We haven't come up with a succinct way to summarise this trope, it's basically 'character is injured/ sick and other character takes care of them trope' - this is distinctly different from the 'who hurt you trope', it is very specifically about books where a character is cared for by another, usually the love interest.

Disappointingly for us, but good news for you, this actually turned out to be a really good list! We definitely added a bunch of stuff to our TBR's

Books discussed in today episode are:

• From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapata
• In Deeper Waters - F.T. Lukens
• Pestilence, The Four Horsemen #1 -Laura Thalassa
• Always Only You, Bergman Brothers #2- Chloe Liese
• Fragile Remedy - Maria Ingrande Mora
• The Nature of Witches - Rachel Griffin
• A Ruin of Roses, Deliciously Dark Fairytales #1 - K.F. Breene
• Divine Blood, Guardians of the Maiden #1 - Beck Michaels
• Easy Tiger, Prickle Island Zoo #2 - Ali K. Mulford
• Kingdom of the Wicked, Kingdom of the Wicked #1 - Kerri Maniscalco
• Six of Crows, Six of Crows #1 - Leigh Bardugo

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After doing vampire recs a few episodes ago, we decided that werewolves were also having a comeback and so Tali pulled together a list of werewolf books that are on her TBR. For this rec list we go through the descriptions of the books and discuss what we know about them and our thoughts.

Books we discuss today are:

• Shadows & Light, Cambric Creek After Darkverse #2 - C.M. Nascosta
• Alpha of Mortal Flesh, Darkmourn Universe #3 - Ben Alderson
• Hemlock Grove, Hemlock Grove #1 - Brian McGreevy
• Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
• Bride - Ali Hazelwood
• Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
• Such Sharp Teeth - Rachel Harrison
• The Wren in the Holly Library, The Oak and Holly Cycle #1 - K.A. Linde

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It's reading update time! Here's a selection of what we've been reading lately, as usual we've got a lot of fantasy books and Toni has started a new series which she spends a good portion of the middle talking about.

The books we talk about in this episode are:

Toni

• The Amethyst Kingdom
• The Raven Boys
• Bitten by Surprise

Tali

• Twin Crowns
• Scales and Sensibility
• The Marriage Act

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