Spoil Me

First of all, I'm going to include the link to the Crowdcast for this episode because it's so heavy on the visuals that it's way better to watch than to listen. So if you have the time, please check it out! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/spoil-me-saga Many thanks to Maccewill for commissioning this episode, which is the first time I have covered a comic book for Spoil Me! and only the third time cover...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! If you're interested in reading along, please check out my affiliate link here to get the book! https://amzn.to/2S9PTJh This episode is when some real shit goes down. Sonea was captured last episode, after a really tense moment where her loss of control could have basically levelled the city block...and very nearly did. She's starting to grow a...

Thank you again to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! So I had been saying last time I recorded on Parable Of The Sower that I wasn't sure what the book was actually going to be about. In other words, there was a lot of worldbuilding and daily events being shared, but there wasn't necessarily an overarching plot or goal, so I was thinking that perhaps the whole book was going to be a "slice o...

Thank you to Rachel Eton for commissioning this week's episode of Veronica Mars! This was kind of a weird one, actually, in that the themes were a little more esoteric and the ending was not a happy one. To be honest, in a lot of ways this episode was a bummer because the way everything wound up was sort of bleak. The one bright spot here was that Veronica decides that she doesn't need to know who...

In these chapters of The Magicians' Guild (brought to you by Ashley!) we see what the Guild's classes are like from the POV of two interlopers who came to spy and steal some books. Also, Sonea spots something mighty suspicious going on in one of the outbuildings, and I'm not positive, but I think that was Akkarin? Yikes!

This is the episode of VM where I finally get low-key confirmation of some shit that I had been suspecting this whole time. Now, one could argue that whatever this weirdo dude is saying to Veronica isn't actual fact and it's just him messing with her head, and that is certainly possible. But I'm going to say that maybe one of those cases where you use a truth to fuck with someone's head because it...

Welcome to the next episode of The Magicians' Guild which is being brought to you by Ashleigh! You can buy the book to read along here: https://amzn.to/2MYKHsW In these chapters, we get some really frustrating but excellent scenes of evasion and attempts to ensnare Sonea, and I'm very much here for the way Canavan has set this whole thing up. Also, I wasn't sure what the deal was going to be betwe...

Y'all. This was a LOT. Thank you so much to Patricia for commissioning this ENTIRE GHATDAMN BOOK, and I'm so delighted to have read it. I really need to check out more by Diana Wynn-Jones. So this episode covers everything that led to Polly's memory being wiped out, and she's got some weird, fucked-up memories, y'all. Turns out that Laurel IS a fucking Fairy! I had theorized something like this in...

Hey you guys! It's time for another episode of Sunshine by Robin McKinley, this time brought to you by Rachel Eaton! And in this section, Rae finds out that SOF might be a little more shady than she first suspected. They put a fetch in her car, which was intended to get her to help them...but thankfully they put it in a car filled with cast-off charms that kept her from being affected by the worst...

Hey you all! It's time for the penultimate episode of Fire & Hemlock, in which I am ready to pop because there are so many things that are coming together and yet there's still such a mystery! I'm going to let the episode speak for itself, and I hope you enjoy it.

It's been a little bit since the last episode, and I have had some time to get over my shock at what the hell Rosalie made me read last time. STILL NOT FORGIVEN, ROSALIE. But in this section, we get to meet the Goddess of Pain and she's really not someone to fuck with. Once I'm in the middle of the recording I realize that she must be a magic handler, but I'm not sure what that means in terms of h...

It seems like all the universe wants me to think about, talk about, watch TV about lately is rape. So here's some more. Major TW for sexual assault and abuse. This episode is about more than just the case of the week, but because I had figured out the twist pretty early on it was hovering over me all episode. The main, and most enjoyable part, of this episode was Logan and Weevil working together...

This section is so strange because of Seb getting involved with Polly. I just do not know how to feel about this. The way that she's clearly not than enthusiastic is kind of sad but also hilarious? I also want to know a lot more about Polly's grandmother, who seems to keep having some kind of inkling about things and I'm dying over it. Well-informed older women are some of my faves. Thank you agai...

Oh boy, it's the first scary movie of the Halloween season! I'm really excited to be kicking off with The Thing because it's one of those classics I had always intended to watch and never got around to, so thanks a million to David Waters for commissioning this episode. This movie was NUTS and if you guys are interested in the uber-meta experience of watching me watch it, the Crowdcast link is her...

*rolls up sleeves* Alright, now we're cooking with gas! I'm totally into the whole "we have to make a deal with the devil because they have awesome resources that nobody else seems to have access to" trope, and in this section we get a double-whammy of that because the Thieves are making deals both with Sonea and with the Guild. Oh, snap! I appreciate that while Sonea may not have control over her...

Alright y'all, so this is a pretty rough one. Please don't let my mispronunciation of the word "abandonment" at the top of the episode undercut that. Ivy is garbage and I want her to be covered in honey and dropped on top of a nest of ants. Reg is a coward and I want him to be stripped naked and paraded down High Street while people chuck handfuls of horse manure at him. The ending section of this...

Hey everyone! I'm here with the final installment of Iron Druid, in which a certain freaky witch jumps into the mix and fucks shit up. Also, Atticus does some stuff. This was a really fun book, and I'm a big fan of getting to see new ways of working magic, so there were a lot of little moments in this that were gratifying. From Laksha's sharing a body with Gran, to the way the werewolves communica...

Hey marshmallows! It's time for another installment of Veronica Mars in which I am unprepared for this show. So this one is about 2 things: the campaign for Student Council President, and Logan. Let me just say that one of them turns out much better than the other, although both are heartbreaking in their very own special ways. Thank you so much to Anonymous for sponsoring this episode, and I will...

You guys. I may never forgive Rosalie Oceanna-Kolb for this. SHE MADE ME READ THAT OUT LOUD.

Y'all. I really wasn't ready for these final chapters. At all. You're going to hear me break down and start crying, which is apparently going to be a running theme on Spoil Me! episodes, between how I reacted to this and to Fire & Hemlock. I really tried to get through reading some pertinent paragraphs without breaking down, but I couldn't manage it. Forgive the sniffling that persists afterward....

Thank you so much to anonymous for commissioning this next episode of Hounded! If you'd like to buy the book and read along, you can do so here: https://amzn.to/2xoCBPI Shit has really hit the fan for Atticus in these chapters. That damn cop has committed suicide-by-colleague, the gunshot wound that he was able to heal almost instantly is still going to cost him thousands unless he can sue the cit...

Welcome to the first episode of my coverage of The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan, brought to you by Ashleigh Dunleavy! If you'd like to grab a copy and read along, you can pick up a copy here: https://amzn.to/2MYKHsW These first chapters establish a world where Magicians are part of an elite class of people, despite the fact that magic can surface in any class of person; unless you have the mo...

Hi my name is Natasha and I love this book. But seriously, I do. And I wish I heard about Diana Wynn Jones way sooner because this lady is my bread, my peanut butter, and my jam. So thanks so much to Patricia Bing-Grant for commissioning Fire & Hemlock. I'm finally starting to put a few things together this episode, although I'm so belated on a lot of it that it's almost embarrassing. It takes me...

Many thanks to Susan Hayes for sponsoring the next episode of Iron Druid: Hounded! I'm really getting into this story now, and I have no idea what to expect next which is always a really fun feeling. So this episode I'm covering the chapters where Atticus has the police absolutely all the way up his ass. They get called over because of the fight he had with the Fir Bolgs to start off with, but the...

So this is the episode where a really good car-doggo becomes friends with our heroes like I had hoped. And then just as I get invested, Duane kills off good car-doggo and I'm really mad about it and I will never forgive her. Oh and also, there's a dragon. There's a DRAGON. Living in the subway tunnels! How amazing is that. I should have seen this coming from the BIG DRAGON IN THE IMAGE I KEEP USIN...