Booktrospective

Episode 57: Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

This week's episode covers Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. One July night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife Ethan was sharing with his best friend Billy, and took Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan and all of the neighbors are back home, and it seems that so is Billy. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?
Triggers:
Child Death
Sexual Identity 
Grief
Car accident
Death of parent
Death of a spouse
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Episode 56: The Pink Dress - A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin

This week's episode covers The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin. Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin had no plans on becoming a beauty queen but after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty". A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane’s time imagined but its near destruction exposes reality.
Triggers:
Child Abuse
Child Molestation
Domestic abuse
Emotional abuse
Eating Disorder
Infidelity
Car accident
Addiction
Animal cruelty
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 55: Keep It In the Family by John Marrs

This week's episode covers Keep it in the Family by John Marrs. Mia and Finn are trying to rehab their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant and discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC. The baby arrives and Mia is haunted by the terrible things she saw and desperate to find answers.
Triggers:
Alcoholism
Cancer
Child Abuse
Confinement
Cursing
Death
Domestic abuse
Emotional abuse
Infidelity
Forced institutionalization
Kidnapping
Grief
Car accident
Death of parent
Pregnancy
Postpartum depression
Addiction
Animal cruelty
Miscarriage
Gaslighting
Pandemic/Epidemic
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 54: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

This week we are covering Crown of Midnight, the second novel in the Throne of Glass series. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion but she hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.
Triggers:
Blood
Death
Gore
Profanity
Violence
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 53: The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez

Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend Ben for years—and his brother Theo Young, an ex-NFL player plans to confess his feelings for Ben's fiancée at their engagement party. She stops him but now everyone believes she is with Theo and in an attempt to help Theo and find her first fling, the pair lean into the rumors. There are no boundaries for the rebound relationship they form—just a host of complicated feelings, messy familial dynamics, and uncovered secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can even admit to themselves that their rebound is working. 
Triggers:
Parental abandonment
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 52: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Celaena Sardothien is an assassin - now slave - forced to fight for her freedom by becoming the King's champion. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass—and it's there to kill. 
Triggers:
Alcohol consumption
Blood
Death
Gore
Profanity
Violence
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 51: The Roommate Risk by Talia Hilbert

Jasmine Allen believes in bad luck, great wine, and the seductive power of a stiletto heel but she doesn't believe in romance. Rahul is her best friend and has been in love with her for seven years, and now she is living with him.
Triggers:
Parental neglect and abandonment
Parental death
Alcohol dependence
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 50: Reckless by Lauren Roberts

Paedyn Gray has killed the King and Kai Azer, the king's second son and Paedyn's would-be love, is now Ilya’s Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice. Triggers:
Blood
Death
Misogyny
Murder 
Near death experiences
Violence
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 49: Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

Aidan Thomas is the town's hard-working hero with a dark secret - Rachel. Rachel is a fighter and survivor. Emily, a local restaurant owner, develops a crush on Aiden, finds herself coming dangerously close to discovering Aidan’s secret.
Triggers:
Death
Murder 
Sexual Assault
Rape
Violence
Kidnapping
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.

Episode 48: House of Flame and Shadow Part 2 by Sarah J Maas

Bryce is in a new world and Hunt is back in the dungeons.  While she is trying to find her way home and Hunt works on escaping with Ruhn and Baxian, the rest of our friends are picking up the pieces of Book 2. Will they be able to reunite and defeat the Asteri? This week will cover the second half of the novel which includes Part 2 and 3.
Triggers:
Blood
Death
Demons
Discrimination
Drugs
Gore
Guilt
Misogyny
Murder 
Near death experiences
Parental neglect
PTSD
Racism 
Sex
Sexism
Slavery
Slut-shaming
Substance abuse
Suicidal ideation
Violence
War
As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.