One Flesh, One End

In our penultimate Gideon the Ninth recap episode (yes, we're really almost there!!), we look at the last half of Chapter 36, in which the fight against Cytherea concludes with Gideon's sacrifice. We also covered the so-called Western Conference of the first round of our "most iconic lines from Gideon the Ninth " tournament bracket, and continued our discussion of the apocalyps...

The battle with Cytherea errupts as we recap the first half of Chapter 36 in this episode, followed by a dive into a tournament bracket of the most iconic lines in Gideon the Ninth , since we're so close to the end of this book (!!). Then we're taking a step back in time to discuss the timeline of the nuclear apocalypse and resurrection ten thousand years before the events of GTN—the fir...

In this episode, Gideon finds “her last two living allies” [citation needed] in the Canaan House sickroom, and Palamedes goes out with a bang. Baily then torments Kabriya with another word definitions quiz. We end with a long-awaited discussion of our favourite indoor kids, Pal and Cam! A transcript of this episode is available here. SPOILER ALERT: We reference events from all three books in this...

Uh oh, sisters! In this episode, we’re reconnecting with the world’s most normal twins. Chapter 34 finds us in the Seventh House’s lyctoral lab with Ianthe, Corona, and Babs’ dead body. Ianthe performs her villain monologue, reveals Corona’s “bad, sad, secret,” and commits a little light self-defence killing to follow up her main course of first-degree murder. We then take another Nine Houses sort...

Let's hear it for the horrors of love! This episode is the second part of our two-part discussion of the short story "The Unwanted Guest," from the paperback edition of Nona the Ninth . We're taking a deep dive into the implications of this short story for the entire series. * SPOILER ALERT * We reference events from all three books in this podcast, as it’s intended for readers...

It's so over... We're so back! And we're so excited to begin by sinking our teeth into the short story, "The Unwanted Guest," from the paperback edition of Nona the Ninth. This episode is the first of a two-part discussion—in part one,  we recap the events of the short story, featuring our personal faves Ianthe and Palamedes, and in part two (coming soon July 1), we'l...

Hello, fellow boneheads. We miss you and we want to resurrect the pod so... we're launching a Patreon! This is not a regular episode, just a quick update on why we're asking for your support, how it's going to work, and what you can expect from us, including an episode all about 'The Unwanted Guest' we hope to bring you soon! If you want to become a patron, you can find us...

It’s been a minute, but we’re diving back into GIDEON THE NINTH! In this episode, we pick up our reread with Chapters 32 and 33, in which Gideon, Harrow, Pal, and Cam team up to explore a new room, Second House tragedies occur, and we find the last key inside Abigail’s corpse. We rated some hilarious descriptions of The Locked Tomb series from Tumblr users who’ve never read the books, and then it...

We still have so much more to say about Nona the Ninth ! After gushing over two characters we hadn't got to yet—Pyrrha and Pash!—we evaluated how well we did overall in our previous Nona theories episode and discussed the major plot developments and new information gained in this book. We took a fun new Nona quiz, acknowledged a new Kiss Truther scene you may have missed (we certainly did on...

It's another bonus episode all about Nona the Ninth ! (Sort of.) This episode is focused on the biggest theories and questions we had going into Nona and was recorded before we read it, so there aren't any spoilers or discussion of events past the excerpts released before publication. Although the book's obviously out now, we decided to resurrect this bonus episode from the dead, if...

Happy Birthday Nona the Ninth !!!!! Please make sure you've finished reading the book before listening to this episode, as it is entirely made of spoilers. We're celebrating this special day with our very first reactions, recorded within 24 hours of reading Nona and having spoken to no one else about the book yet. This is the first Nona reaction episode we're releasing and we decide...

This episode is about one thing only: THE POOL SCENE. Our best friend Nora joined us to celebrate the iconic Chapter 31 and we had so much fun chatting about everything that goes down in the Canaan House pool—from plot revelations to moments of intimacy we will simply never recover from. (We also have a very important personal agenda to push here and we're trying to convert you all!)  Then a...

Gideon's reeling from discovering the head of Protelisaus the Seventh in Harrow's closet when we start our recap of Chapter 30. A heavy dose of childhood secrets and guilt come to the surface in a conversation with Palamedes that we got very emotional about, and then the mood lightens with some good old inter-House bickering about Dulcinea's use of the beguiling corpse and the very...

Gideon is NOT having a great time as we recap Chapters 28-29, in which she has a truly awful visit with the Eighth House, is too confused to even appreciate Coronabeth's hotness, and finally makes a horrifying discovery in Harrow's closet. Then it's time for a quiz to see which houses we belong to—not to be confused with the new official Tor quiz, because we love to support our loca...

We're going on a guilt spiral with Gideon in Chapters 26-27, before a fight with Harrow blows up everything and leaves us on a thrilling cliffhanger. Baily gets quizzed on words for numbers in different languages, as we study up on the etymology of last names in the Nine Houses, and then it's time for a discussion of the King Undying, the Necrolord Prime, the kindly Prince of Death himse...

Welcome to suffering hours. In a Chapter 25 that's straight out of a horror movie, poor Isaac Tettares and Jeannemary Chatur meet their tragic deaths and we will absolutely never be okay about it. There's a lot of wailing. But we tried to lift the mood afterwards with a fun vocab quiz, the second part of our discussion about lyctors Augustine and Mercymorn—including a look at the paralle...

WE'RE BACK!!! And we're making up for our absence by bringing you sexy duels and sexy bones! Canaan House is plunged into chaos in Chapters 23-24, as the houses start fighting for possession of the keys. Camilla gets the chance to show off her duelling skills to a (mostly) unsuspecting audience and we can't possibly scream enough about it. Then it's time for another fun quiz, t...

It's getting tense at Canaan House as we recap Chapters 21-22, in which discoveries are made about just how many keys there are for everyone to fight over and some mysterious remains are discovered in the incinerator... Then to lighten the mood, we play a classic game of fuck, marry, kill with the beloved (and not so beloved) characters of the Locked Tomb, before launching into a discussion a...

Our tenth episode is finally here! Gideon and Harrow are taking on the avulsion trial in Chapter 20 and we certainly feel like we've been through it too after all the technical delays we had to get through to put this out. We revisit Goodreads to see if we can tell the difference between some wild one- and five-star reviews of Gideon the Ninth, and then it's time to discuss CYTHEREA—her...

There are too many mysteries to keep track of in this episode! In Chapters 18-19, no one can agree on what happened to Magnus and Abigail and suspicions are cast wildly. Then Gideon and Harrow explore the very well-preserved rooms of a certain "G" and "P" and Gideon finds a note that happens to have her name on it... So it's time to discuss everything we know (and the many...

It’s time for more of the epic highs and lows of Canaan House. In episode 8, we recap Gideon and Harrow’s triumph over the winnowing trial and the tragic discovery of Magnus and Abigail’s bodies in Chapters 16-17. After another vocabulary quiz to familiarize ourselves with more of the fun words Tamsyn keeps throwing at us, we pay homage to the deceased Fifth House necromancer and cavalier with a d...

There's a lot happening at Canaan House! In Chapters 14-15, Gideon's introduced to the winnowing trial and gets to fight a truly terrifying bone construct. Then it's time to celebrate the eleventh year of Magnus and Abigail's espousal with a dinner party—and a seating plan—for everyone. We also take a fun quiz to figure out which characters we're most similar to in the Loc...

This week, it's time for Gideon and Harrow to finally join forces in Chapter 13, we dive into deeper, darker corners of the Internet (and probably get put on a watch list somewhere) to find out just where Harrow would be able to get her hands on some bones in the 21st century and how much it would cost her, and we talk about the dynamics between our beloved Third House representatives at Cana...

In our first bonus episode, we're stepping away from our reread for an interview with a very special guest: Carl Engle-Laird, editor of the Locked Tomb series. We discussed a poem from Nona the Ninth that was recently released by Tor.com Publishing, then looked back over Carl's journey editing this series, from his first impression of Gideon the Ninth to the decision to split Alecto the...

Ambience, baby 💀 This week, Baily and Kabriya recap Chapter 12, in which Harrow goes missing and Gideon is definitely, totally celebrating while also desperately trying to rescue her with the help of the Sixth House. Then we take a look at how hard it would be for Harrow to get her hands on necromantic materials via eBay in the 21st century, and we do our first deep dive into one of the cavalier/...