Spoil Me

Thank you to Martin for commissioning this episode! This section of chapters we get a pretty brutal showdown with Yisht and Zole, and I for one did think for a moment that Zole had actually died. Turns out that she's okay and manages to basically rescue Nona from these caves, but if we know now that she's not dead...why isn't she at the convent? Where did she go? Also, the battle is coming to the...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we get a little more of the revolution in Sachaka as it ramps up enough to be noticed by the Achati, and I really hope they're prepared for the backlash because I want them to succeed! I don't think this is the kind of book where they'd fail after all this time, but she could be prepping another series, who knows. A...

Thank you very much to Agnes for commissioning this episode! This was a really strange one because it sort of went back and forth on the way it wanted to not only depict sex workers, but also in the way it wanted Veronica to react to sex workers. This could certainly have been worse, so in some ways I was pleasantly surprised, but then there were moments when Veronica would say something that boil...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones in which the girls get together to try to steal a banned book from what amounts to the National Archive, and it's actually really fucking nerve wracking! Thanks so much for listening, and I will be seeing you soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Jaime for commissioning this episode! Y'all I am totally hooked on this show and I'm really agitated that the next episode isn't going to be until January. Goddammit.

Thank you again so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, the Traitors and Kyralia fail to come to a deal that would involve the Kyralians aiding the Traitors in attacking the Sachakans, and the Traitors say "Fuck it" and just go ahead and do it anyway because that seems like a damn good attittude to have regarding ending slavery. I'm delighted to see how much support...

Thank you very much to Devin for commissioning this episode! The endings of these damn books have made me cry almost every time, and this is no exception. Goddammit, Diane. Thanks for listening, and I might see you with some more episodes in a few months!

Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I am really surprised by the massive twist in these chapters, which is when Sonea goes out into the wasteland and finds a bunch of small magical stones planted in different areas to keep the land from ever being fertile again. While a part of me wants Sonea to be right about who planted them because that's a total baller move, I'm also...

Thank you so much to Paul for commissioning this episode! Wow, so this was a helluva first episode. I'm so glad that I didn't watch this show on my own because I'm really excited to officially cover it, but also I'm really mad that I can't binge it because I am fucking HOOKED, kids. DO YOU HEAR ME? I have so many thoughts and I don't really cover this chronologically so I hope you're ready for som...

Thank to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! Whew, so these chapters are getting spicy now, kids! We find out that Lorkin doesn't even know why he was let out of prison, and he winds up being the target of yet another undercover agent disguised as a slave. He gets saved by a Traitor YET AGAIN (you owe them a lot, Lorkin) and finally gets smuggled out of the Guild House by Ashaki Achati. Meanw...

Thank you Martin for commissioning this episode! I know that this was hinted at in the last section, but somehow I missed the fact that there's a new Abbess in town and I'm SHOOK, children. Do you hear me? I HATE IT. There's so much that happens here that I should really be focusing on, but I can't get past that. I'm OUT. See you again soon!

Thank you to Martin for commissioning this episode! I can't believe we're in the last leg of this series! It doesn't feel like we could possibly be at the end of this enormous story already, because there are still so many moving pieces and unknown factors. Are there more books set in this universe? In this section, we do some jumping back and forth in time, starting right where we left off in the...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! So in the last set of chapters, Lorkin is subjected to second-hand physical torture, in that he's forced to watch while an innocent woman is tortured. In this set of chapters, we find out that they are likely putting him in a situation where he can heal her and then they can just torture her again, which is brutal. In the end, she beg...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! So in these chapters we find out who Sonea's assistant is going to be, and it turns out it's Regin which I feel is obvious in retrospect and YET! Also, there's a pretty intense scene with Lorkin being questioned and I'm not a fan of it, ladies and gentlemen. Not a fan at all. Also, Cery & Co. are breaking into the Guild to steal cloth...

Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode! We're still dealing with the aftermath of the virus being released into the wild, and shit has gotten pretty bad pretty fast. Jenny, who is partially responsible for the whole fucking thing, has the unmitigated gall to act put-upon that she has to actually live through her own death, and even when she's replaced in her head by someone...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, Lillia is roped into helping Anyi and Cery and Gol although I'm sure she wouldn't call it that since she's only too glad to help. I was pleased that Gol looks like he's going to be okay, although I'm disappointed yet again by how much this author hates writing about magic. Meanwhile, Lorkin is out here standing up t...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! Y'all, I am really not kind to these books in this episode. Please brace yourselves for me being extremely harsh about the way the stories are constructed, the choices that the author chooses to make, the fact that the final two chapters of the book bring NOTHING NEW at all to the table, and how the characters all seem virtually inter...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I thought that this would be the final episode of coverage for this book, but it turns out that there were about 75 pages left and I just didn't really feel comfortable with packing all that into one episode. The next episode I'm going to do the final two chapters of this book, and the first chapter of The Traitor Queen! In these chap...

Thank you to Martin for commissioning this episode! First, I want to keep anyone listening from yelling at me by getting out ahead of my initial mistake on the show: I mistakenly thought that both Tacsis men survived, and instead I discover later that the father did indeed die and only the son, Lano, is left. Which I must say, was a delightful surprise and made me really happy. I absolutely love t...

Thank you very much to Arielle for commissioning this episode, and for commissioning the live-watch of it that I did earlier in the same evening! This episode really had its highs and lows. On the high side, I'm very VERY into this new romance that Mac has got going on with this adorable eyebrow guy who wants to save the planet and kiss puppies and pet kittens. On the low side, Veronica is a dink...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I'm so delighted that the whole thing with Naki and Lillia is taken care of this episode. I just wasn't really sure how much longer that was going to go on, and considering how irritated I was last episode, I really think it's for the best that that storyline be wrapped up. Supposedly Naki will be executed, but I have an idea that I'm...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! These chapters were a little awkward for me as I realized that what I THOUGHT the author was doing wasn't actually what was happening. I thought that Lillia would be the babe-in-the-woods naive type, and everyone else would begin to figure out that she'd been played. It...did not happen that way. Meanwhile, Lorkin is learning how to make the st...

Thank you so much to Martin for commissioning this episode! Y'all. I'm real fucking salty about these chapters. DARLA. MY SWEET WONDERFUL DARLA. I'm so sad that this awesome force of nature has been taken down, and the fact that it was Joeli who did it makes me want to break her in half myself. I really don't know what to think about how the Shipheart works, and part of me is super curious and wan...

Thank you to Agnes for commissioning this episode, and thank you to Rachel for commissioning the live watch! I'm really glad that it looks like the rape storyline is pretty much over, and I'm very interested in this new murder plot that has started up. It came as quite a surprise and there are a lot of players in the Dean's storyline that could potentially have killed him, so this should be really...

Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this fun episode and including Krista as a host! Those of you who listened to the episodes of coverage of Great British Bake Off that I did with Krista last year will know that while Krista herself isn't a baker, that doesn't mean she has has no opinions or appreciation of the craft! While Krista had never seen Derry Girls when we recorded this episo...