Wrapped: Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

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I have a story for you. And this kind of reminded me of you because

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you told me about your daughter and how your daughter really

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wants a labubu, but does not want a lefufu.

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Yeah. And I didn't know what that was. Yeah. So thankfully you told me.

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Yeah. Because guess who got lefou food. No. Melissa.

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Because Melissa has spent hundreds. You told me Melissa

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spent hundreds of dollars on the Boo Boos. It's not real.

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So she was buying, like, outfits for it. Yeah. So Melissa

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has, I think, three labubus. Okay. There was a

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package of four labubus. Okay.

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For a great price. Yeah. And they came in a labubu box.

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Yeah. She was so excited. She's been telling me about these labubus that are on

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their way to her for weeks. Yeah. She opens the box and they're lefoufuu's.

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Oh, no. I asked her to send me pictures because I'm like, what? How do

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you know? Yeah. What does a lefoufuu look? It's on the bottom.

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It's the, like the, like Mattel.

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Sure. They have that, but it's like K Pop or something.

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Does it look different? No, they look really similar.

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Then why does it matter? Why would

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anybody pay a hundred dollars for a little doll? Honestly, like, she names

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them, she dresses them. So then I, I, I had to ask Melissa,

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were you into Beanie Babies? Oh, in all caps.

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A hundred percent. Yes, I was. She had a Princess Diana Beanie Baby. Oh,

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my. She would drive. So she'd go to make her mom take her to McDonald's

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to get her. The little Beanie Babies. I was like, that makes

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sense. This is your new thing. You collected Beanie Babies.

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Somebody somewhere was like, millennials have money to spend

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and are looking for their next Beanie Baby. Yes. And we had Tamagotchis,

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then we had Beanie Babies. Now we have La Boo Boos. Yeah.

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But the level of mad that Melissa was about her

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lefoufu, she literally texted me that she got lefou food. This is the thing is,

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like, this is a woman who has lived without air conditioning in her

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condo. So for like seven years. For several years.

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Because it's going to cost $1,000 to. Spend and she doesn't want to pay.

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The thousand dollars, but she has $300 to spend on labus. Yeah.

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It's actually chaos. Yes. I actually told my

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daughter about Tamagotchis the other day and I, like, explained it to her and she

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was like, I think she thought that I was talking about something else. And Then

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I had to be like, no, it like literally comes in like a little keychain.

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And then it's like sometimes like it'll hatch and you like won't know what it

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looks like until it hatches. And she lost her mind. So I think I'm gonna

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get her a Tamagotchi for Christmas. Yes, I had a Tamagotchi.

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I loved it. But then you. I got over it. I never got into Beanie

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babies. I had a couple just because they were cute and I was a kid

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and they were stuffed animals. Sure. Did you have furbies?

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No. My mom heard like a

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horror story about one of them. Like, I don't know if they like lit on

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fire or attacked the girl or something, I don't remember, but she was like,

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you're not getting a fucking furby. Really? Yeah. There's something that happens. We got

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two of them and they would talk to each other. Yeah. And it furbys out

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demons. Yeah, I forgot about Furbies. Yeah.

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Honestly, the 90s Labubus remind me of the Furby.

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Like they're equally creepy except they're tiny. I know.

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You're spending so much money on this hand sized doll.

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Yeah, I know. Have you seen the real babies?

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No. The real babies, what is it? I don't know. They're called

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something, but they look. But they look like real babies. Like real babies. Yeah.

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Did you see that on tick? Yes, yes, yes.

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Who had a baby shower, whole belly reveal,

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a belly photos, the whole thing. Had the baby had sonograms.

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And then people met this baby and it's one of those. What are they called?

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I don't know what they're called, but. Yes, but it's like. It's a real baby.

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Yes. The doll. Yes. Somebody needs to turn that into a documentary. I must

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see it from beginning to end. I must know all of the sordid

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details about it. All right, well, I'm Amanda. And I'm Nicole.

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And we are plot tarts. We read, recap and review smutty books.

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Let us help you decide if this book should stay on your tbr.

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What book are we talking about? Today we are doing haunting Adeline

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by H.D. carlton. And this is a wrapped episode, so. We will

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spoiler free. Yeah. Nicole did her homework and what

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did what she was supposed to do and I didn't. I had to be because

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you talk more. Because usually I just show up.

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So now I was like, I'm gonna be prepared. I know Amanda's not gonna be

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ready for this. And so I figured as Long as I was, we'd be fine.

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Yeah. Well, the thing of it is, is, like, I don't think we've fully figured

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out what we want, like, these episodes to be yet. Well,

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this one was a harder one. Cause with the other ones we did, we read

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the back of the book. This back of the book gives nothing. Yeah,

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nothing. I think that we decided that we were gonna kind

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of, like, give our own recap of the book,

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spoiler free, obviously, and just kind of see, like,

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what it sounds like. I tried to write, like, this cute teaser.

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Sure. For it. Yeah. I was like, how if this was a

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movie, like, or if this was somebody recommending it,

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what would they maybe say? So I tried to, like, make it cute. So what

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I would say is Haunting Adeline is

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one of those dark romances that makes you double check your locks,

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but you literally can't stop reading it, which is how I felt because

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it was kind of creepy. And this was my first real dark romance, and it

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really got me hooked. And everybody always says I'm getting off on a tangent,

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but everybody is like that. Haunting Adeline is more of, like, a intermediate.

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I jumped right into it, and it is funny. If you listen to me at

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the start of our podcast, I'm much more sheltered.

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And after Haunting Adeline, I'm like, oh, give me the belts,

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give me the knives, give me the blood. Well, that's what makes it intermediate.

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Right. Is because this was your transition book. Yes. This was your intermediate book

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between jumping into darker things. All right,

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I'm getting so off track here. Adeline is our main female character. She inherits her

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grandma's creepy old mansion and learns that her grandma was stalked

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there. And now Adeline has a stalker of her own. As Adeline dives

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deeper into the secrets the mansion holds, the line between danger and

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desire gets blurred. It's eerie, it's sexy, and just the

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right amount of wrong. That was so good. If somebody asks me if they

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should read Haunting Adeline and, like, what it's about, that would be something I would

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say. Spoiler, I guess, kind of is that she gets stalk and her grandma

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had a stalker. But we learn. You learn that in the first ten pages.

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Yeah, it's. I mean, I think that's kind of inherent when you're reading

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a cat and mouse duet. Yes. You know, there's stalking. Yeah. But it

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is. It's. It's eerie, it's creepy. There's ghosts, and you love it. That's what I

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was looking for. And you loved it. Yes. Yeah. I had been looking for a

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book with, like, that eerie, spooky undertone with actual ghosts.

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Not like a house fucking with me because I'm dead. Right. I wanted a

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ghost. And then I got. We're still really bitter about Pen

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Pal, so I would say that that's a

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really good description. You're going to kind of hate that you love

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it. I mean, are you, though? Because I don't. Did you hate that

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you loved it? I think you just kind of outright loved it, didn't you?

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I did, but if I'm describing to someone, like,

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I was trying to explain this to someone at work what book we were talking

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about. And if I liked the first book and I said yes. And he was

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like, is it spicy? Is it smutty? I was like, yeah.

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He pleasures her with a weapon.

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Yeah. So I couldn't outright say it. Cause I.

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My face got beet red. And he was like, oh. And you liked that?

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And I was like, oh, my God.

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Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I think that Nicole

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and I felt differently about the book, so I would agree.

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That's a really good description. We actually opened our recap of

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that book by talking about her. Her home. Because it is such a focal

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point of the story and the scene is. Set so

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well at that gothic mansion. Yeah. And it's a huge part of it.

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Everything happens. That's where that whole first book takes place, there.

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I did not like the book as

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much. If you would like to hear my stalking story, you can listen

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to our full episode on it. Wasn't that. Is that your stalking story or you're

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held captive? Technically, both. Because that was kind of the

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end of our, like, our. The last time that we were together was when he

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held me hostage in, like, my home, and then from there proceeded

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to stalk me after I broke up with him. So I think it's like a

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little bit of both. So the recap has some good. Yeah, so it has some

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good story. It does, yeah. I just. I wasn't, like, a super fan of

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him. And just in general, I'm not, like, a super big fan of the writing

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of Haunting Adeline, but the sex scenes

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were my flavor. So if you've listened to previous episodes and you've

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liked the sexual activities that I have enjoyed, you will very likely

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enjoy the sex scenes in Haunting Adeline. We just

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finished our recap of Hunting Adeline, which we explicitly say

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in the Haunting Adeline episode that we're not going to recap and review. And we

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Honestly, should have kept our promise. But it affected how you felt about this book.

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It felt. Yeah, it definitely affected how I felt about this book retroactively. So I'm

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excited to talk about our ratings. So. So let's. Are you gonna allow yourself to

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change them? I think just, like, as a general rule, I can't,

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because I would be doing that in perpetuity. I think that the way that I

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feel about books changes as I read more books. A hundred percent and

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so 100. And I think it also depends on, like, where I'm at,

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like, with reading books, because I think a lot about, like, Fantasma, which is

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a book that I was very, very critical of, but I had just come off

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of reading books that I like completely.

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Yes. Where I was totally obsessed with. In love with. And so then that

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book, for me was just, like, such a letdown because I was like, I just

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read these books that I really loved. But then, like, in retrospect, I really wasn't

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that mad at it. So I can't allow myself to make changes.

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Okay. Unfortunately, this will be fun then, because you're gonna hate yourself.

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Should I just give the ratings? Yep. So for

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spice level, I gave it a five. We were going based on.

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You were specifically. You said trigger warnings. You gave it a 4.5.

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That was back when I was given zero point fives. Yep. Spice frequency.

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I gave a 5. You also gave a 5. That one I feel like would

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stand. Yep. Pros. I gave a 5. You gave a 3.

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Storyline, I gave a 4.5, and you gave a 4.

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Overall, I gave a 4.5 and you gave a 4.

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Yeah. I would definitely retroactively decrease that to probably a three.

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Yeah. I also feel like your pros might have been a little lower.

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I stand by that. Yeah. I'm actually, like,

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impressed with myself that I had the wherewithal at that time to give

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it the lower grade. Sure. Because I think again,

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I mean, there's. A lot you didn't like. You had a lot of problems with

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how it was written. I did. Yeah. I had to talk about that. Yes.

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I had so many issues with how it was written. But again, like, the sex

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scenes were good. Like, and this book for,

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like, if you like the books I like, you'll probably like Haunting Adeline.

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It is more. There are definitely more trigger warnings, so read those and

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decide. But I super enjoyed

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the writing. I enjoyed the eerie. If you're comparing this to, say,

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in terms of, like, dark or, like, triggering. Right. And,

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like, if you're comparing this to Something like brutal obsession. Would you qualify

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them the same, do you think? Cause brutal obsession has triggers

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that we have people who can't listen because of those specific triggers. I couldn't even

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talk about some of them. Yeah. This one is mostly. It's like the

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dubious consent or non con. Sure. Because it's

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very. She says no. Read the trigger warnings. I do

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feel HD Carlton. She's not adding triggers in willy nilly.

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Yeah. So I would just know your limits and.

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No, again, no. This ends on a horrific cliffhanger.

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Yeah. We neither of us recommend the second book. So keep that

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in mind. If you. Yeah. If you listen

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to our episode. Just stop listening. Like that's actually such a great point.

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Yeah. The second book is so awful. I almost wouldn't

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even recommend reading the first book because it does end on such a horrific cliffhanger.

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You don't. And you don't end up figuring it out until you've survived Hunting Adeline.

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And I would never recommend. I wish

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that I could just like take Nicole's word for it that she got a happy

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ending and never have wasted my time reading Hunting Adeline.

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We'll see. People listen to this episode. Would you abstain or indulge?

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I would abstain. I figured you'd say that. I would still

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indulge. Just because if you are a reader like me,

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you can probably like Brooke is like this where she can read the first one

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and know that it ends on a cliffhanger and not read the second one.

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And I'm totally fine doing that. Yeah. And I'm not at all.

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I need to see something through to the end. I knew that eventually I was

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going to read Hunting Adeline when I started Haunting Adeleine.

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I think for me I'm going to stick with the abstain. I would be sad

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because there were. There is a very specific scene with a belt and

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there's a very specific scene with some spit. And there

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are some very specific scenes from Haunting Adeline that are absolutely. All of

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them. Now that I'm delicious and so, so good. I think one

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of the things that I really liked about her writing in that book is that

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she. We kind of talked about this in our recap. Is that H.G.

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harlton uses sounds. Yes. When she describes her

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sex scene, she paints a picture. And that is why Hunting Adeline is so

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unnerving. Because you feel like you're there. Yeah.

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Yeah. And in Haunting, I didn't mind.

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Dave enjoyed that book as well. Lucky Dave.

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You know, he's so lucky. Yeah, except not right now, because,

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spoiler alert, Dave has not gotten the vasectomy yet. Get the

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damn vasectomy, Dave. He's not gonna enjoy a book until he gets that

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shit snipped. Shoot. All right, well, is there anything else

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that you think that people should know before they decide about whether or not they're

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gonna read this book or listen to the episode? I don't think so. This is

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our first one, so they'll evolve just like our episodes did for our recaps.

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see or you have advice for us, let us know. Yeah, we're just kind of

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going with what we would want. Are literally winging

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it. We're going for progress, not perfection. If we didn't do this, we would just.

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It would never have done it. I listened to our first episodes,

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and I cringe sometimes. Why? Just because of how we.

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We recorded. Like, we talk, and you and I are

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hype girls. Yeah. We love to agree with each other. We do. And interrupt

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each other and talk over each other, and those first episodes are very.

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I couldn't contain myself. Yeah, we've gotten so much better about that.

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Now that you're doing editing. Can you imagine what my life was like when we

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were doing that? No, it was. No.

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We'Re doing the best that we can here. We're making. Oh, we have some good

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ones to look forward to. I cannot wait to do Pucking Wild.

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We're doing Stuffed. We're doing Stuffed for Thanksgiving.

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We're gonna have some Christmas novellas. Yeah, we're not

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doing Stuffed by the Were Turkey. We're just doing

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Stuffed because that's a real book, guys. I didn't know that Stuffed

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by the Were Turkey is a real book, and so is Unhinged.

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Is Unhinged for the one with the door. That's the one.

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Yeah. Is that on our list? I don't know if it is, but it probably

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is. Oh, I'm gonna read it first and then decide if it should be because

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it's a woman having feelings for her

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door. Yeah. Honestly. And that's what we talk about when we say sometimes these

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stories are so badly written, but the spice is there. Yeah. Yep.

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That. That. These books that we have coming up, the novella

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books, those types of things. That's exactly what I'm talking about. They're smut.

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Yeah. So. And then once we get out of that, I am hoping that

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we can dive back into some that are, like, actually on my tbr. I really

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want to read Salt? Oh, sure. Which is another taboo age

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gap romance book. All right, well, thanks for joining

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us. If you want to listen to our full recap of Haunting Adeline,

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you can. Find that it's like our sixth episode or something. Goes way back.

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Yep. It does go way back. But you can search for it and it comes

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up. I don't know how we managed to do that, but for some reason,

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when you search books that we've done, like for the podcast,

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they come up on like Spotify and Apple Music. We're so cool.

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We're so popular. So cool. But we want to be more popular.

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So yeah, we would like to be able to do this full time. Then we

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could do a book a week. We could do more. Yeah, we could do some

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non smut. Before we started this podcast, I was reading like upwards of like

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200 books a year, so. Or more. Well, now it doesn't count because, like,

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I've read this book now twice. Yes. Every book that is on my list

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that we've done here, I've read twice. Yes. I did not. I intentionally did

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not do that with this book because I just. I was like, I got,

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I don't know, maybe 50 pages in and was like, no, I'm just going to

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do my notes now. I'm not going to be able to. Go through Hunting Adeline.

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That'll be a short rap. Yeah, yeah. Basically just. Yeah,

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read the trigger warnings and then don't read it.

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Shoot. All right, you can find us online. We are at Plot

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Tarts Pod on all social media. We are online@booksletspodcast.com eventually

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we will update that to Plot Tarts. We'll see you next time. I'm Amanda.

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And I'm Nicole. And we are Plot Tarts.