâs made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she isâunless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violetâs body might be weaker and frailer than everyone elseâs, she still has her witsâand a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
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Back in May, we had the pleasure of sitting down to speak with Rebecca Yarros about Fourth Wing, her writing process, and more, so we knew we had to share our thoughts on the second book in The Empyrean series as soon as we finished reading it.
Readers and listeners be warned... there be spoilers ahead!
Haven't finished reading Iron Flame yet, or missed our special interview episode with Rebecca Yarros discussing Fourth Wing? You can check it out here: BYOB In Conversation with... Rebecca Yarros!----
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
In this episode, the BYOB ladies are once again joined by Tilly to discuss Madeline Miller's second novel, Circe. In season 1, BYOB read and loved The Song of Achilles, which you can find linked below in the show notes.
âYou are wise,â he said.
âIf it is so,â I said, âit is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.â
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.
The Song of Achilles - Season 1 episode
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
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In today's special episode, weâre sitting down with #1 New York Times & #1 International Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, to discuss her latest book, A Fire in the Flesh!
On sale as of October 31st, 2023, this highly anticipated release from Blue Box Press is the third in the Flesh and Fire series, which also happens to be a prequel and companion series to one of our favourite books at BYOB, From Blood and Ash.
The only thing that can save the realms now is the one thing more powerful than the Fates. After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals.
Convincing Kolis wonât be easy, thoughânot even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that she is nothing more than a lie, Kolisâs erratic nature and twisted sense of honor leave her shaken to the core, and nothing couldâve prepared her for the cruelty of his Court or the shocking truths revealed. The revelations not only upend what she has understood about her duty and the very creation of the realms but also draw into question exactly what the true threat is. However, surviving Kolis is only one part of the battle. The Ascension is upon her, and Sera is out of time.
But Nyktos will do anything to keep Sera alive and give her the life she deserves. Heâll even risk the utter destruction of the realms, and thatâs exactly what will happen if he doesnât Ascend as the Primal of Life. Yet despite his desperate determination, their destinies may be out of their hands.
But there is that foreseen unexpected threadâthe unpredictable, unknown, and unwritten.
We'll be talking about her writing process, what it's like to release *three* books in one year, and everything From Blood and Ash and A Fire in the Flesh. We even have some spoiler-y questions for those who have read the book so, if you don't want to be spoiled, or haven't finished reading A Fire in the Flesh yet, please refer to the chapters in this podcast episode!
Where to find Jennifer:Thank you so much to Blue Box Press for providing us with free advance reader copies to feature in this episode.
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Missed our other episodes on JLA's books? Check them out below:
Kelly's Husband Reads a Romantasy!
The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
Happy Halloween! This episode, Nikki and Kelly are joined by their partners, Scott and Bryce, to read The Spite House by Johnny Compton. This debut novel puts a new spin on the haunted house trope with themes of ancestral trauma, grief, and retribution.
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Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, heâs desperate for moneyâitâs not easy to find safe work when you canât provide references, you canât stay in one place for long, and youâre paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.
When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson property, notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Texas, needs a caretaker of sorts. The owner is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there. Provided the houseâs horrors donât drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.
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Think you're brave enough to withstand the evil within the Spite House? Enter if you dare...
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Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly!
The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga!
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"Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."
I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words.
This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.
His arms wrapped around me,
holding me against him....
It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.
"Forever," he agreed.
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Nikki and Kelly wrap up their Twilight saga re-read with the final book in the original series, Breaking Dawn. The series that made readers question whether vampires or werewolves could ever live in harmony is coming to a close, but not before it unleashes a few more surprises, including the most horrifying of all... Renesmee.
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Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly!
The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga!
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As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
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In this episode, while Nikki and Kelly still decide whether to pledge their allegiance to Edward or Jacob, they also ask all the hard-hitting questions such as what happens when Bella gets her period? Would Jacob and Bella have worked out if the Cullens had never moved to Forks? And just how exactly do vampire penises work?!
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Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly!
The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga!
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I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.
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In this episode, Nikki and Kelly start to question their entire lives as they begin to wonder whose side they're really on... Are they still Team Edward, or are they now Team Jacob?! Or is it still too early to make that choice? After all, this is only book two out of four- there are plenty of twists left to unravel, and we're only just getting started!
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About three things I was absolutely positive.
First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of himâand I didn't know how dominant that part might beâthat thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
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The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga!
When Stephenie Meyer's Twilight was introduced to the world back in 2005, it was a game changer for supernatural romance and YA fantasy. Having inspired countless books since its first publication, this series took over the world and, later on, movie theatres.
This series tends to get a bad wrap, but is it warranted? Join Nikki and Kelly as they revisit a childhood favourite, spend some time with Bella and the Cullens in Forks, Washington, and discuss one of today's most pressing matters: Team Edward, or Team Jacob?
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
This episode, the BYOB ladies are once again joined by Tilly to discuss #1 New York Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang's Babel: An Arcane History. Having already read and loved The Poppy War back in season 1, the ladies knew they needed to meet up again to chat about one of her latest works.---
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day heâll enroll in Oxford Universityâs prestigious Royal Institute of Translationâalso known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-workingâthe art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver barsâhas made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization.
As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .
Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
This episode is the third and final in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a book they loved when they were kids! Each episode will focus on one of the ladies' beloved books of yore. Joining in on the fun is special guest Tilly.
Last but not least, in this episode, the ladies meet up to discuss one of Tilly's favourite childhood reads, Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce! The first in The Immortals series, and only one part of Pierce's larger Tortall universe, this book follows Daine, a girl with a knack for horses. It soon becomes pretty evident that Daine's talent is more than that, it's pure magic- wild magic. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Although Daine has this special connection with the natural world around her, she will have to learn to trust the humans around her before she can fully understand her past and her powers.
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
This episode is the second in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a book they loved when they were kids! Each episode will focus on one of the ladies' beloved books of yore. Joining in on the fun is special guest Tilly.
In this episode, the ladies meet up to discuss one of Nikki's favourite childhood reads, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan! The first in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and one of Riordan's most beloved works, this book takes readers on a wild adventure with Percy- who even meets his real dad Poseidon (yes, that Poseidon!) along the way. But can Percy and his friends Grover and Annabeth prevent a catastrophic war between the gods, or are they too late?
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
This episode is the first of three in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a book they loved when they were kids! Each episode will focus on one of the ladies' beloved books of yore. Joining in on the fun is special guest Tilly.
In this episode, the ladies meet up to discuss one of Kelly's favourite childhood reads, Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett! Often referred to as 'The Da Vinci Code' for kids, this middle grade mystery follows Petra and Calder as they race to find a missing Vermeer painting. Using their intuition and a trusty set of pentominoes, will this duo be able to solve a crime that has even the FBI stumped?
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Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly!
In the conclusion of this two-part mini-series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the final two books in the Fifty Shades trilogy: Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed!
Will Ana finally sign the contract, or will she violate her NDA with Christian? Will anyone actually get any work done at their job, or will we be subject to more benign emails?? And, the question we all want the answer to: will Christian finally let Ana touch him??? There's only one way to find out...
We hope you've enjoyed this fun mini-series getting to know E.L. James' most beloved characters. Until next time, as literally everyone in this series says, "Laters, baby!" ;)
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Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly!
In this two-part mini-series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Fifty Shades trilogy!
Not many books and their authors shake up the publishing industry quite like E.L. James did with her internationally bestselling erotica, Fifty Shades of Grey. Inspired by the YA modern classic Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, this book opened the door to other lesser known BDSM romances to become mainstream. Whether you loved it, hated it, or were indifferent to it, when this book was first published in 2011, you knew of it!
Make yourself a weak, black Twinings English Breakfast tea like Anastasia, or pour yourself a more sophisticated glass of chilled Sancerre like Christian and enjoy this wild ride of an episode... Cheers!
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The blog Kelly mentions in this episode no longer exists under that name. However, you can read a newer version of it here: http://jennytrout.com/?p=3208
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
In today's special episode, weâre dishing on our latest bookish experiment... Redacted Reads!
Each BYOB host was tasked with gifting the other a book and redacting all information that could give the reader clues as to which book it was. That's right; the reader has no idea what the book is called, who wrote the book, or even what genre the book falls under!
Was their experiment a success or a devastating failure? Will these two bookish besties remain bookish besties, or will they end up DNF-ing their Redacted Read (and friendship)? Tune in to find out!----
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
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This episode, the BYOB ladies are joined by Tilly to discuss #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry's Beach Read, which happens to be Nikki and Kelly's favourite Emily Henry book. Don't be fooled by the title! While this hilarious, heartwarming, and sometimes melancholy book does in fact take place by a beach, we feel that the book is best enjoyed snuggled up with a cozy blanket and a warm, comforting drink. Cheers!
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
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In today's special episode, weâre sitting down with USA Today Bestselling author, Rebecca Yarros, to discuss her latest book, Fourth Wing!
On sale May 2nd, 2023, this highly anticipated first release from the New Adult imprint Red Tower Books invites readers to enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders. She has written more than fifteen novels, with multiple starred Publishers Weekly reviews and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A second-generation army brat, Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for more than twenty years. She is also passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband back in 2019.
We'll be talking about her writing process, dragons, and even some spoiler-y questions for those who have read the book. So, if you don't want to be spoiled or haven't finished reading Fourth Wing yet, please refer to the chapters in this podcast episode!
Thank you so much to Entangled Publishing & Red Tower Books for providing us with free advance reader copies to feature in this episode.
Where to find Rebecca:For more information about her non-profit, please visit oneoctober.org.
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BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions.
This episode, we're heading back to Elfhame and reading The Stolen Heir by Holly Black, the first in a new duology set after the events of The Folk of the Air trilogy!
The first book in The Folk of the Air trilogy, The Cruel Prince, was featured back in season 1 on our third episode. Missed it, or want a refresher? Check it out here: https://tinyurl.com/ens5hzxy---
A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.
Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. Heâs on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Surenâs help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.
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