Now entering the Walter boy era… Giddy up🤠 This book is a perfect read for a younger audience, especially those who loved reading the Summer I Turned Pretty! Ali Novak was only 15 herself when originally published it on Wattpad. Jackie Howard loses her family in a tragic accident and has to uproot her perfect little New York life to move to Silver Falls, Colorado and live with (you guessed it) the Walter boys. On one hand, Walter Boys is a quick, fun read that is just fluffy. It’s a sweet...

We’re about to go on a little adventure together & that adventure is going to span three and half hours of epic concert history all thrown into one episode, and it’s gonna be called “The Eras Tour Film” - see you there.😚 The Eras Tour Movie is love a letter to fans across the entire world. It captures her evolution as an artist, allows fans to relive the nostalgia of their favorite eras, and the production is nothing short of brilliant. It really shows how far Taylor has come in her...

Leave it to @taylorswift to make an era out of all of her other eras, as if they weren’t already iconic enough. 🦋🌞☔️🎩🗽🚓🌈🌲🥂🦸🏼‍♀️ We want to give a shoutout to our favorite Anti-Hero for her 9 VMA awards this year (including Video of the Year) by putting out our first ever 2 part episode!! 🤯 I mean it was pretty obvious considering we are covering all 10 albums in her discography, a three-hour concert production, the Eras Tour MOVIE, our top 5 albums & top 3 songs of all time.🎥🎶 And the...

Leave it to @taylorswift to make an era out of all of her other eras, as if they weren’t already iconic enough. 🦋🌞☔️🎩🗽🚓🌈🌲🥂🦸🏼‍♀️ We want to give a shoutout to our favorite Anti-Hero for her 9 VMA awards this year (including Video of the Year) by putting out our first ever 2 part episode!! 🤯 I mean it was pretty obvious considering we are covering all 10 albums in her discography, a three-hour concert production, the Eras Tour MOVIE, our top 5 albums & top 3 songs of all time.🎥🎶 And the...

It feels like the perfect night… to drop the Red era.🤭 OUT NOW!❤️ In 2012, Taylor Swift was 22 and turning into a pop icon of our generation. Her fourth studio album RED had it’s moment 11 years ago, and it had its moment again in 2021 when it was rereleased as (Taylor’s Version). When explaining the re-record of this album , Taylor Swift says: “I look back on RED as my true breakup album. Every other album has flickers of different things. But this was an album that I wrote specifically...

Grab your purple glitter gel pens, swifties 💜🏰🎆☔️🦸🏻‍♂️✨ We’re here to tell you everything you need to know about the Speak Now era🫶🏻 From being released in 2010 to being stolen from the vault and saved in 2023 (shoutout Taylor Lautner & Joey King!!!) Speak Now has been through an incredible journey. It’s the album that raised most of us swifties and got us through our first heartbreaks🥹 The long awaited (Taylor’s Version) was nothing short of perfection - the eras tour announcement, the...

“It is the best day ever! So was yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and every day from now until forever!” That is becauseee we’re doing a crossover episode that is completely unmatched by any other! The fact that The Man isn’t on the Barbie soundtrack is honestly a crime. This song and movie represent each other perfectly in the world of double standards for women in society. To set the record straight: we aren’t going to drill feminism into your brain in this episode.  Barbie is the film of the...

If you need proof that Jenny Han & Taylor Swift are in kahoots with each other, this episode will only break the surface. If you have been with us for a while, you know that we live for Jenny Han & The Summer I Turned Pretty on this podcast; but, we are taking these episodes back to our PK & LJ era. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in...

If asked to choose between the Death by a Thousands Cuts bridge OR the Cruel Summer bridge, which one do you choose? We think the better question is: how do you choose? These are the kind of thoughts we have going into this episode. If DBATB had to pick it’s favorite era, Lover would steal the entire show (the name of this podcast is literally inspired by this album). We knew it was the first album we wanted to talk about in these new episodes because it was the first album to be fully owned...

Calling all nerds to tune in on this episode.🤓 Leave it to us to somehow tie neuroscience with the Reputation era. This episode is going to be a very interesting one. Love on The Brain is extremely nerdy but if we can still follow the story, then so can you. It’s your typical enemies to lovers plotline with copious amounts of scientific terminology and a bonus trope: cats. It’s giving girl boss & male wife energy. Bee Königswasser is such a quirky main character and Levi will melt your...

Back in our Midnights era as we talk about Adam & Olive’s love story - our new favorite grumpy x sunshine couple!!! We are in our fake dating era lately and Hazelwood is the mastermind behind the trope. This episode is for all our scientific girlies If you’re not into the biology trope, you can still easily follow along with these books; there might just be a couple jokes that go over your head (like they did ours). This episode is full of nerdy banter, and moments from this book that...

Wowowowow, if there were ever a moment for an emergency episode…it’s right now🤯 We just have to talk about the season 2 trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty immediately. So many clips, so many emotions, so many thoughts!!! From the opening hairshake, the infinity necklace, the tears - this trailer did not disappoint. We watched the entire thing about fifty times in 0.5 speed so that we could recap and talk about every little detail. You know how much we love TSITP on this podcast, and we...

It’s been a long time coming… Friends to lovers AND fake dating AND a sports romance? Yes please, sign us up!!! This book is fun and light, perfect for a younger audience of readers. With that being said, there is a lot for us to say reading it as 25 year olds - but don’t let that deter you from reading it💚 In this episode, we are turning Bree & Nathan’s relationship into the wild love story of Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince. The fame, the publicity, the rumors make this song...

Happy Place has little something for everyone: an intense soulmates, second chance love trope, a story of friendships and growing up, a melancholy feeling of losing someone that was once your everything, and that only breaks the surface of what this book is about. What we thought was going to be a fun, fluffy romance turned out to be gut wrenching, desperate and heartbreaking. It makes you laugh, cry and curse every other page. It bounces between the “Happy Place” and “Real Life” chapters...

This episode is part three of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series and probably the most controversial ending to be discussed. By this point in the series, we’ve all taken sides - Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah. You made it through the first two books and you have to complete the series regardless of how you feel. So in the end, you’re either let down and hate them entirely OR you’re happy with the ending and this book remains one of your favorites of all time. As much as we hate to admit...

This episode is part two of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series. If you haven’t listened to episode 7, it is highly recommended before listening to this episode. At first read, this entire series is super cheesy and childish. It’s Not Summer Without You is honestly really annoying at times. Sure it’s not for everyone. For book lovers out there like us that see this series for more than a YA novel, there is still so much that it has to offer. You either love this series or you hate it,...

This episode is part one of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series - sponsored by the Jenny Han fans that read this book before Noah Centineo stole our hearts in the Netflix original, To All The Boys I Loved Before.  We’re talking circa 2009 - just three years after Taylor Swift’s Debut album. For the swifties that have been fans since Tim McGraw and Our Song, this is your time to tune in. This book is a hidden gem that wasn’t discovered for everything that it is until Jenny Han herself...

Forget beach reads, we want lake reads. Currently planning our next trip to Canada to live out our Carley Fortune dreams, especially after finishing her second novel, Meet Me at the Lake. Told in our favorite style of alternating timelines, this book is a love story of how one single day turned strangers into lovers. Will & Fernie work through the aftermath of their meeting 10 years later, only to find that their attraction to each other is stronger than ever. In this episode, we talk...

Now entering the Rep era of Death by a Thousand Books podcast. Four episodes of fun, light hearted romance novels - now here we are giving you our take on an incredibly dark & twisted book called Verity by Colleen Hoover. It’s a perfect example of how there’s a Taylor Swift song for any book you throw in our direction. You’d think it’d be hard to find a song for a murder/mystery/thriller but there is a touch of romance in this book that fits in between the lines. If you haven’t read this...

Okay lovers, this one is for you.💗Booktok made us read this one, and we are pretty damn glad they did. It’s always hard jumping into a book from booktok or bookstagram because the expectation is already set so high by so many other people. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace may have set a new high standard for romance novels in our world. Reading this book felt like listening to Lover (the album) for the first time - fun, romantic, adorable, peaceful.  Nate & Stassie are a couple that came...

Continuing on the trend of our favorite Taylor Swift exes, this one’s for our Taylor Lautner girlies. If you dated Taylor Swift in her peak pop country years, you knew it was almost guaranteed she wrote a song about you. However, how you treated her in that relationship determined what kind of song you got in return. The song featured in this episode is an apology to a former lover, something that she has never done before. Despite the speculation, it was confirmed years later to be about our...

Who’s your favorite Taylor Swift ex to hate? If the answer is John Mayer, you’re correct. However, if the answer is Jake Gylenhaal, then we have a book for you. This is the first book from Colleen Hoover’s collection that is up for discussion but it will certainly not be the last time you hear her name on this podcast. She has always said that It Ends with Us holds a special place in her heart. You can tell that it’s a personal story and because of that, it has a powerful message behind it....

If you’re a sucker for the Folklore love triangle between Betty, James & Augustine, then we have a book for you. Without giving any spoilers, this book is told from the future (like Cardigan) but also references past points in time (like Betty and August). So we are getting different glimpses of the same story from multiple perspectives that are all leading up to the same moment in the end. The simplicity in Christina Lauren’s writing style is comforting. It’s not flashy or extra; it...