{"podcast":{"title":"The Spicy Librarian Podcast","slug":"the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840","podcast_index_feed_id":7659840,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/adminc8g/feed.xml","website_url":"https://adminc8g.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21919645/Podcast_1_brhao.png","author":"The Spicy Librarian","episode_count":24,"summary":"Dark romance, romantasy, and spicy reads - served with chaos, warmth, and absolutely zero filter. The Spicy Librarian Podcast is the dark romance and romantasy podcast for readers who love yapping about books just as much as reading them. Every Thursday, D and Katie bring you honest, unhinged, and genuinely obsessive conversations about the romance books everyone is talking about, the indie titles you need to add to your TBR immediately, and the ones that kept them up until 3am. From morally grey love interests to enemies-to-lovers slow burns, from sapphic romance to why choose - if it's spicy, if it's dark, if it has made at least one of them feral, it's on the pod. Plus, as the team behind Europe's biggest independent romance bookshop, D and Katie bring a perspective on the romance community that goes far deeper than just the books. Expect book club deep dives, author interviews with some of the biggest and most exciting names in dark romance and romantasy, unhinged games, hot takes, and the kind of honest book chat you only get from your most chaotic, well-read book besties. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe so you never miss a drop. Perfect for fans of: dark romance, roma…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T16:17:08.857713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840"},"episode":{"title":"March Book Club Round Up","slug":"march-book-club-round-up","published_at":"2026-04-02T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/march-book-club-round-up","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840","url":"https://adminc8g.podbean.com/e/march-book-club-round-up/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/29qnrzuhuh9z7rei/13.mp3","summary":"Three books. Three genres. One episode that has absolutely everything. This month's Spicy Librarian book club is serving a full course meal - we've got dark romance, romantasy, AND contemporary, and every single pick delivered. First up, Bloody Black by Rhiannon Hargadon - a pirate dark fantasy retelling of Blackbeard that we did not see coming for us but here we are. Feminine rage, revenge, a slow burn that respects the trauma, and a found family crew we would absolutely sail with. Morally grey and magnificently unhinged in all the right ways. Then we dive into The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen - the Greek gods romantasy that has taken over BookTok and rightfully so. Hades. A cursed nobody chosen as his champion. A deadly competition for the throne of Olympus. Enemies to lovers with world building that genuinely slaps. We have thoughts. Many thoughts. And finally, something a little softer for our hearts - The Dating Pact by Lulu Morris. A nurse. A very drunk, very famous actor. A fake dating arrangement that was never going to stay fake. Warm, funny, swoony, and exactly the palate cleanser we needed after the pirates and gods. This episode has range and we are not sorry about it. Perfect for fans of: dark romance, romantasy, contemporary romance, fake dating, enemies to lovers, Greek mythology, Hades romance, pirate romance, Rhiannon Hargadon, Abigail Owen, Lulu Morris, BookTok, spicy books, book club, slow burn, found family, spicy podcast Subscribe, leave us a review, and tell us - which of this month's picks are you adding to your TBR first? BOOKS DISCUSSED- A Touch of Darkness- Scarlett St. Clair Crescent City- S.J. Maas God of Malice- Rina Kent Speak- Ruby M. Darling Stammer- Ruby M. Darling Black Throne J.T. Geisinger","meta_description":"Three books. Three genres. One episode that has absolutely everything. This month's Spicy Librarian book club is serving a full course meal - we've got da…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3075,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/episodes/march-book-club-round-up/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/march-book-club-round-up.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}