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The finale of Shadow Scale is here, and more chaotic than ever with our new soundboard! Join us for our season 7 finale as we wrap up this story, discuss our likes and disappointments, and reveal the book we are reading next season... Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks so much for listening! If you wa...

Welcome to the penultimate episode of season 7 of TIGBAB! Join us as we finally meet Pandowdy, face off against Jannoula for the final showdown, and discover something so shocking it has us rethinking everything about this series! Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks so much for listening! If you want m...

On today's episode of TIGBAB, Raven finds out whether her theory about Pandowdy is correct and Jess learns what a deus ex machina is. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks so much for listening! If you want more of the podcast, you can follow us on Facebook ( facebook.com/tigbabpodcast ) or Instagra...

On this week's episode, Raven has an epiphany about Pandowdy and Jess speculates on Jannoula's true intentions. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks so much for listening! If you want more of the podcast, you can follow us on Facebook ( facebook.com/tigbabpodcast ) or Instagram ( instagram.com...

In this week's episode, Jannoula is playing 4D underwater chess and we finally get a Pandowdy reveal! We also discuss whether Jannoula is a sociopath. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks so much for listening! If you want more of the podcast, you can follow us on Facebook ( facebook.com/tigbabpodc...

In this week's episode, we figure out what "eye cones" are and discover that quigs are stronger than dragons. We learn that victory is an aphrodisiac and Jannoula is even more terrifying than we thought. Other topics include: judging books by their covers and the relaxing sounds of tomcats fighting. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https...

In this week's chapters, Raven and Jess finally learn the origin story of the world's scariest villain, Jannoula. Will Raven's theory be proven right, or will she be embarrassed into quitting the show? Other topics include: the novel's confusing dragon sizes, the goofy way that dragons run in our brains, being volun-told to waddle through dragon dung, and whether doodoo would w...

We are back once again! We explain the long break we took, then delve back into Shadow Scale. In this week's chapters, a war breaks out and dragons take to the skies. Jannoula also invades the mind of someone new, which could end up being the worst possible scenario for Seraphina. Other topics include: Hoa Hoa Hoa season, stenography and court reporting, and why Waikiki Beach sucks. Create a...

In this week's episode, we cover chapters 20 and 21 from Shadow Scale by Rachel  Hartman. Lucien Kiggs is back and wants some alone time with Seraphina (you know what that means - kissy kissy), Seraphina and Kiggs get some bad news, and we fight for dragon rights! Raven also drops a mind-blowing theory about the origin of Jannoula. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift ca...

After some riveting talk about coconuts, we delve into this week's chapters of Shadow Scale , in which we try to pronounce fantasy names (and basic English words), debate the difference between throat singing and sinus singing, and discover the truth behind the heretic St. Yirtrudis.  Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?re...

This week Jess admits the real reason she hasn't started House of the Dragon Season 2 yet and Raven explains how AI helped her with her novel. In Shadow Scale, we meet three new half-dragons from Seraphina's garden and Abdo goes head to head with Jannoula. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=289148 Thanks...

We begin this week's episode with a long rant about the delights of water and the near-heatstroke experience Raven had in Madrid.  In Shadow Scale, we learn Kiggs might reappear soon and discuss whether the Will They/Won't They tension might be better than the end result. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_i...

Raven makes a huge mistake at the top of this week's episode, gives us the tea on the disaster she faced with her newest Ikea furniture, and reveals what makes getting tattooed so difficult. In Shadow Scale, the series' ickiest character returns and Jess and Raven come up with wild theories about Jannoula's motivations. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card...

(WARNING: BALDUR'S GATE 3 SPOILERS IN EPISODE) In this week's episode, Raven talks learning to play Fallout 4 and pepperoni tea, while Jess talks Baldur's Gate 3 choices. In Shadow Scale, Jannoula becomes a bigger problem, Abdo's secrets are revealed, and Raven challenges the plot conveniences in the story. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with ou...

WE'RE BACK! In this episode, Jess and Raven explain why they went on such a long, unexpected break, and we return to Shadow Scale ! We learn more about Jannoula and what makes her so terrifying to Seraphina, and Raven speculates that a disorder may have inspired Phina's mind garden. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com/...

In this episode, chapters 6 and 7 of Shadow Scale make us more and more suspicious of Abdo, his powers, and who he is communicating with behind the scenes. We also discuss which of the novel's half-dragon characters we would want to hang out with the most, and which is the most grotesque. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www.buzzsprout.com...

In chapters 4 and 5 of Rachel Hartman's Shadow Scale, Raven's and Jess's suspicions about Abdo deepen, we encounter one of Seraphina's grotesques, and we reflect on "iPad kids" and the impact of technology on childhood. We also compare Shadow Scale 's travel chapters to A Feast for Crows, and what we discover leaves our jaws on the floor. Create a podcast with Bu...

In this episode, we spill the tea on chapters 1 and 2! Brace yourself for the mysterious absence of Seraphina's "soul-light," Abdo's villain arc, a morally indifferent dragon general, and Seraphina becoming the ultimate dragon whisperer. Plus, Seraphina and Kiggs decide whether to tell Glisselda the truth about their non-affair. (Also, St. Capiti totally steals the show and she...

Welcome back, dearest listeners! We're thrilled to kick off season 7 with Shadow Scale , the highly anticipated sequel to Seraphina . In this episode, we dive headfirst into the familiar land of Goredd, revisit Seraphina, Kiggs, and Glisselda, and unravel the new threats and plot twists that are new to both of us (as well as a strangely convenient plot device). Tune in as we dust off our micr...

We have finally reached the end of A Feast for Crows ! In this episode, we find out why so many of the biggest characters were excluded from this novel, we break down the themes of the story, reflect on notable moments, and give our final thoughts on the fourth installment of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card with our link! https://www...

In this week's episode, we cover the final chapter of the book. Will this chapter bring the story full circle, as we predicted? Or will it be just as disappointing as the rest of the book? We discuss how to depict iron in a sigil, the difference between Redwynes and Hightowers, what would cause the whole realm to fall to pieces, who is the Mad Maid, and what makes that one guy's face so...

In this week's chapter, Jaime's final chapter of the book, we explore how Jaime is much smarter than his twin sister Cersei and also how he's just as stupid. We learn who betrayed Robb to the Lannisters, the true motives of Robb's wife, and talk Nymeria vs. Ghost. Character perspectives in this episode: Jaime... Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card wi...

Happy Halloween! In Cersei's final perspective chapter in this novel, will her world come crashing down around her or will all her evil plans pay off? Topics include: what makes rooibos a fake tea (again),  Raven's new excuse for why she isn't drinking tea this episode,  some people being still stuck in the 15th century, possible plot holes, Cersei's small council member wantin...

Happy Friday the 13th! After last week's chapter mix-up, we are back on track with Alayne's missing chapter! We discover one of the biggest differences between the show and the book, the three queens who followed the five kings, a not-so-surprising murder plot, the secret ingredients in sweetmilk, and... uh oh... did Alayne just accidentally give away who she really is? Character perspec...

Jess and Raven, as well as Brienne, come face to face with the haunting Lady Stoneheart in this week's episode. We discuss why she was excluded from the show and George R.R. Martin's response to that decision. Other topics include: Raven's extensive laziness and getting high at work. Character perspectives in this episode: Brienne... Create a podcast with Buzzsprout and get a $20 Am...