Background Book Rants

Background Book Rants

By Dakota and JasmineArtsBooks
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Background Book Rants episodes

  • These Books Are Definitely NOT Middle of The Road

    In this week's episode, Dakota and Jasmine discuss their top 12 favorite books as of right now! Get ready for unnecessary disclaimers explaining the order of the girls' favorite books and excessive use of the words show stopping and immaculate.

    1 hr 18 min
  • We Hunt The Flame: Stunning, Show Stopping, Immaculate

    In this episode Dakota and Jasmine talk about We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal! The girls discuss how this book may just be a new favorite fantasy, from the characters to the witty banter, ALL OF IT. Jasmine and Dakota swoon over Nasir, Dakota laughs at character deaths, and Jasmine decides that her contribution to the gang in the book will be making "stellar breakfast sandwiches."

    1 hr 29 min
  • Snow White's Corpse: A Truly Devious Mystery
    This week, Jasmine and Dakota finally discuss their buddy read, Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson! Dakota decides she is going to write Truly Devious fan fiction, Jasmine claims that she wants their podcast streamed at her funeral, and the girls delve into why this book did ~nothing~ for them.
    1 hr 18 min
  • Moral of The Story: We Would Die For Elias Veturius

    This week Dakota and Jasmine talk about An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir! The girls swoon over Elias, discuss the improbability of them surviving a day at Blackcliff Academy, and all the ways in which queen Sabaa Tahir concocted the piece of art that is this book.

    1 hr 20 min
  • Aspen Leger aka Maggot&Rodent&Tree
    This week, Dakota and Jasmine are joined by their best friend, Adi, to discuss The Selection by Kiera Cass! In this episode, the girls rant about crusty Aspen and America with their one braincell, they come up with secret hand signals to rival Maxon and America's ear tug, and award Aspen with world class insults (i.e. parasite, leech, etc.)
    1 hr 44 min
  • Voldemort's Love Language = Parseltongue

    This week, Jasmine and Dakota play a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill, fictional men edition, as well as answer book related would you rather questions! In the episode, Jasmine decides to reincarnate the Darkling as her "side hustle," Dakota plots to overtake Tamlin and the Spring Court, and the girls discuss the ~unfortunate~ situation of having to kiss Voldemort.

    1 hr 47 min
  • What The Fridgetart Are These Book Reviews?

    This week, Jasmine and Dakota react to one star reviews of some of their favorite books. They read and discuss brutal reviews on Throne of Glass, the Grishaverse collection, Renegades, and Infernal Devices. As you can imagine, it gets a little heated in the book rants, so buckle up and get ready to get ~triggered~.

    2 hr 25 min
  • Our Book Related Favorites: But Actually It's Just The Grishaverse

    In this episode, Dakota and Jasmine attempt at discussing some of their general favorite book related things (books, characters, tropes, relationships). Did this turn into an appreciation post for the Grishaverse (aka The Darkling)? Yes. Did we get extremely sidetracked the entire episode? Yes. But does that matter? Absolutely not. Get ready for our passionate opinions, unnecessary anecdotes, internal epiphanies, and an excessive amount of silent laughter.

    1 hr 56 min
  • Biggest Shock of 2021: Mal Has a Personality?!

    In this episode, Dakota and Jasmine cover the highly anticipated Shadow and Bone Netflix series! The girls maintain their brand of swooning over toxic men, plan for their funeral soundtrack to include the Darkling's theme music, and discuss the masterpiece that this show is.

    1 hr 45 min

About Background Book Rants

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Join Dakota and Jasmine as they dive into a new book related topic each week, offering their opinions and commentary, whether that means sharing their morally dubious schemes, or their obsession with dark haired, fictional men. Listen in every Wednesday