We finally got swept up in the Romantasy craze huns! Following the news that Rebecca Yarros’s latest novel Oynx Storm has become the fastest selling adult novel in 20 years, we’re giving her first book in the series, Fourth Wing, a whirl. What is it about these fantasy romances that has millions of women hooked? Plus, our reviews of  Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-tipped turn as Bob Dylan, an excellent book about building your own boyfriend (if only), Disney’s latest dystopian murder mystery, and Khloe Kardashian’s new podcast. Also, is Mel Robbins’s self-help mantra ‘Let Them’ helpful or just classic therapy speak? And how much weight do these rumbling Ryan Reynolds rumours have: is he the real villain of the It Ends With Us saga?

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Recs/ reviews:

• A Complete Unknown, in cinemas now
• Khloé in Wonder Land Podcast with Mel Robbins 
• ‘Let them’: can this viral self-help mantra change your life?, Guardian 
• Blob: A Love Story, Maggie Su 
• Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
• Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years, NYTimes 
• Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story? The New Yorker 
• Paradise, Disney +

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