Spoil Me

Before I launch into talking about how damn uncomfortable this episode was to watch, I want to thank Nancy for commissioning this episode. I have a live-watch of the next episode scheduled on Facebook, which you should be able to find in events or in videos if you miss it, and I'm very curious what that's going to be about. Okay. So this episode. YIKES. This shit is way too timely. I cannot tell y...

Many thanks to Ashleigh for keeping me chugging steadily along on these Black Magician books with all her commissions! Please follow this link to grab the book if you'd like to read along. https://amzn.to/2DLR8u6 This section is when the bullying of Sonea takes a turn that I never saw coming, but I fucking should have! Regin begins to spread the rumor that there is something sexual going on betwee...

Well, I would like all of you to yell at Ashlynn for commissioning a book that has made me cry during both episodes of coverage so far. I fully anticipate that this is going to be a trend with this book. The second section introduces us to a new character called Syenite, who works at the Fulcrum and is forced to have sex with males there in order to breed more orogenes. The whole thing is really h...

Thank you again to Patricia for commissioning The Dark Lord Of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones! These chapters are where we see what Derk's poor kids have to deal with while he's down for the count, and I'm going to warn you right now; I get a little preachy this episode. Listen, I hardly feel like I'm out of line on this one; Diana Wynn Jones clearly has some things to say about the way the prison...

Hello everyone, welcome back to Hexed, the third book in the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne! You can pick up the book here, if you're interested! https://amzn.to/2Q8oVDA This episode is brought to you by Sue Hayes, and I want to thank her for commissioning more of this book because I have been really hard on Atticus and I want to see some redemption. Usually 5 chapters makes for 50 pages al...

FINALLY! Thank you so much to Rosalie for commissioning the next book in the Young Wizards series, Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane! I have to confess I didn't expect that it would be so long before someone commissioned another book from this series, but I started to come to terms with the fact that maybe the other books weren't as good and nobody wanted to hear about them. I AM VERY EXCITED TO BE WRO...

Yay! Coming at you with the second installment of The Novice, this time brought to you by Ashleigh, and this section is pretty tough in a lot of ways. It's never easy to read about bullying, and it's even more infuriating when the person orchestrating the bullying is being supported by the people with power...in this case, the teachers. I said this in the last episode as well, but classism on this...

Welcome back, Marshmallows! I'm here with another episode of Veronica Mars, and in this one we've got a young girl who has gone missing, apparently abducted by her father's rivals. OR WAS SHE. Also, this episode we get the funeral for Logan's mom, and it's really weird because we don't really get insight into why he's acting the way that he is until the very end, when he finally tells Duncan the t...

Welcome back to the Wonderful World Of Wynne Jones! I'm here with another episode sponsored by Patricia, and I really want you to read along so do yourselves a favor and get the book for yourself here! https://amzn.to/2qTh7Yg So in these chapters, Derk summons a demon. It goes much worse than I expected, because the demon's mere presence is like acid on the skins of all the people who come in cont...

It's time for a brand new book, and I'm excited to be covering something else written by a black woman that was not only authored by a black woman, but was authored by someone who won the Hugo Award THREE FUCKING TIMES. Many thanks to Ashlynn for commissioning this, and I'm going to warn you that I cry in this episode so be ready. Look, just do me a favor. Go on out and buy this book. https://amzn...

Greetings, fine people! Huge thanks to Ben for commissioning this episode covering The Novice, which is a follow-up to The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan. I was hoping that I wasn't done reading about that world, and it looks like Fergun being gone isn't going to make things that much easier for Sonea in the end. Sonea has existed in a subsection of society that knows all too well how little mo...

Hello again, lovelies! I'm here with the next episode of The Dark Lord Of Derkholm thanks to Patricia, and I'm finally starting to understand more of what the hell is going on in Derk's family. Turns out that Dark used some of his and his wife's DNA in the creation of the griffins, so when Blade thought to himself that they were brothers and sisters, he meant that literally. They are related by bl...

Hello, Marshmallows! Welcome to the episode where I start of mad at Veronica for doing something that I consider way over the line, and many thanks to Agnes for commissioning this episode! So, the thing I am mad about is Veronica bugging the counselor's office and listening in on what should be confidential conversations. I know that she spies and listens in all the time, but it feels extra gross...

Y'all, there are just some books that you finish and then you stare at the final page in literal disbelief that the story is over. Sunshine is one of those books. It's not that I didn't like the ending, although it wasn't really the satisfying capper that I was hoping for. It's just that the whole thing is so much more nuanced than I expected, and the fact that this is a story about battling vampi...

Hey there, listeners! It's time for the next installment of Iron Druid, and in this episode we get into a pretty hairy fight with a gross demon that turns out to be a fallen angel. Oh, and also we meet Mary, Mother of God. NBD. While I still think Atticus is a major shit and hope that he gets smacked in the head a million times, I can at least root for Coyote in the fight against the demon, althou...

Many MANY thanks to Denise Atwood for commissioning several "blank check" episodes of Spoil Me! and letting me choose what I wanted to read! I'm using two episodes on Parable Of The Sower, and I am still deciding what I'm going to use the third one for so I will keep you all posted. This was a truly heart wrenching read, in many ways because this whole disaster was sort of inevitable. It's just a...

It's the episode where Jaime co-hosted, everyone come and listen! Many thanks to Jaime and Nancy who purchased a wannabe-level episode in order to get Jaime on the air with me! Jaime is a seasoned Marshmallow and knows everything that happens on this show, so she was very careful while discussing theories with me. This episode was way more high-stakes than any of the other case-of-the-weeks that w...

It's been a minute! There was a lull there where nobody had commissioned the next episode and I was absolutely dying to read the next section and finally I had to go into the Spoil Me! Facebook group and demand that someone help me out. So thank you to Rachel for coming through for me on that one, and the final episode was booked for tomorrow so we'll be wrapping up soon! The main takeaway of this...

This is the final episode covering The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan, and I'm so delighted with the whole general vibe of this book and how it turned out, I can't even tell you. Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning practically the whole thing! Fergun doesn't exactly get his comeuppance in this book like I had hoped, but to be honest I had expected things to turn out even worse than...

Oh boy, it's time for me to start on a new book, and it's another one by Diana Wynne Jones! This time Patricia has commissioned The Dark Lord Of Derkholm, and I'm completely blindsided by how very different in tone this one is from Fire & Hemlock. The gist of the story so far is that there's a fantastical land that's somehow under the thumb of an insufferable man that I believe is from our world,...

Thank you, first and foremost, to Tony Collien for commissioning this episode and cohosting it with me! I have been wanting to watch this movie for ages and I've been putting it off because I'm a big fraidy cat. This movie was really really intense, from every standpoint. The imagery is bleak and heavily shadowed, the language is antiquated to the point of almost seeming foreign, the music is eith...

Oh boy oh boy oh boy...y'all. Did you know that the way to my heart is a knife through an abusive man's stomach? MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME. I can't figure out where the hell things are going to go from here because it really seems like the shit has hit the fan in some ways. I mean, shit's going down in the Echolls family, clearly, but there's also the whole thing with Veronica confronting Duncan's dad...

Join me for the first Wannabe-style episode of Spoil Me! in which the author of the book, Robin Farrell, joins me on the mic to discuss Resistance Rising: A Genre Wars Novel. I confess that I was a little nervous about doing an episode where I reviewed a book right in front of the author, but thankfully this book was a lot of fun and Robin was cool, so it wound up being really fun. This book, whic...

I have been really enjoying this book, and I'm really unsure of how things are going to leave off. I feel like the fact that it's a series points to the idea that things can't have a happy ending, but ugh I'm really going to hate seeing Fergun win this round, even if I'm privately confident that he's going to get what's coming to him eventually. And even if he does get what's coming to him, the da...

Oh boy! I'm always excited to start a new book, but the fact that this is the second book in a series is particularly exciting because I feel like I'm really starting a voyage, here. I hope that you all enjoy coming along with me! I'm gonna be straight with y'all right out of the gate and admit that as of right now, I'm officially NOT Team Atticus. This dude has no sense of responsibility to the p...