♫ It’s just a Dementor’s kiss, ♫ ♫ Not like I faint every time we touch. ♫ This week, the Dementors fall in love and try to smooch people. Also, the trio discuss their love/hate relationship with the Prisoner of Azkaban movie! Are Sarah and Bijaya still fighting to beat Michael for the Quizzich Cup or have …
A long time ago, in a Wizarding School far, far in…the norths of Scotland(?), the heroes of our podcast joined together to bravely take on an entire world of magic – the Grim, the evil Dark Lord…and also some kind of gross jellybeans? This week, we consider removing all T’s from our vocabulary, try to …
Scott Lynch, previously dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, freelance writer, and volunteer firefighter, is the author of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series of books and a volunteer firefighter. The author, hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and fellow author, Elizabeth Bear. Lynch, dubbing himself a …
With V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light, the doors between Londons and her Darker Shades of Magic trilogy comes to a close. In it, the characters find themselves on the frontlines of a major crisis that will test their relationships and the extent of their powers. The first book in the series, A Darker Shade …
NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA RAT MAN! This week, we learn the truth but is it the whole truth? Can we even handle the truth? Your hosts discuss what it would be like to live as a rat for over a decade and, weirder still, what it would be like to eat a cockroach. In other news, Sarah and Bijaya …
Well! Waking Gods certainly doesn’t waste any time, I’ll tell you that much. Despite taking place about ten years after the first book (Sleeping Giants), everything is as urgent and immediate as ever. Global cooperation is tenuous; scientific advancement is not as far along as anyone would like; and another giant robot shows up in …
While it’s not necessary to read This Raging Light to be drawn into But Then I Came Back, this book is a close companion to Estelle Laure’s debut, although very different in tone. If you’ve read it, you already know what the prologue tells you—that Eden Jones, the cool girl in a cool leather jacket, …
Egads! Big revelations this week! This entire time, Yer a Wizard, Harry has been living as a podcast when really, WE’RE THREE PEOPLE STANDING ON EACH OTHER’S SHOULDERS UNDER A TRENCH COAT. This week, the Quizzich Cup trudges (drunkenly) onward – do our heroes lose that spark? We also head down the rabbit hole – er, …
I’m trying to imagine being the agent getting this pitch: “A teenage girl who lives in futuristic Versailles wants to escape this corporation-run Baroque world, but has to sell drugs to do it.” Is there any way you don’t pounce on that? I mean, they’re correctly billing it as “Breaking Bad via Marie-Antoinette.” Designer drugs! …
Miss Anna Arden is Barren. And how does an unmarried teenager in Victorian England know such a thing? Well, she’s not barren in the reproductive sense. This is much worse. In the world of Blood Rose Rebellion, Barren women can’t do magic, which is the only proof of a noble’s heritage and worthiness. Only those …