If We Survive This

Join us as we enter Basgiath War College!
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is a romantasy sensation, building a fantastical world and characters that seized the imaginations of booktok, bookstagram, and even readers not on social media!
Jen and Ellie review the world building, plot, language and characters (spoilers and all!) before facing off against the greatest challenges in the book. For a first episode this will really be a trial by fire🔥
Let's see if we survive this!

"They’d gazed at him adoringly, while she just looked at him like a cat watching a mouse."

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas is the start of the high fantasy series phenomenon that dominates booktok and bookstagram. We meet Celaena Sardothien, Adarlans Assassin and current slave in the Endovier salt mines, as she agrees to compete for Prince Dorian to be the Kings Champion in return for her freedom

Join Jen and Ellie as they look at the characters, writing style, and debate how well they'd do at assassin training.

David Mogo Godhunter is the debut novel by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, a godpunk book following David Mogo
Dive into Lagos in the aftermath of the Orisha War where gods and godlings wander freely. David Mogo, a demigod, lives with hiss adoptive father and illegally hunts the gods wreaking havoc on the land.
Jen and Ellie discuss the world and dive into theme, structure, and agency in a world overrun by deities.

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J Maas is a collection of prequel novellas leading up to the first novel in the Throne of Glass series.

We join Celaena Sardothien as her conscious gets the better of her and she starts rebelling against the King of the Assassins unknowingly starting her own downfall from her place as Adarlan's Assassin.
Join Jen and Ellie as they dive into the underworld, discuss what prequels add (or remove) from a narrative, and detour to the best horses for a desert.

Each spell was a mountain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowledge that it could be done.

Circe by Madeline Miller brings us back to ancient Greece and follows the nymph Circe, a powerful witch who is at war with her own divinity. A side character in the Odyssey, Circe takes centre stage as she stuggles with her exile and decides what kind of person she wants to be.

Jen and Ellie set out across the seas in search myth retellings, character development, and how they'd fair against a baby minotaur.