Wrecked By Fiction
Wrecked By Fiction dives into the stories that captivate us—and the emotional wreckage they leave behind. Each episode explores the books that shape our hearts, minds, and the way we see the world.
Episodes
17 episodes
ACOTAR: Love It Or Hate It
ACOTAR is the kind of fantasy romance series that can revive your reading habit and also make you question your taste, your patience, and your emotional stability. We sit down with big opinions and zero chill to talk through A Court of Thorns a...
TBR Anxiety
Your To Be Read list can start as a cute little plan and turn into a full-time emotional situation. We’re talking TBRs from every angle: the short physical stack at home, the library haul that shows up all at once, the Kindle downloads you grab...
Does Every Book Need An On-Screen Adaptation?
A comfort read is supposed to calm you down, not take over your entire brain, yet that is exactly what happens when the right characters sink their hooks in. We start with reading slumps and the question that always gets personal fast: what mak...
Check-In and Check-Out
A book can be good, and still leave you emotionally wrecked enough to read it in tiny pieces like it’s medicine you don’t fully trust. That’s where we’re at this week, balancing real-life schedules with an unhinged pile of romance reads that sw...
Manacled Aftermath
Manacled isn’t a casual read, and it definitely isn’t a simple “Dramione romance.” It’s a dystopian post war reimagining that feels like The Handmaid’s Tale crashed into the Wizarding World, then refused to look away. We talk about why the stor...
The Forehead Kiss Effect
A single line in a romance book can crack something open and then suddenly you’re talking about your whole life. That’s where we go while we catch up on Becka Mack’s hockey romance series, Playing For Keeps, from Consider Me and Play With Me to...
Comfort Reads, Vampires, and Unhinged Chaos
A “comfort read” sounds like it should be cute and cozy, but that’s not how our brains work. We get honest about the books we reread on purpose even when they’re messy, dark, or emotionally brutal, and why knowing what’s coming can feel more co...
Hockey With A Side Of Emotional Damage
A romance can be sweet, spicy and still hit you with a plot twist that makes you stop and say, wait, what. That’s the energy we bring while unpacking Snow by Brittany Nicole, the sixth book in her Boston Bolts hockey romance series and a remind...
Monsters, Knots, Cowboys, And A Library Card
Omegaverse is easy to talk about in your head and absolutely unhinged to explain out loud, so we tried anyway. We’re Emma and Amanda, and we’re catching up on the romance books that pulled us out of a reading slump, including quick palate clean...
Brutal Beauty In Dark Romance
Some stories don’t flinch. God of Fury is one of them—and we’re going there with care, clarity, and a lot of heart. We unpack how Rena Kent threads self-harm, sexual assault, depression, and mania into a dark romance that still earns its HEA, a...
Ravenhood’s Reckoning
What does it take to turn control into trust—and fear into a future? We take Ravenhood’s finale, The Finish Line, apart and put it back together, tracing how Cecilia stops being an emblem and becomes an equal, and how Tobias learns that secrecy...
When Safety Is An Illusion, What Does Love Protect
A prank at a small-town festival. A king without a crown sitting in your kitchen. A necklace in the clearing that turns into a fight, a kiss, and a question you can’t unknow. We dive into Kate Stewart’s Exodus and follow every raw thread—love, ...
How Naivety, Secrets, And Found Family Collide In Triple Falls
Secrets feel sweeter in Triple Falls—until they don’t. We dive into Kate Stewart’s Flock and pull apart the tension between romance and deception, following nineteen-year-old Cecilia as she collides with Sean’s charisma, Dom’s guarded silence, ...
Unraveling Pen Pal: A Dark Romance That Breaks Reality And Hearts
A love story that slips past the living—then knocks on the door. We take you inside Pen Pal by JT Geissinger, the dark romance that masquerades as a haunting and ends as a revelation. From the first letter to the last broken window, we follow K...
He Said “Where’s My Wife” And We Said “Sold”
What makes a romance trope irresistible, and what makes us slam the book shut? We jump straight into the messy middle—age gaps that explore power and care, love triangles that test agency rather than ego, and the micro-moments that make fiction...
Hockey, Heat, And Secret Hearts
What happens when a TV adaptation drops you at center ice without telling you who laced your skates? We dive straight into the Game Changers universe, admit how the Heated Rivalry series dazzled and confused us, and trace why reading book one f...
Why Some Books Break You And Others Don’t
What makes one reader sob into a pillow while another turns the page without a tear? We dive headfirst into the messy, fascinating divide between feeling fiction in your bones and filing it away in tidy boxes. From Where the Crawdads Sing to Wi...