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**The Book Bouquet**

Two friends talk books, reading and everything bookish and just genuinely delving into chaos.

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@chemicalrosie & @ahappyhermit

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Latest Episodes:

A Great Day for Revelations Jun 13, 2025

This week we dive off topic ... multiple times... it was just one of those days...

Books Mentioned

Skipshock

Problematic summer romance

Not in love

Deepend

Guild hunters

Bewitched

Bespelled

Shield of sparrows

Nightengale

Book thief

Boy in the stripped pajamas

Girl with the dragon tattoo

50 shades of grey

Twilight

Road of bones

Flavia

Book boyfriend

The Tale as Old as Time May 29, 2025

This week we were wee fired up over the publishing world, touching on our feeling on people enchroching on the book space solely for profit. We chat about current reads and whats next for us.

Books Mentioned

Direbound

On wings of blood

Silver Elite

Quicksilver

Furyborn

Witch walker (series)

Red Rising

Fiasco

Calamity

Our Infinite fates

Invisible life of Addie lu rue

Knight and the moth

Shepard king Duet

Magnolia parks (series)

Queen of shadows

American psycho

Less then zero

Rule of attraction

A fate forged in fire

The conditions of will

Archangels consort

Problematic summer romance

Not in love

Shield of sparrows

Blood and steel

Shardless

Bewitched

Skip shock

Shatter me ( Series)

This woven kingdom

Alchemised

Doing it for the Sense of Community May 16, 2025

This week we chat about the longing for community in the book world, and how even introverts need to gather even if its silently... then we tip toe into the Silver Elite convo and finally group back to what we've been reading lately.

Books mentioned

Broken souls and bones

Metal slinger

Silver elite

Hunger games

Forth wing

Shatter me

Watch me

Guild hunters

King of greed

God of fury

Knight and the moth

One dark window

Silver Cloak

Tusk Love

Roses in chains

Manacled (fanfic)

Alchemised

Threshers

Checkmate

Problematic summer romance

These infinite fates

This monster of mine

Shield of sparrows

What blooms from death

Wisteria

Nevermore

Our True North is a Sad Redhead May 02, 2025

FULL House of Flame and Shadow Spoilers

we start by chatting about the rumblings of the next Acotar book which delved into theory chatting about Hofas... Ops...

We do recenter and find out we are constantly looking for Cryus ( this woven kingdom) in every book we read, not sure what that says about us.

Books mentioned:

Acotar

Hofas

Bloodfever

Enchantra

A fate forged in fire (out may 27)

Shatter me (series)

Kiss the villain

Skipshock

Calamity

The Knight & the Moth

Silver Elite

Road of bones

Guild Hunters

Dragon Mentality Apr 18, 2025

Listen in as we chat about book collecting (no one shame us) our thoughts on new SE's and how we some how in real time convinced each other to buy SE's we said we didn't like... Plus catching up on what we've been reading lately.

Books Mentioned:

Fourth wing (series)

Road of Bones

The Witch Collector

Shatter me

Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

Roses in Chains

Knight & the Moth

Alchemized

Shepard King duet

Acotar

Silver Elite

Broken Souls & Bones

Silver Cloak

Infinite Fates

Nevernight

This Monster of Mine

Manacled (Fanfic)

Deep end

Bride

Darkfever

Iron & Embers

Guild Hunters

Skipshock

Forget me Not

To Don The Cloak of Nostalgia Apr 04, 2025

This Week we catch up after a long break for us, and dive into Rosies nostalgia and get really excited for books coming out soon.

Books Mentioned:

Magnolia Parks

Jodi Picoult

Sunrise on the Reaping

Lights Out

Avalon Tower

No Rest the Wicked

This is How You Lose the Time War

The River has Roots

Us Dark Few

Tusk in Love

Silvercloak

Silver Elite

Dance of Lies

Skip Shock

The Conditions of Will

This Monster of Mine

Side Quest - Fanfiction Aka: She's a Free Ranged Chicken Mar 21, 2025

This week we deviate from our normal course to talk on what is maybe considered... hush hush... Fanfiction. We talk our favorites, where we started, the lore, culture and honestly just be a little bit candid on what is truly a subject that exposes ones true naked psyche.

*do not buy or sell fanfic. its very uncool*

fics in the order they are mentioned:

Try something Tuesday

My immortal

Subspqce and miseries world conquest

All the Young dudes

Balance on the Head of a Pin (The Blessings of Magic)

A painters embrace

The anatomy of a fall

The Unholy Verse

A splitting of the mind

Don’t even take the bet

Black Market Blood

The Milk fic

All of Heaven in a Rage

Wanted for Evil

Manacled

Secrets and Masks

The Auction

The right thing to do

All the wrong things

The mortifying ordeal of falling in love

Rough Day

Crimson Rivers

The cadence of part time poet

Booked, Spoiled & Pathetic Mar 07, 2025

It's a slow update kinda ep but it gives us room to talk about some other topics in the book world we almost never have time for...

Books Mentioned:

Magnolia Parks series

The conditions of will

Bloody, Slutty & Pathetic (Fanfic)

Manacled (fanfic)

Flock

The unmaking of June Farrow

Spelled of forgetting

Funny story

Not in love

Problematic Summer Romance (Just Announced)

The Poisoner

Butcher and Black bird

Leather and Lark

Scythe and Sparrow

The Fall of Troy

Nocticadia

The Scattered Bones

Belladonna

Immortal Dark

Eternal Ruin (Just announced)

Kiss of the Basilisk

Between two Kings ( just announced)

A Fable for the End of The World

Iron & Embers

This Monster of Mine (out in April)

Fate Forged in Fire (out in May)

Immortalized by The Pain Feb 21, 2025

Rosie and Lili are both in the trenches of heart wrenching books... so ya' know we’re sooo fun right now.

This Woven Kingdom

Alchemized

Pride and Prejudice

Blood over Brighthaven

Mistborn

The Sword of Kaigen

All books by Sarah J Maas

Magnolia Parks (series)

Deep end ( sometimes lili still calls it Whet)

The Off campus series

Love Theoretically

Secrete History

The seven year Slip

Rough Day (fan fiction)

Manacled (fan fiction)

Fear the flames

Blood and Steel

Lady of Darkness

Legacy Series

Eyes Bigger than the Brain Feb 07, 2025

First month down in our reading year and we had lots to say on the first big release of the year, journaling and of course what we've been reading lately.

Books Mentioned

Fourth wing ( series)

SJM ( all books )

A kingdom of dreams

Under the Oak Tree

Amid the Clouds and Bone

Servant of Earth

The spear cuts through water

Cash

A Study in Drowning

A part of your world

Say you’ll remember me

Happy place

Book lovers

Thrum

Swallowed

Magnolia parks

Iron and embers

Jade City

The road of bones

Lady of darkness

Blood over bright haven

The sword of Kaigen

Deep end

Brannon Sanderson

Brief mentions

50 shades of grey

Twilight

Dan brown

The girl w/ Dragon Tattoo

Bitten/ Chosen

Danielle Steel

Fourth Wing & Iron Flame Chaos Chat - Full Spoilers Jan 20, 2025

Today we are joined by our mutual best friend Jennifer ( @thevanishinglibrary) to talk over our rereads of the Fourth Wing/ Iron Flame in prep for Onyx Storm. We go over theories and thoughts and all round have a grand time.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS

It's about the journey Jan 10, 2025

Happy new year! Today we talk bookish goals, the more creative side to the book world as well as what we have been reading lately!

Books mentioned in the order they were mentioned

Book mentioned

Shadow Hunter series

A river in enchanted

Shatter me

Tusk in love ( Critical Role)

The time I got drunk and saved a demon

Guild hunter series

Jane eyre

Wuthering Heights

Fourth wing & Iron Flame

Piranesi

Wisteria ( Belladona)

The scattered bones

Just for the Summer

Lord of the rings

Quicksilver

The silver devil

House of Bane and Blood

Heavenly Bodies

The wayward duke

Under the oak tree

Lady of darkness

The Legends of Thezmarr

Immortal

2024 Wrapped Dec 27, 2024

We yap on some of our highlights in our reading year and then did a bonus mini ep inside of an ep... an ep inception if you will... Because we really REALLY reallllyyyyy needed to talk about the Metal Slinger (* full spoilers but with lots of warning when the time comes)

Books mentioned in ep:

Rough day (fanfic)

Quicksilver

When the moon hatch

This woven kingdom (series)

Monsoon rising

The Witch collector (series)

Don’t let the Forrest in

Thrum

Swallowed (2025)

The Scattered Bones

The expanse between us

Daughter of the forest

Archangels storm

Really the whole Guild hunter series

Still life with wood pecker

Empire of the dammed

Wild blood

Long live evil

Immortal Dark

Till death

Nevermore

House of bane and blood

Fairydale

House of flame and shadow

Metal slinger

A study in drowning

An aspect of essence

The Rachel incident

The cadence of part time poets (fanfic)

The Nutrients of a Healthy Reader Dec 13, 2024

*Lillian preemptively apologizes profusely for her sound getting messed up *

One of our FAV books this year is FINALLY OUT! Rosie teases Lili over a book she currently has that Lili would actually fly across the pond to snatch off her shelf and read it and Sarah J Maas gave us a heart attack, the prep for 2025 has begun.

Books mentioned in this ep

Hurricane Wars

Monsoon Rising

Iron and Embers (2025)

Nocticadia

Under the Oak Tree

A Hunger Like No Other

Encyclopedia of Fairies

A Study in Drowning

Starling House

Quicksilver

Witcher

Shadow and Bone

Six of Crows

Merry Ever After

The Fallen Men Series

Belladonna Series

A Court of Thorns and Rose

House of Fame and Shadow

When the Moon Hatched

The Legend of Meneka

The Lord of the Rings

The Prophecy of The Rise of The Silver Haired Love Interest Nov 29, 2024

A totally calm and cool conversation on books.

Podcast mentioned in show; Sentimental Garbage

Books mentioned in show in the order they are brought up:

Alchemized (2025)

Rose and Chains (2025)

The Irresistible Urge to Fall in Love with Your Enemy (2025)

The Hurricane Wars

Celestial Bodies

Cruel Winter With You

The Fey Hotel

Skip Shot (2025)

Onyx Storm (2025)

Sparks of the Everflame

Don’t Let the Forest In

This Woven Kingdom

Encyclopedia of Fairies

Clockwork Angel

Night Chasers

Nocticadia

A Hunger Like No Other

A Study in Drowning

Under the Oak Tree

Pausing for the Growl Nov 15, 2024

Today we discuss if the book community as a whole has abandonment issues or if just Lili does... Rosie becomes the Manic Pixie Dream girl we all wish we were, we dive into a conversation on Arc copies and Special Editions as well catching each other up on what we've read and plan to read next.

The Chaotic Intro Nov 01, 2024

Hello and welcome! This is the first episode of the Book Bouquet ( Get it... Bouquet... Rosie & Lili... Like the flowers...)

Listen to us gab about current and upcoming reads as well as book world news in the realm of Fantasy Romance ect..

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