In this episode, Freya & Jaime sit down and go through YOUR unpopular opinions about books.

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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