A Pod of Wings and Filth

We read wildly. We had passionate discussions. We fell in love with stories that wrecked us and touched us down to the marrow of our bones. It was an exciting year of reading. In our End of the Year Wrap-Up Episode , we’re counting down:  ✨ Our Top 5 Favorite Books of 2025  ✨ The Top 2 Buddy Reads that took us by surprise and stuck with us 🎧 Listen now and tell us which books owned your 2025. S...

In this episode, we descend into the final sanctums of The Songbird and the Heart of Stone , where Mische and Asar are cast into the SOUL sanctum that forces them to face the versions of themselves that already died, reopen old wounds, and confront betrayals that cut deeper than any blade. As ghosts return, gods intervene, and resurrection demands an unthinkable price, mercy becomes more dangerous...

In the harsh desert kingdom of Zilvaren, 24-year-old Saeris Fane is a skilled thief, surviving by stealing water and food rations to care for her ailing brother. Her world shatters when she encounters the mysterious Kingfisher, a fae warrior whose presence is both alluring and dangerous. As Saeris is drawn into a realm of magic and political intrigue, she discovers her own latent powers and a dest...

Mische and Asar descend into the perilous underworld, navigating the Sanctums of Body and Breath, where they face trials that test their courage and confront their darkest fears. As Mische wrestles with her vampire nature and fading faith in Atroxus, her bond with Asar deepens into a forbidden romance. Their journey crescendos in a harrowing ritual: Asar sacrifices himself to become the Soul neede...

Episode 15: Never Keep by the Twisted Sisters Outcast and scarred, Everest Arcadia struggles to survive in the water-ruled land of Cascada, haunted by her mother’s death and betrayed by her family, while training at the legendary warrior fortress, Never Keep , and discovering her rare white Leopard Order. At the same time, Vesper , the feared Sky Witch of the air kingdom, navigates brutal raids, b...

Episode 14: The Songbird & The Heart of Stone- Parts 1 & 2 In Songbird Parts 1 and 2, we follow Mische , a fallen priestess of the sun god Atroxus, now a vampire caught between faith and survival. Betrayed, stripped of her fire magic, and imprisoned for killing the Shadowborn Prince who turned her, Mische is bound to Asar , a haunted necromancer prince. Together, they descend into the peri...

Episode 13: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a dark, gothic tale that spans centuries, following women whose lives are shaped by hunger, desire, and the monstrous cost of immortality. María, Charlotte, and Alice are drawn into the orbit of Sabine, a vampire whose love offers freedom and power but comes with brutal consequences. As they are r...

✨ This week on A Pod of Wings and Filth , we wrap up The Ashes & The Star-Cursed King ! Part Six: Full Moon gives us family drama, god-blood maps, and Oraya choosing love over power, while Part Seven: Dawn crowns her and Raihn as soul-bonded, double-heir-marked chaos royals. With Nyaxia’s grumpy blessing, Mische striking out on her own, and our feral duo ending their journey not on a throne b...

👑 This week on A Pod of Wings and Filth: Betrayal. Forbidden love. A kingdom on the brink. In Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry, overlooked princess Odessa Cross is claimed by a fearsome Guardian in a twist that shatters treaties and ignites a dangerous mission. Monsters roam, loyalties blur, and the man she was told to hate might just be the one who can save her… or destroy everything. Let’s ge...

Episode 10: The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, Parts 3-5 In this episode of A Pod of Wings and Filth , we dive into Parts Three, Four, and Five of The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent. We follow Oraya and Raihn into the heart of Vincent’s haunted past, where vampire children serve, secrets are revealed, and Oraya’s cousin turns out to be a nightmare in a decaying castle. Then i...

 ✨ New Episode Drop: The Knight and the Moth ✨ For ten years, Sybil Delling—known only as Six —has been bound to the enchanted spring of Aisling Cathedral, interpreting visions from six mysterious beings called the Omens. But as her decade of servitude nears its end, her world unravels. The boy king arrives. Her fellow Diviners begin to vanish. And Sybil is left with no one to turn to—except Rod...

Episode 8: The Ashes and the Star Cursed King – Prologue, Parts 1 and 2 In this episode of A Pod of Wings and Filth , we are back with a vengeance, not unlike Oraya, who is reeling from the loss of her father at the hands of her lover. She’s back to being princess prisoner #1, but now she’s married to Raihn, who has broken her heart. We walk through grief, redemption, and a hostile government take...

Episode 7: Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen The Hunger Games meets How to Train Your Direwolf as Meryn Cooper is thrust into the deadly Bonding Trials—unwilling, unprepared, and emotionally compromised (thanks, Crown Prince Killian). With court politics, feral wolves, and every ally hiding a knife behind their back, Meryn’s fight to save her sister turns into a battle for survival. Hold tight as we br...

Episode 6: The Serpent and the Wings of Night – Parts Six & Seven. In this episode of A Pod of Wings and Filth , we dive into the final chapters of The Serpent and the Wings of Night . Oraya and Raihn return to the Moon Palace, shattered and grieving, but there’s no time to heal—betrayals erupt, secrets surface, and the last Kejari trial pushes everyone to the edge. We unpack the brutal twists...

Episode 5: Bloodguard by Cecy Robson In this episode of A Pod of Wings and Filth , we kick off our next buddy read with Bloodguard by Cecy Robson —a brutal, high-stakes fantasy full of blood-soaked arenas, deadly secrets, and dangerous alliances. We dive into the story of Leith of Grey, a gladiator fighting for redemption in the gladiator pits of the Kingdom of Arrow. When a cunning elven princess...