Phew... there's a lot to get through this week... namely some monster romances... it's spooky season ok? it can't be helped. but don't worry we cover all our bases with a new Fantasy Romance rec to short and hot Ku reads, as well as chatting about review sites and review stalking...
Books Mentioned:
Ep 24
Nightmare before Kissmass
Kissed by the gods
Us dark few
The Lamb
The spear cuts through water
Broken souls and bones
Tusk Love
Eldritch
Whispers of the Deep
Female Fantasy
Garnet Daughter
Hot for slayer
Space Vampire
Beautiful Nightmare
Celestial Bodies
Thrum
Silver & Smoke
Firebird
After romance
Mistress of lies
Swordheart
The Everlasting
Princess Knight
Belladonna
Holly
Quicksilver
The perfect storm is now officially behind us, all the big releases we had been waiting for are read and now we are in the calm after the storm.
Books Mentioned
This Woven Kingdom (series)
Mate
After the end (series)
Hot for Slayer
Celestial Bodies
Knot your Princess ( The book Rosie couldn’t remember)
Lola and the millionaires
If not for my baby
Scared Stones (trilogy)
Our Vicious Oaths ( out Oct 28)
Direbound
Sparks of the Everflame
On Wings of Blood
The Garnet Daughter
Exorcism of Fairies
Angels Blood
The heart of the Wolf
Soul Searching
Jason heir
Female Fantasy
Mistress of Lies
Paladins Grace
Amid the clouds and bones
The Poisoner
Quicksilver
It's been a big few days for your girls, three big releases all back to back have rendered them into incoherent nonsensical messes just vibing with the other. One big release down, two more to go....
Alchemised spoiler talk in the end with proper warnings
Books mentioned
Paladins grace (series)
Sword Heart
Archangels storm
The starless sea
Entanglement of rival wizards
Soul searcher
This woven Kingdom
Saint
Heavenly Bodies
If not for my baby
The garnet daughter
Eldritch
Alchemised
A classic ep... Maybe the last one for a while before we end up in puddles at the end of the month over our two most anticipated reads when they come out so I say we ought to enjoy this last shreds of sanity whilst we have them... mmm... if we ever had them...
Books Mentioned
Alchemised
Katabisis
Blood beneath the snow
Anathema
Notcicadia
When the moon hatched
This monster of mine
Spark of the ever flame
Forbidden Alchemy
Witch collector
Paladins grace
Entanglement of rival wizards
Caught up
Lights out
Pride & prejudice
Empire of the Damned
Woven kingdom
Exorcism of faeries
Second death of Locke
Well somehow though we haven't read a lot since we last chatted, em, we talked a lot... sorry about that...
Books Mentioned
The book Lil couldn’t remember was - A Tale of two cities
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
The underwater wielder
The umbrella academy
The tragic book Lil also couldn’t remember was - Midnight Tempest (literally No stars in the title idk where that came from)
Manacled
Lord of the rings
The fallen and the kiss of dusk
Lady of darkness
Rain of shadows and endings
Saving the rain
Heir comes to rise
Entanglement of rival wizards
Wolf King
Caught up
American Queen
Blood Beneath the snow
Viridain Priestess
Woven Kingdom 4
Alchemised
Fate Forged in Fire
Witch collector
Katabais
Secret History
Irresistible urged to fall for your enemy
The scared space between ( out in Nov)
Study in drowning
Vesseless
Exorcism of Faeries
Anathema
Nocticadia
Deep End
Faefever
Ninth house
Vicious
Hurricane Wars
WARNING!!!! DO NOT PASS GO WITH OUT READING
Forbidden Alchemy Spoilers at 1:01:58 to 1:03:20
WARNING !!!!
Lol ok ... anyways... back to our normal program; catching up on SJM and Taylor first before lamenting over the Indie to Trad pipeline (yet again) & books to screen adaptations - is our podcast we'll crab if we want to.
Books mentioned
Fire in the Blood
Ice planet barbarians
Bull Moon Rising
The Wolf King
Anathema
Serpent and the Wings of night
Slaying the Vampire conqueror
Katabasis
Podcast Rec - Fictional
Dante’s inferno
Count of the Monte Cristo
Songbird & the heart of stone
Guild hunters
My Oxford years
Summer I turned pretty
In the veins of drowning
This woven Kingdom
Skipshock
Thorns & fire
Blood & Steel
Forbidden Alchemy
American Queen
Silver Cloak
Road of Bones
what if I told you that this episode literally POOOFFED half our audio and then randomly a few weeks later just made it RE-APPEAR out of thin air. I love being gaslit by technology.
Any ways after an impromptu summer break ya girls are back with a long lost Ep to catch up on what was missed before we do a summer recap later on.
So yeah. thanks for waiting on us.
Books Mentioned
Problematic summer romance
Rose in chains
Alchemised
Knight and the Moth
Burry our bones in the midnight soil
Second death of Locke
This Monster Of Mine
Witch Collector
City of gods and Monsters
Slave to Sensation
Guild Hunters
Fulvia
The song bird and the Heart of Stone
Forbidden Alchemy
Fairydale
Metal Slinger
Woven Kingdom
Bullmoon Rising
Fan service
Ice Planet Barbarians
Bad Guy
Credence
This week we dive off topic ... multiple times... it was just one of those days...
Books Mentioned
Skipshock
Problematic summer romance
Not in love
Deepend
Guild hunters
Bewitched
Bespelled
Shield of sparrows
Nightengale
Book thief
Boy in the stripped pajamas
Girl with the dragon tattoo
50 shades of grey
Twilight
Road of bones
Flavia
Book boyfriend
This week we were wee fired up over the publishing world, touching on our feeling on people enchroching on the book space solely for profit. We chat about current reads and whats next for us.
Books Mentioned
Direbound
On wings of blood
Silver Elite
Quicksilver
Furyborn
Witch walker (series)
Red Rising
Fiasco
Calamity
Our Infinite fates
Invisible life of Addie lu rue
Knight and the moth
Shepard king Duet
Magnolia parks (series)
Queen of shadows
American psycho
Less then zero
Rule of attraction
A fate forged in fire
The conditions of will
Archangels consort
Problematic summer romance
Not in love
Shield of sparrows
Blood and steel
Shardless
Bewitched
Skip shock
Shatter me ( Series)
This woven kingdom
Alchemised
This week we chat about the longing for community in the book world, and how even introverts need to gather even if its silently... then we tip toe into the Silver Elite convo and finally group back to what we've been reading lately.
Books mentioned
Broken souls and bones
Metal slinger
Silver elite
Hunger games
Forth wing
Shatter me
Watch me
Guild hunters
King of greed
God of fury
Knight and the moth
One dark window
Silver Cloak
Tusk Love
Roses in chains
Manacled (fanfic)
Alchemised
Threshers
Checkmate
Problematic summer romance
These infinite fates
This monster of mine
Shield of sparrows
What blooms from death
Wisteria
Nevermore
FULL House of Flame and Shadow Spoilers
we start by chatting about the rumblings of the next Acotar book which delved into theory chatting about Hofas... Ops...
We do recenter and find out we are constantly looking for Cryus ( this woven kingdom) in every book we read, not sure what that says about us.
Books mentioned:
Acotar
Hofas
Bloodfever
Enchantra
A fate forged in fire (out may 27)
Shatter me (series)
Kiss the villain
Skipshock
Calamity
The Knight & the Moth
Silver Elite
Road of bones
Guild Hunters
Listen in as we chat about book collecting (no one shame us) our thoughts on new SE's and how we some how in real time convinced each other to buy SE's we said we didn't like... Plus catching up on what we've been reading lately.
Books Mentioned:
Fourth wing (series)
Road of Bones
The Witch Collector
Shatter me
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
Roses in Chains
Knight & the Moth
Alchemized
Shepard King duet
Acotar
Silver Elite
Broken Souls & Bones
Silver Cloak
Infinite Fates
Nevernight
This Monster of Mine
Manacled (Fanfic)
Deep end
Bride
Darkfever
Iron & Embers
Guild Hunters
Skipshock
Forget me Not
This Week we catch up after a long break for us, and dive into Rosies nostalgia and get really excited for books coming out soon.
Books Mentioned:
Magnolia Parks
Jodi Picoult
Sunrise on the Reaping
Lights Out
Avalon Tower
No Rest the Wicked
This is How You Lose the Time War
The River has Roots
Us Dark Few
Tusk in Love
Silvercloak
Silver Elite
Dance of Lies
Skip Shock
The Conditions of Will
This Monster of Mine
This week we deviate from our normal course to talk on what is maybe considered... hush hush... Fanfiction. We talk our favorites, where we started, the lore, culture and honestly just be a little bit candid on what is truly a subject that exposes ones true naked psyche.
*do not buy or sell fanfic. its very uncool*
fics in the order they are mentioned:
Try something Tuesday
My immortal
Subspqce and miseries world conquest
All the Young dudes
Balance on the Head of a Pin (The Blessings of Magic)
A painters embrace
The anatomy of a fall
The Unholy Verse
A splitting of the mind
Don’t even take the bet
Black Market Blood
The Milk fic
All of Heaven in a Rage
Wanted for Evil
Manacled
Secrets and Masks
The Auction
The right thing to do
All the wrong things
The mortifying ordeal of falling in love
Rough Day
Crimson Rivers
The cadence of part time poet
It's a slow update kinda ep but it gives us room to talk about some other topics in the book world we almost never have time for...
Books Mentioned:
Magnolia Parks series
The conditions of will
Bloody, Slutty & Pathetic (Fanfic)
Manacled (fanfic)
Flock
The unmaking of June Farrow
Spelled of forgetting
Funny story
Not in love
Problematic Summer Romance (Just Announced)
The Poisoner
Butcher and Black bird
Leather and Lark
Scythe and Sparrow
The Fall of Troy
Nocticadia
The Scattered Bones
Belladonna
Immortal Dark
Eternal Ruin (Just announced)
Kiss of the Basilisk
Between two Kings ( just announced)
A Fable for the End of The World
Iron & Embers
This Monster of Mine (out in April)
Fate Forged in Fire (out in May)
Rosie and Lili are both in the trenches of heart wrenching books... so ya' know we’re sooo fun right now.
This Woven Kingdom
Alchemized
Pride and Prejudice
Blood over Brighthaven
Mistborn
The Sword of Kaigen
All books by Sarah J Maas
Magnolia Parks (series)
Deep end ( sometimes lili still calls it Whet)
The Off campus series
Love Theoretically
Secrete History
The seven year Slip
Rough Day (fan fiction)
Manacled (fan fiction)
Fear the flames
Blood and Steel
Lady of Darkness
Legacy Series
First month down in our reading year and we had lots to say on the first big release of the year, journaling and of course what we've been reading lately.
Books Mentioned
Fourth wing ( series)
SJM ( all books )
A kingdom of dreams
Under the Oak Tree
Amid the Clouds and Bone
Servant of Earth
The spear cuts through water
Cash
A Study in Drowning
A part of your world
Say you’ll remember me
Happy place
Book lovers
Thrum
Swallowed
Magnolia parks
Iron and embers
Jade City
The road of bones
Lady of darkness
Blood over bright haven
The sword of Kaigen
Deep end
Brannon Sanderson
Brief mentions
50 shades of grey
Twilight
Dan brown
The girl w/ Dragon Tattoo
Bitten/ Chosen
Danielle Steel
Today we are joined by our mutual best friend Jennifer ( @thevanishinglibrary) to talk over our rereads of the Fourth Wing/ Iron Flame in prep for Onyx Storm. We go over theories and thoughts and all round have a grand time.
THERE WILL BE SPOILERS
Happy new year! Today we talk bookish goals, the more creative side to the book world as well as what we have been reading lately!
Books mentioned in the order they were mentioned
Book mentioned
Shadow Hunter series
A river in enchanted
Shatter me
Tusk in love ( Critical Role)
The time I got drunk and saved a demon
Guild hunter series
Jane eyre
Wuthering Heights
Fourth wing & Iron Flame
Piranesi
Wisteria ( Belladona)
The scattered bones
Just for the Summer
Lord of the rings
Quicksilver
The silver devil
House of Bane and Blood
Heavenly Bodies
The wayward duke
Under the oak tree
Lady of darkness
The Legends of Thezmarr
Immortal
We yap on some of our highlights in our reading year and then did a bonus mini ep inside of an ep... an ep inception if you will... Because we really REALLY reallllyyyyy needed to talk about the Metal Slinger (* full spoilers but with lots of warning when the time comes)
Books mentioned in ep:
Rough day (fanfic)
Quicksilver
When the moon hatch
This woven kingdom (series)
Monsoon rising
The Witch collector (series)
Don’t let the Forrest in
Thrum
Swallowed (2025)
The Scattered Bones
The expanse between us
Daughter of the forest
Archangels storm
Really the whole Guild hunter series
Still life with wood pecker
Empire of the dammed
Wild blood
Long live evil
Immortal Dark
Till death
Nevermore
House of bane and blood
Fairydale
House of flame and shadow
Metal slinger
A study in drowning
An aspect of essence
The Rachel incident
The cadence of part time poets (fanfic)