The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers tells the story of the Everly family burdened with a curse, a bargain made with a mysterious woman named Penelope, who always comes to collect. Marianne Everly, determined to lift the curse, leaves her only daughter, Violet, behind with her brothers. The problem arises when Violet’s mother never …
We’ve made it to another year of No Page Unturned and we’re talking our top 5 books of 2023. Apologies to the nation of Belgium in advance. Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (christinaladd), and Steph Kingston (StephOKingston) and you can find us all on Bluesky. Our art is by Mangoyu Art (@MangoyuArt) …
Gather round gentle listeners as we do our annual check in with Brandon Sanderson’s latest (sort of) books. This time Josh and Steph read Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. These excellent novels were part of Sanderson’s Secret Projects but are now available to all. We dug in, had a …
We are talking about each of our top 3 books of 2023 as of August! Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (christinaladd), and Steph Kingston (@StephOKingston) and you can find us all on Bluesky. Our art is by Mangoyu Art (@MangoyuArt) and our music is by Bad Sparrow (@BadSparrowMusic). You can find us …
Since the release of her novella Silver in the Wind in 2019, I’ve been a fan of Emily Tesh, so her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory, was high on my anticipation list for 2023. In this science fiction thriller, contact with aliens has happened, and it ends with the destruction of Earth. Now Valkyr is …
As someone who has read a hefty amount of detective novels, I knew precisely what Richard Swan was doing in The Justice of Kings, the first book in his The Empire of the Wolf trilogy. It’s written like a classic Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot in a fantasy setting, with elements of both making up …
The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess is a skin-crawlingly good horror book by Andy Marino, his first novel for adults. It explores the real and supernatural darkness inside one woman and has an excellent blend of psychological and body horror that will keep you turning pages. Marino’s visceral and descriptive style set you firmly in …
It’s hard to believe, with the way this year has gone and how long it has felt that the first book of The Ruin of Kings, the first book in A Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons, was only released a little over a year and a half ago and The Name of All …
Summer is here, babeeeeey and the COVID has definitely left it’s mark on the quality of the anime turn out… HOOboy there’s a dirge of watchable new shows. That being said… there are a couple of real gems to look out for… The God of High School Rent-a-Girlfriend The Misfit King of Demon Academy Deca-Dence …
The crew is back to talk about the Quarantine Anime Season 2020 and find some of the strangest and most entertaining shows this year, with pegging-fantasy Gleipnir, Tower of God and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! You can also fight us on; Vince (@sequencepod), Kym (@kymcattys) and Ben (@benstonick). Editing by …