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Looking for your next romantic read, but don't have time to waste on terrible books? Let us do the pre-read for you! Kim and Aimee have got your backs! Two girls who read way too many romance novels of all styles and genres talk about what they love, what they like and what they can't stand about them. SPOILER FREE recommendations to make choosing your next read that much easier! Episodes released Sundays at noon (GMT +10), in time for a peaceful cup of tea while you choose your afternoon read. You can contact us via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

Kim & Aimee


    • May 4, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Episode 218: Jenny Holiday's ‘Earl's Trip'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 27:57


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review  ‘Earl's Trip' by Jenny Holiday, a Regency rom-com.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 217: Madeline Miller's ‘Circe'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 45:59


    Don't have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee review - spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - ‘Circe' by Madeline Miller. (Note: this book is about the world of Greek myths, and contains reference to rape and bestiality.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 216: Anne Gracie's ‘The Secret Daughter' (Brides of Bellaire Gardens series)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 35:53


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review - spoiler-free, then spoiler-full - the final book in Anne Gracie's ‘Brides of Bellaire Gardens' series, ‘The Secret Daughter'. (With reference to our reviews of the previous novels in this series: Book 1 ‘The Scoundrel's Daughter'; Book 2 ‘The Rake's Daughter'; and Book 3  ‘The Heiress's Daughter'. Also with reference to the Chance Sisters series, and ‘The Perfect Rake'.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 215: Ottessa Moshfegh's ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation'

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 40:51


    Don't have time for terrible books?  Kim and Aimee don't hold back in their spoiler-free (then spoiler-full!) review of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh. (Trigger warning: contains references to addiction and suicide)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 214: Emily Henry's ‘Funny Story'

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 30:59


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim  and Aimee help you out with a spoiler free - then spoiler-full - review of rom-com ‘Funny Story' by Emily Henry. (With reference to our review of Emily Henry's ‘Book Lovers'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 213: Heather Fawcett's ‘Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 45:18


    Episode 212: Terry Pratchett's ‘Thief of Time'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 41:34


    Episode 211: Jenn McKinlay's ‘Summer Reading'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 44:05


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review rom-com ‘Summer Reading' by Jenn McKinlay…and introduce a new episode format! (With reference to our reviews of ‘The Fourth Wing', and our Christmas Day Bonus Episode.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 210: Anna Campbell's ‘The Worst Lord in London'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 20:21


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ novels? Kim and Aimee discuss ‘The Worst Lord In London' by Anna Campbell, first in her ‘Scandals of Mayfair' series.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 209: Grace Burrowes's ‘A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 14:30


    Episode 208: John Connolly's ‘The Land of Lost Things'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 23:16


    Episode 207: Anna Campbell's ‘A Match Made in Mistletoe'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 13:44


    Episode 206: Anne Perry's ‘A Christmas Journey'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 18:25


    Episode 205: Erin Langston's ‘Some Winter's Evening'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 13:26


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    Episode 204: Anna Campbell's ‘Her Christmas Earl'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 15:07


    Episode 203: Mary-Anne O'Connor's ‘Mary Christmas'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 19:38


    Episode 202: Richard Osman's ‘We Solve Murders'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 18:47


    Episode 201: Eloisa James's ‘Two Vows and a Viscount'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 15:30


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee aim to save you an hour with a quick review of ‘Two Vows and a Viscount' by Eloisa James (the second book in her ‘The Seduction' series). (With reference to the previous novella in this series, ‘Two Dances and a Duke' and the completely unrelated Christmas-themed novella, ‘The Christmas Cuckoo'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com.

    Episode 200: Benjamin Stevenson's ‘Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 30:34


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    Episode 199: Mark Lawrence's ‘The Book That Wouldn't Burn'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 37:48


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    Episode 198: Tessa Bailey's ‘It Happened One Summer'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 16:17


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help your decision-making with a review of “spicy” romance ‘It Happened One Summer' by Tessa Bailey. (With reference to Emily Henry's ‘Book Lovers' and ‘Beach Read'  and Sarah Adler's ‘Mrs Nash's Ashes'. ) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 197: Kerry Greenwood's ‘Dead Man's Chest'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 11:50


    Episode 196: Jennifer Crusie's ‘Anyone But You'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 16:48


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️novels? You need a novella! Kim and Aimee review ‘Anyone But You' by Jennifer Crusie. (No relation to the 2024 release movie!) With reference to other Jennifer Cruisie novels ‘Wild Ride' and ‘Maybe This Time' and MC Beaton's ‘Travelling Matchmaker' series. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 195.5: A Brief Pause

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 1:03


    We're back as normal, next Sunday! Keep on sending through your recommendations, wonderful listeners! Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 195: Meg Shaffer's ‘The Wishing Game'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 20:06


    Don't have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee review ‘The Wishing Game' by Meg Shaffer and try to work out what genre it is. (With reference to our reviews of ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea' , ‘The Christmas Cuckoo' and ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 194: Sandra Brown's ‘Out of Nowhere'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 20:12


    Episode 193: Allison Montclair's ‘A Rogue's Company' (Sparks and Bainbridge series)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 19:57


    Episode 192: Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer's ‘Rocky Start'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 22:05


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    Episode 191: Fiona McArthur's ‘Back to Birdsville'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 20:51


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee have a great time reviewing ‘Back to Birdsville' by Fiona McArthur. Aimee goes on a trip down memory lane and we plan the series of romance novels no-one ever asked for…(With reference to Episode 75: ‘Lonely in Longreach') Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 190: Anne Gracie's ‘The Heiress's Daughter (Brides of Bellaire Gardens series)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 12:43


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a quick review of Regency romance ‘The Heiress's Daughter' by Anne Gracie, the third book in the ‘Brides of Bellaire Gardens' series. (Book 1 is ‘The Scoundrel's Daughter' and Book 2 is ‘The Rake's Daughter'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 189: Minerva Spence's ‘Notorious'

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 17:15


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review ‘Notorious', the first book in Minerva Spence's ‘Rebels of the Ton' series.Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 188: Amanda Hampson's ‘The Tea Ladies'

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 15:56


    Episode 187: Claudia Gray's ‘The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh' (a Mr Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 20:36


    Episode 186: Julia Seales's ‘A Most Agreeable Murder'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 17:34


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    Episode 185: Simone St James's ‘Lost Among the Living'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 25:05


    Episode 184: Kat Sterling's ‘His By Opening Day'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 15:12


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee try to help, with a tea-sipping, chaotic - but short! - review of Kat Stirling's historical romance novella ‘His By Opening Day'. (With reference to  novellas ‘A Christmas Affair to Remember'  and ‘The Christmas Cuckoo'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 183: Agnes and the Hitman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 15:04


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    Episode 182: Joan Smith's ‘Drury Lane Darling'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 12:11


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you choose, with a short review of Regency romance ‘Drury Lane Darling' by Joan Smith. (With reference to our review of ‘Imprudent Lady', also by Joan Smith.) Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 181: Kerry Greenwood's ‘The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions' (Phryne Fisher)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 14:20


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    Episode 180: Eloisa James's ‘Two Dances and a Duke'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 11:56


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee continue their quest for satisfying romance novellas, reviewing the first in Eloisa James's ‘The Seduction' series, ‘Two Dances and a Duke'. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 179: Alison Goodman's ‘The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 22:51


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    Episode 178: Justin Smith's ‘Cooper Not Out'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 25:29


    Episode 177: Eloisa James's ‘To Wed a Rake'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 9:59


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee do a snappy review of an Eloisa James novella, ‘To Wed a Rake'. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 176: Joanne Lockyer's ‘The Last Light of Dusk'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 23:50


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Aimee and Kim help out with a review of Regency adventure-romance ‘The Last Light of Dusk' by Joanne Lockyer.  Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 175: India Holton's ‘The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 25:31


    Don't have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee try and concisely summarise and review ‘The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels' by India Holton. Featuring a stealth mini-review of ‘The Dragon Riders of Pern', which relates to our review on ‘The Fourth Wing' and not to ‘The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels' at all. [This mini-review ends at 5min.] Also with reference to our review of ‘Soulless', which IS relevant to the ‘Wisteria Society'. Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 174: Simone St James's ‘Murder Road'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 28:10


    Don't have time to waste on terrible books?  Aimee and Kim help you choose what to read next with a review of ghostly murder mystery ‘Murder Road' by Simone St James.(With reference to pretty much every other Simone St James novel we've reviewed: Episode 9: ‘The Haunting of Maddy Clare', Episode 24: ‘The Sun Down Motel' , Episode 28: ‘Inquiry into Love and Death' , Episode 53: ‘The Other Side of Midnight' , Episode 64; ‘Silence for the Dead' - which we keep erroneously referring to as ‘Silence for the Grave' in this episode - Episode 74: ‘The Book of Cold Cases' , and Episode 111: ‘Ghost 19'.)Want to recommend a book? Send us a text!We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 173: Sarah Adler's ‘Mrs Nash's Ashes'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 19:31


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee evaluate road trip rom com ‘Mrs Nash's Ashes' by Sarah Adler. We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 172: M.C. Beaton's ‘Refining Felicity'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 14:20


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help with a speedy review of ‘Refining Felicity' by M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney), the first novel in the ‘School for Manners' series. (With reference to Episode 112: M.C. Beaton's ‘Travelling Matchmaker' series.)We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

    Episode 171: Ben H. Winters' ‘The Last Policeman'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 21:56


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    Episode 170: Tessa Dare's ‘The Duchess Deal'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 18:53


    Don't have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help out with a review of ‘The Duchess Deal' by Tessa Dare. (This is the first book in the series featuring previously reviewed book ‘The Governess Game'. Also featuring reference to Episode 73: Jennifer Crusie's ‘Maybe This Time', Episode 4: Anne Gracie's ‘The Perfect Rake', and Episode 69: Julia Quinn's ‘Romancing Mr Bridgerton'.)We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

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