Faeted The Podcast

***SPOILER ALERTS - All spoilers for the The Serpent and the Wings of Night We apologise for the audio glitches in this episode and the sudden ending! It’s still a great episode and discussion of a book we both loved so please bare with us as we sort out our tech challenges. The Crowns of Nyaxia series begins with "The Serpent and The Wings of Night” and is a 6 book unfinished series in total...

***SPOILER ALERTS - No spoilers in this episode Maj attended the Blussh Romance Festival in Brisbane this week with one of our favorite authors Stacey McEwan from “Ledge” and “Chasm” and soon to be “Valley” speaking at the event. In this episode we talk about why we want to start our bookclub now, small and intimate and open to anybody who enjoys Romantasy or who wants to reignite their reading fi...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode has major spoilers for the Throne of Glass series Heir Of Fire is Book 4 in the Throne of Glass series by our Queen Sarah J.Maas and we dive into our favorite scenes, the moments that stole our breath, the scenes that held answers for us and the many, many new characters and story arcs that left us begging for more. This book really sets up many plot lines that are...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode has no spoilers With the recent release of Crescent City #3 we were bombarded with deep theories and wild predictions about how SJM would wrap up this series. It made us curious about the different types of readers we have in our community, those who avoid and have no desire to dive into theories and those who map it all out, know all the clues and piece things tog...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode has no spoilers. Majella’s gorgeous partner spends some time on Reddit and introduced her to some interesting threads about romance and smut books. Some men are seriously concerned about their partners reading habits and others are leaning in…. hard to the book boyfriend role. We basically hit record and read through it together. Haven’t laughed this much in a whil...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode has no spoilers. There has been quite the drama this week on Booktok after an author declared, in her opinion, that those who review books at 3 stars are a**holes and, well.... we of course want to discuss it. We thought it raised some really interesting things to consider about about the impact that poor reviews have on author’s sales and income as well as their m...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode is full of spoilers for Powerless by Lauren Roberts Powerless is the debut novel from Lauren Roberts. She wrote it when she was 16, indie published at 20, was picked up by a publishing house and had a NYT bestseller by 21yrs old. Impressive hey? She is also huge on Tiktok and has built a solid following on the platform. We read Powerless over the summer and we enjo...

***SPOILER ALERTS -  We’re not sure if there are true spoilers in this episode but we speak about the books we read on holidays and mention plot points and moments in the books.  Coming back after the Christmas holidays, we share what we actually read from our TBR list (hint - it wasn’t what we expected). Carlie shares her thoughts on her equal favourites and Majella admits she went rogue from her...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode is full of spoilers from Crown of Midnight If you have read Crown of Midnight and want to nod along to your book-besties sharing their experience of it then this is the episode for you. Our favorite scenes, the love stories, the reclamation of her identity and her true power and influence in the world and of course how bad-ass a warrior she is. We loved the world-b...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This episode has no spoilers so listen freely.  A light-hearted chat between book besties excited about a fresh year of reading. Majella and Carlie walk through their ambitious summer holiday reading lists. Carlie has a couple of weeks vacation with her family so reading by the pool and long morning lay-ins with coffee and a book sound perfect to her. Majella has creative time...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This is episode has no spoilers so listen freely.  Where do we sit on the literary standard scale? How much do we care about grammatically correct writing when the plot is great? When can we no longer read because the writing is so terrible? We chat randomly about what we need in our books to stay inspired to stick with it. We are not literary snobs over here at fae.ted but the...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This is a deep dive into Iron Flame - Part 2 so we are spoiling the whole thing. Listen AFTER you have read the book We are back to dive into Part 2 of Iron Flame which we both devoured fast and fervently. This book is a top pick of ours for 2023. We share our fav scenes like ‘the shower scene’ and ‘the throne scene’ and how we like our men feral/primal and possessive in our bo...

**BONUS EPISODE** dropping like it's hot to help you give (or get) the best book themed gifts this year. All budgets, all types of readers, all sorts of ideas for you to wow your friend/family/lover (or to send to your family members so you can receive something wonderful yourself). Hope it helps! Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Book Collector's Editions 03:03 Gift Vouchers and Kindle 05:0...

***SPOILER ALERTS - This is a deep dive into Iron Flame - Part 1 so we are spoiling the whole thing. Listen AFTER you have read the book We have been chomping at the bit to share our Iron Flame thoughts, feelings, opinions and theories. We recap all of Part 1 and talk in depth about the moral dilemmas that our main characters Violet and Xaden experience after The Fourth Wing played out. We share o...

***SPOILER ALERTS - No spoilers in this episode. Listen in as we share our read lists from 2023. It was a great year of reading where we both rediscovered our love of fiction novels and found out how much we love smut, dark romance and fantasy worlds. Listen along for some new authors to discover and books to add to your end of year reading lists. We would love to hear what your favorite reads of...

* **SPOILER ALERTS - We share some minor character spoilers in this episode but nothing majorly important. In this episode we share our love and obsession for Sarah J Maas' ACOTAR series including how we discovered it, devoured it and continue to discuss it months later. We were both surprised that we would love it so much so if you felt the same this will resonate. We share the phenomenal suc...

Firstly we apologise for the crazy audio in this episode. We certainly have our training wheels on here and we understand how hard it is to listen to crappy sound but alas here we are. The episode was too good to re-record. Thanks for your understanding. In this episode we discuss the genre of fantasy romance and the stories that fit in this space + - the talent of authors to balance the required...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Minimal spoilers in this episode We apologise for the audio quality in this episode as we are on our training wheels and this episode just didn’t want to play well with us. Thank you for your understanding, things improve from here! SHOW NOTES In this episode we wanted to share how we read and discuss how reading can be wonderful and also maybe an addiction that impacts our liv...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Minimal spoilers in this episode SHOW NOTES Welcome to a sneak peek into our weird and wonderful brains and our ever flowing messenger chat space. We have many curious questions to ask our favourite authors but until we are popular enough to actually interview them we will make do with creating episodes where we share them with you, our listeners, and discuss further.  Who know...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Big spoiler warning here. We are debriefing the entire book so come back to this episode after you've read it. SHOW NOTES Hot topics we discuss - How we are both in a state of mourning in this episode and unsure what to read next - The impressive size and girth of magical ‘wands’ and how well they are wielded. - Whether authors have answers to any of our questions about any...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Minimal spoilers in this episode SHOW NOTES Anyone who is as obsessed with reading has a TBR list, it might be in your head, written in your phone notes or saved in your Goodreads but rest assured you are probably haunted by how many books there are in the world and how little time there is to read them. In this episode we share our TBR habits and how we feel about reading FOMO...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Major spoilers in this episode so do not listen if you have not read Throne of Glass. SHOW NOTES The first book in the Throne of Glass series from Sarah J Maas creates our the world that we are about to become obsessed with over the next 8 books. We discuss the plot points and how we are introduced to our character cast. The moral dilemmas for our protagonist Celeana Sardothien...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Major spoilers in this episode so do not listen if you have not read The Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros SHOW NOTES The first book in the Empyrean series from Rebecca J Maas is The Fourth Wing. This book takes no time in drawing the reader into the world of Basgiath War College in Navarre. We follow the experience of Violet Sorrengail as she fights, literally, to become a dragon r...

***SPOILER ALERTS - Major spoilers in this episode so do not listen if you have not read The Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros Welcome to the second part of our ‘The Fourth Wing’ debrief. We just couldn’t contain all the great elements of this fantasy romance novel into one episode so we are back to share our thoughts and feelings about it! We also share what we are reading right now and thank you for...

* **SPOILER ALERTS - We share some minor character spoilers in this episode but nothing majorly important. WELCOME to our new podcast. We are SO excited to be sharing with you our thoughts, feelings, reactions, ponderings and yearnings about the books we are reading, in particular fantasy romance. We are currently obsessed with this genre. We are losing sleep, choosing to read over socialising, av...