A Podcast of Plots and Pages

Join Carissa and Shay as they read Chapters 1-5 of Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas. Celaena has just begun her new job as the King's Champion, and girl already needs to be put on a PIP because, shocker, she's not ACTUALLY assassinating any of the people the King sends her to kill. We're not sure what's a bigger surprise- that Celaena isn't following orders, or that she's...

Carissa and Shay share their true and honest thoughts about Throne of Glass. Superlatives are awarded, ships are discussed, and predictions are made about the rest of the series.

Carissa and Shay finish their readthrough of Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Find out who won the epic final showdown to ultimately become the King's Champion! Also, Celaena finally chooses between her two suitors: Dorian and Chaol.

The mystery inside the Glass Castle gets deeper as Celaena investigates the mysterious Wyrdmarks- and Princess Nehemia's sus behavior. Also, Celaena sneaks into the Yulemas Ball and gets a puppy as a present (yay, Prince Dorian!)

Join Celaena Sardothien as she continues to unravel the mystery of who- or what- is killing her fellow competitors in the race to become the King's Champion. Also join Carissa and Shay as they make fun of Chaol's lack of knowledge about women's periods.

Join Celaena as she uncovers more of the Glass Castle's secrets! Also join Carissa and Shay as they endlessly mock both Dorian and Chaol having an Edward Cullen moment, as they read through chapters 21-25 of Throne of Glass.

Carissa and Shay continue their read-through of Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. Learn more about Celaena and Dorian and cheer Celaena on as she begins the trials for the competition to become King's Champion!

Join Carissa and Shay as they begin Throne of Glass, book #1 in, you guessed it, the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Learn about Celaena's journey to Rifthold, the competition to become King's Champion and why Prince Dorian gives ultimate theater kid vibes.

Carissa and Shay discuss Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez. Find out why Justin is the most perfect MMC ever to grace a page and why everyone should have their own Maddy. The girls also determine that cats as a species have bipolar disorder, but Shay's cat specifically has borderline personality disorder. (We promise this is not relevant in any way to the book, but it is extremely entertaini...

Carissa and Shay discuss their overall rating of The Assassin's Blade and participate in Story Superlatives. Also, Carissa (a licensed therapist) diagnoses Arobynn Hamel with a personality disorder!

In another episode of A Podcast of Plots and Pages, Shay and Carissa read through the final novella in The Assassin’s Blade, The Assassin and the Empire. Thankfully- or maybe not, we can’t read minds- this episode isn’t another hour—long roast of everyone’s least favorite King of Assassins, Arobynn Hamel. Shay and Carissa also celebrate the beautiful, wonderful soul that is Sam Cortland, Celaena S...

Welcome to The Public Shaming of Arobynn Hamel. This episode, Carissa and Shay roast the villain we love to hate, Arobynn Hamel, and issue our final verdict: No Toilet Paper for Arobynn, ever. In addition to enthusiastically ripping Arobynn apart, they also discuss the fourth novella in The Assassin's Blade, The Assassin and the Underworld. Trigger warning: This episode contains in-depth discussio...

Carissa and Shay continue their read-through of Throne of Glass by discussing the third novella in The Assassin's Blade, The Assassin and the Desert. After traveling across the desert and almost dying of heat exhaustion, Celaena meets The Silent Assassins, attends a silent disco on steroids, meets her new best friend Ansel (who might be a little more than a friend, if you know what I mean) and des...

Shay and Carissa begin their read-through of the prequel novella to the Throne of Glass series, The Assassin's Blade. Join them as they meet Celaena Sardothien, legendary assassin, determine her bat-signal, and debate whether or not their cats would make effective assassins.

Shay and Carissa chat about differences between the book and movie versions of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry.