HeyJaredPickle Party
The romantasy podcast for readers who love chaos as much as happily-ever-afters.Best friends Leslie and Jules dive into the world of fantasy romance with humor, heart, and zero shame.
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Jules and Leslie Try a New Trope: Mothman Made Her Do It (Sweet Berries) (opens the original)
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Brine Babes, we're back in Cambric Creek for book two of the Steamy Sweet Monster Romance series, and this one opens with a woman putting on an unsolicited solo show for a stranger she later identifies by his chirp . That's the whole vibe. This week Jules and Leslie dig into Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta — Grace, her three-year celibacy streak, and Merrick, the nebbishly charming doctoral-student Mothman who apologizes for window-watching by asking about blackberries. We talk red flags vs. swee
East of the Sun, West of the Moon: The Fairy Tale That IS ACOTAR (opens the original)
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Brine Babes, we need to talk about a Norwegian fairy tale from the 1840s that Sarah J. Maas basically used as a blueprint. This week we're breaking down "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" beat by beat and holding it up next to A Court of Thorns and Roses — the bargain, the cursed beast, the prohibition, the impossible journey, all of it. We map who's who (Feyre, Tamlin, Amarantha, and yes, we figure out where Rhysand fits into a story that technically has no room for him), dig into what SJM
Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood — The Canyon, The Ravine & ALL the Chaos (opens the original)
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The first book in the Crescent City series is going OUT WITH A BANG. 💥 In this episode of Pickle Party, we’re diving into Parts 3 & 4 of House of Earth and Blood — The Canyon and The Ravine — and things get WILD. The mystery surrounding Danika, the Horn, and the Synth finally starts unraveling… but somehow every answer leads to another conspiracy. Bryce and Hunt grow closer, secrets come crashing down, and Bryce discovers that trusting people might be her greatest weakness. Then everything explo
Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood, Part I — Bryce, Danika & the Murder That Changed Everything (opens the original)
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We are FINALLY covering Crescent City, and Jules and Leslie are not okay. This week we dive into Parts 1 & 2 of House of Earth and Blood — The Hollow and The Trench — covering Bryce and Danika's friendship, the brutal murder of the Pack of Devils, and Bryce's uneasy new alliance with fallen angel Hunt Athalar as the investigation kicks off. We're breaking down the world of Midgard and its Four Houses, debating whether Danika was right to keep secrets from her best friend, and arguing over whethe
Is Fairy Smut Dumbing Down Literature? (Genre Court is in Session) (opens the original)
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Somebody on the internet asked the dumbest question of the year — "is fairy smut dumbing down literature?" — and Brine Babes, we are NOT letting that one slide. This week Leslie and Jules crack open the whole pickle barrel: real sales stats (romantasy pulled in $610M in 2024 alone), the BookTok-brought-me-back-to-reading pipeline, the "why does romantasy get roasted when thrillers don't" double standard, and yes — the actually-legitimate critiques too. This isn't a men-hate-fun episode — some of
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