Spoil Me! Dandelion Dynasty

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I am still in absolute dread after this episode, because we fucking KNOW what happens to Luan Zia, and yet we're still waiting for it. In the meantime, we watch him get played, all the while terribly aware that even were he to truly KNOW he was being lied to, there's really fuck all he can do. It sounds like Luan is the one who gives them...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we get a flashback to the situation that landed Luan Zya in the trouble we now see, and it's both agonizing and fascinating. I can't decide how I feel about this guy; sometimes he seems so thoughtful and kind, and then he will do something like try to risk the lives of innocent sailors on a whim of curiosity. I have no...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! WOW. Shit is really popping off and I am so damn excited about all of the badass women in this book. The battles are being fought by women, the attack plans and machinery are formulated by women, and even the fearsome strategist from the enemy's side is a woman! It's just wonderful. I'm really interested in what happens when they try this...

Thank you very much Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are absolutely bonkers and I'm desperate for Gin to lead the charge against these invaders. PLEASE COME BACK, GIN, WE NEED YOU Thank you for listening!

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So WHAT THE FUCK, everyone?! I cannot believe that there are fucking dragons in this fucking book and nobody told me! I can't believe it! Y'all, there's so much happening in these chapters, and it's kind of overshadowed in my mind by the damn dragons, bu shit there's an AMAZING scene between Gin and Jia and I don't really know what to thi...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episoide! I'm really starting to bug out about the way things are falling out. I mean, it was already pretty bad how things were stacking up, but now that Gin is in custody and Kuni seems unwilling to gainsay Jia, I'm getting a lot more nervous. Also....ZOMI DID NOTHING WRONG. Thanks for listening!

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I am obviously deeply unprepared for what's about to happen, because this fake rebellion has grown teeth enough to really fuck up the country and give Jia an edge. She in not only able to manipulate Kuni into leaving everything in her care, but she's managed to manipulate Zomi into backing Gin into a corner. Oof I hate where this is going...

Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I'm really into this book, y'all, and in a way that I wasn't with the first one, which is weird, because i absolutely loved the first one? Maybe it's just that there are so many more women front and center here, which I automatically find more interesting, or maybe it's because I've had a whole book to get to know most of the players and so...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! Wow, I knew that another time jump was likely but I didn't think it would be so soon and I didn't think that it would be quite such a big one. However, I'm rather glad of it! We get to see the results of some of Jia's meddling and inciting rebellion here, and it's still not clear to me what her objective is. Is she just trying to give the...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I'm all about these chapters. Do you hear me? ALL ABOUT THEM. I don't know when I'm gonna fucking learn that Kuni Garu is not to be underestimated, but he keeps having to remind me. This man is fully aware of the talents and shortcomings of all of his children, and he's long since realized that his daughter, not his sons, should be the on...

Thank you for this commission, Kyle! I'm really eating my words about the way this story is set up. Initially I was so eager to hear what Zomi's thesis was that every time we went back to her childhood I was getting impatient and frustrated. But now that I'm seeing how all of this is tying together, I'm realizing how important all the setup was and how carefully thought out the whole premise is. I...

Thank you again to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters, we're finally getting a little more to the heart of the issues that Zomi is here to talk about. She decides to show up looking shabby to really point out that she's poor, unlike every other yahoo in the audience hall. She really makes a big show of letting everyone know that she's only here because she fed the judges' opinions...

Thank you to Kyle for accepting this make-up episode after one of the others got all garbled and messed up. I'm absolutely on tenterhooks because I still don't know what Zomi's thesis is, and I'm sitting here watching a bunch of rich goons parading around in front of the Emperor talking about how important it is that the rich get to stay rich. Thank god for fucking Jia telling these assholes to go...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are really interesting, which is surprising considering that they're mostly about people defending their theses in front of the Emperor. It doesn't sound too riveting in theory, but I found it to be compelling, not only because of the nature of the arguments themselves but also because of the background of the rituals and all of the...

So, this is tragic. I'm so sorry to Kyle, who commissioned this episode, but there was something going on with my audio when I recorded this episode, and I noticed it when I was done with the recording, and restarted my computer. I thought that I would be able to pull the sound from the Crowdcast, but guess what...turns out my Crowdcast has the same issue. I don't know what was happening that day,...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! This section was really interesting because it does something we haven't seen in a while, which is look way back to the start of Mapidere's rule and how it affected someone from a very low class in society. We haven't been back at the origin of this story in a long time, and it's no less horrible than I remember. Mimi is clearly an unusual kid and...

Hey there! It's time to get into the next chapters of The Wall Of Storms and we're getting a slow introduction to a new character that I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot more of. Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this and coming to the chat to hang out! These chapters deal with the fallout from the Imperial Children running away for a pub and hanging out with some commoners, and th...

Huge thanks to Kyle for keeping me going on this Dandelion Dynasty series! I'm really into this whole idea of life just going on even after the supposedly happy ending. I mean, I'm not into it at all because I'm a big fan of closure and tying up loose ends and feeling like there's a semblance of order to the universe. But I see the beauty and sadness in it all the same. We start out this book with...

Wow, I cannot believe we're finally here. I can't thank Kyle enough for commissioning this entire book. In the end, we get what we all claim we wanted; a victory for Kuni Garu. However, that victory comes at a really steep price, and costs Kuni his honor and perhaps the loyalty of some people down the line. The whole setup in these last chapters is leading into the next section of the story; if a...

We're almost at the end, and I'm blown away that we're getting another jump ahead of three years so close to the end of the book. This is all moving so fast! Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So in this section we get some more clever plans from Kuni and his people, and it's almost sad how easily Mata falls for them. The main one is the setup that implies Master Pering is betraying...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning another episode covering The Grace Of Kings! I'm so happy that i get o dive back in again so soon. Heh. You see what I did there? Dive? Because this is basically a naval battle? Damn I'm good. No but seriously I really enjoyed this section. There's a million things going on regarding the takeovers of smaller states and the changing hands that rule them, but Mata...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I'm excited to be hopping back into this book again, since it's been a while. This is a really fun section, because we get to see some serious ingenuity from Kuni's people, and it seems like his deep open mindedness is showing them off to their full potential. I mean, my god, underwater watercraft, this is a serious fucking advancement. Holy shit....

Y'all! I'm not going to lie, I still keep underestimating this author and then being newly surprised when he does something beautiful and awesome with his female characters. These chapters are all about Gin, a wonderful new character that I'm sure I'm going to grow to love. She's got a hell of a backstory, and I'm a big fan of the nuance that Liu lends to all of her actions and her history. She's...

Hey there everyone! It's time for the next installment of The Grace Of Kings, and I'm feeling a little bit better about things than I was last episode. I might forgive you after all, Kyle. Maybe. But you're on notice. These chapters are very unusual in the way that they roll. Or perhaps I should say that Ken Liu is surprising. This author really tries to let his characters be whole people, and he...

Greetings, everyone! I'm very thankful to Kyle for bringing this book into my life and commissioning this coverage from me, but I also hate you Kyle for doing this to me because it's so painful and I could see it coming and I hate this so much. WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST BE FRIENDS??? But no. Mata goes bananas just the way that I predicted he would, because frankly it all looks really fucking bad and I...