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Sam and Dan wrap up the discussion of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We reach the mighty climax of Oraya's journey through Carissa Broadbent's world of sexy vampires, and so we come to some conclusions on what we thought of the stor...

Sam and Dan discuss chapter 26 - 41 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Things got really hot and steamy in this section of the book, and we delve uncomfortably deep into the lusty and the romantic elements of Oraya and Raihn's relationshi...

Sam and Dan discuss chapter 13 - 25 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We dive yet further into this sexy vampire-romantasy. We get into some of Oraya's daddy issues. We theorise about what makes her special, and why she is sooo delicious...

Sam and Dan discuss the prologue to chapter 12 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We've got a brand new book to deep-dive into. It's supposed to be one of the hottest books of the year, featuring sexy vampires and a Hunger Games-styl...

Sam and Dan wrap up the discussion of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Having finished the book, we give our honest (sometimes too honest!) opinions on the climax of the story. We review the plot, the characters, the relationships and answer our regular end of boo...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 15 - 28 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Now that we're over half-way through the book, we discuss how much better we've got to now Shiori. We assess the suspicious actions of the highly unlikeable Zirina. There's a m...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 1 - 14 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We travel to the Far East, in the fictional land of Kiata, where the story of Six Crimson Cranes is based. We discuss what we've learned about the magic system, we get to know our main pr...

Sam and Dan wrap up the discussion of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn: the first instalment of The Library Trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers whole of this book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We give our assessments of the climax and where this first instalment left our our two time-travelling love-birds....

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 35 - 52 of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn: the first instalment of The Library Trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers of the three-quarters of this book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We get stuck straight into the major plot twist that we've just had revealed to us. We try t...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 18 - 35 of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn: the first instalment of The Library Trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers of the first half of this book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Now that our main characters have met, we discuss what we've learned and what their futures (or...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 1 - 17 of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn: the first instalment of The Library Trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers of the first 17 chapters of this book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We dive straight into the big questions around how our two main protagonists, Livira and Evar m...

Sam and Dan wrap up the discussion of Hannah Whitten's The Foxglove King: the first instalment of The Nightshade Crown trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers of the entire book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Now that we've finished the novel, we discuss what we thought was great, the character development of Lore, Gabe an...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 14 - 28 of Hannah Whitten's The Foxglove King: the first instalment of The Nightshade Crown trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers for the first 28 chapters of the book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. Now that the story is in full swing we delve into the developing relationship between Lore and Gabe...

Sam and Dan discuss chapters 1 - 13 of Hannah Whitten's The Foxglove King: the first instalment of The Nightshade Crown trilogy. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers for the first 13 chapters of the book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. In this episode we get to know our main protagonist, Lore, along with her potential romantic interes...

Sam and Dan discuss chapter 20 through to the end of Hannah Kaner's Godkiller. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers for the whole book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We discuss the action, the mysteries, the unexpected twists and the steamy romance as Kissen and the gang make their way to Blenraden for the climax of book one in the F...

Sam and Dan discuss the prologue through to chapter 19 of Hannah Kaner's Godkiller. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers for the first 19 chapters of the book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening. We get to know the four main characters. We figure out how to pronounce the names. We share some suspicions and theories for where the story migh...

We welcome you you Escapists Anonymous: Fantasy Fiction Book Club. A brand new podcast and peer support network for fantasy literature fanatics. In this intro episode, you'll meet us... your hosts... Sam and Dan. We'll introduce ourselves and discuss what we love about fantasy fiction. You'll find out about the premise of this new podcast, and we'll also reveal the first book t...