Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a manic pixie ghost girl so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Knight

Shamelon. Joining us to discuss this collaboration between two of the worst bestselling minds is

YAA author and ghostphobic Annie Cardi. Hey, hello. Hi, Annie. Thanks so much for having me. Thanks for

reading this collection of words on a page.

It sure was.

Okay, so welcome back to the podcast, Annie.

Thank you.

And by the way, congratulations on your, by the time this episode comes out, not super recent, but in the big picture, your recent book,

yeah, your recent book Winter White, which is not like this at all, but better than this.

It does feature family trauma and domestic abuse, which is like this. And it also has cats. Okay, yes. You know what?

That's true. So if you thought this book could really have used some help with that, check out Winter White. And it's YA, which is fun.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Okay.

So this book, co-written by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Chalamalan, we have previously read, we've read the notebook and we read The Lighthouse or something like that by Nicholas Sparks, which is one of his lesser known books. And also had a ghost in it. Yeah, also had a ghost in it. We read A True Believer by

Nicholas Sparks. This was an early episode for us. And the true believer was, I mean. And I think we picked it because it had ghosts in the description and that intrigued us.

In retrospect, it was a pretty weak-soss Nicholas Sparks book.

And it didn't have any of the as much of the weird juice of the notebook.

But it did prepare us, I think, a little bit for this, because Nicholas Sparks has

this post script where he's like, I know you can't believe it, but I actually love paranormal stuff

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