Your Bookish Unpopular Opinions... Do We Agree or Disagree? [EP#3]

Let's go through YOUR unpopular opinions and bookish hot takes. Do we think audiobooks count as reading, do we love or hate insta-love, what are our thoughts on sprayed edges? Find out in this episode!

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(05:10) I'm a fan of instalove
(07:20) smut is boring and ruins a book
(10:03) second chance romance is hard to get right
(12:13) Emily Henry is overrated
(16:22) I hate Lizzie (Boys of Tommen)
(18:14) Iron Flame was great, and gets too much hate
(20:59) cracking spines and folding corners is OK
(23:39) sprayed edges are so overdone
(25:34) romantasy is overrated
(29:25) people mostly down on romantasy because it's a genre women love
(31:22) there is no reason romance books need to be over 400 pages
(34:15) people who read only one or two genres, or only romance, need to be more diverse
(36:52) I hate colour coded bookshelves
(39:16) Silver Elite hate only started because people felt entitled to the author's identity
(43:11) Carley Fortune books have no substance
(45:25) listening to audiobooks is not reading
(49:01) big books are normally better
(50:30) every fairy/fae book is boring