We read. We judged. We added approximately 47 more books to our TBRs. And apparently, we still haven't learned our lesson.

Welcome back to Spill the Book!

This week, Stace and Jace are wrapping up October with book recommendations, reading opinions, new Book of the Month picks and a courtroom battle over one of romance's most beloved tropes.

First, Stace is sharing three books that deserve some attention:

• The Wonder of One by Suzanne Redfearn — an immediate recommendation.

• The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey — the book that gave her THOUGHTS.

• Kinked by Ashe Grayson — an unexpected surprise and a dark Rapunzel reimagining.

Then we're looking ahead at four new additions to the reading pile from Book of the Month:

• Hollywood, Ending by John Green

• You're the One That I Haunt by Katie Jung

• When the Night Comes Knocking by Katherine Daniel

• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb

We've got Hollywood drama, a ghost romance, Appalachian folk horror and demon bargains. A perfectly balanced reading diet.

AND THEN WE GO TO COURT.

This week's Trope Court puts Friends to Lovers on trial.

Stace is prosecuting. Jace is defending. The charges include excessive pining, criminal levels of jealousy, unnecessary emotional suffering and two people who apparently need 400 pages to realise they're in love.

But will the jury find this trope guilty or innocent?

We need your verdict.

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LET'S TALK!

Which of Stace's three books would you read first?

Are you Team Friends to Lovers or do you think this trope deserves to be locked up?

And what's your favourite Friends to Lovers book? We want the years of pining, the jealousy, the ridiculous misunderstandings and the eventual confession.

Drop your verdict in the comments!

Read it. Steep it. Spill it.

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