Book Reviews Kill

The House is Dead and its gates remain locked to all but the bravest with the purest of intentions. Join Evan and Chad as they explore the Deadhouse Gates Warren, book 4 of the second volume of Steven Erikson’s infamous Malazan Book of the Fallen.  This is the final part of this 4 episode series covering the second book, Deadhouse Gates, called by the same name, Deadhouse Gates. Emotions are high...

Join Evan and Chad as they take a break from the present-day timeline of Throne of Glass as they recap and then review The Assassin's Blade - a collection of short stories taking us through important events of this story's past. New characters, old loves, evil mentors, aspiring healers, and revenge-driven horse thieves take center stage as our fearless hosts process and discuss this important preq...

What’s that? You are looking to hang out with two best friends who love their books? Join Evan and Chad for the highly anticipated weekly book discussion episode the Monday Morning Minute! They talk books, maybe some stories, books, and even yes, books. Chad also might make fun of Evan for not continuing to watch Andor, the new Star Wars show, and Evan may be a bit enamored with The Last Of Us, wh...

Once again, our fearless hosts find themselves deep within the terrifying warrens of the second volume of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Best friends and amazing listeners joining them in their perilous journey are many times the only thing giving them the courage to proceed. Today they trek through the book review warrens of book three, Chain of Dogs from Stephen Erikson's second installment in the...

Join our fearless hosts Evan and Chad as they boldly go where many have gone before and review the second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, Crown of Midnight. It is not recommended you listen at midnight though as there be assassins in these parts. If they catch you, they will make you fake your death and leave town, and if you need 30 days arrange business and life that can be arran...

Emotions are high as Evan and Chad, our fearless hosts summarize, review, and discuss Lightbringer, the 6th book in Pierce Brown’s insanely popular science fiction series, Red Rising. Much like Darrow’s uprising, the last three books of this review series were a bit drawn out and tedious as scheduling conflicts and life events replaced the typical one-book-per-week clip that is the BRK norm. Pleas...

You have survived the hell that is the weekend once again! I applaud your strength ye Tome Terror, Page Pulveriser, Master and Commander of the far Page of the Papyrous. Many of you at least faking a smile, pretending to be happy - but all the while knowing nothing can supplant the sheer raw joy and happiness felt when Monday occurs and a fresh Minute awaits you. The wait is over and the BRK boys...

Oh, the humanity! Rebellion has whipped the sands and peoples of the Seven Cities into a frenzy. Join our fearless hosts as they boldly explore the second book (Whirlwind) in Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates, volume two in Malazan Book of the Fallen. The sandy Book Review Warren is fraught with shape changers, insane wizards, demons, unexplainable warren magic, lost wanderers, thirsty prisoners on...

Like lightning striking sand the BRK boys are at it again, this time their fearless book-reviewing expedition takes them deep into the secret tunnels beneath the Throne of Glass. Book one, bearing the same name, is Maas’s much-loved debut novel she started writing at the age of 16. While Chad was longboarding barefoot routinely picking glass and gravel out of his feet and Evan was changing the nam...

Once upon a time it was now and you found the best book review podcast ever. Holy cow, you also found a link to the best book community discord server ever👇. Truly a bastion of bookish delights and a welcoming home for your page-slaying soul, where pages turn almost as fast as heads as this community is also insanely good-looking. Oh wait, that was a mirror, dang you are looking good today - you’...

Our fearless hosts find themselves deep past the Malazan Book of the Fallen event horizon, unable to turn back even if they wanted to. Today, they traverse the warren of book two in this series, Deadhouse Gates - specifically diving deep into Raraku, the first of this four-part tome. Danger and confusion are their only companions in this dark magic-filled realm. Well - their only companions beside...

It's Monday - yay! Every week thousands of you, our beloved Book Benders, gnash your teeth, rip your clothes, and cover yourself in sackcloth and ashes every weekend waiting for this exact moment. Is there anything that fills one so fully with rage on Friday knowing that if the weekend didn’t exist the Monday Morning Minute would be right now? Your resilience in getting through the doldrums of eve...

Binti is the first of her people to leave her home and receive an education off-planet. In this trilogy of novellas (love that format) we follow Binti, a member of the mysterious Himba people who keep to themselves and preach a strict adherence to culture. This theme of culture comes up many times and is both a hindrance to some and for others the only reason they manage to survive some hairy situ...

Once again, our fearless hosts find themselves deep within the dark warrens of the first volume of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Once again, they are comforted by your presence, dear listener as they traverse the swirling eddies; this time visiting the warrens of books five, six, and seven of Stephen Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon, The Gadrobi Hills, The City of Blue Fire, and The Fete.  Though their...

Book Friends Assemble!! It’s Monday and the Minute is now! Like right now, no seriously, that is all the description you’re going to get. You know what to do. Hit play and join our fearless hosts for another exciting episode of Book Reviews Kill!    Will Wight Kickstarter Link👉 https://bit.ly/48ESf9V     🏆Join The Patreon Family👉 https://bit.ly/3Th8PFo --------BRK-------- 🎁 Buy us Books🫶 🌝Ev...

The smoky paths shift and dance as our two fearless hosts traverse the Gardens of the Moon Book Review Warren. Confusion swirls. The pathway forward is ever-shrouded in mystery. Though our hosts typically fearless stride is accompanied by the tremors of fear, they know that together, dear listener, even a Warren of Malazan, Book of the Fallen shall reveal its secrets.  Today Evan and Chad's book r...

Malazan, Book of the Fallen. A tale of layers, from kings and gods to paupers and merchant sons. A multi-dimensional story that has been capturing the attention of its readers since its release on the yearly day where lies are common, bringing laughter and fun to both fooler and fooled, April 1st 1999. Whether by coincidence or the machinations of the Ascendant Oponn, this series is not to be take...

It’s a Monday and this is the Minute! Join Evan and Chad as they talk books, review books, discuss books, lament books, hype books, love books, and maybe talk about Star Trek . . . on another exciting episode of Book Reviews Kill! (I know many thousands of you are on the edge of your seats waiting for a reason to put on your headphones and pretend you are working so I kept it short for y'all❤️)  ...

Death, death, death, sadness, death, regret, betrayal, death, torture, and more death! Welcome to Dark Age book five of the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. Bring your razors, friends as, unknown to either of our hosts, both have brought their philosophical Slingblades and in a rare turn of events find the other on the opposing side. With the whisper-quiet of a page-turning, each unsheathes thei...

Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed, Locus Award winning novel  The Mountain in the Sea,  and the upcoming  The Tusks Of Extinction .    The Mountain in the Sea , in addition to winning the Locus Award for best First Novel, was a finalist for the Nebula Award and for the LA Times Book Awards' Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. As always it is...

The time is once again upon us! Once again, dear listener you are invited to join our fearless hosts who are joined and no doubt massively improved by the presence of the lovely and ineffable Zoranne. In this review and discussion of The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik's third and final book in The Scholomance series you will see clever banter, snappy wit, and a non-zero amount of genteel critique. W...

Friends, Family, and all ye bookish souls! Join our fearless hosts, Evan and Chad as they start the year off right with some exciting reads. Evan leads the charge with some highly anticipated fantasy news and reviews some of the excellent releases that 2024 has in store. Chad fights monsters and murderous robots and has somehow managed to once again find a Netflix Anime gem he is excited to share....

Friends, just wow. What a year 2023 has been - both in the growth and quality of this awesome community and in the sheer volume of pages consumed on this, by now absolutely cemented into the number one world’s favorite, book podcast. We declined Guinness coming to give us accolades. Mostly due to BRK not wanting to promote a style of stress-reading, one must adopt to accomplish such an Olympian sl...

It is 2024!! Happy New Year! Start this year off right with your favorite Book-loving hosts, Evan and Chad as they stay on track and definitely don’t start this year off with a million rabbit trails.. As such, I won’t add to the amount of distractions within this episode with the usual loquacious expose and will cut straight to the chase - hit play and join our fearless hosts for what is to be a g...

Merry Christmas! Yes, tis true, ye’ bookish soul, our fearless Book Reviews Kill host’s did craft you an episode on this jolliest of Mondays. Though this book podcast episode description is once again a masterpiece of finely-crafted descriptive exposition, no jot or tittle misplaced, every word chosen with care, it shall not keep you long. You no-doubt have a schedule as full as our fearless hosts...