Your Bookish Unpopular Opinions... Do We Agree or Disagree? [EP#3]

Once Upon a Time Zone: A Bookish Podcast - A podcast by Jaime Fok and Freya Valerio

In this episode, Freya & Jaime sit down and go through YOUR unpopular opinions about books.

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Instagram: @jaimefok

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Instagram: @freyv_reads

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00:00 - intro & current reads

05:10 - I'm a fan of instalove

07:20 - smut is boring and ruins a book

10:03 - second chance romance is hard to get right

12:13 - Emily Henry is overrated

16:22 - I hate Lizzie (Boys of Tommen)

18:14 - Iron Flame was great, and gets too much hate

20:59 - cracking spines and folding corners is OK

23:39 - sprayed edges are so overdone

25:34 - romantasy is overrated

29:25 - people mostly down on romantasy because it's a genre women love

31:22 - there is no reason romance books need to be over 400 pages

34:15 - people who read only one or two genres, or only romance, need to be more diverse

36:52 - I hate colour coded bookshelves

39:16 - Silver Elite hate only started because people felt entitled to the author's identity

43:11 - Carley Fortune books have no substance

45:25 - listening to audiobooks is not reading

49:01 - big books are normally better

50:30 - every fairy/fae book is boring