A Cursed Love Story

Cheating, Grief & Turning 30

Shania is officially 30! 🥳✨ In Episode 10 of Love A Good Plot, we’re celebrating birthday vibes, messy relationships, and chaotic storylines the only way we know how. Plus, Shania is stepping into her birthday trip wearing hair from Eleve Hair Co 💁🏽‍♀️ This week’s Plot Warmup gets REAL: 👀 What’s the wildest excuse someone has used to avoid commitment? 👀 What’s the pettiest reason you stopped talking to someone? 👀 Does grief excuse toxic behavior in relationships? 👀 If your relationship started with cheating… do you lose the right to be shocked later? Then we get into this week’s books: 📚 Parachutes: The Fall by Takerra Allen — a messy, emotional relationship filled with betrayal, secrets, heartbreak, and loyalty tests. 📚 Curvy Girl Summer — a friends-to-lovers romance about proving love can happen before 30… even when it shows up in the most unexpected way. And of course, we wrap things up with The Plot Watch where we discuss: 📺 Why Real Housewives of Atlanta season 7 has been feeling lackluster 📺 Our disappointment with K. Michelle this season 📺 Thoughts on Nemesis on Netflix If you love messy plots, romance drama, reality TV chaos, and unfiltered conversations — you’re in the right place. 💋 🎧 Listen, watch, and subscribe for new episodes of Love A Good Plot! #LoveAGoodPlot #BookPodcast #BlackBookTok #RelationshipDrama #RealityTV #RHOA #CurvyGirlSummer #BookTube #PodcastClips

Skyland Series

Welcome back to Love A Good Plot 🎙️📚 This week we’re diving into the Skyland Series by Kennedy Ryan — and whew… this one is emotional, messy, healing, romantic, and REAL. Before we get into the books, we warm things up with some plot questions: ✨ Could therapy save a broken relationship? ✨ Would you date someone connected to your ex’s downfall? ✨ Can love survive public humiliation? ✨ Do you believe in second-chance love? Then we break down the entire Skyland Series: 📖 Before I Let Go 📖 This Could Be Us 📖 Can’t Get Enough From grief, divorce, betrayal, motherhood, therapy, and rebuilding your life after heartbreak — Kennedy Ryan gave us characters that felt painfully real. Join us as we read it, watch it, and talk about it 💋 💭 Which book in the series was YOUR favorite? Drop your thoughts in the comments! #LoveAGoodPlot #KennedyRyan #SkylandSeries #BeforeILetGo #BookTube #BlackRomanceBooks #Podcast #BookPodcast #RomanceBooks #ThisCouldBeUs

Rich Menaces & Thugs That Never Loved You Back

Welcome back to Love A Good Plot! This week we’re getting into two Jahquel J stories that had us stressed, emotional, and asking ourselves some VERY questionable relationship questions 😭 📚 This episode we discuss: ✨ 10,000 Hours With A Rich Menace ✨ To All the Thugs That I Loved That Didn’t Love Me Back We’re talking: — power dynamics in relationships — toxic love that feels too good to leave — men still grieving their dead wives 👀 — accidental triplets from a one night stand?! — emotionally unavailable “street” men — love, loyalty, manipulation & heartbreak PLUS our Plot Warmup questions might actually expose us a little bit 😭 If you love messy storylines, urban fiction, romance drama, reality TV energy, and unfiltered book conversations… you’re in the right place. 🎧 Don’t forget to LIKE, COMMENT & SUBSCRIBE 📖 Tell us in the comments: Which situation would YOU choose? #LoveAGoodPlot #JahquelJ #UrbanFiction #BookTube #BlackBookTok #RomanceBooks #Podcast #BookPodcast #ToxicRomance #BookTok

Outside Babies

Welcome back to Love a Good Plot 🎙️✨ This episode? Whew. We’re talking one-night stands that turn into YEARS-later situations, secret babies, and the kind of choices that’ll have you questioning everybody involved 👀 📖 The Plot Warmup (aka: would YOU do this?!) Would you keep a child a secret if you thought it was for the best? Would you spin the block on a one-night stand years later? What if you found out he was married after you got pregnant?! And be real… would you accept an outside baby? 📚 The Plot We Share We’re breaking down DND: Caught Up in His Love by Endiya Carter — where a one-night stand between Luna & Bash turns into something way deeper… with secrets, a child, and a past that refuses to stay buried. 📺 The Plot We Watch (The Drama 👀) We get into a film that had us side-eyeing everybody. From relationship tension to questionable accountability, we unpack: Why one character is held to a different standard The weird energy, passive hostility, and underlying tension in the group Serious actions that didn’t get nearly enough attention And that ending… yeah, we need to talk about it

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

Welcome back to Love a Good Plot! 📖✨ In this episode, Shania and Jasmine kick things off with The Plot Warmup, diving into questions about preacher’s kids, hidden rebellion, temptation, and whether rules protect us—or make things more complicated. Then we jump into The Plot We Share with Need You by Me by Endya Carter, following Jaymi, a preacher’s daughter under strict control, and Marshall, a respected deacon forced into proximity with her. What starts as forbidden tension quickly unfolds into a story of control, secrets, and emotional entanglement. In honor of the new Michael Jackson biopic, we close out with The Plot We Watch, breaking down iconic biopics like Ray, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Respect, and more—plus the artists we think deserve their own films next.