<p>Welcome back WITS listeners!</p><p>Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Knotted by the Beast by Siena Stone</p><p>WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙</p><p>Elle thinks that the bookish community needs to take a deep breath and maybe take a break to go outside for a timeout based on the smutverse news. We discuss how the Beast's first mistake in this book was letting Belle's father leave, when he really has no way of enforcing his punishment for stealing the flower since he's trapped in the castle because of the curse. Both ladies agree that there was some omegaverse standards that were overlooked or missed entirely. As usual, we can never be satisfied. Either theres too much plot and not enough smut, or too much of the same smut and not enough plot. Kay is happy that the beast stays in his beast form at the end of this, while Elle firmly believes that he should be able to be the one to make that decision. </p><p>Overall, both Elle and Kay gave this ⭐, with the Kay's biggest complaints having to do with some major plot holes, and Elle really not liking the Beast's lack of growth at the end. </p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://what-in-the-smut.printify.me">WE HAVE MERCH!!! </a></p><p>Links for this week's episode:</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4u6CK5k">Knotted by the Beast</a> by Siena Stone</p><p>Next Week's Book: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4tHQxOH">Fully Charged</a> by Nicole Parker and Unfortunate Reads</p><p>What Else We're Reading:</p><p>Elle: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4tHQxOH">There is No Anti Memetics</a> Division by QNTM</p><p>Kay: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4uofakO">Till Death and Daisies Bloom</a> by Jamie Dalton and Raven Storm</p><p>Follow us on Instagram and Threads<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://instagram.com/thewitspod"> @thewitspod </a>and TikTok <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@what.in.the.smut">@what.in.the.smut</a></p><p>Visit our<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/witspodcast"> Buy Me a Coffee</a> page!</p><p>Don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, and tell all your friends!</p><p>Love Sponge by<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/triple5-here/contact">Triple5 Here</a> is licensed under a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>