In today's special episode, we’re sitting down with #1 New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author, Maureen Johnson, to discuss her latest book, Death at Morning House! The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will nev…

Content/Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions on domestic violence including physical, emotional, and sexual assault. If you or someone you know is a victim or survivor of domestic abuse, please visit: www.thehotline.org (USA) or https://sheltersafe.ca/ (Canada). --- In this episode, Kelly and Nikki discuss their thoughts on the movie …

In this episode, Kelly and Nikki discuss the book 'Holly' by Stephen King. They share their overall ratings and impressions of the book, highlighting the dark and intense moments as well as the heartwarming and heartbreaking moments. They discuss the characters, including Holly Gibney, the pacing and research in the book, as well as the portrayal o…

In this episode, Nikki and Kelly discuss the book 'Credence' by Penelope Douglas. They express their mixed feelings about the taboo romance and the disturbing dynamics between the characters. The book follows Tiernan, who is sent to live with her step-uncle Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado after her parents' death…

Do you love or hate Sarah J. Maas books? Let us know your fave (or least favorite) of her books by sending us a message! --- In this episode, Nikki and Kelly discuss and explore the works of Sarah J. Maas, focusing on their experiences with her books. They talk about starting with ACOTAR and their initial impressions of the series and the interconn…

In this episode, Kelly and Nikki discuss their thoughts on the book The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson. They discuss catfishing versus secret penpal tropes, baseball, and whether or not community service is a good idea for a date. Thank you to Berkley Books for the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review from BYOB. Catfis…

In this episode, Kelly and Nikki talk about what they've been reading during their six month break from BYOB. They discuss their reading habits and goals for the year, the genres they've been reading the most (including romance, fantasy, mystery, and thrillers), and share their favourite and most disappointing books of the year so far. Listeners ca…

BYOB: The Bring Your Own Book Podcast is back with a new look for season 4! In this trailer, they are re-introducing themselves and sharing what types of content listeners can expect from the podcast. The hosts, Nikki and Kelly, talk about their love for reading and how they started the podcast. They explain the meaning of BYOB and how it has evolv…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. We're finishing off season 3 and ringing in the New Year by talking about our best and worst reads of 2023. We thought it would be fun to chat ab…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. Celebrity book clubs. Whether you love them, hate them, or are indifferent about them, every celeb and their cousin seems to have their own book …

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. Burn. It. Down. In today's episode, we are going all in on one of the most highly anticipated books of the year, Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. --…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. In this episode, the BYOB ladies are once again joined by Tilly to discuss Madeline Miller's second novel, Circe. In season 1, BYOB read and love…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. In today's special episode, we’re sitting down with #1 New York Times & #1 International Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, to discuss h…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. Happy Halloween! This episode, Nikki and Kelly are joined by their partners, Scott and Bryce, to read The Spite House by Johnny Compton. This deb…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga! --- "Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. Thi…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga! --- As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge,…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! The BYOB ladies are back with another series. In this four-part series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Twilight saga! --- I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! --- About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love wi…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode, the BYOB ladies are once again joined by Tilly to discuss #1 New York Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang's Babel: An Arcane Histor…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode is the third and final in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode is the second in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a book the…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode is the first of three in a little mini-series called BYOB Reads Childhood Favourites, where the BYOB ladies read, you guessed it, a …

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! In the conclusion of this two-part mini-series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the final two books in the Fifty Shades trilogy: Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed! Will Ana finally sign the contract, or will she violate her NDA with Christi…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! In this two-part mini-series, Nikki and Kelly deep dive into the original Fifty Shades trilogy! Not many books and their authors shake up the publishing industry quite like E.L. James did with her internationally bestselling erotica, Fifty Shades o…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. In today's special episode, we’re dishing on our latest bookish experiment... Redacted Reads! Each BYOB host was tasked with gifting the other a …

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. --- A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend ev…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. In today's special episode, we’re sitting down with USA Today Bestselling author, Rebecca Yarros, to discuss her latest book, Fourth Wing! On sal…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode, we're heading back to Elfhame and reading The Stolen Heir by Holly Black, the first in a new duology set after the events of The Fo…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This episode, we're reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell, which is one of Nikki's favourites! Libby Jones been counting down the days until…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! In this episode, Nikki and Kelly finish off their month-long Colleen Hoover experience by reading It Ends With Us. Content/Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions on domestic violence including physical, emotional, and sexual assault. So…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! In this episode, Nikki and Kelly read their first ever Colleen Hoover book, Verity. In Verity, we follow Lowen, a struggling writer, who is hired by Jeremy Crawford, the husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford. Lowen has been hired to complet…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly! Surprise! We’ve got an extra special guest joining us... It's Kelly's husband, Scott! In this episode, Kelly and Scott strike a bargain: he will read Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash and in return, she will learn how to play one of his f…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. This week we have a special Valentine's Day episode where, instead of a book, we'll be discussing a genre: Romance. We're talking tropes, auto-bu…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. We're back in Ruby Dixon's "not-Hoth", frozen expanse where the aliens are blue and the heroines are (somehow) anything but. Last season we read …

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. Our first book of season 3 is none other than the New York Times Bestselling YA fantasy, Crave by Tracy Wolff. Published in 2020, this book follo…

Hey listeners! We're baaack! BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 3 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki and Kelly. Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and share our unfiltered thoughts and opinions. We're kicking off season 3 by talking about our best and worst reads of 2022. We thought it would be fun to record o…

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we finished reading the first half of The Return of the King, so today we're going to end our Tolkien que…

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we finished reading The Two Towers, so now we're going to chat all about the first half of The Return of …

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we finished reading the first half of The Two Towers, so now we're going to discuss the last half of the …

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we finished reading The Fellowship of the Ring, so now we're going to launch into the second novel in the…

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we discussed the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring, so naturally today's episode will be focusing …

BYOB is proud to present... our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. Last week we discussed The Hobbit, so naturally today's episode will be focusing on The Fellowship of the Ring. Bec…

BYOB is proud to present the first episode in our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. But first, The Hobbit! Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit was first published …

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode for you about the first volume of Alice Oseman's beloved graphic novel, 'Heartstopper'. This book was recently adapted into a Netflix show and took the world by STORM, so we couldn't wait t…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode (or, as Nikki calls this one, a Sloppy Seconds episode!) for you about the latest instalment in the Blood and Ash series, “The War of Two Queens” by Jennifer L. Armentrout. This book made s…

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode for you about the witchy romance novel “Go Hex Yourself” by Jessica Clare. The book just came out…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In our last episode of season 2 (can you believe it?!), we’re talking about one of Tilly's all-time favourite books, the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’ve got something a little different for all of you. We are so excited to have debut author Mazey Eddings join us to ta…

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’re talking about one of Nikki's favourite books, the popular paranormal mystery YA novel, “The Diviners” by Libba Bray…

BYOB is excited to announce our first ever mini-series of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien! 🗡🏹💍🐉 This mini-series will be released this summer and there will be something in this for everyone; whether you have a lot of knowledge of the stories or you are just starting out and might be a bit intimidated to get start…