Tori’s back! Join us for a very fun and tangent-ful conversation about what makes us DNF a book (with exceptions) and how to have a successful three-way…CHAT! Not too many triggers in this one, just brief mentions of tropes we generally dislike and why. Funnily enough it was hard for us to be negative so as per usual we ended up talking about book and tropes we absolutely love! Enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Tropes we absolutely love! 🚩 Tropes we generally do not enjoy. ****** U...
May 06, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 10
RIP to your TBRs, you have been warned! This episode is full of scrumptious Dark Romance Recs around the Arranged/Forced Marriage Trope and of course full of tangents and banter. As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Arranged/Forced Marriage, Mine, Insta Love/Lust, Touch Her and Die 🚩 Arranged/Forced Marriage, Mafia, Age Gap, Violence, Dub-Con/Non Con, Coercion ****** Upcoming episode: DNFs and Three Ways? ****** Titles mentioned: 1. Forget Me Not Bomb...
Apr 29, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Welcome back to Part 2 of Winter’s Arrow: A Dark Snow White Retelling – with guest host, Jayce, from Jayce Reads Romance! Well, this episode’s tangent certainly took a turn towards the end… or should I say took a knot? Happy listening and ordering, everyone! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark Omegaverse, Omegaverse, Wolf-Shifter, Retelling, Paranormal, Futuristic, Dystopia, Post-Apocalyptic, Age-Gap, Heat, Knotting, Jealous/Possessive Hero, Oops...
Apr 22, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 8
What a surprise, Nat talked so much about Omegaverse that we had to split up the episode into two parts! Please join us for Part one of Winter’s Arrow: A Dark Snow White Retelling – with guest host, Jayce, from Jayce Reads Romance! What an absolute pleasure this whole episode was! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark Omegaverse, Omegaverse, Wolf-Shifter, Retelling, Paranormal, Futuristic, Dystopia, Post-Apocalyptic, Age-Gap, Heat, Knotting, Jealou...
Apr 15, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 7
A book that was TOO DARK for Nat, could that even be possible? This is not your run of the mill, standard Dark Romance! SERIOUSLY CHECK THE TRIGGERS IN THIS ONE! Santana did a number on us with this Deep Dive of No Way Out, and it certainly was a WILD ride! Santana broke a lot of romance laws… and regular laws so Lo and Nat had quite the conversation about this Horrific Novella. As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Contemporary Horror Romance, College ...
Apr 08, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 2
OMEGAVERSE TIME BABY! Need we say more? Make you a comfy nest and join us for a knotting good time as we deep dive one of Nat’s favorite Omegaverses: The Awakening by L.V. Lane! This book has it all – a manipulative, morally grey super alpha, a newly awakened Omega with a hidden talent, and a whole lot of SPICE! This book breaks a lot of our “romance rules” but we love it even more for pushing our comfort zones! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dar...
Apr 01, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Join us as Nat and Lo discover a new favorite sub-genre… fluffy dark romance! The trigger warning list on this one is not for the squeamish so maybe don’t listen to this while you eat (especially if you’re eating orzo, beef or cookies and cream ice cream). However, this book was one of the most funny, sweet and overall Rom-Com-esque dark romances we have ever read and we cannot wait for book two in this series! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week the impact Princess herself: Princess Rara joins Nat for a SPANKING good time as we deep dive Sweet Intensity by Zoe Blake. It was an absolute joy to go back to Zoe’s Russian Mafia world where we can check our feminist brain at the door and let our book brain revel in the delicious story about an anti-hero cave man and his sassy banter-full lady, who, of course stands no chance against him. As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark Contempora...
Mar 18, 2024•59 min•Season 3Ep. 3
BFF Maxine is back! Nat and her old college radio cohost/college roomie deep dive and review the second installment of the 365 Days franchise, 365 Days: This Day! It is just as unhinged and confusing yet beautifully shot as the first movie and we embraced the insanity of this not quite romance, romance! Sadly, there were nearly as many “baby girls” in this one as in the first but we enjoyed it none the less! As always check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark Con...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Season 3Ep. 2
No, your eyes and ears are not deceiving you… we are back baby! And season 3 is starting off with a banger! Our newest cohost, Lo (Don't worry Tori isn't going anywhere) brought us For the Love of Layla – a dark psychological stalker romance with an UNHINGED hero who takes birth control tampering to a whole new level! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! PS: Thank you for being so patient with us for these past months! We love you! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Dark Contemporary Ro...
Mar 04, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 1
IT’S OFFICIALLY SPOOKY SEASON!!! Happy Spooktober everyone! We are kicking this one off with a good old Wolf Shifter hunting down his fated mate regardless of her engagement status and knotting her until she accepts his claim! What’s not to like? Please join us as we Deep dive Twisted: Book 2 of the Savage Alpha Shifters by D.D. Prince! You’re in for a howling good time! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS *** ✅ Fast burn, dark paranormal fated mates roman...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Going once! Going twice! Sold! Yes, you heard that right, we sold ourselves in a spicy Auction! Please join us for an super special episode this week where we sold an episode of the podcast to the highest bidder in the Romance for Maui Auction, to help with the much needed relief after the Maui Wild Fires. So please join us for this great cause with our winner - Author and new BFF to the Podcast, Lindo Forbes. She brought us Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh - a spicy paranormal book about a Swee...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Join Nat and Tori for the final part of Richard and Lizzie's love story... if you can even call it a love story, the jury is still out on that one! But what we can agree on is that it was a fantastic, dark and twisted tail that really made you stop and think, for a multitude of reasons. Richard's unhinged and absolutely crazy banana pants antics made us question our sanity on many levels but we sure enjoyed the ride! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS ***...
Sep 19, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Dive back into the absolutely deranged world of Zoe Blake’s Dark Obsessions series. This week we pick back up with Sinister Games and much like Lizzy, Tori and Nat are totally into it while simultaneously questioning our sanity. To quote the wise words of Disturbed’s David Draiman: “We’re down with the Sickness!” as always check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Contemporary; age gap; billionaire MMC; actress FMC; insta-obsession; OTT jealous/possessive; public sex;...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Oopsie doopsie! We lost a file, found a file, had to re-edit… but enough with the non-dark romance shenanigans… we’re back! And we’re back with one of our favorite Dark Romance Reads by one of our favorite Dark Romance Peeps: Wicked Games by Zoe Blake. Joins us as we try to unscramble our brains after this absolutely unhinged mind fuck… to the point where Tori and Nat couldn’t come to an agreement on multiple points in this book - including, whether or not this was in fact a Romance, Tori says n...
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Join us for yet another unhinged episode where Tori’s ADHD runs rampant and Nat can’t keep it reeled in. Technically, this is a Deep Dive episode on Sorcha Black’s Cruel Idols: An Enemies to Lovers MMF Bisexual Romance… but you get much, much more than our opinion on this spicy, kinky, dark romance – including but not limited to bear shifter dick anatomy and a sneak peak into Tori’s life as a kitten. Buckle up trigger tribe, this is another roller coaster of an episode. As always, check the trig...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 21
TORI’S BACK!!!! So, it’s only fitting that we dive right back into our groove with a Trigger Tribe member recommendation: The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane (thank you Camille). This book surprised both in a good way, we weren’t expecting such a funny yet dark book all wrapped up in a hockey sports romance with a tattooed “ding-a-ling” to top it off! And that’s exactly why we shouldn’t judge a book by its hunky cover! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Join us for something a little different this week! BFF Maxine - Nat’s old college radio cohost joins Nat to deep dive and review the Netflix Blockbuster: 365 Days. Where do we even begin? This unhinged, yet beautifully shot insanity of a movie was trying its best to be a romance but it broke oh so many rules that we simply couldn’t give it that title. We did however howl in laughter thru the entire thing so we give it “5 baby girls”! As always check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONT...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week special guest and fellow podcaster Princess Rara from the Pink Kink Podcast is back! And she’s “made up” for her last book choice by bringing us a quintessential true dark romance – Unhinged Desires: A Dark Romance by Kylie Kent! Rara has clearly been doing her homework and listening to the podcast because this book is chock full of all of Nat’s favorite tropes and triggers… including but not limited to TRACKERS! It’s always a true joy speaking with and geeking out over romance with Ra...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Guard your loins ladies and gentlemen! Mr. Savage (Nat’s husband) is this week’s extra special guest and he’s giving us his take on Zoe Blake’s Scandals of the Father. It’s safe to say that his mind was absolutely blown as he wasn’t expecting non-con… or kidnapping, but he was a great (yet highly confused and conflicted) sport. Please note that this is not like our regular deep dive episodes and the audio quality is not as good as normal because Nat was having issues and had to use one microphon...
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Grab those headphones… Corvin King is back! And this time he brought us his latest project: Heartless Heathens by Santana Knox – A Why Choose Gothic Romance! Please head the trigger warnings as this book really pushes the boundaries between “sane and sin” and the story itself is anti-religion, taboo and touches uncomfortable topics. This is a corruption story, there are no heroes here… and Corvin and Nat get into the nitty gritty. As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAIN...
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Lo (@wellreadnurse) is back! And this time Nat and her dive back into our favorite and unhinged world of the OMEGAVERSE! Andorra Sector is like no place else so beware this captivating dystopian/post zombie apocalyptic world will suck you in and put you into a heat like trance begging for more! You’re going to want to grab your pens and papers because this episode is full of increadible spicy book recs… RIP to your TBR lists! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPO...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This week special guest and fellow podcaster Princess Rara from the Pink Kink Podcast joins Nat and brings us Target This by Lily White – A Dark Thriller Romance*… or is it? You’ll have to be your own judge of that as Nat and Rara couldn’t come to the same conclusion and decided to agree to disagree. What they did agree on though is that this book was one of the most spicy and unexpected books that either lady has ever read, it kept you on the edge of your seat and surprised you at every turn. A...
Jul 03, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Thank you to Patron Zoe for choosing this out of this world bananas book for today’s episode! Nanite trackers, an interstellar vampire invasion and a never-ending litter box? What’s not too like?! Please join us on our deep dive of The Krinar Captive by Anna Zaires! We explore a truly unique alien world with cool tech and hot blood thirsty aliens… this episode is a little extra goofy so we hope you enjoy the ride! If you’d like a chance to choose a book for an episode please check out Patreon! *...
Jun 26, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 13
This week: Tori schools Nat on a classic english kids' story and Nat goes on a "proper Russian name" rant. Join us as we talk about this super hot and HILARIOUS Why Choose/Mafia/Arranged Marriage book called Forget Me Not Bombshell! Yes, Trigger Tribe, Tori got her way and we are fulfilling the Why Choose Sandwich we promised you! As always, check triggers and enjoy! Oh… and we have a SUPER exciting and HUGE announcement! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS *** ✅ Contemporary dark mafia why-choos...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Get your emotional support wine, tissues, chocolate, etc ready Trigger Tribe... this one is going to get HEAVY! Dylan really TORMENTS you with this ending. But we couldn't get enough of this incredible read, honestly we're baffled that this was Dylan's debut duet. What a spectacular ride! ! As always, check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS *** ✅ Contemporary dark MC romance; stepbrother MMC; manipulative MMC; controlling MMC; psychotic MMC; grieving FMC; virgin FMC; OTT...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Buckle up Trigger Tribe this is going to be a roller coaster of a ride! Join us as we dive into the dark and taboo world of the notorious Celtic Beasts Motorcycle Club... much like The Hotel California "You can check out any time you like But you can never leave". You've been warned this and the next episode is not for the faint of heart, we still giggle our way through and have a great time however it gets DARK! Please check the triggers and enjoy! *** THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS*** ✅ Contem...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 10
This week a special guest host, Lo Morales (aka @wellreadnurse on TikTok and @thewellreadnurse on IG) joins Nat and brings us one of THE MOST BANANA PANTS books: The Reaper Incarnate by C.A. Rene and R.E. Bond. Join us as we have a fantastic chat about the book and go on many spiraling side rants about the omegaverse, the dark romance genra, and our mutual love of men in masks! A big thank you to Lo for coming on the podcast, if you enjoyed our chat please check her out on TikTok and IG, she's a...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Knotting, nesting, claiming bites and oh so much more! Join us as we head back to our happy place… the OMEGAVERSE! This week’s episode has our inner omegas squirming as we deep dive Alpha Inmate by Liliana Carlisle… I mean what could be hotter than the ultimate combo of an alpha, bad boy/criminal, mastermind who happens to be a billionaire? Don't worry, there are plenty of tangents disbursed thru out to cool you all off. Happy listening everyone! P.S. Please vote in our Omegaverse Pole on Spotif...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 8
First off, welcome back, Trigger Tribe! We are so excited to be recording once more. We’ve missed y’all as well as each other during our hiatus, but baby, we’re back! We hope to maintain a more regular recording schedule over the summer while Tori is out of class. This week we did an impulse recording on Drethi Anis’s 5,000 Nights of Obsession. We both read it separately as it just came out, and we loved it so much we just had to talk about it, so why not record the conversation? I do want to ma...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 7
