Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This year the books we have read haven't really been gelling with us, so we're reading a book outside of our set agenda because sweet lord I need a good one after all the non-fiction I've been reading lately.
Join my book buddy and I was as we discuss Soul Searching: A Sweetwater Peak Novel by Lyla Sage.
Synopsis: Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.
TIME STAMP:
00:00 Intro
0:01:09 Non-Spoiler Thoughts
0:04:38 SPOILER CHAT BEGINS
0:04:40 What romance tropes were presence and did they work?
0:08:20 Collen's romanticization of ghosts
0:12:38 Thoughts on music influence within the narrative
0:18:05 What three songs would you use to tell your own romantic story?
0:26:20 LOTR & Boom
0:32:00 Boom is relatable
0:34:34 Collin's dynamics with ghosts
43:29 What are our thoughts on the explicit scenes?
48:40 Art & artist connection
57:34 Heated Rivalry Ep 1-4 Spoiler Discussion
You can find me at: instagram.com/booksgurrsandpurrs app.thestorygraph.com/profile/booksgurrsandpurrs
#buddyreads #romancebooks #lylasage #soulsearching
This year the books we have read haven't really been gelling with us, so we're reading a book outside of our set agenda because sweet lord I need a good one after all the non-fiction I've been reading lately.
Join my book buddy and I was as we discuss Soul Searching: A Sweetwater Peak Novel by Lyla Sage.
Synopsis: Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.
TIME STAMP:
00:00 Intro
0:01:09 Non-Spoiler Thoughts
0:04:38 SPOILER CHAT BEGINS
0:04:40 What romance tropes were presence and did they work?
0:08:20 Collen's romanticization of ghosts
0:12:38 Thoughts on music influence within the narrative
0:18:05 What three songs would you use to tell your own romantic story?
0:26:20 LOTR & Boom
0:32:00 Boom is relatable
0:34:34 Collin's dynamics with ghosts
43:29 What are our thoughts on the explicit scenes?
48:40 Art & artist connection
57:34 Heated Rivalry Ep 1-4 Spoiler Discussion
You can find me at: instagram.com/booksgurrsandpurrs app.thestorygraph.com/profile/booksgurrsandpurrs
#buddyreads #romancebooks #lylasage #soulsearching
