September did NOT go according to plan...Emily got taken out by a book hangover, Cassie let Libby completely take over her reading life, and somehow we still finished 15 books between us.

We’re catching up on everything we read in September, the 5 stars, the surprises, the books we kept putting off for absolutely no reason, and then attempting to build our October TBRs.

And apparently October means dark academia, romantasy, werewolves, 1,000-page books and immediately abandoning the TBR we JUST made.

Books mentioned:
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
- Knave and the Moon
- Threshing Day
- The Love Hypothesis
- Road to Tender Hearts
- Die for Me
- Broken Country
- The Briar Club
- The Summer Storms
- Little Wonder
- Nightshade
- Daybreak
- Cursed City
- Ninth House
- Bride
- Mate
- Alchemized
- East of Eden
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- A Forbidden Alchemy
- A Forsaken Prophecy
- The Wolf King

Tell us your best September read + what you’re dying to read in October!

New episodes of Book Bits & Chill every week.

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Should you read Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros now or wait for book 4? Spoiler free verdict first, then full spoilers.

Threshing Day isn't book 4. It's a collection of 13 threshing stories from your favorite Empyrean series characters and their dragons. We break down what the point of a novella even is, why Rebecca released this one now, and whether you need it before Fourth Wing book 4. Plus: audiobook vs the GraphicAudio version (out Oct 13), and whether to read it now or after ACOTAR 6.

Then we cross the spoiler line: favorite and least favorite POVs, marked ones vs Navarrians, the lying dragons, the trees, who the brother is, Garrick and Imogen, and which dragons would realistically bond with us (and whether we'd survive threshing).

Which dragon would choose you? Tell us in the comments or on Instagram @bookbitsclub.

00:00 Happy threshing day
01:23 What Threshing Day is and isn't
02:32 What's the point of a novella
04:39 Why Rebecca released it now
06:33 Why 13 stories instead of one
08:01 Read it now or wait for book 4
11:53 Audiobook vs GraphicAudio
12:45 Our spoiler free ratings
13:28 Spoilers start: favorite POVs
21:09 The POV we didn't see coming
23:33 Who's the brother
26:00 What are the dragons up to
28:27 The trees
29:54 The dragons are lying
32:00 Unreliable narrators and Asher Sorrengail
34:08 Xaden's family twist
36:11 Dain and Violet's family theories
37:56 Blue dragons vs Navarre
38:59 Garrick and Imogen
42:15 Where signets come from
44:33 A new appreciation for Violet's threshing
45:23 Which dragons would bond us
50:51 Would we survive threshing
53:11 Next week

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The Love Hypothesis movie just dropped on Prime Video and we have one very important question: WHERE WAS THE YEARNING?

This week Book Bits Club is breaking down the full adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, what the movie got right, what it completely changed from the book, and whether Adam Carlson survived the jump from BookTok boyfriend to on-screen boyfriend.

We get into the missing fake-dating tension, the Chapter 16 of it all, why the entire conference storyline had us spiraling, the Tom villain rewrite, Holden getting completely AXED, Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman’s casting, and why the movie somehow lost so many of the stakes that made the book work.

Plus, we have very different opinions on whether you should read The Love Hypothesis before watching the movie or save the book for after.

If you watched The Love Hypothesis and immediately needed to discuss every single change from the book, you’re in the right place.

🎙️ Book Bits & Chill is a podcast for people who read romance and romantasy, love a book adaptation spiral, and are always two chapters from a book hangover. New episodes every week.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 The Love Hypothesis forgot one very important thing: yearning
1:04 First impressions: did we actually like the movie?
4:10 Did it deliver the Ali Hazelwood effect?
6:30 Should The Love Hypothesis have been a TV show?
7:32 The weird Off Campus similarities
8:40 Should you read the book before watching?

-- Spoilers Start Here --

11:31 The biggest book-to-movie changes
11:49 What happened to Adam and Olive’s yearning?
14:42 Olive’s missing backstory
15:25 They changed the entire reason for fake dating
18:25 Tom Bateman as Adam Carlson
19:47 WHY did they cut Holden?!
21:17 The conference is where everything fell apart
21:47 Chapter 16: did the movie deliver?
24:00 The conference ending and Tom rewrite
25:20 Book ending vs. movie ending
28:22 Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman casting
29:55 Did they remove all the stakes?
33:07 What the movie actually got RIGHT
36:19 Should you read or watch The Love Hypothesis first?
36:50 Final verdict: was it a good adaptation?
37:55 Our final movie ratings

📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
The Love Hypothesis — Prime Video
Off Campus / The Deal by Elle Kennedy
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
Heated Rivalry show and book
Fourth Wing / The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros

💬 Drop your Love Hypothesis rating in the comments AND settle the debate: are you team read-the-book-first or team watch-the-movie-first?

#TheLoveHypothesis #AliHazelwood #BookAdaptation #BookPodcast #BookTok

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