Spilling the Tea Reading Recap - 10/22/2025

On this week's episode we review Mate by Ali Hazelwood. In a crazy turn of events Teresa really liked this and Katie absolutely LOATHED this book. Whenever we can't agree on a book, it always makes for a fun conversation!

On this week's episode, we dive into all of our most recent reads. In a crazy turn of events, Katie has actually been reading more than Teresa. Teresa is still on her 'Red Rising' journey and of course Katie is continuing on her witchy/horror/thriller quest.

On this week's episode we interview author, Willow Aster, and discuss her newest book Take this Heart which is book one in her new Windy Harbor series. We discuss her backlog, whats coming next, and what motivates Willow to continue to produce heartwarming stories.

On this week's episode we discuss Brynne Weaver's newest release, Tourist Season and we LOVED IT. I mean who doesn't love when two hot serial killers fall in love?We also discuss TLOASG by Taylor Swift and spoiler alert we LOVED that too!

On this week's episode we deep dive into everything we've been reading and loving (or hating) lately which includes Red Rising and Dowry of Blood.

On this week's episode we dive in Dan Brown's newest release, The Secret of Secrets, that follows Robert Langdon on an adventure around Prague trying to solve the mystery of why Katherine Solomon's manuscript is being deemed a national security threat and has in turn put their lives at risk. We are bth HUGE Dan Brown fans, and this book delivered on all the reasons why we find his writing to be so entertaining. This book varies a lot from the previous Robert Langdon books as it focuses primarily on Katherine's area of expertise, noetic science, instead of Robert's area of expertise, symbolism and history. This book really made us self reflect and asked a lot of philosophical questions about the world and how we function within it.

TRIGGER WARNING NEGATIVE REVIEW INCOMING Unfortunately, on this week's episode we discuss Wild Card by Elsie Silver and let's just say we do not have anything positive to say about this one.

On this week's episode, we discuss all of our fall bookish recommendations, This includes some sports romances, paranormal romances, books about teen sleuths, and dark academia.

On this week's episode we discuss Phantasma by Kaylie Smith and we both LOVED it. This book was so fun, had such an interesting magic system, flawed but lovable characters, and an intriguing game of life and death.

On this week's episode we recap everything we've been reading and loving lately. We also recap the most important news of the week (century), Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce.