Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss My Date with Bubble Tea by Sylvia Morrow WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle finally has some good news from the Smutverse, and Kay is thrilled (she's been asking for some good news for weeks now)! The book this week had us asking what size Boba Tea cup would be appropriate- surely the size of a full grown man would be too big, but a regular cup is too small for that... necessary usage? Elle is horrified that the concept of bacteria w...
Jun 01, 2026•1 hr 15 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Kay and Elle discuss Fully Charged by Nicole Parker and Unfortunate Reads WITS Smut Scale: Kay is desperate for some good news in the smut verse, and today comes with a bad review that seems to give us some good reading potential. As promised, the link to Strange Familiars can be found here . Kay has already downloaded it, and added it to her TBR. We discuss if Elle is still in the stone age using battery operated toys, and Kay is finding herself in this s...
May 25, 2026•1 hr 30 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Knotted by the Beast by Siena Stone WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 Elle thinks that the bookish community needs to take a deep breath and maybe take a break to go outside for a timeout based on the smutverse news. We discuss how the Beast's first mistake in this book was letting Belle's father leave, when he really has no way of enforcing his punishment for stealing the flower since he's trapped in the castle because of the curse....
May 18, 2026•1 hr 43 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss Romancing the Rat by G.M. Fairy. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We're back after a much needed week long break! Smutverse news has us upset that people can't just scroll on (whether on the internet or in real life) and leave authors alone with their bad opinions. In this week's book, we get into a bit of a back and forth about our smut scale, but decide that the fact that theres a whole extra unknown person (animal? creature?) th...
May 11, 2026•1 hr 55 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle. (Yes, thats the full title) WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start off this week with a reminder that we must hold on to both our rage and our whimsy in the wake of the current hellscape that is the news pretty much whenever we open our feeds. We...
Apr 27, 2026•45 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we celebrate Earth Day this week with Earthed by Holly Wilde. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 This week, the ladies swoon over everything Artemis II, which is the perfect lead in to an out of this world book. Kay learned a little about dark matter (maybe), and Holly Wilde has us questioning if the Earth is, in fact, phallic in shape. Take that flat-Earthers. Everyone in the Wilde worlds truly takes the outrageous as seriously as possible, and we ...
Apr 20, 2026•1 hr 8 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss My Date with Caps Lock by one of the Queen's of Sentient Object Romance, Thea Masen. Stick around to the end of the episode for an interview with the author herself! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 In a dark world these days, this book was an incredibly fun, light read! It also read like an ode to writers everywhere, with each chapter leading off with one of the rules of writing... Thea Masen said "Oh really? Watch me." Despite...
Apr 13, 2026•1 hr 18 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Taken by the Haunted HDMI Cable by Sinn Lee. This was mentioned by the one and only Stephen Colbert when discussing the use of AI- we're also sometimes surprised that human minds come up with things like this week's book. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙/🐙🐙🐙🐙 (the HDMI cable never turns into a person, but theres some dub con elements) This week, Elle primarily takes issue with the way a 20 year old purchased an old house seemingly ...
Apr 06, 2026•50 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay bring you an Easter themed book, Mating with Mallows by Nora Noodle. WITS Smut Scale: Join the ladies as they discuss how this book had far too much childhood trauma for 20-something pages (and we think that however unintentionally, the trauma makes for a bit of an icky-sticky back story). We knew that the incorporation of sugar was already going to be a hard no for Elle, but we discover that she also is opposed to sweet-smelling candles? Unsu...
Mar 30, 2026•1 hr
Welcome back WITS listeners! Elle and Kay had some spicy (personally we think hilarious) commentary this week on With Tongue by Adrian Blue. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 Elle may be getting over bronchitis, but that didn't stop us from having an incredibly candid conversation about this book. Both Elle and Kay think that there was a missed opportunity by keeping with the biology of an actual frog (fact checked in real time). Kay is a bit triggered at the beginning of the book, and shares her fear of bein...
Mar 23, 2026•52 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week was a doozy! In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day this week, Elle and Kay discuss Over a Barrel and Down a Peg by Vera Valentine. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle start off this week by reminiscing that Kay read this book last year and was certainly not far enough along in her own journey to be able to have the conversation that we can easily have today, one year later. We discuss how one of the biggest triggers in this book is just the main character h...
Mar 16, 2026•1 hr 2 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Fill My Divot by Lavender Bleu. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 This week, Elle and Kay were pleased to get a sentient object that does, in fact, turn into a real man (unlike last week's can). Kay wishes that she lived in a place where golf wasn't seasonal, because it sounds like being a cart girl is a lucrative business. Elle is shocked to hear that Kay doesn't ever remove her makeup before bed and she's horrified. We had another que...
Mar 09, 2026•59 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay while they discuss My Energy Drink Sparks My Kitty by Kaysie Reads. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 In this episode, we are firmly back on our sentient object BS. Kay poses the question of energy drink or coke- you have to choose one. We appreciate that the can did actually become people-sized rather than staying the size of a can, but we still are struggling with his "canhood." The FMC seems to be love-bombed by an energy drink, and somehow they bot...
Mar 02, 2026•39 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners!! Can you believe this is EPISODE FIFTY?!?! Join Elle and Kay as they discuss a brand new release A Gold Medal in Love by friend of the pod, Alex La Bruyere. Stick around for an interview with Alex where we get all the good details at the end of the episode! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Elle has finally watched Heated Rivalry and now fully understands the hype. We discuss how the main theme of an eating disorder in a romance novel was done so well, and how the other main c...
Feb 23, 2026•2 hr 30 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Kay and Elle discuss Surrender by Rilzy Adams. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 In this episode, Kay and Elle talk about the importance of diverse reading and perspectives, as well as exploring the different power dynamics at play with the characters of this steamy second chance erotic novella. Overall, both Elle and Kay gave this 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and loved the idea of escaping to St. Thomas Affiliate links for this weeks episode: Surrender by Rilzy Adams Next Week's Book: A...
Feb 16, 2026•1 hr 39 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Kay and Elle discuss Valentines Slay by Navessa Allen. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 We've decided that rather than call these collections of books by the rightful name of collections, or Kay's favorite, a group project... Elle has decided they're more of a pot-luck. This book got the spiciest rating for the potluck, but the smut in our opinion was pretty sweet and straightforward. Kay graces us with some completely unrelated animal facts (because there were no anim...
Feb 09, 2026•1 hr 36 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! We are joined yet again by the one and only Nik the Forge Bear to discuss Willing Prey by Allie Oleander. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (there's CNC in the triggers, but we discuss whether or not it was obvious on the page) Buckle up everybody, because this is a long one (and honestly, could have been 2 hours longer... its what happens when you get 3 yappers and a smutty story in the same conversation). When Kay first read Willing Prey she knew that we absolutely had to ...
Feb 02, 2026•2 hr 59 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners! We may be currently buried under mountains of snow, but we couldn't wait to talk about Fake It Til You Mate It by Sarah Spade. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 In lieu of smutverse news this week, Elle reminds us that though the world is dark right now, we must hold on to our whimsy, even though we are and should be angry. Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other. In this week's book, Elle is displeased at the mystery behind it- but Kay asks if thats just because she ...
Jan 26, 2026•1 hr 53 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as we discuss Phil and the File Cabinet by Katy Ipock. WITS Smut Scale: Could be 🐙, but truly could also be 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 because there are still so many questions. We start this week's episode with another discussion on AI, and Elle brings our attention to the facts behind the AI water usage with the video linked here . For the first time in close to a year, we didn't feel jaded with a sentient object book, and it brought us back to our roots of ques...
Jan 19, 2026•1 hr 5 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Ducked by Rebecca Massey and Adelyne Graves. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We start off this week's episode with a love letter to Heated Rivalry, which Kay has since watched and loved. Kay shares her thoughts on gentle parenting vs very underpaid retail workers. Both Elle and Kay fully hated the FMC's ex-husband, which we suppose is the point of it all, but didn't need to be quite as descriptive in many cases. As usual, Kay's ...
Jan 12, 2026•1 hr 42 min
Welcome back and Happy New Year WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Space Vampire by the alien romance queen herself, Ruby Dixon. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle found the best book news for this week's smutverse- if you have any suggestions for the Hay Festival Pleasure List submissions, fill out the form here ! With our book this week, both Kay and Elle love the new trend of groups of authors releasing a series of books with a specific theme, the best kind of group project....
Jan 05, 2026•1 hr 20 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Midnight Drop by Lee Jacquot. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start this week with another disappointing smutverse update regarding the new "Ask this Book" feature on Amazon. Our take: Don't ask Amazon. Ask your friends, booktokers, book influencers, your librarian, us... you don't need AI for this, we promise! We were unaware going into this week's book that it was going to have such a cosplay-heavy vibe, but Kay learned some th...
Dec 29, 2025•2 hr 11 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss The Naughty List by Ellie Mae MacGregor. WITS Smut Rating: 🐙 Despite the fact that this is only a level one on the smut scale, this week's book brings the heat. Kay found herself relating way too much with the FMC to the point where she almost wanted to put the book down, but oh boy is she glad she didn't! Elle also pictured Kay in this story, from wanting Santa to taste like hot cocoa, to using phrases that Kay has defi...
Dec 22, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Tinsel and Tentacles by Kate McDarris WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week, the smut verse makes both Kay and Elle mad with the age old audiobook debate. Consuming books in any medium is reading, ok? They questioned how a book with tentacles and a throuple didn't automatically get a rating of "icky sticky tangle of tentacles" with a surprisingly sweet and detailed plot for a novella. Kay laments how books like this give her h...
Dec 15, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Elf'd by Ginger Kane. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle and Kay discuss how its ok for there to not be a grocery list of trigger warnings, and question if "too many arms" is a content warning or a good thing. Kay recalls a time that she opened a "Santa's little helper" in a Christmas swap, though she didn't end up leaving with it that night... a shame, truly. Both ladies were momentarily confused, expecting a tiny elf instead of the...
Dec 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Frisky the Snowman by Lauren Biel. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We are back on our sentient object romance bullshit this week, with a welcomed palate cleanser after the Thanksgiving and Halloween smut of late. Kay introduces Elle to a necessary pop culture SNL character moment, though Elle may disagree... Superstar anyone? For the first time, Kay is really put off by a flavor/scent because she know's it wouldn't be pleasant. ...
Dec 01, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay are joined by Jayce from Jayce Reads Romance to discuss Back for Seconds by J.L. Logosz and Vera Valentine. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 In this episode, Kay uncovers the plot hole of the wishbone not having the time to dry before snapping, and both Elle and Jayce had chalked it up to something thats only been done on movies and in books. We all struggle a little bit with the second person point of view, and we're glad that its not all that common ...
Nov 24, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join us as we continue the Thanksgiving theme and discuss this week's book, Home for the Gobble Days by Latrexa Nova. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week, Elle and Kay debate whether ghost sex is a real kink but agree that one of the opening scenes of this book would put someone firmly in whether or not they are into exhibitionism. A few of the plot holes in timing make our resident traveler, Elle, quite irritated. You won't eat a full dinner 10 minutes after you la...
Nov 17, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss a new kink in Freeuse Thanksgiving by April Cross and Matt Lake. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 The reviews get us going this week, with a mention of AI narration for the audiobook, and boy do we have thoughts. The book being written by two different authors also gives an interesting perspective, but we can tell that the MMC is written by a man. The introduction to the new-to-us kink of Freeuse could have had some more information about the l...
Nov 10, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Welcome back WITS listeners. Halloween is over, its time to get grateful. Are we grateful that we read this book... you be the judge of that one. This week, Elle and Kay discussed Basted by Abby Hunter. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week, Elle has some "what not to do" financial advice in the first year of a relationship, and Kay gets to the root of where her hopeless romantic ideals come from. They question the choice to keep the MMCs as turkey basters instead of going the typical sentient o...
Nov 03, 2025•1 hr 30 min
