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Don’t have time for terrible 🔍 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed reading choices with their review of the fourth book in the Mr Darcy and Miss Tilney  Regency-era murder mystery series, ‘The Rushworth Family Plot’ by Claudia Gray. (With a small detour into the ‘Strike’ series of novels - our most recent review of Book 7 is here.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🔍 books? Kim and Aimee review, first spoiler-free then spoiler-full, ‘How to Solve Your Own Murder’ by Kristen Perrin. (With brief reference to our reviews of ‘Magpie Murders’ and of ‘Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder’ )Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🪄😻 books?… To help you out, Kim and Aimee embark on a potentially-controversial review (because…cats) of ‘Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter’, by Heather Fawcett of Emily Wilde fame. (Here are our reviews of the three Emily Wilde books: 1- Encyclopaedia of Faeries; 2- Map of the Otherlands ; 3- Compendium of Lost Tales - and here is the link to ‘The Cat Rescuers’ documentary.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 👻 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed reading choices with their review of ‘A Box Full Of Darkness’ by podcast regular Simone St James. (Trigger warning: this episode contains reference to suicide.)With reference to pretty much all of Simone St James’s other books, which we have reviewed:‘The Haunting of Maddy Clare’‘An Inquiry into Love and Death’‘The Other Side of Midnight’‘Silence For the Dead’‘The Sun Down Motel’‘Ghost 19’Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And the Blurb, for the 👻 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Are you ready for some ghosts??Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible adventure/romance books?  This week Kim and Aimee review spoiler-free, then spoiler-full, ‘Empire of Shadows’ by Jacqueline Benson (book 1 in the ‘Raiders of the Arcane’ series). Includes bonus movie trivia about ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ (and reference to our review of Amelia Peabody book 1, ‘Crocodile on the Sandbank’). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review ‘Emma of 83rd St’’ by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding (a contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’) and discuss what makes an adaptation of Jane Austen novels great, and why ‘Clueless’ might be the best one ever. (With reference to our reviews of: ‘Emma’, ‘Longbourn’, ‘The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett’, and the ‘Bridgerton’ novels: Daphne and Anthony and Colin’s stories.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free then spoiler-full, the fifth book in Richard Osman’s ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series, ‘The Impossible Fortune’. WARNING: ‼️ This review WILL spoil the other books, so if you haven’t read the previous 4, do not listen until you have finished them! (Here is our spoiler-free review of Book 1, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’; Book 2 ‘The Man Who Died Twice’ ; Book 3 ‘The Bullet That Missed’; Book 4 ‘The Last Devil to Die’. With reference to Osman’s ‘We Solve Murders’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🪄🔎 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed decisions by reviewing ‘Rivers of London’ by Ben Aaronovitch (first book in the series). Apologies for the suburban summer sounds in the background (kids playing, cicadas, birds, water splashing…) - it’s VERY hot, so we are sitting with our legs in the pool again. (With reference to our review of Jasper Fforde’s ‘Eyre Affair’ and ‘Early Riser’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the 🪄🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️🏀 books? Kim and Aimee help you make informed reading decisions with a spoiler-free, then spoiler-full review of sports romance, ‘The Right Move’ by Liz Tomforde - and struggle to discuss how sport works. (With reference to our 16th, not 3rd, episode, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s ‘It Had To Be You’; and our review of Beth O’Leary’s ‘The Flat Share’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️ 🏀 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee bring Christmas novella season to a close with their spoiler-free review of Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan and Joanna Shupe’s romance anthology ‘How the Dukes Stole Christmas’. (With reference to ‘The Last Chance Christmas Ball’). Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🎄 kids books? This year’s CHRISTMAS BONUS EPISODE, where Kim and Aimee are joined by special guest Peter (now aged 7), is about a Christmas classic, Dr Seuss’s ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time this festive season for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review spoiler-free Tessa Dare’s short Christmas romance, ‘When She Was Naughty’. (With reference to our reviews of ‘The Wallflower Wager’ and ‘Mary Christmas’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Too busy at Christmas to have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free, Christmas novella ‘Miss Barton’s Mysterious Husband’ by Anna Campbell. (With reference to our review of Anna Campbell’s ‘Her Christmas Earl’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🎄❤️ books? Kim and Aimee kick off Christmas novella season with Diana Biller’s short Christmas romance, ‘A Christmas Spark’. (With reference, as per usual in Christmas novella season, to our review of ‘The Christmas Cuckoo’; as well as Mia Vincy’s ‘A Christmas Affair to Remember’; ‘The Last Chance Christmas Ball’; and ‘Diana Biller’s ‘The Widow of Rose House’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❄️ books? Kim and Aimee review, spoiler-free then spoiler-full, Jasper Fforde’s standalone speculative winter fantasy novel ‘Early Riser’. (With reference to our review of Fforde’s Thursday Next novel, ‘The Eyre Affair’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❄️ book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee make your decisions easier with their review of ‘Hardly a Gentleman’ by Eloisa James. (This is the second book in the ‘Accidental Brides’ series; listen to our review of book 1, ‘Viscount in Love’. Also mentioned is ‘A Scandalous Kind of Duke’ by Mia Vincy.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Find the link in the bio above, or on your favourite podcast app. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️👻 books? Kim and Aimee help you pick your next read by reviewing Diana Biller’s gothic romance ‘The Widow of Rose House’ - and debate the nature of what a “spoiler” actually is. (With reference to our recent review of ‘The Third Wife of Faraday House’ and Simone St James novels like ‘The Haunting of Maddy Clare’ , ‘An Inquiry into Love and Death’ and ‘The Book of Cold Cases’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode!Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️🧚 books? Kim and Aimee help out by reviewing book 3 of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series, ‘Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales’. (Note: haven’t read book 1 or 2? Start here with Book 1. Here’s Book 2.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️🧚🏻 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️👻 books? Kim and Aimee help you pick your next read by reviewing B. R. Myers’ “moody, ghostly, romancy” ‘Third Wife of Faraday House’. Sorry about the wind… this was also recorded beside a pool in Bali. (With reference to our review of ‘Rebecca’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️🔎 book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Sorry about the wind… we’re beside a pool in Bali.  Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 📖 books? Kim and Aimee review - first spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - ‘Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder’ by Kerryn Mayne. (With reference to our episodes about ‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’, ‘The Rosie Project’, ‘Sit, Stay, Love’, ‘Lonely in Longreach’ and ‘Arabella’… and we get mildly distracted discussing Australia as a setting.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review - first spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - book three in Tessa Dare’s ‘Girl Meets Duke’ series, ‘The Wallflower Wager’. Note: the spoilers of this episode may contain triggers.(With reference to the previous books in this series, ‘The Governess Game’ and ‘The Duchess Deal’; the Sarah MacLean novel ‘Bombshell’; and the book Kim refers to “with a steam engine” is ‘Viscount in Love’ by Eloisa James.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the ❤️ book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee solve your problem, with their review of ‘Magpie Murders’ by Anthony Horowitz. You might have seen the TV series and be wondering if you should read the book - or waiting to watch until you’ve read the book. Listen in to see if this whodunnit is worth your time! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Kim never reads blurbs. Aimee always does. So here’s Aimee And The Blurb, for the book we’re reviewing in next week’s episode! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🪐 books? Kim and special guest Matt review ‘Project Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir (… coming to cinemas near you in March next year, featuring Ryan Gosling. (With reference to our episode on ‘Last Policeman’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you decide whether Regency romance ‘Viscount in Love’ by Eloisa James is going to make it into your reading list. (With reference to Eloisa James’s ‘Desperate Duchesses’ series and ‘Summer Reading’ by Jenn McKinlay)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review Regency romance ‘The Bad Baron’s Daughter’ by Laura London. (With reference to our reviews of Georgette Heyer’s ‘Friday’s Child’ and ‘These Old Shades’ and Kathleen Woodwiss’s ‘Ashes in the Wind’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🧚 books? Join Kim and Aimee for their spoiler-free, then spoiler-full review of Book 2 in the Emily Wilde series by Heather Fawcett, ‘Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands’. (With reference to our review of Book 1 in the Emily Wilde series. Click here to listen as this episode will spoil Book 1!) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🦄 books? Kim and Aimee review ‘Throne of Glass’ by Sarah J. Maas, without - and then with - spoilers …and struggle to pronounce fantastical names correctly. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible❤️ books? Kim and Aimee battle hayfever and the rain to review Rom-com ‘Sit Stay Love’ by Amy Hutton. (With reference to our reviews of Jennifer Crusie’s ‘Anyone But You’ and Georgette Heyer’s ‘Arabella’ - also featuring dogs! 🐶) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🧚❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review another book about fairies, ‘Wicked Lovely’ by Melissa Marr. (With reference to Heather Fawcett’s ‘Emily Wilde’ and John Connolly’s ‘Land of Lost Things’ .)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review  ‘Earl’s Trip’ by Jenny Holiday, a Regency rom-com.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee review - spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - ‘Circe’ by Madeline Miller. (Note: this book is about the world of Greek myths, and contains reference to rape and bestiality.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review - spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - the final book in Anne Gracie’s ‘Brides of Bellaire Gardens’ series, ‘The Secret Daughter’. (With reference to our reviews of the previous novels in this series: Book 1 ‘The Scoundrel’s Daughter’; Book 2 ‘The Rake’s Daughter’; and Book 3  ‘The Heiress’s Daughter’. Also with reference to the Chance Sisters series, and ‘The Perfect Rake’.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible books?  Kim and Aimee don’t hold back in their spoiler-free (then spoiler-full!) review of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ by Ottessa Moshfegh. (Trigger warning: contains references to addiction and suicide)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim  and Aimee help you out with a spoiler free - then spoiler-full - review of rom-com ‘Funny Story’ by Emily Henry. (With reference to our review of Emily Henry’s ‘Book Lovers’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🧚 books? Join Kim and Aimee for their spoiled-free then spoiler-full review of ‘Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries’ by Heather Fawcett. (With reference to our reviews of John Connolly’s ‘The Land of Lost Things’ and Deanna Raybourn’s ‘Veronica Speedwell’ series.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected]. 

Don’t have time for terrible 🧙‍♂️books? Aimee and Kim review ‘Thief of Time’ by Terry Pratchett, a Discworld novel featuring Death. Will this be your next read? (With reference to our reviews of ‘Equal Rites’ , ‘Monstrous Regiment’ and ‘Reaper Man’.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected].