Badass Literature Society

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus review of Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen! Barbara was lucky enough to receive an ARC copy of Violet Made of Thorns, which comes out on July 26, 2022. This is a spoiler free review that will let you know if you should buy it, borrow it, or forget about it! Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Want to give us some feedback? Send us an...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Vanishing Half: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is differ...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus episode where we discuss our best and worst books of 2021. It was a good reading year in 2021, but we're excited to see what 2022 will have to offer! Shoutout to Leah at YA Book Chat for getting us to read Realm Breaker for an episode of her podcast! Link to her show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ya-book-chat/id1482522713 Shoutout to The Book Life...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women&a...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus episode where we do a BookTok challenge and tell you about some of our favorite books. For those of you unfamiliar, this is a challenge that can be found on TikTok that we’ve done on the show instead! Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Want to give us some feedback? Send us an email at badassliteraturesociety@gmail.com If you don&apos...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review Strange Practice by Vivan Shaw! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about Strange Practice: Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in bar...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus review of A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about A Gathering of Shadows: It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefa...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about Gideon the Ninth: The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, an...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus episode where we do another BookTok challenge and tell you about some of our favorite High Fantasy books. For those of you unfamiliar, this is a challenge that can be found on TikTok that we’ve done on the show instead! Here is the TikTok the challenge came from: BookTok Challenge Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Want to give us som...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review The Alice Network by Kate Quinn! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Alice Network: 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus review of Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about Shadow and Bone: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulde...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus episode where we do a BookTok challenge and tell you about some of our favorite books. For those of you unfamiliar, this is a challenge that can be found on TikTok that we’ve done on the show instead! Here is the TikTok the challenge came from: BookTok Challenge Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Want to give us some feedback? Send us...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read and review The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in for a bonus review of Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Realm Breaker came onto our radar by way of YA Book Chat 's host, Leah. Make sure you check out Leah on her podcast to hear all three of us discuss Realm Breaker, as well as all of her other great episodes! Here's a little about Realm Breaker: A stran...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read Thirteen  by Steve Cavanagh. If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review riddled with spoilers. Music from: Hooksounds.com Intro: Artist: Nazar R...

Send us Fan Mail This month we read When We Believed in Mermaids  by Barbara O’Neal. If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review riddled with spoilers. Music from: Hooksounds.com In...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone! Welcome to our sixth bonus episode. This time Michael, Barbara, and Lauren talk about our dream cast if they ever make a movie/TV show based on Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Enjoy!  Artwork: Justin Miller Music: Intro & Outro: Hooksounds Original Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Send us an email at badassliteraturesociety@gmail.com If you...

Send us Fan Mail This month Michael, Lauren, and Barbara read Richard Steele's Great White Kangaroo  by Zachary J D'Argonne. If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review ri...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone! Welcome to our fifth bonus episode. This one is special though, because we have Samuel Davel joining us to talk about his debut novel, Dear Monica. Enjoy the interview, and don't forget to check out Samuel's book, available on Amazon.com and from Barnes & Noble.  Samuel Davel Social: @samdavel Artwork: Justin Miller Music: Intro & Outro Hooksounds O...

Send us Fan Mail This month Michael, Lauren, and Barbara read Dear Monica  by Samuel Davel. If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review riddled with spoilers. Music from: Hooksounds...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone! Welcome to our fourth bonus episode. This time Michael & Barbara talk about our dream cast if they ever make a movie/TV show based on Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Enjoy!  Artwork: Justin Miller Music: Intro & Outro: Hooksounds Original Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Send us an email at badassliteraturesociety@gmail.com...

Send us Fan Mail This month Michael, Lauren, and Barbara read City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty. If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review riddled with spoilers. Music from: Hook...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone! Welcome to our third bonus episode. We realized we've never told you much about us, so we put together an episode all about us, your hosts of Badass Literature Society. Enjoy!  Artwork: Justin Miller Music: Intro & Outro: Hooksounds Original Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Send us an email at badassliteraturesociety@gmail.com If...

Send us Fan Mail This month Michael, Lauren, and Barbara read The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling). If you are interested in reading the book, you can still listen to the podcast, but only listen to the first half! Our podcast is split up into two parts; the first half is a completely spoiler free review of the book, while the second half is an in-depth review riddled wit...