Sippin' on Spice Book Podcast

Book Tropes Review: Leaving Behind Romantasy Fads & Trending Tropes for 2026

• Sippin’ on Spice Book Podcast • Season 3 • Episode 16

👋 Hello, Book Besties and Sipsters! You're cordially invited to our chaotic, hilarious, and slightly unhinged year-end book therapy session. We're Sippin' On Spice ending 2025 to perform a dramatic, ceremonial purging of everything that annoyed us this reading year... and trust us, things get spicy and controversial!

What shocking things are officially getting the boot?

  • Morally Gray MMCs: 🤢 Give us a charasmatic MMC please! 
  • The Same Plot, Different Cover: We need variety, people!
  • The 3rd Act Break Up: Honestly, who hurt us? 😭
  • DNFing: We're committing to finishing what we start... maybe.

We break down our biggest book wins, laugh at our terrible trope taste in 2025, and set ambitious reading goals for the new year. Get ready, because we're sharing some scorching hot takes on beloved tropes and books we might secretly despise. If you love bookish hot takes, inside jokes, and a healthy dose of millennial cringe, this episode is the perfect kick-off to the end of 2025! Come vibe with your book besties.

 We also challenge each other by assigning the books we know the other needs to read in 2026—whether they like it or not! 

ALSO WARNING: There may be some slightly Powerless by Lauren Roberts spoilers! 

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