Reading Presumed Guilty felt like sitting at a table where every chapter slid a new piece of evidence into the middle and dared us all to argue about it. Scott Turow drops us back into Rusty Sabich’s world older, retired, and finally hoping for peace only to yank the rug out from under him in the most Turow way possible.

What I loved most for a book club read is how deeply personal this story is. Rusty isn’t just defending a client he’s defending his fiancée’s son, the fragile future they’re trying to build, and his lifelong faith in the law itself. That tension makes every courtroom scene crackle, because the stakes aren’t abstract. They’re emotional, messy, and painfully human.

Aaron is the kind of character who sparks instant debate. Is he unlucky? Is he reckless? Is he hiding something? And Mae’s disappearance and later, her murder casts a long shadow over the story that had me constantly reevaluating what I thought I knew. Turow is very good at making you feel confident and then quietly pulling that confidence apart.

This book also shines in how it examines presumed guilt not just as a legal concept, but as a social one. Bias, reputation, past mistakes, and public perception all collide, making it impossible to separate truth from assumption. I can already picture the heated book club discussions about whether justice is even possible when the system and the people inside it are so deeply flawed.

Smart, tense, and emotionally loaded, Presumed Guilty is one of those novels that keeps the conversation going long after the last page is turned and might even make you rethink every true crime podcast you’ve ever loved.

❓️When you’re reading a legal thriller, do you trust the system or your gut? ⚖️📚

If Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow had you questioning motives, morality, and the meaning of justice, this one’s for you.

The Presumed Guilty Book Club Kit is now live and it’s designed to take your discussion far beyond the verdict. Inside you’ll find a thoughtful discussion guide, a themed menu with easy recipes, engaging activities, and door prize ideas that perfectly match the novel’s tension and courtroom drama.

👉Tap the link for access and let us handle the planning while you focus on the debate. Your next book club conversation is about to get very interesting.

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🎧📚If your audiobooks are full of curses, crowns, and characters whispering this will ruin us hi, same.

I’ve been deep in my romantasy audiobook era lately, and these four listens completely owned my attention, my emotions, and more than a few late nights.

✨The Swan’s Daughter by Roshani Chokshi

This audiobook felt like being wrapped in a spell. The lush language, fairy-tale cadence, and aching romance absolutely shine in audio. Every truth-song, every glittering castle moment, every soft ache of love versus survival hit harder when spoken aloud. I found myself slowing down just to savor the narration.

💍Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz

Enemies-to-allies, cursed royalty, and a barmaid who wants more than destiny will allow? Yes, please. The audio pacing is fantastic banter snaps, tension simmers, and the curse feels relentlessly urgent. This one is perfect if you love reluctant partnerships turning into something dangerously tender.

🩸We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark

This audiobook grabbed me by the throat and did not let go. Brutal trials, morally gray vampires, and a heroine fueled by desperation and rage listening made the arena scenes feel visceral and intense. The emotional weight of Arvelle’s choices hit hard in audio, especially with the layered character dynamics.

🌑The Dark Is Descending by Chloe C. Peñaranda

High-stakes fantasy + gods, dragons, betrayal, and star-crossed lovers = pure audiobook drama. The sense of urgency and looming doom worked so well in audio, and the emotional beats felt bigger, darker, and more devastating with each chapter.

All four of these audiobooks delivered immersive worlds, swoony tension, and just one more chapter energy in completely different ways and honestly? I loved bouncing between fairy-tale lushness and brutal, fate-driven chaos.

❔️So tell me are you an audiobook romantasy listener, or do you save these epic feelings for your eyeballs only? 🎧📚✨

Behind every bookish post is a whole world of opportunities📚✨

If you’re a reader, reviewer, or content creator looking to work more closely with the publishing world, this list is for you. I’ve rounded up publishers with influencer programs, where to send individual book requests, and book tour companies that connect readers with ARCs, campaigns, and exciting collaborations.

Whether you’re just getting started or ready to level up your bookish partnerships, this guide breaks down where to look, who to contact, and how to get your name on the right listsBecause your love for books deserves a seat at the table preferably with a stack of new reads waiting for you.📖💫

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❗️Don't forget to come back and check from time to time for new additions!

📍If there's a program we missed please let us know and we can add it to the list!

It’s finally here and it’s exclusive to The First Edition members! If you’ve been waiting to dive deeper into Laura Dave’s world of secrets, survival, and second chances, this is your moment.

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📚The combined duology book club kit for The Last Thing He Told Me and The First Time I Saw Him

📖Individual book club kits for each book if your group is reading them separately

🍋 Thoughtful discussion guides, themed food menus, activities, and door prize ideas done for you

Whether you’re planning your next meeting or building out your future book club calendar, these kits are designed to make hosting effortless and unforgettable.

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📖The First Time I Saw Him

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📚The Last Thing He Told Me & The First Time I Saw Him Book Club Kit!

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💥Happy reading!

If The Last Thing He Told Me and The First Time I Saw Him is your next book club read, you’re going to want in on this!

We’ve created exclusive, The First Editions members only book club kits designed to deepen the discussion, elevate your meetings, and fully immerse you in Laura Dave’s world of secrets, survival, and second chances.

The First Editions will get access to:

📚 A combined book club kit for discussing both books together

📖Individual book club kits for each title if you’re reading them separately

🍋Themed discussion questions, easy food menus, activities, and door prize ideas

Whether your group is just meeting Hannah and Bailey for the first time or you’re ready to unpack the entire journey from Protect her to second chances these kits are made to do the heavy lifting for you.

👉Join The First Editions to unlock the kits and turn your next book club into an experience you’ll still be talking about long after the last page.

Reading The Last Thing He Told Me and its follow-up, The First Time I Saw Him, as a book club turned out to be a total game-changer. We realized quickly that these aren't just mysteries, they are deep dives into the messy, complicated ways we protect the people we love. Every single one of us latched onto something different, and the debate in the group chat was electric.

Here is the Roundtable breakdown from our meeting:

✨Kaci: I was hooked immediately by the high-stakes premise of book one. A missing husband and a cryptic note that simply says Protect her? I was in from page one. But what really stayed with me was the evolution of Hannah and Bailey’s relationship. Watching two people who don’t trust each other slowly forge a bond out of necessity and then love felt incredibly real and emotionally satisfying.

✨Stacey: For me, the tension was the star. I loved how quiet and controlled the suspense was. There were no over-the-top explosions, just a mounting sense of dread as the layers of Owen’s life were peeled back. Every new piece of information made me question who he really was, and honestly, I’m still not sure how I feel about him. He’s the ultimate enigma.

✨Lisa: I connected most with Bailey. Her anger, her grief, and her initial mistrust of Hannah made total sense for a teenager whose world just blew up. I appreciated that she wasn’t written as instantly warm or forgiving; she had to earn her way there. By the time we reached the end of the first book, I felt fiercely protective of her.

✨Ashley: Then we hit the sequel, and that’s where my jaw dropped. I did not expect the shift in perspective or for Owen to resurface the way he did. I loved how much faster-paced the second book felt it was high-octane and stressful in the best way. I tore through the chapters because I desperately needed to know if they would actually get out safely.

✨Alisha: I was definitely the emotional one in the group! Seeing how Hannah and Bailey had managed to build a quiet life together after everything they went through really got to me. This part of the story felt less like a traditional mystery and more like an exploration of the cost of love and whether people truly deserve second chances when the past comes knocking.

✨Jess: I’ll be honest I had the most mixed feelings about Owen. While I appreciated getting the answers and the closure the sequel provided, I loved how much these books asked us to sit with moral gray areas. There is no easy right or wrong answer here, and that’s exactly what made our book club discussion so incredible.

Together, this duology gave us everything: suspense, deep emotional stakes, and a redefining of what family really looks like. Laura Dave has a gift for making the extraordinary feel personal.🏠🖤

✨️Thank you to our secret Santa from the Book Lovers Secret Santa Gift Exchange for sharing the Last Thing He Told Me and Scribner for sharing The First Time I Saw Him with us!

❔️If your book club were split on whether a character deserved forgiveness, would you be the one to passionately defend them or would you grab the snacks and just watch the debate unfold? 🍿📚💬

It’s voting time! We’ve narrowed it down to 𝗦𝗜𝗫 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, and we need your help deciding what we’ll read together next month. Drop your vote in the in the comments👇

✨𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭: 𝑨 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊

A powerful courtroom drama tackling justice, race, and moral reckoning in the Jim Crow–era South.

🌴𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮: 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓

A sun-soaked, darkly thrilling adventure full of corrupt elites, danger at sea, and island secrets.

💕𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟯: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒚 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆 

Small-town charm, swoony romance, grumpy heroes, and found-family chaos classic comfort reads with spice.

📍If you choose The three books in The Knockemout Series by Lucy Score then we still need 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸!

❄️𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟰: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔

Epic romantasy with ancient gods, icy magic, slow-burn tension, and a morally gray hero.

📍If you choose The two books in the The Witch Walker Series we will need 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀!

🔥𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟱: 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒔

Dark academia meets Greek mythology, deadly trials, brutal training, gods, monsters, and survival at all costs.

🎧 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟲: 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒚 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒚

A gripping Cold War spy novel following two brave women navigating secrets, betrayal, and survival inside Soviet Moscow.

🗳️Vote in the comments the FOUR books you would like us to read in February!

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I went into Dragon Cursed by Elise Kova knowing one thing: if you see a dragon, you’re probably already doomed. What I didn’t expect was how tense, immersive, and downright fun this story would be from the very first page.

This world is brutal in the best way. Dragons aren’t majestic sky pets, they're walking extinction events. Humanity has been whittled down to a single surviving city, Vingard, and even there, safety is an illusion. The real terror isn’t just the dragons raining hellfire from above, but the dragon curse lurking within. Anyone could be infected. Anyone could be lying. And the punishment? Capture, execution, or a slow, horrifying transformation into a monster.

Reading from the main character’s perspective had me constantly on edge. Living with the fear that you might be cursed and that discovery means death adds such a delicious layer of paranoia to every interaction. I loved how that tension seeped into even the smallest moments. Trust is rare. Secrets are everywhere. And I was side-eyeing everyone.

And then there’s Lucan. Oh, Lucan. Part bodyguard, part menace, part walking red flag wrapped in sarcasm and secrets. His dynamic with the main character is equal parts entertaining and infuriating in the best way. The banter, the suspicion, the way he clearly knows more than he’s saying? Chef’s kiss. I was yelling at the page while also wanting more of every single scene he was in.

Elise Kova absolutely nails the pacing here: there's action, emotional stakes, creeping dread, and just enough mystery to keep you turning pages at an alarming speed. By the time I hit the end, I was fully invested, mildly stressed, and already craving the next installment.

If you love fantasy with dragons that are actually terrifying, high-stakes secrets, morally gray characters, and a constant sense of oh no this could go very wrong very fast, Dragon Cursed delivers.

✨️Thank you Entangled Mayhem Books and Elise Kova for sharing Dragon Cursed with me! 

❓️Do you love dragons as majestic allies or terrifying world-ending nightmares and would you survive a dragon curse if it chose you? 🐉📚