Look What You Made Me Read

Welcome to Look What You Made Me Read, the podcast all about books and forcing your best friend to read the books you want to read, with host Val and Cat. Every week one of us will be recommending a book to the other and we’ll be (unprofessionally) reviewing it and going into detail about everything we loved and/or hated about it! Please leave a review and feel free to follow our socials! Beware we will be discussing spoilers!

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October 23 · 1 hr 3 min
Full Moon Faceoff - Max Walker
It's October! Spooky month and what's spookier than a supernatural romance! That's right our monthly theme is "Married at first knot" where we explore supernatural romance books, the name inspired from certain werewolf books ;) It's Val's turn to pick and she picked the gay werewolf romance Full Moon Faceoff by Max Walker. Take a listen to our thoughts about the book and let us know if you agree or disagree! Our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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October 9 · 1 hr 16 min
Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon
It's October! Spooky month and what's spookier than a supernatural romance! That's right our monthly theme is "Married at first knot" where we explore supernatural romance books, the name inspired from certain werewolf books ;) Cat has chosen the first book and it is the booktok famous alien romance Ice Planet Barbarians, tune in for our thoughts on this spicy book! Beware of spoilers!
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September 25 · 1 hr 1 min
The Divorce - Freida McFadden
We're doing a special mystery month where we've picked one prolific mystery author and have decided to read their first book and their latest! We were curious to see how much of a difference we'd be able to see in the writing and how different or similar the books might be! We chose the one and only Freida McFadden! She is always coming out with a new book so it felt like the perfect fit! So this week we're reviewing her latest standalone mystery/thriller book, The Divorce! Listen to hear our thoughts (we have a lot of them!) Beware we do talk MAJOR SPOILERS!
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September 11 · 1 hr 20 min
The Surrogate Mother - Freida McFadden
We're doing a special mystery month where we've picked one prolific mystery author and have decided to read their first book and their latest! We were curious to see how much of a difference we'd be able to see in the writing and how different or similar the books might be! We chose the one and only Freida McFadden! She is always coming out with a new book so it felt like the perfect fit! So this week we're reviewing her first standalone mystery/thriller book, The Surrogate Mother! Listen to hear our thoughts (we have a lot of them!) Beware we do talk MAJOR SPOILERS!
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August 28 · 1 hr
How You Get The Girl - Anita Kelly
We're back in our Taylor Swift Lyric themed month! We're reading books with a title that matches Taylor Swift lyrics! And Val has picked the book How You Get The Girl by Anita Kelly. We also talk a lot about Noah Kahan (End of August.... very fitting!)
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August 14 · 1 hr 5 min
Say You'll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez
It's now August! And this month's theme is Taylor Swift Lyrics month! So we're picking books with a Taylor lyrics as the title and to start us off we're reading Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez, the prolific romance author that we haven't actually read before! So this is exciting! Listen to us recount our Good, Mid & Ugly of the week as well as our review of Say You'll Remember Me!Our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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July 31 · 1 hr 14 min
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman
It's the third episode of our favourites month, we're picking books from only our all time favourite authors! This week Val has picked the final volume of Heartstopper and for the momentous occasion we decided to reread all the books and rewatch the show AND the new movie for a special Heartstopper edition of the podcast!Our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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July 25 · 1 hr 8 min
Star Shipped - Cat Sebastian
It's the second episode of our favourites month, in other words we're reading our ultime favourite authors! And this week Cat has chosen her name twin Cat Sebastian! Who has not missed yet with any of her books! So we're reading her latest one Star Shipped and check out the review to see if it lives up to all her previous 5 star books! Our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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July 17 · 56 min
Talking to Amy Chozick About Novel With Friends Like You
This week we have a special edition of the podcast out! We were lucking enough to sit down with author Amy Chozick about her debut fiction novel With Friends Like You. Amy is an accomplished journalist, screenwriter and non fiction author and has now dived in the fiction novel world with this sexy thriller that had us both gasping by the end of it! So enjoy learning more about the process and inspiration for this fantastic fiction debut from the author herself! Out everywhere July 21st! Instagram @Lookwhatyoumademeread For enquiries, book suggestions, author interviews and reviews, email us at lookwhatyoumademereadpodcast@gmail.com
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July 3 · 43 min
Better The Devil - Erik J Brown
It's our favourite time of the year! AKA our favourites month! In other words we're picking books from our all time favourite authors, and first up is Val's pick Better The Devil by Erik J Brown, who is the author of both the top podcast pick of 2022 and 2023! So yeah he's definitely got a special place in our hearts on this podcast! Beware our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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June 21 · 50 min
The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
It's our second book review in our "Judge a Book By The Cover" and this week we're reading Cat's pick which is The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, the fantasy romance book set during the Spanish Inquisition. We also chat about the books Yesteryear and Thirty Love by Tom Vellner and some BookTok drama! Beware Spoilers are discussed in this review!
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June 5 · 51 min
Meet Me In The Sky - Jeffrey K Davenport
June is our "judge a book by its cover" month! Aka we're picking books we think have really pretty covers and see if the story holds up to their pretty covers! And this week we're reading Meet Me In The Sky a cute rom com book about two men stranded in an airport together! Spoilers ahead!
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May 22 · 53 min
Alice Rue Evades The Truth - Emily Zipps
Lesbihonest this book is GAY! Our second read of the month and this time it's Cat's turn to pick the book and she chose this "While You Were Sleeping" retelling but make it Sapphic! We review Alice Rue Evades the Truth by Emily Zipps. We also chat about our other reads for the last two weeks including Cat's thoughts on Project Hail Mary.
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May 8 · 50 min
Anderson in Bloom - Jennifer Dugan
Lesbihonest this book is gay! This is our sapphic month! So we're reading books with sapphic romances in them! And to start us off Val has picked Anderson in Bloom, a second chance romance between two ex Hollywood costars!
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April 24 · 1 hr 5 min
Problematic Summer Romance - Ali Hazelwood
Booktok made me read it month! This is the second book we're reading this month that was inspired by Booktok recommendation! And of course we can't help but discuss Heated Rivalry some more, some of the stuff we had to cut last episode for time!
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April 17 · 2 hr 41 min
Heated Rivalry - TV Show
Hello and welcome to a special edition episode! We're not reviewing a book but we decided we had a lot to say about the Heated Rivalry TV show, as long time fans of the books we had to get our thoughts out there. Of course as per usual, we discuss a bunch of spoilers from the show, and the entire game changers series! Also warning we do get a little silly in this episode!
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April 10 · 1 hr 21 min
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
Booktok made me read it! That's right one of our favourite themed months is back, this is always a controversial month because you really never know what you're gonna get when it comes to TikTok's recommendations! But also we couldn't leave sports romance month quite yet and decided to rank our favourite couples from all the sports romance books we've read (it's not just that we forgot to include it in last months episodes....) thanks for listening and beware of spoilers!!!
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March 27 · 57 min
Most Valuable Player - AM Woody
Welcome back to March Madness! AKA our Sports Romance month! This week we've read Most Valuable Player by AM Woody! We also chat about the Keira Andrews books we've been reading and a controversial new book deal that's being talked about on social media!
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March 13 · 49 min
Peaches and Pucks - MA Wardell
March Madness is a thing sports thing... so obviously needed to jump on that and make March our Sports Romance month! We decided to start off with a nice and easy read, Peaches and Pucks by MA Wardell, a sweet novella about a hockey coach and English teacher! We also play a little game of guessing the book based on the 1 star review! Hope you enjoy and as always our reviews are NOT spoiler free!
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February 27 · 50 min
Hungerstone - Kat Dunn
This is our second episode of February, which we have dubbed our "Female Rage" month! And this week we've read Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, a retelling of the classic Carmilla, famed for being the first depiction of lesbian vampires! We also play a little game before the review to see if we can guess the book based on the 1 star review!

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