The Great Obsession

No one wants to slow burn these days, EXCEPT Stephanie Garber. And thank God! Along with a plot recap and review, we discuss whether or not you need to read the Caraval series before this one, and ponder questions like the meaning of Jacks's apples and the significance of his hair color. This episode contains spoilers for Once Upon a Broken Heart as well as all 3 books in the Caraval trilogy b...

This week we're blessed with the return of special guest Abby Tree to talk about Heartstopper! While Sam is away on vacation, Abby is here as guest co-host and resident Heartstopper expert to share her wealth of fandom knowledge as we discuss character storylines and our favorite scenes. Listen to find out if we think Charlie sent THE text at the end of the finale! This episode contains spoile...

Apparently one thing we're gonna do is compare these books to early 2010s dramas. Strap in for a behemoth of an episode, because we covered this whole 800-page book in one sitting! And spoiler alert... if you love Crescent City, you may not enjoy our review. We have a lot of frustration to unpack as we go through all the major plot points and realize they all led NOWHERE! This episode contains...

Join us as we tap into our teenage angst and work on having a single original thot as we discuss Olivia Rodrigo's new album GUTS. Aside from the semi-unfortunate name, we were anxiously awaiting this album release and for the most part Olivia lived up to the hype. Even though we aren't able to say the name Arnold Palmer we are able to have an engaging conversation about this music. Find us...

Gossip Girl parallels? In a Crescent City conversation? More likely than you’d think. Part 2 of our House of Earth and Blood discussion is a deeper dive into the character arcs and plot lines, ultimately leading us to our final rating of the book. This episode contains spoilers for all of House of Earth and Blood, along with some vague references to Sarah J. Maas’s ACOTAR and Throne of Glass serie...

Want to hear 5000 reasons why Crescent City 1 is hard to read? Because today we're FULL of unanswerable questions and frustrated rants. Drinking game idea: Take a shot every time we say "I don't know." In part 1 of our House of Earth and Blood review we have a lot to process before we can thoughtfully analyze. Part 2 will contain a more extensive breakdown of plot points and characters once we put...

It's 2014 again baby! We're taking a trip down memory lane, discussing the original 1989 era and our retrospective understanding of this time in Taylor's life. With a track by track breakdown and plenty of tangents, we're here to fill your swiftie content void while the Eras Tour is on a break. Find us at:  Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod  Goodreads: The Great Obsession Pod  Email...

The Summer I Turned Pretty? More like The Summer Belly makes back to back poor choices that show a complete lack of empathy and self-awareness. This is not Belly's finest season but Conrad is still hot and Steven/Taylor gives us life so we can’t complain too much. If you are team Jeremiah, this is the perfect episode for you to listen to all the reasons you're wrong. This episode contains spoilers...

THIS is our most special episode yet! We are joined by Abby, our very good friend and resident Summer I Turned Pretty hater! Time for a great debate - is this the best summer teen drama on earth, or is it objectively the worst show made by Amazon this year? Listen to find out who gets convinced in the end… This episode contains spoilers for the Summer I Turned Pretty TV show, Season 1 only. Find u...

We won't blame you if you haven't been keeping up with the Kardashians, they have gotten DULL. As two certified reality tv devotees, we've got some strong opinions on this one. No need to watch the latest season, we give a FULL debrief of what America's most allegedly hard working family has been up to....spoilers, it's not much. Find us at:  Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod  G...

This episode is powered by the creative mind of Greta Gerwig and NOT Mattel. It's BARBIE BABY!!! and just Allan. Get ready for some surprisingly philosophical musings about the patriarchy, capitalism, and of course the color pink. Find us at:  Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod  Goodreads: The Great Obsession Pod  Email: thegreatobsessionpod@gmail.com

Kick back, relax, and learn from our resident expert, Sam, about the wide world of fanfiction and all of its quirks. You’ll learn how 1D fanfic altered our brain chemistry as teenagers, and get Sam's pointers on navigating AO3 to find the best (and worst) fanfic content. We even read part of AO3's top explicit Marvel fanfic for you...you'll be surprised. Find us at:  Instagram: @thegreatobsessionp...

We finally joined booktok and 1 million of our closest friends in reading viral sensation Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. We had a lot more mixed feelings about this book than we anticipated...many high highs and several low lows. Most importantly, we spend 5 minutes contemplating the likelihood that we would fall off a dragon....spoiler it's highly likely. 6.5/10 Find us at:  Instagram: @thegr...

Time for us to get EMO. Speak Now Taylors Version has FINALLY dropped!! We unpack all the songs, all the discourse and all the emotions. Tune in to find out which one of these rerecords made RiLee cry. Find us at:  Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod  Goodreads: The Great Obsession Pod  Email: thegreatobsessionpod@gmail.com

It's been awhile since our brains have produced an original thot, but in this episode I think we might finally achieve one. Enjoy our extensive rants about body positioning and repeated near death experiences. In this episode we discuss Carissa Broadbent's Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, contains spoilers for the entire book and for The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Rating: 6.5/10 Also s...

Get ready for MANY useless thoughts and confused tangents as we discuss Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Full disclosure...we were not at peak brain usage for this episode. After recording we reflected a lot more on the book and had some shifting thoughts, a lot of these thoughts were captured in our episode on the sequel the Ashes and the Star-Cursed King. Initial ratin...

"Im going to create an environment that is so toxic" - Sue Sylvester and Netflix Producers making this show. The premise of this show is pure chaos and maximum emotional distress...WE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. In this episode we discuss the Ultimatum - Queer Love (which interestingly is not called The Ultimatum season 2?? they are considered by Netflix to be separate shows with identical...

Today we are filling the room with negative energy by talking about Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare. The long-awaited final installment in The Last Hours series has given us a LOT to rant about in what's possibly our most passionate episode to date. This episode will contain spoilers for all of The Last Hours trilogy as well as lightweight spoilers for both Cassie Clare's The Infernal D...

This episodes is all about ships on ships on SHIPPPPSSSS. Also plot holes. And poor character development. And more plot holes. This episode is full of spoilers for Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron with gratuitous references to the entire Shadowhunters universe. You just have to get past the American Girl content first. Rating: 7/10 “Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping v...

Welcome to our first Shadowhunter episode! We begin with a spoiler-free discussion of the Shadowhunter universe, and RiLee shares some tea she heard at a recent Cassandra Clare book signing. Our Chain of Gold breakdown begins at 22:31, and the rest of the episode will contain spoilers for Chain of Gold as well as lightweight spoilers for Cassie Clare's Infernal Devices series. 5.5/10 “You deci...

We both read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab over a month ago, and we are FINALLY sitting down to talk about it! Who is Addie's OTP? Is she really human? Did this book live up to the hype? Thoughts have been simmering for a while and clearly we have MUCH to discuss. Rating: 6.5/10 Find us at - Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod Goodreads: The Great Obsession Pod Email: thegreat...

MEET ME IN THE POURING RAIN!!!! The way this announcement had us in a CHOKEHOLD. This episode is all things Taylor Swift and all things Speak Now. Tune in for some deep cuts by resident T Swift historian RiLee and 13 year old angst from Sam. 11 min mark RiLee gives us a recap of her Eras concert and subsequent ascension 22 min mark we deep dive into Speak Now Find us at: Instagram: @thegreatobsess...

ANOTHER ode to Taylor Jenkins Reid. On this episode we discuss The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 8.25/10 **Trigger warning this episode contains discussions of suicide and abuse** "I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you're swimming upstream." - Celia St. James Find us at: Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod Goodreads: The G...

Get ready for cocktail of rambling and ranting. In this episode we talk Love is Blind season 4 so spoilers for the entirety of the 4th season including (especially) the reunion episode. Heads up, we don't actually get to talking about Love is Blind until minute 13. Find us at: Instagram: @thegreatobsessionpod Goodreads: The Great Obsession Pod

We are so grateful we live in a world where book-to-screen adaptations are actually good! In this episode we share our thoughts on Amazon Prime's Daisy Jones & the Six, as well as the Aurora album. This episode contains spoilers for both the entire Daisy Jones TV series as well as the book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Discussion begins around the 10-minute mark. Thanks for listening! "......