We’re wrapping up the year by turning When Girls Talk Books into a full-blown gameshow 🎤📚
With Connor running producer-led trivia, we tally our quirks, rate hot takes, and relive the moments that made us cry-laugh this year. Then we race through a lightning-round fancast and start planning bookish field trips — including a hockey romance read paired with a live game.

This episode is chaotic, nostalgic, and very on-brand.

In this episode:
• producer-led trivia on phrases and ratings
• the infamous one-star reveal and why it stuck
• Grave Matters vs Roses in Rome highlights
• summer callbacks and the tennis ball saga
• rank-the-phrases challenge (and what it says about us)
• lightning-round fancasts across multiple books
• future bookish outings + a hockey romance plan
• listener invites to share top picks and favorite tropes

🎧 If you love book podcasts, trivia games, and friends talking books, this one’s for you.

Let us know in the comments:
👉 which book moment lived rent-free in your head
👉 your favorite trope of the year
👉 which book we have to read next

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We picked a “festive” thriller and plunge into a snowbound replica town where traps, cameras, and polite gatekeepers turn survival into a rigged game. We track the clues, debate the ethics, and wrestle with a final twist that flips victim and predator.

• star ratings split and initial expectations
• setup of Eddie’s abduction and the vintage town
• forming the group and spotting surveillance
• church shelter, booby-trapped “comforts,” and Tank’s death
• perimeter search, bear attack, and rising stakes
• bunker discovery, hunt archives, and the access tunnel
• carousel set piece and the predator’s fate
• hardware store explosion and trauma bond
• dawn meeting with the gatekeepers and twist reveal
• adaptation fancast and closing reflections

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We sit down with Jessica Everly to explore Roses in Rome, a tender, emotionally intelligent romance where grief, forgiveness, and agency shape a love story rooted in place. Rome becomes a mirror for healing as Joey and Sienna choose each other without cheap drama or shortcuts.

• choosing Rome as a living catalyst for Sienna’s healing
• why Joey is a steady, emotionally present hero
• alternative endings cut in development
• crafting Father Fiore as a true spiritual guide
• Giuseppe as the road not taken
• hospital and Pietà scenes as grief touchstones
• adoption and pregnancy as a full family arc
• the sister dynamic and learning to show up
• querying rejections and the self‑publishing pivot
• cover design choices and author process
• what Jessica is writing next

Make sure to like, subscribe, share, follow. And also do the same for Jessica here so you can keep track on what she's gonna work on next

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Editing done by Connor Luther @clfilms.co
Music by @thundercatlouis
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