Literary Quest

This week your hosts wrap up J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy with The Return of the King. War is upon Gondor and many will fall to Sauron's army. Even if the orcs do not destroy Gondor there will be no victory until Sauron is defeated. Sam and Frodo are on their way to Mount Doom with the hope that by destroying the ring they can stop evil from overcoming Middle-Earth. However, the closer they get to dest...

This week your hosts discuss The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien! Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli need to save Pippen and Merry from Orcs. Their trip takes them through new sections of Middle Earth where filled with danger. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam have set off on their own to Mordor. They find help from an unlikely source but are hesitant to trust. Will Pippen and Merry be rescued? Will Sam and Frodo mak...

In anticipation of the release of Amazon’s Rings of Power, we’re discussing The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and are kicking things off with The Fellowship of the Ring. In the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins found a magic ring in Gollum’s cave, and kept it quietly in the Shire for many years, while the Dark Lord, Sauron, gathered dark forces and power in Mordor. Sauron is ready to make his move, to g...

This week your hosts discuss Throne of the Horde King by Zoey Draven. This is the last in her Horde King's of Dakkar series and it's sad to have it end but it was a fantastic ride! Kara, a grown human hybrid, has spent her whole life sheltered away from others with the Priestesses in Orala Pass and she longs for adventure. Rath Serok, the bastard son of the king, is frustrated with the Priestesses...

This week, we discuss For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten, and we are SO EXCITED to be joined again by Stacey McEwan, aka @stacebookspace on TikTok and IG! Stacey’s book Ledge is releasing on September 13th, and so we open this episode with a brief interview about her book and what inspired her writing! For the Wolf follows Red, second daughter of the kingdom of Valleyda, as she sacrifices herself to t...

This week, your hosts discuss Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop, book 3 in the Black Jewels trilogy. Five years after leaving the twisted kingdom, Daemon SaDiablo has made his way to Kaeleer, where he is quickly enlisted in the service of his brother Lucivar, and taken to the Hall, his father Saetan’s home, where he will serve as official consort to Jaenelle, queen of Ebon Askavi and the Witch....

In this week's episode your hosts discuss Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop. It is the second in the Black Jewel trilogy and is much more light hearted than the previous book. Jaenelle has been in a healing coma for two years.  Saetan watches over Jaenelle always hopeful that the daughter of his soul will come back to him. No one knows when or if she will come out of it or what she will be l...

This week your hosts discuss the first book in Anne Bishop's best selling series - Daughter of the Blood. Janelle is not a normal child. She holds immense power but with that power comes powerful enemies and powerful allies. She is the prophesied Witch and many have been waiting for her. She is young and still open to influence and many will try to control her. While, she finds allies, they are st...

This week, your hosts wrap up Pride month with Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert. Helen has spent her entire life under scrutiny in Olympus, and with her father dead and her siblings now the new Zeus and Aphrodite, she is desperate to step out of their shadows. When Zeus announces that Helen will wed the winner of the contest for the next Ares, Helen determines that to live on her own terms, she will...

Meet East S.M.! A new author who is about to release her debut novel, Mercy's Quest. East discusses her inspiration for the book, her favorite characters, what she is looking forward to and more! Mercy's Quest releases 6/21/2022, it is a fantasy novel inspired by her own mystical experiences.  Mercy Stone comes from a long line of Blood Moon witches and, as such, is no stranger to coexisting...

This week, your hosts discuss Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. Cinderella has been dead for 200 years, but her legacy lives on in the form of a yearly ball that sees teen girls married off to the men in the kingdom. Sophia struggles with the oppressive traditions of her homeland, and would rather marry her best friend Erin. However, when Sophia chooses to flee the ball, into the forest, rather...

This week your hosts continue to celebrate Pride month with Natasha Ngan's LGBTQ YA book - Girls of Paper and Fire. Lei is taken from her home to become a Paper Girl for the Demon King. She vows survive the year and make it back to her family. While at the palace and learning what it means to be a Paper Girl, Lei develops feelings for Wren. While they are in a similar situation, their backgrounds...

Happy Pride Month! This month, we’re discussing books featuring LGBTQ characters and are kicking things off with A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske. When Robin Blyth starts his new job, he doesn’t expect to discover that magic is real, and he sure doesn’t expect to get wrapped up in a mysterious plot to find objects of power or to have an excruciating curse placed on him. However, it becomes clear...

In this week's episode your hosts discuss Crown of Chaos, it is the 4th installment of Amelia Hutchins' Legacy of the 9 Realms series. Aria has stolen part of Knox's library and is searching for a way to start her own realm. However, everything is not going as planned. She must deal with betrayal from unexpected sources as well as the threat of Hecate. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown...

This week, your hosts discuss That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming. Cin is a spice farmer who just wants to live a simple, peaceful life, tending to her spices and hanging with her friend Brie. Life gets complicated when a demon, Fallon, stumbles into her life and upends everything she and her people know about their goddess Myva. Feelings quickly grow between Cin and Fallon...

In this week's episode your hosts discuss Taken by the Horde King, the 5th book in the Horde Kings of Dakkar series by Zoey Draven. Mina has been living under the Dead Mountain with around two dozen other humans. She is treated very poorly but she is able to withstand and control the deadly red fog that has been slowly spreading across the land. When she has to trick Rath Rowin into imprisonment h...

This week, your hosts are discussing Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh. Elena Devereaux has made a reputation for herself as a skilled vampire Hunter, an ability that is enhanced by her superb skills at tracking scents. When a rogue Archangel, Uram, plagues Manhattan, Elena is exactly who Raphael, governing Archangel of New York, wants on his team, tracking the danger down. What starts as a strained w...

In this week's episode your hosts discuss Laini Taylor's best selling YA novel -Daughter of Smoke and Bone! Karou has spent her life feeling as though something is missing. She does not know who her parents are and was raised by chimera. She currently runs errands for Brimstone, her father-figure, that often result in dangerous situations. During one errand she runs into a being who makes her feel...

This week, your hosts discuss Sharpest Edge by Alessa Thorn. Silas Edgeworth has admired and been attracted to Isabella from the moment he saw her, but has avoided a romantic relationship with her, believing himself to be too old for her. Isabella is a hacker extraordinaire, who has worked with the Edgeworths since Silas rescued her from human traffickers years ago, and she has carried a torch for...

Vicki and Marysa just wanted to say hi from Las Vegas and talk about the books they've been reading!

This week your hosts discuss Electric Idol by Katee Robert! It is a modern retelling of Eros and Psyche's myth. When Eros is ordered by his mother, Aphrodite, to kill Psyche he has a hard time following through. The only way out that he can see, is to marry Psyche and convince the world they are in love. However, soon public image and private life start to merge. While Eros and Psyche navigate new...

This week, your hosts discuss A Kingdom of Ruin a K.F. Breene. Finley just wants to lift the curse on her kingdom, ensure her family is safe, and be with her golden dragon, Nyfain. But to do that, she has to surrender herself to the demon king, until she can figure out how to escape. Teamwork makes the dream work though, and if there’s one thing Finley’s got, it’s an incredible ability to pull peo...

This week we discuss the second half of the War of Two Queens. We pick up right after Casteel has been rescued and talk about all the events afterwards. What happens to Kieran with the curse? What will Queen Isbeth do with Maleec's body? Will the joining finally happen? There is discussion of sex as well as cursing in this episode! 

This week, your hosts discuss The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout. The highly anticipated fourth installment of the From Blood and Ash series follows Poppy, our FMC, in her desperation to reunite with and free her love from the Blood Queen’s clutches. War has come to Solis from Atlantia though, and while Poppy makes plans to free her King, she must also get her generals on board with h...

In this week's episode we discuss Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon. When Faith finds herself in a whole other universe she struggles to stay free and stay alive. She anchors herself to Aron the Battle God in a desperate attempt to avoid being killed or enslaved. Unfortunately, what she didn't realize was that by anchoring herself to him she would be facing a new type of trouble. Can Faith pro...