Sports, Sex Clubs, Age Gaps, and...Skeletons: Highly Questionable Hot Girl Summer Reading

In this episode of Good Girls, we dig into our questionable summer reading. We review Liv Zander’s Crown Me Dead and Crown Me Yours (complete with skeleton sex, maggots, and unexpected emotional depth), compare it to her darker raven-shifter work, and debate whether beautiful writing can save truly unhinged premise choices.We also dive into Jessica Kane-style age-gap novellas versus weaker imitators like Jenna Rose’s Stepbrother’s Obsession, roast the overstuffed “sharknado of contemporary romance” that is Claire Contreras’ When We Lied (billionaire + NHL player + sex-club owner + mystery death + college basketball player… why?), and consult a live male panel of one about whether men can actually feel their balls “filling back up.”If you’ve ever opened a spicy book expecting pure escapism and instead gotten plot overload, baby batter descriptions, or bony fingers, this one’s for us.