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
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay are joined by a very special guest, Nik the Forge Bear to discuss Corny by Sabrina Cross. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Get ready for growls, laughs, and all the soapbox talks from Nik. Somehow, in a book about a succubus possessed crocheted candy corn, we discuss dating apps, utilizing toys with a partner, and of course, the age old debate of whether or not candy corn actually tastes good. Nik coins a new gender neutral term, and comes up with a term...
Oct 27, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Hallowpeen by Holly Wilde WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week, Kay and Elle were both not expecting really any of what went on in this book, but in true Holly Wilde fashion, we were taken on a ride. Kay related quite a bit to one of the main characters, as someone who tends to get herself into uncomfortable conversations with crying strangers. Though both preferred the storyline of Man Candy to the Hallowpeens, Elle had a LOT to say reg...
Oct 20, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay read yet another spinoff of a headless horseman tale in Jack's Head by Siggy Shade. Quite honestly, we're not sure how we went 30 books before a Siggy Shade story!! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We start off this book with green flags from the FMC's fiance... roleplaying from a smutty book? Yes, please! Unfortunately we get immediately smacked in the face with several red flags. As usual, we get a mid-episode Googling, and Kay actually likes the h...
Oct 13, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Pumpkin Smash by Darva Green. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start off this week with a little update from our time at the Smut Lovers Conference in Orlando! This week's book has us discussing unsafe first date behavior (hello, meeting in secret at midnight is never going to be a good idea) which ultimately gives us a morally grey meet cute. We were pleased to discover that we've got a monster peen on an otherwise mostly human (with a pumpki...
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Riding the Headless Horseman by Molly Likovich. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week's kicks off a month of Halloween themed books! Elle takes issue with the fact that the FMC doesn't believe in the entity of Death when she herself is a witch. Both Kay and Elle agree that the fact that he removes the pumpkin head is way creepier than if it had stayed on throughout, and discuss how important kissing is for intimacy, even wi...
Sep 29, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Gaga for the Gargoyle by Settle Myer. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week was a fun one, as Elle really felt the nostalgia from the Gargoyles show during her youth. We discovered that even 999 year old Gargoyles struggle with conversations on the dating apps, and think that a monster dating app sounds like a ton of fun. As always, we're excited when a monster is created with fun monster additives (vibrating tail anyone?) We als...
Sep 22, 2025•2 hr 3 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Little Slice of Hell by Clio Evans WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This book is a lot darker than some of our other books, which was just fine with Kay, who loves a dark romance. Elle and Kay were both surprised that we somehow managed to do the first book in a series, and are both interested in reading the books that follow. As with any darker romance, we encourage listeners to take care of themselves and check the trigger warnings before r...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Seduced by the Pumpkin Spice Latte by Evelyn Cloves. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 (this was a compromise- the spice is low, but there's 3 people so listen at your own discretion) This book sends us back to 2015 in so many ways, and honestly times were simpler back then. Elle is shocked to find out that Kay still uses pinterest, but not at all shocked at her love of the PSL- just don't call her a pumpkin spiced sexual. We're not s...
Sep 08, 2025•42 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners!! This week, we read Forked by Ruth Cardello WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 (1.5?) extra .5 for the fork maybe? This week, Kay and Elle discuss meeting your neighbors in apartment living, and how sometimes putting yourself out there can end up with embarrassing mistakes and petty theft. Elle definitely has a favorite fork, but definitely not the same kind of fork as our main character. Kay is still mad about the financial burden that the main character took on, only to be essent...
Sep 01, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Oh boy do we have a special one for you today. This week, in honor of the upcoming fall season, we read Corn Daddy by Helena Woodcock. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We weren't really prepared for all of the dark romance elements in this book, which we really should have, considering the shopping list of trigger warnings. Elle and Kay discuss whether or not we would have the same reaction to finding ourselves in the predicament where our main character first meets...
Aug 25, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, we're discussing Squeak by Vera Valentine. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 We are back with a bit of a darker story from of our favorite authors, Vera Valentine. Another week, another Google search for Kay... who is going to volunteer to delete her browser history if anything happens? They discuss yet another sentient object/shifter romance, with yet another food flavored... well, you know. Also, Vera writes a pretty interesting miscommunication trope that moves t...
Aug 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, we read Pounded by the Pommel Horse by Sabrina Cross. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 (1.5?) Ladies and Gentlemen, we are back on our bullshit! This book had us back to feeling the way we were a la Unhinged. To start- Kay gives Elle a bit of an education on the difference between Men's and Women's gymnastics (with the limited knowledge that she has). Kay has her own little Ted Talk about germs on gym equipment, and she continues to struggle with the names of some of ...
Aug 11, 2025•58 min
Welcome back WITS listeners. As promised, this week we read Double Stuffed by Derek Masters. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Elle and Kay are slowly coming back to life after never wanting to hear the word basilisk ever again, and finally got to read about a threesome that we feel we were owed with the last book. Kay was momentarily (actually, it was several hours) left without power after speaking it into the universe during a thunderstorm while recording, but we got right back into it. We discuss whet...
Aug 04, 2025•57 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners. If you listened to part one, and you're back for part two, you're one of the real ones! This week, Elle and Kay discuss the ritual that Tem needs to go through in order to be accepted by her basilisk boyfriend's father. We continue to be disappointed that this love triangle never turns into a why choose, and we question if we've reached our limit of how much smut is too much smut in one book. Overall, this gets ⭐⭐ , from both Elle and Kay, due in large part to giving...
Jul 29, 2025•2 hr 10 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! We've been talking about it for weeks, and it's finally here.... well, part one at least! We know we're yappers, but we really did try to keep it to the important info for this episode! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss the first part of Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle discuss the fine line of having a book with no trigger warnings and what could be a LOT of triggering scenes, this book may not be for everyone. ...
Jul 14, 2025•2 hr 28 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! In celebration of Kay's birthday this month, we read Wrapped by Nicole Parker! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle discuss delayed gratification when it comes to birthday gifts, how quickly your 30's turn into aches and pains in the morning especially after a bottle of wine, and that men need to realize that girls dress for compliments from other girls- not for the male gaze. In this week's book, Lena's luck certainly turned around on her birthday, and we're still n...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Bagged by the Groceries by Fannie Tucker. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙, maybe 🐙🐙🐙 We're good with weird, but we think even this exceeded our expectations. Kay and Elle discuss whether or not our FMC was set up to have a redemption arc, only for her to have absolutely no real punishment or lesson throughout. Our idea of the direction the story was going to go was WAY off, repeatedly, and overall... so much food waste. Both Elle...
Jun 30, 2025•58 min
Welcome back WITS listeners. This week, Elle and Kay discuss a doozy of a why choose with Nailed by Ames B. Winterbourne WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 Have you ever asked yourself, what would it look like for 5 alien hammer men and one mostly human woman to get it on? Neither did we. We did read about it though, and Kay even brought out a hammer from her tool bag as a reference when we were a little confused with the logistics. Kay and Elle both gave this ⭐⭐ for a LOT of characters, and onl...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss That One Time with the Margarita by Alex LaBruyere WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week's episode has some heavier trigger warnings in the book, with some dub con/CNC themes throughout the book. If blood magic isn't your thing either, we get it. Sonny, a 30 something bartender who has just about given up on dating gets the ultimate set-up from her boss that leads to some spicy margaritas and yet another talk from Elle...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 27 min
Welcome back WITS Listeners!! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Washed Up (with a Kraken) by L. E. Eldridge. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 and 1/2 This week is a long one! Elle and Kay have some deep discussions about gender identity and how we need to work hard and hold each other accountable to undo some of our own conditioning when it comes to gender and romance novels. We discuss how Quinn is really just Belle with a kitchen instead of a library, and how we're still kind of mad that s...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 55 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay as they kick off summer and discuss SPF Me by Holly Wilde. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 There truly is no plot- even the author said so! This book took us on a "WILDE" ride. Sentient sunscreen bottles that come alive but don't get to be full sized men? As always, we question many of the logistics. Both Kay and Elle each have their own soap box moments as they discuss sun safety, sunscreen safety, and what body parts should not be tanned. Kay g...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Whoreiffying by Piper CJ Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 1/2 In this episode, Elle and Kay discuss the whirlwind romance of a snarky ghost and a clairvoyant witch. The plot twist toward the end, and the vigilante justice left us with some questions, and overall there were some ethical dilemma's throughout the story that had us really thinking. Elle gave this ⭐⭐ while it didn't really do it for Kay, and she gave it ⭐ Kay's fan cast ...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Handle Me by Unfortunate Reads Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙/🐙🐙🐙 For another very quick book, we had a LOT to say. This is a MM sentient object story, and we were delighted to see that the author has ties to some of our favorites, Vera Valentine and Sylvia Morrow. We were disappointed, however that unlike those other two authors, this sentient hockey stick never turns into an actual person. As always, our need to dig deeper le...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Have you ever wondered what it might be like to get it on with the Kool-Aid man? Vera Valentine certainly thought long and hard about it when she wrote this week's book, Cold Sweat. Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 This episode has lots of giggles with healthy doses of "OHHHH YEAHHHH" sprinkled in. We're still not sure if we're totally on board for the step-sibling trope, but we're definitely both here for the forced proximity. Elle isn't sure if she truly needed the origin s...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! We got right back into the good stuff with part two! In Part Two, we meet some new key characters, get one of Elle's favorite type of friendships in a romance novel, and really get to see "if he wanted to, he would" in Violet and Roark's relationship. Overall, we got close to a 5 star- Kay gives this ⭐⭐⭐⭐ .5 and Elle was almost there, with ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kay's fan cast could be argued as a lazy cast today, but we've decided that Henry Cavill, the people's book boyfriend, reall...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Join Elle and Kay this week as we dig in (albeit a little late to the party) to Morning Glory Milking Farm. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙 Another long book means another two part episode (because we honestly can't stop ourselves from digging in much deeper than necessary on, well, everything)! Today, we discuss the MUCH more practical onboarding process for this company versus the T-Rex law firm from a few weeks ago. Kay questions whether or not HR needs to get involv...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Welcome back WITS listeners! Happy Easter to those who celebrate! Today we're discussing Railed by the Easter Bunny by Dalia Davies WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙 Both Kay and Elle thought that a story about the Easter Bunny was going to be silly and lighthearted, but were surprised at the darker tone throughout. That doesn't mean this episode is without laughs, however. As always, we learned a little something about ourselves, and Kay learned a new word. Kay's fan cast hits the mark again, and ...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! Today, we are discussing a staple in the smut world, Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (You're going to want to read the trigger warnings on this one!) In this episode, Kay and Elle discuss how the first 30 pages of this novel could have been the start to a much darker, very different book, and could have been replaced with 30 pages giving us some more information at the END of the novel instead. We decided that the MMC Vektal was liter...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 27 min
Welcome back WITS listeners!! In today's episode, we discuss Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner by Chuck Tingle WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle have a lot to say for a story that was only 14 pages. We get far too in depth about the hiring practices at this T-Rex Law firm, what the world may actually look like had dinosaurs gone through evolution and were still with us today, and whether or not the story gave us "the tingle" if you will. Also, Kay brings it waaay back to the 90's for to...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min
