{"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":"Telestrations: Dark Romance & Romantasy Tropes, Chaos & Bookish Mayhem","slug":"telestrations-dark-romance-romantasy-tropes-chaos-bookish-mayhem","published_at":"2026-06-25T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/telestrations-dark-romance-romantasy-tropes-chaos-bookish-mayhem","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840","url":"https://adminc8g.podbean.com/e/telestrations-dark-romance-romantasy-tropes-chaos-bookish-mayhem/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/njab62xipifrehe5/24_TELESTRATIONSBOOKISH.mp3","summary":"Dark romance and romantasy meets Telestrations on this week's Spicy Librarian - we're drawing tropes, guessing characters, and somehow attempting to pitch the next New York Times bestselling romance novel. We cover romantasy and dark romance rounds, weekly reading recaps, and watch the whole thing descend into glorious bookish chaos. This week on Spicy Librarian, we played Telestrations, that random game from primary school where you draw a section of a thing, fold the page and pass it on. But we made it bookish and spicy. We took the most iconic tropes, characters, and moments from dark romance and romantasy and decided to see if we could plot the next New York Times bestseller, but probably not. We do tropes, settings, plot twists and pairings, triggers and memorable quotes- and watched the whole thing descend into absolute bookish chaos. Let us know if you think our pitch has legs, better yet, write it yourself. 00:00 — Welcome to the Spicy Librarian Podcast00:22 — Katie's Reading Recap: What's Been on Her TBR This Week13:19 — Dee's Reading Recap: What Dee Has Been Reading25:27 — Telestrations: The Bookish Spicy Edition Begins26:37 — Romantasy Round: Tropes, Characters & Chaos36:40 — Dark Romance Round: Plot Twists, Triggers & Memorable Quotes49:50 — See You Next Week Books mentioned- YesterYear- Caro Claire Burke The Voice- Maggie Ray Jones Heavy- ML Burns The Dorians- Nick Cutter Black Phone- Joe Hill Remarkably Bright Creatures- Shelby Van Pelt Direbound/ Furybound- Sable Sorenson Regretting you- Colleen Hoover A Stage Set for Villains- Shannon J. Spann Pieces of the Night- Jennifer Hartman Branded- Saffron A Kent Ravenous- Thea Lawrence Crown Me Dead- Liv Zander Harvest Season- Brynn Weaver Butcher and Blackbird- Bryne Weaver Thursday Murder Club- Richar…","meta_description":"Dark romance and romantasy meets Telestrations on this week's Spicy Librarian - we're drawing tropes, guessing characters, and somehow attempting to pitch…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3055,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/episodes/telestrations-dark-romance-romantasy-tropes-chaos-bookish-mayhem/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/telestrations-dark-romance-romantasy-tropes-chaos-bookish-mayhem.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}