Read Flags

Hey book lovers! This week on Read Flags , we’re diving into Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. Grad student Alice Law has sacrificed everything to be the brightest mind in analytic magick at Cambridge, but her dreams hit a snag when her thesis advisor dies in a magical accident and his soul is sent straight to Hell. Desperate for the letter of recommendation that holds her academic future, she journeys to...

Hey book lovers! This week on Read Flags , we’re diving into The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley. In a fractured version of the UK divided into warring tiendoms, Osric is a shadow-walking assassin with a terminal secret: a magical rot is eating him from the inside out. His only hope is Aurienne, a scholar of the Haelan Order whose "harm to none" oath makes...

Hey book lovers! This week on Read Flags , we’re diving into Strange Pictures by Uketsu. What starts as a simple analysis of a child’s drawing quickly spirals into something much darker. This isn't just a story, it’s a visual puzzle. With blog posts, diagrams and cryptic sketches, Strange Pictures allows the reader to play junior detective and be immersed in this creepy psychological mystery....

Hey book lovers! This week on Read Flags , we’re diving into Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry. Alice Scott, a sunshine-coded aspiring author, and Hayden Anderson, a Pulitzer-winning storm cloud, are both on Little Crescent Island to win the right to tell the life story of the elusive Margaret Ives, heiress, scandal magnet, and keeper of more than a few secrets. But Margaret isn’t giving the...

Welcome to Read Flags — the book review podcast where we raise the green flags, wave the red ones, and occasionally get lost in the footnotes. We’re your hosts — Yelena , an audiobook lover who experiences stories through voices, soundscapes, and vibes, and Sam , a lifelong literature buff who devours the written word the old-fashioned way. One of us dives deep into craft and structure, the other...