The GENRE'D Edit

A dead body in a Impala, a beginner pole dancing class, an amateur sleuth, and the world’s most helpful group of new friends. We’re reviewing Last Night Was Killer by Mary Pauline Lowry, including what worked, the biggest twists, and why this funny mystery earned four stars from both of us.

Author Georgia Clark joins Genre’d for an Off Book conversation about Play It Again, contemporary romance, second chance love, community theater, queer kissing, gateway romance reads, and why the best books still make you kick your little feet.

A Yankees catcher. A burlesque club owner. A secret marriage for health insurance. And somehow… an organ donation. We’re unpacking Catch Her If You Can by Tessa Bailey — and we do not agree.

This week on Genre’d, we are diving into Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen, a brutal, addicting romantasy that delivers trials, bonding magic, pack politics, a nd one very moody dire wolf with a personal vendetta against peace and quiet. It is giving street fighter heroine, deadly competition, chosen one secrets, and a kingdom built on erased history. But first, we have some things to say. Katy is in a full-body, weeks-long spiral over Heated Rivalry, the wildly viral hockey roman

The complete romantasy tropes guide — definitions, book picks, and where to start for slow burn, enemies to lovers, fated mates, found family, and every trope in between.

About the episode This week on Genre’d, Katy picked A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna — a cozy witchy fantasy about loss, belonging, and one very opinionated house. Come for the spoiler-free first ~17 minutes; stay for the zombie rooster discourse, “grumpy × grumpy” confusion, and an unexpectedly emotional chat about representation, power, and what it really means to find home. If you’re looking for a spoiler-free review, podcast discussion, or plot summ

Quick definition: A group of misfits, outcasts, or loners who choose one another. Bonds are built—not born—through shared battles,...