What in the Smut? Podcast

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Taken by the Scarecrow by Kitty L. Black.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙
We start this week with more AI news in the trad publishing world that has us baffled and infuriated. Should we start our own publishing house? This week's book has some darker elements in addition to some of our least favorite tropes... popcorn AND pregnancy? How do the two combine, you may ask... and whatever you're thinking is probably accurate. The authors ability to create anxiety within the reader was excellent... but some of the scenes left us not on board with the romantic element. Elle is big mad about our FMC changing her life plans or living in the city after a single conversation with the scarecrow and some popcorn babies.
Overall, both Elle and Kay gave this ⭐⭐. While the writing was great, we didn't love a lot of the romance elements in this one.
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Taken by the Scarecrow by Kitty L. Black
Next week's book: Monster Mash by Latrexa Nova
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Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss Knotty Broomsticks by Sabrina Cross.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
We start off this week discussing Rebecca Yarros and her fans' lack of empathy. It's time to get outside and touch grass, people! This week's book has all the witchy vibes we could want as we make our way deeper into spooky season, though we could do with a little more revenge!
Overall, Elle gave this ⭐⭐⭐⭐, but if it had been just a little longer and had a little more resolution, it definitely would be higher because the writing was really good. Kay went all in because of course Sabrina can do no wrong. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
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Knotty Broomstick by Sabrina Cross
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Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss No Bones About It by Cassandra Elizzabeth.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
We start off this week discussing the NHL's new romance marketing campaign. While Kay understands some of the pushback.... as a hockey girlie, she's all in. This week's book does not paint HOA's in a good light, but we are very much on the side of letting people do what they want if it brings them joy. Kay's biggest problem with a relationship between a 12 foot skeleton and a human woman is kissing with all teeth, and the fact that the skeleton uses emoji eyes and charades to communicate. Also, we have yet another outrageous google search in real time.
Overall, Kay gave this ⭐⭐, although if there had been a few chapters from the skeleton's perspective, it probably would be higher because the writing was really good. Elle liked it a bit more and rated it ⭐⭐⭐.
Links for this week's episode:
No Bones About It by Cassandra Elizzabeth
Next week's book: Knotty Broomstick by Sabrina Cross
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Welcome back WITS listeners!
This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss another installment of the "my date with..." potluck, My Date with a Pair of Grey Sweatpants by Dakota Cockaday.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙/🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 (questionable dubcon elements?)
Smutverse news is the frightening reality of the direction of AI. Kay thinks that the world seems to be operating like a big game of Who's Line is it Anyway? This week's book has an interesting premise. Elle was mad that the FMC wasn't doing more research on the man that she was dream visiting, like we should all be doing in the present day dating world. Kay thinks that dream walking is a real thing, and Elle's analytical mind is never going to agree with that.
Overall, we both gave this ⭐⭐.5. The premise was great, we wish she had more time to fully develop it.
Links for this week's episode:
My Date with a Pair of Gray Sweatpants by Dakota Cockaday
Next week's book: No Bones About It by Cassandra Elizzabeth
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Welcome back WITS listeners!
This week, join Elle and Kay while we discuss Tempting the Trad Wife Toaster Oven by Buffy Bennet.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
Good news only in the smutverse this week. As promised, the link for the preorder of C.M. Nascosta's book can be found here. As always, theres a mid-episode Google search and we discuss whether or not doctors actually used early forms of vibrators to cure hysteria. A scene involving food didn't immediately make Elle want to throw her kindle across the room, and there was the perfect amount of plot and world building for a book of this length.
Overall, Elle loved this one, giving it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ while Kay also really liked it, coming in slightly lower at ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Links for this week's episode:
Tempting the Trad Wife Toaster Oven by Buffy Bennet
Next week's book: My Date with a Pair of Gray Sweatpants by Dakota Cockaday
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