Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about basic witches so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read The Secret Circle by LJ. Smith.

Joining us to discuss this 90s teen witch series is Katie, editor and occasional herb hobbyist.

Hello Katie, welcome.

Hi, I'm glad to be here.

Thanks for joining us on this book that certainly is a book.

Yes, it is.

It's certainly several books, actually.

Yes, it's a trilogy.

Yeah, so before we get too deep into anything, so this was originally a trilogy, but somehow got repackaged into two books.

And so this first one is called The Initiation and the Captive Part 1.

And then the second book includes the captive part 2.

And I genuinely don't know why you would do this when, like, it already was a book.

Yeah.

It seemed like a weird choice.

And it used to throw me a lot when I was a bookseller because people would, because the captive was in both of them,

and my brain could not always keep the other titles of them in there, more than one time

I accidentally handed someone the wrong book because, yeah.

Yeah, it's a weird choice, but I guess it's just up to us to keep up with it.

Yeah.

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